Search - 2019

 
 
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 7, 2021

Clean energy: Oil and carbon at loggerheads

If the world is to get anywhere near its lower carbon goals, as set out in the Paris Agreement, then all future investment in oil and gas development must cease.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 7, 2021

Meghan and Harry name baby daughter after Queen Elizabeth and Diana

Meghan, Britain's Duchess of Sussex, has given birth to her second child, a girl, whom she and husband Prince Harry have named after Queen Elizabeth and his late mother Princess Diana.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 6, 2021

Lessons from the pandemic

Most countries are lagging far behind and new, concerted and more generous efforts by the richest nations are needed to control the pandemic at a global level.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jun 6, 2021

Olympics gave hope to Japan’s LGBTQ activists. But old prejudices die hard.

Even a modest goal of labeling discrimination 'unacceptable” has proved too much for conservative lawmakers, who have blocked consideration of a bill by the Diet.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jun 6, 2021

League body says players should be freed from Copa obligations

The sudden decision to move the Copa America from Argentina to Brazil has sparked safety concerns as the country continues to struggle with COVID-19 infections.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: GAMES
Jun 6, 2021

Japanese gaming arcades are on their last life

Already on a downward trend, COVID-19-mandated closures are slashing profits and forcing closures of many of the country's iconic locations.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 5, 2021

Facebook suspends Trump until 2023 and shifts rules for world leaders

The social media platform had suspended Trump's account the day after the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot, determining he had incited violence.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Jun 5, 2021

Naomi Osaka shows what a real champion is made of

Osaka is an introvert with high expectations of herself and who battles anxiety and depression. Success and those earnings have not eliminated her unease.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 5, 2021

India’s suspect ‘Quad’ credentials

COVID-19 has brutally exposed the hollowness of India's pretensions to power, status and influence and boasts of being a vaccine superpower and pharmacy to the world.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jun 5, 2021

TikTok, YouTube, drag and a World of Xtra

As World of Xtra, Stan Fukase promotes pride and understanding in the Japanese LGBTQ+ community.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jun 4, 2021

Chinese drugmakers take aim at lucrative U.S. anti-cancer market

In recent years, medicines that free the immune system to attack tumors have become blockbusters in a $150 billion global market.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2021

Japan lays out ‘national project’ for chips after lost decades

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in a report Friday that it would treat semiconductor industry growth as a 'national project.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2021

Japanese banks’ ¥300 trillion dilemma puts focus back on riskier bets

Deposits at the nation's top three banks alone grew by u00a541 trillion in the year ending in March.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 3, 2021

Taliban look to grab power as U.S. departs Afghanistan, U.N. warns

Taliban militants are gathering across Afghanistan in preparation for a possible takeover of the country by force as U.S. and NATO troops exit over the next few months, the United Nations has warned.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 3, 2021

Hong Kong parking spot sells for $1.3 million, setting record

Hong Kong's luxury home market has seen record-breaking transactions as buyers' confidence comes back.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 3, 2021

Farmers in China push back the desert — one tree at a time

In March, heavy sandstorms hit Beijing for the first time in six years, putting the country's reforestation efforts under scrutiny.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 3, 2021

Revival of lab leak theory risks making U.S.-China relations worse

The probe comes at a sensitive time in U.S.-China relations, with both governments showing signs they want to move beyond the vitriol of Donald Trump's presidency.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2021

Prosecute the populists?

Until the cease-fire, the world’s attention was trained on Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza, which may have suited Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who is facing trial on corruption charges. And Netanyahu is hardly the only populist leader in legal peril.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 2, 2021

Organ transplants force patients to amass vaccinations to beat COVID-19

Research is showing that these patients are dramatically less likely to develop protective antibodies using the authorized vaccine dosage.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2021

Is a CEO worth 1,000 times the median worker?

What now gets disclosed is often subject to manipulation, presumably to make the numbers look better.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Jun 2, 2021

Dual yokozuna promotion could join list of recent rare events in sumo

The possibility remains that ozeki Terunofuji and Takakeisho could both be offered the white rope depending on how results pan out at next month's Nagoya Basho.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 2, 2021

Taiwan’s Shih recognized for lifetime of service, dedication

This year, the 38th Niwano Peace Prize will be awarded to the Venerable Shih Chao-hwei of Taiwan in recognition of her work in peace building through her safeguarding of all forms of life, promotion of gender ethics and gender equality, and her approach to open-minded dialogue with different religious...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Jun 2, 2021

NBA stars urged to end China endorsements over forced labor

A U.S. congressional commission on Tuesday called on American basketball stars to end endorsements of Chinese sportswear firms that use cotton grown in China's Xinjiang region, warning against complicity in forced labor they say takes place there.

Longform

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan