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Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 8, 2021

Italy basks in Tokyo Games medal glory as COVID-19 gamble pays off

While other nations were shutting gyms, pools and tracks amid the pandemic, Italy provided an exemption for some 250 elite athletes to keep training for much of the past 18 months.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 8, 2021

Serbia overpower South Korea to win bronze in women's Olympic volleyball

Rio silver medalists Serbia overpowered South Korea in straight sets in the women's volleyball tournament on Sunday to take the bronze medal at the Tokyo Games.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 8, 2021

France overcomes ROC to win first men's volleyball gold

France beat the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team in the men's volleyball final on Saturday in a sensational five-set match to grab their first Olympic gold medal in the sport.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 7, 2021

U.S. women crush Spain to win third successive gold in water polo

Spain settled for silver and Hungary took bronze with a gritty 11-9 win over the Russian Olympic Committee team.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 7, 2021

London defined Boris Johnson. Then Brexit changed the metrics.

The city that made the British prime minister's political career risks becoming an economic casualty of his premiership.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 7, 2021

Once a synchro star, host Japan struggles to retain bronze in artistic swimming

Though Japan has never won gold since synchronized swimming became an Olympic sport in 1984, it has taken either silver or bronze, in duet or team, every year except for London 2012.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 7, 2021

Olympics a hit for Japan’s athletes, not for its prime minister

For Prime Minister Suga, the Olympics are more of a letdown and unlikely to improve his chances in a looming general election or provide much of a boost to the economy.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 7, 2021

The Japanese don’t sleep on trains because it’s safe — they’re exhausted!

Surveying 500 businesspeople aged 20 to 69, President found that 74.2% claimed to have trouble sleeping. This puts them at risk of exhaustion, depression, cancer and dementia.
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2021

Italy sprints to gold in men's 4x100-meter final; Japan does not finish

The athletes were already gone but it didn’t matter. The party in the stands went on without them as the members of the Italian delegation joyfully sang along with the song being played at National Stadium on another golden night for their nation at the Tokyo Olympics.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY
Aug 6, 2021

Duterte in a bind over Philippines’ golden Olympic moment

Amid a brewing nationalist brouhaha, President Duterte never stops praising China while gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz calls for the assertion of Philippine claims in the South China Sea.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2021

Olympic race walkers battle 'brutal' heat in Sapporo

Olympic race walkers had to fight through 'brutal' conditions as temperatures climbed steadily during their 50-km race to top 30 degrees Celsius by 9 a.m. in Sapporo on Friday.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2021

Silver lining: Japan’s Kiyou Shimizu grateful to have competed in karate's Olympic debut

The Osaka native said that she was grateful that the sport's profile was raised through the Games and that it was a privilege to be able to perform at Nippon Budokan.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2021

Japan's men's table tennis team tops South Korea for Olympic bronze

Japan's trio of Jun Mizutani, Koki Niwa and Tomokazu Harimoto clinched bronze in the men's team event on Friday after a 3-1 win over South Korea.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 6, 2021

China’s demographic manipulation

Officially, China's demographic situation was nothing to be alarmed about. But less than a month after the census was released, Beijing suspiciously loosened the family-planning rules.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2021

Day 13 recap: Giants of the track fall, skateboarders soar and a bite backfires

U.S. men continued to splutter on the track, kayaker Lisa Carrington became New Zealand's most decorated Olympian and American Ryan Crouser broke his own shot put world record three times.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 5, 2021

Japanese wrestler Risako Kawai follows up sister's gold with one of her own

Risako Kawai took gold Thursday by beating Belarus's Iryna Kurachkina 5-0 in the women's 57 kg freestyle wrestling final.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 5, 2021

Katie Kitamura and the cognitive dissonance of being alive right now

Her new novel, “Intimacies,” introduces readers to the perceptive, digressive mind of an interpreter at The Hague who is dealing with loss, an uncertain relationship and an insecure world.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 5, 2021

What to watch on Day 13 of the Tokyo Olympics

The first medals for sport climbing are ready to be handed out while karate makes its long-awaited Olympic debut as Tokyo 2020 moves into the final homestretch.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 5, 2021

Why India struggles to win Olympic gold

The government has overhauled an athletic system that was once underfunded and corrupt, but the pressure to perform weighs on competitors.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 5, 2021

Day 12 recap: Women's 400-meter hurdles world record obliterated at Tokyo Games

A Belarusian athlete departs Tokyo for Poland three days after refusing an order to return home against her wishes and seeking diplomatic protection.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2021

Poland's Wojciech Nowicki wins gold medal in men's hammer throw

Poland's Wojciech Nowicki won the men's hammer throw with a personal best of 82.52 meters on Wednesday, while his compatriot Pawel Fajdek avoided another Olympic disappointment by picking up the bronze.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2021

Japan wins thriller over Belgium to move into women's basketball semis for the first time

Saki Hayashi was the hero on the day, sinking a clutch 3-pointer with just 15 seconds left in the fourth quarter to put Japan ahead for good.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2021

Sweden's Madelene Sagstrom takes one-shot lead as women's golf tees off

Japanese golfers Nasa Hataoka and Mone Inami both shot opening-round 70s to sit four shots off the pace.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2021

China’s unavoidable financial rise

Many economists in the West did not see China's massive growth coming, and its influence is now becoming impossible to ignore.
Tokyo emerges as a top market for global tech talent
Tokyo ranks among the world's top tech talent hubs alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to Colliers' newly released global tech markets report.
JSA’s 100th anniversary event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for sumo fans
Egyptian wrestler Osunaarashi has some fun with children during a special Japan Sumo Association event in 2017.
Tens of millions of yen found at home of Aum Shinrikyo founder's wife
The house of the wife of the late Chizuo Matsumoto, the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult's founder, in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, in July
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.
Tokyo stocks hit by a perfect storm of tariffs, politics and budget worries
Tokyo stocks are underperforming shares in other large markets globally.
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Tokyobike founder believes in taking in sights of dynamic cities slowly
Ichiro Kanai, founder and president of Tokyobike, is developing a niche but a new customer base who want to cycle as part of a lifestyle.

Podcast

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

Longform

After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
By Megha Wadhwa

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