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Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 10, 2020

WHO decries 'vast global gap' in funds needed to fight coronavirus

There is a "vast global gap" between funds needed to fight the coronavirus pandemic and funds committed, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday, and the WHO was only "10 percent of the way" there.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 10, 2020

Anxious Mauritians use hair to stem Japanese ship's oil spill

Mauritians are making floating booms of human hair and leaves in a round-the-clock scramble to mop up oil leaking from a grounded Japanese ship onto their pristine Indian Ocean beaches.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2020

Blocking TikTok opens a can of worms for Facebook and Google

Trump reminds the world of the importance of foreign ownership of media. Big Tech would rather you forget.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Aug 9, 2020

The limitless energy of Japanese fashion

Legendary designer Kansai Yamamoto's legacy lives on, and the fashion world starts to adapt to consumer needs in Japan's new normal.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 9, 2020

In milestone year, A-bomb survivor keeps up fight for nuclear disarmament

Terumi Tanaka was 13 when Nagasaki was bombed, and saw his relatives dying in the aftermath.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 9, 2020

Twitter expressed interest in buying TikTok's U.S. operations, sources say

Twitter Inc. has approached TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to express interest in acquiring the U.S. operations of the video-sharing app, two people familiar with the matter said, as experts raised doubts over Twitter's ability to put together financing for a potential deal.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 8, 2020

News outlets grapple with the complexities of suicide coverage

Haruma Miura's death in July has sparked debate about the contrasting ways media organizations in Japan report on suicide.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 8, 2020

‘Kiki’s Delivery Service’: New translation of Japan’s favorite witch delivers

Emily Balistrieri's English translation brings the magical adventures of an adolescent witch to a new generation of readers.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 8, 2020

Trump’s attacks on China reach new peak of ‘pent-up’ grievances

U.S. President Donald Trump’s rapid-fire escalation of attacks on China — from bans of WeChat and TikTok to sanctions on Hong Kong’s top official — underscores that he’s dropped past restraint and decided to make confronting Beijing his priority less than 90 days before the U.S. election.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Aug 8, 2020

WeChat U.S. ban cuts off users link to families in China

U.S. President Donald Trump’s ban on transactions using popular Chinese messaging app WeChat will cut ties to families and friends in China, millions of users in the United States fear, as they become the latest casualties in the standoff between the two nations.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 7, 2020

Not 'Thighland': Trump's slip sparks meme fest

One online joker wrote that Thighland was located on a cartographic leg between 'Kneepal' and 'Ankola.'
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 7, 2020

South Korean trainee doctors strike over plan to boost student numbers

Thousands of South Korean trainee doctors went on strike Friday, protesting outside parliament against a government plan to boost the number of medical students in the country, arguing it would be a poor use of additional funding for the sector.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 7, 2020

Japan subsidies to cut China reliance set to boost Southeast Asia

'Even before coronavirus and the U.S.-China trade war struck, there was a shift away from production in China,” said a Japan External Trade Organization official.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 7, 2020

China warns Japan a TikTok ban would affect relations: report

A group of of ruling party lawmakers will reportedly push to restrict the app in the name of data security, but the government says it isn't considering a ban.
Reader Mail
Aug 7, 2020

An old depreciation for the balcony

The July 26 article “The Japanese balcony gets a rethink amid a pandemic”(headlined “A new appreciation for the balcony” in the print edition) was an interesting story. I have lived in a housing complex for almost 35 years, so this topic is very familiar to me.
Reader Mail
Aug 7, 2020

The world needs to learn from the tragedies of 2020

When you hear the words “2020,” what kind of words, sounds or images do you have in your mind? Words you may think would tend to start with “D,” including death, devastating, disastrous, disease, disparity and desperate. We have seen a lot of painful news coverage; brushfires in Australia, the...
Reader Mail
Aug 7, 2020

A reflection on the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings

In 1988, I was a student taking the Social Responsibility of Science course at King’s College, London, where I had the fortune to be tutored on a regular basis, one on one, by the late Nobel laureate Maurice Wilkins. The professor is remembered as part of the trio of Crick, Watson and Wilkins who won...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Aug 7, 2020

Japan short of rescue plans for regional lenders hit by pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic is deepening the pain for Japan's regional lenders, heightening concerns that a potential wave of business closures will test policymakers' ability to avert a damaging banking-sector crisis.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 7, 2020

Japanese lawmaker wants sales tax ditched as coronavirus weighs heavily on economy

Hiroshi Ando said the raising of the sales tax rate to 10 percent last October was a mistake because the economy was already in a downturn.
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.
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.”
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.

Podcast

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

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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
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