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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 9, 2021

Fastly failure: Why a slew of major websites went offline

The cascade of failures across the web turned a mere 'service configuration” into a global outage that hit large companies and small users alike.
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2021

Despite danger and cost, Japan gambles on successful Olympics

The Tokyo Olympic Games are reaching the point of no return.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 8, 2021

Biden bringing game to G7 summit

The Biden administration was wise to acknowledge that it could not stop the pipeline. It therefore decided to use acceptance of the project to gain more cooperation from Germany.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 8, 2021

Gangrene and hearing loss show delta variant may be more severe

In England and Scotland, early evidence suggests the strain — which is now dominant there — carries a higher risk of hospitalization.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 8, 2021

China markets sold mink and civets, stoking natural origins theory

The hunt for COVID-19's origins has become increasingly political amid criticism that the Chinese government hasn't been open and transparent.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 7, 2021

The world should learn from India’s COVID-19 cataclysm

Strategies that kept the pandemic at bay in 2020 won't necessarily work in 2021.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 7, 2021

China’s three-child policy won’t help

But a below-replacement fertility rate is only one part of China's demographic problem. A second issue is the sheer size of its older population.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Jun 7, 2021

How Hokkaido is breaking down language barriers

With the number of non-Japanese continuing to grow, the prefecture is hoping to help all of its residents with more accessible information.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 7, 2021

China’s cautious consumers offer window onto post-pandemic world

While corporate executives say business has rebounded, they also say there's a way to go before confidence is fully restored.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jun 7, 2021

Reigning Olympic champion Monica Puig to miss Tokyo Games after shoulder surgery

Monica Puig, the reigning Olympic gold medalist in women's singles tennis, said she will miss the Tokyo Games and the rest of the 2021 season after undergoing shoulder surgery.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 7, 2021

Hundreds of former leaders urge G7 to vaccinate poor against COVID-19

In their letter to the G7, the former world leaders said global cooperation had failed in 2020, but that 2021 could usher in a new era.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 6, 2021

European and African leaders call for a 'New Deal' for Africa

In one year in Africa, the pandemic has halted a quarter century of steady economic growth, disrupted value chains and caused an unprecedented increase in inequality and poverty.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 6, 2021

Lessons from the pandemic

Most countries are lagging far behind and new, concerted and more generous efforts by the richest nations are needed to control the pandemic at a global level.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jun 6, 2021

Olympics gave hope to Japan’s LGBTQ activists. But old prejudices die hard.

Even a modest goal of labeling discrimination 'unacceptable” has proved too much for conservative lawmakers, who have blocked consideration of a bill by the Diet.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jun 6, 2021

Should we worry so much about our BMI?

There are few single measures in health care that seem to carry as much weight as body mass index, or BMI. We encounter it not just at doctor’s offices, but with online calculators and smart scales, at gyms and even when determining eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Jun 5, 2021

Naomi Osaka shows what a real champion is made of

Osaka is an introvert with high expectations of herself and who battles anxiety and depression. Success and those earnings have not eliminated her unease.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 5, 2021

India’s suspect ‘Quad’ credentials

COVID-19 has brutally exposed the hollowness of India's pretensions to power, status and influence and boasts of being a vaccine superpower and pharmacy to the world.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 4, 2021

Nissan delays release of flagship electric car amid chip crunch

The struggle to release new models amid a global shortage of automotive chips is one that automakers worldwide are facing, but the issue is particularly acute for Nissan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2021

Olympics could be ‘show window’ for Tokyo’s booming real estate

While the debate still rages over whether it's safe to hold the Tokyo Olympics, investors in the capital's real estate sector may be saying the games must go on.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 3, 2021

Taliban look to grab power as U.S. departs Afghanistan, U.N. warns

Taliban militants are gathering across Afghanistan in preparation for a possible takeover of the country by force as U.S. and NATO troops exit over the next few months, the United Nations has warned.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 3, 2021

America must rediscover human-rights realism

A policy that virtually ignored human rights, however, would reduce the U.S. to the one-dimensional realpolitik that characterizes Chinese and Russian behavior.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 3, 2021

New NASA missions will study Venus, a world overlooked for decades

After numerous missions by the United States and the Soviet Union to explore it in the 1970s, '80s and '90s, attention shifted elsewhere.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2021

Prosecute the populists?

Until the cease-fire, the world’s attention was trained on Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza, which may have suited Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is facing trial on corruption charges. And Netanyahu is hardly the only populist leader in legal peril.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2021

Did China avoid blame for causing the pandemic?

The WHO first learned of the COVID-19 outbreak from Taiwan, news articles, a public bulletin and from an automated alert system that scans the internet for mentions of unexplained pneumonia.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Jun 2, 2021

Dual yokozuna promotion could join list of recent rare events in sumo

The possibility remains that ozeki Terunofuji and Takakeisho could both be offered the white rope depending on how results pan out at next month's Nagoya Basho.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jun 2, 2021

Brazil names Rio among host cities for 2021 Copa America

The legendary Maracana will be among venues chosen to hold the tournament, which was moved from Argentina due to that country's worsening COVID-19 situation.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2021

The post-pandemic whiplash awaiting the world’s poor

At the global level, the International Monetary Fund has warned of a “great divergence,” whereby rich countries recover strongly while others flounder.
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2021

U.K. to begin process to join trans-Pacific trade partnership

Japan has been supportive of the U.K.'s efforts to seal global trade deals as it seeks to carve out a bigger role in Asia following its exit from the EU.

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