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Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 5, 2021

Olympic marathon swimmers battle heat, bacteria and each other

For nearly two hours, swimmers knifed in a ragged line through the murky water and occasionally got hit by fish.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 5, 2021

A nuclear crisis foreseen and predicted

The U.K.'s decline in nuclear power production is due to the growing obsolescence of the nation's aging power plants — and rectifying the situation is proving difficult.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 5, 2021

Former AKB48 idol Miyu Takeuchi takes her musical career into her own hands

Singer Miyu Takeuchi got her start just shy of the spotlight in Japan's idol-pop group, but has taken her creative output into her own hands as a solo performer on YouTube.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 5, 2021

U.S. developing plan to require foreign visitors to be vaccinated

The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden wants to reopen travel, which would boost business for the airline and tourism sectors.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 5, 2021

Biden plans shift in arms policy to add weight to human rights concerns

The United States is easily the world's biggest arms merchant, selling over $100 billion in weapons, services and training a year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 4, 2021

Honda's full-year forecast misses estimates as firm strives for electric future

The automaker has embarked on an ambitious plan to go all electric by 2040 and make highly autonomous cars a reality.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 4, 2021

SoftBank built a $5 billion stake in pharma giant Roche

Roche's diagnostics unit reacted swiftly to the pandemic, and now sales are boosted by its COVID-19 testing business.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 4, 2021

MUFG staff to set ‘personal rhythms’ with hybrid work model

At the pandemic's peak, around 98% worked remotely — now MUFG employees in Europe, the Middle East and Africa can decide how they want to work.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2021

China’s unavoidable financial rise

Many economists in the West did not see China's massive growth coming, and its influence is now becoming impossible to ignore.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 4, 2021

Kim Jong Un’s head bandage is added to list of health mysteries

Images of the North Korean leader at events in late July showed a bandage and later a dark greenish spot on the back of his head.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Aug 4, 2021

In pictures: Day 11 of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

This was the day that Simone Biles returned to the gymnastics floor to compete on the balance bar and IOC ordered a probe intou00a0the case of Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya,
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2021

U.K. considers blocking chipmaker Nvidia's takeover of Arm over security risks

Nvidia, the biggest U.S. chip company by market capitalization, announced in September a $40 billion deal to acquire Arm from Japan's SoftBank Group.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 4, 2021

Harris to push back on China's South China Sea claims during Asia trip

Harris will be the first U.S. vice president to visit Vietnam as Washington seeks to bolster international support to counter China's growing global influence.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2021

What to watch on Day 12 of the Tokyo Olympics

An East Asian rivalry is set to be renewed on the diamond and skateboarding returns to the schedule a little over a week after Japan claimed the sport's first two gold medals.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 3, 2021

Japan's Sena Irie punches her way to gold in women's boxing

Irie, a native of Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, is the first athlete from the sparsely populated prefecture to win Olympic gold.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Aug 3, 2021

Hong Kong’s fate spurs Japan to speak up about defending Taiwan

A more supportive policy toward Taipei is emblematic of a broader shift by Tokyo in response to China's crackdown on Hong Kong and increased military activities in the Taiwan Strait.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 3, 2021

Healthy Kodai Senga gives Samurai Japan a major — and unexpected — weapon at Olympics

While Senga's return to Samurai Japan didn't have the same fanfare that greeted starter Masahiro Tanaka on Monday, it was no less impactful.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2021

Biden puts Southeast Asia in U.S. sights — at last

The Biden team has shifted into high gear, dispatching officials and announcing policies to reinforce U.S. ties with Southeast Asia in a belated diplomatic offensive.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 3, 2021

Tokyo shows an inflation pulse for the first time in a year

Prices in the capital, excluding those for fresh food, ticked up by 0.1% in July compared with a year earlier as electricity costs stabilized and newspaper prices rose.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 3, 2021

German Malaika Mihambo aces long jump final with last leap

Reigning world champion Malaika Mihambo of Germany won the women's long jump gold with her final leap of 7.00 meters at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 3, 2021

Japan squeezes by U.S. in extra innings, buying easy pass to semifinals

The win sets up Japan for a matchup against South Korea, while the U.S. faces a tougher route to a place in the final.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2021

Olympic bubble holds up even as Tokyo's COVID-19 cases hit record

Among athletes and stakeholders of the Olympics, the virus positivity rate has been only 0.02% with over 400,000 tests conducted so far, organizers said on Sunday.
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.
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.
‘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.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
‘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.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
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
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