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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 10, 2019

As Aung San Suu Kyi looks on, Gambia details mass rapes and killings in Myanmar

Gambia's legal team described mass rapes, the burning of families in their homes and killings of dozens of Muslim Rohingya children with knives as it set out its genocide case against Myanmar at the U.N.'s International Court of Justice on Tuesday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Women of Taste
Dec 7, 2019

Tokiko Iino: Appetizing tales begin with the plate

In the past four years, if you've stepped into Isetan Shinjuku and checked out one of its in-store displays, chances are you've seen Tokiko Iino's food styling designs.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 30, 2019

North Korea warns Japan it could see missile overflying country 'in the not distant future'

North Korea warns that Japan could again see missiles overflying the country again after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe calls Pyongyang's latest test a “ballistic missile” launch.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 20, 2019

Philippine leader looks to ban 'toxic' e-cigarettes and arrest users

The Philippines will outlaw the use and importation of e-cigarettes and arrest anyone using them, its president said on Tuesday, joining a growing number of nations moving to ban devices that have been linked to deaths and addiction.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2019

The digital money revolution

The choice for governments and central banks is whether to stand in front of a train that is gaining steam, or get on board and reap the benefits.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 2, 2019

U.S. opens national security investigation into China-owned TikTok

The U.S. government has launched a national security review of TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co.'s $1 billion acquisition of the U.S. social media app Musical.ly, according to three people familiar with the matter.
BUSINESS / Brexit: How it affects Japan
Oct 15, 2019

Buffeted by Brexit, British firms try to chart a course in the Japanese market

British companies are coming under more pressure than ever to develop a footprint in non-EU markets.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 12, 2019

Consumers look for ways to blunt impact of consumption tax hike

Japan's consumption tax on goods and services has arguably been unpopular from the get-go. Introduced at 3 percent in 1989 as a means of improving public finances, the rate was raised to 5 percent in 1997, 8 percent in 2014 and, from Oct. 1 of this year, to 10 percent.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2019

North Korea fires ballistic missile built to be launched from submarine into Japan's EEZ

North Korea tested a suspected sub-launched ballistic missile in a technological advancement, if successful, could make it significantly more difficult to destroy its nuclear arsenal.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 30, 2019

Xi military parade to showcase China missiles spooking the U.S.

In Beijing, President Xi Jinping's grand military parade through the capital will be cheered as a display of national pride after 70 years of Communist Party rule. In Washington, many will see a growing threat to American dominance in the Western Pacific.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 23, 2019

African countries to seek declaration of global climate emergency at U.N. summit

African countries plan to call on the United Nations to declare a global climate emergency, among a set of demands to be presented at a climate summit in New York on Monday organized by the U.N. chief.
EDITORIALS
Sep 17, 2019

Symbolic strikes in Saudi Arabia

Given Houthi determination to take the fight to Saudi Arabia and Iran's belief that it is the rightful leader of the region, violence will continue and instability will grow.
JAPAN
Sep 5, 2019

Japan tells diplomats no decision yet on contaminated Fukushima water

Government officials on Wednesday told diplomats they were still considering options for handling contaminated water at the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant amid worries the water may be dumped into the ocean.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 3, 2019

Amid tensions with India, Pakistani leader says country would not use nukes first

Pakistan would not use nuclear weapons first, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday, amid tensions with archrival India after New Delhi revoked the special status of its part of the disputed Kashmir region.
BUSINESS / Economy / TICAD 7 Special
Aug 27, 2019

Corporate expansion in spotlight at Africa conference

The city of Yokohama is set to host The Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 7) from Aug. 28 through 30, as dozens of top leaders from African countries and international organizations will gather in Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 20, 2019

Russian nuclear test sensors mysteriously go offline

The operator of a global network of radioactivity sensors said Monday its two Russian sites closest to a mysterious explosion on Aug. 8 went offline two days after the blast, raising concern about possible tampering by Russia.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Aug 9, 2019

Huge Pakistan mine shows the power of coal

In the flat scrubland of Pakistan's scorching Thar Desert, hundreds of workers have been toiling for two years in the vast open pit of the Sindh Engro Coal Mining Co. Taking three-hour breaks during the hottest part of the day and living in a makeshift village of shipping containers, they are digging...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2019

Asian business bloodlines on brink as lack of heirs pushes owners into arms of private equity

After 37 years in business, Shigeru Nagatomi handed over the keys in December last year. Nagatomi Pharmacy Corp., the Kyushu medical supplies shop bearing his family name, had grown to 23 dispensing pharmacies in Oita Prefecture .
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jul 30, 2019

Diving into the world of political performance at Aichi Triennale

The political function of art is a perennial question in the field of aesthetics. In classical Athens, Plato argued that art as a form of imitation was limited in its ability to communicate knowledge about political life. In contrast, Aristotle saw this mimetic gap as a space for imagining new political...
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 30, 2019

Innovation rush aims to help farmers, rich and poor, beat climate change

In decades to come, African farmers may pool their money to buy small robot vehicles to weed their fields or drones that can hover to squirt a few drops of pesticide only where needed.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jul 27, 2019

Tracing the fluctuations in moral standards

"More than 16,500 women and men were sterilized against their will," reads a newsletter published in 1997 by the Network on Ethics and Intellectual Disability.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 23, 2019

Voter disillusion tempered by realism

Despite Abe's electoral victory, the result is not an overwhelming mandate for transformative change.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 19, 2019

From moon walk to space wars

Guaranteeing the freedom to navigate the stars has become no less essential to global peace than safeguarding the freedom to navigate the seas.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 16, 2019

Move over Trump: China's tweeting diplomats open fresh front in propaganda fight

Tweets from Chinese diplomats abroad, including seasoned Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai, have opened a fresh front in Beijing's increasingly assertive approach to diplomacy and propaganda and may be a sign of things to come.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 8, 2019

Europe weighs next move after Iran breaches nuclear deal's uranium enrichment limit

European powers urged Iran to reverse its latest decision to breach the levels of uranium enrichment under the 2015 nuclear accord but stopped short of threatening sanctions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 7, 2019

African leaders launch free trade zone in what could be economic game changer

African leaders met Sunday to launch a continental free-trade zone that if successful would unite 1.3 billion people, create a $3.4 trillion economic bloc and usher in a new era of development.
Nissan clinches $4.5 billion bond deal after orders soar
Nissan Motor has raised $4.5 billion through a junk bond sale in U.S. dollars and euros, part of which carries a record-high coupon rate.
U.S. urges clarity on Japan’s role in potential war over Taiwan, report says
A Ground Self-Defense Force member conducts a military drill with an anti-ship missiles unit, at the GSDF's base on Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture in April 2022.
Tokyo hit by torrential rainfall at rush hour
People line up at Shibuya Station in Tokyo as they try to avoid the heavy rain on Thursday.
Osaka police crack down on crime ring over underage prostitution
Osaka Prefectural Police headquarters
Foreign drivers in Japan to face tougher license conversion rules from October
According to the National Police Agency, there were 75,905 people who converted their foreign driver’s license to a Japanese one in 2024, up from 48,885 in 2019.
Is Japanese skin really ‘too smooth’ for Hideo Kojima’s games?
Hideo Kojima, the leading auteur in Japanese video games, has skirted controversy in the wake of the release of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
An emoji used to say it all. Now it might say too much.
Apple’s Craig Federighi shows off a set of emoji at a conference on June 13, 2016. While the small pictures have proved helpful in conveying nuance in our texts, younger people are using them less often.
‘Our ultimate goal is to save every single Japanese video game’
After nearly shuttering earlier this year, the Tokyo-based Game Preservation Society continues its work to save the early history of Japanese gaming.
Rare vintage shots and first-time shows at TOP’s 30th anniversary
The museum's curators selected a wide array of works from the archives for the milestone exhibitions. Among other photos, Nobuyoshi Araki's work from the series "Winter Journey" (1990) was included in the "Continuity and Change" exhibition that concluded in June.
New IG Arena set to dial down temperature at Nagoya Basho, in a good way
With IG Arena getting glowing early reviews as the Nagoya Basho’s replacement venue, it may be a while before fans wax nostalgic about the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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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
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