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OLYMPICS
Jun 26, 2021

Four-time Olympian Lindsey Vonn feels boycotts should be left up to athletes

'If athletes want to boycott that's their prerogative and their right,' Vonn said.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Washoku Essentials
Jun 26, 2021

Approach mealtime differently with a washoku mindset

Japanese kitchen traditions — using food fully while being mindful of balancing color, flavor and method — will help you put together a meal that's healthy, colorful and delicious.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 26, 2021

Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22½ years in murder of George Floyd

The verdict was widely seen as a landmark rebuke of the disproportionate use of police force against Black Americans.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 25, 2021

One city 'ready to explode' as U.S. murder rates surge in pandemic

With 34 homicides already this year, Rochester is on pace for a record-high 70 murders in 2021 — a per-capita rate that exceeds Chicago, one of America's most violent large cities.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 25, 2021

Tesla’s solar roof rollout is a bust — and a fixation for Elon Musk

The product is essential to Musk's vision for the company to become a one-stop shop for a household's clean energy needs.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 25, 2021

What else has Hong Kong lost, readers ask, as a paper is silenced

To many, Apple Daily was a symbol of the civil liberties that have been lost as Beijing has tightened its grip over the city.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 24, 2021

New Panasonic CEO says efficiency to fuel Tesla business and spur growth

What's now critical to Panasonic's future growth is its relationship with the world's biggest maker of electric cars and ability to claim a share of the global market for EV batteries.
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2021

Japan braces for surge in electricity use during scorching summer and Olympics

With many people expected to tune into the games from their air-conditioned homes, utilities are forecasting tighter reserve power ratios than usual.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 23, 2021

Honda goes all in on electric cars in stark contrast to Toyota

Honda has said publicly it will phase out sales of gasoline-powered cars completely, setting 2040 as the goal.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 23, 2021

SoftBank’s Son may stay on as chairman past age 69

Masayoshi Son isn't letting go of the reins at SoftBank Group Corp. anytime soon, even as the founder tells shareholders he's taking the issue of his succession seriously.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 23, 2021

The end of Iran's Islamic republic

It was less an election than a chronicle of a death foretold — the death of what little remained of the constitution's republican principles.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 23, 2021

China condemns latest U.S. warship transit of Taiwan Strait

The latest mission comes around a week after Taiwan said 28 Chinese air force aircraft entered Taiwan's air defense identification zone in the largest reported incursion to date.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Jun 23, 2021

Wrestlers preparing for tough conditions at early Nagoya Basho

With sweltering temperatures and strict restrictions on activities, sumo's first grand tournament outside Tokyo in over a year will challenge rikishi more than usual.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 22, 2021

Carlos Ghosn looms over Nissan annual meeting years after arrest

Shareholders at the automaker's annual meeting Tuesday repeatedly questioned executives about the events surrounding Ghosn's 2018 arrest.
JAPAN
Jun 22, 2021

One month out, Tokyo Olympics enter 'full delivery phase'

In the Olympics, 339 gold medals will be up for grabs across 33 sports, including five competitions making their Olympic debut or being reintroduced to the event.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 22, 2021

World’s biggest stock owner grapples with a child labor dilemma

As ethical matters take center stage, the world's biggest investors are navigating gray areas and trying to figure out the best way to engage.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 22, 2021

U.S. employers wrestle with COVID-19 vaccine requirements in regulatory 'hairball'

Monitoring the vaccination status of staff members may require identifying those who got a COVID-19 shot with badges or bracelets, raising discrimination issues.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jun 21, 2021

Another pink tide? Latin America's left galvanized by rising star in Peru

A new shift to the left in Latin America could impact the balance of diplomacy with the United States and China.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / The Big Questions
Jun 21, 2021

David Malone, rector of the United Nations University

Name: David Malone
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 21, 2021

COVID-19 counting enters new era as threat shifts away from cases

With rich countries vaccinating growing proportions of their vulnerable populations, the link between infection numbers and deaths appears to be diminishing.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jun 21, 2021

Bringing gluten-free concepts and cuisine to Japan

The medical problems associated with gluten are not as common in Japan, though some think this may not be the case a few years down the road.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 20, 2021

The race to save African-American cemeteries from being 'erased'

The sense of crisis in Thoroughfare, Virginia, echoes a growing urgency across the country to stop the destruction of African-American burial grounds.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Jun 20, 2021

How Japan's vaccine drive turned into a comeback story

Given the importance of vaccinations, an expert says Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's heavy-handed approach with municipalities could be credited for the accelerated pace.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jun 20, 2021

Returning U.S. Olympians rely on experience for another shot at glory

Earning a place on the United States Olympic team is tough at the best of times — but booking your ticket to a third, fourth or even fifth games during a pandemic is an enormous challenge.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jun 20, 2021

Polly Barton's 'Fifty Sounds' is an excavation of language through onomatopoeia

Many readers may know Polly Barton better as the translator behind Aoko Matsuda’s “Where the Wild Ladies Are,” which won an English PEN award last year; and Kikuko Tsumura’s “There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job,” released in November 2020. But if her latest individual work, “Fifty Sounds,”...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / The World of Translators
Jun 20, 2021

Morgan Giles: ‘I’m astounded by the sense of community among literary translators’

The World of Translators series wraps up with Morgan Giles, whose first full-length work, Yu Miri's “Tokyo Ueno Station,” won the National Book Award for translated literature in 2020.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Jun 20, 2021

Getting the dirt on Japan’s latest clay creations

Today, tiles are an architectural staple. Many are still made using traditional techniques, and some manufacturers are finding creative ways to revamp their wares for a wider audience.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jun 19, 2021

Biden’s cyber red line is prime for a Putin challenge, experts say

The Russian leader may attempt to comply with Biden's pronouncement by 'washing” hacking through 'affiliates in disparate nation states” to make it harder to attribute the attacks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 19, 2021

Britain turns into test case for COVID-19 endgame

After inoculating a larger proportion of people than any other major economy, Britain is emerging as a test case in Europe as it attempts to draw a line under COVID-19.

Longform

Construction equipment sits idle in a park near Shiba Toshogu shrine in Tokyo's Minato Ward. While Japan has a history of treating its trees with reverence, green coverage is said to be lacking in most of the major cities.
Do Japan's trees no longer occupy the sacred space they used to?