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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 24, 2021

Bitcoin bet sparks rally at Japan’s most expensive brokerage

Bitcoin's fivefold jump in the past year has come amid a flood of money pumped into the global financial system during the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 24, 2021

Quarantines crushing air travel are getting longer and lonelier

Even as vaccines embolden countries to plot paths to reopening, authorities around the world are tightening the screws to stop COVID-19 mutations from slipping through quarantine.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 23, 2021

Xinjiang genocide vote pressures Trudeau to take harder line on China

The nonbinding declaration from lawmakers represents a clear signal that they want Trudeau to maintain pressure on Beijing over human rights.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 23, 2021

Hands up, hands off: China blames U.S. for troubled relationship

Maintaining that Beijing has no role or responsibility for troubles in U.S.-China relations will guarantee that those problems get worse.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 23, 2021

Jet engine explosion over Denver rings alarms about shielding

The incident is the latest in a string of failures that has raised alarm among regulators about debris evading shielding that's supposed to keep broken parts from hitting aircraft.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Feb 22, 2021

Rockies' Ian Desmond becomes first player to opt out of 2021 MLB season

Two-time All-Star Ian Desmond of the Colorado Rockies has opted out of the upcoming 2021 season, the outfielder said on Sunday, citing current playing circumstances.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2021

Alibaba and Pinduoduo join fight against looming China food crisis

The battle to supply 1.4 billion people with fresh fruit and vegetables is taking China's e-commerce companies into the country's hinterlands.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 22, 2021

The COVID-19 Revolution

The pandemic, it turns out, is not only a scourge but also a source of revelation.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 22, 2021

How the big COVID-19 rebound keeps getting delayed, a bit

The next couple of months are going to be tough. The rosy prognosis for things to really get better has been shunted to the middle of the year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2021

Ant faces another setback in curbs on joint lending with banks

Jack Ma’s Ant Group Co. and China’s other fintech giants were dealt another blow by new rules that target a lucrative growth area — joint lending with banks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 22, 2021

Clubhouse chats are breached, raising concerns over security

A week after popular audio chatroom app Clubhouse said it was taking steps to ensure user data couldn’t be stolen by malicious hackers or spies, at least one attacker has shown that the platform’s live audio can be siphoned.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 21, 2021

Israel secretly agrees to fund vaccines for Syria as part of prisoner swap

To secure the release of an Israeli civilian held in Syria, Israel agreed to finance a supply of Russian-made COVID-19 vaccines for Damascus, an official said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 21, 2021

United Airlines plane showers debris near Denver after engine failure

A Boeing 777-200 operated by United Airlines made an emergency return to Denver International Airport on Saturday following an engine failure that rained debris on a city suburb. The airline said nobody aboard was injured.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Feb 20, 2021

Japan’s media join forces in rare show of solidarity to attack Mori over sexist remarks

Domestic reporters don't pull any punches in the fallout from the former Tokyo Olympic chief's cluelessness.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 20, 2021

With one number, Biden reverses Trump’s way of valuing climate

The president has reactivated the Obama-era approach to estimating the cost of climate change, a move that establishes a much higher dollar value for greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 19, 2021

Japanese firm with all-male board says sorry for failing on diversity

In December, Cybozu announced it was soliciting applications internally for directors in an attempt to diversify its board.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 19, 2021

U.S. says it’s willing to meet with Iran over nuclear deal

The offer is a politically risky effort by Biden's administration to move past the standoff that developed during Trump's term.
JAPAN
Feb 18, 2021

Olympics minister Seiko Hashimoto appointed Tokyo Games chief

Never has the position changed hands so close to the start of the Olympic Torch Relay, and nor have the games ever been held during an ongoing global pandemic.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 18, 2021

Bitcoin’s volatility should burn investors. It hasn’t.

Investors appear to have deftly navigated Bitcoin's harrowing highs and lows, buying on the way down and selling on the way up.
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.
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.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
CDP leader criticizes ‘Japanese First’ policy and calls for inclusive society
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda said it is obvious that Japanese society could not function without the help of foreign workers in manufacturing, health care, construction and public transportation.
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.
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
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.”

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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