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WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 4, 2022

Nobel Prize in physics awarded to trio for work exploring quantum weirdness

Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger were recognized for their experiments in an area that has broad implications for secure information transfer and quantum computing.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 4, 2022

Tear gas and locked gates led to Indonesian soccer stampede, spectators say

The use of tear gas, a crowd-control measure prohibited by world soccer governing body FIFA, has come under scrutiny.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 4, 2022

Kishida administration defends appointment of prime minister's son as senior aide

While placing family members in influential government positions isn't rare, even among democracies, hereditary politics is particularly entrenched in Japan.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Oct 4, 2022

Saudi Arabia to host 2029 Asian Winter Games in desert megacity

The $500 billion project, which is scheduled to feature a year-round winter sports complex when it's completed in 2026, will become the first West Asian city to host the event.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 4, 2022

Roki Sasaki and Munetaka Murakami highlight Samurai Japan's November squad

Manager Hideki Kuriyama's men will face the Fighters and Giants at Sapporo Dome on Nov. 5 and 7, respectively, before a pair of games against Australia on Nov. 9 and 10.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 4, 2022

Solomon Islands rejected draft U.S.-Pacific deal over indirect references to China

'We don't want to be placed in a position that we have to choose sides,' said Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 4, 2022

U.S. plans new limits on tech sent to Chinese firms

The Biden administration is expected to announce new measures to restrict Chinese companies from getting access to technologies that enable high-performance computing.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 4, 2022

Can smartphones help predict suicide?

A unique research project is tracking hundreds of people at risk for suicide, using data from smartphones and wearable biosensors to identify periods of high danger — and intervene.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2022

COVID-19 tracker: Tokyo reports 4,310 new cases

The seven-day average of new cases came to 3,950.9, compared with 6,521.6 a week before.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 4, 2022

Brazil braces for ‘white-knuckle race’ between Bolsonaro and Lula

The contest promises to prolong what has already been a bruising battle that has polarized the nation and tested the strength of its democracy.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 4, 2022

Xi's 'Chinese Dream' flickers in one Beijing neighborhood

As Xi prepares for the Communist Party to anoint him for an unprecedented third term in office, some say the dream is losing definition.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 4, 2022

New Alzheimer's drug from Biogen and Eisai is just the beginning

A successful late-stage trial of lecanemab gives researchers promising new avenues for tackling this hard-to-beat disease.
Pedestrians cross a street in the Zhongshan district of Taipei. Many voters on the island, especially those in their 20s and 30s, say they are weary of geopolitics and yearn for a campaign more focused on their needs at home.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 5, 2023

The wild card in Taiwan’s election: Frustrated young voters

Beyond geopolitics, they yearn for more focus on bread-and-butter issues such as rising housing costs, slow income growth and narrowing career prospects.
A container ship is seen near the Panama Canal, in Panama City on Saturday.
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2023

Panama canal jam sends ships sailing continents out of way

The canal is being squeezed shut by drought, and the bottleneck will only worsen in the coming months as Panama enters its annual dry season.
JAPAN / Society
Dec 5, 2023

Osaka Expo woes weigh on city's casino resort project

Given the logistical and timing issues facing the expo, there are concerns over whether the casino resort can be built on schedule.
An Israeli soldier secures a tunnel underneath Shifa hospital in Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip, on Nov. 22.
WORLD
Dec 5, 2023

Israel considering flooding Gaza tunnels with seawater: report

Israel's army completed the set-up of at least five pumps last month
Eiko Takeuchi talks about a traffic jam during last winter’s heavy snow along National Route 8 in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, on Sept. 18.
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Tohoku
Dec 11, 2023

Evacuation plans for nuclear incidents called into question

Effectiveness of preparations as a “last line of defense” to save residents in the event of a nuclear disaster are in doubt.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 5, 2023

Prospect of NTT Law abolishment unclear amid fierce opposition

The idea was first proposed by a ruling Liberal Democratic Party panel to make the communications giant internationally competitive.
Gender-neutral names were more popular for Japanese babies born in 2023, a survey has found.
JAPAN / Society
Dec 5, 2023

Popularity of gender-neutral Japanese names rose in 2023

The annual ranking by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance, released Monday, showed that unisex names have risen in popularity.
Collected anti-tank mines and explosives are detonated by the Ukrainian national police emergency de-mining team in the Donetsk region on Oct. 6, 2022.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Dec 5, 2023

Ukraine war responsible for 150 million tons of CO2 emissions

The estimate comes from the Initiative on GHG Accounting of War, a group of experts studying the climate impact of the Ukraine war.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 5, 2023

Bill for victims' relief in Unification Church case clears Lower House

The bill aims to prevent a religious organization's assets from being transferred overseas so that it can be set aside to provide relief.
SoftBank has agreed to buy a majority stake in Irish software developer Cubic Telecom for around €473 million.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 5, 2023

SoftBank buys majority stake in Irish car software developer

SoftBank will acquire 51% of Cubic Telecom, which provides a platform for automakers to update software functions in cars globally and in real time.
Tokyo police had a veterinarian perform a postmortem on the hapless pigeon and determined its cause of death as traumatic shock.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 5, 2023

Police arrest Japan taxi driver after running over pigeon

Tokyo police had a veterinarian perform a postmortem on the hapless pigeon and determined its cause of death as traumatic shock.
A representative for Morgan Stanley, which in August said it was 70% of the way toward reaching the $1 trillion in sustainable financing it’s told investors it will achieve by 2030, declined to comment beyond referring to the bank’s latest ESG report.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 5, 2023

What banks really mean when they put trillions into ESG

With each bank announcing a different target, investors are left with little insight into the ways in which banks are defining what’s sustainable.
Nelson Mandela (left) is embraced by Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat as he arrives at Lusaka airport on Feb. 27, 1990.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 5, 2023

A decade after Mandela's death, his pro-Palestinian legacy lives on

Many South Africans saw parallels between their own struggle against white minority rule and the Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation.
Activists protest against fossil fuels on the sidelines of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 6, 2023

UAE 'repressive environment' complicates COP28 activism: Amnesty

The group's secretary-general said restrictions on speech are complicating approval of an event demanding the release of Emirati political prisoners.
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson signing the Brexit trade deal with the EU in London on Dec. 30, 2020.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 6, 2023

Three years on, U.K. factories still face Brexit challenges

A survey by trade body Make U.K found that 90% of businesses felt post-Brexit trading arrangements were still disrupting trade with the EU.

Longform

Construction equipment sits idle in a park near Shiba Toshogu shrine in Tokyo's Minato Ward. While Japan has a history of treating its trees with reverence, green coverage is said to be lacking in most of the major cities.
Do Japan's trees no longer occupy the sacred space they used to?