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Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 11, 2021

China and the United States agree to work together to tackle climate change

The United States and China announced a joint agreement Wednesday to "enhance ambition” on climate change, saying they would work together to do more to cut emissions this decade while China committed for the first time to reduce methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 8, 2021

What's behind the greening of the Kremlin?

President Vladimir Putin recently announced Russia aims to become carbon neutral by 2060 — 10 years after the United States and the European Union but at the same time as China.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 6, 2021

China’s deafening silence speaks loudest at global climate talks

Some China climate watchers suggested that the nation's leaders are more concerned with implementing measures at home than winning praise at COP26.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Nov 3, 2021

Trump's real estate empire pays the price for poisonous politics

Trump's business brand was once synonymous with success, an image that now clashes sharply with a political brand rooted in the anger of his largely rural and working-class voter base.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2021

How Russia and Belarus are weaponizing migration

Belarus has been flying refugees from various points in the Middle East — Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria — then herding them toward neighboring countries that are members of the European Union.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 3, 2021

China optimistic on climate markets deal after 'wasted' years

China's top climate negotiator said Tuesday a broad deal on carbon markets was possible at the U.N. COP26 despite the tensions between Beijing and Washington.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2021

COP26 a tug of war between competition and cooperation

This year's COP26 conference will test the spirit of cooperation that emerged in Paris, where 196 governments adopted the historic Paris accord.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 24, 2021

Shunning fossil fuels too soon may prove catastrophic

Renewable energy accounts for a tiny fraction of overall energy supply. The growth in renewable sources of energy fails to even meet the growth in global demand.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Oct 18, 2021

Nuclear analysts say watch China after gaming out Iran talks

That's the conclusion reached by top security analysts using game theory to forecast the next moves in the star-crossed talks.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 7, 2021

Will Japan’s Kishida take relations with the Koreas in a new direction?

Kishida may follow a common Japanese approach to the Koreas: seek apology and clarity from Pyongyang on the abduction issue while refusing to offer additional apologies to Seoul.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Sep 27, 2021

Dark future? Climate change fuels higher heat and flood threats for children

Children around the world will face a sharp jump in heatwaves, floods and droughts in their lives compared to their grandparents, researchers said on Monday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2021

India is in need of climate-adaptation investment

Even if India achieves its Paris accord targets and adopts measures to help keep global warming to 1.5 C, its carbon emissions in 2030 could still be about 90% higher than in 2015.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 15, 2021

China's hard climate stance with U.S. imperils Glasgow talks

China no longer feels obliged to consider requests for deeper carbon cuts after former President Donald Trump rejected U.S. climate change commitments.
SOCCER / WE LEAGUE
Sep 10, 2021

Japan's ambitious WE League aims to empower in historic first season

Japan's first professional women's soccer league will launch on Sunday with the goals of promoting gender equality and raising the country's level of play.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Sep 6, 2021

Former tennis star can relate to what Naomi Osaka is going through

Mardy Fish now acts as a mentor, sharing his experience as a prominent athlete who had to deal with mental health problems when the subject was close to taboo in pro sports.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 1, 2021

SDF quietly breaks new ground in Afghanistan withdrawal

What makes the dispatch of the SDF to facilitate evacuations in Afghanistan notable is not the scale of the operations, but that they are taking place at all.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2021

The coming carnage between the Taliban and their jihadist rivals

IS has argued that the Taliban's actions weren't so much a conquest as a takeover coordinated with the U.S. and that its violent path to victory over the West is the right way.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 12, 2021

A director tackles the story of Japan's own nuclear experiment

Hiroshi Kurosaki put years of research into his film, 'Gift of Fire,' which portrays Japan's project to create an atomic bomb during World War II.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Aug 2, 2021

Hiroshima doctor advocates for dual surname system

Unmarried couples face legal restrictions such as an inability to inherit property when a partner dies.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 1, 2021

Taiwan and Hong Kong welcome at 2022 Beijing Games, IOC says

'The host city contract is extremely precise about what is expected. We see absolutely no sign that it will be any different. Everybody welcome,' Olympic director Christophe Dubi said.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 28, 2021

Rugby's missed opportunity in Tokyo: From a packed house in 2019 to empty stands in 2021

Almost two years and a pandemic later, Tokyo Stadium sat empty for the finals of the OIympic rugby sevens match between New Zealand and defending champions Fiji.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 14, 2021

Al Gore warns green-washing may stop the climate fight in its tracks

Al Gore has warned that the "the mounting threat of green-wash” poses a significant and increasing risk to a successful transition away from fossil fuels.
Takaichi and Xi reaffirm pledge in first meet to pursue ‘mutually beneficial’ ties
A screenshot from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's X account shows Takaichi exchanging greetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Friday.　
Anime isn’t competing with Hollywood — it’s beating it
After its July release, “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Infinity Castle,” an animated feature adapted directly from a TV arc, became the highest-grossing Japanese film ever.
Japan to introduce joint child custody system in April 2026
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (center) and other ministers prior to a Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office on Friday
Woman, 69, arrested over 1999 Nagoya housewife's murder
A police sketch released in 2020 of a woman spotted near the scene of the 1999 murder of a housewife in Nagoya's Nishi Ward
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.
Anime isn’t competing with Hollywood — it’s beating it
After its July release, “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Infinity Castle,” an animated feature adapted directly from a TV arc, became the highest-grossing Japanese film ever.
Oasis returns to Japan after 16 years — and fans can still sing every word
Liam Gallagher commanded the stage with effortless charisma during Oasis' Tokyo Dome set on Saturday.
At Japan Mobility Show, BYD gears up to conquer Japan's EV market
BYD Auto Japan President Atsuki Tofukuji unveils the Racco at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Oasis returns to Tokyo: Rain, rapture and rock
Fans wait to get into the Oasis show at Tokyo Dome on Saturday. While lining up in the rain, some broke into impromptu versions of the British rock group's hits.

Podcast

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

Longform

Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
By Alex K.T. Martin

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