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COMMENTARY / World
Jun 15, 2020

‘Who’s Zoomin’ Who?’ is now an ominous question

Zoom must do more to win back confidence
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 15, 2020

Trump vs. Biden: Who is better for Japan?

No matter who is the president, it has been always difficult for Japan to deal with the United States.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 15, 2020

Weather the storms together: Building new bridges from New York to Japan

Resiliency has always been a defining theme between the U.S. and Japan.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 15, 2020

Central, Pacific Leagues announce schedules for remainder of season

After announcing their first month of games earlier this month, both the Central and Pacific Leagues revealed the remainder of their schedules for the 2020 season on Monday.
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Rugby
Jun 15, 2020

Rugby World Cup star Kenki Fukuoka gives up Olympic aspirations for career in medicine

Brave Blossoms star has decided to focus his attention on club rugby while also trying to get into medical school.
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JAPAN / Society
Jun 13, 2020

Suicide in Japan: Seeking to part the dark clouds as pandemic threatens recent progress

The death of u2018Terrace House' star Hana Kimura in May has thrust the issue of suicide back into the national spotlight.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jun 13, 2020

Emil Pacha Valencia: Building a bridge with Tempura

Emil Pacha Valencia examines the difference between modern and traditional Japanese culture in his magazine.
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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jun 13, 2020

Japan's parents are struggling with the never-ending cycle of preparing three meals a day

'It's the thought of having to deal with the next meal as soon as this one is over, in whatever shape or form that meal may take.”
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jun 13, 2020

A new lease of life

'The public gym is open! Shall we go tomorrow?'
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CULTURE / Stage / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Jun 12, 2020

Okinawa cultural hall shows what the new normal will look like for theaters

In publishing a composite image of a socially-distanced theater crowd, the hall painted a bleak image of the future of stage in Japan.
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BASKETBALL / B. League
Jun 11, 2020

Shinji Shimada embraces challenge of leading B. League

Shimada said that having run companies over the last quarter-century, including a travel agency and the Jets, he has been adept at turning them around.
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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jun 11, 2020

Tea time steeped in flavors the world over

Travel plans are markedly different this year, but The Strings by InterContinental Tokyo is bringing the world to the metropolis via its Afternoon Tea Journey promotion at Rhythmos Cafe and Bar where diners can savor the flavors of the world until June 30.
LIFE / EVENTS AND INFORMATION
Jun 11, 2020

Views of time change as telework increases

The latest Time Memorial Day report issued by leading timepiece manufacturer Seiko Holdings investigates Japanese responses to ideas about time and how it has changed during COVID-19, the company announced on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 11, 2020

Zoom suspends U.S.-based activists' account after online Tiananmen event

Humanitarian China founder Zhou Fengsuo said that the group had yet to receive an answer from Zoom about why its account was closed.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 11, 2020

‘The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8’: Little beasts battle COVID-19 online

Film production in Japan shut down in early April as part of the response to the outbreak of COVID-19, and as weeks passed with no signs of an immediate revival, filmmakers began to adapt to the situation by making “isolation” films.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 10, 2020

China and scientists dismiss study suggesting coronavirus spread in August 2019

Beijing dismissed as "ridiculous" a Harvard Medical School study of hospital traffic and search engine data that suggested the novel coronavirus may already have been spreading in China last August, and scientists said it offered no convincing evidence of when the outbreak began.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 9, 2020

Time to build the post-pandemic world order

This is not only a battle about now but also over what comes next.
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WORLD
Jun 9, 2020

Trump's troop cut in Germany blindsided U.S. officials, sources say

U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to cut U.S. troop levels in Germany blindsided a number of senior national security officials, according to five sources familiar with the matter, and the Pentagon had yet to receive a formal order to carry it out, Reuters has learned.
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WORLD
Jun 9, 2020

WHO says pandemic 'far from over' as daily cases hit record high

More than 136,000 new cases were reported worldwide on Sunday, the most in a single day so far.
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MORE SPORTS
Jun 8, 2020

NPB and J. League plan for regular testing when play resumes

Japan's top pro baseball and soccer leagues were advised to test players and officials on a regular basis.

Longform

Koichi Tagawa’s diary entry from Aug. 9, 1945, describes the day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person