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Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 24, 2022

Climate fears on back burner as fuel costs soar and Ukraine crisis deepens

The perils of a warming planet are no less calamitous now, but debate about transitioning to renewable energy has taken a back seat to energy security.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 24, 2022

Many Russians feel deep unease over going to war

Going to war is one of Russians' greatest fears, according to an independent pollster.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 24, 2022

Brooks Koepka says threat of Super Golf League isn't going away

'Somebody will sell out and go to it,' Koepka said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 24, 2022

U.N. warns of 57% increase in risk of cataclysmic wildfires by 2100

'Wildfires need to be placed in the same category of global humanitarian response as major earthquakes and floods,” the U.N. wrote in a new report.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 24, 2022

Hiroshi Okuhara's ‘Hotel Iris’ is a house of mirrors

The director's film adaptation of Yoko Ogawa's novel, in which Masatoshi Nagase plays a dangerously seductive translator, blurs the line between fantasy and reality.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 23, 2022

Antarctic sea ice shrinks to smallest surface area on record

The ice surrounding the continent has retreated to 1.97 million square kilometers, below the previous record of 2.1 million square kilometers set in 2017.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 23, 2022

World should send 60 million COVID-19 vaccines to North Korea, U.N. investigator says

The shots could be a way to persuade the country to ease lockdowns that have left some of its 26 million people on the verge of starvation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 23, 2022

Climate forecasters warn of a ‘global wildfire crisis’

The likelihood of extreme, catastrophic fires could increase by up to one-third by 2050 and up to 52% by 2100, a new United Nations report estimates.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Feb 23, 2022

Investors seek greater scrutiny on corporate sustainability assets worth $35 trillion

Reliable checks on companies' sustainability credentials will take years to develop, auditors have said.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 23, 2022

Spanish skater Laura Barquero tests positive for banned substance

The International Testing Agency said the pairs skater returned an adverse analytical finding for a metabolite of Clostebol, which is on the prohibited list of the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Japan Times
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Feb 23, 2022

Phil Mickelson issues apology over Saudi comments

The six-time major champion admitted he was using interest from the Super Golf League as leverage to get PGA tour players more money via enhanced media rights.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2022

Makers of baby formula still break global marketing rules, WHO and UNICEF find

More than a third of women across all countries surveyed said that health workers had recommended a specific brand of formula to them.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 22, 2022

Ban on single-use plastics favored by 75%, global survey finds

Governments will meet in Nairobi this month to press ahead with an ambitious treaty on tackling plastic waste.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 22, 2022

China tells banks and state firms to report exposure to Jack Ma’s Ant

It is unclear what has triggered the new scrutiny or whether it will lead to any actions or conclusions by regulators.
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Feb 22, 2022

Tracy Stockwell committed to changing Australian swim team culture

The three-time Olympic gold medalist has been tasked with implementing the recommendations of a panel that was established to address accusations of toxicity and misogyny.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 22, 2022

Oil and gold advance as Putin orders forces to regions of Ukraine

Rising demand and shrinking global inventories of crude and petroleum products have added to the rally.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2022

EU proposes rules to make companies undertake human rights and ethics checks

Firms will have to make sure that their suppliers are not using forced labor or child labor, and are not guilty of inadequate workplace health and safety, among other things.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 22, 2022

U.S. troops in Poland brace for possible Ukrainian evacuees

U.S. commanders in Poland have been reassuring allies while working with them to prepare several Polish military facilities and put up tents.
Japan Times
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Feb 22, 2022

XFL to collaborate with NFL on player safety

Additional avenues for collaboration may include international football development and scouting, as well as officiating, including the testing of different game rules for player protection.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 22, 2022

Got a COVID booster? You probably won’t need another for a long time.

New studies suggest that several parts of the immune system can mount a sustained, potent response to any coronavirus variant.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos
Feb 22, 2022

Are you headed for a Japanese quarantine? Here’s what you could be in for.

Japan is relaxing its re-entry rules from March, but there's still a good chance you'll end up at the “Hotel Quarantine.” One person's experience gives a glimpse of what you might encounter.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 21, 2022

Reindeer herders push to reclaim land from Norway's wind farms

The case could inspire limits on exploiting Indigenous lands in the name of combating climate change, a practice derided by activists as green colonialism.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 21, 2022

Olympics making progress on gender equality, but gap remains

The Beijing Games have been described by the IOC as the most 'gender-balanced” Winter Games in history.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 21, 2022

Mikaela Shiffrin uses spotlight to spread message of hope and resilience

'You just need to get up. It's the most important takeaway from these last couple of weeks for me and it has nothing to do with the Olympics.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 21, 2022

Fears of a lurch to dictatorship blight Arab Spring’s last hope

As freedoms shrivel and the economy sputters, unrest threatens to explode across the country once more.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Feb 21, 2022

Burakumin discrimination history revealed 100 years on from rights declaration

Growing up in the chaos that followed World War II wasn't the only thing that prevented Hikari, now 82, from learning to read and write.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Feb 21, 2022

Will a presidential election mark the end of South Korea's tattoo taboos?

Almost all of the country's 50,000 tattoo artists are at the mercy of potential police raids and prosecution, facing huge fines as well as prison terms, in theory as much as life.
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
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.
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.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.

Podcast

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

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
By Mai Yoshikawa

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