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Taiwan report 2021
May 14, 2021

Providing Japan’s companies with expert legal advice

Taiwan’s economy is performing well. The growth rate of the gross domestic product last year was 3.11% and is expected to reach 4.64% in 2021. As Taiwan attracts more global business interest, it is vital that foreign companies in Taiwan work with a trusted partner.
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COMMENTARY / World
May 13, 2021

The limits to U.S.-China climate cooperation

The best we can hope for is that the two superpowers are disciplined enough to avoid endangering humanity's survival as they jostle for geopolitical advantage.
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WORLD
May 13, 2021

WHO urged to reform after panel finds failures worsened pandemic

The international system remains unfit to avoid another disease spiraling into one that matches COVID-19, an independent review has found.
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ASIA PACIFIC
May 13, 2021

India's oxygen shortage sparks hunt for $1,000 machines

Portable oxygen concentrators are becoming a line of defense for those seeking to avert breathing difficulties while recuperating at home.
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BUSINESS
May 12, 2021

Global firms leave Myanmar office block with military ties

The site in Yangon was leased from the military, according to a 2019 fact-finding mission established by the United Nations.
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BUSINESS / Companies
May 12, 2021

Nomura raises profit target in recovery from Archegos blowup

Nomura Holdings Inc. raised its pretax income target for the financial year ending March 2023 by 14%, with the bulk of growth expected to come from its wholesale division as it moves on from the implosion of Archegos Capital Management.
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LIFE / Lifestyle / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
May 12, 2021

Celebrating Ramadan during a pandemic: ‘As Muslims in Japan, we have to make the vibes by ourselves’

This year, iftar meals were again a homebound affair for many Muslims in Japan, and what used to be grand, communal gatherings changed into much smaller celebrations.
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COMMENTARY / World
May 12, 2021

France’s culture war intensifies

Few in France are happy with the country's political leaders, which is why successive presidents have failed to win reelection.
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COMMENTARY / World
May 12, 2021

A one-Earth balance sheet

The Earth is a single living, self-regulating system, and it demands a single, shared system of accounting that balances at the global level.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
May 11, 2021

What the evolving international order means for Japan

As tensions in the Asia-Pacific region increase, the ties between Tokyo, Washington and Beijing continue to change.
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BUSINESS / Companies
May 11, 2021

Toyota set to dodge earnings nightmare caused by chips crisis

On the other side, Japan's other automakers remain mired in a morass of factory closures due to the global shortage.
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COMMENTARY / World
May 11, 2021

China makes us rethink capitalism

Make no mistake: China is in many important ways a capitalist country; but Chinese capitalism is a very different animal from that practiced in the West.
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COMMENTARY / World
May 11, 2021

Five things moms gained during COVID-19 — and should refuse to give up

While the pandemic has brought many of us to the brink of our sanity, it has also forced many organizations to give moms long-overdue concessions. We must refuse to give them back.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB
May 10, 2021

Fighters take no chances after COVID-19 outbreak

There was something different about the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters during pregame warmups Friday at Sapporo Dome. The players were wearing their special Hokkaido appreciation tops — which are predominantly blue this year — with white pants for their matchup with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles....
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
May 9, 2021

Abe rallies conservative base amid speculation over comeback

More than eight months after health issues forced him to resign as PM, Abe is moving to re-establish his power base among younger Liberal Democratic Party conservatives.
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LIFE / Food & Drink
May 9, 2021

Getting into wine is easier than you think

You really don't need anything to enjoy wine short of a corkscrew and a glass. But while those are the bare essentials, a few practical items will heighten your enjoyment.
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BASKETBALL / NBA
May 8, 2021

A humbling NBA moment brings cheers from Japan

Going viral because you got dunked on? Yikes — unless you're Yuta Watanabe, whose effort has endeared him to a growing wave of basketball fans in his home country, Japan.
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ASIA PACIFIC
May 8, 2021

Heads up! A used Chinese rocket is tumbling back to Earth this weekend.

The chances of it hitting a populated area are small, but not zero. That has raised questions about how the country's space program designs its missions.
SUMO
May 7, 2021

Comeback king Terunofuji poised to reach even greater heights

With Hakuho out and Kakuryu retired, Terunofuji will go into every fight over the next basho or two as the favorite and has a genuine shot at a future promotion to yokozuna.
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WORLD
May 7, 2021

From Singapore to Rio, the smart money is on greener buildings

'There's a growing shift toward including the green credentials of a building within what constitutes competitive advantage for a developer,” according to one industry observer.
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CULTURE / Art
May 7, 2021

Japan's premier art collective teamLab celebrates 20 years with a spot of tea and a Miami bash

Marking 20 years, teamLab has a lot to be proud of when it comes to making an impact on the international art scene. The collective's success was not a foregone conclusion, however.
A shopkeeper displays women's wigs at his shop in Kabul on March 13. Until the Taliban took power, Afghan women could freely sell their hair to be made into wigs, bringing in crucial cash. But last year Taliban authorities imposed vice and virtue laws regulating everyday life for men and women, including banning sales of "any part of the human body" such as hair.
WORLD / Society
Mar 25, 2025

Afghan women risk Taliban wrath over hair trade

A ban imposed last year has forced women to brave punishment by covertly trading hair for crucial cash.

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After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan