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Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 5, 2021

Japan to issue digital COVID-19 vaccination certificates in December, report says

The certificates — intended for overseas travel rather than domestic use — will be issued via a QR scan code through a smartphone app from around mid-December, the Nikkei reported.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Sep 5, 2021

Japan Times 1971: Emperor, Nixon meet in Alaska

In 1921, Crown Prince Hirohito returns from Europe, making history as the first member of the ruling family to travel overseas. As Emperor, he makes history again 50 years later.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 4, 2021

Thai PM survives no-confidence vote amid party infighting

Coup leader-turned-premier Prayut still faces a youth-led protest movement that has been demanding his resignation for more than a year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 3, 2021

If COVID-19 wasn’t worry enough, the climate crisis comes roaring back

The most eye-opening development of the past three months has not been the COVID-19 pandemic, but the dramatic increase in the frequency and severity of extreme weather.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 3, 2021

U.S. abortion rights in peril as Supreme Court allows Texas curbs

Some legal scholars now question whether the court will explicitly overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS
Sep 2, 2021

Afghan Paralympian Zakia Khudadadi makes debut after top-secret evacuation

The 22-year-old and her compatriot Hossain Rasouli arrived in Tokyo on Saturday via Paris after Khudadadi made a video appeal for help to leave Kabul after the Taliban swept to power.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Sep 1, 2021

Why a more accessible Japan is better for everyone

How can Japan become more inclusive and accessible as it moves beyond the Paralympic Games?
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 31, 2021

U.S. troops exit Afghanistan, ending America's longest war

The chaotic withdrawal concluded two decades of American involvement touched off by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2021

Toyota to restart self-driving Olympic village vehicles with more safety staff

The e-Palettes were halted after one of the vehicles collided with and injured a visually impaired Japanese athlete at a junction last week.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 29, 2021

Afghans left behind need an underground railroad

Establishing an Afghan underground railroad would be easier than during the time of U.S. slavery because today we have vastly better methods of point-to-point communication.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Aug 28, 2021

Let the verbs do the work when it comes to pronouns and polite speech in Japanese

The verb forms in polite speech more distinctly refer to people in a way that makes it nearly impossible to confuse the actors in a sentence .
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2021

Biden’s cruel summer

Democrats are hoping the Afghan debacle will be less salient to voters by November 2022. But the fall of Kabul could have a lasting effect.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 26, 2021

Western nations rush to complete Afghan evacuation before troops leave

Pressure to complete the evacuations has intensified amid concerns about the security situation outside the airport, where the Taliban are in control.
Japan Times
Rugby
Aug 24, 2021

Australia to host rest of Rugby Championship after COVID-19 disruptions

Organizers had originally weighed whether to move games to South Africa or Britain amid lockdowns and tightening travel curbs in Australia and New Zealand.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / The Big Questions
Aug 24, 2021

Company rescues hardware with support alternative

Name: Bob Van den Broecke
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 24, 2021

Scott Morrison urges Australians to exit COVID-19 ‘cave’ when shots rise

Morrison said in an interview Tuesday that a jump in cases was not a reason to delay reopening.
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Aug 23, 2021

Should you vaccinate your children against COVID-19? Here's what to consider.

The coronavirus affects younger people differently. Here are several factors to help you decide whether your child should get the shots.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 23, 2021

GM and LG’s too-big-to-fail ties tested by $1 billion recall

The long-distance relationship between GM and its battery partner, LG Energy Solution, is being tested like never before.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 22, 2021

The vaccinated are worried and scientists don’t have answers

Absent clear public health messaging, vaccinated Americans are left confused about how to protect themselves as cases grow.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 21, 2021

As Chinese vaccines stumble, U.S. finds new opening in Asia

Several Southeast Asian nations are raising doubts about the efficacy of China's vaccines. The Biden administration has recently offered to provide shots, “no strings attached.”
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 21, 2021

West struggles with Afghanistan chaos as Biden again defends withdrawal

Chaos around Kabul Airport was so bad that the U.S. military was forced to use three helicopters to transport 169 Americans into the complex from a building just 200 meters away.
Britain responds after Expo 2025 afternoon tea brews outrage
The café space at the Osaka Expo's British pavilion
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Inflation and high hotel prices curtail Golden Week travels
Travelers in front of a flight information panel in a departure hall at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on April 26
Man arrested over body found in bag in Kawasaki
Hideyuki Shirai (center) at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Saturday
Japan ranks 66th in press freedom, lowest among G7
Japan climbed four positions from last year, with Reporters Without Borders noting that "the principles of media freedom and pluralism are generally respected" in the country.
Japan’s ‘tabi’ sock mecca runs on thread and memories
A seamstress at Kineya Tabi sews together split-toe "tabi" socks, once a major industry for the town of Gyoda, Saitama Prefecture.
Despite shifts in Japan's political landscape, constitutional revision still far off
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been a staunch advocate for constitutional reform.
'Ukiyo-e in Play' showcases traditional art carved anew
The Adachi Institute has been working on creating brand new ukiyo-e prints in collaboration with contemporary artists such as Yayoi Kusama, whose “Mt. Fuji in Seven Colours: When life boundlessly flares up to the universe” (2014) can be seen on display at “Ukiyo-e in Play.”
Ishiba hears advice from across the aisle on how Japan should handle Trump
Prime Minister Shigaru Ishiba and CDP head Yoshihiko Noda at a parliamentary session in Tokyo on April 23.
Don't send in the clones: AI event nixed as Alt accounts get reality check
A screenshot from the website for Alt's AI conference, which was canceled after the company disclosed an investigation into its sales figures.

Podcast

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

Longform

A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami
By Alex K.T. Martin

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