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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2021

Alibaba and Pinduoduo join fight against looming China food crisis

The battle to supply 1.4 billion people with fresh fruit and vegetables is taking China's e-commerce companies into the country's hinterlands.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 22, 2021

Bankers love their Porsche 911s. So let them buy shares.

While Porsche's margins aren't quite as stellar as Ferrari's, in 2019 it supplied the VW group with a more than ample 4.2 billion euros of operating profit.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 22, 2021

China urges Biden to scrap tariffs and restore goodwill

The speech represents China's most high-profile comment on ties since U.S. President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping spoke by phone earlier this month.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 22, 2021

Pfizer-BioNTech shot stops COVID-19 spread, Israeli study shows

The study provides the first real-world indication that the immunization will curb transmission of the coronavirus, but experts cautioned that more data is needed.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Feb 21, 2021

The two hours that nearly destroyed the electric grid in Texas

The debacle highlights just how vulnerable even the most sophisticated energy systems are to the vagaries of climate change, and how close it all came to crashing down.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 21, 2021

Russia reports world's first cases of H5N8 bird flu in humans

Russia said it found the world’s first cases of the H5N8 strain of avian influenza in humans, though the virus isn’t yet spreading between people.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 21, 2021

United Airlines plane showers debris near Denver after engine failure

A Boeing 777-200 operated by United Airlines made an emergency return to Denver International Airport on Saturday following an engine failure that rained debris on a city suburb. The airline said nobody aboard was injured.
JAPAN / View from Osaka
Feb 20, 2021

Mori's downfall poetic justice for an Osaka ready to showcase its modernity

From describing the city as 'phlegm' to lackluster support for its Olympic bid, the former prime minister and Tokyo Games chief finally reaped the harvest of his disdain for Osaka.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 20, 2021

G7 skirts the China question, yet need for answers grows

In speeches after the G7 phone call, the leaders put flesh on the bones of their discussions, and here there was a sign that they may be able to forge a common response in the months ahead.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 20, 2021

China is preparing for another Olympics in Beijing, like it or not

When Beijing staged the Summer Olympic Games in 2008, many argued — or at least hoped — that the international attention would improve human rights in China. It didn’t.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 20, 2021

Pfizer’s vaccine works well after one dose and doesn’t always need ultracold storage

A study in Israel showed that the vaccine is robustly effective after the first shot, raising the possibility that regulators in some countries could authorize delaying a second dose.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 20, 2021

With one number, Biden reverses Trump’s way of valuing climate

The president has reactivated the Obama-era approach to estimating the cost of climate change, a move that establishes a much higher dollar value for greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.
The focus of the election in Tokyo next month will be whether the Liberal Democratic Party can remain the biggest force in the 127-seat assembly.
JAPAN
May 21, 2025

More than 270 candidates to run in Tokyo assembly election

The focus of the election will be whether the Liberal Democratic Party can remain the biggest force in the 127-seat assembly.
Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato (right) and Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda wait for a group photograph to be taken at a meeting of Group of Seven finance ministers and central bank governors’ in Banff, Canada, on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
May 22, 2025

Japan and U.S. reaffirm commitment to letting markets set currency rates

Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have made a point of not discussing a target yen-dollar rate.
A once-famous Filipino actor (Carlo Aquino, left) joins forces with a struggling Japanese businessman (Takehiro Hira) to track down a serial killer in “Crosspoint."
CULTURE / Film
May 22, 2025

‘Crosspoint’ can’t quite find its target

Donie Ordiales’ dark comedy about a washed-up Filipino actor and a broke Japanese businessman teaming up has thrills and social commentary but loses momentum along the way.
A Qatari Boeing 747 sits on the tarmac of Palm Beach International airport after U.S. President Donald Trump toured the aircraft on Feb. 15
WORLD / Politics
May 22, 2025

U.S. accepts Qatar luxury jet as Trump’s new Air Force One

Politicians from both parties have questioned the president’s decision, raising ethical and security concerns.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Japan has strongly urged Israel to provide a full explanation of the incident.
JAPAN
May 22, 2025

Tokyo lodges protest after Israel fires shots at diplomats in West Bank

The diplomats were inspecting a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin.
New farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks during a news conference on Wednesday in Tokyo.
JAPAN / FOCUS
May 22, 2025

‘Rice minister’ Koizumi faces urgent task to bring prices down quickly

Lawmakers have been questioning whether auctioning stockpiled rice is really effective in bringing down prices.
The U.S. debt crisis can’t be fixed without reforming entitlements, and that means Americans must retire later and pay more in taxes.
COMMENTARY / World
May 22, 2025

To fix the U.S. debt problem, Americans must retire later

The House’s proposed $3.7 trillion tax bill isn’t what sparked that Moody’s downgrade — it was the runaway growth of entitlement spending.
The Business School campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
WORLD / Politics
May 23, 2025

Trump administration blocks Harvard's international enrollments

The move came after Harvard refused to give Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem information about some foreign student visa holders at the school.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a news conference in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
May 23, 2025

Netanyahu links embassy shootings to hostility over Gaza

Netanyahu has vowed to press on with the war and there was no sign that the Washington killings would affect the conduct of Israel's military operation.
Yoshinobu Tsutsui (left), who is expected to become the new Keidanren chairman, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on March 25, as the current chairman, Masakazu Tokura, looks on.
BUSINESS / FOCUS
May 23, 2025

Keidanren to install first leader from financial sector

The post of Keidanren chairman has traditionally been held by leaders from the manufacturing sector.
People walk through Harvard Yard on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
WORLD
May 23, 2025

Trump's Harvard foreign student attack threatens key college revenue

The administration’s move to stop foreign enrollment is a huge blow to Harvard and sends a message to other universities.
Self-Defense Force personnel transport debris believed to be part of the wreckage of the Air Self-Defense Force's T-4 training aircraft that crashed near a lake in Aichi Prefecture on May 15.
JAPAN
May 23, 2025

Two ASDF crew members confirmed dead in training plane crash in Aichi

The Air Self-Defense Force's T-4 training aircraft crashed near a lake in Aichi Prefecture immediately after taking off from the Komaki Air Base last week.
U.S. soldiers at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on May 9.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 23, 2025

Pentagon denies report of U.S. troop withdrawal plan for South Korea

The denial came after The Wall Street Journal reported that the White House is considering pulling out roughly 4,500 troops and relocating them.
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN
May 23, 2025

Japan pledges immediate rice price cuts to stop shift to foreign brands

The government has been releasing some of its stockpiled rice since March but that has yet to translate to lower supermarket prices.
After last year’s controversy over using AI to write about 5% of her novel, Rie Qudan was asked by an advertising magazine to write a short story where she uses AI for 95% of it. The resulting short story, “Kage no ame” (“Rain Shadow”), was published March 25.  
CULTURE / Books
May 24, 2025

AI fiction is already here. Are humans ready?

Last year, Rie Qudan faced controversy after admitting that chatGPT wrote 5% of her novel. Now she’s published a story she only wrote 5% herself, leaving 95% to AI.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba briefs reporters after his call with U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday.
BUSINESS / Economy
May 23, 2025

Ishiba and Trump speak as Akazawa heads to Washington

The call raised hopes for a breakthrough as Japan's chief tariff negotiator heads to the U.S. for a third round of high-level negotiations.
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Japan Post to stop accepting some parcels for shipment to the U.S.
Japan Post's UGX will still be available for many rejected packages.
Japan aims to tighten rules for business manager visas from October
The number of foreign residents with business management residency status had reached a record 41,615 as of the end of 2024.
Tokyo releases AI-generated video of Mount Fuji erupting
A screenshot from an AI-generated video showing what could happen to Tokyo if Mount Fuji erupted
Character-crazed Japan has little appetite for Labubu
A pop-up advertisement for the newly opened Chiikawa Park in Tokyo's Ikebukuro neighborhood demonstrates how the country is chockful of cute characters — to the detriment of trends like Labubu.
Is Kishida plotting a return of the king? Or would he rather stay a kingmaker?
Former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida chairs a plenary session at the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Aug. 21.
Japanese prefectures break with labor ministry on minimum wage
The ministry of labor has suggested a 6% minimum wage increase, but most prefectures reporting so far are opting to go slightly higher.
Philippines quietly deepening ‘unofficial’ defense ties with Taiwan
Filipino soldiers take part in a flag-raising ceremony on Mavulis Island during a visit by the Philippines' Armed Forces chief of staff, in Batanes, the Philippines, in June 2023. Batanes, a group of idyllic islands at the country’s northernmost tip, sits about 160 kilometers from Taiwan.
Are 'coolcations' the answer for Japan's heat-weary tourists?
Hikers on a trail in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. As extreme heat continues to grip Japan, a tectonic shift may be underway in the nation’s summer tourism scene as more people gravitate toward cooler destinations.
Germany's first sakemaker offers a bold brew of ideas
Reigen, Germany's first sake brewery, makes a diverse, nontraditional range of sake that includes fruit-flavored sips and wine barrel-aged renditions.

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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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