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Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 28, 2020

Some COVID-19 survivors have antibodies that attack the body, not the virus

Some survivors of COVID-19 carry worrying signs that their immune system has turned on the body, reminiscent of potentially debilitating diseases like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, a new study has found.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2020

China shocked to discover the developed world views it in a negative light

China risks losing the trade and investment that it needs from the developed world. To be seen as a “responsible major country,” it must behave accordingly.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 27, 2020

COVID-19 tests are the real pandemic moneymakers

Renewed outbreaks highlight the need for a better approach to containing the virus, and broad surveillance testing offers a way forward that's easy on the economy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2020

Sushi and canned coffee get unlikely boost from record-breaking ‘Demon Slayer’ movie

Promotional tie-ins with the hit film have boosted Kura Sushi and Dydo's sales.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 27, 2020

Nine scenarios for the 2020 U.S. elections

Can U.S. voters really stop the degradation of their politics? Will they make the right decision on Nov. 3? There is not much that friends and foes can do about it now.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2020

Biotech future of promise and peril looms larger and closer

Emerging technology poses new and novel questions. Unfortunately, the time to answer them is growing short.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2020

Japan's unorthodox household goods champion rides a pandemic boom

Iris Ohyama has made a name through reasonably priced electronics, and launches more than 1,000 new products a year.
One of Swiss startup Enerdrape’s energy-harvesting panels is seen in this screenshot taken from video posted to the firm's YouTube account.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Aug 17, 2025

A startup is tapping underground parking garages for clean energy

Globally, heating accounts for nearly half of all energy consumption. That could make decarbonizing it a half-trillion-dollar market.
Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (left) and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Walter Mondale during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo in April 1996 announcing the decision to return to Japan the site for the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air station in Okinawa Prefecture
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 17, 2025

Okinawa’s backers in LDP dwindle, prompting concern

At present, not many lawmakers are putting priority on Okinawa after measures taken by the government in the past for the development of the prefecture produced certain results.
Sho Miyake receives the Pardo d'Oro, or Golden Leopard, prize at the award ceremony of the 78th Locarno Film Festival held in Locarno, southern Switzerland, on Saturday.
CULTURE / Film
Aug 17, 2025

Sho Miyake's 'Tabi to Hibi' wins top prize at Locarno Film Festival

This is the first Japanese movie to receive the award since 2007, when "Ai no Yokan" ("The Rebirth"), directed by Masahito Kobayashi, was given the prize.
Atomic bomb survivor Keiko Ogura (left) speaks with students in Sydney on Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2025

Hiroshima hibakusha calls for nuclear abolition in Australia

Ogura has been talking about the devastation from the nuclear attack in about 50 countries.
U.S. President Donald Trump greets Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the tarmac after they arrived for a meeting on Ukraine at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 17, 2025

European leaders to join Zelenskyy for key meeting with Trump

The move comes as European nations shift their focus toward providing Ukraine with robust security guarantees as Trump pushes for a quick peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv.
National Guard personnel patrol the National Mall in Washington on Saturday.
WORLD
Aug 17, 2025

Three Republican-led states to deploy National Guard troops to U.S. capital

The Republican governors of West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio OK'd the request by the Trump administration, which has portrayed the city as awash in crime.
Rintaro Sasaki hits a home run during a game against Duke at Stanford's Sunken Diamond on March 16.
BASEBALL
Aug 17, 2025

Top MLB prospect Rintaro Sasaki is committed to doing it 'the hard way'

The Stanford slugger could have taken an easier path with a quicker payday. Instead he's determined to blaze his own unique trail to the top of the sport.
Myanmar's democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi (right) serves tea to Sen Genshitsu, former grand master of Urasenke, in the city of Kyoto in April 2013.
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2025

Sen Genshitsu, Japanese tea ceremony master, dies at 102

Sen, a native of the city of Kyoto who became grand master in 1964, received the Japanese Order of Culture in 1997 for his efforts to deepen and modernize the ceremony.
Onetime members of a now-defunct faction once led by the late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are calling for the party to more actively promote conservative policies.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 17, 2025

Internal battle pits LDP's conservatives against liberals

Some in the party —mainly ex-members of the now-defunct Abe faction — are calling for it to more actively advertise conservative policies.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint news conference with the European Commission president in Brussels on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 18, 2025

Trump’s peace-deal demands leave Ukraine's Zelenskyy with only bad options

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy faces an existential dilemma as he travels to Washington for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday.
Pro-democracy legislator Ted Hui (center) is detained by police during a pro-democracy rally in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong on June 12, 2020.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 18, 2025

Hong Kong democracy activist Hui granted asylum in Australia

The granting of protection visas to him, his wife, children and parents came more than four years after he left the city to evade national security charges.
Protesters shout slogans and hold photos of hostages during a demonstration calling for a hostages deal on Sunday in Tel Aviv.
WORLD
Aug 18, 2025

Anti-war protests erupt in Israel ahead of Gaza City operation

Organizers said that as many as half a million people attended the main rally at Tel Aviv’s "hostage square” in the evening, a massive turnout by Israeli standards.
Nissan workers walk outside its Oppama plant in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. Nissan plans to shut the plant by the end of fiscal 2027.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Aug 18, 2025

A factory town in crisis shows Japan’s fading manufacturing era

Nissan directly employs almost 10% of Oppama’s 29,700 residents, but its factory is set to shut down by 2028.
U.K. Prime Miniter Keir Starmer speaks at the Jaguar Land Rover automobile manufacturing plant in Solihull, U.K. Starmer declared in May that his trade deal with U.S. President Donald Trump included a cut in U.S. tariffs on British steel to zero.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 18, 2025

Trade partners grow restless waiting for Trump’s tariff breaks

While deals have been cut, the lower tariff rates agreed have yet to kick in.
Demonstrators hold placards and flags, as Air Canada flight attendants said they will remain on strike and challenge a return-to-work order they called unconstitutional, defying a government decision to force them back to their duties, at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Sunday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 18, 2025

Striking Air Canada flight attendants defy back-to-work order

The refusal by the union to obey the order left many travelers at Toronto Pearson International Airport confused and frustrated on Sunday afternoon.
Takaichi poised to become Japan's first female PM after winning LDP poll
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, holds a news conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Saturday.
A Japanese ski resort town is roiled by a debate over immigration
A Swedish snowboard instructor works at the Niseko ski resort area on Hokkaido, in Kutchan, in December 2022
Retro-wrapped trains mark 100th anniversary of Tokyo's Yamanote Line
Trains decorated to resemble the 103 (left) and 205 series of trains that formerly ran on the Yamanote Line, in Tokyo on Saturday.
How Takaichi won the LDP’s leadership race
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, poses in the party leader's office after the LDP leadership election in Tokyo on Saturday.
North Korea says 'special assets' deployed against South
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the Defense Development 2025 military exhibition event ahead of the 80th founding anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang in this picture released Sunday.
Takaichi, the LDP’s first female president, is far from an ‘overnight success’
Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party chief Sanae Takaichi greets her fellow LDP members on Saturday at party headquarters.
How a family-run landscaper turned the Osaka Expo green
The team at Ryokukou Garden consists primarily of a single family, including Toshiki Tanisaki (second from right), who led the company's efforts at the Osaka Expo, Chikako Tanisaki (fifth from right), who performs daily maintanence at the expo, and Takeshi Tanisaki (fourth from right), who added a nursery to the family farm more than 50 years ago.
Eat your balloons: The culinary theater of Grant Achatz comes to Tokyo
Avant-garde chef Grant Achatz and his team from Alinea are in Tokyo for a three-week residency.
Japan’s first foreign wine investor plants its roots in Hokkaido
Intrigued by Japanese wines, Burgundy winemaker Etienne de Montille decided to explore Hokkaido's wine scene, eventually setting up his outpost in Hakodate in 2017.
Tea ceremony experts see matcha boom as a big opportunity
Atsuko Mori, founder and director of Kyoto-based tea salon Camellia Tea Ceremony, prepares matcha during a tea ceremony in Kyoto.

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