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JAPAN / Politics
Oct 29, 2021

Pre-election briefing: Here's where the parties stand on the issues

With everything from the pandemic to nuclear power weighing on voters' minds, there has been increased discussion about the direction that Japan should take.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Oct 22, 2021

Young South Koreans take aim at old guard they blame for ‘Squid Game’ economy

Older people resent a generation they see as well-off thanks to those that powered the country's rise, while the younger crowd blames their forebears for producing a rigged rat race.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Oct 20, 2021

As women flee Afghanistan, brain drain hits economy and girls' hopes

The Taliban say women will be allowed to work in accordance with Islamic law, but have not clarified exactly what this means.
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / Texas report 2021
Oct 13, 2021

America’s fastest growing state

As the global economy reels from the shock dealt by COVID-19 in 2020, some countries have begun showing signs of recovery from the pandemic. In the U.S., the state of Texas in particular, has attracted new investment from Japan because of its entrenched competitiveness and established industrial base....
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / Texas report 2021
Oct 13, 2021

Dallas: A second home for Japanese business

As COVID-19 disrupted supply chains around the world, businesses rushed to decentralize their operations and set up regional hubs, a strategy that was commonplace among Japanese companies even before the pandemic.
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / Texas report 2021
Oct 13, 2021

Abilene: The Key City

Development Corporation of Abilene CEO Misty Mayo | © DEVELOP ABILENE
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / Texas report 2021
Oct 13, 2021

City of Hempstead: Ready for takeoff

Hempstead EDC Executive Director Kenneth Pilcher | © HEMPSTEAD EDC
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 11, 2021

Opposition presses Kishida on COVID-19 and economic policy in Diet questioning

With an eye on the upcoming Lower House election, CDP leader Yukio Edano mixed his attacks on the new prime minister with counterproposals of his own.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 8, 2021

Kishida calls for new economic approach in first policy speech

Kishida on Friday vowed to transform the Japanese economy by implementing a “new model of capitalism,' identifying growth and the distribution of wealth as “mutually necessary.”
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Oct 1, 2021

Sarah Everard case pushes Britons to learn how to stop street abuse

Sarah Everard's abduction from a residential street in London earlier this year sparked outrage and demands for action to ensure the safety of women on the streets of the city.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Sep 27, 2021

You can’t feign ignorance in a connected world

The lecture circuit is its own thing, but you can give your own presentations on a smaller scale and still have an impact.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Sep 22, 2021

China's high-tech push seeks to reassert global factory dominance

Beijing's pivot puts the focus on advanced manufacturing, rather than the services sector, to steer the world's second-largest economy past the so-called 'middle income trap.'
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 21, 2021

China targets ‘effeminate’ men in Xi’s growing push for conformity

Beijing has pushed conservative ideas about gender before, including a 2016 ban on entertainment with gay themes and a 2018 attack by some state media on effeminate men in popular culture.
BUSINESS / Longform
Sep 20, 2021

Kyoto is facing bankruptcy. What happens now?

Massive budget cuts have been proposed to stem the losses now that international tourism to the city has all but dried up.
Japan Times
Vietnam report 2021
Sep 20, 2021

HCMUT: Excellence in entrepreneurship, training, research and innovation

Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT) is one of the top two technical universities in Vietnam that have excelled in all major fields of engineering since 1957.
JAPAN / Society
Sep 16, 2021

As Japan lags on gender equality, some debate needed for legal targets

At the recent International Conference for Women in Business, how to make progress, and whether voluntary targets are enough, formed the basis of much of the discussion.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2021

Employers beware: Hiring software could weed out future stars

Many employers have turned to software to whittle down hundreds of candidates. But there's a problem: The software can snub perfectly good workers.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 8, 2021

Abe ally Sanae Takaichi enters LDP race as underdog

The hawkish conservative backs increased nuclear power over renewables, similar economic policies to her mentor and laws to protect Japanese research.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 8, 2021

Fumio Kishida looks to address income disparities with shift from neoliberalism

The LDP presidential candidate has highlighted the need for wealth redistribution, a challenge to the deregulation and market-oriented policies Japan has adopted for two decades.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Aug 27, 2021

Japan ramps up campaign to get youth vaccinated against COVID-19

Incentives such as cars and coupons, as well as new walk-in centers, are being rolled out to tempt vaccine-hesitant young people, but supply issues present a big barrier of their own.
JAPAN / Politics / EXPLAINER
Aug 27, 2021

Off to the races: LDP presidential election campaign begins

A number of challengers to Suga are beginning to emerge, with Fumio Kishida currently being the prime minister's strongest rival.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 27, 2021

Spies for hire: China’s new breed of hackers blends espionage and entrepreneurship

China's premier spy agency is increasingly reaching beyond its own ranks to recruit from a vast pool of private-sector talent.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 26, 2021

How China's ultraloyal web army can silence Beijing's critics

The Chinese take on cancel culture has been fueled by growing national pride and by increasing hostility toward criticism from other countries.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2021

Show Afghan girls the world still cares

It's in the world's interest to educated Afghanistan's girls — as one may become the leader who plays a critical role in the fight against extremism.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 24, 2021

Afghan women's faces disappear online and in the street after Taliban takeover

Some have expressed concern that deleting women's pictures for the sake of safety could inadvertently bolster the ideology that was strictly imposed during the Taliban's 1996-2001 rule.

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