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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 3, 2021

Modi experiences setback after loss in key India state poll

The prime minister's party lost big in a state he visited frequently before the recent virus surge forced him off the campaign trail.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 2, 2021

India’s COVID-19 crisis threatens a global oil recovery

Stay-at-home advisories are likely to hit motor fuels, which until now had been supported by a mass switch from public transport to private cars and motorbikes.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 2, 2021

Indian diaspora struggles to help homeland ‘gasping for air’

The diaspora is collecting funds, lobbying governments in countries where they reside and making pledges to shuttle essential supplies and equipment.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 1, 2021

A new virus variant is infecting millions in India. What could its spread mean for Japan?

The Japanese government announced on Monday that it has so far detected a total 21 cases of the Indian variant, including 20 cases confirmed via airport quarantine.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 1, 2021

Risk from virus variants remains after first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, U.K. study finds

A single dose of the vaccine may not generate a sufficient immune response to protect against dominant new variants, except in people who have already been infected with COVID-19.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 1, 2021

Biden bans most travel to U.S. from India to limit COVID-19 spread

U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday imposed new travel restrictions on India in light of the COVID-19 epidemic, barring most non-U.S. citizens from entering the United States.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
May 1, 2021

Hate speech can’t be met with indifference and ignorance

When the head of DHC began making anti-Korean comments, many news outlets decided it was just better not to talk about it.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 1, 2021

Science shows why simplifying is hard and complicating is easy

Spotting solutions that are simple and elegant, in other words, requires mental effort or what the Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman calls slow as opposed to fast thinking.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 1, 2021

Extending the right to die

The issue of allowing advance requests for assistance in dying will become more pressing as populations age and more people develop dementia.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
May 1, 2021

Solitude or isolation? Whatever it is, it's spreading.

While humanity is a social species, there's something to be said about solitude. The good kind, that is.
JAPAN
May 1, 2021

Japanese frustrated over vaccine rollout after learning of EU exports

The EU has said that it had authorized some 52.3 million doses made in European factories for export to Japan, the highest volume among all 43 countries to which vaccines have been shipped.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 30, 2021

Dozens killed in stampede at religious bonfire festival in Israel

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews had gathered at the Mount Meron tomb of the 2nd-century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 29, 2021

Dark horse of vaccine race may be this French biotech

With the other COVID-19 vaccines in Europe focused on the virus's spike protein, this shot could protect against variants that might compromise others, making it the perfect booster.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 29, 2021

The geopolitics of climate change

Geopolitical risk is not an excuse to alter our course or reverse direction. Rather, it is an impetus to accelerate our work toward a just transition for all.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2021

Marine Le Pen doubles Macron's pandemic pressure

Emmanuel Macron's voter base of affluent urban white-collar workers still supports him, but his push for economic reform and European integration no longer resonates.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Apr 28, 2021

Australia to begin vaccinating Tokyo-bound athletes next week

Officials said that Olympic and Paralympic participants will be inoculated by private contractors in order to avoid burdening the public health system.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Apr 28, 2021

Call your shot: Bucks to offer in-game COVID-19 vaccines

Basketball fans can obtain their first COVID-19 vaccine dose in an unusual venue this weekend — at a Milwaukee Bucks game.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 27, 2021

Global travel sector prepares for vaccine-powered revival

New variants threaten to render today's vaccines ineffective, and the U.S. has put 80% of the world's countries on a no-go list, but travel firms remain optimistic.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 27, 2021

Activists fear Hong Kong immigration bill will allow arbitrary travel bans

An immigration bill on Hong Kong's legislative agenda for Wednesday would give authorities virtually unlimited powers to prevent residents and others entering or leaving the former British colony, lawyers, diplomats and rights groups say.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 26, 2021

Five key lessons for energy transition in the age of COVID-19

The World Economic Forum's Energy Transition Index 2021 indicates that only 10% of the 115 countries analyzed maintained a steady upward trajectory toward energy transition.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 26, 2021

When it comes to a restart of global travel, all vaccines are not equal

A patchwork of approvals across the world is laying the groundwork for a global vaccine bifurcation, where the shot you get could determine which countries you can enter and work in.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
China warns citizens not to visit Japan as row over Taiwan heats up
Chinese tourists wear kimonos as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
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.
Kyoto gets its own teamLab installation, the largest in Japan
Visitors wearing kimonos look at digital artwork at the newly opened teamLab Biovortex in Kyoto.
Ashfall warning issued in southern Japan as volcano erupts
View of Sakurajima from the mainland of Kagoshima Prefecture
Good fortune, wrapped in fried tofu
Golden "age-fukuburo," a culinary take on Japan's new year "lucky bags," can be served on their own.
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan celebrates 80 years at the forefront of press freedom
Located near the Imperial Palace, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan prides itself on the accessibility of its events and the support it offers to budding and established journalists. The club is currently headed by Dan Sloan, a former reporter for Reuters.
The challenges awaiting Japan’s new finance minister
Finance minister Satsuki Katayama answers questions from reporters in a group interview on Oct. 24.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.

Podcast

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

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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
By Kathryn Wortley

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