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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 15, 2022

Putin says Russia and North Korea will expand bilateral relations

In a letter to Kim for North Korea's liberation day, Putin said closer ties would be in both countries' interests, and would help strengthen the security and stability of the region.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 14, 2022

Japan's pro-constitutional reform parties struggle to get on the same page

The four parties remain apart in their positions on not only the top issue of amending the war-renouncing Article 9 but also on less controversial items.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 14, 2022

With new weaponry, Ukraine is subtly shifting its war strategy

Despite massive losses, Russia still holds an advantage over Ukraine in a head-to-head fighting, but Ukraine is waging the war on its own terms.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 14, 2022

Dark thoughts haunt Ukrainians in shadow of nuclear crisis

Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya power plant — Europe's biggest — has been on the front line since it was captured by Russia in March.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 14, 2022

Salman Rushdie attack suspect pleads not guilty as author remains hospitalized

Living with a bounty on his head since 1988, Rushdie was set to deliver a lecture on artistic freedom when he was stabbed 10 times.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 13, 2022

Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. suspended 80 games for drug violation

Tatis, 23, hasn't played for the Padres this season after undergoing surgery on his broken left wrist in March.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 12, 2022

Tencent woes mount even after $560 billion selloff

Next week, Tencent will seek to assure investors about its outlook during second-quarter results. They won't be easy to convince.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 12, 2022

Arctic warming is happening faster than described, analysis shows

Over the past four decades, the region has been heating up four times faster than the global average, not the two to three times that has commonly been reported.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 12, 2022

Masayoshi Son is now down $4 billion on his SoftBank side deals

Son took the unusual step of establishing personal stakes in a series of SoftBank ventures in recent years, a mixing of company and executive interests that drew the ire of investors.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 12, 2022

The poisoned relationship between Trump and the keepers of U.S. secrets

The FBI search of Mar-a-Lago is a coda to the years of tumult between an erratic president and the nation's intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton attends a Dior fashion show in Paris on Jan. 19.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 16, 2024

Max Verstappen expects Lewis Hamilton to have 'awkward' season with Mercedes

Hamilton stunned the sport by announcing that he would be leaving Mercedes to race for Ferrari next year.
JAPAN / Society
Feb 16, 2024

Quake-induced liquefaction hampers Noto reconstruction

Houses are tilted or buried halfway underground, while roads have caved in or risen up — all because of the liquefaction.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 17, 2024

Japan’s space agency successfully launches latest H3 rocket

With the H3, JAXA aims to maintain Japan’s prowess in rocket development technologies and give a jolt to related industries.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 18, 2024

‘Dictators do not go on vacation,’ Zelenskyy warns Washington and Europe

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on world leaders not to abandon his country saying that Russia would continue to test the international order.
A model of the next-generation fighter jet set to be built by Japan, Britain and Italy is seen at the DSEI defense event in London last September.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 18, 2024

Japan looks to limit third-country defense exports to next-gen fighter jet

Tokyo plans to limit — at least for now — exports of finished defense equipment co-developed with others to the jet being built with Italy and Britain.
South Korea has one of the lowest ratios of doctors to population in the developed world, according to data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which shows 2.6 doctors per 1,000 people.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 18, 2024

South Korean doctors warn of ‘catastrophe’ if punished for strike

About 2,700 interns and residents at five major general hospital groups plan to walk off the job.
People lay flowers and candles at a memorial in front of the Russian Embassy in Berlin on Sunday, following the death of the Kremlin's most prominent critic Alexei Navalny in an Arctic prison.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 19, 2024

Russian courts hand jail terms to dozens of Navalny mourners

Anti-Kremlin demonstrations or public shows of opposition to the regime are effectively illegal in Russia.
Smoke billows over Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip during Israeli bombardment on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 19, 2024

Prospects dim for truce as Israel rejects calls to spare Rafah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected calls to spare Rafah, arguing that failing to launch the operation would mean to "lose the war."
Nissan's Ariya electric crossover sport utility vehicle assembled by robots at the company's plant in Kaminokawa, Tochigi Prefecture
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 19, 2024

Japan carmakers forge ahead with EV investments despite slowdown

Outside of Japan, signs of a scaling back are everywhere, with the exception of China.
Shoppers walk past an ID Hub, a Volkswagen showroom for electric cars, at a mall in Shanghai on Dec. 3, 2023.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 19, 2024

Firms with deep roots in China reconsider their Xinjiang ties

Volkswagen Group is reviewing the future of its joint venture in the Xinjiang region of northwestern China
Ilia Topuria (left) and Alexander Volkanovski fight during UFC 298 at Honda Center in Anaheim, California, on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 19, 2024

Ilia Topuria's title win may unlock new international market for UFC

Ilia Topuria wasted no time in calling for his first title defense to be on Spanish soil.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 19, 2024

North Korea eyes well-worn playbook with Japan summit hints

Pyongyang's offer of repairing ties with Japan may be concealing what may be a more likely motivation — to drive a wedge between Tokyo and its partners.
South Korea plans to increase the number of slots in university medical school programs by 2,000 from the current 3,058 next year to alleviate a shortage of doctors.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 19, 2024

For South Korea’s top students, medical school beats chips

Students are enticed by what many see as better job security and higher pay in the medical field.
ASML engineers walk past a High NA EUV tool at ASML’s headquarters in Veldhoven, Netherlands, on Nov. 20, 2023.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 20, 2024

Dutch say China seeks military advantage from ASML tools

Netherlands-based ASML, Europe's largest tech firm, dominates the world market for lithography systems, needed by computer chipmakers.
JAPAN / Science & Health / FOCUS
Feb 20, 2024

Can Japan’s new H3 rocket compete with Elon Musk’s Falcon 9?

In order to seriously compete with the Falcon 9, which currently dominates the market, experts say price and usability of the H3 would be key.
A public screen displaying stock figures in Shanghai on Jan. 29. China will halt the lending of certain shares for short selling from Monday, the securities regulator announced Sunday, in a move to support the country’s slumping stock markets.
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 20, 2024

In rare move, China stock watchdog vows to heed market critique

Earlier policies, including state buying, have proved inadequate to avert a $5 trillion rout.
Foreign tourists with unpaid medical bills in Japan to be denied entry
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during ministerial meeting meeting on foreign residents in Japan on Friday at the Prime Minister's Office.
Japan eyes tougher rules for foreign residents and tax hike for tourists
A tax-free shop in Kyoto in April 2024. Last week, members of a Liberal Democratic Party study group drafted a proposal seeking to scrap the country's tax-free shopping system altogether.
Accidents raise concern over how Japan vets foreign drivers
Keita Ueno (right), the owner of Kiki Driving School and an instructor who supports both foreign nationals and Japanese citizens returning from abroad in getting their foreign driver’s licenses converted, is worried about the current lax system for the process.
Japan won’t wait for G7 summit for possible U.S. trade deal
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top negotiator in tariff talks with the U.S. speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Friday.
From ridicule to redemption: Rice crisis returns Koizumi to the spotlight
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to the media as he inspects a warehouse storing stockpiled rice in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 30.
What can Kenji Yanobe’s cosmic cats teach us about humanity?
Kenji Yanobe’s spacesuited cats are the main characters of “Ship’s Cat Island,” the inaugural exhibition at Hyper Museum Hanno in Saitama Prefecture.
From ridicule to redemption: Rice crisis returns Koizumi to the spotlight
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to the media as he inspects a warehouse storing stockpiled rice in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 30.
New Naoshima museum bets on Asia, not the West
Detail of Takashi Murakami, “Rakuchu-Rakugai-zu Byobu: Iwasa Matabei RIP” (2023-25)
Japan’s prison reform focuses on rehabilitation
Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Friday. Suzuki said preparations for the changes that will focus more on rehabilitation are being actively made at each correctional facility.
Accidents raise concern over how Japan vets foreign drivers
Keita Ueno (right), the owner of Kiki Driving School and an instructor who supports both foreign nationals and Japanese citizens returning from abroad in getting their foreign driver’s licenses converted, is worried about the current lax system for the process.

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

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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
By Alex K.T. Martin

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