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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 17, 2023

Japan’s largest trade union head says 2023 is pivotal for wages

Trade union leader has stressed the importance of moving toward continued wage growth in the face of rapid inflation and economic stagnation.
BUSINESS
Jan 16, 2023

Japanese CEOs facing inflation are talking more about merit-based pay

On one hand, such talk can be seen as a sign of corporate Japan casting aside the remains of a compensation system based on across-the-board rewards and seniority.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 16, 2023

Putin buys off the poor and writes off middle class with war budget

Moscow is creating incentives for people to join the military at a time when it's having to use convicts and mercenaries to make up for its severe manpower shortages in Ukraine.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jan 16, 2023

China’s 'zero-COVID' enforcement army faces unpaid wages and job losses

The sudden end to the policy also signals a reversal of fortunes for companies that benefited from the boom in demand for testing and food distribution during lockdowns.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 16, 2023

The German town at the heart of a debate over coal and climate

German officials have said the revival of coal-burning is an emergency measure to weather the energy crisis, but climate activists are resisting.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jan 15, 2023

Brock Purdy and Trevor Lawrence defy inexperience with composure

The 49ers and Jaguars advanced to the second round of the NFL postseason thanks to inspired second-half performances from their young quarterbacks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 14, 2023

How Western goods reach Russia: a long line of trucks through Georgia

With Western sanctions barring many imports, a lot of what Russia needs now travels a slow, crowded truck route through the Caucasus Mountains from Georgia.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 12, 2023

How India's ruling party is tightening its grip on Kashmir

India's ruling BJP Party hopes to get rewarded at the polls for scrapping policies that denied millions of people in Jammu and Kashmir many of the same rights as other Indians.
JAPAN
Jan 11, 2023

Japan considers new child-rearing allowance for nonregular workers

The envisioned allowance is aimed at reducing economic burdens on workers not covered by the country's child care leave system.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 11, 2023

U.K.-Japan defense cooperation to intensify following landmark agreement

The deal is Tokyo's first such pact with a European nation and the country's third overall as it expands its number of global security partners.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 11, 2023

Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing to boost Japan salaries up to 40%

Starting monthly salaries for university graduates will increase to u00a5300,000 ($2,270) from u00a5255,000, while salaries for new store managers at Uniqlo will rise to u00a5390,000 from u00a5290,000.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 10, 2023

COVID-19 rips through rural China ahead of Lunar New Year migration

In smaller cities and rural areas, serious illness and death will likely be more widespread given the lack of robust medical resources and older populations.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 9, 2023

Marubeni looking to hire more midcareer workers

'We desperately want people with social experience,' President Masumi Kakinoki said, noting that the company will reduce hires of new graduates.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 9, 2023

Economists fret over perils ahead for global growth

The world economy may be shifting to a more difficult era where interest rates will be higher, geopolitical tensions greater and uncertainties more pronounced.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 7, 2023

China’s COVID surge threatens villages as Lunar New Year approaches

China is bracing for an onslaught of infections in its fragile countryside as millions of people crowd onto trains and buses to return to their rural homes for the Lunar New Year holiday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jan 7, 2023

China’s deep-pocketed tourists are staying home, for now

The $280 billion force that is Chinese tourism may not reemerge for months, thanks to lingering infections, restrictions for new arrivals and surging costs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 6, 2023

Japan real wages fall most since 2014, keeping BOJ goal distant

Real cash earnings for Japan's workers dropped 3.8% from a year earlier in November, declining for the eighth straight month.
Japanese teachers work significantly longer hours than their peers in other countries, with time spent on extracurricular activities being a heavy burden, an OECD study shows.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 7, 2025

Teachers in Japan still work the longest hours, OECD survey finds

Teachers worked an average of over 50 hours per week, but much of it was spent on out-of-classroom work.
The LDP's newly-appointed election chief Keiji Furuya (far left), general affairs council chair Haruko Arimura (second from left), vice president Taro Aso (center left), president Sanae Takaichi (center right), secretary-general Shunichi Suzuki (second from right) and policy chief Takayuki Kobayashi in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 7, 2025

Takaichi's leadership lineup favors Aso and his allies while shutting out rivals

The new lineup also reflects her desire to reward allies of the party’s former Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi and former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi.
Nominal wages rose 1.5% in August from a year earlier, decelerating from 3.4% in the previous month, according to a report from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 8, 2025

Japan’s wage growth slows, underscoring challenge for Takaichi

Nominal wages increased 1.5% in August from a year earlier, decelerating from 3.4% in the previous month and falling below economist expectations.
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during a news conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 8, 2025

Lawyers protest Takaichi's 'work like workhorses' remarks

The group is led by Hiroshi Kawahito, a lawyer who represented the family of an employee of major advertising agency Dentsu who committed suicide due apparently to overwork.
The Mie Prefectural Government plans to create an ordinance to penalize customer harassment.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 8, 2025

Mie eyes Japan's first penalty against customer abuse

The ordinance would define customer abuse as excessive nuisances that go beyond social norms and harm employees' working environment.
Tourists in front of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Sept. 10. Increased spending by foreign visitors and brisk home sales are behind an improvement in economy-watcher sentiment, a survey has shown.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 8, 2025

Economy-watcher sentiment improves in September

Looking ahead, concerns remain over the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping tariff measures.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (center) gestures as he meets Indian traditional dancers during a ceremony for the upcoming Diwali festival in Mumbai on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 9, 2025

Starmer looks to India for example on U.K. plan for digital ID

Starmer said his proposed smartphone-based ID was needed to "address the fact that too many people can come to this country to work illegally.”
Employees assemble a Gazon Next truck at Gorkovsky Automobile Plant in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 10, 2025

Russia's industrial titans furlough workers as its war economy stalls

The push to reduce wage bills shows the toll the conflict in Ukraine and the Western sanctions are taking on corporate Russia and on the workers of its heavy industry plants.
Less than a week ago, Sanae Takaichi seemed set to become Japan's first female prime minister.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 10, 2025

‘Takaichi trade’ starts unwinding as political calculus upended by Komeito exit

Stocks fell and the yen rose after the coalition collapsed
The U.S. Capitol in Washington on Friday. The White House is making good on threats to fire thousands of federal workers amid a government shutdown now in its 10th day, with job cuts across federal agencies.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 11, 2025

Trump fires federal workers amid shutdown fight with Democrats

The firings mark the first large-scale layoffs of federal employees during a funding lapse in modern history.
University of Tokyo lands its highest spot ever in global higher education ranking
The University of Tokyo in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward
Ghost of Yotei’s bloodstained fun sidesteps Ainu identity
Ghost of Yotei, the follow-up to 2020's smash hit Ghost of Tsushima, is a violent, vengeful and engaging romp through 17th-century Hokkaido that fails to stick the landing on its most sensitive cultural material.
After ruling bloc breakup, CDP and Komeito eye unified PM candidate
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda speaks to reporters at the Diet in Tokyo on Friday.
As the Osaka Expo comes to a close, what will its legacy be?
After a run-up marked by apathy, organizers soon found they had the opposite problem as crowd control became a concern.
Why Japan's coalition collapsed — and what's next
Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi enters party headquarters in Tokyo on Thursday.
Ghost of Yotei’s bloodstained fun sidesteps Ainu identity
Ghost of Yotei, the follow-up to 2020's smash hit Ghost of Tsushima, is a violent, vengeful and engaging romp through 17th-century Hokkaido that fails to stick the landing on its most sensitive cultural material.
‘Takaichi trade’ starts unwinding as political calculus upended by Komeito exit
Less than a week ago, Sanae Takaichi seemed set to become Japan's first female prime minister.
‘Save the Ring’ calls intensify as Osaka Expo’s end nears
Visitors lounge on the grassy hill on the top of the Grand Ring during the 2025 Osaka Expo in the city of Osaka in May.
A Japanese comedian walks into an Aussie bar … and stays there
Takashi “Waka” Wakasugi stopped by the Tokyo Comedy Bar in Shibuya Ward last month following his stint at Edinburgh Festival Fringe performing his show “Comedy Samurai.”
Chemistry Nobel winner Kitagawa says downtime helped him think up new material
Susumu Kitagawa speaks to reporters at Kyoto University on Wednesday after receiving the news that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry the same day.

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

Longform

Rock group The Yellow Monkey played K-Arena Yokohama in June as part of a nationwide tour. Concerts are increasingly popular in the age of social media as users value in-person experiences.
Inside Japan’s arena boom: Sports, sound and city-building
By Patrick St. Michel

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