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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Sep 27, 2021

18 months upon the rock: Perseverance amid the pandemic

With vaccinations increasing, it's time for us to get out from under our rocks and look at what life will be like in these post-pandemic times.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2021

Can Xi end China’s 'Gilded Age'?

High-stakes graft has exploded in China as politically connected capitalists ply politicians with lavish bribes in exchange for lucrative privileges.
Japan Times
Rugby
Sep 26, 2021

Ian Foster urges All Blacks to complete Rugby Championship grand slam

New Zealand and South Africa meet again next week on the Gold Coast to close out this year's Rugby Championship and Foster is setting his sights on a statement-making sixth consecutive win.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 16, 2021

North Korea's new railway-borne missile system built to strike 'threat-posing forces'

Analysts say the development could add complexity for a foreign military seeking to track and destroy the missiles before they are fired.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 11, 2021

Behind the ‘closed’ doors of Tokyo’s bars, alcohol is still flowing

A pervasive but hushed rebellion is happening across the city. Whether they accepted subsidies or not, bars operating as semi-secret COVID-era speakeasies are everywhere.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2021

What does Afghanistan reveal about the Biden doctrine?

Has the Biden doctrine arrived in time to counter China's rise or did the U.S.' two decades of war in Afghanistan leave China with too much of a head start to be stopped?
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 8, 2021

U.S. warship sails near man-made South China Sea islet, flouting new Chinese law

The U.S. Navy vessel passed near a Chinese-held island for the first time since Beijing began implementing a law requiring foreign vessels to give notice before entering waters it claims.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 8, 2021

It's in America's interest to court ASEAN

ASEAN is of tremendous strategic importance to the U.S. and Japan and should not be downplayed.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 8, 2021

The Taliban have their economic work cut out for them

There is much speculation that China could become Afghanistan's primary economic supporter and help it stay part of the global system. But that analysis is unrealistic.
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2021

Japan's new digital chief called out for image copyright gaffe

A blog post by Yoko Ishikura published last displayed a low-resolution image with a 'Pixta' watermark, a breach of the stock photo platform's terms of service.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 3, 2021

BOJ gets hip to social media with tweet on new ¥10,000 note

The bank's unveiling of a new u00a510,000 bill got mixed reactions from the Japanese public.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 24, 2021

Chip supplies to take new hit as COVID-19 surges in Malaysia

In recent years Malaysia has emerged as a major center for chip testing and packaging, but numbers of COVID-19 infections are soaring in the country and putting operations at risk.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 21, 2021

As Chinese vaccines stumble, U.S. finds new opening in Asia

Several Southeast Asian nations are raising doubts about the efficacy of China's vaccines. The Biden administration has recently offered to provide shots, “no strings attached.”
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2021

Terror and the Taliban

The reality is while the Taliban and Al-Qaida do share a similar religious ideology and worldview, they have very different objectives.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 18, 2021

Former Prime Minister Abe bids for a new role: LDP kingmaker

With Suga's falling popularity opening up an opportunity, Abe and his allies are vying for greater control over the LDP at the expense of Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 14, 2021

MLB will return to 'Field of Dreams' in 2022

'I think the reception that this event has received has been so positive that we will be back,' MLB Commissioner Manfred said.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 14, 2021

How to stock your home bar (with a Japanese twist)

It's quasi-prohibition time once more in much of Japan, and if ever there were a time to build a home bar, it's now. Here's how to get started, with tips from some of Japan's best bartenders
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 11, 2021

'Hope Buses' bring school to New Delhi students amid pandemic

Many families are too poor to afford the phones or other devices needed to study online.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 8, 2021

The far-right’s new-old war on women

Ultimately, the real problem for many on the far right is liberalism, and particularly the liberation of women from laws and social norms enforcing male domination.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 7, 2021

Let them eat pancakes: A new film looks at Yoshihide Suga's brand of politicking

Producer Mitsunobu Kawamura hopes that a new political documentary, 'Tasting the Pancake for Poison,' will entice younger voters to take part in the upcoming election.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2021

New buyers take the sting out of China’s ban on Taiwanese pineapples

A surge in shipments to Japan and a domestic 'save the farmers” campaign have helped cushion the blow of Beijing's block on imports of the sweet, juicy fruit.
Japan Times
PRESS / Publications
Aug 6, 2021

New issue of Foreign Student Times published

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.
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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