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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 22, 2020

South Korea's trade fight threatens serious long-term harm to Japan

Businesses in South Korea may someday thank Shinzo Abe for forcing them to develop their own ways to get strategic supplies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 22, 2020

Asymptomatic spread has become bizarrely controversial

Political spinmeisters are making it hard to draw the fine distinctions needed to keep COVID-19 in check.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 22, 2020

Another internet border has just gone up

Europe blocked the highway for sending data from the region to the U.S. Conduits remain, but it'll be much easier for tech behemoths to adapt than small startups.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 22, 2020

‘#Handball Strive’: The team may be fake, but the film is a winner

Daigo Matsui's comedy about a sham high school handball team feels more like the real deal thanks to a younger cast.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 22, 2020

Britain's economy racing as lockdown lifts, but outlook has not improved

Britain will expand at its quickest pace in decades this quarter after shrinking at its fastest pace in centuries last quarter, a Reuters poll found, as vast swathes of the economy have reopened following a nationwide shutdown to control the coronavirus.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 22, 2020

WeWork set to lose major Japan tenant Rakuten, sources say

The e-commerce giant will let its contract run out in August without renewing, leaving about 700 desks empty in Tokyo.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 21, 2020

COVID-19 and the future of cyberconflict

Smaller states must prepare for a more contested cyberspace environment in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Jul 21, 2020

Debate over Japan's virus testing resurfaces amid nationwide outbreak

While the country is conducting more tests now than it was during the first outbreak, it's still lagging far behind most nations still ensnared in the pandemic.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 21, 2020

Japan's core consumer prices flat in June as deflation risks remain

The reading dashed expectations for a third straight month of decline, after central bank comments that the economy would likely shake off the pandemic hit.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 21, 2020

Proxy fight looms as Japanese operator of cheap restaurants Ootoya opposes offer

The battle comes as the restaurant business in Japan, as in much of the world, is struggling to stay afloat due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 21, 2020

Wave of promising study results raise hopes for coronavirus vaccines

Early data from trials of three potential COVID-19 vaccines released on Monday, including a closely watched candidate from Oxford University, increased confidence that a vaccine can train the immune system to recognize and fight the novel coronavirus without serious side effects.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 21, 2020

Kim Jong Un’s unfinished hospital shows North Korea sanctions are biting

Kim Jong Un’s latest appearance, in which he dressed down officials building a showcase hospital, illustrates why the North Korean leader can’t afford to languish under sanctions forever if he wants to fix his economy.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jul 21, 2020

Japanese brewed with some tea-tinged idioms

Tea is such an important part of Japanese culture that it spills into the language on a regular basis.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 20, 2020

This grading algorithm is failing students

Schools around the world are trying to figure out what education in the time of COVID-19 will look like — and specifically how, where personal contact isn’t possible, to monitor and assess students’ progress. The experience of Hadrien Pellous, a high school senior in London, offers a caution: Don’t...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 20, 2020

Saving the Iran nuclear deal

Before two decades of diplomacy are squandered, all parties involved must step back from the precipice.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 20, 2020

Democracy activist Joshua Wong launches bid for Hong Kong legislature

Prominent Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong applied on Monday to run for a seat in the Chinese-ruled city's legislature, raising the prospect of a battle with authorities after being barred from running in previous polls.
BASKETBALL
Jul 20, 2020

Yudai Baba excited about new challenge with NBL's Melbourne United

Yudai Baba's ultimate goal is to earn a spot on an NBA team in the future.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 20, 2020

Wired for profit: How an obscure Japanese auto supplier is riding out the pandemic

If the motor is the heart of an EV, then coils in turn are the heart of the electric motor.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 20, 2020

Mystery of Ghislaine Maxwell’s wealth hangs over sex-abuse case

Evidence of great wealth on Maxwell's part could bolster prosecutors' depiction of her as fully complicit in Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jul 20, 2020

U.K. fight with China gets ugly over Hong Kong extradition pact

If the U.K. suspends its extradition treaty with Hong Kong, it would mark a further escalation in a fray already strained by the 5G exclusion of Huawei Technologies Co.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 19, 2020

‘Ugly face’: U.S. and China trade barbs in Myanmar as South China Sea rift deepens

China's Embassy in Myanmar on Sunday accused the United States of "outrageously smearing” the country and driving a wedge with its Southeast Asian neighbors over the contested South China Sea and Hong Kong, as tensions mount between the superpowers.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 19, 2020

COVID-19 spread fastest by teens and tweens, South Korean study finds

Older children are more likely to spread COVID-19 within a household than younger children and adults, according to a new study of 5,706 coronavirus patients in South Korea.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jul 19, 2020

Will North Korea's Kim deliver an 'October surprise' to Trump?

Nuclear-armed Pyongyang could be weighing a summit — or provocation — ahead of November's U.S. presidential election
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 19, 2020

Trump team balks at coronavirus testing funds in new bill

The Trump administration is balking at $25 billion in new funding favored by Republican lawmakers in the next relief bill to help states with coronavirus testing and contact tracing, said a person familiar with the talks.

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