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JAPAN
Aug 10, 2022

Kishida shuffles key Cabinet and LDP posts amid sagging approval ratings

The reshuffle took place a month earlier than expected and comes amid myriad challenges for the prime minister at home and abroad.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2022

Three major takeaways from the FBI raid on Trump’s home

Don't assume that executing a search warrant means the federal government will prosecute Donald Trump. Getting a conviction would seem to be very tricky.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2022

Keeping cool as U.S.-China tensions simmer

Both Beijing and Washington need to make sure the new low in relations does not become the new normal.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Aug 10, 2022

JSA taps veteran presenter for new English-language YouTube channel

Hiroshi Morita, who has been in the commentary booth for NHK since 1999, is the face of professional sumo's biggest effort yet to market to international fans in the internet era.
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Aug 10, 2022

LDP politics take precedence over economy in Kishida’s Cabinet reshuffle

The apparent desire to achieve an internal balance of power seems to have mostly affected ministerial positions concerned with economics.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 10, 2022

Japan's new defense chief set to have his work cut out for him — again

Yasukazu Hamada, a 10-term Lower House lawmaker, previously served as defense minister between 2008 and 2009.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2022

Far-right populists come out of the racist closet

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's recent denunciation of “mixed race” countries indicates that far-right populists no longer feel they need to mask their true beliefs.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 10, 2022

Forget about Brad Pitt in his latest movie; the bullet train is the real star

A new movie finally gives top billing to Japan's most famous train. But it comes during troubled times for the fabled Shinkansen.
LIFE / Style & Design
Aug 10, 2022

The fabric of timelessness in the visionary designs of Issey Miyake

A visionary ahead of his time, Japanese designer Issey Miyake was able to not only see the future but shape it.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 10, 2022

China says Taiwan’s leaders are increasing risk of war

Taipei must change course to reduce tensions, the Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing said, in its first white paper published since Chinese President Xi Jinping took power.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 10, 2022

Elon Musk sells $6.9 billion of Tesla to avoid Twitter fire sale

The sale comes just four months after Musk said he had no further plans to sell Tesla shares after disposing of $8.5 billion of stock in the wake of his bid to buy Twitter.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 10, 2022

Russia launches Iranian satellite amid Ukraine war concerns

Iran, which has maintained ties with Moscow, has sought to deflect suspicions that Russia could use the Khayyam satellite to spy on Ukraine.
The volume of mergers and acquisitions linked to Japan has grown 43% so far this year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 22, 2024

Japan sees dealmaking boom as mergers and acquisitions rise 43%

A strong stock market is giving companies more scope for acquisitions at a time when the government and investors are pressuring firms to bolster growth.
Specimen M831 stored at the National Museum of Nature and Science’s Tsukuba Research Departments in Ibaraki Prefecture
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife / OUR PLANET
Feb 22, 2024

How a 13-year-old discovered a possible Japanese wolf specimen

A new paper by Hinako Komori and two academics says a specimen she found could be one of two Japanese wolves kept at Ueno Zoo in the late 19th century.
Biomass will heat the facility and provide clean CO2 for the plants.
ESG CONSORTIUM
Feb 22, 2024

A hothouse of ecological ideas will produce tomatoes in Aomori

Starting in April, a project in the Aomori city of Mutsu, at the northern tip of Honshu, will grow tomatoes using a new cultivation method that will go beyond zero carbon and actually absorb more CO2 than it emits. Built on a large abandoned farm, the facility will also create 100 new jobs.
SUMO
Feb 22, 2024

Sumo great Hakuho facing demotion over protege's alleged bullying

The JSA will hold an emergency board meeting on Friday to discuss the recommendation that the Mongolian-born protege, Hokuseiho, retire.
An elderly care facility run by Choujukai in Suma, Ishikawa Prefecture
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2024

Elderly care facilities in Noto face labor shortages after quake

The quake prompted closures and downsizing efforts, impacting both staff and residents.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign event ahead of the Republican presidential primary election in North Charleston, South Carolina, on Feb. 14
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Feb 29, 2024

Why Japanese companies need to prepare for Trump 2.0

Given the former president's views on the recent U.S. Steel deal, firms should cover all bases ahead of the Nov. 5 U.S. election.
The trove of leaked documents show that I-Soon, a private security company competing for Chinese government contracts, had successfully hacked into government offices in India, Thailand, Vietnam and South Korea, among others.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 22, 2024

Leak shows China firm hacked foreign governments, activists

The leaked data posted anonymously last week on online software repository GitHub "reveals the maturing nature of China's cyber espionage ecosystem."
Gunma Bank's video message in English is geared toward those from overseas who are flocking to Japan to buy up stocks, bonds and real estate as the nation’s assets emerge from decades of slumber.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 22, 2024

English video shows Japanese regional banks opening up to overseas investors

Foreigners are flocking to Japan to buy up stocks, bonds and real estate as the nation’s assets emerge from decades of slumber.
Director of the Akan International Crane Center, Miyuki Kawase, says tourism is incredibly helpful for the birds, but the people who come to take pictures of the birds have to remember they are still wild animals.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Feb 24, 2024

Miyuki Kawase: ‘Experience, whether happy, sad or painful, makes you grow’

The director of the Akan International Crane Center in Hokkaido tells us how she found herself in a career centered around the symbolic white birds.
The LDP's Takuo Komori stepped down from his post as parliamentary vice minister for internal affairs after it was revealed he had underreported political funds.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 21, 2024

Will the LDP funding scandal change Japanese politics?

What can we learn from the LDP funding scandal? One thing is certain: The saga fits a pattern that is anything but unseen in Japanese politics.
TikTok parent company ByteDance's offices in Singapore. Chinese companies are increasingly using the city-state as a springboard into the U.S. market.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 22, 2024

'Singapore-washing' and China’s sneaky trade practices

Chinese firms are using Singapore as a springboard into the U.S., circumventing restrictions. The island nation shouldn't enable these deceptive tactics.
Sanfrecce will play its first regular-season match against Urawa on Friday at the brand-new Edion Peace Wing Hiroshima.
SOCCER / J. League
Feb 22, 2024

The J. League is back with a top flight that's bigger than ever

Hiroshima has eyes on the title as the club raises the curtain at a new stadium, but Urawa will be looking to spoil the party starting Friday.
The sport was created in the town of Kushiro in 1978 by former Olympic ice hockey goalkeeper Katsuji Morishima, who married two things every East Hokkaido resident has — a pair of rubber rain boots and a love of ice hockey.
MORE SPORTS / Ice Hockey
Feb 22, 2024

A pastime in frozen Hokkaido: Rubber boots ice hockey

No skates are needed for Hokkaido's unique brand of ice hockey, which is a popular way to stay active during the north's long winters.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 22, 2024

Committee probing LDP funds scandal set to open next week

The committee will likely gather next Wednesday and Thursday to interrogate five senior LDP lawmakers over their involvement in a kickback scheme.
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
JR East cancels luxury train run over crew's boozing
East Japan Railway said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service, which was originally scheduled to depart from Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 30, after crew members were found to have been drinking alcohol on duty.
Women-only communities flourish in China
Chen Yani (right), nicknamed "Keke," eats lunch with friends and guests in a female co-living space she founded called "Keke's Imaginative Space" in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on July 14.
Demystifying the manufacturing success of China
China’s massive scale, strong education system and competitive local governance have enabled it to reach the technological frontier and dominate high-tech manufacturing despite its low per capita gross domestic product.
Infectious diseases to watch for in Japan this summer amid surge of cases
An illustration of a colony of the Bordetella pertussis bacterium that causes pertussis, or whooping cough. As of Aug. 10, there were 64,467 cases reported this year, according to the latest data from the Japan Institute for Health Security.
As farm minister, Koizumi is held ‘hostage’ by Ishiba
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi (center) attends a Lower House session on Aug. 1. Locking Koizumi into the Cabinet is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s way of turning a potential rival into a team player, according to one expert.
Big burgers and bigger ambitions for Japan's Burger King
Kazuhiro Nomura, president of BK Japan Holdings, which operates Burger King in Japan
Tokyo crowned No.1 'workation' spot
Workations were a burgeoning trend in the corporate world for years before the COVID-19 pandemic turbocharged it.
Atsushi Kitagawara’s exhibition finds poetry in architecture
The inverted cone, one of Atsushi Kitagawara’s six signature elements in architecture, is a key feature of the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection museum building.
Candidates preparing to make final pitches for Sawamura Award
Hawks pitcher Livan Moinelo has a 1.13 ERA in 19 starts this season.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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