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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 13, 2023

South Koreans battling addiction find little support

Counselors have been trying to build more rehabilitation centers, but requests for government funding are said to fail amid poor awareness about the need for more facilities.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 13, 2023

Leaked U.S. intel document claims Serbia agreed to arm Ukraine

Serbia's Defense Minister Milos Vucevic dismissed the document's assertions as 'untrue' in a statement on Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 12, 2023

Former teen idol alleges sexual abuse by boy-band mogul Johnny Kitagawa

The artist is one of the first to publicly address Kitagawa's long-alleged sexual abuse, saying he was molested '15 to 20' times while with the agency starting when he was 15 years old.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Apr 12, 2023

Should Terunofuji be considered an all-time great?

With the yokozuna's status for next month's Summer Basho still pending, it’s worth pondering how sumo history would judge him were he to retire without achieving further glory.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 11, 2023

Europe’s China confusion does the world a disservice

European incoherence on China policy is worrying for the world and for Japan.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 11, 2023

Does Macron's stance on Taiwan weaken G7 deterrence against China?

One of Kishida's top goals for next month’s G7 summit is to create a united front on issues like China and Ukraine, but that job may have just got harder.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Apr 11, 2023

United States looks for path forward without injured Mallory Swanson

The absence of the team's talismanic striker continues to be cause for concern after she had to be carried off on a stretcher just three months before the Women's World Cup.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 11, 2023

Seoul theater chain swaps screens for climbing walls to lure young Koreans

South Korea's largest multiplex movie chain operator started installing climbing walls in 2021 in one of its multiplexes, demolishing two movie screens to make way for the walls.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 11, 2023

Russia pounds Ukraine's front line as leak prompts questions over counteroffensive

Ukrainian officials played down a report that Kyiv is amending plans following the unauthorized release of classified U.S. documents.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Apr 11, 2023

Tiger Woods' ball from 1997 Masters sells for $64,000

Bidding for the Titleist ball, which has 'Tiger' stamped on it, began at $500 when it went up for auction in late March.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / Longform
Apr 10, 2023

Are rising crime rates in Japan cause for alarm?

After tumbling for two decades, the number of criminal offenses in the nation jumped last year. Should we be worried?
JAPAN
Apr 10, 2023

Justice Ministry panel backs abolishing Japan's foreign trainee program

The panel said a new system should be established that recognizes the interns as workers helping Japan overcome its labor shortage.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Apr 10, 2023

Reindeer racing king crowned in Arctic tournament

Fourteen reindeer and jockeys competed for the title in the final match of the season in the increasingly popular Arctic sport.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Apr 10, 2023

Kristina Ganea: With sourdough, ‘the more you fail, the more you learn’

Smell something good wafting from a shop in Tokyo’s Hiroo neighborhood? That’s probably because Kristina Ganea has something delicious in the oven.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 10, 2023

U.S. searches for source of highly-classified intel leak

Some Western security experts and U.S. officials have said they suspect the source could be someone from the United States.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 10, 2023

Bond market is overplaying the risk of a deep recession

Explaining the divide has become a Wall Street obsession — an urgent one, given the sway Treasuries hold in models designed to divine the future of inflation and Federal Reserve policy.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 9, 2023

Bicycle helmets in short supply in Japan after law change

A bicycle shop chain based in the city of Chiba saw helmet sales in March jump about sixteenfold from a year earlier after safety law change.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 9, 2023

Saudi Arabia’s drive to get expats to ditch Dubai is off to a rocky start

The big question is whether Riyadh is ready from an infrastructure, housing, lifestyle and even administrative standpoint for an influx of foreign white-collar workers and their families.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Apr 9, 2023

‘Tokyo Express’: Postwar detective noir basks in the details

Jesse Kirkwood's English translation of Seicho Matsumoto’s dense yet well paced novel is concise and timeless, giving contemporary readers a relatable window into the past.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 8, 2023

Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

Some of the recordings caught Tesla customers in embarrassing situations — one ex-employee described a video of a man approaching a vehicle completely naked.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 8, 2023

China sends 71 warplanes near Taiwan as military drills kick off

China kicked off three days of military drills and 'combat readiness patrols' around the island on Saturday, just days after the Taiwanese president met the U.S. House speaker.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Apr 8, 2023

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ travels highlight gaps in disclosure rules

The latest incident has raised concerns about whether the judiciary’s existing regulations are enough to expose potential conflicts of interest and ethics violations.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 8, 2023

COVID-19 is still deadlier for patients than flu

COVID-19 isn’t 'just a flu,” with a study of hospital patients finding that the virus was still 60% deadlier than influenza last winter.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 8, 2023

Russia formally charges U.S. journalist with spying

The reported charges by Russia’s Federal Security Service come more than a week after the U.S. citizen was detained during a reporting trip to Russia’s Ural Mountains region.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 7, 2023

My friendship with Ryuichi Sakamoto

Roger Pulvers writes about his relationship with the late musician, recalling the time he introduced Sakamoto to David Bowie.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 7, 2023

Disasters can be deadly, but the aftermaths can be deadlier

Largely forgotten, more people died in the days, weeks and months after the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes due to illness and depression than in the quakes themselves.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Apr 7, 2023

Donald Trump makes history — again

Trump has other legal woes as well such as the investigation for an alleged attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 7, 2023

No, South Korea is not ready for MSCI’s elite club

Seoul has not always been market-friendly. And it certainly has not been kind to activist hedge funds, an important channel to improve market efficiency.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 7, 2023

Samsung announces cut to memory chip output after worst profit since 2009

Operating profit plunged more than 95% to 600 billion won for the three months ended March, missing the average analyst estimate, while sales also fell.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 7, 2023

Japan adds new HPV vaccine to routine inoculation program

According to the health ministry, most cervical cancer cases can be attributed to HPV infection through sexual intercourse, with many cases occurring at a young age.

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes