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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 20, 2020

The buck stops with Putin

Those now accusing the Kremlin in Alexei Navalny's poisoning are unlikely to find any “smoking gun.” It doesn't matter: ultimately, the Kremlin is to blame.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 20, 2020

The Musk Method: Learn from partners then go it alone

Musk and his team are preparing to outline new steps in Tesla's drive to become a more self-sufficient company less reliant on suppliers.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Sep 20, 2020

A digital pivot at Japan’s universities: ‘A lot of us expected to have our worst semesters online’

The COVID-19 pandemic has complicated the fall term, leaving professors and students scrambling to adapt to shifting rules and digital education.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Sep 20, 2020

Coronavirus can’t hold back these Japan’s traditional craft events

Japanese craft events have taken a blow in 2020. “On: Design” looks at one that did manage to take place, and another that has gone digital.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 20, 2020

Taiwan president says she has no plans to talk to Japan's Suga

Tsai Ing-wen's remarks came after China's Foreign Ministry warned Tokyo that such talks “will never happen.”
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Sep 20, 2020

Startups race to develop tech that can clear workplaces of COVID-19

Smithfield Foods Inc. thought it was doing great. In the first quarter of this year, the pork giant’s earnings were up 190 percent over the same period in 2019. Then the pandemic hit, and the close quarters of meatpacking plants made them ideal places for the coronavirus to spread.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Sep 20, 2020

When international students pose a very real risk

Recent issues between the United States and China can show Japan how best to approach new arrivals.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 20, 2020

Hong Kong offers a glimpse of one Belarus future

From the start, the crowds in Minsk learned from Hong Kong's broad-based, leaderless campaign. They, too, were making demands of a system ill-equipped to compromise.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 20, 2020

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny posts photo of himself walking

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was seen walking down the stairs in a photo posted on his Instagram feed on Saturday, five days after a Berlin hospital said he had been taken off a ventilator and could breathe independently.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 20, 2020

In South Korea, COVID-19 comes with another risk: online bullies

Governments around the world have grappled with misinformation and outright lies about the coronavirus. In South Korea, that struggle has become uniquely personal.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 20, 2020

How Mitch McConnell can quickly push through Trump's top court nominee

The process is likely to be ugly, but it can be done.
A screen displays share prices outside a securities firm in Tokyo. Some activists believe Japan’s corporate governance reforms will touch more firms, especially smaller ones.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 12, 2025

Activist AVI poised to boost holdings of Japan small-cap shares

The plan is an example of how activists are shaking up corporate Japan as they plow capital into the country given the Tokyo bourse telling firms to raise their enterprise value.
Julien Alfred celebrates after winning the women's 100-meter final at the Diamond League Final in Zurich on Aug. 28.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 12, 2025

Saint Lucia's Julien Alfred looking to add world title to Olympic gold in 100

Alfred convincingly beat reigning world champion Sha'Carri Richardson in the women's 100-meter sprint at the Paris Olympics last year.
A Mitsubishi-led consortium had planned to construct offshore wind turbines with a combined output of about 1.7 million kilowatts of electricity in three areas off Akita and Chiba prefectures.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 12, 2025

Government reviews Mitsubishi-led group's exit from offshore power projects

Noting construction costs would more than double from the initial estimate, Mitsubishi and Chubu Electric announced the consortium's pullout from the projects last month.
According to the latest survey conducted by the labor ministry, Japanese companies' employment rate of workers with disabilities was 2.4%.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 12, 2025

Japan firms facing challenge of employing more workers with disabilities

According to the latest survey conducted by the labor ministry, Japanese companies' employment rate of disabled people was 2.4%.
Palestinians transport their belongings as they evacuate Gaza City toward southern areas of the Gaza Strip, on Thursday.
WORLD
Sep 12, 2025

Palestinians displaced in Gaza return to a city under Israeli assault

Many are arriving to find no space for shelter, even in an area designated by Israel as a humanitarian zone.
Qatar's Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani addresses delegates during an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Thursday.
WORLD
Sep 12, 2025

U.N. Security Council condemns strikes on Qatar, without naming Israel

Qatar's prime minister welcomed the council's statement of support and reiterated his country's commitment to acting as a mediator in the conflict.
Orix's real estate investment unit has increased the target size of one of its funds by 33%, reflecting a rebound in Japanese institutional investor demand for property market deals.
BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2025

Top Japan leaser Orix plans to boost property fund size by 33%

Investor demand in Japan for alternative assets including real estate has climbed in part due to their resilience against inflation.
"We will not give in to Russia's increasing intimidation," said French President Emmanuel Macron, who has been leading diplomatic efforts internationally to end Russia's war on Ukraine.
WORLD
Sep 12, 2025

France to deploy three jets to 'help protect Polish airspace,' Macron says

Poland had gathered its NATO allies for urgent talks after it said Russian drones flew into Polish airspace during an attack on Ukraine.
A U.S. Air Force serviceman in Okinawa Prefecture has appealed to the Supreme Court against a high court ruling that upheld a five-year sentence for abducting and sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 16 in the prefecture, it was revealed on Friday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 12, 2025

U.S. airman appeals to top court in Okinawa assault case

Brennon Washington filed the appeal Wednesday after receiving the ruling by the Fukuoka High Court's branch in Naha that day.
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2025

‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Shirakawago is famed for its verdant landscape and gasshō-zukuri farmhouses, which are hundreds of years old.
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi speaks in Tokyo on Thursday. He is attempting to become Liberal Democratic Party president for the second time.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 12, 2025

Will a more conservative leader emerge from the LDP presidential election?

Conservative members of the party are looking to elect such a leader, but there is a possibility that their votes might be split between two presidential hopefuls.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato reaffirmed in a joint statement their commitment to allowing markets to determine currency exchange rates and not targeting them for competitive advantage.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 12, 2025

U.S. and Japan pledge not to manipulate forex for competitive advantage

Tokyo has spent close to $150 billion in the last three years trying to prop up the yen with the last move in July last year.
Sensing a bleak future for the local "awamori" liquor, Mizuho Distillery ventured into rum production, releasing a collection of eight rums made from "kokutō" (partially refined or unrefined sugar) sourced from various islands in Okinawa Prefecture.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 12, 2025

The sweet rise of Okinawan rum

The spirit is emerging out of the shadow of the local “awamori” liquor, thanks to a growing band of producers who are keen to tell the tale of the islands' traditional agriculture.
A novel type of fraud has been reported in Osaka Prefecture in which scammers send smartphones to elderly individuals before swindling them via the devices.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 12, 2025

Novel smartphone scam targeting elderly emerges in Osaka

Scammers would send elderly people smartphones before swindling them using the devices, according to the Osaka Prefectural Police.
Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, offer flowers at a monument marking the hypocenter of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in Nagasaki Peace Park on Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2025

Emperor Naruhito and family pay their respects in Nagasaki

The family is slated to meet with people living in a special elderly nursing home for atomic bomb survivors on Saturday.
‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.
Japanese immunologist among three Nobel medicine prize winners
Shimon Sakaguchi, an immunologist and distinguished professor at Osaka University, attends a news conference after winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in medicine, in Osaka Prefecture on Monday.
Spanish tourist injured in latest bear attack
Shirakawago, a U.N. World Heritage site in Gifu Prefecture
Americans and Canadians unite in battling 'eating machine' carp
A Fisheries and Oceans Canada team patrols the Grand River in Dunnville, Ontario, in search of invasive grass carp specimens on Sept. 25.
Trump hails 'wisdom and strength' of Japan's incoming prime minister
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, gives a news conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Saturday.
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.
‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.
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.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Growing families are being priced out of Tokyo’s condo market, forced to choose between downtown convenience and suburban space.
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