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Japan Times
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Feb 28, 2020

Tokyo Marathon last chance for 2020 hopefuls

The 14th edition of the Tokyo Marathon on Sunday could produce cutthroat battles among local men's runners, including current and ex-national record holders.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 27, 2020

Schools challenged to teach climate change as students join Greta Thunberg's strikes

Dozens of students packed onto a boat docked in a flood-prone area of Bangladesh listen closely to a lesson highlighting the natural life of the rivers around them.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 26, 2020

Tokyo High Court rejects appeal over law forcing Japanese couples to use same surname after marriage

The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday rejected a damages suit filed by four people arguing that a national law forcing couples to use the same surname after marriage is unconstitutional.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 26, 2020

Critics ask 'Where's Abe?' as coronavirus spreads in Japan

As Japan struggles to stem the spread of a coronavirus within its borders, critics are asking, "Where's Abe?"
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 26, 2020

Trump denies seeking or getting election help from another country despite intel report on Russia

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that no country was trying to help him win the November election, after a top intelligence official told lawmakers Russia was interfering in the 2020 presidential vote to help Trump win a second term.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Feb 23, 2020

The Japanese Communist Party's quest to unify a shattered opposition

Last month, for the first time in 16 years, the Japanese Communist Party met to revise its basic political program. Part of the reason was that the party hopes a change of rhetoric, at least, will make it easier to form an opposition coalition to challenge the Liberal Democratic Party-Komeito ruling...
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2020

In first birthday address, Emperor Naruhito vows to work with public on Japan's social challenges

In his first birthday address since ascending the chrysanthemum throne, Emperor Naruhito pledged to stand by the people of Japan in responding to intensifying environmental and social challenges ranging from climate change to the novel coronavirus outbreak.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 22, 2020

There's no silver bullet for climate change

Planting trees is good, but cutting emissions is better.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2020

COVID-19 spread on Diamond Princess before quarantine, report suggests

Transmission toward the end of the quarantine period occurred mostly among crew or within passenger cabins, the report also said.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 19, 2020

Malaysia never ruled out 'murder-suicide plot' by MH370 pilot, says former PM Najib

Malaysia has never ruled out the possibility that missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could have been downed by a suicidal pilot, the country's former prime minister Najib Razak said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 18, 2020

Is political change coming to China?

The viral epidemic has come at the worst time, laying bare the weaknesses of Xi's rule.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 18, 2020

Is it already too late to stop Bernie Sanders?

Like Trump before him, the Vermont senator is benefitting from a divided opposition.
WORLD
Feb 18, 2020

Pakistan confirms escape of Taliban leader who justified Malala shooting

A high-profile local Taliban figure who announced and justified the 2012 attack on teenage Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has escaped detention, Pakistan's interior minister confirmed a few days after the militant announced his breakout on social media.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 16, 2020

How to stop the next global outbreak of disease at its source

China's appetite for wildlife needs to be treated as a public health threat.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Feb 15, 2020

COVID-19 reveals fractured moral impulse of social media

The outbreak of a new coronavirus in China, now officially named COVID-19, has sparked plenty of concern online — some valid, others more hyperbolic in nature. Like many global events in the social media age, the outbreak has also resulted in no shortage of fake news and racism. Both elements have...
TENNIS
Feb 15, 2020

Netflix to air Naomi Osaka documentary series

Two-time Grand Slam singles winner Naomi Osaka will be featured in an upcoming documentary series to air on Netflix, and the project has the backing of one of global sports' most prominent individuals.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 15, 2020

U.S. Justice Department drops probe of a top Trump target, ex-FBI official Andrew McCabe

The U.S. Justice Department on Friday dropped its criminal investigation of a top target of President Donald Trump, former No. 2 FBI official Andrew McCabe, at the tail end of a week in which the U.S. law-enforcement agency came under extraordinary pressure from the president.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 14, 2020

U.S. top lawyer Barr slams Trump attacks over Stone trial as juror calls meddling 'appalling'

U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Thursday pushed back against Donald Trump after the president's attacks on the prosecutors, judge and jury in the trial of a longtime adviser, saying Trump should stop tweeting about Justice Department cases and that he would not be "bullied" by anyone.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 13, 2020

Letter bombs explode in ABN Amro and Ricoh offices in Netherlands alleged bitcoin extortion

Two letter bombs exploded on Wednesday at two separate locations in the Netherlands but nobody was hurt in the incidents, which police blamed on an extortionist who had demanded payment in bitcoin.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 12, 2020

Turned away on coronavirus fear, Westerdam cruise ship risks running low on food

Countries could continue to refuse to berth the Westerdam cruise ship carrying 2,257 people, citing unfounded fears of deadly COVID-19, until conditions on the luxury liner become so dire that it invokes an emergency.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 11, 2020

How the coronavirus could help Trump

A pandemic that originates in China could make the U.S. president's nationalism seem justified.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 11, 2020

U.S. scrutinizing information ahead of 2020 election, including from Rudy Giuliani, William Barr says

U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Monday confirmed that the Justice Department has received information from President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, ahead of the November election, but that anything originating from Ukraine should not be taken "at face value."
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 10, 2020

China's misguided priorities prove costly

Will the Chinese Communist Party learn from its errors in handling the coronavirus outbreak, or will it revert to its old habits of denial and distraction?
Japan Times
Feb 10, 2020

The Japan Times to participate in the UN SDG Media Compact to raise awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Tokyo, February 10, 2020 —The Japan Times, Ltd. (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. Representative: Takeharu Tsutsumi)　signed an agreement with the United Nations to participate in the SDG Media Compact on Jan. 28, 2020.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Feb 10, 2020

Makeup artist Kazu Hiro wins second Oscar for work on 'Bombshell'

Makeup artist Kazu Hiro on Monday picked up an Oscar for best makeup and hairstyling at the 92nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 8, 2020

Trump ousts two star impeachment witnesses

President Donald Trump's administration on Friday ousted the two witnesses who provided the most damaging testimony during his impeachment investigation: Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and Ambassador Gordon Sondland.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 8, 2020

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has 'critical software defects,' NASA finds

NASA is reviewing Boeing's software engineering, and it doesn't like what it sees.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Feb 7, 2020

Japan carmakers brace for supply and demand nightmares due to coronavirus

As many of them know, 'it's impossible to manufacture cars without China.”
Success of Chinese-made fighter jets against India raises alarm in Asia
Chinese J-10 fighter jets from the People's Liberation Army Air Force August 1st Aerobatics Team perform during a media demonstration at the Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, in November 2015.
Japan to recognize Taiwan as place of origin in family registration system
Masataka Yuhara, secretary-general of the Friends of Lee Teng Hui Association in Japan, which has been calling for "Taiwan" to be permitted as a place of origin in family registers.
Japanese retailers turn to California rice for cheaper alternative
U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass eats California rice at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Tuesday along with Mitsuko Tsuchiya, vice president of retailer Aeon.
Japanese automakers looking at a ¥1 trillion hit from Trump tariffs 
Cars on display at Nissan's headquarters in Yokohama on Tuesday. The automaker posted a massive annual net loss and confirmed that it plans to cut thousands of jobs worldwide.
Two crew feared dead after ASDF training jet crashes in Aichi
Self-Defense Forces personnel collect apparent parts of an Air Self-Defense Force T-4 training jet from a reservoir in Inuyama, Aichi Prefeture, on Thursday. The jet crashed shortly after takeoff a day earlier.
Historian Rob Fitts discovers earliest ever reference to baseball in Japan
Japan's Shohei Ohtani carries the Japanese flag onto the field before the start of the World Baseball Classic final against the United States in Miami on March 21, 2023.
Harmfully hot days for pregnant women in Japan nearly doubled over past five years
New research by a U.S. climate scientists’ group reveals that extreme heat has increased the risks of preterm births and other pregnancy complications in Japan, nearly doubling the number of days that are harmfully hot for pregnant women over the past five years.
Sumo title contenders already emerging in early stages of Tokyo meet
Onosato (left) battles Abi on Day 3 of the Summer Basho in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japanese automakers looking at a ¥1 trillion hit from Trump tariffs 
Cars on display at Nissan's headquarters in Yokohama on Tuesday. The automaker posted a massive annual net loss and confirmed that it plans to cut thousands of jobs worldwide.
Tokyo Stock Exchange wants stocks to be affordable for the average investor
The Tokyo Stock Exchange building in Nihonbashi. The exchange wants companies to lower the entry cost of investing in their shares.

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