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JAPAN
Jan 16, 2023

New AI smartphone app will be able to decipher Japanese cursive manuscripts

The app's beta version is set for release later this month, while the full version is scheduled to become available to the public this March.
Japan Times
PRESS / Events
Dec 27, 2022

“Creating a sustainable world by the power of data science” with Yuki Kishi

The Japan Times Cube Inc. (representative director: Minako Suematsu) launched Roundtable by The Japan Times, a series of talk events broadcasted in Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 23, 2022

Twitter is said to have struggled over revealing U.S. influence campaign

The situation began in 2017 when an official working with U.S. Central Command requested that Twitter verify some of the military's accounts.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 24, 2022

Walmart manager kills six in latest U.S. mass shooting

The shooting came on the heels of a weekend gun attack at an LGBTQ club in Colorado that killed five people.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 21, 2022

Colorado mass shooter stopped by 'heroic' people inside club, police say

The shooting was the latest in a long history of attacks on LGBTQ venues in the United States, the deadliest of which claimed 49 lives at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in 2016.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Oct 21, 2022

Reports shed new light on last hours of South Korean slain by North in 2020

Documents from a parliamentary inquiry, the coast guard and a human rights watchdog provide previously unpublished details about the case.
Japan Times
PRESS / Events
Oct 19, 2022

“The first sustainable paper pack for natural water in Japan” with Remi Yano

The Japan Times Cube Inc. (representative director: Minako Suematsu) launched Roundtable by The Japan Times, a series of talk events broadcasted in Japan.
JAPAN / History
Oct 4, 2022

Tokyo to digitize material related to March 1945 air raids

The government will create a digital database of videotaped testimonies from those who experienced the airstrikes and personal belongings of victims that have not been publicly shown.
PRESS / Events
Sep 22, 2022

“Biodiversity conservation in landscapes and seascapes” with Yasuo Takahashi

The Japan Times Cube Inc. (representative director: Minako Suematsu) launched Roundtable by The Japan Times, a series of talk events broadcasted in Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Sep 22, 2022

Jenny Xie explores the subversive power of the concealed and the overlooked

In her new poetry collection, “The Rupture Tense,” Xie peeks at the past to examine the consequences of “how we see, what we see, and also what we allow to remain unseen.”
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 16, 2022

Egyptians push back against 'whitewashing' of Egyptology

Egyptology is flush with tales of brilliant foreign explorers uncovering the secrets of the Pharaohs, but Egyptians are relegated to the background.
Japan Times
PRESS / Events
Aug 22, 2022

“Policymaking to achieve Sustainable Development Goals” with Mahesti Okitasari

The Japan Times Cube Inc. (representative director: Minako Suematsu) launched Roundtable by The Japan Times, a series of talk events broadcasted in Japan.
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CULTURE / Art
Aug 20, 2022

Memento mori: Photography in the face of the inevitable

The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum examines how we face our own mortality in the new exhibition “TOP Collection: The Illumination of Life by Death.”
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jul 31, 2022

Ryo Osera: 'Travelers want to experience local areas at a slower pace'

The guys behind the startup KabuK Style want you to take the same approach to travel as you would your Netflix account.
PRESS / Events
Jul 22, 2022

“Creating ESG-driven value creation strategies for real assets” with Stuart Kay

The Japan Times Cube Inc. (representative director: Minako Suematsu) launched Roundtable by The Japan Times, a series of talk events broadcasted in Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 22, 2022

They loved volcanoes and each other

A new documentary examines the work and lives of the French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, helped mightily by their own magnificent footage.
Players gather for a baseball game at an unearthed and restored baseball field that had not seen a competition in 75 years, at the site of a Japanese internment camp in Manzanar, California, on Oct. 28.
JAPAN / History
Nov 4, 2024

In an internment camp, all they had was baseball. They’re back to play.

Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, baseball was a source of connection between Japan and the United States.
A man eats a croissant dough mince pie at Pophams bakery in London.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Dec 25, 2024

'Don't mess with our mince pies,' some Brits plead

A mixture of different dried fruits, chopped apples and spices soaked in spirits such as brandy and rum, the snack is a favorite around the holidays.
Eugene Kangawa's Atelier iii is a space where visitors are invited to engage directly with the artist’s evolving practice.
CULTURE / Art
Jan 18, 2025

Eugene Kangawa’s art space embraces impermanence

The artist’s Atelier iii studio resists spectacle and asks visitors to slow down and commit to being present.
Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by Aum Shinrikyo, the Public Security Intelligence Agency launched a special website Friday.
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2025

Special website created 30 years after Tokyo subway sarin attack

The Aum Shinrikyo digital archive covers not only the Tokyo subway system attack, but also other crimes by the cult, including a 1994 sarin gas attack in Matsumoto.
Elon Musk listens to U.S. President Donald Trump speak in the White House in Washington on Feb. 11.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 27, 2025

Member of Elon Musk's DOGE team provided tech service to cybercrime ring

Edward Coristine, 19, is among the most visible members of the DOGE effort that has been given sweeping access to U.S. government networks.
Lawyer Shoichi Ibuski (right) speaks during a news conference in Tokyo along with Wayomi, younger sister of Wishma Sandamali who died in 2021 while in detention.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 4, 2025

Family of Sri Lankan woman who died in custody to sue Japan for footage

Attorney Shoichi Ibuski, representing the family, told reporters that the government's refusal suggests there may be “inconvenient information for immigration authorities.”
Demonstrators gather in support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) outside the agency's main campus in Atlanta on March 28.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 8, 2025

Volunteers on 'right side of history' fight Trump data purge

The Trump administration has gutted several federal agencies, fired tens of thousands of employees and altered or deleted thousands of government webpages since taking office.
Margot Magniere and Theo Poyer returned to Japan after pandemic-era restrictions were lifted and decided to stay for a while.
CULTURE / Music
Apr 11, 2025

The band that turned a pandemic lockdown into a Tokyo dream

On “Grand Voyage,” French pop act Tapeworms tap into Japanese cultural nostalgia and picopop.
Then-U.S. national security adviser Mike Waltz checks his mobile phone while attending a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington on April 30.
WORLD / Politics
May 22, 2025

Hacker behind U.S communication breach stole data from across government

The discovery potentially raises the stakes of a breach that has already drawn questions about data security in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
While hacking to steal data and information about the semiconductor industry in Taiwan is not new, there has been an increase in sustained hacking campaigns from several China-aligned hacking groups.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 17, 2025

China-linked hackers seen targeting Taiwan's chip industry with increasing attacks

The attacks come amid rising restrictions by Washington on exports to China of U.S.-designed chips that are often manufactured in Taiwan.
A bus belonging to the Think Outside Da Block gun violence prevention program is parked outside the organization’s office in Chicago, Illinois, on July 25.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 30, 2025

Trump administration slashed federal funding for gun violence prevention

The funding cuts threaten the sustainability of community violence intervention initiatives that have taken years to establish, advocates say.
A man walks on a beach in Nice, France, amid a heavy rain storm. European governments are ramping up their own data collection systems to monitor climate change and weather extremes.
WORLD
Aug 2, 2025

Europe is breaking its reliance on American science

Amid Trump's cuts, European governments are ramping up their own data collection systems to monitor climate change and weather extremes.
Sara Duterte, vice president of the Philippines, speaks during a campaign event in Manila on May 8. The Philippine Senate on Wednesday voted to shelve an impeachment complaint against her after the country's top court ruled it as unconstitutional.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 7, 2025

Philippine Senate shelves VP Duterte’s impeachment case

The vote follows a ruling by the country's top court that the complaint was unconstitutional.
A father carries his daughter after a shooting at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday. Two children were killed and 17 others were injured in the attack.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 28, 2025

Shooter kills two children in Minneapolis church and injures 17 others

The heavily armed shooter opened fire on schoolchildren attending a church service marking their first week back at school.

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight