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JAPAN
Jan 25, 2022

Japan moves to focus resources on severe COVID-19 patients

Young, low-risk patients will no longer need a doctor's diagnosis to confirm an infection as fears grow over the strain the omicron variant is putting on Japan's health care system.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 25, 2022

Japan needs 'smart' economic security

The Japanese government and firms are very aware of the risks they face by being too reliant on overseas markets.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 25, 2022

Pro-Trump death threats prompt bills in three states to protect election workers

Advocates for the Vermont legislation say the intent is to bring state laws in line with federal standards, which make it easier to prosecute threats of violence.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 25, 2022

In today's world, precision timing is everything

PNT is one of the 14 categories of emerging technologies identified by the U.S. government as strategic and therefore demanding special attention and control.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 25, 2022

NASA's new space telescope reaches destination in solar orbit

With a final course-correcting thrust, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope arrived at its gravitational parking spot in orbit around the sun, known as the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jan 25, 2022

Monetary security is a fight over infrastructure financing, currency and sanctions

With the U.S. liberally deploying sanctions and China striving to push its digital yuan, Japan must tread carefully to maintain its own standing.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 25, 2022

Nidec founder sours on CEO successor after less than a year

Chairman Shigenobu Nagamori says it was naive of him to bring in someone from outside and appoint that person as successor, sources say.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 25, 2022

For Ukrainian soldiers, a nervous guessing game on the front

Given Russia's rich repertoire of military tricks, seen in past conflicts, war is unlikely to start with something as straightforward as tanks rolling across a border, analysts say.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 25, 2022

Omicron offers hope pandemic could stabilize, WHO official says

While the rapid spread of the omicron variant offers hope for 'stabilization and normalization,” it comes with a heavy dose of caution, as many obstacles to taming the pandemic remain.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jan 25, 2022

Packers' Matt LaFleur: 'No debate' on wanting Aaron Rodgers back

The Packers, who lost a playoff game as the NFC's top seed for the second year in a row, must quickly pick up the pieces for next season.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 25, 2022

The logistical nightmare of getting athletes to the Olympics

The official playbook stipulates people must take two COVID-19 tests within 96 hours of their departure to China, and one of those two tests must be within 72 hours.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 25, 2022

'Small gains': How Katie Ormerod relearned walking before jumping

In 2018, the Yorkshire rider came off a rail too soon on a practice run and split her heel bone in half, with medics taking two hours to cut her out of her boot.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 25, 2022

Olympians face a daunting final qualifying event: staying healthy

With the Feb. 4 opening ceremony in their sights, athletes are cutting off contact with loved ones, changing the ways they train and ceasing all activities outside the realms of competition.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 25, 2022

NATO sends reinforcements and U.S. puts troops on alert as Ukraine tensions rise

NATO currently has about 4,000 troops on standby in eastern Europe, while the U.S. said about 8,500 American troops were put on heightened alert.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / The Big Questions
Jan 25, 2022

UAE Ambassador Alfaheem grew up with Japan

Name: Shihab Alfaheem
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jan 25, 2022

Amid the 'buy now, pay later' boom, Japan takes a different path

The country's unique approach to credit card payments undercuts the appeal of BNPL seen elsewhere, with the service finding a different niche as a result.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Jan 24, 2022

Fighters' new look only small piece of puzzle in Tsuyoshi Shinjo's first season

For all of Shinjo's charisma and ability to dominate a room, everyone is waiting to see what type of manager he will be and how the players will respond to him.
JAPAN
Jan 24, 2022

As omicron spreads in Japan, business continuity plans come into focus

Companies and local governments are drawing up measures to keep business going even if many staffers can't work due to infection or being deemed a close contact.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 24, 2022

Minds behind the missiles: North Korea's secretive weapons developers

North Korea's flurry of new missile tests has underscored the importance of the country's missile engineers and scientists, a high-profile group that remains opaque to outsiders.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Jan 24, 2022

Nago election result a boost for ruling coalition and a blow to anti-base movement

The loss of the Nago mayoral candidate opposed to the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to the city spells trouble for Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 24, 2022

Hong Kong’s financial sector faces talent crunch as expats head for the exit

Hong Kong's draconian 'COVID zero' policies, in line with China's, is prompting many expats to think about leaving in favor of places with less restrictions.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 24, 2022

U.S. orders families of diplomats out of Ukraine citing war risk

The action, as well as possible plans to deploy troops, reflects the U.S. position that Russian President Vladimir Putin could launch an invasion at any time, State Department officials said
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 24, 2022

‘Now there is no one’: The lament of one of the last Christians in a Syrian city

Communities across the Middle East and North Africa — some of which trace their roots to Christianity's early days — have been struggling for decades with wars, poverty and persecution.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 24, 2022

Rich countries lure health workers from low-income nations to fight shortages

The urgency and strong pull from high-income nations has raised new questions about the ethics of recruitment from countries with weak health systems during a pandemic.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 24, 2022

Putin could burst Xi’s Olympic dream with a war in Ukraine

Russia has little incentive to antagonize China, its largest trading partner with total trade valuing $112 billion in 2020.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 24, 2022

Australian PM loses control of WeChat Chinese account as election looms

With a national election due by May, the government would have aimed to use the Morrison account to promote its policies during the Chinese New Year celebrations starting Feb. 1.
Smoke billows from an area targeted by an Israeli airstrike between the southern Lebanese border villages of Zibqin and Yater on Sunday.
WORLD
Aug 26, 2024

Middle East on edge after Israel bombs Lebanon in preemptive strike

Israeli officials said they had precise intelligence Hezbollah was about to fire missiles at northern Israel and aim drones at a key intelligence center.
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.

Podcast

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

Longform

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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