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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 30, 2021

Fixing the global tech split

Countries may need choose sides as the U.S. and China seek to eclipse each other on advanced technology.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 30, 2021

The Chinese sports machine’s single goal: the most golds, at any cost

China relies on a system that puts tens of thousands of children in government-run training schools. Many are funneled into less prominent sports that Beijing hopes to dominate.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 30, 2021

Door slams and idle chatter fill out Games’ new soundtrack

An unusual Olympics is missing the atmosphere fans bring to events. What is left is not silence, but something else.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 29, 2021

Friends or foes? U.S. and Russia eye base deal on Afghanistan

The Kremlin may now hold the key to a continued U.S. presence in Afghanistan with an offer to allow American troops the use of Russian military bases in Central Asia.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2021

Under siege, China's private education giants take steps to curb fallout

The regulations marked the culmination of a monthslong campaign to rein in the ad spending wars and cut-throat competition that's come to define the sector.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2021

The chip-shortage recovery will be rocky, as Apple can attest

Even with some supplies getting closer to normal, firms still lack the components needed to complete their complex tech devices.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 29, 2021

To sprinters, hot weather in Tokyo feels just right

Tokyo was deemed to be too hot for marathoners, but there's evidence that the heat helps sprinters. A little rain might not hurt, either.
MULTIMEDIA
Jul 29, 2021

In pictures: Day 5 of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Anna Kiesenhofer of Austria celebrates winning gold in the woen's road race on Sunday. | POOL / VIA REUTERS
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 29, 2021

Simone Biles rejects a long tradition of stoicism in sports

Gymnast was widely embraced as the latest elite athlete who had the courage to acknowledge her vulnerability.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 29, 2021

At some Olympic competitions, the rarest of sightings: spectators

While fans have been barred from the majority of venues to contain COVID-19 infections, three host prefectures are still allowing a limited number of spectators at Olympic venues.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 29, 2021

Medals on, masks off

The pandemic has changed the way Olympians receive their medals. But in the rush of elation, coronavirus rules and social distancing policies are routinely forgotten.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 28, 2021

Rugby's missed opportunity in Tokyo: From a packed house in 2019 to empty stands in 2021

Almost two years and a pandemic later, Tokyo Stadium sat empty for the finals of the OIympic rugby sevens match between New Zealand and defending champions Fiji.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 28, 2021

Naomi Osaka’s Olympics exit dashes her hopes of gold on home turf

While the first days of competition have brought some cheer for Japan, the loss of Osaka dealt a sharp emotional blow and generated discussion over the state of her game.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2021

Shortages of milk and other U.K. staples are not just due to the ‘pingdemic’

Even before the highly contagious delta variant started spreading and causing supply chain snarl-ups, the U.K.'s food supplies were straining from Brexit.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2021

Germany’s patriotism paradox

As German public sentiment in the EU collapses, its leaders could come under public pressure to go it alone on policies ranging from vaccine procurement, migration, trade and energy.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 28, 2021

Want to get in touch with Team Japan? Send a fax.

Terrestrial TV viewers have been asked to send messages of support to Team Japan through an online form, via Twitter or via fax (03-3481-0099, if you're interested).
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 28, 2021

The Olympic mascots aren’t winning any medals

Before the pandemic, the Japanese designer who created the Olympic and Paralympic mascots predicted that they would become the 'face of the Games.” It hasn't quite turned out that way.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 28, 2021

Simone Biles said she was not in a good place mentally to compete

American gymnast says she left the event because she wasn't in the right place mentally, and she is not certain whether she will compete again in Tokyo.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 28, 2021

The most dominant team at the Games might be better than ever

The U.S. women's water polo team won Olympic championships in London and Rio. A one-year delay of the Tokyo Games merely gave it more time to improve.
WORLD
Jul 27, 2021

Uganda detains weightlifter who went missing in Japan

Julius Ssekitoleko has been in police custody since Friday, when he arrived home from Japan, where he was reported missing from an Olympic training camp.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jul 27, 2021

In surprise move, two Koreas restore communications and agree to improve ties

The unexpected agreement comes more than a year after Pyongyang blew up ties — and an inter-Korean building that had been symbolic of the relationship.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 27, 2021

The changing map of economics

The global economy and capitalism are at a crossroads, with the COVID-19 being the primary impetus for this view, followed by climate change, digital technology and changing labor markets.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 27, 2021

Promise and peril in a changing cybersecurity sphere

A relentless increase in cyberattacks is prompting a reassessment of responses and an increasingly popular option is going on offense.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 27, 2021

Even as Beijing's grip tightens, Hong Kong maintains status as finance hub

More than a year after the crackdown began, signs of an investor exodus are hard to find.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 27, 2021

Global growth to stay strong but virus variants the top risk, economists say

A global survey of nearly 500 economists taken this month also concluded that recent rising inflation in key economies around the world would be transitory.
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.
Police arrest man after body of ex-girlfriend found under his home
Hideyuki Shirai (center) at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday
Dollar’s decline is fueling dislocations across Asian currencies
A worker counts U.S. dollar banknotes at a currency exchange office in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2022.
Worker shortage forcing home care providers to turn away clients, survey finds
A survey by a labor union of home care business operators and care managers found that nearly 90% of facility managers had turned down service requests at least once during the past year, citing insufficient staffing.
Tariff talks with U.S. seen influencing Japan's Upper House election
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters about Japan-U.S. tariff negotiations at his official residence on Saturday.
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
Kotomi Li: 'I refuse to choose death'
Since 2017, Kotomi Li has won some of Japan’s top literary awards and built a formidable career in the face of persistent online harassment. “Authors are tenacious creatures to begin with,” she says.
Want to see the future at the Osaka Expo? Get in line.
“‘Future of life,’ by Ishiguro,” the World Expo pavilion by roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, displays humanlike androids.
Despite shifts in Japan's political landscape, constitutional revision still far off
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been a staunch advocate for constitutional reform.

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