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ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Nov 29, 2022

Great Barrier Reef 'in danger' due to climate change, U.N. panel says

Canberra has lobbied for years to keep the reef off the endangered list as that could lead to losing its heritage status, taking some shine off its appeal for tourists.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Nov 11, 2022

Don’t get confused using your ei bii s(h)ii's when writing Japanese

There are two systems in place to romanize Japanese. One way reflects how the language is pronounced today, the other might be more true to original Japanese.
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Nov 8, 2022

Spate of launches raises prospect of North Korean missile with multiple nuclear warheads

Such a weapon would potentially allow for a single missile to drop nuclear warheads on a broad swath of targets, complicating missile defense efforts.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 22, 2022

China's Xi expands his power by elevating loyalists and forcing out moderates

Evidence of Xi's even tighter hold over the party came on Saturday, when the Communist Party congress approved a new membership list for the Central Committee.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 20, 2022

Japan to further relax crypto rules by easing listings of tokens

The relaxed rule could take effect as early as December, helping startups compete with established players by smoothing the process of listing tokens and lowering the bar for market entry.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Oct 1, 2022

Putin’s war machine funding is unscathed by latest sanctions

A raft of sanctions so far haven't materially affected the war on the ground in Ukraine or dented the Russian leader's determination to pursue it despite repeated setbacks.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 26, 2022

Xi’s 'core' status reaffirmed as party unveils congress invitees

In a Monday editorial, the People's Daily newspaper urged delegates to closely align behind 'comrade Xi Jinping as the core” of the party.
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BUSINESS
Sep 25, 2022

Joe Biden’s climate bill has the U.S. battery industry revved up

Battery upstarts are salivating over goodies in a bill, particularly the tax credits for manufacturing components in the U.S.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 18, 2022

Ukraine searches for its dead at Russian occupation burial site

Kyiv says hundreds are buried at the site discovered last week, including at least 17 Ukrainian servicemen found in a mass grave on Friday and others who may be civilians.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 18, 2022

Tokyo's new sushi shops keep focus on quality but pare back on frills

Dreaming of sushi? Having nightmares about the bill? Believe it or not, you can find a middle ground.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 8, 2022

AI panned my screenplay. Can it crack Hollywood?

Artificial intelligence hopes to bring science to picking movie winners in a business long run by gut instinct.
Japan Times
GLOBAL INSIGHT / Mauritius report 2022
Aug 26, 2022

Robust regulatory climate offers African platform

For a small island nation in the Southern Indian Ocean, Mauritius is certainly making a major impression on the global stage courtesy of a world-class international financial center (IFC) that provides a robust and reliable backbone for an attractive, safe and well-regulated financial services sector,...
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BUSINESS
Aug 11, 2022

U.S. rethinks approach to China tariffs in wake of Taiwan response

The president's team has been wrestling for months with various ways to ease the costs of duties imposed on Chinese imports during predecessor Donald Trump's tenure.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 13, 2022

Rivals vying to replace Johnson are diverse in background, not in plans

The degree of uniformity is especially striking, given that the candidates are competing to replace a prime minister who was criticized for lurching wildly from crisis to crisis.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 8, 2022

Japan's crypto body eyes scrapping strict rules for token listings

The Japan Virtual and Crypto Assets Exchange Association has held discussions about letting local exchanges list cryptocurrencies without going through its screening process.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 28, 2022

How a Russian billionaire shielded assets from European sanctions

Andrey Melnichenko ceded ownership of two of the world's largest coal and fertilizers companies to his wife the day before he was sanctioned by the European Union, sources said.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
May 22, 2022

Award-winning alchemical delights at Japan’s best bar

Fresh off being named Japan's top spot for a tipple, Ben Fiddich and its imaginative owner have much more planned than just the next top-shelf drink.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 12, 2022

Russia puts sanctions on Gazprom units in Europe and part owner of pipeline

The entities on a list of affected firms on a Russian government website on Wednesday were largely based in countries that have imposed sanctions on Russia.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 18, 2022

Tesla and others prepare Shanghai restarts as city aims to ease lockdown

SAIC Motor, the Chinese partner of Volkswagen and General Motors, said it would start stress-testing its production resumption plans on Monday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / Longform
Mar 28, 2022

For some shrinking towns in Japan, depopulation isn't all bad news

For the first time, more than half of all municipalities in Japan will be designated by the government as wholly or partially underpopulated from April 1.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 25, 2022

Russia remainers say leaving would hand Putin an easy win

Moves by Nestle SA, Renault SA and Philip Morris International Inc. to scale back their Russian businesses have left a dwindling handful of holdouts resisting the corporate exodus.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 28, 2022

North Korea says it held test for developing military reconnaissance satellite

Kim Jong Un moved closer to ticking another box on his weapons wish list, with his country saying it had conducted “an important test” for developing a military reconnaissance satellite.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 24, 2022

EU sanctions Russians linked to Putin but holds back on deploying full sanctions 'arsenal'

Member states of the bloc adopted sanctions Wednesday against 23 high-ranking individuals including banking executives, military chiefs, media figures and a top Kremlin official.
JAPAN
Jan 14, 2022

Japan shortens interval for COVID booster by a month amid omicron's spread

The gap for people under 65 has now been shifted to seven months, and the government has also cut the isolation time for close contacts to 10 days.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Dec 18, 2021

Browns taking ‘next man up’ to extremes against Raiders

'We have been here before,' head coach Kevin Stefanski said. 'I do not feel much different than I felt yesterday in terms of everybody has to step up depending on who is available.'
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 11, 2021

Tokyo’s best Christmas markets

It's never too early to get into the festive spirit at these domestic incarnations of the annual European celebrations.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 4, 2021

With its exit, Didi sends a signal: China no longer needs Wall Street

With plenty of its own money and a greater desire to control the private sector, Beijing is pushing its companies to tap investors closer to home.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 4, 2021

U.S. State Department phones hacked with Israeli company spyware

Apple Inc. iPhones of at least nine U.S. State Department employees were hacked by an unknown assailant using sophisticated spyware developed by the Israel-based NSO Group.

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past