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BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2021

Suez Canal steps up efforts to free stuck vessel as U.S. watches energy market impact

Dredging and tugging aimed at freeing a mega-vessel stuck in the Suez Canal failed on Friday to end a blockage that has lifted shipping rates for fuel tankers and scrambled global supply chains for everything from grains to baby clothes.
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 26, 2021

Hong Kong offers a masterclass in vaccine confusion

Hong Kong was always going to struggle to run a mass vaccination campaign.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Mar 26, 2021

Nagoya hospital with patients in final days works to bridge virus isolation

As many facilities restrict family visits amid the pandemic, Minami Seikyo Hospital has found ways for patients to spend time with family members.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 26, 2021

In 2020 the ultrarich got richer. Now they're bracing for the backlash.

The plans being discussed by the ultrarich range from philanthropy to shifting money and businesses into trust funds, and relocating to other countries or states with favorable tax regimes.
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ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Mar 26, 2021

'Willful ignorance': Flood-hit Australia urged to rethink climate inaction

Currently battling its worst floods in more than half a century, the country has failed to adapt fast enough to growing threats while climate change has become 'a partisan political issue.'
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BUSINESS
Mar 26, 2021

BOJ's Kuroda urges central banks to take 'forward-looking' steps on climate risks

Kuroda said there were various challenges in managing climate-related financial risks, such as the difficulty of setting scenarios for stress tests and a lack of data.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB Preview
Mar 25, 2021

Hawks remain team to beat in Pacific League as new challengers emerge

The following is the second of a two-part NPB preview ending with the 2021 Pacific League.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2021

Japan's cherry blossom season: A time for cautious appreciation

People viewing the blossoms in Tokyo share with The Japan Times their feelings on this year's subdued festivities.
PODCAST / deep dive
Mar 24, 2021

Episode 87: Half a million and counting — Japan's rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine

Around 500,000 people have been vaccinated in Japan to date, one of the slowest vaccination programs across developed nations.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Mar 24, 2021

Nadeshiko Japan hero Homare Sawa to miss Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Homare Sawa, the most valuable player and top goal scorer of the World Cup in Germany, is dealing with a long-term condition affecting her inner ear and will not run in the relay.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Mar 24, 2021

Japan state-funded hotel deal pays rent to Myanmar Defense Ministry

The payments, starting in 2017, are not illegal but are potentially embarrassing for Tokyo given alleged human rights abuses by Myanmar's military.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Mar 24, 2021

Simona Halep on hunt for Grand Slam titles and Tokyo Olympic medal

World No. 3 Simona Halep said she is more interested in silverware than her ranking and will focus on the Grand Slams and the Olympics.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 24, 2021

Agon Shu adheres to social distancing in Fire Rites Festival

A long procession of people dressed as yamabushi mountain priests makes its way into an amphitheater in the hills of eastern Kyoto to the sound of majestic symphonic music. This is how the Agon Shu Buddhist Association’s annual Fire Rites Festival always begins. But this year there were some very visible...
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JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 23, 2021

Japanese firms launch domestic clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines

Even as Daiichi Sankyo and KM Biologics begin work to prove their shots' efficacy and safety, the public is unlikely to have access to them until fiscal 2022 at the earliest.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 23, 2021

Vaccine techno-populism is how Europe loses

Even with four vaccines approved by EU regulators, governments are fumbling the logistics of getting needles in arms.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 23, 2021

By catching bats, these 'virus hunters' hope to stop the next pandemic

The researchers are tasked with catching thousands of bats to develop a simulation model they hope will help the world avoid a pandemic similar to COVID-19
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 23, 2021

AstraZeneca's U.S. trial data a confidence booster for COVID-19 shot

The data paves the way for potential emergency authorization in the United States and boosts confidence in the shot after setbacks in Europe.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 22, 2021

Vaccine battle heats up with EU ready to halt U.K. shipments

Both sides have blamed each other for export curbs and nationalism, posing a risk to the fragile post-Brexit trade relationship agreed on only in December.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Mar 21, 2021

The NCAA sees its worst fears realized in a canceled tournament game

It was a Faustian bargain that college basketball made last autumn when it plowed ahead with a season into the headwinds of the coronavirus pandemic. There would be games, college sports administrators declared, because there needed to be a path to the NCAA men’s tournament, which the governing body...
OLYMPICS
Mar 21, 2021

Japanese fans have attended sporting events since July. Will they be safe at the Olympics?

Thorough countermeasures and restrictions on active support introduced by the country's professional sports leagues have allowed large crowds back into stadiums.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 20, 2021

Scientists probe new theories on whether AstraZeneca shot linked to blood clots

Scientists are exploring several possibilities that might explain at least 18 reports of extremely rare blood clots in the brain that occurred in individuals in the days and weeks after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 20, 2021

Seoul ends mandatory coronavirus testing for foreign nationals after outcry

The reversal came as the National Human Rights Commission confirmed it was probing if the policies of several local governments for all foreign workers to be tested were discriminatory.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 19, 2021

What the 'Quad' is and isn’t

The 'Quad' leaders virtual meeting stressed the provision of public goods, the free and open Indo-Pacific and a rules-based order.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 19, 2021

Asian American lawmakers call out racist language: ‘I am not a virus’

Lawmakers described the fear rippling through the Asian American community, and argued that the uptick in attacks was a direct result of the rise of anti-China messaging.

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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