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WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 23, 2020

Warmest oceans ever force tuna titan to start protecting fish

Helping the canned tuna industry cope with climate change tops an already lengthy to-do list for Darian McBain, chief sustainability officer at the Thailand company that owns the Chicken of the Sea and John West brands.
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WORLD / Politics
Mar 23, 2020

Joe Biden says 'no need' to postpone November vote over coronavirus

Joe Biden pushed back on suggestions that the November election could be postponed amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying Sunday it's important that voting continues as it has during other crises in American history.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 22, 2020

Apparent false conviction brings Japan's justice system back into the spotlight

After already having served a 12-year prison sentence following her conviction for murdering a patient, former assistant nurse Mika Nishiyama, 40, is expected to finally be acquitted on March 31.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 22, 2020

U.S.-India relations shape Japan's strategic environment

Japan's strategic environment is shaped by the intersection of three major geopolitical storylines.
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OLYMPICS
Mar 22, 2020

Tokyo organizers quietly plan for potential Olympic delay: sources

Tokyo 2020 organizers have started drafting possible alternatives to holding the Olympics this summer, two sources familiar with the talks said, in contrast to the government's stance that postponement is not an option.
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JAPAN
Mar 21, 2020

As mask supplies dwindle, Japanese bra maker offers support where it's most needed

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, one company is taking a unique approach to easing the shortage of masks in Japan.
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BUSINESS
Mar 21, 2020

Pro tips on teleworking during a virus outbreak

When the novel coronavirus started spreading across Asia in January, forcing the world’s largest work-from-home experiment, not many knew what to expect, least of all Bloomberg’s 400-plus journalists in the region. Six weeks later (and counting), only now are some starting to return to the office....
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BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 20, 2020

Toyota logs first domestic coronavirus infection

Toyota Motor Corp. said a man at its Takaoka plant in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, has tested positive for the coronavirus.
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CULTURE / Music / Sound Off
Mar 20, 2020

Fuji Rock keeps calm and carries on despite coronavirus fears

You can’t fault the organizers of Fuji Rock Festival for failing to predict how thoroughly the COVID-19 outbreak would engulf the planet when they released a solemn announcement in late January, titled “Festival Crisis.”
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BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 20, 2020

Google critics see its Firebase tools as another squeeze play

Some app developers say Google LLC is increasingly pressing them to embed code in their own products that will deepen Google's access to data on consumers, giving the company a leg up on rivals.
SUMO
Mar 19, 2020

Tough training in high school forged Mongolian Ichinojo

One of the strongest sumo high schools in Japan is Tottori Johoku.
JAPAN
Mar 19, 2020

'Coronavirus harassment' surge suggests growing panic in Japan

In the age of the COVID-19 outbreak, the sight of someone coughing in public has become a frequent cause for suspicious stares, altercations and even maltreatment at work, leading to the emergence of what has been dubbed by Japanese media as "corohara," or coronavirus harassment.
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WORLD / Politics
Mar 19, 2020

Trump bump flattened: President tied fortunes to stock rally that crashed

Ever since his improbable victory in November 2016, U.S. President Donald Trump has been inextricably tied to the fortunes of the stock market. At no time in modern history has the leader of the free world made rising share prices such a singular barometer of his success, or claimed so much credit for...
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SOCCER / From the Spot
Mar 18, 2020

COVID-19 strikes Japanese soccer

Since late February, Japanese soccer's professional and amateur competitions have shut down in an attempt to protect players, coaches and fans from the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak that has forced the cancellation of major sporting events around the world.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Mar 18, 2020

Taiwan to shut borders to foreigners in bid to combat coronavirus

Taiwan plans to bar all new arrivals by foreign nationals, adding to the growing ranks of governments shutting their borders in a bid to slow the global spread of the coronavirus.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 18, 2020

Global powers unleash trillions of dollars to stem spiraling coronavirus crisis

The world's richest nations prepared more costly measures on Tuesday to combat the global fallout of the coronavirus that has infected tens of thousands of people, triggered social restrictions unseen since World War II and sent economies spinning toward recession.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 17, 2020

Taiwan again scrambles jets to warn off Chinese Air Force

Taiwan's Air Force has again scrambled to warn off approaching Chinese jets, in the latest rise in military tensions during the coronavirus crisis between Beijing and the island its claims as its sacred territory.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 17, 2020

'Preparing for war': Africans scramble for groceries

Alarmed consumers thronged markets across Africa on Tuesday, many in masks and gloves, to stock up as the coronavirus spread on the world's poorest continent.
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 17, 2020

Classrooms become the latest COVID-19 casualty

Online learning — a wonderful workaround during a contagion — is an educational experiment in a world where teachers are no longer considered authority figures.
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WORLD
Mar 17, 2020

Vanishing YouTube videos: Google expects AI errors as coronavirus empties offices

YouTube could see a jump in videos erroneously taken down for content policy violations as the company relies more on automated software during the coronavirus pandemic, Alphabet Inc's Google warned on Monday.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 17, 2020

Tax cut emerging as option in Japan to combat coronavirus impact

The government will consider various measures, including tax cuts, to deal with deepening financial damage from the coronavirus outbreak, economy minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said Tuesday amid growing debate on the possibility of cutting the consumption tax.

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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