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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 10, 2020

The coronavirus and Xi Jinping's worldview

No matter how bad the coronavirus epidemic gets, the crisis will not change how China is governed under President Xi Jinping.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2020

Cost of Trudeau's Trans Mountain pipeline balloons 70% to $9.5 billion

The cost to build Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's pet oil pipeline just got a few billion dollars more expensive.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2020

SpaceJet, the first Japan-built airliner in 50 years, delayed for sixth time

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. has delayed the debut of its regional jet for the sixth time, raising questions about whether years of investment in the SpaceJet were worth the effort.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2020

Government to get five more years to sell its shares in Japan Post and Tokyo Metro

The government plans to extend the deadline for selling shares in Japan Post Holdings Co. and Tokyo Metro Co. by five years from fiscal 2022, sources have said.
BUSINESS
Feb 4, 2020

Marubeni to launch Japan's first large-scale offshore wind power business

Marubeni Corp. is gearing up to launch what it says will be Japan's first large-scale offshore wind power generation business.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 3, 2020

Australian leader Scott Morrison to feel the political heat as parliament resumes

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison will on Tuesday front parliament for the first time in three months as he seeks to repair his standing with voters angry by his response to the country's bush fire crisis and a scandal over sports funding.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2020

North Korea's 2020 vision: A nuclear shield, not a sword

The longer Kim keeps nuclear weapons, the more credible the claim will become that his primary interest is in nuclear deterrence.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 29, 2020

Nissan takes an ax to the house that Ghosn built with new cost-cutting measures

Nissan is planning aggressive cost cuts to deal with an unexpected slump in sales as the expansionist strategy it inherited from fugitive former Chairman Carlos Ghosn flounders, four people familiar with the plans said.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 25, 2020

Okinawa base debate ignores the bigger picture

Like many construction projects supported by the public sector, the new U.S. Marine Corps air base being built in the Henoko district of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, has seen its budget skyrocket since it was first proposed and its completion date postponed. When the project was first announced jointly...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Jan 24, 2020

Indian entrepreneurs create water-saving solution for farmers out of Okinawa fruit scraps

Two Indian entrepreneurs in Okinawa Prefecture are developing an organic polymer made from fruit scraps that can retain water 50 times its weight, in a potential breakthrough for farming in water-scarce regions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 23, 2020

Ghosn predicted Nissan bankruptcy by 2022, says ex-prosecutor Gohara

Nissan Motor Co. will go bankrupt within two to three years, Carlos Ghosn told a defense attorney during more than 10 hours of interviews before the auto executive skipped bail and left Japan.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 22, 2020

In the competition for Southeast Asia influence, Japan is the sleeper

Tokyo's insistence on the value of a rules-based order, the heart of its Free and Open Indo-Pacific vision, has sunk in.
SOCCER / J. League / J. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jan 22, 2020

Hajime Moriyasu running out of time to right Olympic ship

With just half a year to go until the Summer Olympics, Japan head coach Hajime Moriyasu is running out of time and sympathy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 21, 2020

Japan's central bank keeps monetary policy steady, lifts growth forecast on receding global risks

The Bank of Japan on Tuesday kept monetary policy steady and nudged up its economic growth forecasts as the government's stimulus package and receding pessimism over the global outlook took some pressure off the central bank to alter course.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jan 20, 2020

Chocolate is getting weirder by the day

Infusing chocolate with unusual ingredients keeps the old-school confection on the rise while others are dying out.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 19, 2020

Casino bribes scandal threatens to upend Diet debate as public opposition climbs

Just a month ago, the Diet session opening Monday was expected to hotly debate but ultimately approve more specific measures on how Japan will operate what will eventually be its first casino resorts.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 16, 2020

War of attrition: Macron plans to financially grind down French strikers

When French trade unions declared a nationwide strike to protest against planned pension reforms, Nicolas, a 34-year-old maintenance technician with the Paris metro, went on strike for three straight weeks. Then he went back to work.
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Jan 14, 2020

Yuma Kagiyama's rocket to stardom continues at Youth Olympics

In the biggest competition of his career, Yuma Kagiyama rose to the occasion and gave the performance of his life on Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 13, 2020

Germany's farewell to coal complicated by new plant

Germany's plan to scrap coal as a power-generation fuel is off to an inauspicious start with the scheduled opening of a new plant set to spew greenhouse gas pollution for almost two decades.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 10, 2020

French unions take to streets in make-or-break pension protest

French trade unions disrupted rail services, cut power output and brought demonstrators onto the streets in cities across France on Thursday in a make-or-break push to force President Emmanuel Macron to abandon his planned pension reform.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 8, 2020

Japan to urge firms to employ workers until age 70 from next year

The labor ministry plans to urge companies from April 2021 to ensure jobs are available for workers until the age of 70, it was learned Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 5, 2020

2020 Olympics fuel race to monetize autonomous driving

One day in December, a self-driving bus in Gunma completed an 18-km run from Maebashi to Shibukawa and back, dropping fare-paying passengers off at designated stops and navigating public roads.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 2, 2020

India to take another shot at moon landing after crash last year

India will attempt a second moon landing, after a previous try last year failed just minutes before a scheduled touchdown on the lunar surface, in a bid to restore its credentials as an ambitious space power.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 31, 2019

Number of inmates falls to 23-year low in Japan

At present, no prisons or detention facilities have a shortage of capacity, and the occupancy rate stands at slightly below 60 percent of overall national capacity.
EDITORIALS
Dec 29, 2019

Delays and cost overruns at Henoko

The government needs to assess whether the Futenma replacement project — with the substantial delays, cost overruns and local opposition — is still a viable project.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 29, 2019

Who's who among China's rising financial czars

Since 2018, China's President Xi Jinping has installed 12 former executives from government regulators or state-run financial institutions to top leadership posts across the country's provinces, regions and municipalities.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Dec 27, 2019

Russia confirms it will appeal four-year Olympic doping ban

Russia has confirmed that it will appeal against its four-year Olympic ban for manipulating doping data.
Man held after two injured in Tokyo Metro knife attack
Police outside Todaimae Station on the Namboku Line on Wednesday evening after a knife attack at the station 　
U.S. and Japan remain far apart on tariffs
Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister Ryosei Akazawa speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport on April 18. He has said that all tariffs need to be reconsidered by the United States.
Japan's 'ice age' employment generation is at risk of poverty during retirement
Those who entered the job market from around 1993 to 2004, when long-term stagnation started, are likely to struggle even more to make ends meet after retirement.
India strikes Pakistan over Kashmir tourist killings
Indian paramilitary personnel stand guard along a road in Srinagar on Wednesday after New Delhi launched missile strikes on archrival Pakistan in a major escalation between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
Japan’s tycoon families seek buyouts to evade investor pressure
Akio Toyoda’s $42 billion plan to buy Toyota Industries is one of the examples in a recent wave of management buyout ambitions in Japan.
Celebrating Japan’s defeat at Shimoda’s Black Ships Festival
Tatsumi Onose (right), who plays the part of Commodore Matthew Perry in Shimoda's Black Ship Festival, says the historical episode the event is based on should be remembered for its positives more than its negatives.
'Big picture thinker': Ispace CEO Hakamada on reaching the moon and dreaming of starships
Takeshi Hakamada, founder and CEO of Ispace, says his primary interest in space development is not to abandon Earth, but to protect it.
The drive for luxury: Aston Martin Asia's president explains the desire for more
While for Aston Martin, it’s all about delivering luxury, their regional president for Asia Gregory Adams' start in the auto industry in Japan was far more humble.
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.
Plug and Play wants to help Japanese startups go global
Phillip Vincent (right), Japan CEO of Plug and Play, and Ma Jingqian, head of ventures, at Plug and Play's Tokyo office, last month

Podcast

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

Longform

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan
By Hanako Lowry

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