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COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Feb 1, 2022

Why economic security in Japan needs to include the defense industry

At present, the defense industry appears to be absent from government efforts to achieve economic security.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 31, 2022

Can the U.N. do more than talk about the Russia and Ukraine crisis?

The U.N. Security Council is due to meet to discuss Russia's troop build-up on the border with Ukraine, but there will be no action by the council — even if Russia were to invade Ukraine.
Japan Times
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Jan 29, 2022

No, athletes are not dying from COVID-19 vaccines

The conspiracy theory that athletes are collapsing or dying after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine has resurfaced after two prominent voices advanced the idea.
JAPAN
Jan 28, 2022

Japan to recommend Sado mine for UNESCO World Heritage listing

The move could inflame tensions with South Korea, which opposes the registration due to the use of Korean wartime labor at the site.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 28, 2022

Did I turn off the stove? Yes, but maybe not the gas.

Over a 20-year period, emissions from stoves across the United States could be having the same effect in heating the planet as half a million gas-powered cars.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 27, 2022

Malaysia's Sabah aims to be world's first 'green' palm oil state

Palm oil is the world's most widely used edible oil, found in everything from margarine to soap, but it has faced heavy scrutiny from green activists.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 27, 2022

Stephen Breyer’s exit from U.S. top court tees up new clash between Biden and GOP

The next justice would reinforce the court's outnumbered liberal wing and potentially serve for decades but won't shift the ideological balance.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Jan 26, 2022

Mitakeumi primed to shed ‘inconsistent’ image with historic ozeki promotion

Rather than solely benefiting from good timing and a weakened top division, Mitakeumi is arguably just now fulfilling the potential he has always had.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jan 25, 2022

Monetary security is a fight over infrastructure financing, currency and sanctions

With the U.S. liberally deploying sanctions and China striving to push its digital yuan, Japan must tread carefully to maintain its own standing.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 24, 2022

‘Now there is no one’: The lament of one of the last Christians in a Syrian city

Communities across the Middle East and North Africa — some of which trace their roots to Christianity's early days — have been struggling for decades with wars, poverty and persecution.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jan 23, 2022

NPB home run king Wladimir Balentien announces retirement

The Curacao native rewrote the NPB record book in 2013 with 60 home runs to surpass the previous single-season mark of 55, originally set by Yomiuri Giants legend Sadaharu Oh in 1964.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 23, 2022

How a billionaire’s global cruise empire imploded in Hong Kong

Lim Kok Thay started a cruise ferry and gambling boat business in 1990s Hong Kong and turned it into one of Asia's biggest cruise operators.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 21, 2022

How new Western sanctions might affect Russia

Similar curbs to the former Soviet Union's access to global electronics supplies were deployed during the Cold War, keeping it technologically backward and crimping growth.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jan 21, 2022

Microsoft faces challenge cleaning up Activision Blizzard’s culture

After the acquisition closes, Microsoft will look take a more active role by hiring advisers, bringing in law firms or mandating sensitivity training.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 20, 2022

Chinese property bonds soar as investors bet worst is over

Even though it's unclear whether the beaten-down sector has reached a turning point, traders are having a hard time turning down bets that things will improve.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 18, 2022

Putin wants to use Ukraine to remake the world

Russia is claiming a sphere of influence and geographical space in which Moscow's calculations and concerns prevail over all others.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 17, 2022

After sun-dimming setback, geoengineers seek a diplomatic fix

One aim is to have solar geoengineering discussed for the first time by the U.N. General Assembly in a session starting in September 2023.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jan 17, 2022

Why cyber defense in Japan is so unreliable

Despite its technological advances, the country lags in global cybersecurity rankings, having failed to follow a solid policy for embracing modernization.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 17, 2022

Traders wanted in a once-sleepy gas market with new kingpins

China became the biggest importer of liquefied natural gas in December, overtaking Japan for the first time since it pioneered the industry in the 1970s.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 16, 2022

Hiroshima as permanent host of NPT review conference?

Hiroshima should be the permanent host of all future NPT review conferences so that discussions and negotiations are held in the shadow of the realities of nuclear warfare.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jan 16, 2022

Biden’s bad winter gets worse with inflation, virus and Russia

U.S. President Joe Biden entered the new year with his signature economic plan stalled, inflation at 40-year highs and Russia threatening war in Ukraine.
Japan Times
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Jan 15, 2022

Cardinals and Rams enter playoffs with something to prove

While the Los Angeles Rams will play host to the first-ever Monday night playoff game, it is the Arizona Cardinals who are feeling completely familiar with the leadup to the all-NFC West matchup.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 14, 2022

Takeaways from Japan’s recent security meetings

Some observers have interpreted Japan's effort to foster relationships with other security partners as a sign of fissures in the U.S.-Japan alliance.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jan 14, 2022

Xi reshapes China property market, paving way for state dominance

While the endgame is still unclear, China watchers predict that the days of blistering home-price gains and debt-fueled building sprees by billionaire property tycoons are set to fade.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 13, 2022

Nepal's blossoming honey industry crushed by wild weather

Heavy rain, prolonged drought and harsher winters have thrown off flowering seasons and destroyed blossoms across Nepal over the past decade, decimating the country's honey supply.

Longform

Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years