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COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead
Jan 10, 2023

Testing times ahead for Beijing

Will China's ideological doubling down on the state over the market continue to impede its overall economic growth performance?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 18, 2022

Was Trump or Brexit the bigger mistake? The answer is clear.

As Americans and Britons are discovering, nations can recover from bad elections far more easily than from bad referendums.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 15, 2022

Biden and Xi ease Cold War fears, but fundamental frictions remain

While their “blunt” talks marked a positive — if modest — step forward, the million-dollar question is whether that momentum can be sustained, as key challenges remain.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 6, 2022

Three presidents swoop into Pennsylvania in a clash that transcends 2022

The establishment politics of the two most recent U.S. Democratic presidents met the disruptive force of the last Republican one, with control of Congress at stake.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Oct 18, 2022

Japan Times 1922: Japan women accuse men of tyranny

A women's magazine challenges the authority of Japanese men and a Japan Times writer takes issue. The exchange is an insight into the challenges Japanese women faced a century ago.
CULTURE / Longform
Sep 26, 2022

Big in China, but can the party last for Japan’s artists?

Overseas artists can make a splash in China — provided they abide by the rules.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / Longform
Aug 29, 2022

How faith and spirituality shape modern Japan

The religious movement behind the grudge held by the man charged with Abe's assassination has cast a fresh light on how religion is perceived and practiced in the nation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 29, 2022

Pakistanis plant trees to provide relief from scorching sun

In a country where forest cover lags far behind average levels across South Asia, planting trees helps absorb carbon dioxide emissions, which contribute to warming global temperatures.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 25, 2022

On U.S. foreign policy, the new boss acts a lot like the old one

The Biden administration has charted the same course as the Trump administration on strategic priorities like China, the Middle East and U.S. military deployments.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jul 23, 2022

Aviation nurses a nasty headache as travel recovers from COVID-19

The aviation industry has turned the page on an unprecedented pandemic shock — only to face mounting worries over supply chains and reminders that its future hinges on decarbonization.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 13, 2022

Pacific looks to international court for help on climate

Vanuatu is spearheading a campaign to ask the Hague-based tribunal 'to protect the rights of present and future generations against the effects of climate change.'
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Jul 2, 2022

Japan Times 1947: National Diet holds first ‘free debate’

An economic white paper was discussed in the Lower House in July 1947 when a “free debate” was held for the first time in Japan's parliamentary history.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jun 17, 2022

Getting ‘hai’ is more difficult than you think

It's a simple word but sometimes using a well-placed “hai” is all it takes to facilitate a good conversation in Japanese.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 4, 2022

Leaked abortion draft raises alarm over future of privacy and LGBTQ rights in U.S.

Other protections grounded in the rights given by the U.S. Constitution to privacy could be vulnerable to the same arguments in draft.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 1, 2022

Elon Musk’s ties to China could create headaches for Twitter

Musk's investments in China could be at risk if Twitter upsets the Communist Party, which has banned the platform but used it extensively to push Beijing's foreign policy around the globe.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Apr 14, 2022

Nakagin, Nakagone: Demolishing an architectural dream

Japan Times editor Chris Russell joins to discuss the story of Nakagin and why he thinks it has captivated so many people over the years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 11, 2022

Amazon’s drone delivery program is hit by crashes and safety concerns

An investigation based on internal documents, government reports and interviews with employees reveals a program beset by technical challenges, high turnover and safety concerns.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 30, 2022

Russia's war of aggression and Asia’s great reset

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led to tectonic shifts in the strategic environment around the world, and Northeast Asia is no exception.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Mar 30, 2022

How the pandemic exacerbated Japan's gender inequality

Hanako Montgomery, a reporter for Vice World News in Japan, discusses Japan's poor record on gender equality.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 9, 2022

Future turns dark for Russia’s oil industry

With short-term turmoil for the Russian oil industry a given at this point, the long-term future of an industry which bankrolls a large portion of the government budget has turned cloudy.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Feb 25, 2022

Translation: The fifth language skill no one tells you about

Knowing two languages must mean you can translate between them, right? Not necessarily. Here are a few tips for when you suddenly find yourself in a translator role.
China’s massive scale, strong education system and competitive local governance have enabled it to reach the technological frontier and dominate high-tech manufacturing despite its low per capita gross domestic product.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2025

Demystifying the manufacturing success of China

The obvious question is how a country with such low per capita GDP has managed to reach the technological frontier in so many sectors.
Chatbots are pivoting to the ad model and optimizing for eyeballs, just like social media did. And AI knows more about us than Google or Facebook ever did.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 21, 2025

Ads ruined social media. Now they’re coming to AI.

Imagine a person telling their AI they’re feeling depressed, and the system recommending some affordable holiday destinations or medication to address the problem.
Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook attends the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's 2025 Jackson Hole economic symposium, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Saturday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 26, 2025

Trump to fire Fed board's first African-American woman over mortgage allegations

The unprecedented step could test the boundaries of presidential power over the independent monetary policy body should it be challenged in court.
Jet fighters from the North American Aerospace Defense Command intercept a Chinese long-range H-6 bomber operating in the Alaska air defense identification zone in July 2024.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 27, 2025

Joint Sino-Russian patrols push Japan to rethink defense posture

Over the past two years, joint China-Russia overflights have become increasingly sophisticated and extended.
Nadia, a military radio operator who served until she was eight and a half months pregnant, with her son Pavlo, 6, at their home in Lubny, Ukraine, on Jan. 28.
WORLD
Aug 28, 2025

Expecting on the front lines: Motherhood in Ukraine’s military

Despite the hardships they face, many pregnant soldiers say they are motivated to serve for the future of Ukraine — and their children.
A worker wearing protective equipment walks near the Electric Arc Furnace at the 7 Steel facility in Cardiff, Wales, on July 18.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Aug 28, 2025

Sky-high electricity costs hindering the U.K.'s progress toward net zero

Energy bills have stripped firms of money to improve efficiency, deterred the shift to lower-carbon power sources and made wind-farm, pylon and battery production less competitive.
AI can amplify the long-known ability to implant false memories, with new MIT and University of California, Irvine, research showing that chatbots, misleading summaries and altered images or videos can distort what people recall.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2025

AI doesn’t just lie — it can make you believe it

Memory manipulation, notes Pat Pataranutaporn, a researcher with the MIT Media Lab, is a very different process from fooling people with deep-fakes.

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight