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BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2021

Chinese students pay agents $12,000 for inside track to Wall Street

The practice has a growing number of detractors, who are questioning whether it's fair or good for the industry to give another leg up to the well-heeled.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Apr 13, 2021

Union loss may bring new phase of campaign against Amazon

Labor leaders said they would step up their informal efforts to highlight and resist the company's business and labor practices rather than seek elections at individual job sites.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Apr 13, 2021

Hideki Matsuyama: A quiet Masters winner long lionized in Japan

In 2017, his penchant for privacy became clear: He announced that he'd married months earlier and that he and his wife had had a child.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 12, 2021

With its economy in free fall, Myanmar braces for the worst

Small businesses are on the front lines of an economy now facing crisis after a group of generals seized power on Feb. 1.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Apr 12, 2021

Virus variants could propel fourth wave to new heights as Japan's cities clamp down

A significant increase in testing and genomic screening would better reveal the spread of virus variants, but experts question the country's ability and willingness to do so.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 12, 2021

The dangerously flawed U.S. Senkakus policy

Earlier this week Kyodo News dropped a bombshell (pun intended) by introducing the contents of declassified U.S. documents that the U.S. government turned down a request in June 1978 for its military based in Japan to use its firing and bombing ranges in the Senkaku Islands.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Apr 12, 2021

In Fukushima, data gathered to allay mothers' radiation concerns

One scientist is adamant giving birth in the prefecture is safe, but wants to provide the necessary proof to provide to would-be parents.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 12, 2021

China considering mixing COVID-19 vaccines to boost protection rate

The move comes after Beijing's top disease official said the country's available vaccines 'don't have very high rates of protection.'
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 11, 2021

Raised fist, dangling handcuffs: A snapshot of Cuban dissent

To those who want the end of the one-party state, Maykel Castillo, 37, is a hero. To others he is a social misfit.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 11, 2021

Biden backs Taiwan, but some call for a clearer warning to China

As China grows stronger and bolder, some experts want to end Washington's decades-long policy of “strategic ambiguity.”
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 10, 2021

Arm's battle with China CEO escalates, complicating SoftBank sale

The China dispute also raises questions about Beijing's willingness to protect foreign investment in the world's second-largest economy.
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.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 9, 2021

Crimes against women spur more surveillance in South Asia

Use of these technologies with no evidence that they help reduce crime, and with no data protection laws, has raised alarm among privacy experts.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 8, 2021

Sex, murder and a getaway car: ‘Ride or Die’ stars go on the trip of a lifetime

Kiko Mizuhara and Honami Sato discuss the challenges of bringing Ching Nakamura's harrowing, sexually explicit manga to the screen in a provocative new Netflix movie.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 8, 2021

Baseball deserves to lose its antitrust immunity

It never truly had any legitimate usefulness; the antitrust exemption, which no other professional sport enjoys, is as nonsensical a thing as exists in the law.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 8, 2021

Activist investors get their moment in Japan with $21 billion Toshiba bid

In corporate Japan, activist investors have gone from largely impotent onlookers to kingmakers in the space of just a few years.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Apr 7, 2021

Late Kototsurugi's illustrations captured sumo's essence

The former rikishi's caricaturish style, a longtime fixture of sumo merchandise and media, is widely considered a definitive representation of the sport.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 7, 2021

A fairer world requires fairer tech. Here’s why.

In the decade ahead, a wave of technological solutions will touch and transform every part of our lives. These new solutions could either tackle existing problems — or exacerbate them while creating others. As tech can scale both progress or harm, the time is now to shape the fair and responsible future...
JAPAN
Apr 6, 2021

Spread of U.K. strain casts shadow over Kansai COVID-19 measures

In Osaka, new rules have faced questions and criticism over their enforcement and whether or not the policies will actually reduce the number of coronavirus infections.
Japan Times
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Apr 6, 2021

Jets trade quarterback Sam Darnold to Panthers

The New York Jets traded quarterback Sam Darnold to the Carolina Panthers on Monday in exchange for a sixth-round pick in the 2021 NFL Draft and second- and fourth-round selections in 2022.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 5, 2021

With stories and puppets, environmentalist battles to save Indonesia's mangroves

Caked in mud up to their knees, a small group of Indonesian youngsters plant mangrove saplings along a stretch of exposed coastline next to the Java Sea under the watchful eye of local environmentalist Samsudin.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 5, 2021

China pushes vaccine on bankers and colleges to catch up with U.S.

The prospect of other countries — particularly geopolitical rivals like the U.S. — reopening their economies and borders sooner is hardening the resolve to speed up vaccinations.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 4, 2021

As meme stock mania fizzles, Wall Street sees ‘big reckoning’

The day-trading Reddit crowd turned the first quarter of 2021 into one of the wildest periods of stock market mania in modern history. Books — plural — will undoubtedly be dedicated to the topic in years to come.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Perspectives
Apr 4, 2021

Can COVID-19 turbocharge the 'Asian century'?

If nothing else, the China-U.S. rivalry has forced Japan to become a genuine leader for Asia.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Apr 3, 2021

Is change sweeping the sclerotic Japanese film industry?

The Japan Academy awarded top honors to the LGBTQ-themed drama “Midnight Swan” and its star, and Tokyo International Film Festival announced that its 34th edition would see more diversity.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 2, 2021

One of Taiwan’s few allies weighs embracing China for vaccines

As poor nations struggle to get their hands on vaccines, a thinly-populated South American country finds its chances linked to its unexpected role in tensions between the U.S. and China.

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