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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 25, 2020

History repeats as consumption tax hike pushes Japan toward recession

Housewife Matsuko Mitsui had been meaning to buy a new air conditioner for years, but it took the looming consumption tax hike in October to spur the 64-year-old to finally make the purchase.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Feb 25, 2020

Coronavirus fears force Asia's 50 Best Restaurant Awards to go online only

This year's Asia's 50 Best Restaurant Awards, set to be hosted in Kyushu's Saga Prefecture from March 22-24, have been forced to go online only due to fears surrounding coronavirus (COVID-19), restricted travel across Asia and the Japanese government's advice to limit large-scale events.
Feb 25, 2020

JR East Group Offers Vegan and Muslim-friendly Sweets!

TOKYO, February 25, 2020 – JR East Group (TOKYO:9020) operates the Shinkansen and other trains over a network of railways that cover half the main island of Japan.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 25, 2020

Malaysia power struggle boils over with Mahathir Mohamad's resignation

A long-simmering power struggle in Malaysia boiled over on Monday, with Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad kicking off a leadership race with his main coalition partner that could finally determine his successor.
LIFE / Language
Feb 25, 2020

Shinjiro Koizumi and the new Japanese father

Shinjiro Koizumi joins the growing ranks of 'ikumen,' dads who challenge the norm of the Japanese father by taking stronger interest in raising their kids.
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Feb 25, 2020

Endowed with the talent for understanding the Japanese structures using 'nagara ni'

The structures 'nagara ni' and 'nagara no' are used in very specific ways in Japanese, which makes their comprehension slightly easier.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Feb 25, 2020

Japan railway firm to test anti-groping app on rush-hour trains

A Kyodo piece looks at the launch of a new smartphone app that is meant to alert passengers when there is a groper on the train.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Feb 25, 2020

Let's discuss a drug scandal

Singer-songwriter Noriyuki Makihara is in hot water for alleged drug possession. What do you think needs to be done to deter people from using drugs?
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 25, 2020

Billion-year-old Chinese seaweed is oldest green plant fossil

Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor roughly a billion years ago and were part of a primordial revolution among life on Earth.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Feb 25, 2020

'He was my everything': NBA's Kobe Bryant mourned at emotional Los Angeles arena tribute

A gallery of basketball legends joined thousands of Kobe Bryant fans in Los Angeles on Monday to pay tribute to the transcendent NBA star, his daughter and seven others who died in a helicopter crash last month that shocked the world of sports and beyond.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 25, 2020

Lawyer for U.S. says Julian Assange put lives at risk but his side claims he's target of Trump war on journalists

Julian Assange is wanted for crimes that put at risk the lives of people in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan who had helped the West, some of whom later disappeared, said a lawyer acting for the United States in its bid to extradite him.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 25, 2020

U.S. considering responses to China's 'egregious' expulsion of American journalists

The United States is considering a range of responses to China's "egregious act" of expelling three U.S. journalists last week, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council (NSC) said on Monday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 25, 2020

Virus can still be beaten and too early to declare pandemic, says WHO

The coronavirus outbreak can still be beaten, the World Health Organization said on Monday, insisting it was premature to declare it a pandemic even though it had the potential to reach that level.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 25, 2020

Intuit buys Credit Karma for $7.1 billion in cash and stock

Intuit Inc., the software giant behind TurboTax, is buying personal finance website Credit Karma Inc. for about $7.1 billion in cash and stock.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 25, 2020

Canadian police move in to clear indigenous blockade of rail line

Police moved in on Monday morning to clear a rail blockade by an indigenous group in eastern Canada that had been stopping freight and passenger traffic for more than two weeks on one of the country's busiest lines.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 25, 2020

Huawei launches Mate XS foldable smartphone with better screen

Huawei unveiled an upgrade to its folding smartphone on Monday, hoping that a faster phone with higher-quality display will encourage consumers to spend as much as $2,700 for the top-of-the-range version.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 25, 2020

Canadian families 'plead urgently' for third evacuation flight from Wuhan

Canadian citizens and permanent residents who remain in Wuhan, China, the center of the coronavirus outbreak, need to be brought home on a third evacuation plane, a group of families urged the federal government.
BUSINESS
Feb 25, 2020

Nissan warns about future of European plants as Brexit weighs

Nissan Motor Co. gave the starkest warning yet on the future of the Japanese group's car factories in Western Europe, with a plant in the U.K. threatened by Brexit and another in Spain suffering from a slump in demand.
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2020

Rise in COVID-19 cases in Japan prompts travel advisory revisions

At least nine governments have called on their citizens to refrain from nonessential visits or to exercise increased caution during trips to Japan.
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2020

Coronavirus outbreak highlights need for independent CDC-style body in Japan

Experts say the agency taking point on the current health crisis lacks the administrative autonomy and power to take effective action.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 24, 2020

Democratic candidates aim to change U.S. foreign policy

The Democratic presidential candidates have no shortage of issues on which to criticize Trump for his handling of foreign policy.
Japanese team detects gradual seafloor caving near Nankai Trough
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks at the Prime Minister's Office on Sept. 1 during an anti-disaster drill simulating an earthquake in the Nankai Trough.
Japan sees 40% surge in chronic bowel disease cases over eight years
Japanese researchers estimated that as of 2023, there were 316,900 people in Japan with ulcerative colitis and 95,700 with Crohn’s disease.
Is living in central Tokyo still affordable?
Growing families are being priced out of Tokyo’s condo market, forced to choose between downtown convenience and suburban space.
Osaka Expo visitors exceed breakeven point
The Osaka Expo in Osaka on Sept. 13. The daily number of visitors to the expo has topped 200,000 since mid-September as its Oct. 13 closing approaches.
Onosato’s fifth title cements preeminent position in Japan’s national sport
Onosato's victory at the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament gave him his fifth Emperor’s Cup at the age of 25.
How Ohtani has boosted Japan's soft power and made LA even more baseball-obsessed
Fans at Dodger Stadium pose in front of a mural highlighting the Dodgers' Japanese stars from past and present during a game earlier this year.
Japan faces fresh energy challenge as it seeks to expand power-hungry data centers
Data storage tapes at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center facility in Berkeley, California. Data centers consume massive amounts of electricity and water, and that will only rise as generative artificial intelligence takes off in earnest.
Architecture art exhibition highlights unsung industry artists
Yuanhui Li's illustration is one of the awardees in the student category of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators' annual award for artists.
On defense and foreign policy, LDP candidates largely align — except where they don’t
The Liberal Democratic Party presidential election candidates in Nagoya on Friday
Can Japan crack the China code in table tennis?
Tomokazu Harimoto waits for China's Wang Chuqin to serve during the men's singles final at the WTT Champions Yokohama 2025 tournament on Aug. 11.

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Growing families are being priced out of Tokyo’s condo market, forced to choose between downtown convenience and suburban space.
Is living in central Tokyo still affordable?
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