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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 8, 2020

Analysts see pandemic accelerating pace of mergers in Japan

Transactions here and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific will pick up before the U.S. and Europe do, experts say.
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / Los Angeles report 2020
Jun 8, 2020

Torrance: Growth driven by Japanese partners

Torrance has always valued its Japanese businesses and will continue to do so. Amid the ongoing global turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Torrance is gradually reopening for business. In the past year, the city welcomed back Sanrio and Oriental Motor.
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / Los Angeles report 2020
Jun 8, 2020

AKT Trading: Growing Asian food culture in the U.S.

Many small- and medium-size food and beverage companies, particularly in Japan, have taken notice of a promising opportunity in the growing market for Asian food around the world, including in the United States, where the population of Asians continues to increase.
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / Los Angeles report 2020
Jun 8, 2020

Ajinomoto Foods: Preserving healthy eating in the Americas

A melting pot of cultures, the United States has a complex food and beverage industry and a diverse culinary landscape, reflecting the country’s very long history of immigration and welcoming attitude toward other traditions.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 7, 2020

Taiwan opposition seeks distance from China after top official is recalled

Taiwan's main opposition party moved to distance itself from China after one of its most senior officials lost a highly charged recall election, as attitudes harden toward Beijing on the democratic island claimed by China.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 7, 2020

Japan threads the needle as U.S.-China animosity hits new highs

When it comes to increasingly fraught ties between Washington and Beijing, Tokyo is facing a “be careful what you wish for” moment.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 6, 2020

The more COVID-19 vaccines, the merrier

With companies and universities around the world working flat out, it's likely we'll end up with a few coronavirus vaccines, not just one.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 6, 2020

MLB players say teams 'depriving America of baseball games'

MLB and its players continue to clash over money as they try to reach an agreement to start the 2020 season.
PODCAST / deep dive
Jun 5, 2020

Episode 52: Can 'Terrace House' continue after Hana Kimura's death?

Alyssa Smith and Tom Hanaway have been writing recaps of 'Terrace House' and join Deep Dive to discuss Kimura's death, and what it might mean for the show going forward.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 5, 2020

India's Yamuna River regains sparkle as coronavirus lockdown banishes waste

The sparkle has returned to the Yamuna River flowing through India's capital of New Delhi, residents say, after decades of filthy and stinking waters, matted with garbage and polluted with toxic effluent from industry.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 5, 2020

‘Get your knee off our necks’: George Floyd mourned in Minneapolis

Prominent U.S. civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton told mourners on Thursday that George Floyd's fatal encounter with police and the nationwide protests his death ignited marked a reckoning for America over race and justice, demanding, "Get your knee off our necks."
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jun 5, 2020

India’s China standoff shows risks of getting too close to Trump

Indian and Chinese forces are facing off by a glacial lake in the Himalayas that traverses their fluid frontier. The standoff at 14,000 feet (4,270 meters) is the most visible theater of conflict between the world’s two most populous nations, but it’s far from the only source of friction.
Reader Mail
Jun 5, 2020

COVID-19 patients suffering in silence are the heroes in Japan’s ‘success’

In his June 2 opinion piece, Tomoya Saito paints a rosy picture of "The secret of Japan's success in combating COVID-19," but the contact tracing and public information campaigns that he touts as being exceptional are not: They are average at best when compared to those of peer industrialized nations....
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 4, 2020

Cheap holidays target locals across tourism-reliant Southeast Asia

With cash flow drying up at Thailand’s popular beach resort of Phuket, hotels are racing to restart tourism — starting with local travelers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 3, 2020

Don’t only bet on fast vaccines, root for COVID-19 treatments

Everything would have to go right to get a vaccine this year, but several types of treatments may be able to help patients in a matter of months.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 3, 2020

Rethinking the world's largest cities in wake of COVID-19

Grammy award-winner Petula Clark famously sang that the "lights are much brighter" downtown, but the coronavirus pandemic may change city centers across the world, as more people choose to work remotely and companies ditch large office towers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2020

Russian derangement syndrome

The Democrats and American media's obsession with the Kremlin's antics is becoming self-defeating.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2020

Japan's cash balance hits new high as BOJ pumps out money to combat pandemic

The balance of money circulating in Japan's economy reached ¥543 trillion in May, hitting a record high for the second straight month, as the central bank pumped more cash to cushion the blow to businesses and consumers from the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jun 2, 2020

In a nod to #MeToo, China defines sexual harassment by law

Two years ago, Zhou Xiaoxuan publicly accused one of China's most recognizable people of groping and forcibly kissing her, setting off a firestorm in a country that did not specify sexual harassment as a legal offense.
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2020

Japan lawmakers work to ensure payment of child support after divorce

The Diet members are stepping up efforts to address an increasing number of cases of unpaid child support.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 1, 2020

Enough of the G7 — let’s try a G10

The G10's purpose is simple: promote strategic cooperation on global political and security issues and advance the norms and values of a liberal international order.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 1, 2020

Is the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic now behind us?

Fears of a flare-up in virus cases after lockdown haven't come to pass, though some caution is warranted.
More sweltering days forecast for September after hottest summer on record
By the end of August, 8,341 people had been transported by ambulance for heatstroke in Tokyo alone.
‘Mount Fuji Lawson’ becomes a symbol of Japan’s overtourism problem
A couple poses for a wedding photo in front of a Lawson in the town of Kawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Aug. 25.
Surrounded by Chinese bases, a tiny Philippine island stands firm
A Philippine Navy sailor looks at a China Coast Guard vessel just off the coast of Pag-asa Island in the disputed South China Sea last month.
Woman dies after possible knife attack in Setagaya
Police investigate the scene where a woman was found bleeding on a street in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Monday.
Suntory CEO Takeshi Niinami resigns over alleged possession of illegal drugs
Takeshi Niinami, then-chief executive officer of Suntory Holdings, in May 2024
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.
Why Stalin didn’t invade Hokkaido still largely unknown, 80 years after WWII
During a survey to collect the remains of victims from the Taito Maru, one of the vessels involved in the Three Ships Incident, a metal helmet was found near the stern of the vessel on Aug. 5, 1984, at Rumoi Port. No human remains were discovered.
More sweltering days forecast for September after hottest summer on record
By the end of August, 8,341 people had been transported by ambulance for heatstroke in Tokyo alone.
Surrounded by Chinese bases, a tiny Philippine island stands firm
A Philippine Navy sailor looks at a China Coast Guard vessel just off the coast of Pag-asa Island in the disputed South China Sea last month.
‘Mount Fuji Lawson’ becomes a symbol of Japan’s overtourism problem
A couple poses for a wedding photo in front of a Lawson in the town of Kawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Aug. 25.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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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
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