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JAPAN
Apr 29, 2021

Japanese business leaders suggest ways to speed up vaccination rate

Figures such as Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani have urged the government to quicken inoculations by allowing them to be done through a drive-thru system.
JAPAN
Apr 29, 2021

As Osaka’s COVID-19 crisis worsens, Tokyo and Aichi offer to take patients

Hospitals have been forced to turn away patients who, in some cases, then had to spend hours in an ambulance before they could finally gain admission.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 29, 2021

Amid pandemic chaos and protests, India's farmers eye record wheat crop

While India battles soaring COVID-19 infections, on the outskirts of New Delhi, thousands of farmers still occupy camps where they are keeping up a monthslong sit-in protest against government legislation that they say harms them.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 29, 2021

Dark horse of vaccine race may be this French biotech

With the other COVID-19 vaccines in Europe focused on the virus's spike protein, this shot could protect against variants that might compromise others, making it the perfect booster.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 29, 2021

After three U.S. strikeouts, will Afghanistan be the fourth?

A primary concern is the withdrawal could make the region far more unstable than it was previously — a pattern that the world has seen before.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 29, 2021

EU accuses Russia and China of sowing mistrust in Western vaccines

From December to April, the two countries' state media outlets pushed fake news online in multiple languages sensationalizing vaccine safety concerns, an EU study says.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 29, 2021

Canary in the coal mine: Study finds world's glaciers melting faster

Nearly all of the world's glaciers are losing mass — and at an accelerated pace, according to a new study published Wednesday that could impact future projections for ice loss.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 29, 2021

There's no easy way back to the Iran nuclear deal

Even if Iran does get rid of its new stockpiles and downgrade its enrichment activities, its nuclear threat will not recede to the level achieved by the 2015 deal.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 29, 2021

The geopolitics of climate change

Geopolitical risk is not an excuse to alter our course or reverse direction. Rather, it is an impetus to accelerate our work toward a just transition for all.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Apr 29, 2021

Germany to tap Rhine's 'white gold' as its automakers pivot to electric cars

Power and mining companies alike are striving to bring to the surface lithium trapped in underground springs in the Upper-Rhine Valley.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 29, 2021

The Nio normal: Chinese electric car firm seeks to plug buyers into lifestyle app

The automaker operates its own digital currency with tradable credits that clients can gain from buying a car, attending events or even simply posting their stories on the Nio app.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health / FOCUS
Apr 29, 2021

Her prophecy of an Australian inferno was proven right

Climate change is a politically charged issue in much of the world. But the debate is especially heated in Australia.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Apr 29, 2021

As rivals made fortunes, Exxon retreated from oil trading amid pandemic

'They were careful with capital during a period of time when they maybe shouldn't have,' one trader who left Exxon in the last year said of its management.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 29, 2021

Biden sees U.S. ‘rising anew’ in call for huge investment

The U.S. president warns corporations and wealthy Americans that he expects them to carry more of the burden of financing the nation's advancements.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 29, 2021

Fears some may be prevented from leaving under new Hong Kong immigration law

The bill, passed Wednesday, will allow the city's immigration director to obtain information about any passenger or crew member boarding a flight.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 29, 2021

Indians rush for vaccines as COVID-19 death toll tops 200,000

The second wave of infections has seen at least 300,000 people test positive each day for the past week, overwhelming health facilities and crematoriums.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Apr 29, 2021

Pandemic boost for global car sales to spark surge in oil demand

The car renaissance could be the latest example of how COVID-19 will leave a lasting impact on our lives.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 28, 2021

‘Remain in Twilight’: The boys that just can't escape adolescence

Daigo Matsui gets nostalgic over the goofs in the back of math class but ultimately gets stuck in the potty humor of the past.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 28, 2021

Daido Moriyama documentary brings the photographer’s legacy into focus

A new film by Gen Iwama centered around reproducing photographer Daido Moriyama's out-of-print book from 1968 captures a master unconcerned with reliving past glories.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Apr 28, 2021

African samurai earns hero status in new anime ‘Yasuke’

Director LeSean Thomas brings the story of Yasuke, a real-life black samurai, to Netflix as 'a new kind of anime action hero.”
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 28, 2021

‘It’s like a war’: Inside an India hospital desperate for oxygen

The world's fastest-growing virus surge now threatens to spawn new variants that undermine efforts in more developed countries to vaccinate the public and get back to life as normal.
JAPAN
Apr 28, 2021

Three aging reactors in Fukui Prefecture given OK for restart

The prefecture's decision could set a precedent that leads to more aging reactors getting restarted instead of being scrapped.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2021

The Cold War playbook won’t help Alexei Navalny

That Navalny ended his hunger strike and his life isn't in imminent danger — for now — doesn't remove the underlying issue.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Apr 28, 2021

Why it’s so difficult to compare nations’ climate goals

There is no common accounting for what nations in the Paris Agreement are doing to fight climate change.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2021

India’s COVID-19 tsunami

Now, with more than 300,000 new cases a day and the death toll evidently much higher than reported, India is no one's idea of a global leader.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2021

New Zealand: A weak link or clever player?

New Zealand may be small in population, but it is an important link in the chain of response to China — and if one link fails the chain fails.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2021

Kick Russia out of the Iran nuclear talks

Zarif says that Russia 'put all its weight” against the deal because, as the Times dryly explains, 'it was not in Moscow's interests for Iran to normalize relations with the West.”
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Apr 28, 2021

Sumo's living history traced through its banzuke

The ranking sheets, which have been produced since the 18th century, serve not only as keepsakes but as snapshots of the sport's changes over time.

Longform

Koichi Tagawa’s diary entry from Aug. 9, 1945, describes the day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person