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JAPAN
Jul 23, 2023

Kishida stresses global solidarity at Reiwa Rincho meeting

Referring to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Prime Minister said the world 'must not return to the law of the jungle.'
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jul 20, 2023

Women's sports experiencing steady growth in popularity and value

Women's sports are growing in popularity and value. Better yet, that growth is no longer dependent upon quadrennial events like the Olympics or World Cups.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 19, 2023

Modi and India’s diaspora: A complex love affair making global waves

Many Indian professionals overseas who cheer on India's economic rise also fear Modi's Hindu-supremacist policies will keep the country from standing as a democratic superpower.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jul 15, 2023

Russian fencing drama plays out in U.S. against backdrop of war

One year out from the Paris Games fencing is providing political, sporting and familial drama related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 14, 2023

Associated Press and OpenAI partner to explore generative AI use in news

The news publisher's trove of stories will help provide the massive amounts of data needed to train AI systems such as ChatGPT.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 13, 2023

Credit Suisse AT1 fallout embroils more brokerages in Japan

Documents have raised questions over whether information over the risks associated with the product was properly disclosed to investors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Jul 10, 2023

Business behind basketball: Ryukyu Golden Kings leap ahead

The Okinawa team is being seen as a leading model in Japanese basketball's rise and preparations for new reforms to the B. League in 2026.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Jul 5, 2023

Would you spend the night in a coffin … for art?

Want to know what it’s like to spend the night in a coffin? Culture critic Thu-Huong Ha joins us to discuss her night in artist Marina Abramovic’s nightmare-inducing Dream House.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2023

Hong Kong’s reopening brings scant gains after pandemic and crackdown

Tens of thousands of high-skilled workers left to escape the city’s COVID-19 regime and limits imposed on freedoms after Beijing enacted a national security law in 2020.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS / Summer Olympics
Jul 4, 2023

Paris 'not worried' riots will affect 2024 Olympics

Emmanuel Gregoire, deputy to Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, said he had 'no concerns about the impact' on the Games.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 29, 2023

As Russia teetered, the elite trembled, and some private jets left

Fear triumphed over loyalty among some of Russia's elite as the Wagner mercenary group marched toward Moscow, and now some worry of becoming a target of Vladimir Putin's wrath.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 26, 2023

Putin faces historic threat to absolute grip on power in Russia

U.S. and European officials have privately described a recent 24-hour uprising as an unprecedented challenge to the 70-year-old president’s control.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jun 25, 2023

Slowing bone marrow donor registration raises concerns in Japan

The number of registered donors stood at about 544,000 at the end of March this year, an increase of only about 6,500 from a year earlier.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 23, 2023

Big Ukraine war lesson: There’s only one superpower

The effort against Russia has illustrated what a world without American power would look like — and what it looks like when America uses its unmatched power well.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 22, 2023

One of the most influential ambassadors in Washington isn’t one

Taiwan’s representative, Bi-khim Hsiao, calls herself a “cat warrior” walking a delicate diplomatic line. China calls her a troublemaker who could trigger a war.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Jan 22, 2023

World Athletics proposes tighter rules for transgender women athletes

Track and field's global governing body stressed that no final decision has been made on the matter after the Telegraph reported on the discussions.
An extreme heat warning in Death Valley, California, on July 15
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 21, 2023

Our civilization was built for a climate that’s vanishing

Weather disasters linked to climate change like those unfolding across the northern hemisphere will affect more and more of us.
Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr delivers a speech in Najaf, Iraq, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 21, 2023

Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hints at comeback with torching of Swedish Embassy

By having his supporters torch the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad, the unpredictable Shiite cleric has dragged an administration run by his rivals into a diplomatic crisis.
Medics help a woman who had passed out from the heat in Athens, Greece, on Thursday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jul 21, 2023

Extreme heat and weather conditions attributed to stagnant jet stream

It’s no coincidence that extreme heat is engulfing huge swaths of Asia, Europe and North America all at the same time.
A man watches a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 22, 2023

North Korea fires cruise missiles into Yellow Sea, but remains silent on U.S. soldier's fate

Experts say cruise missiles, which fly far slower than ballistic weapons, present a unique danger in that they can fly low and maneuver, making them potentially very difficult to intercept.
Icons of Google's Artificial Intelligence app BardAI (or ChatBot), OpenAI's app ChatGPT and other AI apps are displayed on a smartphone screen.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 20, 2023

Google tests AI tool that is able to write news articles

Some executives who saw Google’s pitch described it as unsettling, and two people said it seemed to take for granted the effort that went into producing accurate and artful news stories.
Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi waits ahead of a high-level meeting with Chinese Communist Party officials at Beijing's Great Hall of the People in December 2017.
JAPAN
Jul 15, 2023

Japan ruling bloc lawmakers facing hurdles to China visit plans

Trips to China by Komeito leader and senior LDP official both put on ice over Chinese anger at planned release of treated Fukushima water.
A photograph by Joel Pulliam provides a hint at what is on offer at VoidTokyo's "Sharaku" exhibition at HikoHiko Gallery.
CULTURE
Jul 19, 2023

Street photography by VoidTokyo on full display in Ginza

With the goal of capturing the city of Tokyo in physical form and not just on social media, VoidTokyo celebrates its members at “Sharaku.”
A farmer works in an irrigated field near the village of Botor, Somaliland in April 2016. This year’s El Nino is set to be particularly severe as it coincides with record global temperatures.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 24, 2023

El Nino threat looks underpriced as emerging-market bonds rally

The weather pattern typically results in hotter, drier conditions and therefore higher food prices in affected nations, giving policymakers more reason to keep pushing up borrowing costs.
Yuna Kato says relatives have tried to steer her away from careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jul 30, 2023

Japan on a mission to attract more women into STEM fields

In the IT field alone, the country is looking at a shortfall of 790,000 workers by 2030, largely due to a severe underrepresentation of women.
The Paris Organising Committee's headquarters
OLYMPICS
Jul 19, 2023

As heat wave bakes Europe, Paris keeps eye on weather models for Olympics

A contingency plan was in place to adjust schedules but there were no plans to change any locations of events, a spokesperson for Paris 2024 said.
The nuclear-powered USS Annapolis submarine makes a port call at South Korea's Jeju Island on Monday. It was the second such visit by a U.S. submarine to the country in the span of about a week.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 25, 2023

Nuclear Consultative Group strengthens Northeast Asian deterrence

The logic for trilateral coordination between the U.S., Japan and South Korea is compelling. The NCG is an important first step toward that goal.
Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring in his debut for Inter Miami during a Leagues Cup match against Cruz Azul in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 25, 2023

Will Messi’s MLS gambit be good for Latin American soccer?

The superstar’s arrival in Miami will spur investment in the sport throughout the Americas and may finally help slow the exodus of young players to Europe.
People walk past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test at the main railway station in Seoul on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jul 25, 2023

North Korea fires missiles as it gears up for apparent military parade

The launch of two missiles came as the North Korea appeared to be gearing up for an large-scale military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice's signing.
Japan must correct Trump’s false data for trade talks, says Kono
Former Foreign Minister Taro Kono
Japan wants to 'separate' tariff and security issues. That may be tough.
Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, poses with a "Make America Great Again" cap at the White House in Washington on April 16.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Japan set to fine cyclists on the spot for rule violations from 2026
Under new rules, those who use smartphones while riding a bicycle would be subject to the maximum fine of ¥12,000.
Naked man’s rampage in Saitama linked to one fatality and 10 injured
Police believe Daisuke Nishimura may have been involved in roughly 20 incidents in the 90 minutes leading up to his arrest, including a fatal hit-and-run and multiple assaults.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.
Cases of epidural use in labor rise in Japan alongside concerns
Of the 721,000 childbirths reported in 2024 in Japan, 13.8% involved the use of an epidural, according to the Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Podcast

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

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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.
By Tomoko Otake

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