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ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 31, 2022

Taiwan tensions raise alarms over risks to world’s subsea cables

A disruption in a conflict with China could result in Taiwan getting cut off from the world, similar to what happened to the Pacific Island nation of Tonga earlier this year.
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / U.S. East Coast report 2022
Oct 31, 2022

Building success through self-belief and determination

With loads of ambition and a backpack full of shirts and jeans, Japanese junior high school teacher Saori Kawano immigrated to the United States in 1978 determined to start a business that would last many decades. 
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / U.S. East Coast report 2022
Oct 31, 2022

NEXCO-West USA: A bridge between Japan and the U.S.

Based in Osaka, West Nippon Expressway Co. launched its North American operations in 2011 believing it possessed the technology and valuable expertise in operating and maintaining roads and highways across the United States.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 31, 2022

From Cuban missiles to Putin’s Ukraine nuclear crisis

Unlike Russian President Vladimir Putin, former Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis had the wisdom not to start an apocalyptic war simply to save face.
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / U.S. East Coast report 2022
Oct 31, 2022

Virginia’s Roanoke Region revs up its growth engines

Centrally located on the East Coast among the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, the Roanoke Region in Virginia is among the most dynamic economies in the United States, attracting a diverse range of industries from banking, health care, life sciences and technology to transportation and logistics and manufacturing....
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / U.S. East Coast report 2022
Oct 31, 2022

The future made perfect in Pittsburgh

As far as innovation goes, Pittsburgh has many lessons to teach the world. Once the center of the American steel industry, the second-largest city in Pennsylvania has transformed its economy and emerged as a hotbed of innovation, particularly in high-value manufacturing, climate tech and technology,...
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / U.S. East Coast report 2022
Oct 31, 2022

Lincoln University: Living up to illustrious ideals

Tracing its history back to 1854, nearly a decade before the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans, Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the nation’s first degree-granting historically Black college, was offering higher education to males of African descent. It opened its enrollment to males of...
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / U.S. East Coast report 2022
Oct 31, 2022

Temple University: From the U.S. and Japan to the rest of the world

The largest university in Philadelphia and second–largest in the state of Pennsylvania, Temple University offers 600 academic programs and is home to more than 37,000 students, many of them from around the world.
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / U.S. East Coast report 2022
Oct 31, 2022

Keisen Associates: Bridging businesses and cultures

Specializing in intellectual property, the Tokyo-based Keisen Associates provides Japanese and other international companies with services aimed at ensuring their trouble-free entry into the large U.S. market. Because of cultural differences, regulatory divergences and complex issues surrounding IP,...
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / U.S. East Coast report 2022
Oct 31, 2022

JSAT International spreads its coverage across the world

Established in 2001, JSAT International Inc. is seeking fresh investments that would allow it to expand its market presence, accelerate growth and strengthen its reputation and identity as a leading operator of communication satellites in the world while supporting media platform services in Japan.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 30, 2022

Buffaloes end Japan Series title drought with victory over Swallows in Game 7

Orix won the final four games to win the franchise's first Japan Series since Ichiro Suzuki helped the BlueWave win the title in 1996.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 30, 2022

China revises law to tackle sexual harassment and discrimination

The updates to the women's law comes amid a major step back in gender equality this month with no women being appointed to sit on the top-decision making Politburo.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 30, 2022

Democrats were smart to meddle in GOP primaries

Democrats' meddlingu00a0in GOP primaries is aimed at helping extremist Republican candidates advance in order to improve the general election chances of Democrats.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 30, 2022

Obama tries to rescue Democrats from U.S. midterm losses

Recent opinion polls offered the Democratic Party hope of retaining control of the Senate while losing control of the House of Representatives to the Republicans.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 1, 2023

How Yuki Udagawa’s steely nerves quieted Koshien’s raucous crowd

Instead of being rattled, Yuki Udagawa fed off the electric energy pulsating through the stadium as he protected a one-run lead in a 5-4 win.
Suzuki President and Representative Director Toshihiro Suzuki unveils the Suzu-Ride at a press day of the Japan Mobility Show at Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo on Oct. 25.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 1, 2023

New mobility concepts cater to older people's love for the road

The four-wheeled vehicles categorized as "specified small motorized bicycles" can be driven on public roads by anyone 16 or over without a license.
Petr Aven in Moscow to attend Russia Business week in in 2018
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 1, 2023

Squeezed by sanctions, some oligarchs head home to Putin's Russia

The penalties have destroyed the standing of many wealthy Russians abroad who remained silent or avoided direct criticism of Putin over the war.
The interior of a Toyota Global HiAce electric vehicle concept on display during the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 26
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 1, 2023

Toyota to invest $8 billion more in U.S. battery plant for EVs

The auto giant has quietly laid the groundwork for a more robust EV strategy in the U.S. even as sales of its hybrid gas-electric models are surging.
Jesse Ehrenfeld, the board chairman of the American Medical Association, in Chicago in 2019. The F.D.A. has approved many new programs that use artificial intelligence, but doctors are skeptical that the tools really improve care or are backed by solid research.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 1, 2023

Doctors wrestle with AI in patient care, citing lax oversight

Are AI programs likely to identify something a doctor would miss?
Maryna Bodnar, 24, with her children, Matviy and Gennady, at home in Chernihiv, Ukraine, on April 11, 2023. 'I don’t feel strong,' Bodnar said. 'But I am looking for strength to continue.'
WORLD / Society
Nov 1, 2023

Coming of age in Ukraine

The ongoing war has accelerated their transition into adulthood.
Afghan refugees arrive at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border on Monday. Islamabad has issued an order to 1.7 million Afghans it says are living in the country illegally to leave by November 1, or be deported.
WORLD
Nov 1, 2023

Mass exodus of Afghans as deadline to leave Pakistan arrives

Islamabad gave 1.7 million Afghans it says are living illegally in the country until November 1 to leave or be forcibly removed.
People attend the launch ceremony of China's first domestically built polar icebreaker Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, at a shipyard in Shanghai in 2018.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 1, 2023

Biggest Chinese Antarctic fleet sets off to build research station

The vessels — the largest flotilla deployed by Beijing to the Antarctic — will focus on building China's fifth station on the continent.
An employee works on the production line of the Kohara Gear Industry Co. factory in Kawaguchi, Japan, in 2019.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 1, 2023

Asia's factories grapple with rising costs amid Israel-Hamas war

The numbers look bad a the global economic recovery now threatened by the Israel-Hamas war and potential for wider conflict.
Toyota President Koji Sato speaks  next to an FT-3e electric vehicle at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 25.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 1, 2023

Toyota raises profit forecast 50% on weak yen, record sales

With an unprecedented 5.6 million vehicles sold in April-September, Toyota is on track for its 11.4 million-unit goal.
SUMO / Inside Sumo
Nov 1, 2023

The risers — and fallers — in the latest sumo rankings

The sumo rankings ahead of the upcoming Kyushu Basho produced its share of winners and losers.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 1, 2023

Shibuya Halloween passes without fuss following ‘don’t come’ message

Shibuya's mayor has expressed satisfaction with the reduction in crowds and public drinking this year.
Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa waits for U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to arrive for a meeting in New York in September.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 2, 2023

Japan top envoy faces diplomatic test on trip to Israel and Jordan

One of the key focuses of Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa's trip will be the role Japan can play in easing the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 1, 2023

Elderly Saitama hostage-taker had 'grudge' against post office

The 86-year-old man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of shooting into a hospital in Saitama Prefecture and taking hostages at a post office.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 1, 2023

Hotly debated tax cuts risk backfiring on Kishida administration

When Kishida announced plans to cut income and residence taxes to ease the hit from inflation, there was a chorus of skepticism rather than joy.

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A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
That sinking feeling: Japan’s aging sewers are an infrastructure time bomb