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JAPAN
Dec 30, 2020

Tokyo’s pandemic border policy highlights insecure status of foreign residents

Chaos, lack of debate and fears of public backlash are thought to have been behind unequal treatment of foreign nationals residing in Japan.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Beyond COVID-19
Dec 28, 2020

China’s fateful year, from Wuhan to Hong Kong

In 2020, relations with the West swung back toward mutual distrust and hostility, with the COVID-19 pandemic and Hong Kong national-security law playing decisive roles.
Japan Times
SATOYAMA CONSORTIUM
Dec 27, 2020

Small but creative Toyooka has outsized presence

The small coastal city of Toyooka has developed renowned presence by imaginatively developing the vitality of its economy and community.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Dec 26, 2020

Top 5: Food trends our critics want to see Japan embrace in 2021

Eyes (and stomachs) are already turning to 2021. Five of The Japan Times' critics share the dining trends they'd like to see the country embrace.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Dec 26, 2020

Kohachi Beerworks gives a whole new meaning to ‘local beer’

Julien and Nobuko Caudron source almost all of the ingredients for their brews from the tiny town of Kamiseya.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 26, 2020

She chronicled China’s crisis. Now she is accused of spreading lies.

Woman who became a symbol of Beijing's efforts to deny its early failings in the pandemic set for first known trial of a chronicler of China's coronavirus crisis.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Dec 24, 2020

Making way for a new kind of Christmas

Writer William Lang's previous Christmases were all about excess — the more presents and food, the better. But this year, he's celebrating the holidays with a minimalist approach.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 23, 2020

2020 in hindsight: Asia’s bad to good in the year that was

The Asian Development Bank projects COVID-19 could push 160 million more into poverty in Asia. The region's poverty rate will increase for the first time in 20 years, says the World Bank.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Dec 23, 2020

Hong Kong’s courts are the last check on Beijing’s growing power

The courts are on the front lines of a clash between two very different legal systems.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 22, 2020

Leaving Hong Kong: A family makes a wrenching decision

Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers are expected to emigrate as Beijing tightens its grip over its most restive city.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 22, 2020

Local case ends Taiwan's virus-free streak of eight months

A 30-year-old woman was confirmed to have caught the coronavirus after coming into repeated contact with a pilot from New Zealand who had caught the virus in the U.S.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 22, 2020

New tricks and old truths for the world’s second oldest profession: spying

The SolarWinds attack was a supply chain hack. One of the most successful U.S. espionage programs of the Cold War was a 20th-century version of this attack.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 21, 2020

Asian security rests on forging closer U.S.-Japan science and technology cooperation

The U.S. C&ET strategy identifies a list of 20 priority areas of which Japanese firms have some of the leading technologies, such as advanced manufacturing and space technologies.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 21, 2020

Vaccines don’t mean we’ll see the last of COVID-19, experts warn

Even with the latest technologies, money and might behind the unprecedented global drive to knock out COVID-19, the disease is unlikely to be eliminated any time soon.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 21, 2020

The coronavirus is mutating. What does that mean for us?

It will be very hard for the coronavirus to escape the body's defenses, despite the many variations it may adopt.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 20, 2020

Biden calls climate change ‘existential threat of our time’

Biden on Saturday introduced key members of the team he is assembling to fulfill his pledge to combat climate change.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Dec 19, 2020

There’s a story behind each of Makiko Minagawa’s textiles

The former textile director of Miyake Design Studio is still pushing the boundaries of natural fabric, craftsmanship and sustainability.
BUSINESS / View from Osaka
Dec 19, 2020

From Expo 2025 to tourists, Kansai’s hopes for the coming year

Economic recovery and making plans for a post-coronavirus world are set to be on the minds of residents and businesses in the region going into 2021.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 18, 2020

Five things to watch in Japanese politics in 2021

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's power atop the government is not assured, and with some significant elections scheduled, domestic politics could once again shake things up at the top.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 18, 2020

Biden should look to Obama's Asia-Pacific trade strategies

As president-elect Joe Biden prepares for his inauguration, the international community is anticipating how the incoming administration will approach free trade.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 16, 2020

Can Hong Kong return to the situation before the national security law?

In the current political climate, it is difficult to see China reversing its current course of greater integration of Hong Kong into the mainland.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 15, 2020

Politics — not public health — drove Suga U-turn on Go To Travel

The plan to balance the health of the economy against that of people in Japan appeared to hit a wall, as public, political and scientific opposition grew.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 15, 2020

The U.S. Pacific Deterrence Initiative: A chance to turn the corner in Asia

This year's NDAA includes the Pacific Deterrence Initiative , which while a virtual drop in the budget — at $2.2 billion — is a potentially big deal for regional security.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 13, 2020

Japan’s year-end cleaning tradition is doubly important in 2020

Experts offer practical advice to make sure your house is tidy and safe for everyone spending the holidays inside.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 13, 2020

Don’t let Iran get away with hostage-taking

When the old hostages are sent home, the regime simply arrests new ones to replenish its stock of political pawns. The vicious circle is repeated.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 12, 2020

For Biden’s economic team, an early focus on climate

One issue that could distinguish Biden's core economic team from its predecessors? Climate change.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2020

As cases rise, government postpones Go To Travel decision to next week

'Nobody can predict what will happen next week,' said Shigeru Omi, chair of the government's coronavirus subcommittee, during a news conference Friday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Dec 11, 2020

Coronavirus puts an end to Tokyo shop that served ramen for 15 years

Seven other ramen restaurants have closed in the area since March.
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.
Victims mourned 17 years after Akihabara indiscriminate attack
A mourner prays for the victims of a stabbing rampage on a street in Tokyo's Akihabara district on the 17th anniversary of the incident on Sunday.
‘Kokuho’ finds riveting drama on and off the kabuki stage
Lee Sang-il’s "Kokuho" stars Ryo Yoshizawa as an orphan from a yakuza clan who rises through the world of kabuki to become a star performer.
Junto Nakatani remains on collision course with Naoya Inoue after latest win
Junto Nakatani celebrates after defeating Ryosuke Nishida to unify the WBC and IBF bantamweight titles at Ariake Coliseum on Sunday.
At a mountainside shrine, yuzu candy made by imperial decree
Descendents of the original "Gonin Byakushō" families are the only vendors allowed inside the gates of Kotohira Shrine, where they sell "kamiyoame," a golden-hued, yuzu-flavored candy meant for good fortune.
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.

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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