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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 17, 2020

Canceling Aegis Ashore raises problems — and hopes

The decision should galvanize bilateral cooperation, promoting still greater integration of the two countries' defense systems.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB Preview
Jun 17, 2020

BayStars closer Yasuaki Yamasaki hopes to convey positive message to fans when NPB season begins

The BayStars' Yasuaki Yamasaki is excited to finally get the 2020 season underway.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jun 16, 2020

Former South Korean 'comfort women' support group hit by criticism and probe

The lawmaker who previously led the group faces calls to step down after being accused of misusing funds.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 16, 2020

Abe confronts his sinking popularity as coronavirus-dominated Diet session wraps up

Failure to shore up his support could hamper the prime minister's ability to call a snap Lower House election and advance his dream of constitutional amendment.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 15, 2020

Central, Pacific Leagues announce schedules for remainder of season

After announcing their first month of games earlier this month, both the Central and Pacific Leagues revealed the remainder of their schedules for the 2020 season on Monday.
Japan Times
Rugby
Jun 15, 2020

Rugby World Cup star Kenki Fukuoka gives up Olympic aspirations for career in medicine

Brave Blossoms star has decided to focus his attention on club rugby while also trying to get into medical school.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 14, 2020

'Slow-moving train wreck': Hong Kong’s rich preparing for worst-case scenario

One Hong Kong businessman moved $10 million to Singapore and plans to transfer more. Another is eyeing London property, worried that prices in Hong Kong are too high. Well-to-do families across the city are opening offshore bank accounts and applying for alternative passports.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 14, 2020

North Korea warns of retaliatory actions over defectors in South

The statement came days after South Korea took legal action against defectors who have been sending material such as rice and anti-North leaflets.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jun 13, 2020

Prosecutor gambling scandal lifts veil on press access in Japan

Will the incident prompt any major media outlet to change its ways when socializing with sources?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 13, 2020

The office isn't dead, it's just convalescing

As business starts to resume across Asia, some companies begin to look at whether teleworking can be extended for those who want it.
Japan Times
Rugby
Jun 13, 2020

National Rugby League asks reporter to have COVID test after breaching social distancing rules during interview with player

A second journalist within a week will have to undergo a coronavirus test after breaching social distancing rules by failing to observe a two-meter gap from players in Australia's National Rugby League (NRL), local media reported on Saturday.
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WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jun 13, 2020

Trump increasingly alone in provocative racial rhetoric

U.S. President Donald Trump is resisting a new rush to address police brutality and tear down Confederate symbols even as polls show most Americans believe changes are needed and many corporations — even NASCAR, with its conservative fan base — embrace a more proactive stance on issues of racial...
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 12, 2020

Podcast platform Pocket Casts says Apple removed app from China store

New York-based podcasting platform Pocket Casts said its app had been taken down from Apple Inc's app store in China.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 12, 2020

Koike’s first term as Tokyo governor: Eventful, but little to show for it

Each challenge has revealed a new facet of her political persona, and they will also serve as benchmarks against which voters examine her record.
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BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 12, 2020

Bank of Japan’s aid to lenders hasn't warmed them to negative rates

For the country's commercial banks, the BOJ's sub-zero rates strategy aimed at stimulating the economy and prices has eroded their profit margins.
Reader Mail
Jun 12, 2020

Hear George Floyd gasp for air

The death of a black man, George Floyd, by a Minneapolis police officer brought the world to rally and to speak against American police brutality, systemic racism and inequity. We are so moved by the people’s solidarity shown in London, Paris and on streets of Osaka and Tokyo.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / Sound Off
Jun 12, 2020

The summer of our discontent

With the news that this year’s Fuji Rock Festival would be postponed until 2021, summer 2020 became the season of no music in Japan.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Jun 11, 2020

Shinji Shimada embraces challenge of leading B. League

Shimada said that having run companies over the last quarter-century, including a travel agency and the Jets, he has been adept at turning them around.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 11, 2020

America’s great(er) recession will last for years

The upbeat employment numbers for May probably don't point to a quick recovery.

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