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JAPAN / Society
Apr 7, 2020

Local officials and residents fear influx from Japan's virus hot spots

With the number of novel coronavirus infections rising in Tokyo and other major urban centers, some concerned residents are fleeing to nearby prefectures where the number of cases is minimal.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 7, 2020

When will the cure be worse than the disease?

How should we weigh the benefits against the costs of unemployment, social isolation and widespread bankruptcies?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 7, 2020

Isolation changes everything for status seekers

COVID-19 is upending all the usual ways for people to win the approval of their peers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Apr 7, 2020

Japan stimulus plan strengthens safety net, but experts split on handouts

Some economists say the financial aid should be focused on those in need while others say the proposed measure appears to be lacking fairness.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Apr 6, 2020

Fast-moving virus pits treating patients against finding a cure

Pharmaceutical research experts are raising concerns that attempts to offer desperate coronavirus patients some form of treatment may hobble crucial studies of which drugs actually work and which ones don't.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 6, 2020

No parties, no problem: Introverts don't mind sheltering at home

With her painting, baking and near-constant gardening, Stephanie Hollowell kept busy at home even before efforts to stem the coronavirus pandemic meant she had to stay inside the Dallas, Texas house she calls her little kingdom.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 6, 2020

‘Our goal is to survive’: Wuhan cautiously emerges from lockdown

Wuhan businessman Li Jing is counting down the days until his city emerges from virus lockdown.
JAPAN
Apr 5, 2020

Social media helps bigwigs and entertainers weigh in on Abe's response to pandemic

The spike in infections is prompting celebrities and social media influencers to use the internet to push for decisive action to minimize social contact.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Apr 3, 2020

Student group in Fukushima raises awareness of LGBT issues

On one day in February, about 10 people gathered for a discussion hosted by Fukushima University students in the city to raise awareness on LGBT issues.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Apr 2, 2020

Is the nation ready for a long battle against COVID-19?

Many major cities around the globe have implemented lockdowns, but Japan’s big cities such as Tokyo and Osaka have not yet followed suit. Because of that, a sense of crisis about the coronavirus pandemic among the public seems relatively low. In New York, a ban on eating in restaurants and cafes was...
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 2, 2020

Japan sees record 4,300 cannabis offenders in 2019

A record 4,321 individuals were involved in cannabis cases in Japan last year, up 743 from the previous year for the sixth consecutive year of increases, with abuse of the drug by young people showing a marked rise, police said Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 1, 2020

Over half of Americans are postponing their weddings as industry reels

One of the last weddings performed in public in Las Vegas was on St. Patrick’s Day. The groom wore a dark suit. The bride wore a rockabilly-style black halter dress. The minister was Slash from Guns N’ Roses — or, rather, a licensed officiant performing as the shaggy-maned, top-hatted guitarist....
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 1, 2020

Mass disinfections to combat coronavirus pose another health hazard

A drone dispersed clouds of disinfectant in the sky above Indonesia's second-largest city Surabaya on Tuesday, a response to the coronavirus pandemic which is catching on around the world despite warnings from health experts.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 31, 2020

Firms sign deals with U.S. to prep for mass-producing virus vaccines

The U.S. government has cut deals with Johnson & Johnson and Moderna Inc. and said it is in talks with at least two other companies to prepare them to produce massive quantities of coronavirus vaccines even before safe and effective ones become available.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 30, 2020

Can a dictatorship better control COVID-19?

What a nation truly needs in fighting a deadly virus like COVID-19 is the strong and spontaneous will of ordinary citizens.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 29, 2020

Snow and store closures keep Tokyo crowds at bay over critical coronavirus weekend

A rare late-March snowfall coupled with numerous store closures helped keep Tokyo residents indoors Sunday, day two of a crucial weekend in the city's attempt to contain the spread of COVID-19.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Mar 28, 2020

Joseph Everett: Learn to make your own healthy decisions

Joseph Everett shares what he's learned as a YouTuber
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 28, 2020

China's Wuhan, where the new coronavirus emerged, begins to lift its lockdown

The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak first emerged, began lifting a two-month lockdown on Saturday by restarting some metro services and reopening borders, allowing some semblance of normality to return and families to reunite.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 28, 2020

COVID-19 transmission: What we know

There is not yet an ironclad scientific consensus on exactly how the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is spreading, but experts are getting a pretty good sense of it. That understanding needs to be central to our strategy of combatting the virus with minimal collateral damage.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2020

Kansai leaders call for those who returned from abroad to self-quarantine

With over 340 cases of novel coronavirus in six Kansai area prefectures as of Friday, local leaders want all residents who have just returned from overseas to self-quarantine.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2020

Alibaba suffers culture conflicts

At Lazada, the Southeast Asian arm of Alibaba Group Holding, staffers are furious over demands that they submit health reports daily and other coronavirus-prevention steps seen as too invasive, highlighting a long-running culture clash with management from China.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 26, 2020

U.S. firms and labs rush to produce blood test for coronavirus immunity

As the United States works overtime to screen thousands for the novel coronavirus, a new blood test offers the chance to find out who may have immunity — a potential game-changer in the battle to contain infections and get the economy back on track.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 26, 2020

The plague: A few changes

COVID-19 is not going to change the world forever, but it is going to change quite a few things, in some cases for a long time.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 25, 2020

Now is the time for Japan to make a digital shift

The coronavirus pandemic has made it clear that Japan lags far behind other countries in putting new digital technologies to actual use.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Mar 25, 2020

Maverick presidents Bolsonaro in Brazil and Lopez Obrador in Mexico both in denial over COVID-19

The presidents of Mexico and Brazil scored stunning election victories in 2018 in defiance of the political establishment, but now their unwillingness to follow consensus on the coronavirus pandemic has left the two increasingly exposed.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 24, 2020

The ethics of shopping in a pandemic

We have to make choices about what to take, leave and ask others to get for us.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 23, 2020

How to avoid the end times

It feels like the end times. A mysterious invisible killer stocks the land. Wild rumors abound. The government is useless. There’s no sense that anyone knows anything, much less is in charge. Could the United States become a failed state?
Japan ruling bloc projected to lose majority in Upper House election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks at the Liberal Democratic Party’s headquarters Sunday after exit polls showed poor results for the ruling coalition in the Upper House election.
Polls open for key Upper House election that could shake Japanese politics
People vote during Japan's Upper House election at a polling station in Tokyo on Sunday.
Sunken WWII Japanese warship Teruzuki found off Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands. A team from the U.S. nonprofit Ocean Exploration Trust has discovered the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki on the deep seabed off the Solomon Islands as the 80th anniversary of the war's end approaches.
Japan team finds ancient ocean full of squids
The ancient ocean was full of squids, whose population exceeded that of fish or ammonites, a Japanese research team mainly from Hokkaido University has found through a new method using technology.
Hitomi Obara, 2012 Olympic champion in wrestling, dies at 44
Hitomi Obara competes at the London Olympics in August 2012.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
In Gaza-made obi, Palestinian embroidery meets Japanese kimono
The Palestinian Embroidery Obi Project brings together a traditional Japanese garment and age-old designs from the Middle Eastern region.

Podcast

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

Longform

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
By Megha Wadhwa

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