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Jun 13, 2020

Longhorn athletes ask for buildings to be renamed, for school to drop 'The Eyes of Texas'

A group of University of Texas football players and athletes across several sports called on the school Friday to rename several campus buildings, change the traditional school song and donate a percentage of athletic department revenue to organizations supporting the Black Lives Matter movement.
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 13, 2020

Canada spy agency warned of 'shock waves' from arrest of Huawei founder's daughter

Canada's intelligence agency warned that arresting the daughter of billionaire Huawei founder Ren Zheng would set off global "shock waves" and seriously affect ties with China, just before her detention in Vancouver on a U.S. extradition request, new court documents show.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 12, 2020

Is Japan’s low COVID-19 death rate due to a 'higher cultural level'?

The nation's successful management of the pandemic has become a point of pride for many Japanese.
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WORLD / ANALYSIS
Jun 12, 2020

White Americans join Floyd protests, but will they work for change?

Leslie Batson, a white office administrator from Maryland, joined the thousands of marchers protesting the killing of George Floyd in Washington, last weekend after her children asked why the family had done nothing about racism.
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BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 12, 2020

Bank of Japan’s aid to lenders hasn't warmed them to negative rates

For the country's commercial banks, the BOJ's sub-zero rates strategy aimed at stimulating the economy and prices has eroded their profit margins.
Reader Mail
Jun 12, 2020

The secret of Heidi’s health

Every year when we are coming near summer, I remember my visit to the “Heidiland” holiday region in Switzerland in early summer some years ago.
Reader Mail
Jun 12, 2020

U.S. consumers should boycott Chinese goods

The June 5 story “‘Get your knee off our necks’: George Floyd mourned in Minneapolis” does a great job in giving a fair and accurate perspective to the protests in the United States. We have all witnessed the gruesome murder of George Floyd on the TV. Floyd’s last words will be forever ingrained...
Reader Mail
Jun 12, 2020

People have to stand up against racism

In Laurel, Mississippi, where I grew up, there were two worlds: one black and one white, divided by train tracks. During the day, black workers crossed over the tracks to work in the homes and the businesses of the white people. By sunset, they retreated to the other side of the tracks where they lived....
JAPAN
Jun 11, 2020

Tokyo to move to third and final stage of reopening

The capital lifted its coronavirus alert and will move to the third phase of its plan to reboot businesses on Friday.
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EDITORIALS
Jun 11, 2020

Online abuse is a silent pandemic affecting millions

Effective measures needed to address cyberbullying
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 11, 2020

Don't bet against post-pandemic Japan

Japanese corporations are in an excellent position to use the global economic crisis as an opportunity.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 11, 2020

Zoom suspends U.S.-based activists' account after online Tiananmen event

Humanitarian China founder Zhou Fengsuo said that the group had yet to receive an answer from Zoom about why its account was closed.
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WORLD
Jun 11, 2020

Johnson under pressure as scientists speak out on COVID-19 failures

The U.K.’s top scientists said the government made a string of failures in its handling of the coronavirus crisis, putting Boris Johnson under pressure on live television.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 11, 2020

Just Eat Takeaway to buy Grubhub for $7.3 billion to enter U.S.

For Uber, losing the deal is a blow to its plan to turn a profit from food delivery as the pandemic decimates its main business of ride hailing.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 10, 2020

Media collaborators threaten press freedom in Japan

Japan has too few good journalists because mainstream media reporters unconsciously begin their stories from the point of view of prized informants.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 10, 2020

Widespread mask-wearing could prevent COVID-19 second waves: study

Population-wide face mask use could push COVID-19 transmission down to controllable levels for national epidemics, and could prevent further waves of the pandemic disease when combined with lockdowns, according to a British study released Wednesday.
OLYMPICS
Jun 10, 2020

IOC to maintain ban on protests during Olympics

The IOC has confirmed athletes will be prohibited from taking part in any protests or demonstrations in Olympic venues.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 10, 2020

China and scientists dismiss study suggesting coronavirus spread in August 2019

Beijing dismissed as "ridiculous" a Harvard Medical School study of hospital traffic and search engine data that suggested the novel coronavirus may already have been spreading in China last August, and scientists said it offered no convincing evidence of when the outbreak began.
JAPAN
Jun 10, 2020

Japan broadcaster NHK under fire over flawed video on anti-racism movement

Public broadcaster NHK has apologized for its attempt to educate viewers on the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, after its video on anti-racism demonstrations came under fire for lacking context on racial injustice and the police brutality that had spurred such protests worldwide.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 9, 2020

Why not apply 'danshari' to work and life?

The pandemic has given people an opportunity to reconsider what's important in their lives.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 9, 2020

It's official: U.S. economy entered recession in February

Gross domestic product for the April-June period is expected to show an annualized decline of perhaps 20 percent or more.
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BUSINESS
Jun 9, 2020

Tropical storm season brings risk for grounded planes

With the spread of COVID-19 having grounded flights across Asia, the threat of typhoon damage at airports across the continent has increased.
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WORLD
Jun 9, 2020

Amsterdam to clean up sex-and-drugs tourism in post-virus reboot

As the coronavirus pandemic raged in March and April, the 500-year-old Amsterdam city-center became a ghost town: The scantily clad sex workers in brothel windows in small alleys like Stoofsteeg in the red-light district were gone, as were the hordes of tourists who come there to gawk at them; Coffee...
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LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jun 9, 2020

Three 'powers' are helping the Japanese in the new normal

Tap into your communication skills and feminine side to succeed in a world coping with coronavirus.

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