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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 11, 2020

Communication apps and English are key to global reach

Communication apps can give Japanese firms global reach.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 11, 2020

With virus outbreak, China showcases micro drone surveillance

China remains dependent on using humans to watch other humans. That, however, is changing very quickly.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 11, 2020

China's Xi warned officials that efforts to contain coronavirus outbreak could hurt economy

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned top officials last week that efforts to contain the new coronavirus had gone too far, threatening the country's economy, sources said, days before Beijing rolled out measures to soften the blow.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Feb 8, 2020

Tigers newcomer Justin Bour bears burden of Randy Bass' legacy with club

We should all have people in our lives as loyal to us as some fans and media around the Hanshin Tigers are to the memory of Randy Bass.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 7, 2020

Coronavirus pushes robots to front lines of China's hospitals

The deadly coronavirus outbreak, which has pushed the Chinese medical community into overdrive, has also prompted hospitals to more quickly adopt robots as medical assistants.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2020

North Korea's next submarine might make nuclear negotiations with U.S. even tougher

Kim Jong Un has spent much of his time as North Korea's leader developing bigger and more advanced nuclear weapons. This year, he may try to make them harder to find by putting them under the sea.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 4, 2020

Indicted K-pop star Seungri may face military court

A K-pop star charged with violating South Korea's anti-prostitution law may have to join the country's army and face trial in a military court.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 3, 2020

The geopolitical consequences of the coronavirus outbreak

Will China be forced into 'hibernation' amid the epidemic?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Feb 1, 2020

Dispatches from the front line of Japan's retail sector

Since October, business media have focused on two topics at the near-exclusion of numerous others: the economic repercussions of the consumption tax hike and how that increase has influenced, or accelerated, a shift from cash to electronic payments.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 1, 2020

China virus cases may be undercounted even as numbers skyrocket

The number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in China has skyrocketed to almost 12,000 as of Saturday, surpassing the official count during the SARS epidemic. But the true number of infections may be even higher, as health workers struggle to catch up with the disease.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jan 30, 2020

China steps up 'green channel' to supply food for locked-down, virus-hit Wuhan

China has told farmers to step up vegetable production, opened roads for delivery trucks and is punishing those trying to profit in order to keep feeding residents of the locked down city of Wuhan at the center of the new coronavirus outbreak.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jan 30, 2020

Parents in Japan use YouTube to teach bilingual baby talk that's good for any age

Mothers raising their kids in Japan head to YouTube to create a community that goes beyond basic parenting tips.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2020

Athletes Village buildings for Tokyo Olympics draw on traditional Japanese woodwork

The Village Plaza, which will serve as a key facility within the Athletes Village during the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, was unveiled Wednesday ahead of its planned completion in April.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Jan 28, 2020

Japan coach Julio Lamas outlines goals for team before upcoming Asia Cup qualifiers

Japan men's national team head coach Julio Lamas said that it wasn't a surprise that his team didn't play as well as it had hoped to at last year's FIBA World Cup.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Jan 28, 2020

Fog likely to figure prominently in probe of Kobe Bryant copter crash

Weather conditions appear likely to come under the scrutiny of investigators probing the helicopter crash that killed former NBA superstar Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others near Los Angeles on Sunday, when overcast skies and fog grounded other aircraft.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 26, 2020

Kim Jong Un’s aunt makes surprise appearance six years after husband’s execution

The once-influential aunt of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made her first public appearance in more than six years, state media showed Sunday, dispelling rumors that she had been killed or taken her own life after the execution of her powerful husband, Kim's onetime No. 2.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jan 22, 2020

Pandemic fears grow as China virus toll rises to nine

The death toll from a new flu-like coronavirus in China rose to nine on Wednesday with 440 confirmed cases, Chinese health officials said as authorities stepped up efforts to control the outbreak by discouraging public gatherings in Hubei province.
SOCCER / J. League / J. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jan 22, 2020

Hajime Moriyasu running out of time to right Olympic ship

With just half a year to go until the Summer Olympics, Japan head coach Hajime Moriyasu is running out of time and sympathy.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 21, 2020

Netflix to stream Studio Ghibli anime globally — except in Japan and North America

Netflix Inc. will start streaming animated films from director Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli globally, excluding the United States, Canada and Japan, starting next month.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 20, 2020

Hong Kong leaders rebuff protest demand as violence persists

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam's government again pushed back on a key demand of protesters as a downtown rally turned violent, showing the unrest that began last June still has no end in sight.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 20, 2020

'Sad' Prince Harry says no other option but to end royal role

BBritain’s Prince Harry spoke on Sunday of his sadness at being forced to give up his royal duties in a deal with Queen Elizabeth II and senior Windsors that will see him and his wife, Meghan, exit official roles to seek an independent future.
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2020

It’s a boy! Christel Takigawa, wife of minister Shinjiro Koizumi, gives birth

Christel Takigawa, a freelance TV newscaster and wife of Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, gave birth to a boy early Friday morning.
Japan Times
PRESS / Corporate Trends
Jan 17, 2020

ジャパンタイムズ、「サステナブル・ブランド国際会議2020横浜」にメディアパートナーとして初参加

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 14, 2020

Iran admits to plane shootdown, but Russia still won't

Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Russia's overseas propaganda channel, RT, had a telling reaction to Iran's admission that its Revolutionary Guards Corps had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian civilian airliner last week.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 11, 2020

Do the 'people on the street' in Japan still love Carlos Ghosn?

At his explosive news conference in Beirut on Wednesday, Carlos Ghosn claimed Japanese still love him, and haven't fallen for the image of the "cold, greedy dictator," as he says Tokyo prosecutors have sought to paint him.
Japan won’t wait for G7 summit for possible U.S. trade deal
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top negotiator in tariff talks with the U.S. speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Friday.
Japanese universities step up to help international students after Harvard ban
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University. U.S. President Donald Trump has barred Harvard from accepting international students, prompting Japanese universities to offer support.
Japan eyes tougher rules for foreign residents and tax hike for tourists
A tax-free shop in Kyoto in April 2024. Last week, members of a Liberal Democratic Party study group drafted a proposal seeking to scrap the country's tax-free shopping system altogether.
Foreign tourists with unpaid medical bills in Japan to be denied entry
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during ministerial meeting meeting on foreign residents in Japan on Friday at the Prime Minister's Office.
Victims mourned 17 years after Akihabara indiscriminate attack
A mourner prays for the victims of an indiscriminate fatal attack on a street of Tokyo's Akihabara district on the 17th anniversary of the incident on Sunday.
What can Kenji Yanobe’s cosmic cats teach us about humanity?
Kenji Yanobe’s spacesuited cats are the main characters of “Ship’s Cat Island,” the inaugural exhibition at Hyper Museum Hanno in Saitama Prefecture.
From ridicule to redemption: Rice crisis returns Koizumi to the spotlight
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to the media as he inspects a warehouse storing stockpiled rice in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 30.
New Naoshima museum bets on Asia, not the West
Detail of Takashi Murakami, “Rakuchu-Rakugai-zu Byobu: Iwasa Matabei RIP” (2023-25)
Japan’s prison reform focuses on rehabilitation
Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Friday. Suzuki said preparations for the changes that will focus more on rehabilitation are being actively made at each correctional facility.
Accidents raise concern over how Japan vets foreign drivers
Keita Ueno (right), the owner of Kiki Driving School and an instructor who supports both foreign nationals and Japanese citizens returning from abroad in getting their foreign driver’s licenses converted, is worried about the current lax system for the process.

Podcast

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

Longform

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic
By Alex K.T. Martin

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