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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 22, 2020

With ‘next level’ battery tech, Apple targets autonomous car by 2024

Making a vehicle represents a supply chain challenge even for Apple, a company with deep pockets that makes hundreds of millions of electronics products each year.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 22, 2020

‘The whole city was dark’: China rations electricity for millions

The drastic measures point to potential longer-term problems in China's energy universe, as leaders juggle competing priorities.
JAPAN
Dec 21, 2020

Ezra Vogel saw the good in every person and every nation

Ezra F. Vogel, one of the country's leading experts on East Asia, whose scholarship spanned from family issues to social welfare, industrial policy, international relations and history, passed away on Sunday at age 90.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 21, 2020

As Japan COVID-19 cases surge, governors brace for year-end spike

It took more than nine months, and two waves, for the number of reported cases to reach 100,000 — but less than two months for that figure to double.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Dec 21, 2020

Sunflowers manage to bloom in All-Japan final without injured Tokashiki

The team lost Tokashiki during the quarterfinals Wednesday in an injury that may also have a major effect on the national team's pursuit of gold at the Tokyo Olympics.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 21, 2020

Britain and EU tell each other to give way in 'difficult' trade talks

Negotiations are expected to continue on Monday, and a senior British government source described them as 'difficult' because of the 'significant differences' in position.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 21, 2020

Nations move to isolate U.K. as mutated virus brings Christmas chaos

The U.K. plunged into chaos, with police blocking people from boarding packed trains, holidays abroad scrapped and travel with Europe banned.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 21, 2020

The coronavirus is mutating. What does that mean for us?

It will be very hard for the coronavirus to escape the body's defenses, despite the many variations it may adopt.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 20, 2020

Did Trump’s impeachment matter in the end?

It's easy to conclude that, without the pandemic, Trump would have won. And if that's correct, it would seem that the impeachment would not have made any difference.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 20, 2020

For some in Russia’s elite, Putin’s future is again a hot topic

The regular revival of speculation about the 68-year-old leader's future highlights how central Putin remains to the Russian state.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Dec 20, 2020

U.S. hacking attack adds to Putin mystique, even if Russia faces pain

The storm over the cyberattack on U.S. government agencies only helps Putin's image at home as a strong leader unafraid to confront the former Cold War enemy.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 20, 2020

London begins emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new coronavirus strain

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson had planned to ease pandemic rules during the holiday but made an abrupt shift after emergency talks on the virus mutation with his top officials.
JAPAN / Society / 2020 in Review
Dec 19, 2020

Anxiety over coronavirus in 2020 spurs unprecedented societal change in Japan. Will it last?

For many in Japan, 2020 has been a year hijacked by uncertainty, a tumultuous period spent improvising and adapting to an unfamiliar way of life.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KANPAI CULTURE
Dec 19, 2020

Sake brewing in 2020: ‘Hard times are going to be with us for a while’

After years of incremental gains due to growing popularity abroad, Japan's sake producers struggled with substantial losses this year.
Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, has repeatedly declined to say whether he will step down when his four-year term as chair expires in May.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 5, 2025

Powell's silence on his future complicates Trump Fed chair search

The Fed chief has repeatedly declined to say whether he will step down when his four-year term as chair expires in May, or remain on the Fed board.
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2025

Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype

Authorities on Friday evacuated some residents from remote islands close to the epicenter of the 5.5 magnitude quake.
Children play video games on their mobile phones at an internet cafe in Demoso township in Myanmar's eastern Karenni state.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jul 5, 2025

Making connections in Myanmar's fractured state

Four years of civil war between Myanmar's military and its myriad opponents have shattered communications networks.
A street in Suttsu, Hokkaido, with a sign put up by an anti-nuclear organization. The small community is considering hosting a facility that would hold nuclear waste.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy / OUR PLANET
Jul 6, 2025

Ainu land rights in crosshairs as Hokkaido communities debate nuclear waste

Some scholars and activists are raising concerns that Indigenous voices are not being heard amid the debate over whether to host nuclear waste storage facilities.
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, in the Tokara chain, which has been hit by swarms of earthquakes in recent days, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday afternoon.
JAPAN
Jul 7, 2025

More residents evacuate quake-hit remote islands in Japan

The series of earthquakes with their epicenters in the seas around the Tokara chain — including two powerful quakes on Sunday — began on June 21.
White Sox relief pitcher Bobby Jenks throws against the Astros during Game 1 of the World Series on Oct. 22, 2005.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 6, 2025

Former White Sox closer Bobby Jenks dies at 44

Jenks was a flame-throwing reliever who appeared in the 2006 and 2007 All-Star Games and closed out the 2005 World Series for Chicago.
Members from Texas Game Wardens of the Law Enforcement Divison works following flash flooding, in Kerrville, Texas, on Sunday.
WORLD
Jul 7, 2025

Searchers scour Texas flood zone for dozens missing as 78 confirmed dead

Search teams plodded through mud-laden riverbanks and flew aircraft over the flood-stricken landscape of central Texas for a fourth day on Monday, looking for dozens of people still missing from a disaster that has claimed at least 78 lives.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 7, 2025

Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll

In their campaign promises, parties are offering different solutions to problems caused by the record number here to visit, work and invest in real estate.
Former Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 7. Starovoit, who was fired after barely a year in the job on Monday, was found dead with a gunshot wound hours later in his car outside Moscow.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 8, 2025

Sacked Russian transport minister found dead in his car with gunshot wound

Roman Starovoit, 53, was fired after barely a year in the job, purportedly in connection with a corruption probe in the region he once ran.
San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish before the start of a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix on June 14
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 8, 2025

Padres' Yu Darvish to make season debut against Diamondbacks

Darvish cleared the final hurdles to return to action with four innings in a simulated game Tuesday and a short bullpen session on Saturday.
Maki Takubo, mayor of Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, holds a news conference Monday evening to announcer her intention to resign and seek re-election.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 8, 2025

Scandal-hit mayor in Shizuoka to resign and seek reelection

Maki Takubo, who has admitted that she did not graduate from Toyo University but was actually expelled, was elected as mayor in May.
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.
Koshien’s dark summer forces reckoning for high school baseball
Koryo High School players greet their cheering section after beating Hokkaido’s Asahikawa Shiho in the first round of Summer Koshien on Aug. 7. The school withdrew three days later as a bullying scandal enveloped the team.
Akazawa's trip to Washington for tariff talks abruptly canceled
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, had been set to fly to Washington on Thursday.
Confusion over Japan’s ‘hometown’ plan overshadows African development event
First Lady Yoshiko Ishiba (center, in white and blue dress) hosts an event on Japanese culture with the first ladies of African leaders on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Aug. 21.
Mitsubishi’s wind-power retreat a blow to Japan's alternative-energy goals
Wind turbines in the town of Happo in Akita prefecture. Wind power is a key part of Japan's alternative energy drive.
Koshien’s dark summer forces reckoning for high school baseball
Koryo High School players greet their cheering section after beating Hokkaido’s Asahikawa Shiho in the first round of Summer Koshien on Aug. 7. The school withdrew three days later as a bullying scandal enveloped the team.
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.

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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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