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Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 17, 2021

U.S. and France clash over surprise Australia submarine deal

The French foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, was blunt, saying his nation, whose friendship with the U.S. dates to the American Revolutionary War, felt 'stabbed in the back.”
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 16, 2021

Taiwan plans $9 billion boost in arms spending

Taipei has warned of an urgent need to upgrade weapons in the face of a 'severe threat' from its giant neighbor China.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 16, 2021

Germany at risk from nationalists as Merkel leaves party adrift

As Angela Merkel prepares to step down after 16 years as chancellor, the scene is a sign of how the pandemic has sustained the anti-establishment resentment.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 16, 2021

Next prime minister unlikely to set off Bank of Japan policy shift, survey shows

Some 84% of survey respondents predict there won't be any meaningful change in monetary policy as a result of the new political leadership, while the other 14% say it's hard to tell.
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Sep 15, 2021

North Korean missiles land in Japan EEZ as nuclear threat grows

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has condemned the launches, the second test-firing in less than a week, as an “outrageous threat to peace and security in the region.'
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 15, 2021

Coronaviruses jump from animals to humans 400,000 times annually, study claims

Infections involving viruses related to COVID-19 shows the ongoing pandemic threat, according to work by EcoHealth Alliance and Duke-NUS Medical School that is pending peer review.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 15, 2021

Vending machines bring safe and cheap water to Nairobi slums

The dispensers, each costing 200,000 shillings, mean Mukuru residents will no longer be at the mercy of the slum's informal, exploitative water market.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Sep 13, 2021

Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez offer glimpse of exciting future for women's tennis

No one could have predicted it would be left to two teenagers to create this kind of frenzied hype in women's tennis.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Sep 13, 2021

North Korea tests new cruise missiles that put Japan in striking distance

The new weapon, which could evade missile defenses and deliver nuclear bombs to most of the country, is expected to play into the ongoing debate over Japan acquiring strike capabilities.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Sep 12, 2021

Kasumi Abe: ‘We have to tell younger generations what happened here’

On the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York, Japanese journalist Kasumi Abe reflects on her love for the city she now calls home.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 11, 2021

What does it mean to ‘never forget’?

For all its slogan-like simplicity, these twinned words seem freighted with the complexities of guilt, obligation and even presumption — as if we could ever forget.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2021

Biden team weighs China trade probe in bid to press Beijing

USTR has asked outside consultants to help quantify the damage from Chinese subsidies in order to measure the kind of response that's appropriate should an investigation proceed.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 9, 2021

Taliban Cabinet choices could hamper recognition by West

Foreign countries are greeting the makeup of the new government in Afghanistan with caution and dismay.
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 Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 8, 2021

Vaccines versus COVID-19: The great immunity debate

People who don’t want to get vaccinated will grasp at any new piece of information to justify their reluctance — the latest being some pretty good data suggesting that the natural immunity left after recovering from COVID-19 is stronger over the long run than immunity generated by the Pfizer vaccine....
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS
Sep 6, 2021

Why Ukraine’s small Paralympic team packed such a big punch

Ukraine has been one of the top six countries in the medal count at nine consecutive Paralympic Games, summer and winter.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 6, 2021

U.S. citizens and Afghans wait for evacuation flights from country’s north

The holdup reflects the challenges of foreign governments working with the Taliban, which has yet to form a government.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 6, 2021

Army seizes power in Guinea and arrests president

The coup follows a long period of political tension in Guinea, first spurred by President Alpha Conde's highly contested bid for a third term last year.
JAPAN / Explainer
Sep 4, 2021

Lambda variant has been found in Japan: Here's what you need to know

Despite being listed as a variant of interest by the WHO, Japan has been slow to release information on lambda.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 3, 2021

If COVID-19 wasn’t worry enough, the climate crisis comes roaring back

The most eye-opening development of the past three months has not been the COVID-19 pandemic, but the dramatic increase in the frequency and severity of extreme weather.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 3, 2021

A U.N. system with Taiwan in it would be more resilient

Taiwan believes its effective response to the global pandemic at home and abroad shows there is no compelling reason for it not to play a constructive role in the U.N. system.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 2, 2021

Japan needs a lot more tech workers. Can it find a place for women?

The country is pushing to digitally modernize itself, but one of the developed world's starkest gender gaps is holding it back.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2021

How the best and brightest fail in times of crisis

Without a new approach to crisis solving that captures the true complexity of our world, we will continue to be blindsided by systemic failures.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 31, 2021

NATO has a responsibility to save Afghans

Just as Albania has offered shelter to thousands of refugees fleeing the Taliban, all NATO members must recognize their responsibility as well.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 31, 2021

U.S. troops exit Afghanistan, ending America's longest war

The chaotic withdrawal concluded two decades of American involvement touched off by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Aug 29, 2021

Kerala's COVID-19 lessons for India and Modi's government

The opposition-ruled, densely populated southern state is currently reporting the highest number of coronavirus cases in the country.
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.

Podcast

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

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
By Mai Yoshikawa

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