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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 23, 2022

Tokyo prosecutors to indict SMBC Nikko for alleged market manipulation: report

The move against the unit of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc., the country's No. 2 lender, will be a blow to one of Japan's biggest brokerages and its second-largest megabank.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 23, 2022

Ukraine is changing the world order, just not how Putin hoped

From Berlin to London and Baltic capitals like Tallinn, the metrics of defending Europe have been torn up.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 23, 2022

U.S. threat to sanction China is spooking other nations in Asia

While Russia made up less than 1% of global trade with Southeast Asia in 2020, nations may be reluctant to cuts ties with its largest source of arms.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 23, 2022

Russian oil seeps into global market to ease supply fears for now

For now, traders appear to be taking the view that the flow of Russian oil indicates that the market won't be as tight as first thought.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 23, 2022

Toshiba’s $4 billion elevator unit attracts interest from Midea and Otis

Shareholders are set to vote on Toshiba's plan to split into two companies and sell noncore assets including the elevator operations.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 23, 2022

China searches for victims from plane crash with cause still unclear

About 600 soldiers, firefighters and police have been dispatched to the crash site, a patch of about 1 square kilometer in a location hemmed in by mountains on three sides.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Mar 23, 2022

Matsuyama better prepared for Masters defense than Champions Dinner

Matsuyama hopes to play in the Valero Texas Open the week before the Masters while at the same time putting the finishing touches to the menu for the Champions Dinner he will host.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 23, 2022

Alexei Navalny, fiery Putin critic, is handed fresh nine-year prison sentence

Prosecutors had claimed that Navalny, a relentless critic and frequent target of Putin, and Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, had embezzled donations from supporters.
JAPAN
Mar 22, 2022

Japan’s power crisis was a decade in making and won’t go away

The world's third-largest economy has been running on a thinner supply of electricity since the triple meltdown at Fukushima in March 2011 shut its massive fleet of nuclear reactors.
JAPAN
Mar 22, 2022

Japanese turn down heat and lights to avoid power cut after quake

The industry ministry said Tuesday evening that the country was likely to avoid blackouts after neon signs were turned off, lights dimmed and thermostats dialed down.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY
Mar 22, 2022

Artificial intelligence gets scarier and scarier

AI technologies are the most powerful tools that have been developed in generations — perhaps even in human history — and with such advancements come a magnitude of dangers.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Mar 22, 2022

Ukraine invasion and climate change drive concerns over Japan’s food security

Long-term issues such as global warming and an aging population could harm the nation's self-sufficiency and its ability to secure adequate food imports.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 22, 2022

Walls, dreams and genocide: Zelenskyy invokes history to rally support

He told U.S. lawmakers that he had a dream. He said to the British Parliament that his country would fight until the end. To members of the German Parliament he spoke of a new wall dividing Europe.
COMMENTARY / Japan / ANALYSIS
Mar 22, 2022

Why hasn't Japan signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons?

Despite having signed up to other agreements on the issue, and having public backing for the idea, politics has gotten in the way of a step forward on the treaty.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 22, 2022

Biden says Russia is considering using chemical and biological weapons in Ukraine

The U.S. leader also warned businesses to be alert for possible cyberattacks by Russia. 'It's part of Russia's playbook,' he said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 22, 2022

Fatal nosedive by China Eastern jet baffles crash specialists

Few past incidents fit the extreme profile of the jet's descent Monday, in which it pointed steeply toward the ground before impact.
Japan Times
Figure Skating
Mar 22, 2022

Absences loom large at figure skating worlds

With Russian athletes banned from participating and a number of high-profile stars recovering from injuries, the event in Montpellier will be be missing many of the sport's stars.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 22, 2022

High death rate in Hong Kong shows importance of vaccinating the elderly

The city's conflagration of cases is now killing people at a rate exceeding that of almost any country since the coronavirus emerged.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Mar 22, 2022

Dutch coach Louis van Gaal criticizes hosting of World Cup in Qatar

Van Gaal said the world soccer governing body's reasons for awarding the finals to Qatar, where his team will be competing at the Nov. 21-Dec. 18 tournament, were spurious.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Mar 22, 2022

Ukraine crisis forces world to confront its oil and gas addiction

France aims to end the use of oil to heat buildings by 2030, boosting subsidies to make choosing heat pumps or biomass boilers a more affordable option.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Mar 22, 2022

Paris 2024 hopes to sell 13.4 million tickets for Games

Organizers will make 10 million tickets available for the next Summer Olympics, a figure that could potentially surpass the record 8.2 million sold for London 2012.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 22, 2022

The smaller bombs that could turn Ukraine into a nuclear war zone

Fears are growing that if Vladimir Putin feels cornered, he might choose to detonate one of his smaller weapons — breaking the taboo set 76 years ago after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Mar 22, 2022

World Athletics president says state of women's sports is 'fragile'

Sebastian Coe believes sporting organizations, including his own, should focus on science when considering policies regarding transgender athletes.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 22, 2022

Kishida aide says stimulus must be considered soon

'The surge in oil prices and food prices means that an economic package is essential at some point,' Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiji Kihara has said.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Mar 22, 2022

Hedge fund activists battle old Japan in Toshiba’s crucial vote

Shareholders will vote on two proposals: one, from Toshiba, asks them to support a two-way split; a competing one, put forward by 3D, calls for the company to reconsider alternatives.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic
After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
Western businesses will not return to Russia
A McDonald's restaurant sits shuttered in Moscow in May 2022 as a result of Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine.
China is eroding Japan's LNG dominance. How does that affect Japanese buyers?
Tugboats assist a liquified natural gas tanker as it docks at a port in Yantai, China, in February. In 2021, China became the largest importer of LNG, and as of this year, China now has the most long-term LNG contracts.
Ukraine drone strikes hit nuclear bombers deep inside Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and head of the country's Security Service, Vasyl Maliuk, attend a meeting in Kyiv in this image released Sunday.
Waves of umami: Awaji Island's culinary trove
Silversea Cruises' culinary program takes guests on a rich gourmet experience at wellness retreat Zenbo Seinei, where the local produce is presented in an eight-course meal.
Hegseth to prioritize China and more allied spending in Asia — but questions remain
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives for a trilateral meeting between Japan, the U.S. and Australia at the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore on Saturday.
'Godzilla The Art Exhibition' reimagines film icon as monstrous muse for modern art
Artists offer their own interpretations of Japan's most famous monster at "Godzilla The Art Exhibition."
Atsuko Okatsuka brings big 'dad' energy to new special
Atsuko Okatsuka tries out some of the jokes from her new special, “Father,” at the Tokyo Comedy Bar in Shibuya in January.
China is eroding Japan's LNG dominance. How does that affect Japanese buyers?
Tugboats assist a liquified natural gas tanker as it docks at a port in Yantai, China, in February. In 2021, China became the largest importer of LNG, and as of this year, China now has the most long-term LNG contracts.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic
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