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LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 15, 2020

How COVID-19 has reshaped Japan's drinking culture

Suit-clad office workers are no longer flocking to Japanese-style pubs en masse to unwind after a long day at the office. Where are they drinking instead?
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Aug 15, 2020

This summer, don’t be too bitter to give gōya a try

Although it may look intimidating, bitter melon is surprisingly addictive. Here's two healthy and quick recipes highlighting this unique fruit.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 15, 2020

'Memoirs of a Kamikaze': A teenage World War II pilot’s life in his own words

Kazuo Odachi's memoir about his life as a kamikaze pilot is a poignant reminder of the resilience of humanity in times of adversity.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 15, 2020

The popularity of jeans in Japan begins to fray

According to industry data, total sales of jeans of all types reached 78 million pairs in 2002. The current annual figure is believed to have fallen below 40 million.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Aug 15, 2020

COVID-19 ruins plans to spend time at the beach (among other things)

Going to the beach in Japan has never been so complicated.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 15, 2020

Camaraderie drives the roving banquet of Eat Play Works’ food hall

Eat Play Works' food hall, The Restaurant, is a 17-shop collaboration based on mutual cooperation — and excellent meals.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 15, 2020

Omnipollos Tokyo: A bold, boozy newcomer to the craft beer scene

Omnipollo is no run-of-the-mill craft beer company, and its first Japanese outpost, Omnipollos Tokyo, lives up to the brand's quirky reputation.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 15, 2020

Chef Kyohei Nishi spreads his wings at Neki

Tokyo's Kabutocho neighborhood is undergoing a much-needed revitalization, and no development is more exciting and welcome than Neki.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Kateigaho International Japan Edition
Aug 15, 2020

Hakkō: A fermentation meister who chats with microbes

Tokuyama-zushi's chef, Hiroaki Tokuyama, sees it as his mission to alter preconceptions about fermented foods by serving them in novel ways.
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Aug 15, 2020

War ends and humanity remains resilient

Chaos, destruction u2026 humanity endures and yet, we seem stuck in repeating the same mistakes.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 15, 2020

‘Intimate Disconnections’: What makes marriage work and end?

Allison Alexy's book on divorce, with useful advice and firsthand accounts, is an absorbing study of Japanese attitudes toward love and marriage.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / DESSERT WATCH
Aug 15, 2020

Stay peachy keen and cool with Starbucks’ Juicy Peach Frappuccino

Trying to enjoy an icy treat before it melts during summer can be tricky. But sometimes a little melting is actually a good thing.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Aug 15, 2020

Going down with the Titanic

'That's not even Leonardo DiCaprio.'
JAPAN / Politics / View from Osaka
Aug 15, 2020

Under cloud of pandemic, Osaka referendum remains a key issue for Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura

More in Osaka are asking whether the vote should be postponed until after the coronavirus crisis has passed.
A man operates an automated EES kiosk during a demonstration of the European Union's Entry/Exit System (EES) at the Eurotunnel terminal in Folkestone, U.K., on Sept. 23.
WORLD
Oct 8, 2025

What the EU's new biometric border checks mean for non-EU citizens

The Entry/Exit System (EES) will require all non-EU citizens to register their personal details, including fingerprints and facial images, when they first enter the Schengen area.
It has long been known that depression is more common in women, but the biological causes remain something of a mystery.
WORLD / Society
Oct 8, 2025

Study finds women have higher genetic risk of depression

Scientists poured through the DNA of almost 200,000 people with depression to pinpoint shared genetic "flags."
National Stadium in Tokyo
MORE SPORTS
Oct 8, 2025

Mitsubishi UFJ to acquire naming rights for National Stadium

The acquisition is expected to cost around ¥10 billion over five years.
Shimon Sakaguchi, an immunologist and a distinguished professor of the University of Osaka, arrives for a news conference Monday night after winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in medicine, in Suita, Osaka Prefecture.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 8, 2025

Nobel laureate Sakaguchi urges support for science despite its 'poor success rate'

The Nobel Prize winner engaged in research once considered dodgy or even dangerous, and he said he struggled to gain support for it early in his career.
Japan plans to introduce nationwide five-year bachelor's-master's programs to raise graduate school enrollment and train more highly skilled professionals amid a shrinking workforce.
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2025

Japan to move toward five-year integrated bachelor's-master’s programs

The proposed reform would allow students to complete a one-year master’s program after a standard four-year undergraduate course.
Officials from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and the Democratic Party for the People in the Diet building on Wednesday
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 8, 2025

CDP proposes DPP head Tamaki as unified opposition PM candidate

The proposal is believed to be aimed at putting a brake on the LDP's intensified outreach to the DPP as a potential coalition partner.
Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito (left) and LDP counterpart Sanae Takaichi meet in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 8, 2025

After 26 years, Komeito may be showing signs it will break with LDP

Komeito not immediately endorsing Takaichi reflects deep concerns among Soka Gakkai members, the party’s main supporters in the lay Buddhist group, about her ideology and policies.
As Russia's economy faces stagnation, high inflation, a growing fiscal deficit and a demographic crisis, President Vladimir Putin is not ready to give up on his war in Ukraine just yet.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2025

Putin doubles down on Ukraine as economic woes grow

Understanding that under the current economic model he will run out of cash in less than a year, Putin just announced a budget for 2026-2028 which includes substantial tax hikes.
Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister if appointed, will have her work cut out for her and face key diplomatic challenges with the U.S., China and South Korea, as well as persistent economic and demographic issues.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 8, 2025

Will Takaichi become the prime minister Japan needs?

An admirer of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Takaichi is an adherent to Shinzo Abe’s pragmatic yet conservative vision.
A crime scene technician prepares to document evidence at the site of a shooting in West Baltimore in May 2015. U.S. cities are seeing murder rates fall sharply from post-2020 highs thanks to local violence-reduction efforts and pandemic-era investments.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2025

What’s behind the great American murder decline?

Homicides are plummeting in many places. The explanation may be the sheer volume of different efforts to reduce violence.
Despite concerns over U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and global trade disruptions, the dollar remains dominant in global finance, with the Chinese yuan gaining ground but still far from challenging its supremacy.
COMMENTARY
Oct 8, 2025

Best evidence yet that the U.S. dollar isn’t close to being dead

The dollar was on one side of 89.2% of all trades, up a touch from the 2022 result.
JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries said they will launch a Michibiki positioning satellite aboard on H3 rocket on Dec. 7 from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture.
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2025

Japan to launch another positioning satellite on Dec. 7

The launch is set to occur between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture.
3D printed Telegram and WhatsApp logos are placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken January 21, 2021.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 8, 2025

Child protection versus privacy: decision time for EU

Does protecting children justify snooping on private messages?
An ABB robot at the Sony U.K. Technology Centre in Pencoed, Wales
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 8, 2025

SoftBank to buy ABB’s robotics arm in $5.4 billion deal

The Japanese investment firm agreed to take over a business with more than 7,000 employees, which supplies industrial arms and robots.

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