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JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jan 23, 2022

Kishida and Biden in lockstep, but COVID-19 means 2022 goals may prove elusive

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was able to tick many of the boxes on Japan's wishlist during his virtual summit with U.S. President Joe Biden, but now the hard part begins.
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BUSINESS
Jan 19, 2022

Microsoft will buy Activision Blizzard, betting $70 billion on the future of games

Microsoft has framed the deal as strengthening the company's hand in the so-called metaverse, claiming that 'gaming will be at the forefront of making that mainstream.”
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 17, 2022

Kishida vows to lay out road map for 'new capitalism' in the spring

Covering topics ranging from COVID-19 to climate change and diplomacy, the prime minister offered a comprehensive wrap-up of his policy agenda at the start of the parliamentary session.
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BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jan 14, 2022

Xi reshapes China property market, paving way for state dominance

While the endgame is still unclear, China watchers predict that the days of blistering home-price gains and debt-fueled building sprees by billionaire property tycoons are set to fade.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 11, 2022

Djokovic debacle exposes Australia’s xenophobic policies

The furor over Novak Djokovic's COVID-19-related detention has brought to global attention the nation's strict immigration policies.
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COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 9, 2022

Reopening the world and ourselves

What have we learned about nationalism and globalization that we can carry into a post-pandemic future?
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WORLD
Jan 9, 2022

Will ‘forever boosting’ beat the coronavirus?

Everyone should get a booster shot. In the long run, though, doses every few months aren't a viable public health strategy, scientists say.
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CULTURE / Film
Jan 8, 2022

Sidney Poitier, who paved the way for Black actors in film, dies at 94

Poitier, who established himself as Hollywood's first Black matinee idol, died Thursday night at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94.
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EDITORIALS
Jan 7, 2022

Japan needs a real economic security strategy

Japan should make products that it and the rest of the world need so that the nation is considered an integral partner.
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JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Jan 2, 2022

Japan Times 1972: Japanese soldier captured in Guam

A soldier who was under orders to 'never surrender' is captured in Guam after 28 years of hiding in the jungle.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Dec 30, 2021

New Year's TV sees us spoiled for choice

Japanese broadcast television's slate of new year programming features star-studded blowouts that offer the perfect dose of moderately entertaining content as we head into 2022.
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JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 29, 2021

Tokyo researchers work toward 'dream' COVID-19 vaccine that gives protection for life

By repurposing the vector used in the long-proven smallpox vaccine, Michinori Kohara hopes to offer more enduring COVID-19 protection against variants that have yet to develop.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Dec 27, 2021

In Osaka, friends and strangers share a communal meal

Feeling hungry? Feeling lonely? The doors are open to you at Cocoroom, regardless of your nationality.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 25, 2021

Worldly, charming and quietly equipping a brutal military

An investigation of Myanmar's Kyaw Thaung family exposes a vast web of military procurement that was strategically hidden from the public.
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COMMENTARY / World
Dec 21, 2021

A fond farewell to two musical inspirations

The music world lost two legendary musicians in December, Robert Michael Nesmith and Robert Warren Dale Shakespeare.
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CULTURE / Stage
Dec 16, 2021

Saitama Gold Theater players take their final bow after 15 years

The theater troupe, founded in 2006 by Yukio Ninagawa with a cast of actors aged 55 and over, will bid farewell with Shogo Ota's nonverbal 1981 masterpiece, “Mizu no Eki.”
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CULTURE / Film
Dec 9, 2021

‘Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy’: A triptych on life and love well worth a spin

Ryusuke Hamaguchi's three-part anthology, which centers on three women whose lives are changed by chance, solidifies his reputation as a director of rare talent and ambition.
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Special Supplements / Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021
Dec 7, 2021

Savory find leads battle to reduce sodium intake

Washoku, Japan’s traditional dietary culture, was added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2013. Washoku has since grown rapidly into an international trend, and extensive research has been conducted into its health benefits.
LIFE / Lifestyle / Longform
Dec 6, 2021

‘Modern girls’: Japan's first recognizable youth culture movement

Young women in the late 1920s and '30s exuded a sense of affluence and independence that is still apparent today.
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WORLD
Dec 4, 2021

Omicron scare haunts 53,000 New York anime convention attendees

The city is faced with asking attendees to immediately get tested for COVID-19 after a person contracted one of the first confirmed infections of the omicron variant in the U.S.
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COMMENTARY / World
Dec 2, 2021

Roe v. Wade in jeopardy if current arguments before top court are anything to go by

The court could hold that, properly interpreted, Roe allows states to restrict abortion at some point — so long as they allow women 'enough time” to end their pregnancies.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 12, 2021

Opposition tie-up could herald new debate on constitutional revision in Japan

In what could be the start of an opposition party realignment, Nippon Ishin no Kai and the Democratic Party for the People have begun working together to push the issue in parliament.
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BUSINESS / FOCUS
Nov 3, 2021

China’s climate goals hinge on a $440 billion nuclear buildout

China's planning at least 150 new reactors in the next 15 years, more than the rest of the world has built in the past 35.
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COMMENTARY / World
Oct 24, 2021

The overlooked victims of COVID-19: The children

The isolation measures imposed by the pandemic have severely curtailed social development in children, resulting in a wide array of mental, emotional and behavioral health issues.
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BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2021

Amazon CEO is confident in its gaming products after New World release

A week ago, Amazon released New World, an online computer game where archers and ax wielders colonize a mythical land.
SOCCER / J. League
Sep 29, 2021

J. League prepares for larger crowds as emergency ends

The league will use several games next month, potentially including the Oct. 30 Levain Cup final at Saitama Stadium, to trial new policies allowing for more vaccinated fans to attend games.
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COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Sep 20, 2021

You never know who you’ll run into at the public bath

Your local tattooed thugs, the old woman who is just a little bit too much in your business, who else will you meet at the neighborhood bathhouse?
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2021

Apple issues emergency security updates to close a spyware flaw

The spyware, called Pegasus, uses a novel method to invisibly infect Apple devices without victims' knowledge.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 10, 2021

South Korea's 'Gen MZ' leads rush into the 'metaverse'

The metaverse may be a futuristic prospect for most of the world, but it's increasingly a reality in South Korea.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 9, 2021

SoftBank eyeing battery-maker 3DOM for 6G and mobile base stations

Japanese startup 3DOM is developing new battery separator technology that helps overcome the physical limitations of current lithium-based batteries.

Longform

A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami