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COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jan 26, 2021

It's time to reduce the world's trade dependence on China

By cooperating with allies and boosting multilateral functions under the WTO, Japan can help put a stop to Beijing's coercive actions.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Jan 26, 2021

Overwhelmed by virus, hospitals in Japan struggle to treat other emergency patients

While daily figures for new infections appear to have been decreasing overall, the number of critically ill COVID-19 patients set a record Monday, according to health ministry data.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 26, 2021

Biden may struggle to calibrate his Asia policy

The first challenge for the new Biden team, made up of many veterans of the Obama administration, is to resist the instinct to resume where it left off four years ago.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 26, 2021

Earth is losing ice faster today than in mid-1990s, study suggests

Annually, the melt rate is now about 57% faster than it was three decades ago, scientists report in a study published Monday in the journal The Cryosphere.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 26, 2021

With impeachment trial looming, Republicans waver on punishing Trump

Few Republicans appeared ready to repudiate a leader who maintains broad sway over their party by joining Democrats in convicting him.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 26, 2021

Signaling no change in China’s course, Xi warns against new Cold War

Though Xi did not refer to President Joe Biden by name, many of his comments were clearly targeted at the new U.S. administration.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Jan 26, 2021

Nissan flips the switch on electric reboot in China

At least one new Nissan car will hit the Chinese market each year through 2025.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 26, 2021

Suga’s hoarse voice at a parliamentary debate raises health concerns

The government's top spokesman dismissed concerns, saying the prime minister consults with a medical officer and takes medicine as needed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 26, 2021

Nidec to buy back shares as outlook improves and profit, sales top estimates

The manufacturer raised its operating income forecast for the current fiscal year to u00a5155 billion, up from u00a5140 billion and an average projection by analysts of u00a5149 billion.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 26, 2021

Cactus League asks MLB to delay spring training amid virus surge

The Cactus League and affiliated communities sent a letter to Major League Baseball asking for a delayed start to spring training as the coronavirus pandemic continues to overwhelm Arizona.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 26, 2021

China wanted to show off its vaccines. It’s backfiring.

Delays in getting the Chinese vaccines and the fact that the vaccines are less effective mean some countries may take longer to vanquish the virus.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 26, 2021

As virus grows stealthier, vaccine makers reconsider battle plans

As the coronavirus assumes contagious new forms around the world, two drugmakers reported on Monday that their vaccines, while still effective, offer less protection against one variant and began revising plans to turn back an evolving pathogen that has killed more than 2 million people.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Jan 26, 2021

NBA and players' union reportedly discuss All-Star Game

The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association are engaged in discussions about possibility holding an All-Star Game in early March, with Atlanta targeted as the host city, ESPN reported on Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 26, 2021

Trump Senate trial starts as House delivers impeachment article

Delivery of the impeachment article formally signals the start of the proceedings, though arguments won't begin until the week of Feb. 8.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jan 25, 2021

NPB and J. League hope to avoid burdening local governments during training camps

Nippon Professional Baseball and the J. League want teams to focus on making sure players and staff members don't become infected with COVID-19 during training camps.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 25, 2021

India tackles epic logistical challenge to deliver vaccines to villages

Negotiating cows, debris, thick fog and hairpin bends, and fighting fatigue, Porija drove nearly 24 hours within three days to collect and deliver shots to the town of Koraput.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Jan 25, 2021

Pandemic-era central banking is creating bubbles everywhere

In 2020, cheap money, gushing in from the world's major central banks, inflated assets and reshaped how we save, invest and spend.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jan 25, 2021

How space became the next ‘great power’ contest between the U.S. and China

Among the most important national security issues now facing U.S. President Joe Biden is how to contend with the threat that China poses to the American military in space.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 25, 2021

Navalny vs. Putin is an epic and existential battle

Russians appreciate and respect power plays. Both Navalny and Putin know it. And for both, a lot is at stake.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 25, 2021

Was the Capitol riot sedition? Just read the law

In many nations, the threat of sedition prosecutions has been used to criminalize dissent — to intimidate, and even imprison people who object to what the government is doing.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 25, 2021

All quiet on the populist front?

Liberals around the world are daring to hope that there is a silver lining to the violent denouement of Donald Trump’s presidency: namely, that the inciter-in-chief’s ignominious exit from the political stage will chasten authoritarian populists elsewhere. Unfortunately, their optimism is naive....
JAPAN / Explainer
Jan 25, 2021

With bid policy set, localities in Japan roll dice on casinos

Areas interested in submitting proposals now have a clear schedule of when they can do so, and a better understanding of what they can and can't do during the selection process.
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2021

Suga faces mounting pressure over slow pandemic response

Support for the prime minister's Cabinet has dropped from 39% last month to 33%, with disapproval rising 10 percentage points to 45%, according to a poll by the Asahi newspaper.
Politics find a way into the bedroom as a stay-at-home wife (Ami Chong, left) clandestinely tends to a series of johns (including Kenji Iwaya, right) in “A Unique Country in Asia.”
CULTURE / Film
Jun 12, 2025

‘A Unique Country in Asia’: Sex and politics make for strange bedfellows

With sex work and small talk, Kenji Yamauchi’s politically sharp film paints a complex portrait of modern Japan.

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