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Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Jan 14, 2023

Russian mercenary boss courts Putin with Ukrainian battlefield success

Prominent Putin supporters have contrasted the Wagner Group's progress with what they say has been a less impressive performance by the regular military.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jan 14, 2023

‘I feel like I got duped': Tesla price drop angers current owners

The company's more expensive models took the biggest hit, with Model Y base prices down 20% to start at $53,000.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 14, 2023

Russian oil delivered to Asia in Chinese supertankers amid ship shortage

At least four Chinese-owned supertankers are shipping Russian Urals crude to China as Moscow seeks vessels for exports after the G7 enacted a price cap on the country's oil.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 6, 2023

New Arab allies face quandary as Israel shifts hard to the right

As some in Israel's government seek to annex the occupied West Bank, Arab states have to balance their new partnership with historic support for Palestinian aspirations.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jan 5, 2023

Bills safety Damar Hamlin shows signs of improvement, remains in critical condition

The Buffalo Bills said on Wednesday that safety Damar Hamlin has shown "signs of improvement" since suffering a cardiac arrest during a Monday night game in Cincinnati, but that he remains in critical condition.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 3, 2023

Asia’s winners and losers as region says sayonara to 2022

Say good by to 2022. But as a new year approaches, war, inflation and COVID-19 still endure.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 31, 2022

COVID mutation risk drives rush to test travelers from China

The scenario echoes the pandemic's early days, when China was criticized for not releasing key genetic data on the virus until weeks after news of the new illness became public.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 22, 2022

Japan revises up growth forecast on higher capital spending and wages

The projections underscore how the country is set to buck a global growth slowdown thanks to robust domestic demand supported by inbound tourism reopening.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 16, 2022

Germany's big-spending energy bailouts may not be enough

Europe's pre-eminent economy, long a byword for prudent planning, now finds itself at the mercy of the weather.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 12, 2022

Fed’s message that rates will stay on hold for ‘some time’ clashes with 2023 rate-cut bets

The central bank looks set to increase its benchmark rate by 50 basis points in a downshift after four straight 75 basis-point moves to curb inflation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2022

Ex-Theranos president Ramesh Balwani gets 13-year prison term in fraud case

Balwani and the company's founder, Elizabeth Holmes, had promised to revolutionize the medical industry by using a few drops of blood to complete a wide array of health tests.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Dec 3, 2022

South Korea’s intense strike culture builds pressure on President Yoon Suk-yeol

South Korea is emerging as one of the most visible hot spots for growing labor discontent, as workers around the world demand safer conditions and better wage systems.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2022

Japan's October factory output fell on global slowdown and weak chip demand

The feeble business activity highlights challenges for the world's third-largest economy, which has been lagging behind peers in recovering from the pandemic.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 29, 2022

Sunak signals end to Sino-U.K. ‘golden era’ but rejects ‘simplistic’ Cold War rhetoric

The myriad challenges posed by China will require that London make an “evolutionary leap” in its strategy, Sunak said, focusing on pragmatism, trade and security partnerships.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Nov 25, 2022

Weapons industry booms as Eastern Europe arms Ukraine

Allies have been supplying Kyiv with weapons and military equipment since Russia invaded its neighbor, depleting their own inventories along the way.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Nov 22, 2022

China's great reopening may come too late for many businesses

China, the last among major countries not treating COVID-19 as endemic, this month unveiled 20 new steps that eased its stringent anti-COVID policies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Nov 14, 2022

From bad to worse? Next year’s economic risks are already here.

History says the Federal Reserve's high-speed interest-rate hikes may well tip the U.S. into recession in 2023. Few will be surprised if spiraling natural-gas prices do the same for Europe.
The Moscow skyline. Heavy recruitment by the armed forces and defense industries has drawn workers away from civilian enterprises, as has emigration, pushing unemployment to a record low of 2.3%, data showed Wednesday.
WORLD / Society / ANALYSIS
Nov 29, 2024

Russia's labor shortage spreads as defense sector poaches staff

A growing labor shortage is affecting all areas of life since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022.
An image of active and defunct satellites in low Earth Orbit is seen on a Digantara terminal in Bengaluru, India, on Nov. 22.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 3, 2024

Global push for cooperation as space traffic crowds Earth's orbit

A United Nations panel on space traffic coordination called for a shared database of orbital objects as well as an international framework to track and manage them.
Christians attend a Christmas mass at the Lady of Damascus church, after the ousting of Syria's Bashar Assad, in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Dec 25, 2024

Syrian Christians attend Christmas mass for first time since Assad's fall

De facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa has told Christians and other groups that they will be safe in a Syria run by his group.
Donald Trump has halted most U.S. government-funded aid globally for 90 days, while moving to dismantle USAID, which he accused of being run "by a bunch of radical lunatics."
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 11, 2025

U.S aid freeze risks handing influence to China in Beijing's backyard

Trump has halted most U.S. government-funded aid globally for 90 days, while moving to dismantle USAID, which he accused of being run "by a bunch of radical lunatics."
Gene Hackman during the 60th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, on Jan. 19, 2003
CULTURE / Film
Feb 27, 2025

Actor Gene Hackman and wife found dead alongside dog at home

A statement from the sheriff said deputies had found the 95-year-old actor and Arakawa, 64, deceased on Wednesday afternoon.
The offices of Kirkland & Ellis in Manhattan, New York, last June. Five more prominent law firms facing potential punitive action by U.S. President Donald Trump reached deals on Friday with the White House to provide a total of $600 million in free legal services to causes supported by the president.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 12, 2025

Law firm targeted by Trump sues as five other top firms make deals

The lawsuit comes as five other firms offered costly concessions to avoid the president's crackdowns.
A satellite image shows Nur Khan air base in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 14, 2025

How backchannel diplomacy pulled India and Pakistan back from the brink of war

At 2 a.m., explosions began. By nightfall, a U.S.-brokered ceasefire ended the deadliest escalation between India and Pakistan in decades.
The Harvard University shield "VERITAS" sits above a campus entrance gate at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last month.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society / FOCUS
May 24, 2025

Long advantageous, Harvard's China ties become a political liability

The ties have yielded major financial gifts, influence in international affairs and global prestige for the school.
Donald Trump's attempt to bar international students from enrolling at Harvard, along with other actions, undercut America’s image as a land of opportunity, alienating future Asian leaders and diminishing U.S. influence in Asia.
COMMENTARY / World
May 25, 2025

America’s 'wolf warriors' are getting it all wrong in Asia

Trump's actions erode goodwill among future Asian leaders and weaken America's standing in a region once deeply aligned with it.
The Taiwanese military conducts its first High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) live-fire test launch at the Jiupeng base in Pingtung, Taiwan, on May 12.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 30, 2025

Trump aims to exceed first term's weapons sales to Taiwan, officials say

If U.S. arms sales to Taiwan do accelerate, it could ease worries about the extent of Trump's commitment to the island.
Women sit at a bus stop damaged during Russian drone and missile strikes on Kyiv on Thursday.
WORLD
Jul 11, 2025

'We go on living': Kyiv embraces city routines after nights of terror

At night, Kyiv's skies are lit by fire and boom with explosions, but by morning the streets thrum in a style familiar to any European capital.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump meet at the G20 summit in Osaka in 2019.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 7, 2025

Trump could meet Putin over Ukraine as soon as next week, official says

Such a face-to-face meeting would be the first between a sitting U.S. and Russian president since Joe Biden met Vladimir Putin in Geneva in June 2021.
Bangladesh is a South Asian time bomb
Many Bangladeshis hoped that the overthrow of long-time leader Sheikh Hasina last year would revitalize the country’s democracy after an authoritarian lurch under the “iron lady.” Instead it has led to proliferating human-rights abuses, intensifying repression and widespread Islamist violence.
Tropical Storm Peipah brings heavy rain to parts of western Japan
Tropical Storm Peipah made landfall in western Japan on Friday, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue warnings of landslides and other disasters due to heavy rainfall in several areas.
Trump signs order reducing tariffs on Japanese autos
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, shake hands.
Tamagotchi hatches 100 million shipments worldwide thanks to ’90s nostalgia
The latest version of Tamagotchi, called Tamagotchi Paradise, is awarded the best digital toy at Tokyo Toy Show on Aug. 28.
Japan alerting consumers to cash-on-delivery problems
In fiscal 2024 through March this year, the National Consumers Affairs Center received inquiries and gave advice on problems associated with cash-on-delivery services.
London’s calling and sumo’s top division — along with Hello Kitty — are ready to answer
Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Hello Kitty, an ambassador for sumo's upcoming tour to London, at Tokyo's Kokugikan on Tuesday
Resonac creates 27-member consortium to pursue advanced chip developments
Representatives from member companies of JOINT3, a consortium working together on semiconductor-related developments announced by Resonac, pose for a photo in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Haru Nemuri’s radical new album refuses easy listening
Musician Haruna Kimishima, better known as Haru Nemuri, confronts Japan’s politics, nationalism and censorship on her recent output.
Overseas sluggers step up to bat in small-town Hokkaido
The Betsukai Pilot Spirits welcomed new players (left to right) Yuta Yamanaka, Roman Guthrie, Scott Bellina and Leo Jiminian this year, pictured here with Yassir Lachkar of the Ishikari Red Phoenix.
Xi — joined by Kim and Putin — delivers stark warning at military parade
Chinese leader Xi Jinping walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing on Wednesday.

Podcast

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

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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