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BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2023

Japan’s top steelmaker eyes $700 million ‘green steel’ project

Nippon Steel is looking at Australia and Brazil, where high-grade iron ore is accessible along with cheaper electricity than in Japan, for its new plan.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Mar 2, 2023

How Xi Jinping is fortifying China's economic security

Authorities in Beijing are working to build a strategy of obtaining economic predominance by using China's strengths, such as its price competitiveness.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 2, 2023

India's Modi calls for unity at G20 dominated by Ukraine

New Delhi had wanted its G20 presidency to focus on issues such as alleviating poverty and climate finance, but the Ukraine war has so far crowded out other agenda items.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 2, 2023

More Chinese cars in Russia after Western brands exit

While Western companies withdrew from Russia in the early days of the war, many Chinese firms have continued to operate there with impunity.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 2, 2023

Tesla offers a new ‘master plan,’ but few big revelations

Shareholders and analysts had expected Tesla to reveal information that would clarify how the company would retain its crown as the world’s dominant maker of electric vehicles.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 1, 2023

Airline websites swamped as Hong Kong ticket giveaway takes off

The city government last month launched a campaign to reboot its reputation as 'Asia's world city,' after years of strict pandemic-related travel restrictions.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Mar 1, 2023

Amputee soccer player in disbelief after winning Puskas Award

Marcin Oleksy, who works full-time as an excavator operator, became the first amputee to win the prize given to the best goal of the year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Feb 28, 2023

At the home of Zara, fast and slow fashion collide

Sustainability is a problem in fashion — the EU throws out around 5.8 million tons of textile products every year, equivalent to 11 kg (24 lb) per person.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 28, 2023

Japan's Indigenous peoples fight stigma to reclaim identities

Many people feel Japan's government has not done enough to support the Ainu and Ryukyu groups.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KANPAI CULTURE
Feb 28, 2023

Celebrated chef Natsuko Shoji's vie en rose

Fresh from the achievement of being named Asia’s best female chef last year, Natsuko Shoji wows diners with an adventure into the world of Dom Perignon Rose.
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / Southeastern USA report 2023
Feb 28, 2023

Shifting to high gear

As the world returns to normality following the protracted COVID-19 pandemic, the southeastern United States has seen sharp growth in the number of new businesses coming to the region. For Florida, Georgia and North Carolina, the transition was smooth, if not because of a collective will to succeed,...
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / Southeastern USA report 2023
Feb 28, 2023

Fort Lauderdale: A growing community for everyone

Over the last few years, residents of Fort Lauderdale welcomed the improvements happening in their communities. The call for continuity, according to the mayor, beckoned.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Feb 27, 2023

Japan needs more than just new visa options to attract highly skilled workers

Better wages, improved incentives and overhauled working styles are seen as bigger factors in drawing top foreign talent.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2023

Carbon credits are a contested tool to fight deforestation

Major corporations are accused of purchasing carbon credits from forest protection projects in areas that are not actually at risk.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Feb 27, 2023

‘Made in Japan’ jeans from Okayama still evolving, 50 years on

Fully domestic-made jeans were first manufactured in Okayama Prefecture to imitate American clothing, but have developed into unique, luxury products that sell at high prices.
BUSINESS / Economy / Longform
Feb 27, 2023

How the Russia-Ukraine war has changed Japan’s economic outlook

Soaring energy costs have re-exposed Japan’s weakness as a nation of limited natural resources.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2023

Mistrust of Xi endangers one of Wall Street’s favorite trades

Money managers looking for China to rebuild trust are getting mixed regulatory messages from Beijing.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 27, 2023

Supply chains have healed, yet their mark on inflation will endure

Short-term prices for containers from Europe to the U.S. East Coast are still more than double what they were in late 2019, according to data from Freightos.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 26, 2023

CFL deepens links with Japanese football in combine's fourth year

The international combines and draft are a part of a global outreach program, dubbed CFL 2.0, that was initiated by CFL Commissioner Randy Ambrosie in 2018.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 26, 2023

Sergio Perez puts Red Bull on top as F1 wraps up preseason testing

Perez's time of one minute and 30.305 seconds was 0.359 quicker than Mercedes' seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 26, 2023

Top U.S. envoy eyes inroads in Central Asia as Ukraine rattles nerves

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks in Kazakhstan and then Uzbekistan and meet jointly with foreign ministers of all five ex-Soviet Central Asian states.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 25, 2023

The U.N. Security Council struggled to even agree to hold a minute of silence for Ukraine

The meeting underscored how different nations hew to their own interpretations of the war in Ukraine.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 24, 2023

Singapore's fertility rate falls to lowest on record at 1.05

The rate of babies per female has now dropped for seven out of the last 10 years in the city-state and is well below the replacement fertility rate of 2.1 births per woman.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2023

Ukraine would welcome a visit by Kishida, envoy in Japan says

“From our point of view, it’s extremely important for Kishida … to visit Ukraine and see it with his own eyes, in order to be able to feel what is going on,” envoy Sergiy Korsunsky said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Feb 24, 2023

India wants a clean energy transition deal — and its coal too

Simultaneously beefing up both coal and renewables points to a messy energy transition for India, including the risk of job losses if some coal mines are abandoned.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Feb 24, 2023

Famed soccer commentator John Motson dies at age 77

Motson covered 10 World Cups, 10 European Championships and 29 FA Cup finals for the BBC.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / ANALYSIS
Feb 24, 2023

New bird flu spreading worldwide poses no human pandemic risk, experts say

The changes that have allowed the H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b virus to infect wild birds so efficiently have made it less likely to infect human cells, according to leading disease experts.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Feb 24, 2023

South Korea inches toward same-sex equality, but broader bill is stalled

As long as the conservative People Power Party — and opposition from the country's Christian population —remains strong, the bill is unlikely to reach a vote.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Top 5
Feb 23, 2023

Tokyo’s luxury sushi restaurants go casual with budget spinoffs

Don't feel like shelling out ¥50,000 for a dinner? You're not the only one. High-end sushi restaurants are offering more affordable options at satellite spots.
Haneda Airport security staff arrested over theft
Tokyo police have arrested a 21-year-old security inspector at Haneda Airport after he allegedly stole cash from a passenger during a baggage inspection.
Japan's elderly population down at around 36.2 million
The estimated number of people age 65 or older in Japan stands at 36.19 million as of Monday, accounting for record 29.4% of the country's total population, according to the internal affairs ministry.
SDF spots China’s biggest aircraft carrier for first time
The Fujian aircraft carrier is seen in Shanghai in May 2024 as it leaves for its first sea trial.
White House threatens broad crackdown on liberal groups
FBI Director Kash Patel (right) listens to senior White House adviser Stephen Miller speak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Pole vault rivals in awe after Duplantis has another historic night in Tokyo
Sweden's Armand Duplantis competes in the men's pole fault final during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
Tara Davis-Woodhall leaps to gold and finds redemption at world championships
Tara Davis-Woodhall celebrates after winning the women's long jump final at the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday night.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.

Podcast

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

Longform

Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’
By Alex K.T. Martin

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