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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 25, 2020

Is China a free trader or just a free rider?

On issues of market access for goods, if China wants to join CPTPP, it must negotiate from scratch with all 11 members.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Nov 25, 2020

Japan Times 1970: Writer Yukio Mishima commits ritual suicide

100 YEARS AGO
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 25, 2020

Evidence builds that an early mutation made the pandemic harder to stop

There is no evidence that a coronavirus with the mutation causes more severe symptoms, kills more people or complicates the development of vaccines.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 24, 2020

Sapporo and Osaka suspended as Go To Travel destinations

Residents of Sapporo and Osaka looking to travel elsewhere will continue to have access to discounts offered under the government-run campaign.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Nov 24, 2020

Undersea internet cables offer more resilient connection

Japan has a new role to play in helping connect Asia with the rest of the world through a growing network of fiber optics.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Nov 24, 2020

Let's discuss what banks are doing with our personal data

A Bloomberg piece looks at Mizuho's new business, which leads to a discussion on what companies can do with your personal data.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Nov 23, 2020

Cheap, spacious, crowd-free: Rural Japan is having a moment with the foreign community

Laura Blackhall took a risk purchasing an empty house in the Ibaraki countryside. Amid and following a pandemic, though, it's a choice that just might pay off.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 23, 2020

Biden to prioritize COVID-19, but Kim Jong Un may have other ideas

'The Biden administration cannot afford to ignore Pyongyang — and North Korea has ways of ensuring it is not ignored,' says former U.S. State Department official Evans Revere.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2020

Biden picks Blinken, defender of global alliances, as top envoy

Antony J. Blinken, a defender of global alliances and one of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s closest foreign policy advisers, is expected to be nominated for secretary of state, a job in which he will try to coalesce skeptical international partners into a new competition with China, according to...
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 22, 2020

A partnership in coronavirus misinformation

Two separate but increasingly allied groups are peddling misinformation: a small but active corner of the Chinese diaspora and the highly influential far right in the United States.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 21, 2020

The coronavirus is airborne indoors, but we’re still scrubbing surfaces

Scientists who initially warned about contaminated surfaces now say here is little to no evidence that deep cleaning mitigates the threat indoors.
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2020

Japan sets another daily record with 2,388 coronavirus cases

“It's crucial that people don't become complacent,” Toshio Nakagawa, president of the Japan Medical Association, stressed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 19, 2020

Sony and Microsoft consoles struggle in launch week as stock runs thin

Factory and logistical disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic have hurt manufacturers' ability to keep up.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2020

Tokyo to raise alert as Japan sets daily record with 2,000-plus COVID-19 cases

The alert level was established to warn residents to exercise further caution but can also be used to signal the announcement of additional virus countermeasures.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 18, 2020

Corporations and foreign nations pivot to lobby Biden

While Biden has taken steps to demonstrate his distance from lobbyists, his presidency is being welcomed in Washington's influence industry.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2020

Trump to saddle Biden with last-minute flurry of policy moves

U.S. President Donald Trump is rushing to leave his final mark on energy, financial and foreign policy while stalling the transition to President-elect Joe Biden — who warned that further delays in the handoff risk increasing the coronavirus death toll.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 16, 2020

Behind Trump’s yearslong effort to turn losing into winning

The strategy uses the power of the executive branch, an army of lawyers, the conservative news media and the obedience of fellow Republicans in a bid to bend reality.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 14, 2020

As soon as Trump leaves office, he faces greater risk of prosecution

The president is more vulnerable than ever to an investigation into his business practices and taxes.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 13, 2020

Japan faces another coronavirus wave, but this one’s different

A high number of asymptomatic cases compared to previous outbreaks, as well as more transmissions in households and workplaces, are forcing a rethink.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 13, 2020

How one firm drove influence campaigns for big oil across the U.S.

In early 2017 the Texans for Natural Gas website went live, urging voters to "thank a roughneck” and support fracking. Around the same time, the Arctic Energy Center ramped up its advocacy for drilling in Alaskan waters and in a vast Arctic wildlife refuge. The next year, the Main Street Investors...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 13, 2020

‘A black eye’: Why U.S. political polling missed the mark. Again.

This year's problems are alarming, both to people inside the industry and to the millions of Americans who follow presidential polls.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 12, 2020

How the dream of Hong Kong democracy was dimmed

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers said Wednesday that they would resign en masse to protest Beijing’s growing control over the local legislature, one of the last remaining centers of dissent in the Chinese city.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 12, 2020

With the PlayStation 5, Sony sees a long-term cash cow amid gaming boom

The new PlayStation is Sony's most important gadget since the Walkman, and it goes head-to-head with Microsoft Corp.'s next-generation Xbox over the holidays.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Nov 12, 2020

The surging coronavirus finds a U.S. leadership vacuum

As the United States enters what may be the most intense stage of the pandemic yet, the Trump administration remains largely disengaged.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 11, 2020

Tokyo logs 317 COVID-19 cases — most since August — amid nationwide surge

The spike in coronavirus cases is prompting concern at the highest levels of government, with a virus subcommittee urging officials to take countermeasures.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2020

Japan sounds alarm bells as coronavirus cases surge in Hokkaido

Officials warn the sharp rise in new infections in Japan's northernmost prefecture could be the beginning of an explosive surge across the country.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 10, 2020

Biden has won, now allies must act

The unmistakable conclusion is that U.S. foreign policy must change. Enduring success demands that a U.S. president see that domestic needs are better met.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 10, 2020

Could listening to the deep sea help save it?

Scientists have been capturing the sounds of the ocean off Japan in a bid to understand the mysteries of the world below the surface.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 10, 2020

Buffeted by Trump, China has little hope for warmer relations with Biden

While many will welcome an expected change in tone, few expect Biden to quickly reverse the confrontational policies his predecessor has put in place.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 9, 2020

Trump loses immunity from persecution after leaving office

Those consequences of a Trump defeat could lead him, if not to jail, at least to years of persecution by justice.
China warns citizens not to visit Japan as row over Taiwan heats up
Chinese tourists wear kimonos as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
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.
China warns of military response if Japan intervenes in Taiwan contingency
Representatives from the Japan Innovation Party hand over a proposal to designate Xue Jian, the Chinese consul-general in Osaka, as persona no grata, to a staff of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
Shohei Ohtani collects fourth MVP Award with 2025 NL honor
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season on Thursday.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.

Podcast

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

Longform

An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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