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Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 3, 2022

Brian Flores says lawsuit against NFL about integrity of game

Flores said he felt compelled to pursue action because his story is 'not the only one' when it comes to Black coaches being interviewed to satisfy the Rooney Rule.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2022

Japan's ¥100 trillion cryptocurrency market may ease onerous listing rules

Under new rules the industry's self-regulatory body is weighing, crypto-exchanges would be allowed to list more than a dozen coins in one go without a lengthy screening process.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 3, 2022

IMF staff cut critical coal language from Japan statement

A copy of an earlier draft stated that Japan should end exceptions to its pledge to halt coal financing and phase out of existing commitments to support coal projects abroad.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Feb 2, 2022

Beijing 2022 — A second pandemic Olympics

This Friday, the 2022 Winter Olympics kick off in Beijing, the second Olympics to be held during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the first ever to be held on entirely artificial snow.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 2, 2022

Asics defies Nike’s China underperformance in return to profit

Many foreign sports brands struggled in China last year as controversy erupted over cotton sourced from the Xinjiang region, making Asic's performance a surprise.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 2, 2022

North Korea documentary shows limping Kim as he tackles 'worst-ever hardships'

International media, intelligence agencies and experts closely watch Kim's health due to his tight grip on power and the uncertainty over succession plans.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 2, 2022

Pregnant women with COVID-19 are unlikely to transmit to babies

Pregnant women who are COVID-19 positive when they give birth rarely transmit the virus to their newborns because it is not an agent that circulates in the bloodstream very frequently.
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2022

Japanese economy at risk of shrinking again due to omicron

Many Tokyo-based economists are among those warning that the omicron wave could trigger yet another quarter of negative growth for the world's third-largest economy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2022

A normal supply chain? It’s ‘unlikely’ in 2022.

For those who keep tabs on the global supply chain, the very concept of a return to normalcy has given way to a begrudging acceptance that a new normal may be unfolding.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 1, 2022

COVID’s new divide: risk takers vs. the risk averse

In Italy, with its high vaccination rate, the social schism revolves less around who's gotten a shot, and more around lifestyles and comfort levels of living with the coronavirus.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 1, 2022

Tycoons keep building Hong Kong offices as vacancies jump

The oversupply underscores an unprecedented challenge to property developers as they grapple with an expat exodus and some of the world's harshest border controls to curb the virus.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 31, 2022

Buyback regulation concerns are overblown, Tokyo Stock Exchange chief says

Kishida's 'new capitalism” has been among the major themes for investors in Japan since he became prime minister last autumn.
OLYMPICS / Longform
Jan 31, 2022

The legacy of the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics

As we count down to the opening of the 2022 Games in Beijing next month, we examine the impact of the first Winter Olympics held in Asia on Hokkaido's largest city.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Jan 31, 2022

Rafael Nadal wins record 21st Grand Slam title with stunning comeback in Australian Open final

'It was one of the most emotional matches in my tennis career,' Nadal said
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jan 31, 2022

Macao resort executive believed to part of illegal gambling arrests

Analysts said the arrests herald a new era of zero tolerance of the promotion of gambling in mainland China, where all forms of gambling are illegal.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 30, 2022

The $75 billion plan to make India a hydrogen hub

Green hydrogen — made from water and clean electricity — is seen by many as the breakthrough needed for the world to meet its emissions reduction goals.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 30, 2022

China's January factory activity contracts as COVID-19 lockdowns bite

China's factory activity contracted at the sharpest rate in 23 months in January, underscoring the huge economic costs from the country's 'COVID zero' approach.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 29, 2022

Activists demand stop to Japan-funded coal plant in climate-vulnerable Bangladesh

Climate campaigners said the project contradicts Japan's commitment, made with other wealthy G7 nations last May, to end funding for 'unabated' coal power overseas by the end of 2021.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Jan 29, 2022

The spotlight shifted away from Peng Shuai and some players and fans want it back

By posting pictures of their protest in support of Peng at the tournament on social media, local activists are keeping the conversation going.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jan 29, 2022

No, athletes are not dying from COVID-19 vaccines

The conspiracy theory that athletes are collapsing or dying after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine has resurfaced after two prominent voices advanced the idea.
Japan Times
Jan 29, 2022

Tsunan Sake Brewery Announces Launch of New-sustainable Sake Brand, "Tsunan"

We refreshed our concept “Brew for Future” to reflect who we are today and to symbolize our future.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 28, 2022

Beset by legal battles, Brazilian asbestos town eyes a safer future

The asbestos extraction firm Sama S.A., operating in the city of Minacu, is the world's third-largest chrysotile asbestos producer, shipping it to more than 150 countries.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 28, 2022

The second drone age is here and it’s a free-for-all

Drones have opened the door to weaponized artificial intelligence, algorithmic and robotic warfare and loosened human control over the deployment of lethal force.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 28, 2022

Toyota remains world's top car-seller as it widens lead over VW

The carmaker said sales amounted to 10.5 million vehicles in 2021, including those by affiliates Daihatsu Motor and Hino Motors.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 28, 2022

Stephen Breyer’s exit strategy nods to U.S. Supreme Court politics he decried

Breyer's White House announcement Thursday was timed perfectly to give President Joe Biden a needed chance to change the national conversation and reinforce the court's beleaguered liberal wing.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Jan 27, 2022

Wheelchair tennis ace Shingo Kunieda captures 11th Australian Open title

'I played the best tennis of my career, especially in the final set,' he said. 'I don't know how I did it, but I pushed past my limit.'
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.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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
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