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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Oct 31, 2022

With sweeping chip export rules, U.S. moves to choke off China’s tech rise

The unprecedented controls may have far-reaching implications as Washington seeks to slow Beijing's technological and military rise.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 30, 2022

The domestic factors behind North Korea’s missile tests

Historically, Pyongyang launches its most provocative foreign policy moves when the regime faces particularly intense problems at home. Current North Korean behavior fits this pattern.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 29, 2022

Xi invokes Mao in visit to cradle of Communist revolution

Xi's choice to visit Yan'an — a site inextricably linked with Communist China's founder Mao Zedong — was an important, deliberate indication of the themes of his next five years.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2022

XBB variant, spreading fast in Singapore, detected in Tokyo

The coronavirus subvariant features several mutations in its spike protein, giving it an exceptional ability to evade immunity. But its severity is not yet known.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2022

The case for South Korea to go nuclear

A nuclear-armed Seoul may be the best option for the South Korea-U.S. alliance to deter a nuclear war with Pyongyang.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 27, 2022

Warming seas bring Indonesia's fishermen deadly storms and empty nets

Fierce storms and high waves have often made it too dangerous for fishing boats to leave the shore this year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 26, 2022

Filling the gaps in the Indo-Pacific security architecture

With many nations in the Indo-Pacific afraid to address hard security issues and stand up to China, is the paradox of 'minilateralism' fatal and scaring off potential partners?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 26, 2022

The West has failed: North Korea is a nuclear state

From Afghanistan to China, Biden has been willing to abandon ill-fated policies. The goal of removing nuclear weapons from North Korea should be the next to go.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 26, 2022

Swamped by crises at home, Sunak expected to adopt pragmatic Asia policy

New PM has vowed to prioritize “policies not personalities,” while attempting to unite his party after his predecessor's chaotic time in office.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 25, 2022

Japan wary of Xi's more hard-line stance on Taiwan

Tokyo is planning to call on China through dialogue to exercise restraint on its assertive moves in the region.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 23, 2022

Xi Jinping secures unprecedented third term as China leader

Xi was picked as the party's general-secretary for another five-year term in a closed-door vote, meaning he is almost certain to be elected president next year.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 23, 2022

Urgency lacking as tuberculosis passes COVID-19 as biggest killer

Around 5% of the 9.5 million people who contract TB each year are resistant to commonly prescribed antibiotics, making them difficult to treat.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 22, 2022

Why Japan stands virtually alone in keeping interest rates ultralow

The yen is plummeting and inflation is climbing, but Japan's economic circumstances have led to a view that raising rates would do more harm than good.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Oct 20, 2022

Indonesia to strike green energy deal with rich nations at G20 summit

The multibillion-dollar agreement is expected to help Indonesia retire coal-fired plants early and ramp up investment in renewables.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 20, 2022

The wishful theory of a ‘strategic Russian defeat’

Advocates want to transform a defeated Russia in the way Germany and Japan were after they lost World War II. But that will not be easy.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 20, 2022

For women in China’s Communist Party, it’s lonely at the top

The Communist Party congress this week is once again a typical scene of suits and ties, with less than a third of the delegates being women.
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2022

Rival parties work together to craft bills helping 'spiritual sales' victims

By reaching out to the opposition, Kishida could pass a bill faster while dampening the momentum of opposition members grilling him on the issue of the Unification Church.
PODCAST / deep dive
Oct 19, 2022

Japan reopens its borders. Are tourists ready to return?

Masks? Vaccinations? Yen? You're ready to come to Japan! News chief Kanako Takahara and reporter Will Fee join the podcast this week to discuss whether the country's grand reopening will help its beleaguered tourism sector.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 18, 2022

For China's women, this week's congress is unlikely to mean progress

Xi's decade in power has seen the number of women in politics and elite government roles decline and gender gaps in the workforce widen, academics and activists say.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 17, 2022

Over a barrel, Biden faces tough options with Saudis

Despite growing action on climate change, the United States is decades away from being insulated from high oil prices.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 16, 2022

Xi refuses to rule out taking Taiwan by force, warning of 'dangerous storms' ahead

The powerful Chinese leader is widely expected to win a third term at a twice-a-decade Communist Party congress and cement his place as the country's most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2022

'Inevitable': Views on U.S. bases shift in Okinawa

With Okinawa Prefecture now a front line in the burgeoning confrontation between China and regional U.S. allies, bases are becoming increasingly important.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 12, 2022

Pressure grows on the West to speed air defense systems to Ukraine

On Tuesday, leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized nations pledged 'undeterred and steadfast” financial and military support for Ukraine.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 11, 2022

So you want to work remotely: a guide

As more employers offer flexibility, countries, travel brands and entrepreneurs are stepping in to make working from anywhere easier, with everything from special visas to work pods.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 11, 2022

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse struggles

Meta's push to develop virtual and augmented reality technology has had a bumpy year.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Smart Countryside
Oct 9, 2022

The city aiming to change perceptions of electronic voting in Japan

Tsukuba, a designated Super City in Ibaraki Prefecture, is hoping its trials of online voting among schoolchildren can be rolled out to municipal polls and beyond.
Transport ministry issues warning to Haneda Airport operator
The operator of Tokyo's Haneda Airport has been warned by the government over its inappropriate transactions.
Xi defiance pays off as Trump meets most China trade demands
Then-Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping visits a school in South Gate, California, in February 2012. Experts say Xi won big in his standoff with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Nissan shares surge as carmaker set to cut 20,000 jobs in huge overhaul
U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on cars and car parts imported to the U.S. have been painful to most global brands, but crippling in Nissan’s case.
Japan might be playing long game in U.S. tariff talks
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House earlier this year. Ishiba said Monday that farmers won't be sacrificed for automakers in Japan's tariff negotiations with the U.S.
More details emerge about stabbing near Tokyo University metro station
Yoshitaka Toda, the suspect in Wednesday's knife attack at Todaimae Station on the Tokyo Metro Nanboku Line, leaves a police station in the Japanese capital the same day for a pre-detention medical examination.
Japan set for bigger role in Philippines after SDF’s debut in key drills
Philippine Army Brig. Gen. Michael Logico, who was involved in managing the latest iteration of the Balikatan U.S.-Philippine drills, told The Japan Times that he expects military ties with Japan to surge even further once Tokyo ratifies a key visiting-forces agreement with Manila.
In China’s ‘Michelin Guide,’ Tokyo leads overseas listings with 30 entries
China's Black Pearl Restaurant Guide held its award ceremony overseas for the first time, picking the dining capital of Singapore to promote its brand to an international audience.
Who could become Japan's next prime minister?
Clockwise from top left: Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi
With a new Shibuya studio, Apple Music bets big on Japan
Apple Music personalities (from left) Ebro Darden, Kentaro Ochiai, Zane Lowe and Mino came together for a special recording in late April to discuss music and celebrate the newly opened Apple Music studio in Tokyo.
Escalation fears rise in Japan following Chinese moves near Senkakus
A Japan Coast Guard vessel sails in front of the Uotsuri islet, one of the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands. Concerns are growing in Tokyo after a Chinese government helicopter violated Japan's airspace around the uninhabited islets.

Podcast

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

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