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Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 7, 2022

How Republican-led states are targeting Wall Street with 'anti-woke' laws

The growing restrictions show how America's culture wars are creating new risks for U.S. companies, forcing them to balance pressure from workers and investors.
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2022

Scandal-tainted Ichikawa mayor's furniture auctioned off for ¥3 million

The desk and chair of the former mayor of the city in Chiba Prefecture sold for about 1.5 times its original price.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jul 7, 2022

Ravaged by floods, Bangladesh pitches plan to adapt to climate impacts

Residents and aid groups said the June floods, caused by record-shattering heavy monsoon rains in India's upstream Meghalaya state, were the worst in living memory.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 7, 2022

Strong support validates Kishida's world-defying inflation policy ahead of vote

The prime minister has endorsed the Bank of Japan's unorthodox stance of keeping borrowing costs at rock-bottom levels even as inflation heats up.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 7, 2022

In China's Shenzhen, nostalgia persists for the old days of Hong Kong culture

Before Shenzhen began to be transformed in the 1980s, Hong Kong's freewheeling economy represented a consumer haven for many from the mainland.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 7, 2022

EU parliament backs labeling gas and nuclear investments as green

The move paves the way for the European Union proposal to pass into law, unless 20 of the bloc's 27 member states decide to oppose it, which is seen as very unlikely.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 7, 2022

Defiant Johnson refuses to quit amid resignations and firings

More than 40 ministers and aides followed the example set a day earlier by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid in quitting.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 7, 2022

‘Believers’ is explicit but has nothing to say

Hideo Jojo's cult caper is a kinky, flimsy throwback to the turn of the millennium when the Japanese public was still reeling from attacks by the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 7, 2022

‘Broken Commandment’: A timely call for a tolerant society

Kazuo Maeda's film about a man grappling with his identity as a member of the burakumin minority group in the late Meiji Era faces questions of equality that still exist in Japanese society.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 7, 2022

Tokyo rock quartet Hazy Sour Cherry's strange adventure

The band breaks out of its comfort zone on 'Strange World,' a playful set of indie-pop songs inspired in part by the sense of exploration in Western media such as 'Stranger Things.'
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 6, 2022

U.K. PM Boris Johnson vows to plow on despite slew of resignations

Johnson has suffered an exodus of ministers in just 24 hours and faced an hourslong grilling from the chairs of the House of Commons' most powerful committees.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 6, 2022

In the land of the free, democracy is under attack

Voters need to recognize the Supreme Court's radical majority for what it is: part of a carefully laid plan to turn the U.S. into a repressive regime.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 6, 2022

The supply-side fight against inflation

A recession can be avoided if policymakers recognize the large role that supply-side measures must play in restoring price stability.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 6, 2022

Wall Street says a recession is coming. Consumers say it's already here.

Prices are soaring worldwide, particularly for essential foods and fuels, eroding the spending power of families.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 6, 2022

Russia’s brain drain is officially under way

Georgia estimates about 30,000 Russian citizens have arrived there since the war in Ukraine began. Many arrived recently from Belarus and Ukraine, too.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 6, 2022

China's private health system hurt by tough coronavirus controls

Dozens of private hospitals have declared bankruptcy in China during the past two years, pushed over the edge by the cost of complying with the country's 'COVID zero' policies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 6, 2022

Tesla may be driving itself out of the running

The British bicycle bubble of the 1800s should signal caution for Tesla's stock as rival car companies catch up with EV technology.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 6, 2022

Middle East crippled by more sandstorms amid climate change and poor water use

These days the storms are coming earlier and more frequently, rising well above the once-normal once or twice a year, starting as early as March and spreading over a wider area.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 6, 2022

Failed ‘Captain Tsubasa’ NFT offers window into the risks of crypto

While Japan has not yet experienced a large NFT boom, some of the country's most famous pop culture staples have been appropriated for dubious 'Web3' products.
Japan Times
SUMO
Jul 6, 2022

Far from war, Ukraine sumo team trains for global glory in Japan

The wrestlers, hailing from one of amateur sumo's hotbeds of activity, flew to the United States on Tuesday after completing a monthlong camp ahead of the World Games.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 6, 2022

Alleged Shanghai cyberattack exposes dangers of China’s data trove

The purported theft of 23 terabytes of personal information on up to a billion Chinese citizens from a police database could be one of the biggest leaks the world has ever seen.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jul 6, 2022

Christophe Galtier the man for PSG's latest change of approach

The 55-year-old, who has has developed a reputation as an outstanding coach over the last decade in France, becomes PSG's seventh different manager since the Qatari takeover of 2011.
Shohei Ohtani's response, or lack thereof, to the gambling scandal sheds light on the cultural differences in crisis management between Japan and the West.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 2, 2024

Ohtani swings and misses at PR, but he’s not Japan’s first

Shohei Ohtani's response, or lack thereof, to a gambling scandal sheds light on the cultural differences in crisis management between Japan and the West.
People ride motorcycles near the site where a building collapsed, following the earthquake, in Hualien, Taiwan, on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 4, 2024

Taiwan's strongest quake in 25 years kills at least nine, injures over 1,000

Scores of emergency workers were trying to shore up damaged buildings and demolish those deemed impossible to save.
Japanese markets brace for triple whammy if opposition wins big
A Sanseito campaign van in Shinjuku. The populist party is gaining ground and challenging the more centrist parties.
Sunken WWII Japanese warship Teruzuki found off Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands. A team from the U.S. nonprofit Ocean Exploration Trust has discovered the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki on the deep seabed off the Solomon Islands as the 80th anniversary of the war's end approaches.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
In Upper House race, younger voters in Tokyo turn to DPP for new direction
The Tokyo district has the highest number of candidates in the 2025 Upper House election with 32 people in the running for seven seats.
Concerns grow in Japan over possible Russian interference in Sunday’s election
A think tank researcher said anti-government propaganda by Russian bot accounts was what has made the small far-right party Sanseito so popular leading up to the Upper House election.
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.

Podcast

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

Longform

After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
By Megha Wadhwa

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