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LIFE / Lifestyle
Oct 25, 2020

Is Japan ready to embrace CBD?

Japan's CBD market is on the cusp of taking off, and the economic potential is huge. But it has stiff legal and social barriers to overcome first.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Oct 25, 2020

Nahid Yoshinari: 'I love to involve the audience in the music'

An announcer and translator at NHK, Nahid Yoshinari is happy to share her Persian culture with people in Japan.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 25, 2020

Tobacco nationalism is more toxic than tobacco

The Indian government, too, has a toxic dependence on tobacco. It's called ITC Ltd.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 25, 2020

Australia's money laundering detectives have been out at the pub

Unlike cash laundering, which involves a relatively small number of casinos and businesses, invoice-based laundering can take place between almost any two companies.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 25, 2020

Mike Pence chief of staff and political adviser test positive for COVID-19

Mike Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, has tested positive for coronavirus infection this week, bringing the pandemic into the vice president’s inner circle.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Oct 25, 2020

Victorious and undefeated, Khabib Nurmagomedov retires from UFC

Three days before headlining UFC 254 in Abu Dhabi, the main attraction, Khabib Nurmagomedov, told reporters he planned to retire as the undefeated, undisputed UFC lightweight champion.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 24, 2020

Hokkaido municipalities gamble on a nuclear future, but at what cost?

Nuclear waste site survey applications reflect muddled official policy about what to do with the country's spent nuclear fuel
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 24, 2020

Pandemic pushes Japan's wealthy to spend like there's no tomorrow

Since overseas travel has become virtually impossible, some people have been diverting more of their disposable income into luxury items such as new cars.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Oct 24, 2020

Social media creators take advantage of the subsidized Go To campaigns

The government’s Go To Travel campaign prompted plenty of skepticism ahead of its debut in July. Understandably so — new cases of COVID-19 infections were back on the upswing at that time and the whole push to help support the country’s ailing tourism industry felt far too early. Initial results...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 24, 2020

Biden's debate pledge to ‘transition’ from oil puts climate at center of campaign finale

The comment gave President Donald Trump what his campaign saw as an enormous opportunity to blunt his opponent's appeal to working-class voters.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 23, 2020

China warns on ‘red lines’ as it remembers its only war with U.S.

Beijing is going all out in remembrance of its participation in the Korean War, sending a message to Washington that it's not intimidated by American military might.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 22, 2020

South Korea union says 14 delivery staff died from pandemic overwork

CJ Logistics publicly apologized for five of the deaths and vowed to improve working conditions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Oct 22, 2020

Harnessing technology key to winning race against COVID-19

Governments that have worked effectively to roll out apps and artificial intelligence for the social good are set to come out on top.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to the media after a meeting in Tokyo last month.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 19, 2025

Ishiba says Japan considering role in security guarantees for Ukraine

The “coalition of the willing,” which groups 30 nations backing Ukraine that includes Japan, has been working for months to craft a comprehensive package of security guarantees.
Israeli women take part in a protest demanding the end of the war in the Gaza Strip near Kibbutz Nahal Oz, close to the Israeli border with Gaza, on Aug. 10.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 20, 2025

As Netanyahu expands Gaza war, some reservists grow more disillusioned

They accuse the government — the most far-right administration in Israel's history — of perpetuating the war for political reasons.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Yury Slyusar, acting governor of the Rostov region, in Moscow on Monday. Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court for allegedly unlawfully deporting Ukrainian children.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 20, 2025

Switzerland and Austria say they would host ICC-wanted Putin for peace talks

Both countries have indicated they would give the Russian leader immunity in order to meet with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy at a neutral location.
Left: Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani attends a regional forum in Mecca earlier this year. Right: Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer attends a special session of the Knesset in Jerusalem, in 2022.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 20, 2025

Syrian and Israeli diplomats met in Paris to discuss 'de-escalation,' report says

The attempt at diplomacy comes amid tensions as Israel has occupied territory and hit targets across Syria.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chiese President Xi Jinping in 2016. Modi has said he’s looking forward to meeting Xi during a visit China later this month — his first trip to the country in seven years.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 20, 2025

Modi hails China ties as Washington takes swipe at India's 'richest families'

New Delhi has been recalibrating its foreign policy more toward China and other BRICS group members after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to boost tariffs.
People wade through a flooded street after heavy rainfall in Karachi on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 21, 2025

Pakistan's financial capital Karachi hit by torrential rain and flooding

The monsoon has brought havoc across Pakistan in recent days with the death toll from floods that hit the mountainous northwest on Friday rising to 385.
A Ukrainian serviceman fires a self-propelled howitzer toward Russian troops near a front line in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 21, 2025

Russia says talks on Ukraine's security without Moscow are a 'road to nowhere'

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sounded the warning to the West as it scrambles to work out guarantees for Kyiv's future protection.
People take photos in front of a large portrait of Chinese President Xi Jinping during a government-organized tour at Potala Palace Square in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, on March 28.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 21, 2025

Xi pushes for mega-dam and rail links to boost Tibet development

The Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower project is set to become one of the biggest infrastructure projects in history.

Longform

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