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Dec 16, 2022

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JAPAN
Dec 15, 2022

Same levy, different name: Reconstruction tax to be shifted to defense spending

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party's latest plan to fund a defense budget hike is to create a new defense tax.
BUSINESS
Dec 15, 2022

Japan plans higher taxes, but only on small group earning over ¥3 billion

The idea of imposing higher taxes on the wealthy stems from the fact that the tax rate on overall earnings begins to decrease once an individual's income exceeds u00a5100 million.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 15, 2022

WHO hopeful COVID-19 emergency will end in 2023

As the third anniversary of the original outbreak rolls around, the WHO said the virus was here to stay but would need managing alongside other respiratory illnesses.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Dec 15, 2022

Grant Wahl's family says journalist died from aortic aneurysm

Grant Wahl collapsed at Lusail Iconic Stadium while covering the Argentina-Netherlands match early Saturday morning.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Dec 14, 2022

25 years on from the protocol’s signing, did we ever 'Kyoto'?

Dec. 11 marked the 25th anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol, a landmark treaty that put the idea of global effort to save the planet on many national radars. To mark the event, The Japan Times has launched a new section, Our Planet, that will look at the climate crisis, earth science and disaster management...
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 14, 2022

Defense spending debate threatens to divide ruling Liberal Democratic Party

Rather than raising taxes, some LDP lawmakers want the prime minister to issue government bonds.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2022

China readying $143 billion package for its chip firms in face of U.S. curbs

The plan marks a major step toward self-sufficiency in chips and looks to counter U.S. moves aimed at slowing its technological advances.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 14, 2022

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried charged with fraud and denied bail

The former FTX CEO, who was arrested in the Bahamas on Monday, lowered his head and hugged his parents after the magistrate judge refused bail citing a 'great' risk of flight.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2022

TikTok U.S. security deal’s prospects clouded by FBI doubts and state bans

A congressional panel is seeking a way to let TikTok keep operating in the U.S. while also preventing the possibility that the Chinese government could access user data.
JAPAN
Dec 13, 2022

Controversy grows over proposed use of Tohoku funds to cover defense spending

The government is eyeing using a special tax designed to finance reconstruction costs for areas affected by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 13, 2022

The politics of Japan's defense spending

When Japan first imposed the 1% of GDP defense-spending ceiling , the issue has been a matter of politics and any attempt to breach that threshold has been taboo.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 13, 2022

Toxic compounds found around U.S. bases in Japan

Local municipalities have asked the Japanese government to conduct on-site inspections at the bases that are believed to have caused the pollution.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Dec 12, 2022

Kishida's plan to fund higher defense spending faces backlash

The prime minister's suggestion of tax increases hasn't gone down well, even among Cabinet members and lawmakers from his own party.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Dec 12, 2022

Miyagi fisheries industry fears impact of treated radioactive water release

The water, which contains hard-to-remove tritium, is expected to be discharged to the ocean from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant as early as next spring.
BUSINESS
Dec 12, 2022

Japan firms step up appointments of female outside directors

Businesses need to prove their ability to listen to the opinions of female outside directors, even if these are unflattering, for effective use in management, observers say.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Dec 12, 2022

Ex-lawmaker's arrest over suspected coup plot highlights Germany's extremism problem

Prosecutor's say judge Birgit Malsack-Winkemann was to become justice minister in a new state headed by aristocrat Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss after the coup.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 12, 2022

China’s rapid COVID reversal sparks whiplash as cases surge

Scenes of disruption are most visible in Beijing, where anecdotal evidence suggest the caseload is many times the government's tally.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 12, 2022

A gray area of loyalties splinters a liberated Ukrainian town

Sviatohirsk remains divided not by trench lines and artillery, but by where people's allegiances lie: with Moscow or Kyiv.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 12, 2022

Toyota to outline three-year EV plan changes to suppliers

The leading Japanese automaker is expected to detail EV plan changes through early 2026.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 12, 2022

China developing the digital yuan to protect its interests

The ruling Communist Party is sacrificing innovation on the altar of social stability.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 10, 2022

Japan to draw up legislation to ensure sex criminals can't find work in schools

The legislation is set to be submitted to the regular session of parliament as early as 2024.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 10, 2022

North Korea wants dollars. It’s a sign of trouble.

Its trade with the outside world devastated, North Korea is scrambling for American dollars and other hard currency, not just to feed its people but also to finance the military.
JAPAN
Dec 9, 2022

Japan seeks more information from Unification Church over adoptions

The welfare ministry will ask about adoption cases among the group's followers since the adoption mediation law came into force.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2022

Our future artificial intelligence overlords need a resistance movement

Improving transparency about how algorithms reach their decisions is essential to keeping humans safe from artificial intelligence.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 9, 2022

Company 'inflation allowances' spreading in Japan

The moves are intended to bolster the morale of employees at a time when inflation is outpacing wage growth to cause drops in real wages and add heavier burdens to their daily lives.

Longform

Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years