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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2021

The U.S. Navy gets its drone fleet into the water

Drones, cyber and AI are still far too small in terms of the budget, and U.S. officials must continue to swing their focus away from the big contracts and toward the more-nimble systems
SOCCER / J. League / From the Spot
Sep 20, 2021

Older, wiser Yuto Nagatomo comes full circle with return to FC Tokyo

Yuto Nagatomo has returned to FC Tokyo nearly 11 years after his emotional departure and is already making an impact.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 20, 2021

The submarine row that is sinking diplomatic relations

France is furious that its plan to supply Australia with submarines has been swept aside by the new pact with the United Kingdom and the United States.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 17, 2021

The Manchuria crisis revisited

The Chinese have not forgotten Japan's 14-year occupation of Manchuria. In fact, official Chinese doctrine establishes the 1931 Manchurian Incident as the beginning of WWII.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 16, 2021

Australia to get U.S. nuclear submarine technology as China looms large

U.S. officials said nuclear propulsion would allow the Australian navy to operate more quietly, for longer periods, and provide deterrence across the Indo-Pacific.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 16, 2021

Afghanistan’s forsaken gender

While those of us in advanced economies contemplate the excesses of our modern society, Afghan women face an acute threat of being plunged back into the dark ages.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 15, 2021

Priciest food since 1970s poses big challenge for governments

Whether for bread or rice governments across the world know that rising food costs can come with a political price. The dilemma is whether they can do enough to prevent having to pay it.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 15, 2021

China's hard climate stance with U.S. imperils Glasgow talks

China no longer feels obliged to consider requests for deeper carbon cuts after former President Donald Trump rejected U.S. climate change commitments.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Sep 14, 2021

Japan needs a strategy for economic growth in the post-virus era

The country's financial stability faces challenges from a global perspective, especially regarding overseas investments.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 14, 2021

The dangers of when there is 'nothing to lose'

A 'nothing-to-lose' attitude is what is driving the never-ending conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 14, 2021

Most people don’t need COVID-19 vaccine booster, scientists say

Governments would be better served to focus on immunizing the unvaccinated and to wait for more data on which boosters would be most effective and at what doses, the experts said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 14, 2021

As climate talks near, pressure grows on Asia to cancel new coal projects

Coal remains a mainstay for power generation in Asia, which accounts for 75% of global coal demand.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Sep 13, 2021

Emma Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez offer glimpse of exciting future for women's tennis

No one could have predicted it would be left to two teenagers to create this kind of frenzied hype in women's tennis.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 12, 2021

Smart glasses made Google look dumb. Now Facebook is giving them a try.

The company has teamed up with Ray-Ban to create glasses that can take photos, record video, answer phone calls and play podcasts.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Sep 11, 2021

20 years on, the 'war on terror' grinds along with no end in sight

The 'war on terror' waxes and wanes, largely in the shadows and out of the headlines — less an epochal clash than a low-grade condition and one that flares up occasionally.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 11, 2021

Did Nazis produce these uranium cubes? Researchers look for an answer.

Determining whether the cubes were produced by Nazi Germany could lead to more questions, such as whether the Nazis could have had enough to create a critical reaction.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 10, 2021

King & Prince eye J-pop’s throne

The Johnny's boy band explores English lyrics on its third album, “Re:Sense,' and embraces showing the more personal sides of its members on social media.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 9, 2021

The West owes Qatar a favor over Afghanistan. That was the point.

Qatar can bring real value through the relationships it maintains, especially across Western and Islamic parties
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 9, 2021

COVAX vaccine shortfall puts pressure on rich nations to act

A year ago, scores of countries committed to COVAX, the program set up to deliver COVID-19 vaccines equitably to every corner of the planet. Now the initiative is falling short of its goals.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 8, 2021

It's in America's interest to court ASEAN

ASEAN is of tremendous strategic importance to the U.S. and Japan and should not be downplayed.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 8, 2021

Quiet Taliban deal-maker holds key role to Afghanistan’s future

Baradar will have to convince world leaders that this is a different Taliban, a more moderate version of a group
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 8, 2021

Taliban names Cabinet that includes minister on U.S. sanctions list

The United States said it was concerned by the track records of some of the Cabinet members and noted that no women had been included.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 7, 2021

U.N. summit urged to prioritize adaptation as 'climate emergency' intensifies

More than a decade after rich countries pledged to put funding for adaptation and emissions reductions on an equal basis, the adaptation share remains stubbornly low.
MULTIMEDIA
Sep 5, 2021

In pictures: Day 11 of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics

In pictures: Day 11 of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 3, 2021

Space junk, long feared, is now an imminent threat

Although the vast majority of space junk is the size of a grain of sand or smaller, at least 26,000 pieces are big enough to destroy a satellite.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 3, 2021

U.S. funding tapped for Pacific undersea cable after China rebuffed

The United States has taken great interest in several plans in recent years to lay optic fiber cables across the Pacific.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 2, 2021

China warns U.S. that political tensions put climate cooperation at risk

The U.S. hopes to keep climate issues separate from disputes with China on trade, human rights and the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 1, 2021

SDF quietly breaks new ground in Afghanistan withdrawal

What makes the dispatch of the SDF to facilitate evacuations in Afghanistan notable is not the scale of the operations, but that they are taking place at all.
How Pakistan shot down India's cutting-edge fighter using Chinese gear
An Indian Air Force pilot gets out of a Rafale fighter jet during its induction ceremony at an air force station in Ambala, India, September 2020.
Trump: The $550 billion pledged by Japan is 'our money'
U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. He told CNBC that investment pledges are like signing bonuses.
The United States imposes 15% 'reciprocal' tariff on most Japanese goods
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the White House on Wednesday.
Japan's inheritance tax is high, unforgiving and sometimes avoidable
The National Tax Agency at the Ministry of Finance, Kasumigaseki, Tokyo. Japanese tax authorities can bill foreign residents in Japan for assets inherited globally.
Photographer Bleg Bayraktar is winning social media with politeness
A video on Bayraktar's Instagram account of the Belgian photographer approaching an elderly worker in Tokyo's Shibuya has gone viral, garnering almost 9 million views.
Photographer Bleg Bayraktar is winning social media with politeness
A video on Bayraktar's Instagram account of the Belgian photographer approaching an elderly worker in Tokyo's Shibuya has gone viral, garnering almost 9 million views.
Australia announces new warships will come from Japan
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate Niyodo sails at an undisclosed location in this image released Tuesday.
Fuji Rock's weekend of surprises was one of its best yet
Radwimps lead singer Yojiro Noda threw himself into the rock band’s Green Stage performance ahead of headliner Vampire Weekend.
How Trump is gaslighting on climate change — with Japan’s help
The Bishu Maru LNG tanker, owned by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, next to the Freeport LNG terminal in Texas
With a new distillery, Suntory makes a spirited move on gin market
A staff inspects a distillation pot still at Suntory's new Osaka Spirits & Liqueurs Craft Distillery, which will focus on gin production and help Suntory capture a bigger slice of the fast-growing gin market.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.
80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped
By Elizabeth Beattie

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