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Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 22, 2020

Tokyo confirms 256 COVID-19 cases

Tokyo confirmed 256 coronavirus infections on Saturday, topping the 200 mark for the third straight day, while seeing an uptick in the number of severe cases.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Aug 22, 2020

[VIDEO] Breaking down the biggest moments of Joe Biden’s DNC speech

Katie Glueck, a politics reporter, has covered Joe Biden for over 15 months. Here are her takeaways from his nomination acceptance speech.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 22, 2020

After COVID-19, China’s leaders face new challenges from flooding

Having brought the coronavirus pandemic largely under control, China’s leaders are now struggling with a surge of crippling floods that have killed hundreds of people and displaced millions across the central and southwestern parts of the country.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 22, 2020

Flagging Brexit negotiations revive the specter of 'no deal' again

As trade talks with the European Union started to flag in June, Boris Johnson borrowed a phrase from a series of 1950s gasoline ads, promising he would "put a tiger in the tank” to rev up the negotiations.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 22, 2020

New antibody tests offer better snapshot of COVID-19 immunity

A new crop of COVID-19 antibody tests measures the level of protection someone has built up against the deadly virus and may help determine which vaccines are most effective.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Aug 22, 2020

The meaning of life

'That cicada (on the ground) isn't making any sound. Is it asleep?'
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 22, 2020

Democrats tiptoe around how loudly to sound alarm on voting risk

Speakers at the Democratic National Convention this week had to walk a careful line between warning Joe Biden’s supporters of obstacles to voting and being so negative that they discourage participation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 22, 2020

U.S. No. 2 diplomat to visit Russia and Lithuania to discuss Belarus

The No. 2 U.S. diplomat will visit Russia and Lithuania soon for talks on Belarus, two sources familiar with the matter said Friday, as Washington seeks a peaceful resolution to that country's election crisis that averts Russian intervention.
Flu season began earlier than usual this year, with Okinawa Prefecture reporting the largest number of cases per hospital in the week up to Sunday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 3, 2025

Japan enters its second-earliest flu season in 20 years

Okinawa had the most cases on average by prefecture, at 8.98 patients per medical institution, followed by 1.96 for Tokyo, 1.68 for Kagoshima, and Fukuoka with 1.55.
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.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 3, 2025

Japan’s first foreign wine investor plants its roots in Hokkaido

Burgundy’s Domaine de Montille has opened a winery in Hakodate — a vote of confidence in the region’s terroir.
Through the Japan-Korea Summer Exchange Conference, undergraduate students have sustained an ongoing cultural and academic dialogue for 40 years.
COMMUNITY / Issues
Oct 6, 2025

Student groups nurture Japan-South Korea dialogue and cultural ties

Since 1985, the Japan-Korea Summer Exchange Conference has provided a platform for students to discuss bilateral relations and build cultural bridges along the way.
Myanmar's military chief Min Aung Hlaing meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of a meeting in Tianjin, China, on Aug. 31.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 3, 2025

Myanmar's reclusive general turns jet-setter in quest for election backing

Min Aung Hlaing's travels are part of a diplomatic push to win support for a controversial December election.
Mai Nishitaka was sentenced to 17 years in prison by the Yokohama District Court for killing her ex-partner in 2023.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 3, 2025

Woman sentenced to 17 years for killing ex-boyfriend

Mai Nishitaka and four others strangled her ex-partner and abandoned the body in a suitcase by the Tama River in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on July 20.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 3, 2025

CDP doesn’t rule out cooperation with LDP

Noda’s comments come as the ruling Liberal Democratic Party prepares to elect a new leader, who will need opposition support in order to govern.
Ryan Gander’s “The Find” transforms Okayama into the site of a scavenger hunt for coins that anyone is free to take home.
CULTURE / Art
Oct 5, 2025

Artists turn Okayama into Murakami-esque city of wonder

The fourth edition of the triennial Okayama Art Summit transmutes the sensibility of Haruki Murakami’s “1Q84” into an urban art program.
Jun Sawada (left) and David Goeckeler during a meeting of the Japan-U.S. and U.S.-Japan Business Councils in Tokyo on Friday.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2025

Japan and U.S. business leaders call for transparency in trade and investment

The statement call comes as U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policy is adding to global economic uncertainties.
Members of a forensic team work outside a Manchester synagogue on Friday where multiple people were killed a day earlier.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 3, 2025

U.K. police may have accidentally shot dead victim in synagogue attack

The attacker, whom armed officers shot dead at the scene, was not carrying a firearm, though one of those killed suffered a gunshot wound.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth greet each other during a meeting of senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia on Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 3, 2025

Trump and Hegseth advance militaristic noise over nuance

For countries that study U.S. actions closely, this week’s spectacle was anything but reassuring.
Avant-garde chef Grant Achatz and his team from Alinea are in Tokyo for a three-week residency.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 4, 2025

Eat your balloons: The culinary theater of Grant Achatz comes to Tokyo

The man behind Chicago’s iconic Alinea restaurant shares insights on modernist cuisine and his Tokyo pop-up.
Hamas said on Friday that it had agreed to release all of the Israeli hostages held in Gaza, in response to the peace proposal introduced by President Donald Trump earlier this week.
WORLD
Oct 4, 2025

Hamas agrees to release Israeli hostages but sets conditions

The statement was a positive step that still raised questions about whether the promise would be sufficient to end the conflict.
Former FBI Director James Comey
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 4, 2025

FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar say

James Comey was charged on Sept. 25 with making false statements and obstructing a congressional investigation.
Venezuelan migrants who had been detained in El Salvador walk up stairs to the terminal after disembarking from a plane at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, in July.
WORLD
Oct 4, 2025

U.S. Supreme Court lets Trump strip temporary status from Venezuelan migrants

The court's ruling came at a time of simmering tensions between the United States and Venezuela.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept. 30.
WORLD
Oct 4, 2025

U.S. military strikes another alleged drug boat off Venezuela

The strike comes as the Trump administration presses ahead with a strategy to target narco-traffickers it calls unlawful combatants at war with the U.S.
How China waged an infowar against U.S. interests in the Philippines
Association for Philippines-China Understanding (APCU) Chairman Raul Lambino shakes hands with guests during a ceremony for the Award for Promoting Philippines-China Understanding at The Manila Hotel in Manila in June.
‘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.
Typhoon Halong to cause windstorms, heavy rain and high waves on the Izu islands
Typhoon Halong is moving north near the Izu Islands, with strong winds, high waves and heavy rain expected as it passes early on Thursday, prompting warnings from the weather agency.
Takaichi's leadership lineup favors Aso and his allies while shutting out rivals
The LDP's newly-appointed election chief Keiji Furuya (far left), general affairs council chair Haruko Arimura (second from left), vice president Taro Aso (center left), president Sanae Takaichi (center right), secretary-general Shunichi Suzuki (second from right) and policy chief Takayuki Kobayashi in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Qilin cybercrime gang claims hack on Japan's Asahi
The Asahi Group headquarters complex in Tokyo
OpenAI’s Sora 2 is drowning in Japanese 'AI slop'
OpenAI has rolled out a social app powered by Sora 2, its artificial intelligence video generator, which was quickly flooded with videos featuring iconic Japanese intellectual property.
Trump has his eyes on the prize — but a Nobel win looks unlikely
A protester holds a sign with an image depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and the words "Nobel" written on it, as supporters and family members of hostages who were kidnapped during the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, demonstrate to demand the immediate end of the war and the release of all hostages, outside the U.S. Consulate in Tel Aviv, on Sept. 2.
‘Takaichi trade’ stalls as political reality calls for wait-and-see approach
Tokyo stocks staged a powerful rally on Monday. On Tuesday, they rallied again, then retreated.
‘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.

Podcast

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

Longform

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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