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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 20, 2023

COVID catastrophe looms for China’s New Year travelers

Travelers, from migrant workers to college students to educated urban elites, risk carrying the highly-infectious omicron strain with them to COVID-naive swaths of rural China.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jan 19, 2023

A shrinking, aging China may have backed itself into a corner

Mounting population pressures may reveal a government that has not done enough to avoid tough choices in coming decades.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 19, 2023

Majority of Japan firms heed Kishida's call to raise wages this year

The prime minister has repeatedly urged companies to make strong efforts to lift employee pay, which has failed to keep up with the fastest inflation in 40 years.
Japan Times
PODCAST /
Jan 18, 2023

Clutter, trash and hoarding disorder in Japan

Alex K.T. Martin looks at what form compulsive hoarding disorder takes in Japan and how it manifests when combined with other aspects of life here.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 18, 2023

China's pessimistic Gen Z poses challenge for Xi post-COVID

Improving young people's livelihoods without abandoning the country's export-led growth model poses inherent conflicts for a government that prioritizes social stability.

Longform

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan