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New Zealand report 2021
Apr 27, 2021

Nelson Pine Industries grows happiness from trees

Nelson Pine Industries Ltd. (NPIL) is an innovative leader in wood-processing solutions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 26, 2021

Business class opens to the masses as affordable refuge from COVID-19

Flush with cash and a record number of air miles after a year on the ground, leisure travelers are splurging on premium seats for their first trips back.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 25, 2021

Fukushima water discharge plan sets a dangerous precedent

Allowing the release to proceed unilaterally without genuine international consultation would set a dangerous precedent and further damage the international rules-based agreement system.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 23, 2021

After tech crackdown, Xi looking to tap Chinese firms' wealth of data

Beijing is pouring money into digital infrastructure, with the goal of positioning China as a leader in transforming the world economy within decades.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Apr 22, 2021

Indian maids count cost of COVID-19 in testing times

Some housing complexes have even put up camps to test staff for free before they enter the building, but many employers are insisting the maids pay for the tests from their own wages.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 22, 2021

Line data scandal alerts Japan of need to get serious about data protection

Following the news that the firm had allowed a Chinese software company to access users' personal information, calls are being made for better regulation of information.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 21, 2021

‘Over the Town’: Offbeat locals give slacker’s life color

Rikiya Imaizumi's film about modern love may center on a scruffy man-child and his series of failures, but it's the four women who become involved with him that give the story heart.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 21, 2021

Okinawa’s wasted COVID-19 year

For political reasons, the economic contribution of the Okinawa bases is heavily downplayed, sometimes by five or 10 times as much, in local government publications and the media.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 21, 2021

How the WHO's push for global vaccines needled Europe

The EU's ambivalence stems partly from short supplies and a slack start to the COVAX program, but also from concerns that the EU's efforts will go unnoticed in a vaccine diplomacy war.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 21, 2021

Tokyo parks offer respite amid pandemic, but authorities urge vigilance

With their wide, open spaces, large parks have become crowded with people hanging out under the sun, something that is likely to increase during the upcoming Golden Week holidays.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2021

Tesla drives on Autopilot through a regulatory gray zone

The fatal crash of a Tesla with no one apparently behind the wheel has cast a new light on the safety of semiautonomous vehicles and the nebulous U.S. regulatory terrain they navigate.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 21, 2021

Clean crude? Oil firms use offsets to claim green barrels.

Oil-and-gas companies worldwide are increasingly trying to market their products as cleaner using a range of controversial methods, including buying credits.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 21, 2021

‘We matter’: A moment of catharsis after the Derek Chauvin verdict

For some Americans who had closely followed the trial, the verdict was surprising — different, they said, from what they had come to expect in cases involving the police.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 20, 2021

Xi challenges U.S. global leadership at event billed as China's Davos

'What we need in today's world is justice, not hegemony,” the Chinese president said at the conference, attended by global leaders via video link.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 20, 2021

Singapore keeps dorm migrants segregated even as pandemic abates

Weeks after new cases among laborers dropped to almost zero and thousands have received vaccinations, some wonder how long it will take for restrictions to end.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB
Apr 19, 2021

Carter Stewart Jr. takes important first step in NPB

Stewart's day wasn't groundbreaking, but his career path might be.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 19, 2021

There’s a new COVID-19 variant in India. How worried should we be?

Health experts worry that a new — possibly more virulent — coronavirus variant could be racing through the crowded nation of more than 1.3 billion people.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Longform
Apr 19, 2021

The female brewers shaking up Japan’s sake industry

Bringing a fresh perspective to the brewing process, women are increasingly producing inspirational new interpretations of the nation's traditional alcoholic drink.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 18, 2021

Belfast petrol bombs are a Brussels problem, too

The clashes followed a decision by authorities not to prosecute 24 Sinn Fein politicians who last year attended a funeral for an IRA man, in defiance of COVID-19 restrictions.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Apr 18, 2021

Marathon runners sweating over future of 2021 races

Steven Rojas was ready. He had already started the program of long runs, track workouts, and tempo efforts prescribed by Brooklyn Track Club in anticipation of running the 2020 New York Marathon.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Apr 18, 2021

‘At the End of the Matinee’: Love and longing in the recent past strike a chord

In his novel, Keiichiro Hirano provides a detailed view of politics, culture and economics at the start of the 21st century alongside a story about star-crossed lovers.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 16, 2021

Hong Kong schools devote a day to China’s national security

The shift to a forceful inculcation of national security issues, even among young children, comes as Beijing increases its control over almost all sectors and institutions in Hong Kong.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 14, 2021

‘Blue’: Not your typical underdog story

Kenichi Matsuyama plays a fighter on a losing streak in Keisuke Yoshida's “Blue,” a boxing drama that finds nobility in failure.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 14, 2021

Facebook’s new target in the misinformation war: Fake news about climate change

Climate change has emerged as a key priority in Facebook's quest to stomp out misinformation, an effort that involves policing user posts while simultaneously defending free speech.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 13, 2021

Elon Musk leaves Vladimir Putin stranded on Earth

A combination of Russian bureaucracy, military secrecy and a state-dominated economy have failed to foster private space enterprises of the kind driving innovation in the U.S.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 12, 2021

Wealthy Japanese flying private in greater numbers, ANA says

Due in part to change in habits as a result of virus fears, ANA Holdings Inc.'s private jet charter business is expecting sales of u00a51 billion in the 2022 fiscal year.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Apr 10, 2021

NPB strikes out with move to eliminate extra innings

Just before the Yomiuri Giants and Yokohama BayStars went into the bottom of the ninth tied 7-7 on March 26, the first night of the season, there was an announcement over the PA system at Tokyo Dome.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 10, 2021

Leo Konno expresses his biracial heritage through the melodies of a koto

The koto player's cross-cultural approach to the traditional Japanese instrument reflects his biracial identity.
Man falls to his death from Osaka condo, killing cyclist below
Osaka's Kita Ward. Two men died Monday morning in the ward after a man fell from a high-rise condominium and struck a passing cyclist below, according to local police.
Random stabbing cases in Japan raise fears: Could the next victim be me?
Police officers stand guard on May 7 outside Todaimae Station in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward after a random stabbing that injured a University of Tokyo student.
Shinjiro Koizumi takes farm ministry reins after predecessor's rice gaffe
Agriculture minister Taku Eto (left), who resigned on Wednesday, and former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi
Japan confirms hard-line position ahead of possible tariff talks in Washington
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, at a news conference on Tuesday. He said that when Japan states it wants the tariffs reviewed, it means Tokyo wants them removed.
Amid rice shortage, farm minister comes under fire for saying he gets plenty
Agriculture minister Taku Eto has come under fire for saying at the weekend that he receives so much rice from his supporters that he has enough to sell it.
Onosato’s march to yokozuna could usher in golden age for sumo
Onosato (left) battles Gonoyama on Day 6 of the Summer Basho. With Onosato on the cusp of promotion to yokozuna, there could soon be two titans at the top of the sport fighting for titles.
A window into the mind of Esperantist and political activist Teru Hasegawa
Teru Hasegawa, Esperanto name Verda Majo, wrote leftist political essays during WWII.
Nissan’s troubles might go all the way back to Ghosn 
A lot at a Nissan plant in Mexico. The company may have overextended itself during the Ghosn era.
Random stabbing cases in Japan raise fears: Could the next victim be me?
Police officers stand guard on May 7 outside Todaimae Station in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward after a random stabbing that injured a University of Tokyo student.
Japan confirms hard-line position ahead of possible tariff talks in Washington
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, at a news conference on Tuesday. He said that when Japan states it wants the tariffs reviewed, it means Tokyo wants them removed.

Podcast

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

Longform

A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
That sinking feeling: Japan’s aging sewers are an infrastructure time bomb
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