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Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 8, 2021

Italy basks in Tokyo Games medal glory as COVID-19 gamble pays off

While other nations were shutting gyms, pools and tracks amid the pandemic, Italy provided an exemption for some 250 elite athletes to keep training for much of the past 18 months.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 8, 2021

Serbia overpower South Korea to win bronze in women's Olympic volleyball

Rio silver medalists Serbia overpowered South Korea in straight sets in the women's volleyball tournament on Sunday to take the bronze medal at the Tokyo Games.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 7, 2021

In Qatar, the Olympic team (like much else) is mostly imported

Armed with cash, coaches and state-of-the-art training facilities, Qatar has been trying to assemble an athletic force worthy of the host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 7, 2021

Once a synchro star, host Japan struggles to retain bronze in artistic swimming

Though Japan has never won gold since synchronized swimming became an Olympic sport in 1984, it has taken either silver or bronze, in duet or team, every year except for London 2012.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 7, 2021

What to watch on Day 15 of the Tokyo Olympics

Samurai Japan will look to give the baseball-mad country its first Olympic gold in the sport, while one of Japan's flagbearers finally gets her chance to leave another mark on the Games.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2021

At the Tokyo Olympic marathons, all eyes are on the shoes

Interest in runners' shoes is part of a trend that has grown over the last few years with the emergence of thick-soled sneakers with embedded carbon plates.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2021

Biden proposes stronger than expected vehicle emission rules

The mandates are a centerpiece of Biden's climate plans and mark his administration's first major effort to use regulation to stem greenhouse gases.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Aug 5, 2021

How Japan has tapped into the history of innovation at the Olympics

From electric vehicles to 5G wireless technology, Japanese technology is being showcased to the world at the Games.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 5, 2021

A nuclear crisis foreseen and predicted

The U.K.'s decline in nuclear power production is due to the growing obsolescence of the nation's aging power plants — and rectifying the situation is proving difficult.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 5, 2021

Why India struggles to win Olympic gold

The government has overhauled an athletic system that was once underfunded and corrupt, but the pressure to perform weighs on competitors.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2021

After loss to Spain, Japan still wondering how to close gap with world soccer powers

In the end it was Real Madrid star Marco Asensio's game-winning goal that stood out the most when contrasted with Japan's failure to capitalize on any of its chances in the penalty area.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2021

Double lives: The Olympians who divide their time between work and sport

'You cannot be riding a horse and thinking, what's happening with a trade in the office,' says equestrian Jose Maria Larocca, also one of the world's most influential oil traders.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2021

What to watch on Day 12 of the Tokyo Olympics

An East Asian rivalry is set to be renewed on the diamond and skateboarding returns to the schedule a little over a week after Japan claimed the sport's first two gold medals.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 3, 2021

Japan's Sena Irie punches her way to gold in women's boxing

Irie, a native of Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, is the first athlete from the sparsely populated prefecture to win Olympic gold.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Aug 3, 2021

Hong Kong’s fate spurs Japan to speak up about defending Taiwan

A more supportive policy toward Taipei is emblematic of a broader shift by Tokyo in response to China's crackdown on Hong Kong and increased military activities in the Taiwan Strait.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 3, 2021

In weightlifting, a historic moment for transgender women

New Zealander Laurel Hubbard has become the first to participate in the Olympics, but her appearance has received a mixed response.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 3, 2021

One sport has gifted Indonesia all its Olympic golds. The streak continues in Tokyo.

A women's doubles badminton victory was the first gold for Indonesia in Tokyo and the eighth in the country's Olympic history.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 2, 2021

United by gold: High jumpers from Italy and Qatar share the glory

The options for Mutaz Essa Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi were laid out for them: go to a jump-off or share the prize. The decision was simple.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 2, 2021

A golden night for Italy: Lamont Marcell Jacobs sprints to 100-meter gold

Jacobs got off to a good start and never let up to beat American Fred Kerley and Canadian Andre de Grasse to claim the title of Fastest Man in the World.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 1, 2021

World Athletics chief says ‘no asterisk’ needed for Tokyo Games

Two-time gold medalist Sebastian Coe believes Japan's reputation will emerge stronger as the troubled Olympics begin their second full week of competition.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 1, 2021

Olympics’ first openly transgender woman stokes debate on fairness

Laurel Hubbard, a 43-year-old weight lifter from New Zealand, will compete on Monday, as some question her right to be at the Games.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021

Australian swimmer Emma McKeon closing in on record medal haul

Australian Emma McKeon could bow out of Tokyo 2020 on Sunday as the first female swimmer to win seven medals at a single Olympics.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 31, 2021

Climate change is coming for the Great Barrier Reef

Coral reefs are one of the world's most visible and sensitive barometers of climate change.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021

Nadeshiko Japan ponders future after another major tournament exit

Friday's Olympic quarterfinal loss to Sweden highlighted the gap in physicalities and playing styles between head coach Asako Takakura's side and the rest of the world.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021

Britain takes home first-ever triathlon mixed-relay gold at Tokyo Games

Alex Yee delivered a superb final leg as Britain won the inaugural triathlon mixed relay gold medal on Saturday, their four-person team completing a wonderful week for the country, after also collecting two silvers in the individual events.
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.
The Toyota buyout is a major test for Japan’s reforms
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
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.
Takaichi plans pay cuts for herself and her ministers
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi chats with her Cabinet members in parliament in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Mother of Thai girl forced into sex work in Tokyo detained in Taiwan
The Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward
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.
A 40-year wait for ‘Mishima’ ends at TIFF
Made at a time when Japan was still grappling with Yukio Mishima’s legacy, Paul Schrader’s biopic “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” was blocked from screening in the country for decades.

Podcast

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

Longform

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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