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ASIA PACIFIC
May 8, 2020

Lockdown darkens for India after train runs over sleeping migrants

A freight train ran over and killed more than a dozen poor Indians, who were trying to walk back to their home state after the world’s most expansive virus lockdown left them unemployed.
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BUSINESS / Companies
May 8, 2020

Nintendo falls on dour forecast despite strong Switch sales

Game-maker sold 21 million of the console units in the year ended March, beating its own estimate and expectations of roughly 20 million.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
May 8, 2020

Pandemic sets Japan on course for recession as spending and service activity plunge

Overtime pay, a barometer of strength in corporate activity, also fell at a record pace in March, data showed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 8, 2020

Posting first-ever decline in rides, Uber says the worst is over

The San Francisco-based company has deployed a swath of cost-cutting measures that will eliminate more than $1 billion in expenses.
Reader Mail
May 8, 2020

Japan and U.S. need true statesmen to handle Beijing

Regarding the May 4 opinion piece "Think the U.S.-China row is bad now? You ain't seen nothing yet,” some observers say that 21st century Japanese nationalism, especially that espoused by Prime Minister Abe, is "parasitic nationalism." While before 1945, Japan's militaristic nationalism was dependent...
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Indonesia report 2020
May 8, 2020

Celebrating 75 years of independence and stronger economic ties to Japan

As it celebrates 75 years of independence, Indonesia is looking to create new opportunities for growth by strengthening its ties with Japan in a bid to become part of the world’s top five economies by 2045.
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Indonesia report 2020
May 8, 2020

From scratch to perfection: Mayekawa’s cold storage solutions

Indonesia’s food and beverage sector is among the country’s most rapidly growing sectors at both local and international levels. With more initiatives devoted to technological innovation, Indonesia is not far from becoming a country with one of the largest economies in the world. 
Reader Mail
May 7, 2020

SDF should be deployed

Regarding the May 3 story “Virus-linked ambulance rejections by hospitals rose fivefold in April,” COVID-19 has been wreaking all sorts of havoc for the past few months. Lots of people are equating it to this generation’s world war. I don’t want to assert that they are right. I don’t think...
Reader Mail
May 7, 2020

Now is the time to determine our future

Regarding the April 25 Media Mix column titled “A decentralization opportunity goes begging amid COVID-19 outbreak,” the coronavirus outbreak has prompted a period of rupture.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 6, 2020

Viktor Orban’s Hungary no longer a democracy, Freedom House says

Hungary should no longer be considered a democracy after an unprecedented consolidation of power by the European Union member’s leader, according to an annual survey of countries that once lay behind the Iron Curtain.
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BUSINESS / Companies
May 6, 2020

Call centers expose fault line in Japan's pandemic fight

In the past few weeks, 17 infections were confirmed at a post office call center in Hokkaido and 11 at a Kyoto mail-order business.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
May 5, 2020

Japan's response to COVID-19: A preliminary assessment

Will Japan end up in the group of countries that is on the way to successfully containing the virus or in the group that experiences an exponential growth in infections?
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COMMENTARY / World
May 5, 2020

No, Sweden isn’t a miracle coronavirus model

The country's lockdown model is being lauded by the WHO, but it's a unique case whose death rate is much worse than its neighbors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
May 5, 2020

Trump administration stepping up efforts to rip global supply chains from China

Recent U.S. policy has been defined by tussles between pro-trade advisers and China hawks; now the latter say their time has come.
JAPAN / Politics
May 5, 2020

Should Japan vote during the pandemic?

The political class grapples with whether elections should be held amid the deadly public health crisis.
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BUSINESS
May 5, 2020

Nissan to retrench further in new plan to focus on U.S., Japan and China

The carmaker will pull back from Europe and elsewhere to focus on the United States, China and Japan under a plan that represents a new strategic direction.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 4, 2020

April was Trump's cruelest month

The U.S. president became his own worst enemy over the course of 30 days.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 4, 2020

Nintendo Switch is in high demand, and there aren’t enough of them

The inventory crunch serves as a reminder of how crucial supply chain management is in the COVID-19 era.
JAPAN
May 4, 2020

Japan school closures reignite debate on shifting academic year to September start

The pandemic has created an opening to put Japan's students back in sync with their global counterparts, but resistance remains.

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