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Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 12, 2022

Russia's war on Ukraine to bolster oil producers' influence at climate summits

There are also signs the next two COPs risk being co-opted by oil interests because of the close relationship between Saudi Arabia and the host countries.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 7, 2022

Tesla-backed startup made cheap power a debt burden for the world’s poorest

Solar pay-as-you-go plans have been hailed as the answer to bringing clean, affordable electricity to millions, but the system can break down catastrophically.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 7, 2022

Helping Hollywood avoid claims of bias is now a growing business

Studios are signing up consultants to help make sure their movies or shows don't raise any cultural red flags.
BUSINESS / Longform
Apr 4, 2022

Reimagining Japan’s growing glut of empty homes

Entrepreneurs see an opportunity in Japan's abandoned properties as businesses try to change them from liabilities into assets.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Mar 30, 2022

How the pandemic exacerbated Japan's gender inequality

Hanako Montgomery, a reporter for Vice World News in Japan, discusses Japan's poor record on gender equality.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / Longform
Mar 28, 2022

For some shrinking towns in Japan, depopulation isn't all bad news

For the first time, more than half of all municipalities in Japan will be designated by the government as wholly or partially underpopulated from April 1.
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 Times
BUSINESS
Mar 25, 2022

Amazon fired and disparaged him. Then he started a labor union.

Christian Smalls, an upstart labor leader hoping to unionize Amazon facilities in Staten Island, New York, has taken on an aggressive strategy against the e-commerce giant.
SOCCER / World cup / From the Spot
Mar 25, 2022

Battle-tested Samurai Blue eager for deep World Cup push

After perhaps the most unconventional, daunting and frustrating qualifying campaign in team history, Samurai Blue have qualified for a seventh straight FIFA World Cup.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 22, 2022

The smaller bombs that could turn Ukraine into a nuclear war zone

Fears are growing that if Vladimir Putin feels cornered, he might choose to detonate one of his smaller weapons — breaking the taboo set 76 years ago after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
JAPAN / Explainer
Mar 21, 2022

Japan is set to lower the legal age of adulthood. How will young people be affected?

From April, those age 18 and 19 in Japan will be legal adults and will be given more freedom in making life choices without parental consent — but not without criminal responsibilities.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 21, 2022

Biden administration rules Myanmar army committed genocide against Rohingya

Advocates say the move should help bolster efforts to hold the junta that now runs Myanmar accountable.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Mar 21, 2022

Why China has failed to build 'great power relations' with the U.S.

Fifty years on from the Shanghai Communique, the nations have failed to reach a concrete understanding, despite changes in leadership.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 18, 2022

For a Dutch province, Ukraine war is a call to pump natural gas

Residents had been opposing gas production since earthquakes started to force them out of their homes a decade ago. Russia's invasion of Ukraine changed their minds.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 18, 2022

Hong Kong mulls outlook for scandal-plagued GEM, once touted as Asia's Nasdaq

The city's scandal-plagued alternative listing platform has been brought to heel after a rash of scandals, culminating in a clampdown on 60 companies dubbed the 'nefarious network.”
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Mar 16, 2022

Thinking of going to Southeast Asia? Here is what to expect.

As the once tourist-dependent region reopens its borders, travelers should expect more paperwork, higher airfares, cheaper hotels and fewer crowds.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Mar 14, 2022

Years without forestry education as Fukushima decontamination falls short

While some projects have begun to restore areas of mountain forest, airborne radiation levels in those areas are still not low enough that children can safely enter.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 12, 2022

Top China COVID fighter is woman who hit party’s glass ceiling

Sun Chunlan is the only female vice premier in China's entrenched patriarchy, the sole woman on its powerful 25-member Politburo and the top official overseeing pandemic control.
Japan Times
ESG CONSORTIUM
Mar 10, 2022

Seino Holdings drives toward environmental sustainability

Seino Holdings Co. Ltd. is one of Japan’s top commercial logistics companies, with about 90 years of history. In recent years, the Gifu-based company has been accelerating its efforts to make its services sustainable and environmentally friendly without sacrificing people’s quality of life and convenience....
Japan Times
PARALYMPICS
Mar 7, 2022

Unwanted snowboarders making most of opportunity at Paralympics

Until the moment Cecile Hernandez of France was handed an official racing bib and a time slot Saturday, she still feared that race officials would forbid her to compete.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Mar 4, 2022

How Germany’s historic shift on military spending could affect Japan’s defense plans

Berlin's about-face on its modest defense budget, which immediately followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has already begun to re-energize the issue of spending in Tokyo.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Feb 27, 2022

India's LGBTQ+ 'pioneer' state bans abuse and boosts trans rights

Changes to state law in Tamil Nadu could eventually mark a true turning point in socially conservative India, according to campaigners.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 23, 2022

Under pressure at home, Japan's agricultural lender pulls back from global investing

Norinchukin Bank was at one point the biggest buyer of a structured product known as collateralized loan obligations, drawing the ire of politicians and regulators.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 21, 2022

Olympics making progress on gender equality, but gap remains

The Beijing Games have been described by the IOC as the most 'gender-balanced” Winter Games in history.
Special Supplements / Ainu language special
Feb 21, 2022

Respected comic book spurs hope for indigenous tongue

In 2009, UNESCO in its “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” designated the Ainu language as being critically endangered. As the most dire of the five categories — only extinct is worse — used in the report, it highlighted the precarious state that had befallen the language.
China seizes disputed reef near key Philippine military outpost
China Coast Guard officers unfurl a national flag on Sandy Cay reef, near the Philippine-held Thitu Island, in disputed waters of the South China Sea this month in this screen shot taken from Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami
A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
California says it overtakes Japan to become world’s No. 4 economy
Vehicles travel along the 110 freeway in downtown Los Angeles. California's GDP has overtaken Japan's to become the world's fourth largest economy, according to the U.S. state.
Arunima Mazumdar: ‘Japanese literature has a niche but deeply engaged readership in India’
Arunima Mazumdar, a New Delhi-based communications professional, began sharing her love of Japanese literature online in 2022. The platform has grown into a robust community known as Dokusha Book Club.
Counting the reasons why there are so few American cars in Japan
Tesla's store in Tokyo's Shibuya district. While sales of American cars in Japan appear to be shrinking, Tesla's presence in the country is growing.
Expo '25 gives the world a masterclass in mascots
2025 Osaka Expo mascot Myaku-Myaku dances on the stage during the event's official opening ceremony on April 12.
Japan struggles with gray zone of AI deepfakes exploiting children
AI-generated content — including those made using pictures of real people, which are known as “deepfakes” — is not explicitly covered under Japan's current legal framework, nor are human-drawn illustrations that depict child abuse.
‘Wildcat Dome’ challenges Japan's historical narratives
On the surface, "Wildcat Dome" tells a personal story of damaged children — now adults — bound together by tragedy. Underneath, there’s a constant undercurrent of political consequence, invisible and pervasive like radioactive particles.
Reclaiming Sanya, one meal at a time
Magokoro Yoshihira (center) is the managing director of Yui Associates, which operates the neighborhood fixtures of Sanya Cafe and Juyoh Hotel. Yusuke Takahashi (left) met Yoshihira during a difficult period in his life and now works as the cafe’s chef. Nancy Anne (right) has worked for over 10 years at Juyoh Hotel and enjoys the multicultural environment.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.

Podcast

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

Longform

A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami
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