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Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / Longform
Feb 14, 2022

How social norms have influenced Japan’s COVID-19 response

Without any legally enforceable lockdown measures, the watchful gaze of the public eye has kept the nation's citizens in check.
Japan Times
Romania report 2022
Feb 11, 2022

A hundred-year partnership

Bridges: Japan and Romania celebrated 100 years of diplomatic ties in 2021. How would you describe the current bilateral relationship?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Feb 9, 2022

SoftBank's choice of New York for Arm listing deals a blow to London

The U.K.'s largest homegrown tech firm's move to Nasdaq could pressure the government to speed up overdue reforms.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 8, 2022

Apple buys startup that makes music with artificial intelligence

Technology developed by AI Music can create soundtracks using royalty-free music and artificial intelligence, according to a copy of its now-defunct website.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 3, 2022

Panasonic to start production of Tesla-championed 4680 batteries

The 4680 batteries hold more than five times the capacity of the smaller batteries currently supplied to the automaker.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2022

Algae market potentially worth $320 billion attracts Honda and Eneos

Startups and companies around the world have been investing in microalgae because of its potential to replace biomass fuels such as corn and soybeans.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 18, 2022

Olympic athletes told to leave phones at home to dodge spying in China

Beijing has promised the world's top athletes access to a partially unfettered internet during the Winter Games, but security experts say there are reasons to exercise caution.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 16, 2022

The decades of discoveries before the ‘miraculous’ sprint to a vaccine

The breakthroughs behind the vaccines unfolded over decades, little by little, as scientists across the world pursued research in disparate areas.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 11, 2022

Hong Kong’s brain drain worsens as expats and locals flee the city

Both the city's strict COVID-19 polices and the imposition of the national security law have prompted a population outflow that looks set to intensify in 2022.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 4, 2022

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes found guilty of defrauding investors

Holmes was acquitted on three counts of defrauding patients who paid for tests from the blood-testing startup, however.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 3, 2022

Restoring dynamism to development

Multilateral development institutions with a capacity to drive policy reform are key to securing robust, sustainable and inclusive growth in a post-pandemic world.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 1, 2022

Southeast Asia the battleground for geo-economic competition between China and the U.S.

Washington has opened markets to ASEAN nations but not public investment in public goods such as infrastructure — nowhere close to the scale of Chinese investment.
Japan Times
Dec 28, 2021

Kotozna’s CES Exhibit to Showcase Concierge Platforms that Let Speakers of 109 Different Languages Talk with Each Other in Their Native Tongues

LAS VEGAS (Dec. 27, 2021) – At CES® 2022 (Jan. 5-8) and ShowStoppers® (Jan. 5), Kotozna, Inc., a Tokyo-based communication tech startup, will demonstrate its digital concierge platforms for the travel and lodging industries that enable speakers of 109 different languages to talk with one another...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY
Dec 21, 2021

Not everyone is sold on the new U.S. ambassador to Japan

Emanuel's appointment is worrisome for Japan, which desires the ambassadors sent to Tokyo to have influence and support in their home governments, something he does not seem to enjoy.
Japan Times
Special Supplements
Nov 30, 2021

Traditional metalworking center stays on the cutting edge

Tsubame-Sanjo, which is centered on the cities of Tsubame and Sanjo in Niigata Prefecture, is a fertile, rice-producing region on the Sea of Japan coast. But the area is also well known as a metalworking powerhouse that has carried on for over 400 years since the Edo Period (1603 to 1868).
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2021

Nuclear fusion is close enough to start dreaming

The possibility of carbon-free energy generation raises a seldom discussed question: Just how much would it change the world if cheap and clean energy sources were truly abundant?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 1, 2021

New York City’s segregated classrooms hurt all students

Any changes to gifted programs will have to be accompanied by curriculums that both appeal to middle-class families and benefit all children; otherwise segregation might only get worse.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 29, 2021

Facebook changes name to Meta in embrace of virtual reality

The name change is the most definitive signal so far of the company's intention to stake its future on a new computing platform — the 'metaverse.'
Japan Times
North Rhine-Westphalia report 2021
Oct 25, 2021

A stronger Mitsubishi Chemical brand in Europe

Mitsubishi’s famous three-diamond logo is synonymous with the Mitsubishi Group’s leadership position in the global market.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 20, 2021

Indonesia's Jokowi urges developed countries to commit to climate funding goals

Rich countries have missed a target to raise $100 billion a year to support developing countries in their climate action projects.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 12, 2021

Kishida doubles down on economic security

The new government in Tokyo must fight the temptation to use “economic security” to justify protectionism or other expressions of economic nationalism.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 11, 2021

How Evergrande's rags-to-riches founder is trying to save his empire

Evergrande chairman Hui Ka Yan's fortune is plunging and his sprawling real estate empire is on the verge of collapse.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 11, 2021

U.S. lawmakers see path to rein in tech, but it isn’t smooth

The road ahead is likely to be a yearslong, complicated path toward new rules and regulations, with no guaranteed result.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 8, 2021

Kishida calls for new economic approach in first policy speech

Kishida on Friday vowed to transform the Japanese economy by implementing a “new model of capitalism,' identifying growth and the distribution of wealth as “mutually necessary.”
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 27, 2021

China’s humbled tech tycoons pledge allegiance to Xi’s vision

The top tech bosses vowed to support the leader's 'common prosperity” policy and market-roiling regulatory onslaught on the digital sector, at the country's annual internet conference.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Sep 26, 2021

How Japan should make use of its ¥1 quadrillion in household savings

In order to create an asset management system that meets global standards, Japan must drastically change its employment practices.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 21, 2021

The ruckus over AUKUS

Australia's decision to cancel its deal to buy a dozen French diesel submarines has roiled relations with France and introduced fresh tensions into relations with China.
Former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 3, 2024

Anti-nuclear energy stance fades among LDP presidential hopefuls

Candidates' apparent shift in policy stance on nuclear power may be part of a strategy to win the leadership race.
How Pakistan shot down India's cutting-edge fighter using Chinese gear
An Indian Air Force pilot gets out of a Rafale fighter jet during its induction ceremony at an air force station in Ambala, India, September 2020.
China’s unbeatable new production model export
China is not merely moving more goods; it is exporting a new, ruthlessly efficient production model powered by automation, AI and state-guided industrial optimization.
Trump: The $550 billion pledged by Japan is 'our money'
U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. He told CNBC that investment pledges are like signing bonuses.
Australia announces new warships will come from Japan
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate Niyodo sails at an undisclosed location in this image released Tuesday.
Japan swelters as previous heat record melts
A worker tries to cool down a street in central Tokyo Tuesday as wide swaths of the Kanto region sweltered under intense heat. In Gunma Prefecture, the temperature rose 41.8 degrees Celsius, the highest ever recorded in Japan.
Australia announces new warships will come from Japan
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate Niyodo sails at an undisclosed location in this image released Tuesday.
Fuji Rock's weekend of surprises was one of its best yet
Radwimps lead singer Yojiro Noda threw himself into the rock band’s Green Stage performance ahead of headliner Vampire Weekend.
How Trump is gaslighting on climate change — with Japan’s help
The Bishu Maru LNG tanker, owned by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, next to the Freeport LNG terminal in Texas
With a new distillery, Suntory makes a spirited move on gin market
A staff inspects a distillation pot still at Suntory's new Osaka Spirits & Liqueurs Craft Distillery, which will focus on gin production and help Suntory capture a bigger slice of the fast-growing gin market.
Junglia brought dinos back to Okinawa. But will it bring tourists?
At Panorama Dining, one of Junglia’s two proper restaurants that also doubles as the rooftop Inifinity Terrace overlook, guests can pay extra to sit in balcony tables made to look like birds’ nests overlooking the park grounds.

Podcast

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

Longform

A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.
80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped
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