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GLOBAL MEDIA POST / Los Angeles report 2020
Jun 8, 2020

AKT Trading: Growing Asian food culture in the U.S.

Many small- and medium-size food and beverage companies, particularly in Japan, have taken notice of a promising opportunity in the growing market for Asian food around the world, including in the United States, where the population of Asians continues to increase.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: GAMES
Jun 7, 2020

A remastered game gives you 101 reasons to stay home

Revisiting a cannibalistic world, puzzle-filled nightmares and 101 superheroes
LIFE / Travel
Jun 6, 2020

Getting the wheels back on Japan's travel industry

Unprecedented travel restrictions have crippled tourism, forcing businesses in the sector to rethink strategies and explore new opportunities.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Jun 6, 2020

Japan's confusing rainy season

Woman: Is it raining?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 5, 2020

Amazon in talks to buy $2 billion stake in Indian telco Bharti Airtel: sources

The planned investment, if completed, would mean Amazon acquiring a roughly 5 percent stake based on the current market value of the company.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 5, 2020

Travel restriction poses challenges for Japanese firms with international workforce

Researchers who work in laboratories and new employees expected to acquire skills during workplace training sessions have been left in limbo.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Jun 5, 2020

Hokkaido farms and fisheries hit as campus closure robs them of workers

With university students having headed home due to the COVID-19 outbreak, business owners are feeling the effects of a severe labor shortage.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 4, 2020

Hong Kong democracy activists press Japan to reconsider Xi visit

Pro-democracy campaigners say timing of such a trip would be inappropriate given current international criticism over the human rights situation in the city.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jun 4, 2020

Japan's smart cities: Technological dreams or 'Big Brother' nightmares?

Late last month, the Diet passed a revised bill paving the way for so-called “super cities” or “smart cities.” Supporters tout them as high-tech marvels where artificial intelligence and big data are to be used to provide more efficient and cost-effective solutions to social problems, especially...
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 4, 2020

Will U.S. protests spread coronavirus? Experts say it’s too soon to tell

The demonstrations are a new challenge in efforts to test and trace new infections, a key step to swatting down new clusters of cases.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 4, 2020

Vigil banned, Hong Kong to mark Tiananmen crackdown with 'candles everywhere'

Many in Hong Kong plan to commemorate the bloody 1989 crackdown by Chinese troops in and around Tiananmen Square by lighting candles across the city on Thursday evening, circumventing a ban on large public gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 3, 2020

Despite pandemic, Uniqlo to open new store in Tokyo's Harajuku

The opening of the shop follows a 56.5 percent plunge in Fast Retailing's domestic same-store sales in April, its worst year-on-year decline.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 3, 2020

Hong Kong’s leader decries U.S. ‘double standards’ over protests

Hong Kong’s leader blasted the U.S. for "double standards” in the way it handles protests after the Trump administration vocally supported sometimes-violent demonstrations in the Asian financial hub.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 3, 2020

Most Americans sympathize with protests and disapprove of Trump's response

A majority of Americans sympathize with nationwide protests over the death of an unarmed black man in police custody and disapprove of President Donald Trump's response to the unrest, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday.
Japan Times
Rugby
Jun 2, 2020

Sunwolves bosses express pride, regret at end of Super Rugby tenure

Sunwolves CEO Yuji Watase and head coach Naoya Okubo emphasized the contributions that the team made during its five years in the Southern Hemisphere competition.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2020

Osaka introduces QR contact tracing system as bars and restaurants reopen

Users who scan the code at establishments will be notified if another patron is later found to have become infected.
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jun 2, 2020

Trump envisions a three-way nuclear pact. China has other ideas.

Washington takes aim at Beijing's atomic ambitions as Trump administration vows to craft 'new era of arms control.'
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jun 2, 2020

Go big when you're clearing out your space

After sitting at home for two months, you may finally be up to getting rid of some of those big items you don't need.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Jun 1, 2020

Coaches make good use of time away from court

The quarantine period was a great opportunity for coaches to broaden their horizons by learning from some of the most-renowned coaches on the international level.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 1, 2020

Apple to reopen flagship Tokyo stores as Japan eases virus curbs

All 10 of Apple's stores in Japan will be open by midweek, after the company tentatively resumed sales at two of them a week ago.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
May 31, 2020

Jin Sato: Taking a global view of state-society relations

Professor Jin Sato on the most memorable lecture he ever gave, Japan's go-to techniques for multinational cooperation and the three foods he always has in his fridge.
JAPAN
May 31, 2020

Single-parent support group in Japan urges more aid to offset income drops from pandemic

Nearly 70 percent of single-parent families have reported or are expecting their income to drop during the coronavirus pandemic, a recent survey says.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 31, 2020

Small clinics on brink as virus-wary patients stay home in Japan

Doctors in these small but vital facilities are calling for government support as patients stay away to avoid the risk of coronavirus infection.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
May 30, 2020

Texas is showing the world how to reopen cautiously

A month into the reopening of one of America's biggest economic engines, Texas looks like it's going to take longer than we thought.

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