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Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Aug 20, 2021

Make Japanese politics more concrete by training your ears

Training your ears to catch the sounds of certain Japanese words might make listening to people talk about politics a little more comprehensible.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2021

Australia's 'authoritarian' COVID-19 response

Australia, once the envy of the world for its pandemic management, is now being criticized by some over the authoritarian measures it is using to crush COVID-19.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Aug 16, 2021

Japanese soldier recalls lucky survival on Burma front in World War II

Shoichi Sato, 98, survived malaria, bombings and a siege, but many of his comrades weren't so fortunate.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / Regional voices: Chubu
Aug 16, 2021

Unable to return home, unable to work: a Vietnamese woman in Japan

Although the government has taken some measures to support foreign nationals unable to return to their countries because of the pandemic, many were not eligible.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 16, 2021

How many Olympic medals are enough?

Is the obsession with winning Olympic glory a healthy form of patriotism or an unhealthy kind of nationalism?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Aug 15, 2021

Carmen Roberts: After the pandemic, ‘people will make better holiday choices'

An award-winning travel journalist, Carmen Roberts finds her past in her work and says people will appreciate travel more in the future.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 14, 2021

Tokyo’s restaurants push through another state-of-emergency summer

The Japan Times gives you the lowdown on what new gems opened, what closed and what restaurants are ready and waiting to throw open their doors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 11, 2021

China anti-graft watchdog calls for curbs on business drinking

China should reduce business drinking and replace it with "correct values,” the Chinese Communist Party’s anti-corruption watchdog said in a commentary on a sexual assault case involving employees with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 10, 2021

Surviving the atomic bomb, only to live a life of regret

Miyako Yano was absent from school the day Hiroshima was bombed. Decades later, she was reunited with her deceased friends in a school register.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 10, 2021

Memories of a parent and a Hiroshima hometown, preserved in photographs

Okiharu Terao survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima — but had lost his father, a keen photographer, earlier in the war.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Aug 9, 2021

China’s COVID-19 strategy risks leaving it isolated for years

China is tethering itself to eliminating the virus over the long term — an approach that risks leaving the world's second-biggest economy isolated for years to come.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / Regional voices: Chubu
Aug 9, 2021

Aichi auto parts supplier helps smaller firms in supply chain go carbon neutral

Helping subsuppliers decarbonize is essential for achieving overall carbon neutrality in the manufacturing process.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Aug 9, 2021

Okinawans prepare to represent their prefecture at the Tokyo Paralympics

The prefecture is sending an umpire and a racket stringer to the tennis competition at the event.
JAPAN / Society / Longform
Aug 7, 2021

Tokyo tomorrow: What comes after the 2020 Games?

Rebuilt from the war and continually building back stronger, the 1964 Olympics gave Tokyo an identity. Will the 2020 Games do the same?
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 4, 2021

'Constantly pursued': Ukraine's LGBT activists attacked online and in the street

Campaigners said abuse and violence could be increasing partly because of the growing visibility of the nation's LGBT community.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 3, 2021

The man behind the Olympic 'anti-sex' beds speaks out

The Airweave beds at Tokyo 2020 have taken a pounding on social media, but CEO Motokuni Takaoka says they can handle it all.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2021

Tencent tumbles after China media calls online gaming 'spiritual opium'

A state-run outlet said many teenagers were addicted to online video games and called for more curbs on the industry.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Tohoku
Aug 2, 2021

Learning from disaster: Across Tohoku, a race is on to preserve vital records

Volumes of archived materials outline the ordeal communities have been through over the past decade. Soon they could be lost.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Aug 2, 2021

Hiroshima doctor advocates for dual surname system

Unmarried couples face legal restrictions such as an inability to inherit property when a partner dies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 2, 2021

Xi opens a Pandora's box with antagonism of India

Chinese aggression and the breaching of border agreements has made the rise of a more antagonistic and militarily stronger India a certainty.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jul 31, 2021

The risk of vote-splitting makes casinos more likely in Yokohama

Press outlets begin to speculate on the true intentions of the Yokohama mayoral race's many independent candidates.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 29, 2021

Doctors blast Biogen Alzheimer approval as ‘regulatory failure’

The New England Journal of Medicine opinion piece is another sign of persistent furor over the agency's decision.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 28, 2021

China move to fight sanctions gives Hong Kong banks new worry

The move that could create complications for multinationals caught in rising tensions between Washington and Beijing.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 26, 2021

China overhauls private education sector ‘hijacked by capital’

The country's education technology sector is worth $100 billion, but Beijing's reforms will drastically change the business model.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Jul 26, 2021

Tent saunas in the Gifu mountains a hot ticket

The service is being offered at a quiet place along the river so that visitors can enjoy the area's clear, cold snowmelt water.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 22, 2021

EU refusal to reopen Brexit deal spells fresh U.K. collision

Boris Johnson's government has warned that it will suspend parts of the agreement if the EU doesn't budge.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Jul 19, 2021

Osaka University ties up with town to turn manure into methanol using LEDs

The town is planning to build a dedicated experimental plant, and expects it to be a new source of income for local dairy farmers.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Jul 19, 2021

Japanese supporter of Myanmar orphanage forced to watch turmoil from afar

Takashi Takino has been warned that stocks of food at the facility in the city of Yangon are running low.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / The Big Questions
Jul 19, 2021

Jenifer Rogers taps ACCJ’s energy for a sustainable future

Name: Jenifer Rogers
Success of Chinese-made fighter jets against India raises alarm in Asia
Chinese J-10 fighter jets from the People's Liberation Army Air Force August 1st Aerobatics Team perform during a media demonstration at the Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, in November 2015.
Japan to recognize Taiwan as place of origin in family registration system
Masataka Yuhara, secretary-general of the Friends of Lee Teng Hui Association in Japan, which has been calling for "Taiwan" to be permitted as a place of origin in family registers.
Japanese retailers turn to California rice for cheaper alternative
U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass eats California rice at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Tuesday along with Mitsuko Tsuchiya, vice president of retailer Aeon.
Japanese automakers looking at a ¥1 trillion hit from Trump tariffs 
Cars on display at Nissan's headquarters in Yokohama on Tuesday. The automaker posted a massive annual net loss and confirmed that it plans to cut thousands of jobs worldwide.
Two crew feared dead after ASDF training jet crashes in Aichi
Self-Defense Forces personnel collect apparent parts of an Air Self-Defense Force T-4 training jet from a reservoir in Inuyama, Aichi Prefeture, on Thursday. The jet crashed shortly after takeoff a day earlier.
Sumo title contenders already emerging in early stages of Tokyo meet
Onosato (left) battles Abi on Day 3 of the Summer Basho in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Harmfully hot days for pregnant women in Japan nearly doubled over past five years
New research by a U.S. climate scientists’ group reveals that extreme heat has increased the risks of preterm births and other pregnancy complications in Japan, nearly doubling the number of days that are harmfully hot for pregnant women over the past five years.
Japanese automakers looking at a ¥1 trillion hit from Trump tariffs 
Cars on display at Nissan's headquarters in Yokohama on Tuesday. The automaker posted a massive annual net loss and confirmed that it plans to cut thousands of jobs worldwide.
Tokyo Stock Exchange wants stocks to be affordable for the average investor
The Tokyo Stock Exchange building in Nihonbashi. The exchange wants companies to lower the entry cost of investing in their shares.
Consumption tax set to dominate Upper House election debate
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba enters his office in Tokyo on Tuesday.

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Japan's growing ranks of centenarians are redefining what it means to live in a super-aging society.
What comes after 100?
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