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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 21, 2020

Why is Japan still a coronavirus outlier?

How has Japan seemingly escaped the spread of the coronavirus when other countries have suffered so badly?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / Sound Off
Mar 20, 2020

Fuji Rock keeps calm and carries on despite coronavirus fears

You can’t fault the organizers of Fuji Rock Festival for failing to predict how thoroughly the COVID-19 outbreak would engulf the planet when they released a solemn announcement in late January, titled “Festival Crisis.”
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 18, 2020

COVID-19: A strategic shock shakes the world

For Japan, COVID-19 has taken a 2020 that was meant to be a stable and historic year with the Olympics and has thrown it into disarray.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 18, 2020

Global powers unleash trillions of dollars to stem spiraling coronavirus crisis

The world's richest nations prepared more costly measures on Tuesday to combat the global fallout of the coronavirus that has infected tens of thousands of people, triggered social restrictions unseen since World War II and sent economies spinning toward recession.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 17, 2020

Vanishing YouTube videos: Google expects AI errors as coronavirus empties offices

YouTube could see a jump in videos erroneously taken down for content policy violations as the company relies more on automated software during the coronavirus pandemic, Alphabet Inc's Google warned on Monday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 16, 2020

Fed slashes rates and central banks pull out stops to cushion coronavirus blow

The U.S. Federal Reserve slashed rates back to near zero, restarted bond buying and joined with other central banks to ensure liquidity in dollar lending to help put a floor under a rapidly disintegrating global economy during the coronavirus pandemic.
JAPAN / History
Mar 14, 2020

The 1970 Osaka Expo: Looking back at the past to gauge where Japan sits in the present

The 1970 Osaka Expo laid down a bold statement about Japan's future. Fifty years later, has the country been able to live up to its promises?
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 14, 2020

U.S. summons Chinese envoy over Beijing's coronavirus conspiracy comments

The U.S. State Department summoned the Chinese ambassador to the United States on Friday to protest against comments by Beijing suggesting the U.S. military might have brought the coronavirus to Wuhan, as tensions between the two global powers over the outbreak intensified.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 13, 2020

Starting the Olympic torch relay in Fukushima should remind us of the dangers of nuclear power

Regardless of who we cheer for at the Olympics Games, nuclear power does not deserve our applause.
SUMO
Mar 13, 2020

University sumo product Myogiryu blossoming in 30s

There are currently seven Nippon Sport Science University graduates in professional sumo.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Mar 12, 2020

Tigers hurler Yuki Nishi, pitching counterparts practice patience for start of season

Handing the ball to Yuki Nishi to start the season was probably a no-brainer for the Hanshin Tigers.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Mar 10, 2020

What will Abe's amended law for a national emergency mean in practice?

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government aims to pass by week's end controversial revisions to a 2012 law governing national actions to be taken in the event of new types of influenza.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Mar 7, 2020

Forget the Olympic sheen, keirin is a gritty gambler's sport

Fast and physical, keirin is Japan's premier cycling competition. It's Olympic debut was at the 2000 Sydney Games, but the real action (and real money) takes place at Japan's 43 velodromes.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Feb 29, 2020

Kansai businesses suffer as COVID-19 alarm hurts tourism

The Japanese expression "kankodori ga naku" (literally, "the cuckoo sings") is frequently used to describe a business slump.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 29, 2020

Izakaya Aobadai: Classic soba, new-wave sake and cherry-tree views

It's an excellent sign when the first sight that greets you at a restaurant is a gleaming refrigerator filled with some of the best sake in Japan. When the next thing you see is a room set aside for rolling out and cutting soba noodles, it's even better. To find both of these as you enter LDH Kitchen...
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Feb 28, 2020

Abe's bold school closure move appears spurred by criticism of virus response

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's abrupt move appears aimed at containing not only the virus, but also criticism of his handling of the growing Olympic and economic threat.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Feb 27, 2020

COVID-19: Preventing a medical system breakdown

Efforts must be ramped up to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / Sound Off
Feb 26, 2020

COVID-19 fears hit live music in Japan

With fears over the COVID-19 outbreak increasing, a slew of overseas artists have cancelled live shows in Japan, while others are determined that the show must go on.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 26, 2020

Hong Kong parents want refunds as costly schools shut for months over protests and coronavirus

The emails are piling up, office queries need attention, and Jackie Yang's kids won't leave her alone.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2020

Michi no eki: Japan's rest areas are kings of the road

This isn't your modest highway truck stop with parking, public toilets, a few vending machines and a kiosk.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 22, 2020

Japan can't run out the clock on coronavirus

Next month the Olympic torch will arrive in Japan for a four-month relay to launch the opening ceremonies for the Tokyo summer games. But rather than anticipating the sight of Olympic torchbearers, much of Japan is fixated on a different relay: hundreds of masked passengers grimly walking off the quarantined...
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 21, 2020

Moscow meltdown: Russian capital has warmest January as experts point to global warming

Inured to interminable winters, Muscovites have been stunned this year by spring-like temperatures and virtually snow-free sidewalks after the Russian capital recorded its warmest January in history.
Tsunami threat passes following magnitude 6.9 quake off Iwate
A tsunami advisory was issued for Iwate Prefecture on Sunday evening following a strong earthquake. The advisory was later called off, after waves measuring 20 centimeters were recorded in some areas.
Japan to subsidize demolition of abandoned inns
Abandoned Japanese-style inns in the Kinugawa hot springs resort in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, in March 2023
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Takaichi stands firm on controversial Taiwan contingency remarks
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a session of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee in parliament in Tokyo on Monday.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Jenson Button brings end to an illustrious racing career intertwined with Japan
Jenson Button races for Honda during the Singapore Grand Prix in September 2008.
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo’s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.
Jon Homewood: ‘There’s beauty in what we throw away’
After a peripatetic childhood around the world, teacher and artist Jon Homewood ended up coming to Japan in 2012 for a professional opportunity.
Yokozuna duo Onosato and Hoshoryu poised for another clash of titans
Yokozuna duo Onosato (right) and Hoshoryu clash for the title on the final day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Sept. 28 at Ryogoku Kokugikan.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
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