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Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2023

Environment education that connects all the dots

Currently, students in Japan are taught the facts, but not necessarily how they are linked to political and social changes around the world.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / Longform
Jan 16, 2023

The race to save the Japanese giant salamander

River infrastructure is causing the salamander's decline. To stop Japan from losing this rare species, conservationists are calling for an alternative vision of rural development.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Jan 16, 2023

Tomakomai aims to give tourism a boost through sharing creative works

Local communities are being encouraged to enjoy making use of creative works, and to share that joy with tourists.
JAPAN
Jan 15, 2023

Russia-Hokkaido relations another casualty of Ukraine invasion

'If the prefecture continued to promote exchanges with our Russian counterparts now, there would be the risk of a public backlash,' one official said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 15, 2023

Biden’s missteps on secret papers create a self-inflicted crisis

Recent disclosures have embarrassed and undermined the president and his spokespeople, who argue that they're handling it by the book.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jan 15, 2023

Organizers say Dakar Rally to remain in Saudi Arabia

Dakar organizer ASO announced the switch in 2019, saying a new chapter of the grueling race's history would be written in the 'mysterious and vast deserts' of the land.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 13, 2023

Why America doesn’t know how to stop school shootings

After a ban of more than two decades, the U.S. government is finally funding studies on how to prevent death and injury from firearms.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 12, 2023

Scientists sound alarm as ocean temperatures hit new record

Climate change has increased surface temperatures across the planet, leading to atmospheric instability and amplifying extreme weather events such as storms.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 11, 2023

Hong Kong’s court of final appeal is not so final when it comes to the government

The decisions of Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal are final for most people, but the government doesn't think those rules apply to it.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 10, 2023

Police took 1.63 million nonurgent emergency calls from January to November 2022

Of the total calls received, 622 involved the use of a system allowing police to receive videos of the events concerned, such as crimes and accidents, from the callers.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jan 9, 2023

Mikaela Shiffrin dominates field to earn record-equaling World Cup victory

The 27-year-old American produced two dominant runs to beat Italian Federica Brignone by 0.77 seconds.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 9, 2023

Bolsonaro supporters invade Brazil presidential palace, Congress and Supreme Court

The uprising underlined the severe polarization that still grips the country days after the inauguration of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
JAPAN
Jan 8, 2023

Police prepare for spring elections six months after Abe was killed on the campaign trail

The National Police Agency has conducted a drastic review of its protection for dignitaries and introduced a plan to check the protection plans of prefectural police in advance.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 7, 2023

China on alert for new COVID-19 variant as borders reopen

A selected group of cities and harbors have been asked to send test samples of infected travelers for genome sequencing.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Jan 7, 2023

Will Japan's pop culture and fashion spheres ever find common ground?

Japanese fashion and pop culture and both international forces, so why can't they seem to walk in step together?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 6, 2023

Japan eases restrictions for funerals of COVID-19 patients

The revised guidelines will allow wakes and funerals for infected people to be held normally, albeit with some precautions taken.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 6, 2023

Xi's speech echoes a second coming of Mao

Chinese leader Xi Jinping's year-end speech is very much attune to Communist Party mythology and shows where his mind lies.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 6, 2023

'Feels like summer': Warm winter breaks temperature records in Europe

The unusually mild temperatures have offered some short-term relief for gas shortages, but activists are calling for faster action against climate change.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jan 6, 2023

No improvement in sight: China-U.S. rivalry to further intensify in 2023

Washington will continue to hunt for ways to isolate Beijing and further slow its technological rise, while China is expected to keep pressuring Taiwan and increase its self-sufficiency.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 6, 2023

Hong Kong-China border reopening no quick fix for ailing city

The reopening will be a slow process, with a limit of about 60,000 people allowed to travel into the mainland from the financial hub every day.
Filmmakers interview the general manager of a Bald Men's club for an upcoming Flix Oven documentary that will be available via the streaming platform Samansa.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Aug 14, 2025

Samansa bets on commuter cinema

As attention spans get shorter, a Japanese startup is banking on short films as easily digestible entertainment.
T-shirts with images of Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump are displayed for sale at a gift shop in central Moscow, Russia on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 14, 2025

Trump and Putin: A strained relationship

The upcoming meeting between the two leaders in Alaska comes amid tensions over the Russian invasion of Ukraine and fruitless talks to end the conflict.
The Parque da Cidade, the main venue for the COP30 summit, under construction in Belem, Brazil, on May 5.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 14, 2025

Lula’s plan for COP30 in Amazon risks becoming a logistical mess

With fewer than 100 days to go, Brazil is under fire from countries concerned about a shortage of hotel rooms and soaring accommodation costs.
At Yawata Junior High School in Nagoya, there are no more rules on clothing and hairstyles. Students are free to wear either the school's uniform or clothes of their own choosing.
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Aug 18, 2025

Schools get students involved in revision of unreasonable ‘black rules’

Positive outcomes have emerged from such revisions, including greater student confidence and stronger trust between students and teachers.
A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft flies over the island of Okinawa in March 2018.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 14, 2025

Precautionary Osprey landings signal safety, not alarm

Two precautionary V-22 Osprey landings in northern Honshu demonstrated the aircraft’s safety and its role in enhancing Japan’s rapid-deployment and island-defense capabilities.
A miner holds a sack of ore as it comes out a the mine shaft at the Rubaya coltan mine, near the town of Rubaya, which is controlled by M23 rebels, in eastern Congo on March 24.
WORLD
Aug 14, 2025

Inside the mine that feeds the tech world — and funds Congo’s rebels

The Congolese town of Rubaya produces around 15% of the world’s coltan, which is shipped thousands of kilometers away to Asia where it’s processed into tantalum.
Beniya Mukayu, a traditional "ryokan" inn located in Ishikawa Prefecture, considers itself at "the heart of onsen towns, local residents, farmers, fishermen, sake brewers and artisans" — all of which need new, sustainable methods of serving visitors to survive into the future.
LIFE / Travel
Aug 16, 2025

In preserving Japanese hospitality, ‘details are everything’

As part of a new UNESCO initiative, the elite Relais & Chateau hospitality group will empower its Japan-based members to preserve the country’s “omotenashi” culture.
People gather in Mingora, the main city of Swat Valley, in monsoon-hit northern Pakistan's mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 16, 2025

Pakistan rescuers recover bodies after monsoon rains kill 340

Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across northern Pakistan killed at least 340 people in the past 48 hours, authorities said.
People sit as they look at the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Monday.
WORLD
Aug 16, 2025

Ukrainians see 'nothing' good from Trump-Putin meeting

"It ended with nothing. Alright, let's continue living our lives here in Ukraine," one Ukrainian said.

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers