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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Oct 29, 2022

With U.S. midterms ahead, Musk's Twitter takeover sparks misinformation fears

The Tesla CEO has vowed to loosen the reins on chatter within the social media app, which in recent years had striven to limit toxic content it viewed as dangerously false.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2022

Get ready to relearn how to use the internet

Everyone knows that an AI revolution is coming, but no one seems to realize how profoundly it will change their day-to-day life.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 21, 2022

Magnitude 5 earthquake jolts Fukushima; no issues at nearby nuclear plants

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake, which measured a weak 5 on the shindo (intensity) scale, was detected off Fukushima Prefecture at a depth of 30 kilometers on Friday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Oct 11, 2022

Japan has much to learn from Taiwan's countering of China’s sharp power

A reserved manner and avoiding knee-jerk reactions has helped Taipei weather the latest storm regarding hostility from Beijing.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 9, 2022

How Trump deflected demands for documents, enmeshing aides

The former president exhibited a pattern of dissembling about the material he took from the White House, creating legal risk not just for himself but also some of his lawyers.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 29, 2022

In Myanmar's rebel strongholds, internet blackouts can mean life or death

With many people relying on Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp, warnings about impending attacks by junta forces haven't been able to reach villages.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Sep 22, 2022

The war in Ukraine offers valuable lessons on changing global relations

With Sweden and Finland applying to join NATO, and other countries getting closer to Russia, the conflict has had a significant effect on international politics.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 19, 2022

Activists fear surveillance threat as China equips Belt and Road countries with spy tech

Beijing is selling extensive digital surveillance packages to old Silk Road governments under its signature infrastructure initiative.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 18, 2022

Strong earthquake jolts Taiwan's southeastern coast

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit the sparsely populated southeastern part of Taiwan on Sunday, the island's weather bureau said, derailing train carriages, causing a convenience store to collapse and trapping people on a mountain.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 13, 2022

An eye for an eye doesn’t work in disinformation war

In the struggle to win the ideological narrative wars, democracies are tempted to resort to disinformation to match the fabrications of their more autocratic enemies. It's a bad idea.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 5, 2022

Will the Supreme Court come to rescue of U.S. expats?

The U.S. is unique in tormenting its citizens abroad with tax obligations. But the U.S. Supreme Court could show mercy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 27, 2022

Documents at Mar-a-Lago could compromise human intelligence sources, affidavit says

The search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home was spurred by the discovery that he had kept classified material related to the use of human sources in intelligence gathering.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 27, 2022

Inside the 20-month fight to get Trump to return presidential material

The government tried repeatedly for more than a year and a half to get the former president to give back documents from his time in office. Finally, it resorted to a search of his property.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 19, 2022

U.S. judge says he leans toward releasing some evidence for Trump search

News outlets appeared in federal court in West Palm Beach to persuade the judge that the public interest in the evidence outweighs the benefits of keeping it sealed.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Aug 14, 2022

How Japan is building on U.S. policy for economic security

A number of factors have left Tokyo unable to maintain its industrial competitiveness and security through existing policies.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Jul 12, 2022

Health care data privacy fears grow worldwide after U.S. restricts abortion access

Activists fear some could be too scared to search online for the term 'abortion,' and caution against sharing data in mobile health apps often used to track fertility.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Jul 5, 2022

'Guerrilla' sales and crowdsourcing: Japan's game console crunch

Video game consoles by Sony and Microsoft have been hard to buy since their November 2020 release, leaving consumers and sellers stuck in a game of cat-and-mouse.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 24, 2022

Russian official calls out war in a fiery exit

The mid-level U.N. diplomat became the most prominent Russian official to resign and publicly criticize Putin's war in Ukraine.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
May 10, 2022

To navigate the Senkaku Islands dispute, look to history

The COVID-19 pandemic, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the continuing rise of China have changed the world, but Beijing's approach to its territorial claims has also evolved.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Apr 30, 2022

Russia's Ukrainian quagmire providing tough lessons for China

Chinese military experts are discussing the conflict in private chat groups, offering their takes on Western involvement in Ukraine and Russia's perceived failings, scholars say.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 30, 2022

FBI searched data of millions of Americans without warrants

The FBI searched emails, texts and other electronic communications of as many as 3.4 million U.S. residents without a warrant over a year, the nation's top spy chief said in a report.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 25, 2022

Myanmar junta ‘rapidly losing strength,’ but rights abuses continue, U.N. rapporteur says

Tom Andrews, the U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, offers an assessment of the situation on the ground.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 23, 2022

The newest problem for Trump’s Truth Social app is Elon Musk

Elon Musk's plan for a potential hostile takeover of Twitter is the latest challenge for the Truth Social app, which Trump has positioned as Twitter's freewheeling conservative counterpart.

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