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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 1, 2020

India and Pakistan nuclear procurement networks larger than thought

Hundreds of foreign companies are actively procuring components for India and Pakistan’s nuclear programs, taking advantage of gaps in the global regulation of the industry, according to a report by a U.S.-based research group.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 28, 2020

COVID-19 strategy: The Japan model

The nation has a comparatively low mortality from COVID-19 despite the absence of a strict lockdown.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Apr 28, 2020

Dead, incapacitated or healthy, Kim Jong Un speculation serves as useful thought exercise

Whatever Kim Jong Un's fate, speculation over his condition brings into focus important considerations for Asia, including how it might grapple with a scenario involving his death.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Feb 22, 2020

Fake news rears its ugly head amid COVID-19 outbreak

Fake news times fake news is fake news squared — which is to say, it goes viral. It multiplies like a virus, which multiplies like fake news.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 12, 2020

Turned away on coronavirus fear, Westerdam cruise ship risks running low on food

Countries could continue to refuse to berth the Westerdam cruise ship carrying 2,257 people, citing unfounded fears of deadly COVID-19, until conditions on the luxury liner become so dire that it invokes an emergency.
BUSINESS
Jan 16, 2020

Possible ban of Nike Vaporfly 'supershoe' pushes up Asics and Mizuno shares

The sneakers have helped elite runners shatter records since their release.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Jan 3, 2020

Japan SDF mission in focus after U.S. assassination of top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani

The SDF unit deploying next month was to independently patrol a quiet area south of the Hormuz Strait, but now it might have a target on its back.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Help Wanted?
Dec 29, 2019

Student's death reveals dark side of Bhutan-Japan exchange program

A year has passed since the lifeless body of a Bhutanese exchange student was discovered hanging from a tree in a public park in Fukuoka.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Dec 20, 2019

Paul Pogba is staying at Manchester United, manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has ruled out selling midfielder Paul Pogba in January and denied media reports that the club is in talks with Salzburg striker Erling Haaland over a possible transfer.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 10, 2019

Countering Beijing's South China Sea strategy

With some reverse thinking, smaller nations may be able to deter a major power.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 15, 2019

Wakayama curry killings revisited: Kin of convicted killer Masumi Hayashi break silence after 21 years

On a recent summer evening, tranquility reigned in this small neighborhood in Wakayama, where nothing but the occasional barking of dogs and chirring of grasshoppers broke the peaceful silence.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 13, 2019

North Korea may be hiding hog apocalypse from the world

By official accounts, the pig contagion wreaking havoc across Eastern Asia has virtually skipped over North Korea, with a single outbreak reported there in May. But wayward feral pigs have stoked concern that Kim Jong Un's reclusive state is hiding an African swine fever disaster.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2019

60 rescued after North Korean fishing vessel collides with patrol boat belonging to Japan's Fisheries Agency

The incident took place inside Japan's exclusive economic zone off the coast of the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2019

Trump says he discussed Biden in call with Ukrainian president

U.S. President Donald Trump acknowledged Sunday that he had discussed Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his son in a call with Ukraine's president.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / INSIDER REPORT
Jul 29, 2019

The future of Japan's energy and environmental policies

This is the fifth and final article in a series of reports about Japan's energy policy.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 20, 2019

In Pyongyang, Xi and Kim discuss nukes as speculation grows over possible message to Trump

Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday kicked off his first visit to Pyongyang as president, meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, telling him that the international community expects the U.S. and North to restart nuclear talks in efforts to produce a tangible outcome.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 19, 2019

Mike Pompeo snubs his experts and blocks inclusion of Saudis on U.S. child soldiers list, say sources

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blocked the inclusion of Saudi Arabia on a U.S. list of countries that recruit child soldiers, dismissing his experts' findings that a Saudi-led coalition has been using under-age fighters in Yemen's civil war, according to four people familiar with the matter.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 28, 2019

Worried about Huawei? Take a closer look at Tencent

The social media giant is a growing global force, and it does Beijing's bidding.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Mar 19, 2019

Myanmar military court plan to probe army's alleged Rohingya atrocities hit as 'delusional'

Myanmar's army said on Monday it had set up a military court to investigate its conduct during a crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority in 2017 that forced more than 730,000 to flee to neighboring Bangladesh.
Japan Times
LIFE / EVENTS AND INFORMATION
Feb 28, 2019

Commons Festa event to welcome investors

Commons Asset Management Inc., which celebrates 10 years since the launch of its Commons 30 Fund this year, will hold events in Kyoto in March and Tokyo in April to on the company's fund performances and other activities, as well as offering attendees the opportunity to mingle with investors.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 27, 2019

U.S. and Canadian fighters scrambled after Russian bombers buzz North American coastline

The U.S. military has said that American and Canadian fighter jets were scrambled after two nuclear-capable Russian heavy bombers entered Canada's air defense identification zone on Saturday in the Arctic region near the North American coastline.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 27, 2019

Foreign troops would exit Afghanistan in 18 months under draft deal, Taliban sources say

Taliban officials said U.S. negotiators on Saturday agreed on a draft peace deal setting out the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan within 18 months, potentially ending the United States' longest war.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jan 7, 2019

China says pace of Xinjiang 'education' will slow but defends camps amid highly chaperoned, staged tour

China will not back down on what it sees as a highly successful de-radicalization program in Xinjiang that has attracted global concern, but fewer people will be sent through, officials said last week in allowing rare media access there.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 21, 2018

China's warning to the democratic world

Instead of trying to divide the U.S. from its allies, Beijing is taking hostages.
Takaichi poised to become Japan's first female PM after winning LDP poll
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, holds a news conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Saturday.
A Japanese ski resort town is roiled by a debate over immigration
A Swedish snowboard instructor works at the Niseko ski resort area on Hokkaido, in Kutchan, in December 2022
Tokyo's newest stationery store sells 'a slower, more human rhythm'
Plotter's signature customizable leather binder is just one of many products contributing to the ongoing boom in the popularity of Japanese stationery.
One dead, one missing in Japan after bear attack
A bear warning sign. More and more wild bears have been spotted in Japan in recent years, even in residential areas, due to factors including a declining human population and climate change.
Japan’s jobless rate edges up to highest in over a year
August’s unemployment figures showed a slight tempering of Japan's job market, but the data still points to overall firmness amid an ongoing labor shortage.
Eat your balloons: The culinary theater of Grant Achatz comes to Tokyo
Avant-garde chef Grant Achatz and his team from Alinea are in Tokyo for a three-week residency.
Japan’s first foreign wine investor plants its roots in Hokkaido
Intrigued by Japanese wines, Burgundy winemaker Etienne de Montille decided to explore Hokkaido's wine scene, eventually setting up his outpost in Hakodate in 2017.
Tea ceremony experts see matcha boom as a big opportunity
Atsuko Mori, founder and director of Kyoto-based tea salon Camellia Tea Ceremony, prepares matcha during a tea ceremony in Kyoto.
The summer kabuki came roaring back
Kabuki has been trying for years to attract a new generation of fans. One way to do this has been to adapt manga and anime franchises, such as “Naruto,” for the stage. 
How Ohtani has boosted Japan's soft power and made LA even more baseball-obsessed
Fans at Dodger Stadium pose in front of a mural highlighting the Dodgers' Japanese stars from past and present during a game earlier this year.

Podcast

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

Longform

Growing families are being priced out of Tokyo’s condo market, forced to choose between downtown convenience and suburban space.
Is living in central Tokyo still affordable?
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We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.
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