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COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Mar 30, 2021

National consensus needed on the role of Self-Defense Forces in emergencies

While the SDF provide invaluable assistance in times of natural disaster, their potential role in large-scale international crises still needs to be examined.
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WORLD
Mar 30, 2021

Money trail from Malta murder probe stretches to China

The revelation of a Chinese connection potentially adds a new international dimension to a scandal that has rocked Malta's government.
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PRESS / Services
Mar 24, 2021

共同通信デジタルとジャパンタイムズが連携し、企業、自治体、官公庁、学校、大使館などのWebコンテンツ企画制作サービスを開始。 報道機関サイトを使い、効果的な情報発信が国内外で可能に

株式会社共同通信デジタル(本社:東京都港区、代表取締役社長:細田正和)と株式会社ジャパンタイムズ(本社:東京都千代田区、代表取締役社長:末松弥奈子)は、国内企業・自治体・官公庁・学校・大使館などを対象に、日本語・英語によるWebコンテンツ制作サービスを開始しました。...
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JAPAN / Society / Longform
Mar 20, 2021

Leap of faith: Japan’s religious institutions get innovative in pandemic

Temples and shrines nationwide are experimenting with new ways of meeting the spiritual and emotional needs of parishioners.
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LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Mar 20, 2021

Japanese designers make haste to reduce waste

With Earth Day coming up next month, “On: Design” looks into a few initiatives that address Japan's plastic waste problem.
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BASKETBALL / NBA
Mar 20, 2021

Serene, centered Giannis Antetokounmpo making things fun again for Bucks

Fun Giannis is bad news for the rest of the league.
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WORLD
Mar 19, 2021

Asian American lawmakers call out racist language: ‘I am not a virus’

Lawmakers described the fear rippling through the Asian American community, and argued that the uptick in attacks was a direct result of the rise of anti-China messaging.
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WORLD / Society
Mar 19, 2021

For Asian American women, racism and sexism are inseparable

With reports of anti-Asian attacks surging in the U.S., there is evidence that most of the hate, unlike other types of bias crime, has been directed at women.
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 17, 2021

Why the Chinese love big food even more than big tech

Every time there's a price spike in pork or vegetables or fruit or Moutai somewhere in the country, China's investors rush to buy their Big Food stocks.
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OLYMPICS
Mar 16, 2021

In rare move, athletes and coaches speak out against Olympic planners

With support for the Tokyo Games still low, hopeful participants are taking to social media to push back against public perceptions that they are united with the event's organizers.
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JAPAN / SPELLING BEE
Mar 12, 2021

Winner of Japan Spelling Bee looks ahead to U.S. contest

Yugen Padhye won the 12th Japan Spelling Bee on March 6, after correctly spelling the winning word — 'dodecahedron.'
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WORLD
Mar 10, 2021

Saddened Queen Elizabeth vows to address Harry and Meghan's racism accusation

Meghan and Harry's tell-all TV interview with Oprah Winfrey aired on U.S. television on Sunday has plunged the monarchy into its biggest crisis since the 1997 death of Harry's mother Diana.
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PRESS / Corporate Trends
Mar 9, 2021

ジャパンタイムズキューブはジャパン・クラフト21のメディアスポンサーとして 日本伝統工芸再生コンテストをサポートします

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COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 7, 2021

Who is afraid of bursting the bubble? Not Japan’s elite

We will never know whether the elite's proactive bursting of the bubble brought more or less pain and hardship on society than a laissez-faire approach would have.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 2, 2021

China appears to warn India: Push too hard and the lights could go out

As border skirmishing increased last year, malware began to flow into the Indian electric grid, a new study shows, and a blackout hit Mumbai. It now looks like a warning.
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JAPAN / Society
Mar 2, 2021

Anime is booming. So why are animators living in poverty?

The workers who make the Japanese shows the world is binge-watching can earn as little as $200 a month. Many wonder how much longer they can endure it.
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CULTURE / Film
Feb 25, 2021

Director Kentaro brings an auteur’s touch to a soulful road movie

The 'Under the Turquoise Sky' director mixes realism, fantasy and comedy in his visually stirring feature debut about a Japanese man who goes on a journey of self-discovery in Mongolia.
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WORLD
Feb 20, 2021

People who have had COVID-19 should get single vaccine dose, studies suggest

New studies show that one shot of a vaccine can greatly amplify antibody levels in those who have recovered from the coronavirus.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 17, 2021

How the warming Arctic helped drive a deep freeze into Texas

Some experts maintain that climate change has increased the frequency with which the polar vortex weakens and allow cold to air to run amok.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 17, 2021

A glimpse of the future in Texas: Climate change means trouble for power grids

Huge winter storms have plunged large parts of the central and southern United States into an energy crisis this week as frigid blasts of Arctic weather crippled electric grids and left millions of Americans without power amid dangerously cold temperatures.
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PRESS / Services
Feb 15, 2021

ジャパンタイムズ デジタルサブスクリプションが進化
新プランの登場と新たな機能を追加します

株式会社ジャパンタイムズ(本社:東京都千代田区、代表取締役会長兼社長:末松弥奈子)は、2021年2月15日よりジャパンタイムズが提供するデジタルサクスクリプションに新プランが登場すると同時に新たな機能を追加します。新プランは「プレミアム」と「スタンダード」の2種類、...
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ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 14, 2021

Rodrigo Duterte’s forces have a new target: university students

The government in the Philippines has announced a decision to end a 32-year agreement barring security forces from a prestigious campus.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 14, 2021

Taiwan’s opposition party tries to rebrand itself back into relevance

The Beijing-friendly party, which long held an iron grip on the island, is struggling to stay relevant at a time when many residents are wary of China's ambitions.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 14, 2021

For Trump, an escape, but not an exoneration

Having failed to convict, Democrats hope that the trial nonetheless made it implausible if not impossible for Trump to ever run for president again as he has hinted he might do.
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WORLD / Politics
Feb 14, 2021

Trump is acquitted for second time even as seven Republicans vote to impeach

With most of Trump's party coalescing around him, the 57-43 tally fell 10 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to convict.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Feb 13, 2021

MLB devises new rules to combat COVID-19 during 2021 season

A notable addition to the 2021 manual is the league-wide code of conduct detailing acceptable behavior for players and key staff members away from the field.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Feb 10, 2021

Episode 81: Chocolate in Japan — from Paris to the Ogasawara Islands

As Valentine's Day approaches, Jeana Cadby, Ph.D. in specialty cacao and craft chocolate, takes us on a tour through the history and growth of chocolate in Japan.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Feb 9, 2021

New trends in 'J-vlogging' allow for a more diverse range of views on Japan

YouTubers based in Japan are focusing less on the 'slice of life' videos that defined past content and are catering to smaller communities within the non-Japanese audience.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Feb 7, 2021

Is there a best time of day to exercise?

A useful new study of exercise timing and metabolic health suggests that, at least for some people, the answer is a qualified yes.
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MORE SPORTS
Feb 7, 2021

Leon Spinks, who took Muhammad Ali’s crown and lost it, dies at 67

The St. Louis native, who rose to prominence with a gold-medal performance at the Montreal Games, outlasted Ali in their famous 1978 bout before his career began to decline.

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