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Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 28, 2022

Support for Japan government rises on response to Ukraine invasion

A Nikkei daily and TV Tokyo survey found that support for Kishida stood at 61%, a rise of 6 points from similar poll a month ago, with crucial elections just months away.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 28, 2022

China's COVID-19 spike preceded by surge in cases from Hong Kong

Health officials in Shenzhen and Shanghai have pointed to lax oversight in quarantine facilities for arrivals as a potential cause for the virus's spread.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 28, 2022

Shanghai locks down half the city to nail growing COVID-19 outbreak

The sweeping restrictions come as China experiences its worst COVID-19 spread since the virus's emergence in Wuhan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Mar 28, 2022

Mayu Nakamura: ‘Why can't a woman be sexy and a mother at the same time?’

Mayu Nakamura is known for her critically acclaimed documentaries. After a hiatus, she's back with a drama that aims to change how we view older women.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 28, 2022

Biden seeks to temper remark on Putin as U.S. allies object

While the Kremlin let Biden's remarks sink in by largely refraining from public comment, U.S. allies warned against implying a push to oust Putin.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Mar 27, 2022

Kishida calls nuclear threat ‘increasingly real’ as nonproliferation goals fade

The leader has spotlighted concerns in Tokyo that Moscow's nuclear saber-ratting has dealt a setback for nonproliferation — and provided a lesson to others in Asia who might emulate Russia.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 27, 2022

North Korea may be preparing for nuclear test soon, report says

Pyongyang appears to be working on a 'shortcut' to a tunnel at its Punggye-ri test facility, apparently in an attempt to repair the site, which was shuttered in 2018.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 26, 2022

Kishida voices 'serious concern' over Russian nuclear threat in visit to Hiroshima with U.S. envoy

The prime minister and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel also reaffirmed that they would continue to work toward a world without nuclear weapons.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 26, 2022

Relocation of presidential office in Seoul heightens security concerns

The South Korean president-elect's decision to move both the presidential office and the Defense Ministry comes at a time when North Korea is rapidly escalating tension.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Mar 25, 2022

With ICBM launch, Japan sees dramatic shift in North Korean missile testing

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the test would 'make the whole world clearly aware of the power of our strategic armed forces once again.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 25, 2022

Air crash disaster risks an even wider rift for Boeing and China

With relations between Washington and Beijing at their lowest ebb in years, the probe into the crash has turned the two archrivals into reluctant bedfellows.
Italy's Andrea Cambiaso, Davide Frattesi and Alessandro Bastoni look dejected after their team's loss to Switzerland on Saturday in Berlin.
SOCCER
Jun 30, 2024

Italy and coach Spalletti at crossroads after Euro title defense disaster

A shockingly one-sided match in Berlin led to a dismal last-16 exit after Luciano Spalletti's side had scraped through the group stage by the skin of its teeth.
Tour guide and history buff Rory Dent left his job at a U.K.-based tour operator to move to Japan and start his own business.
LIFE / Travel / Longform
Jun 30, 2024

Guiding Japan through the challenges of overtourism

With the number of overseas tourists breaking records, guides and tour operators are seeing their businesses flourish.
A man carries salvaged items following an Israeli raid in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday.
WORLD
Jun 30, 2024

No progress in Gaza cease-fire talks with Israel, Hamas official says

The Palestinian group is still ready to "deal positively" with any cease-fire proposal that ends the war, a senior official said.
Iranian presidential candidate Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist, waves at supporters during a campaign event at a stadium in Tehran on June 23.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 30, 2024

Reformist to face ultraconservative in Iran presidency runoff

The poll had been scheduled to take place in 2025 but was brought forward by the death of ultraconservative president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month.
Tourists in front of the restaurant and shopping area of Mount Fuji's 5th Station, which leads to the popular Yoshida trail for hikers climbing the mountain, in Narusawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, on June 19.
JAPAN / Society
Jun 30, 2024

Mount Fuji begins charging entrance fees as overtourism prevention measure

The measure, which also includes capping the number of daily climbers at 4,000, marks the first time that climbing one of Japan's most enduring symbols will cost money.
People watch a news broadcast of a North Korean missile test, at the main rail station in Seoul on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 1, 2024

North Korea fires two missiles, with one possibly failing near Pyongyang

The launches came just days after large-scale military exercises between South Korea, Japan and the United States concluded.
Rodrigo Duterte is being investigated by the International Criminal Court over his signature "war on drugs" campaign, where thousands were gunned down in what authorities called vigilante killings during his 2016-22 presidency.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 1, 2024

Duterte's senate election bid poses threat to former ally Marcos

The political challenges by the Duterte family could upset the Philippine president's hopes of consolidating power so he can groom a potential successor for 2028.
England's Jude Bellingham scores against Slovakia during their Euro 2024 match in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on Sunday.
SOCCER
Jul 1, 2024

Jude Bellingham keeps England alive and silences critics with miracle goal at Euro 2024

Bellingham's effort took the match to extra time, with Harry Kane heading home for a 2-1 win.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's new flagship H3 rocket is launched from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Monday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jul 1, 2024

Japan successfully puts advanced satellite into orbit using H3 rocket

The agency’s third H3 rocket launch was carrying the high-resolution Daichi-4 Earth observation satellite, which cost around ¥32 billion to develop.
U.S. President Joe Biden takes a call as he walks from Marine One to Air Force One with first lady Jill Biden and granddaughters Natalie Biden and Finnegan Biden in Burlington County, New Jersey, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 1, 2024

Top Democrats rule out replacing Biden amid calls for him to quit 2024 race

A post-debate CBS poll showed a 10-point jump in the number of Democrats who believe Biden should not be running for president, up to 46%.
Naoki Ogi (second from left), head of a committee set up by the city of Asahikawa, Hokkaido, to reinvestigate the death of a 14-year-old junior high school girl reports the results to Asahikawa Mayor Hirosuke Imazu (left) in Asahikawa on Sunday.
JAPAN / Society
Jul 1, 2024

Reinvestigation finds Hokkaido girl's suicide caused by bullying

The reinvestigation committee said the girl, who was found frozen at a park in Asahikawa in March 2021, developed post-traumatic stress disorder from the bullying.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office on Monday.
JAPAN
Jul 1, 2024

Japanese business executive detained in Myanmar

The military regime said an Aeon Orange executive and local supermarket officials allegedly sold rice at prices higher than levels set by authorities.
The yen’s depreciation is largely down to the gap in interest rates between the U.S. and Japan. Therefore, U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is, to all intents and purposes, “Mr. Yen.”
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 1, 2024

There’s a new 'Mr. Yen' in town

No matter what the Bank of Japan or the Finance Ministry do, ultimate control over the yen's value lies in the hands of U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
U.S. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at a campaign event in North Carolina on Friday, the day following the president's disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump. Biden has brushed aside calls from some Democrats to step aside.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 1, 2024

Replacing Joe Biden is a fantasy Democrats must abandon

Those Democrats calling for a change in candidate need to keep calm and let Biden carry on. He may have had a bad performance, but he's still the man who beat Trump.
An aerial view of a burnt area in the Amazon rainforest near the Lago do Cunia Extractive Reserve, on the border of the states of Rondonia and Amazonas, northern Brazil, on Aug. 31, 2022. Brazil recorded 13,489 fire outbreaks in the Amazon in the first half of this year, according to satellite data available on Monday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jul 2, 2024

Brazil's Amazon sees worst 6 months of wildfires in 20 years

They were caused by a historic drought that struck the world's largest tropical rainforest last year, experts say.
Explosion at U.S. air base in Okinawa injures four
The Kadena U.S. Air Force Base in Okinawa Prefecture. An emergency call was made at around 11:15 a.m. reporting that a small-scale explosion occurred at a storage depot for unexploded shells.
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.
Hakuho vows to grow sumo globally after exiting domestic sports body
Former yokozuna Hakuho gives a news conference to announce his retirement from the Japan Sumo Association and reveal his future plans in Tokyo on Monday.
Victims mourned 17 years after Akihabara indiscriminate attack
A mourner prays for the victims of a stabbing rampage on a street in Tokyo's Akihabara district on the 17th anniversary of the incident on Sunday.
Top banker vows loyalty to DEI at Tokyo Pride Parade as Trump’s pushback rages
Akihiko Ogino, president and CEO of Daiwa Securities Group, says Japan should press ahead with diversity initiatives as he attends the Tokyo Pride parade in the capital's Shibuya area on Sunday.
‘Kokuho’ finds riveting drama on and off the kabuki stage
Lee Sang-il’s "Kokuho" stars Ryo Yoshizawa as an orphan from a yakuza clan who rises through the world of kabuki to become a star performer.
Junto Nakatani remains on collision course with Naoya Inoue after latest win
Junto Nakatani celebrates after defeating Ryosuke Nishida to unify the WBC and IBF bantamweight titles at Ariake Coliseum on Sunday.
At a mountainside shrine, yuzu candy made by imperial decree
Descendents of the original "Gonin Byakushō" families are the only vendors allowed inside the gates of Kotohira Shrine, where they sell "kamiyoame," a golden-hued, yuzu-flavored candy meant for good fortune.
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.

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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