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BUSINESS / Regional voices: Chubu
Feb 15, 2021

Empty stores and offices on the rise in Nagoya

Nagoya's central district is seeing more empty stores and offices as the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in teleworking and almost no inbound tourists.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Feb 13, 2021

Japan’s fashion scene gets smaller in more ways than one

Boutique shops and small brands face closure, while beauty influencer Akiico steps up to promote petite sizes.
Japan Times
ESG CONSORTIUM
Feb 12, 2021

With Seino service, sell your excess stuff when you move

People who are moving tend to wonder what to do with all the items they find they don’t need. Sometimes there are just too many and it is too troublesome to give them away or sell them even if they are still usable.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 12, 2021

Naoya Inoue and Takashi Uchiyama highlight packed field at charity boxing event

Thursday's exhibition at Yoyogi National Gymnasium brought together some of Japan's greatest boxers, while highlighting the potential for rapid virus testing at large-scale events.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 12, 2021

Citi sets up team of ESG experts in Japan to capture more deals

The firm's Japanese banking and brokerage arms selected 10 people in January to serve as specialists in environmental, social and governance factors.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 10, 2021

Clubhouse tops Japan chart as CEOs and celebrities embrace chat app

The invite-only drop-in conversation app, currently only on iPhones, topped the country's download charts with more than 440,000 new installs last week.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 10, 2021

U.S. safety board cites poor pilot decisions as likely cause of Kobe Bryant fatal crash

The board said the weather conditions were inconsistent with adverse weather training and resulted in the pilot's 'spatial disorientation and loss of control.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 9, 2021

Tokyo’s promise of a generational stock revamp draws skeptics

Japan Exchange Group Inc., which owns the Tokyo Stock Exchange, plans to cut the number of market segments, apply new listing criteria and condense five divisions into three sections.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 9, 2021

SoftBank’s Vision Fund posts record $8 billion profit on IPO boom

A global rally in technology shares has boosted the value of SoftBank's stakes in publicly traded firms like Uber Technologies Inc.
Japan Times
Special Supplements
Feb 8, 2021

Aichi Prefecture boasts long history of technological innovation, development

The puppeteer’s hands move quickly, deftly pulling ropes tethered to a mechanical karakuri doll used in yama floats in local festivals. The doll, clad in jewel-toned finery reminiscent of that worn by Japanese feudal nobility, moves its arms and head from side to side.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 5, 2021

Budget talks overshadowed as more issues pile up for Suga

There is mounting pressure on the prime minister on issues ranging from a potential ethics violation involving a family member to sexist remarks by the Tokyo Games chair.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 4, 2021

NFL's female pioneers eager to see more women in football

The ascent of women to top sports jobs remains an aberration and not the norm.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 4, 2021

Millions of defaults threaten future of microfinance in India

Worldwide, microlending's tremendous reach, once heralded as its greatest strength, now looks like a deep liability.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 4, 2021

AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines to be combined in Oxford trial

The trial will allow researchers to see whether two shots of different vaccines produce better or worse results than two doses of the same product.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 3, 2021

Boxing stars come together to support medical community

Naoya Inoue, Takashi Uchiyama and other current and former boxing stars will come together at Yoyogi National Gymnasium on Feb. 11.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 1, 2021

India-Japan cyber cooperation: From strength to strength

In India, defense experts fear allowing Huawei and ZTE's 5G technology in India would seriously compromise the entire command and communication structure of the Indian military.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 1, 2021

Glitzy high-rise offices lose luster as Japan works from home

Advertising agency Dentsu Group Inc. and logistics firm Nippon Express Co. are among those firms now considering selling their Tokyo headquarters.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 1, 2021

AstraZeneca boosts COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to EU amid chaotic rollout

AstraZeneca PLC will deliver 9 million additional vaccine doses to the European Union in the first quarter of this year as the bloc tries to get its chaotic inoculation drive on track.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 1, 2021

The Reddit army bailout: Desperate companies get new lifelines

It’s the kind of rescue that the most indebted companies in America can only dream of: a fresh injection of cash that doesn’t hurt their already depressed stock price or load even more costly debt onto their balance sheet.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 31, 2021

COVID-19 mutations undercut optimism even as more vaccines near

Mutations that likely confer partial resistance to vaccines and antibody treatments are now prevalent in both South Africa and Brazil, and they are threatening to spread worldwide.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jan 30, 2021

GameStop's 'Reddit rally' puts scrutiny on social media forums

Social media services restrict discussions about weapons, drugs and other illegal activity, but their rules do not specifically mention another lucrative regulated good: stocks.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jan 29, 2021

Racing the virus: Why tweaking vaccines to fight variants won't be simple

After developing and rolling out COVID-19 vaccines at record speed, drugmakers are already facing variants of the rapidly-evolving coronavirus that may render them ineffective.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 28, 2021

Rumors and fear hinder Philippine plan for coronavirus vaccine drive

According to one rumor circulating in the Philippines, the coronavirus vaccine will allow President Rodrigo Duterte to kill people at the push of a button.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 27, 2021

The battle lines are forming in Biden’s climate push

What may well stand in the U.S. president's way is political intransigence from senators from fossil-fuel states in both parties.

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers