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Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 12, 2020

Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trial reaches key goal to gauge merit

The bet among top experts in the field is that Moderna's therapy will likely prove to be highly effective.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 11, 2020

‘Life: Untitled’: The fables and foibles of sex work

Kana Yamada's film about a motley crew of employees at an escort agency called Crazy Bunny is based on her own stage play.
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2020

Japan suicides rise as economic impact of coronavirus hits home

Of October's cases, 851 were women, a rise of 82.6% over the same month in 2019. The number of suicides by men rose 21.3%.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2020

China's lesson from the U.S. election? No, thanks.

Beijing has made clear it hopes that a change in the U.S. administration will lead to an improvement in the bilateral relationship.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 11, 2020

What will it take to make Suga’s agricultural export policy succeed?

Today, Japan's rice yield per hectare is 40% lower than that of California. It has also been surpassed by China, whose yield per hectare was only half that of Japan 50 years ago.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 11, 2020

Does Trump’s defeat signal the start of populism’s decline?

The economic, social and political grievances that fed populist and xenophobic movements in many countries are still alive.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 11, 2020

G20 countries still backing fossil fuels through COVID-19 response

Despite repeated pledges to end subsidies for oil, gas and coal, G20 governments continue to fund fossil fuels, with the COVID-19 crisis doing little to change that, a new report says.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 10, 2020

China vaccine trial halted in Brazil after serious adverse event

The final-stage trial of a Chinese front-runner vaccine candidate has been halted in Brazil due to a serious adverse event, the first time that any of the Asian nation’s rapidly developed COVID-19 shots have met with such a setback.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Nov 10, 2020

Trump’s environmental legacy may be lasting harm to the climate

Greenhouse pollution accumulates in the atmosphere, so the heat-trapping gases emitted as a result of loosened regulations will remain for decades, regardless of policy shifts.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Nov 10, 2020

Let's discuss taxis

What measures should passengers be taking to protect others from the risk of coronavirus? Taxi drivers have some ideas.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 9, 2020

Trump loses immunity from persecution after leaving office

Those consequences of a Trump defeat could lead him, if not to jail, at least to years of persecution by justice.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 9, 2020

Trump-to-Biden handoff stalls as president rejects outcome

The administrator of the General Services Administration — currently a Trump appointee — is empowered to formally ascertain the apparent winner, something they have not yet done.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Nov 9, 2020

Pushing international dialogue over the airwaves of Hokkaido's FM G'Sky

A radio station in small-town Hokkaido wants to help its listeners broaden their horizons.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 8, 2020

China unlikely to find Biden a soft touch

In his unsuccessful campaign for re-election, President Donald Trump repeatedly warned that a victory for Joe Biden would be a win for China and that Beijing would "own America."
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Nov 7, 2020

Kohei Uchimura ready for one-day gymnastics event in Tokyo

When Kohei Uchimura heard he’d tested positive for COVID-19, the three-time Olympic gold medalist was shocked.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Women of Taste
Nov 7, 2020

Dawn Club culinary group shines a light on Tsugaru’s traditional cuisine

Odds are you've never heard of Tsugaru, or its culinary history. But one group of farmers is trying to keep traditional dishes alive.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 5, 2020

Biden edges closer to White House win as Trump mounts legal challenge

With tensions rising, about 200 of Trump's supporters, some armed with rifles and handguns, gathered outside an election office in Phoenix.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 5, 2020

Shenzhen’s game-changing reform

What was once a poor fishing village now has the highest per capita GDP on the mainland, and a total GDP on par with Hong Kong.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 5, 2020

International disorder: Post-election realities for Japan and allies of the U.S.

Japan has little choice but to continue to strengthen its alliance with the United States to deal with its security challenges in the region. There is no Plan B.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / EXPLAINER
Nov 5, 2020

The ins and outs of Japan’s eased re-entry steps for foreign residents

Even with the most recent changes to border control measures that came into effect Sunday, there are growing concerns over strict and unclear requirements for re-entry.
Japan to experience blood moon lunar eclipse on Monday
A blood moon is seen during a partial eclipse in the sky over Lake George near Canberra on March 14.
Ishiba to quit as prime minister amid LDP discontent
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announces his decision to step down, at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Sunday.
Japan eyes two types of 'hometown resident' registration
People buy groceries from a mobile supermarket in a rural area of Nagomi, Kumamoto Prefecture. The government is considering a new "hometown resident" registration system to help strengthen regional revitalization measures.
Race to become next LDP president kicks off again
Former Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi on Monday became the first to enter the race to replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.
‘Confugenics’ and East Asia's demographic crisis
East Asia’s fertility plunge is driven not just by financial costs but by perfectionist cultural expectations that burden parents with intense educational and social demands.
Search is on for loopholes in Japan’s $550 billion investment pledge
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick argues that U.S. President Donald Trump has sole authority to invest Japan's promised $550 billion.
In rural Hokkaido, the stops and starts of tourism revival on full display
Redevelopment plans for Kawayu Onsen have hit some snags — an example of how bringing tourists back to declining rural communities is far from easy work.
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.

Podcast

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

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
By Mai Yoshikawa

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