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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 21, 2022

Explaining Japan’s 'astute diplomacy'

Japan's leaders must listen carefully to the voices of the people while skillfully containing the more violent passions (nationalism) of the nation.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Feb 21, 2022

Burakumin discrimination history revealed 100 years on from rights declaration

Growing up in the chaos that followed World War II wasn't the only thing that prevented Hikari, now 82, from learning to read and write.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 21, 2022

Sky-Hi: Taking up the fight for artistic freedom

The artist-turned-talent agency CEO says Japan's music industry needs a major modern makeover.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 21, 2022

Soaring gasoline bad timing for Asian governments facing voters

Soaring gasoline prices are fanning inflation and causing a headache for governments and central banks worldwide.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 21, 2022

SoftBank calls Credit Suisse subpoena a ‘fishing expedition’

The Tokyo-based holding company the subpoena prepared by the Swiss bank is nothing more than an attempt to deflect responsibility for the Greensill collapse.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 20, 2022

Russia and Belarus extend military drills north of Ukraine

NATO says Russia has up to 30,000 troops in Belarus and could use them as part of an invasion force to attack Ukraine, although Moscow denies any such intention.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 20, 2022

How China’s 'COVID zero' policy is giving a polish to gold

Gold has mostly traded sideways since the start of the year, and the usual negative correlation between higher U.S. Treasury yields and lower gold prices — and vice versa — has disappeared.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 20, 2022

Will the U.S. finally make the pivot to Asia?

Biden's Indo-Pacific strategy is essentially an exercise in public diplomacy, while Trump's strategic framework was formulated to advance a policy of a “free and open Indo-Pacific.”
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 20, 2022

Once, he kept Russia at a distance. Now, he is a docile Putin satrap.

Alexander Lukashenko played East and West against each other for 28 years, all while keeping Belarus firmly in his grip, but those days are over.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 20, 2022

Taiwan premier orders probe of speedskater who wore Chinese uniform

Huang Yu-ting, who carried Taiwan's team flag at the opening ceremony, reiterated that the uniform she had worn in a now-deleted video had been given to her by a Chinese friend.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Feb 20, 2022

Theater Commons Tokyo rethinks the 'voices' of performing arts in the COVID era

The festival examines radically different ways of creating and experiencing theater in the context of the pandemic, while also challenging the very idea of what theater can be.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / New Wine Frontier
Feb 19, 2022

Snow country wine: Old vines and new vision

A senior vintner stakes his future on uprooting the past, while his daughter embraces the past to forge an exciting future.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 19, 2022

Tsukioka Kogyo: The man who dedicated his art to saving noh

The ukiyo-e artist's extensive body of work devoted to Japan's oldest living form of theater has gone largely overlooked — until now.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 18, 2022

Investments in health systems will protect human security now, and into the future

COVID-19 has exposed the deep inequities and weaknesses in the global health system.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 18, 2022

Deriding women’s complaints on equal pay is costly

What should the corporate world take from this judgment? A well-run business should be able to investigate claims of pay discrimination by women and resolve them before they go to a tribunal.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 18, 2022

Nissan to build two new EV models in Mississippi by 2025 in latest U.S. push

Nissan plans to invest u00a557.5 billion in technology needed for EV-specific assembly lines at the plant in Canton.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 18, 2022

Pandemic fatigue a challenge for Canada's Trudeau amid protests

A survey from last week said a third of Canadians think now is the time to lift all restrictions.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Feb 18, 2022

The rules for deciphering the Japanese words for regulations

While the Olympics are proving fun to watch, it seems not many fans have checked the rulebook.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 18, 2022

Beijing got all ready for Olympic curling. But about the ice …

The ice makers of Olympic curling are part physicist, part meteorologist, part engineer. They know that creating a stage for a world-class event is all about the process.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 17, 2022

The Queen’s Jubilee year has just started, but the bad news hasn’t stopped for the royals

For all the differences, the troubles of Prince Andrew and Prince Charles both raise murky questions about money and how it moves in the opaque world of royalty.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 17, 2022

Shelling breaks out in east Ukraine as West and Moscow dispute troop moves

Russian-backed separatists said troops had opening fire on their territory four times in the past 24 hours and said they were trying to establish if anyone had been hurt or killed.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 17, 2022

Beijing Olympics reports no new COVID-19 cases for the first time

'The daily COVID cases are falling, thanks to everyone strictly following the COVID prevention measures,' said Huang Chun, a top virus-control official.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 17, 2022

Taiwan sees China's Xi as too focused on party reshuffle for any attack

The Taiwanese government has assessed the current risk of a Chinese attack to be low, regardless of what happens between Russia and Ukraine.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 17, 2022

‘The Takatsu River’: A homey hometown drama

Yoshinari Nishikori offers a relatively upbeat take on a well-worn story of a rural Japanese community in decline.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 17, 2022

‘Ribbon’: Non unmasks pandemic frustrations in her first feature

The former “Amachan” actor's film was inspired by the frustration and anger of young people whose lives have come to a standstill because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 16, 2022

Can Kishida’s ‘new capitalism’ help Japan’s workers?

What is remarkable about Kishida's new capitalism is that the LDP is the very party that brought neoliberalism to Japan in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Japan and U.S. reach tariff deal with ‘reciprocal’ rate at 15%
U.S. President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with Japan on Tuesday, saying the agreement would create "hundreds of thousands of jobs."
Ishiba denies reports he will resign next month, leaving his fate unclear
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba looks on after meeting with the Liberal Democratic Party executives at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan and U.S. both claim win in surprise 11th-hour tariff deal
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Ryosei Akazawa, Japan chief tariff negotiator, in Tokyo
The rise of AI companionship in a lonely Japan
In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
Rice grain-sized earphone may have been used to cheat on TOEIC English test
A pendant-shaped relay device suspected to have been used to cheat on the TOEIC English proficiency test, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Tuesday
Japan leans into homegrown AI amid rising competition
McKinsey’s 2025 Technology Trends Outlook, published Wednesday, says that the use of “sovereign AI” is a trend gaining significant global traction, including in Japan.
Induction of Ichiro has Cooperstown fretfully preparing
Ichiro Suzuki will soon become the first Japanese player to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
JT picks: What not to miss at Fuji Rock 2025
Fuji Rock Festival turns the green slopes of Niigata Prefecture’s Naeba Ski Resort into a summer escape that offers soundtracks for every mood.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.

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