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Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 29, 2020

Live-house culture won't cede the stage to COVID-19

Seiichi Yamamoto, founder of Osaka live music venue Namba Bears, is employing a range of methods to keep his stage open to touring musicians.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 28, 2020

Three ways Congress can save the U.S. economy

These measures can work no matter what your ideology.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
May 28, 2020

Masks helped keep Japan's COVID-19 death toll low, says expert panel

The nation still needs to prevent a second wave, and that will involve testing and urging people to avoid risky situations.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 28, 2020

Composer Joe Hisaishi opens up to streaming

Film composer Joe Hisaishi says he is writing more as a result of COVID-19, but is determined not to write about the pandemic itself.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 27, 2020

Stay-home request spurs a reading revival

In many urban areas of Japan, people were recently urged to stay home for weeks on in the fight to contain the spread of COVID-19. Most big bookstores in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto were closed through the end of the Golden Week holidays, making it difficult to buy books.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 27, 2020

Johnson faces mounting fury for backing top aide Dominic Cummings

Cummings is alleged to have ignored government orders, driving more than 250 miles to his parents' property to get child care support.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
May 26, 2020

More patients than beds in Mumbai as India faces surge in coronavirus cases

India's booming private hospitals have taken some of the strain off the underfunded public health network, but even private facilities are at risk of being overrun.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
May 25, 2020

Japan sidestepped COVID-19's worst, so what now?

The number of reported cases accounts for roughly 0.01 percent of the nation's population, but the chance of a second wave remains ever present.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
May 23, 2020

It's every family for itself as coronavirus spreads within households

Local governments are making arrangements with hotels to house persons with mild symptoms so that they can avoid passing the virus on to families.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 23, 2020

How China pounced on Hong Kong while the world focused on COVID-19

Friday's move represents the biggest challenge yet to the 'one country, two systems” framework set up to guarantee Hong Kong's liberal institutions.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
May 21, 2020

Save jobs and businesses endangered by the pandemic

With the economic downturn likely to be protracted, the key to a subsequent recovery is preventing mass unemployment and bankruptcies.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
May 21, 2020

Japan's acting troupes turn your home into a stage

With the curtains remaining closed at theaters across Japan, some acting troupes are adopting new methods of reaching their audiences.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 20, 2020

Surveillance and monitoring invade European post-pandemic workplaces

A "Romware Covid Radius bracelet” beeps every time a Tata Steel Ltd. worker in the U.K. or a docker at Belgium’s Antwerp port is within virus-catching distance of someone. At Bouygues SA construction sites and in Sanofi and Schneider Electric SE offices in France employees enter after thermal cameras...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 20, 2020

Facebook to limit offices to 25% capacity, require masks at work

The social media company outlined to staff globally how it plans to handle a return to major job sites starting July 6.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 19, 2020

Google and Twitter are right, workers should stay home

Rather than prepare to reopen, companies should help employees settle into operating remotely.
JAPAN
May 14, 2020

Japan to lift coronavirus state of emergency in 39 prefectures

The nation's capital and seven prefectures will maintain emergency measures for now.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
May 14, 2020

Myanmar’s poorest take coronavirus fight into their own hands

After Myanmar confirmed its first coronavirus infection in late March, the residents of one village in the country’s northwestern Sagaing region sprang into action.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 13, 2020

Now's not the time to debate constitutional revision

The government should focus on coming up with policies to help citizens weather the COVID-19 crisis.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 13, 2020

A tithe approach to volunteering in our post-pandemic world

The rewards of volunteering are enormous for one's self and community.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 13, 2020

Social stigma and harassment undermine COVID-19 testing efforts across Asia

Public health officials around the world have agreed that testing and contact tracing are vital to containing the coronavirus pandemic. But for many people, coming forward to get tested — let alone revealing the personal information of friends, family and close associates — is more terrifying than...
Japan Times
WORLD
May 12, 2020

Gunmen attack Afghan hospital where Doctors Without Borders aid group runs a clinic

Gunmen attacked a hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday where the international humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders runs a maternity clinic, killing at least eight people, officials said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 12, 2020

Mail-in U.S. presidential election could trigger Florida 2000-like chaos

Amid a tangle of state laws, the country may not know who won for days or even weeks.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 12, 2020

Hong Kong uses coronavirus rules to stop protests even as bars fill up

Hong Kong’s central bar district returned to relative normalcy over the weekend, with crowds of revelers taking advantage of eased social distancing rules even as fresh pro-democracy protests flared across the city.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
May 11, 2020

New virus cases climb in Indonesia as Jokowi laments slow testing

The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in Indonesia neared 1,000 as more cases were confirmed across the archipelago, with President Joko Widodo expressing disappointment over the slow progress in ramping up testing to detect the disease.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 7, 2020

Paris tests face-mask recognition software on metro riders

The Paris metro authority is testing CCTV software to detect whether travelers are wearing face masks.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 7, 2020

Mike Pompeo blames China for hundreds of thousands of virus deaths

The U.S. Secretary of State has said China is still withholding virus samples needed for global vaccine research.
JAPAN / Politics
May 5, 2020

Should Japan vote during the pandemic?

The political class grapples with whether elections should be held amid the deadly public health crisis.

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