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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 21, 2021

Oil driller sees the industry's future in electric rigs and carbon offsets

As the oil industry is pushed to lower its carbon footprint, drill sites run by Civitas offer a model for how to migrate to low- or no-carbon emissions operations.
BUSINESS / Tech / Longform
Dec 20, 2021

How Twitter moderates content in Japan

Japan's top social media platform is drawing increased scrutiny about its operations, particularly in the wake of several high-profile cyberharassment incidents.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Dec 20, 2021

Deepfake anyone: AI synthetic media tech enters perilous phase

The technology is now advanced enough that general viewers would struggle to distinguish many fake videos from reality.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Dec 20, 2021

China tennis star Peng Shuai denies she made sexual assault accusation

Peng's remarks on Sunday marked the first time she had addressed the matter on camera in public.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Dec 19, 2021

Chinese tech hub's tennis ambitions in danger due to Peng Shuai scandal

For Shenzhen, the WTA Finals was supposed to be a boost to its cultural and sporting prestige.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Dec 18, 2021

Amazon partnered with China propaganda arm to win Beijing's favor

Amazon's compliance with a Chinese government edict is part of a deeper, decadelong effort by the company to protect and grow its business in one of the world's largest marketplaces.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 17, 2021

Small investors won’t be hurt by capital gains tax reform, LDP lawmaker says

Changes are aimed at rectifying perceived unfairness and won't hurt people investing small amounts, according to Katsunobu Kato.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 17, 2021

Streaming heavyweights made big moves into the world of anime in 2021

Anime became even more accessible worldwide as streaming platforms such as Netflix, Crunchyroll and Disney+ made aggressive moves in 2021.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 16, 2021

Venture capital cash flows to Japan following China crackdown

Japan's startups are increasingly attracting interest from overseas investors as the country starts to shake off it's reputation as a unicorn-free venture backwater.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 14, 2021

South Korea has long wanted nuclear submarines. A new reactor could open a door.

The reactor project comes amid fears of an arms race in the Indo-Pacific region, driven by the conflict between China and the United States.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 14, 2021

U.S. pitches truce to Japan over Trump-era steel and aluminum tariffs

The proposed truce comes as the Biden administration aims to sign what could prove a 'very powerful” economic framework agreement with Asian nations.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 13, 2021

Haiti’s leader kept a list of drug traffickers. His assassins came for it.

In the months before his murder, President Jovenel Mou00efse took a number of steps to fight drug and arms smugglers. Some officials now fear he was killed for it.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Dec 8, 2021

Why any war with Taiwan is a huge gamble for China’s Xi

For all the talk of Chinese President Xi Jinping's desire to invade Taiwan, one counterpoint is often overlooked: The domestic risks involved in starting a potentially devastating war.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 8, 2021

Japan's GDP shrank more than initial estimates during summer COVID-19 crisis

The deeper-than-expected contraction of 3.6% suggests the economy may have been weaker than first thought before the summer's state of emergency was lifted at the start of October.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 7, 2021

China throws down the gauntlet on development aid

The West can't match China project for project. The fact that their resources are limited demands that Western governments be smarter and more efficient with development aid.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 7, 2021

'National interests' first: Japan weighs stance as U.S. plans Beijing Olympic boycott

Washington cited Beijing's human rights 'atrocities' in its planned diplomatic boycott, while Tokyo said its own 'national interests' would be key in determining whether to follow suit.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 7, 2021

North Korea's Kim calls for 'absolutely loyal' military officers

Kim Jong Un said the country's military education system must redouble efforts to turn out officers who 'remain absolutely loyal' to the North's ruling party.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2021

Wall Street holds fast to fossil fuels as climate pressure grows

How quickly lenders pull off a transition to finance a lower carbon economy will play a major role in determining the planet's chances of avoiding a cataclysmic degree of overheating.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2021

After months of turmoil, restructuring of Evergrande debt looks imminent

The real-estate giant's situation poses a fresh test for Xi Jinping's government as it tries to rein in the country's financial excesses without derailing economic growth.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 3, 2021

Enron's cast of characters: Where they are 20 years after the fall

Here's a look at some of the prominent players in the scandal — both fallen executives and those who investigated them — and where they are now.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 3, 2021

Caution needed on ESG bonds, top Japanese finance official says

Like many countries, Japan has pledged to go net carbon neutral by 2050, but its borrowing practices differ from those in France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.
A smartphone running ChatGPT4o as it tries to solve a geometry problem in San Francisco on May 28.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 20, 2024

OpenAI unveils new ChatGPT that can reason through math and science

The new technology is part of a wider effort to build AI that can reason through complex tasks.
Decades after Bhutan introduced its Gross National Happiness index, the idea that gross domestic product is an inadequate indicator of human well-being and social progress is gaining ground.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2024

Is gross national happiness the way forward?

The World Happiness Report's top-ranked countries tended to be smaller Western countries, led by Finland. Larger Western economies tend to perform worse.
Choi Min-kyong (right), a North Korean defector who said she was deported by China four times before making it to South Korea in 2012, and Shin Ju-ye (left), who fled North Korea in the 1990s and settled in China before defecting to South Korea last year, speak during an interview in Seoul on July 19.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 25, 2024

China cracks down on North Korean defectors with biometric surveillance

Facial-recognition cameras now monitor China's border with North Korea, documents show, while police have collected biometric data of North Koreans in the country.
Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, speaks during a rare public appearance in July 2014.
WORLD
Sep 28, 2024

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah killed in Israeli strike on Beirut

The death deals a seismic blow to the Iran-backed group, which has been engaged in a year of cross-border hostilities with Israel.
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani, 66, has experience as the onetime head of Japan’s former Defense Agency before it became a full-fledged ministry and is seen as a pair of steady hands.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 2, 2024

Ishiba looks to 'defense tribe' to fill key Cabinet positions

The new prime minister has named four former defense ministers to key posts — most notably, the defense and foreign affairs portfolios.
Journalists Konstantin Gabov (far left), Antonina Favorskaya (center left), Artem Kriger (center right) and Sergei Karelin, accused of taking part in the activities of an "extremist" organization founded by late opposition politician Alexei Navalny, stand inside an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing in Moscow on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 3, 2024

Russia tries four journalists for links to Navalny team

The cases highlight the increasingly precarious position of journalists inside Russia.
Israeli soldiers patrol near the Israel-Lebanon border on Friday amid ongoing hostilities with Hezbollah.
WORLD
Oct 6, 2024

Israel on alert ahead of Hamas attack anniversary

The alert came with Israel engaged in an intensifying war with the Lebanese Hezbollah group, which officials said would be hit "without concession or respite."
A Palestinian man rests with his son under the rubble of their destroyed house in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sept. 26.
WORLD
Oct 7, 2024

After a year of war, Gazans wonder how to deal with tons of rubble

The U.N. estimates there are over 42 million metric tons of debris, including shattered edifices and flattened buildings.

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes