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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 10, 2020

A ‘new normal’ in cyberwar should scare us to action

Cyber capabilities are much less expensive to develop and easier to acquire than traditional warfare — and can be just as destructive.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY
Jun 3, 2020

Troubling trends demand that Japan take action at sea

The Maritime Self-Defense Force will likely be relegated to second place permanently within this decade if China's naval construction program maintains its current pace.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 2, 2020

WHO and other experts say no evidence of coronavirus losing potency

The comments came after an assertion on Sunday by a high-profile Italian doctor.
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2020

Japan lawmakers work to ensure payment of child support after divorce

The Diet members are stepping up efforts to address an increasing number of cases of unpaid child support.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Jun 1, 2020

Coaches make good use of time away from court

The quarantine period was a great opportunity for coaches to broaden their horizons by learning from some of the most-renowned coaches on the international level.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
May 31, 2020

Jin Sato: Taking a global view of state-society relations

Professor Jin Sato on the most memorable lecture he ever gave, Japan's go-to techniques for multinational cooperation and the three foods he always has in his fridge.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 30, 2020

No way back: Indian workers shun city jobs after coronavirus lockdown

When power loom operator Lokanath Swain boarded a bus home after a 40-day wait in the Indian textile hub of Surat, he took a silent vow — to never return to his workplace of two decades.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 29, 2020

Six deadly lockdown sins

The lockdowns across the world will likely kill more people than they saved.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 27, 2020

Stay-home request spurs a reading revival

In many urban areas of Japan, people were recently urged to stay home for weeks on in the fight to contain the spread of COVID-19. Most big bookstores in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto were closed through the end of the Golden Week holidays, making it difficult to buy books.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 23, 2020

Tropical storms are growing

People who live in areas with extreme weather know storms are getting worse. Now there is hard data to prove it.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 23, 2020

Gilead’s remdesivir mainly helped healthier COVID-19 patients

Gilead Sciences Inc.’s remdesivir, the first medicine cleared for the treatment of COVID-19, mainly benefited healthier patients who weren’t dependent on ventilators or heart-lung bypass machines, according to published results of the study used to get the medicine on the market.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 23, 2020

U.S. plans massive coronavirus vaccine testing effort to meet year-end deadline

The United States plans a massive testing effort involving more than 100,000 volunteers and a half dozen or so of the most promising vaccine candidates in an effort to deliver a safe and effective one by the end of 2020, scientists leading the program told Reuters.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 19, 2020

The pandemic’s gender bias needs urgent fixing

Women faced a century-long wait to reach parity with men before the coronavirus. Now that timeline is looking ambitious.
JAPAN
May 15, 2020

Kansai fears virus relapse as Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo blaze own trails

Despite regional concerns in Kansai, Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo are going their own way on reviving their economies amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 13, 2020

Clean lockdown air saves lives, especially in Los Angeles

America’s air is cleaner as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, and that’s likely to reduce the number of premature deaths caused by pollution, according to a new study.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 9, 2020

Why I just volunteered for a COVID-19 vaccine trial

The notion of testing COVID-19 vaccines by deliberately infecting volunteers with the novel coronavirus — something that’s now on the table — isn’t necessarily crazy or unethical. It’s smart, and has benefits that far outweigh the risks.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 7, 2020

Infecting healthy volunteers may speed COVID-19 vaccine studies, WHO says

Deliberately infecting healthy volunteers with the virus that causes COVID-19 may speed studies of vaccines against the deadly pathogen, the World Health Organization said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 2, 2020

U.S. emergency approval broadens use of Gilead's COVID-19 drug remdesivir

Gilead Science Inc.'s antiviral drug remdesivir was granted emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for COVID-19 on Friday, clearing the way for broader use of the drug in more hospitals around the United States.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Apr 30, 2020

Extend support for foreign students in Japan

The COVID-19 outbreak in Japan has left hundreds of thousands of university students in a chaotic situation. Lectures that were supposed to start in April only recently began to be offered online.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Apr 25, 2020

'The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan': Water buffaloes, cassowaries and Arabian horses

From exotic animals to spectacles and chandeliers, Michael Laver's “The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan” shows how well-placed gifts were essential in opening up Japan to early European traders.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 22, 2020

Hydroxychloroquine, championed by Trump for virus, may raise death risk

An old malaria drug touted by U.S. President Donald Trump as a "game changer" in the fight against the coronavirus provided no benefit and potentially higher risk of death for patients at U.S. veterans hospitals, according to an analysis that has been submitted for expert review.
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2020

In era of COVID-19, a shift to digital forms of teaching in Japan

Even at the university level, where most students and faculty should have a degree of competency when it comes to digital tools, institutions fall short.
Britain responds after Expo 2025 afternoon tea brews outrage
The café space at the Osaka Expo's British pavilion
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Inflation and high hotel prices curtail Golden Week travels
Travelers in front of a flight information panel in a departure hall at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on April 26
Man arrested over body found in bag in Kawasaki
Hideyuki Shirai (center) at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday
Japan ranks 66th in press freedom, lowest among G7
Japan climbed four positions from last year, with Reporters Without Borders noting that "the principles of media freedom and pluralism are generally respected" in the country.
Japan’s ‘tabi’ sock mecca runs on thread and memories
A seamstress at Kineya Tabi sews together split-toe "tabi" socks, once a major industry for the town of Gyoda, Saitama Prefecture.
Despite shifts in Japan's political landscape, constitutional revision still far off
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been a staunch advocate for constitutional reform.
'Ukiyo-e in Play' showcases traditional art carved anew
The Adachi Institute has been working on creating brand new ukiyo-e prints in collaboration with contemporary artists such as Yayoi Kusama, whose “Mt. Fuji in Seven Colours: When life boundlessly flares up to the universe” (2014) can be seen on display at “Ukiyo-e in Play.”
Ishiba hears advice from across the aisle on how Japan should handle Trump
Prime Minister Shigaru Ishiba and CDP head Yoshihiko Noda at a parliamentary session in Tokyo on April 23.
Don't send in the clones: AI event nixed as Alt accounts get reality check
A screenshot from the website for Alt's AI conference, which was canceled after the company disclosed an investigation into its sales figures.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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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.
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