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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 8, 2023

North Korea’s failing foreign policy

Pyongyang’s nuclear program has yet to increase the country’s international standing, improve its security or enhance its ability to extract concessions from Tokyo, Seoul or Washington.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 8, 2023

Vladimir Putin's favorite entrepreneur specializes in war

The support that the leader of the Wagner mercenary group enjoys in invasion-era Russia reflects Vladimir Putin’s unusual idea of private enterprise.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 8, 2023

Xi rejects ‘westernization’ in show of faith for self-reliance

China’s successful development shows there is another way to modernize, leader Xi Jinping has said, doubling down on his goals of increased self-reliance and improved social justice.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 8, 2023

U.S. Ambassador Rahm Emanuel says Japanese industry can play bigger role amid defense challenges

Rahm Emanuel said building up 'resilience' across a number of sectors and supply chains and bolstering deterrence capabilities were crucial goals for the alliance.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Feb 8, 2023

Kyrie Irving ready to make fresh start with Mavericks

Irving said he was 'very disrespected' during part of his tenure with the Nets
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2023

Solar panels are the U.S. Midwest’s new cash crop as green energy booms

Ohio and Indiana — two Republican-led U.S. states long dependent on coal power — are set to see major expansion of solar farms.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 7, 2023

Mitsubishi Heavy pulls plug on long-troubled SpaceJet project

The firm has pointed to a lack of resources and unclear market prospects as some of the major reasons for discontinuing the project.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 7, 2023

North Korea pledges 'expanded, intensified' military drills

The pledge came at a meeting overseen by leader Kim Jong Un and follows last week's staging of joint air drills by South Korea and the United States.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 7, 2023

Japan's government adopts bills to prepare for future pandemics

The government will also establish an infectious disease crisis management agency at the Cabinet Secretariat possibly in fall this year.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 7, 2023

LDP flips on LGBTQ bill after gaffe by Kishida aide

The party will prepare to submit a bill encouraging understanding of LGBTQ issues, seeking to repair the damage from the former aide's discriminatory comments.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 7, 2023

Swiss neutrality on the line as arms-for-Ukraine debate heats up

A pro-Ukraine shift in the public and political mood is pressuring the government to end a ban on exports of Swiss weapons to war zones.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 7, 2023

Dollars smuggled from Pakistan bring lifeline for Taliban but pain for Islamabad

Outflows to Afghanistan are exacerbating a rapidly developing economic crisis for Pakistan while softening the impact of U.S. and Europe sanctions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 7, 2023

Google to release ChatGPT rival named Bard

Google's announcement came on the eve of an AI-related launch event by Microsoft in yet a further sign that the two tech giants will do battle over the technology.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 7, 2023

2022 was record-breaking year for North Korean crypto theft, U.N. says

Sanctions monitors said most cyberattacks were carried out by groups controlled by North Korea's primary intelligence bureau — the Reconnaissance General Bureau.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 6, 2023

Death, glory and warlordism in Vladimir Putin's Russia

The Russian state’s ideological madness and reversion to warlordism have been abetted by a religious fundamentalism.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 2023

Sales of security items jump after spate of robberies across Japan

Window films and auxiliary locks, both of which make break-ins through windows more difficult, are selling well, one store official said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 6, 2023

Landmark Hong Kong national security trial starts two years after arrests

The defendants were charged with conspiracy to commit subversion for participating in an unofficial primary election in 2020.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 5, 2023

Iran's Supreme leader pardons large number of security-related prisoners linked to protests

Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pardoned 'tens of thousands' of prisoners, including many arrested in recent anti-government protests.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 5, 2023

The Winter Olympics have a climate problem. Could Sapporo be part of the solution?

Sapporo is touting a study showing that among all past hosts, it will be the most climate resilient as the planet warms. But residents are less than enthusiastic about hosting.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 5, 2023

Pandemic to paradise: Chinese tourists return to Bali after three years

Officials are anticipating a return to normal Chinese tourist levels — which once amounted to a fifth of all visitors — on the island by 2025.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 5, 2023

Mikaela Shiffrin aiming to bloom in spring air at world championships

The 27-year-old American is one victory shy of Sweden legend Ingemar Stenmark's overall World Cup record of 86, parading an astonishing run of form this season to close in on the mark.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 5, 2023

Take a bow-wow! Meet Bobi, the world's oldest dog on record

At over 30 years old, the canine's owner attributes his longevity to living in the countryside, never being chained and eating only 'human food.'
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 3, 2023

‘Blood batteries’ drive America’s frantic EV ambitions

In its quest to secure the raw materials needed to make electric vehicles, the U.S. is turning to some questionable places.
Tsunami threat passes following magnitude 6.9 quake off Iwate
A tsunami advisory was issued for Iwate Prefecture on Sunday evening following a strong earthquake. The advisory was later called off, after waves measuring 20 centimeters were recorded in some areas.
The Toyota buyout is a major test for Japan’s reforms
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Takaichi plans pay cuts for herself and her ministers
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi chats with her Cabinet members in parliament in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Mother of Thai girl forced into sex work in Tokyo detained in Taiwan
The Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo’s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.
Jon Homewood: ‘There’s beauty in what we throw away’
After a peripatetic childhood around the world, teacher and artist Jon Homewood ended up coming to Japan in 2012 for a professional opportunity.
Yokozuna duo Onosato and Hoshoryu poised for another clash of titans
Yokozuna duo Onosato (right) and Hoshoryu clash for the title on the final day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Sept. 28 at Ryogoku Kokugikan.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.
A 40-year wait for ‘Mishima’ ends at TIFF
Made at a time when Japan was still grappling with Yukio Mishima’s legacy, Paul Schrader’s biopic “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” was blocked from screening in the country for decades.

Podcast

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

Longform

Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
By Yukana Inoue

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