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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 20, 2020

The 'phantom risk' of COVID-19

Some parts of the economy will struggle even after most of the dangers of the virus have passed.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2020

Military reasons to celebrate the Israel-UAE deal

This could be the first step toward a strategic coalition to check aggression from Iran.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY
Aug 19, 2020

Coal’s days may be over in the U.S.

Renewables will most likely surpass the fossil fuel in electricity generation this year despite Trump's best efforts.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 19, 2020

Trump postal chief pauses cuts amid outcry as Democrats raise pressure

Critics have accused Trump, trailing Democratic challenger Joe Biden in opinion polls, of trying to hobble the Postal Service to suppress mail-in voting.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Aug 18, 2020

In an era of social distancing, the emperor might need social media

The emperor's attendance at a WWII memorial service last weekend was practically his first major public appearance in six months, and possibly his last this year.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 18, 2020

The publishing empire helping China silence dissent in Hong Kong

When Hong Kong’s richest tycoons declared their support for the city’s national security law in June, it wasn’t what they said that stood out as much as how they said it.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 17, 2020

Why do Japan's leaders prefer Republicans?

From the presidential election of 1984 to the present, Tokyo has with few exceptions preferred the Republican nominee.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 17, 2020

Democrats step up pressure against U.S. postal cuts as Pelosi calls lawmakers back to Washington

Several Democratic state attorneys general said they were discussing potential legal action to stop Postal Service changes that could affect the outcome of the election.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 15, 2020

Not even herd immunity can fully protect us

The prevalence of 'superspreaders' may well show the naive nature of ideas of safety.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 13, 2020

Why Japan, South Korea and China can't put the past behind them

On the 75th anniversary of Japan's surrender, domestic politics, structure and identity continue to prevent reconciliation between the three Northeast Asian neighbors.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2020

Why young adults are driving Europe’s coronavirus curve

Wider testing explains the spike in reported cases among millennials and Generation Z, but so does social-distancing fatigue.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 12, 2020

What people fear most about ‘cancel culture’

A new survey shows that rising numbers of Americans are clamming up, regardless of age, race or even politics.
Reader Mail
Aug 12, 2020

Hawaii is an occupied nation

Aloha! I absolutely love the Feb. 10 opinion piece “Japan and the former Kingdom of Hawaii” by Kuni Miyake. I feel it is very informative and provides a great insight into Japanese individuals and the relationship between Japan and Hawaii.
Newly elected Liberal Democratic Party leader Sanae Takaichi is applauded after winning the party's leadership election in Tokyo on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 5, 2025

Will Sanae Takaichi be Japan’s Thatcher — or its Truss?

Takaichi is comfortably the most conservative choice the party could have made, if not the most right-leaning leader in recent history.
A monitor in Tokyo shows the Nikkei 225 index closing Monday at 47944.76, up 2,175.26 points from the previous week.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 6, 2025

‘Takaichi trade’ takes Nikkei to record high

Takaichi is a proponent of expansionary fiscal spending and monetary easing, which is believed to have fueled market optimism and led to the rally.
The McLaren team celebrates on the podium after clinching the constructors' title.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Oct 6, 2025

Flare-up between McLaren drivers overshadows team's constructors' title triumph

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella reiterated that Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris will remain free to race each other until the end of the season.
Association for Philippines-China Understanding (APCU) Chairman Raul Lambino shakes hands with guests during a ceremony for the Award for Promoting Philippines-China Understanding at The Manila Hotel in Manila in June.
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2025

How China waged an infowar against U.S. interests in the Philippines

China paid for a cyber campaign to weaken support for Philippine government policy and to sow discord over Manila's security alliance with the United States.
Jane Goodall communicates with a chimp named Nana in June 2004 at a zoo in Magdeburg, Germany. She was the world's foremost authority on chimpanzees.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2025

Without Jane Goodall, chimps need new champions — us

Goodall revolutionized the way we see both great apes and ourselves. We can’t let her legacy fade away.
Takumi Yamaguchi (right), head of startup AirKamuy, and a colleague retrieve a drone made of cardboard after a test flight in a field near Nagoya.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 7, 2025

Startups lead charge as Japan warms to defense and dual-use technologies

Opinion polls show public support growing for a stronger defense, and the new leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Sanae Takaichi, has called for more military spending.
Sanae Takaichi celebrates in Tokyo on Saturday with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba after winning the Liberal Democratic Party leadership election.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 7, 2025

From radical to Rihanna: Myths about the new LDP leader

When Shinzo Abe returned as LDP leader in 2012, there was a similar flood of coverage attempting to cast him as a radical conservative.
A crime scene technician prepares to document evidence at the site of a shooting in West Baltimore in May 2015. U.S. cities are seeing murder rates fall sharply from post-2020 highs thanks to local violence-reduction efforts and pandemic-era investments.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2025

What’s behind the great American murder decline?

Homicides are plummeting in many places. The explanation may be the sheer volume of different efforts to reduce violence.
Despite concerns over U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and global trade disruptions, the dollar remains dominant in global finance, with the Chinese yuan gaining ground but still far from challenging its supremacy.
COMMENTARY
Oct 8, 2025

Best evidence yet that the U.S. dollar isn’t close to being dead

The dollar was on one side of 89.2% of all trades, up a touch from the 2022 result.
A Palestinian walks amid rubble as he inspects the damage following an Israeli operation in Gaza City on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 9, 2025

Trump may travel to Middle East, saying Gaza deal is 'very close'

Negotiators in Egypt reported "encouraging" progress toward a deal to end the Gaza war.
Members of the Texas National Guard guard an entry point at their temporary barracks at a U.S. Army Reserve center in Elwood, a suburb south of Chicago, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Oct 9, 2025

Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment

Neither Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson nor Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has been accused of criminal wrongdoing.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman speaks to reporters in Toronto on Wednesday.
OLYMPICS
Oct 9, 2025

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman says Olympics 'important to our players'

The NHL will pause from Feb. 6 to Feb. 24 to accommodate the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 10, 2025

Trump exerted leverage for Gaza deal but tough questions remain

Despite its potentially historic nature, the rushed deal leaves a host of unresolved issues that could still trip up implementation.
A protester displays a poster featuring U.S. President Donald Trump at Incheon Airport on Sept. 12 after South Korean workers detained in a U.S. immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia returned home.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 9, 2025

South Korea should turn the U.S. ICE raid into trade leverage

U.S. officials sought to justify the operation by saying the 300 South Koreans arrested were working illegally. But that logic now appears to be on shaky ground.
Then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and then-Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Sanae Takaichi mark a win by a party candidate in the July 2013 Upper House election. There is ongoing debate over whether Takaichi's economic approach will mirror the former prime minister's Abenomics.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 10, 2025

The 'Takaichi trade' isn’t Abenomics 2.0, and that’s OK

Party leader Takaichi has been left with one of the poorest positions imaginable. The LDP is a minority in both houses of parliament.
Military and national security leaders across major Western countries and the world show dangerous overconfidence and cognitive biases, risking global conflict.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 9, 2025

Global war and the cognitive traps leaders don’t see

Even a cursory scan of today’s major military powers suggests that their leaders and policy elites are dangerously overconfident.
Tokyo ranked world’s richest city by GDP, with Osaka-Kobe also rated highly
Tokyo has a gross domestic product of $2.55 trillion, just ahead of New York’s $2.49 trillion and Greater Los Angeles’ $1.62 trillion, according to CEOWorld’s global wealth index.
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.
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.
Tokyo looks to keep ‘monster parents’ at bay with new protocols
New guidelines are addressing struggles by teachers to deal with the burden of parents who make irrational complaints that go beyond what is considered socially acceptable, often referred to as "monster parents," which is overwhelming their workload.
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.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
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.
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
By Yukana Inoue

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