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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Sep 8, 2020

John Baumlin: Getting out the U.S. vote in Japan

The national chair of Democrats Abroad Japan says it's not difficult for Americans overseas to continue to engage in their democracy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2020

Trump promised a coal comeback but America’s miners need an energy revolution

Mining has always been physically risky, and right now the job is more insecure than ever.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 6, 2020

China sits at epicenter of raging U.S. election thunderstorm

Beijing's position on the contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, the standard-bearer of the Democratic Party, is that it has no position.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Post-Coronavirus Briefing
Sep 6, 2020

A supersurveillance society and its impact on democracy

The coronavirus pandemic has given rise to stronger authoritarianism, populism and nationalism, threatening to harm rights-based systems.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Sep 6, 2020

Uyghurs in Japan call for action to end forced labor in Xinjiang

Twelve Japanese manufacturing giants have been accused of complicity in the group's repression by sourcing supplies from factories exploiting their forced labor.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 5, 2020

Rise & Win: A victory for beer lovers (and sustainability)

Rise & Win beer is brewed in the zero-waste town of Kamikatsu, and that philosophy is built into the foundation of its brewery and Tokyo taproom.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society / ANALYSIS
Sep 5, 2020

Surge of white nationalism in U.S. echoes historical pattern, scholars say

The first Black woman is on a major party presidential ticket, Americans of all races are showing their support for the Black Lives Matter movement and at the same time white nationalists are ramping up recruiting efforts and public activism.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 4, 2020

BLM Tokyo keeps Black art center stage with Harmonic Wavelength

Black Lives Matter Tokyo aims to celebrate Black culture and encourage conversations about race in Japan with an online music event.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 3, 2020

Telework forces a rethink of working and living in Tokyo

A drastic shift to telework is putting a brake on the capital's ever-growing population, which may ease overconcentration in the metropolitan area.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 3, 2020

Toyooka Theater Festival brings French flair to Japan’s theater scene

Dramatist Oriza Hirata's dream of holding Japan's version of the Avignon Festival is becoming a reality with a two-week arts fete starting on Sept. 9.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 2, 2020

Trump visits Wisconsin, not to urge racial healing but to back police

U.S. President Donald Trump defied requests to stay away and visited Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, not to urge racial healing after a white officer shot a Black man in the back but to express support for law enforcement in a city rocked by civil unrest.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2020

China alone: Will the prospect of isolation thwarts Beijing's imperialist ambitions?

In his most recent New Year’s speech, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared that 2020 would be “a milestone.” Xi was right, but not in the way he expected. Far from having “friends in every corner of the world,” as he boasted in his speech, China has severely damaged its international reputation,...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Aug 31, 2020

As Japan partially lifts re-entry ban on foreign residents, concerns grow over strict procedures

The Immigration Services Agency has claimed the strict conditions for re-entry are aimed at limiting the spread of the virus in Japan.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 31, 2020

Demand for online doctors creates $39 billion titan in Japan

M3, which gets about three-quarters of its revenue from Japan, also has units in China, India and France.
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / Greece report 2020
Aug 31, 2020

Back from the brink

It took just a little more than 10 years for Greece to recover from the global recession of 2008 to 2009. The hardest hit among European Union members, the country, at the height of the crisis, saw more than a third of businesses in Athens shut down.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Aug 30, 2020

Kono and Esper look to keep China in check, but challenges abound

Tokyo is facing a double-barreled challenge with a leadership transition amid the COVID-19 pandemic and Beijing's growing maritime assertiveness.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 29, 2020

Japan's small-scale sake breweries struggle to survive

2020 is proving to be a rough year for sake breweries, and the pandemic has forced many into making tough decisions about marketing and production.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 29, 2020

Most U.S. states reject Trump administration's new COVID-19 testing guidance

A majority of U.S. states have rejected new Trump administration COVID-19 testing guidance in an extraordinary rebuke of the nation's top agency for disease prevention, according to officials at state health agencies and public statements reviewed by Reuters.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 28, 2020

All Japan’s foreign residents can travel in and out from September

The announcement comes amid intensifying criticism of the existing policy from the foreign community and business groups affected by the restrictions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 28, 2020

Epidemics, economics and externalities

The COVID-19 pandemic and environmental threats will hopefully fuel demands for greater social solidarity.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Aug 28, 2020

All Okinawa political movement reaches a crossroads

With two years to go to the next gubernatorial election, the coalition faces a critical moment.
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Aug 28, 2020

Schools in Japan face tough decisions as coronavirus spreads

Some have had to close for weeks when pupils have shown symptoms.
Reader Mail
Aug 28, 2020

Embassies should step in and help returnees self-quarantine

Regarding the Aug. 10 article “Re-entry ban horror stories pile up in Japan's Indian community,” This is a sad situation. My heart goes out to those foreigners who are deeply attached to Japan and are legal residents here but find themselves stranded away from Japan for some reason or the other,...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 27, 2020

Coronavirus in vacant China apartment implicates toilet in spread

The discovery of the coronavirus in the bathroom of an unoccupied apartment in Guangzhou, China, suggests the airborne pathogen may have wafted upwards through drain pipes, an echo of a large SARS outbreak in Hong Kong 17 years ago.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Aug 27, 2020

China fires missiles into South China Sea as U.S. sanctions Beijing

Japan's top government spokesman says Tokyo has been watching Beijing's recent moves in the South China Sea 'with concern.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 26, 2020

COVID-19 brings three-decade economic boom to a sudden halt in Vietnam

For the past three decades, Vietnam has known only good — or great — economic news. The nation's consistent growth as an exporter pushed many into the middle class.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 26, 2020

South Korea orders striking doctors back to work amid surge in coronavirus cases

South Korea ordered doctors in the Seoul area to return to work on Wednesday as they began a three-day strike in protest of several government proposals, including one to boost the number of doctors to deal with health crises like the coronavirus.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 25, 2020

Japan's take on a most unconventional Democratic convention

The reaction in Tokyo was mostly even-handed, if a little less enthusiastic than the coverage in the U.S. media.
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 an indiscriminate fatal attack on a street of Tokyo's Akihabara district on the 17th anniversary of the incident on Sunday.
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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