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JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 24, 2020

China's Wang visits Tokyo, with bilateral ties and Biden topping agenda

Japan and China have agreed to restart business travel between the two countries later this month.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 24, 2020

'Man of mystery': How Yu Darvish evolved into a powerhouse on the mound

The Cubs ace re-established his bona fides as one of MLB's best pitchers in his ninth big-league season.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 24, 2020

Japan and Australia put aside wartime baggage to counter China’s rise

Expanding defense ties gives Japan a stake in other countries, creates options and helps knit a thicker weave of security relations throughout the region.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 24, 2020

Sapporo and Osaka suspended as Go To Travel destinations

Residents of Sapporo and Osaka looking to travel elsewhere will continue to have access to discounts offered under the government-run campaign.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2020

A tale of two Chinese cities: Shenzhen and Shanghai

Shanghai and Shenzhen are both vital to China's economic future. But neither is more important than the other and each has a unique role to play.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Nov 24, 2020

Undersea internet cables offer more resilient connection

Japan has a new role to play in helping connect Asia with the rest of the world through a growing network of fiber optics.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2020

Wild bear attacks in Japan reach highest number in five years

The pandemic has been cited as a reason for the creatures becoming bolder and getting closer to human settlements.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2020

Why Democrats lost and will keep losing elections

When you expected to pick up tons of seats in the House and take back the Senate, and none of that happens and you just barely win the presidency, you basically got your a-- kicked.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 24, 2020

After Trump, Biden faces pressure to stand up to China by embracing Taiwan

As concerns grow about China's increasingly aggressive behavior on the global stage, Biden will face pressure from Democrats and Republicans to strengthen ties with Taiwan.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 24, 2020

U.K. considers whether to remove British judges from Hong Kong court

Britain is considering pulling its judges out of Hong Kong's highest court, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Monday, in its latest response to what it considers China's breaches of its international obligations in the territory.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 24, 2020

Big investors in Japan may be cashing in on global stock rally

Japanese funds have reaped a 27% return as a stimulus-fueled rally propelled global equities to a record high.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 24, 2020

Hong Kong campus rocked by protest becomes ‘prison’ a year later

Today, what had once been a bustling, freely accessible campus is locked down, its protest movement extinguished in a series of aggressive moves to stifle dissent in the Asian financial hub.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 24, 2020

China and Japan race to dominate the future of high-speed rail

Japan and China are racing to build a new type of ultrafast, levitating train, seeking to demonstrate their mastery over a technology with big export potential.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 24, 2020

Which of these faces is real?

Computers are getting ever better at generating realistic, entirely imaginary people. But the flaws are all ours.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Nov 24, 2020

A few tips on what to focus on in the final stretch leading to the JLPT

If you haven't started recapping for the Japanese-Language Proficiency Test yet, consider this your warning.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Nov 24, 2020

We won't force you to learn 'yogi naku,' but you can't help doing so anyway

Ano suigai de ōku no katagata ga hinan-seikatsu o yogi naku saremashita.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Nov 24, 2020

Let's discuss what banks are doing with our personal data

A Bloomberg piece looks at Mizuho's new business, which leads to a discussion on what companies can do with your personal data.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 24, 2020

World economy risks buckling into 2021 despite vaccine nearing

Economists say it wouldn't take much for the U.S., euro area and Japan to each contract again either this quarter or next.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Nov 24, 2020

Decades of work, and half a dose of fortune, drove Oxford vaccine success

The Oxford vaccinologists were exhilarated on Monday when drugmaker AstraZeneca, with whom they developed the shot, announced that it could be around 90% effective.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Nov 23, 2020

Cheap, spacious, crowd-free: Rural Japan is having a moment with the foreign community

Laura Blackhall took a risk purchasing an empty house in the Ibaraki countryside. Amid and following a pandemic, though, it's a choice that just might pay off.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Nov 23, 2020

Raise a glass in memory of Tokyo's messier tourist traps

Robot Restaurant and MariCar (or Street Kart or whatever you want to call it) were problematic tourist experiences, sure. That doesn't mean they weren't bold.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 23, 2020

Hawks still in a class of their own

The team has dominated Japanese baseball — the Climax Series and Japan Series in particular — for almost a decade.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 23, 2020

Dragons ace Yudai Ono wins Sawamura Award

Ono is the ninth Dragons pitcher to win the award and first since Kenshin Kawakami in 2004.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 23, 2020

Biden to prioritize COVID-19, but Kim Jong Un may have other ideas

'The Biden administration cannot afford to ignore Pyongyang — and North Korea has ways of ensuring it is not ignored,' says former U.S. State Department official Evans Revere.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2020

Biden picks Blinken, defender of global alliances, as top envoy

Antony J. Blinken, a defender of global alliances and one of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s closest foreign policy advisers, is expected to be nominated for secretary of state, a job in which he will try to coalesce skeptical international partners into a new competition with China, according to...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 23, 2020

World moves on from Trump, but multilateralism is left struggling

One of the starkest moments from the Group of 20 came when U.S. President Donald Trump skipped a session on the pandemic to hit the golf course. Just as telling was how many other leaders seemed checked out.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 23, 2020

The secret origins of China’s 40-year plan to end carbon emissions

With a September speech to the United Nations, Chinese President Xi Jinping put a 2060 end date on his country's contribution to global warming, taking almost the whole world by surprise.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 23, 2020

U.S. plans first vaccinations in weeks, Operation Warp Speed chief says

Vaccinations against COVID-19 in the U.S. will "hopefully” start in less than three weeks, according to the head of the federal government’s program to accelerate a vaccine.
The indelible memory of being a part of Unit 731
Hideo Shimizu, 95, says he cannot forget seeing the prisoners' bloody wills scribbled on the walls of prison cells at Unit 731 in 1945.
Will Wakatakakage bring balance to the banzuke?
Wakatakakage during a ring entering ceremony in February 2020
Taiwanese drama 'Zero Day Attack' on Chinese invasion to stream in Japan
A scene from the Taiwanese television drama "Zero Day Attack," which will stream in Japan from Friday.
Ukraine war has transformed North Korean military: Kyiv’s military intel chief
An explosion of a drone lights up the sky over Kyiv during a Russian drone strike, on July 30. Moscow has dispatched military specialists to train the Korean People’s Army on how to use combat drones and air-defense systems.
1 in 55 Japanese middle schoolers abuse over-the-counter drugs, survey shows
Among the middle school students who admitted to abusing over-the-counter medication, the majority — around 64% — said they got them from pharmacies while a third said they had access to them in their own households.
The indelible memory of being a part of Unit 731
Hideo Shimizu, 95, says he cannot forget seeing the prisoners' bloody wills scribbled on the walls of prison cells at Unit 731 in 1945.
Will Ishiba's critics be able to garner enough support for a leadership race?
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's political survival likely hinges on whether a leadership race will take place within the Liberal Democratic Party following its decision to have its election committee canvass the opinions of party members and prefectural chapters on the subject.
Hidden rosters and the legacy of Japan’s germ warfare
Katsutoshi Takegami, 77, in his storehouse attic where he discovered his father's Unit 1644 documents
Osaka Expo highlights the challenge of holding events in Japan's scorching summer
People huddle near a large fan blowing icy-cold mist at the Osaka Expo on July 12. Amid Japan's relentless summer heat, organizes have put myriad measures in place in order to keep guests safe.
At Himawari Shokudo 2, Italian food with a Japanese soul
At Himawari Shokudo 2, chef Hozumi Tanaka serves Italian-inspired fare with a focus on Toyama produce, such as this appetizer of lightly blanched "hotaru ika" (firefly squid) served atop mixed wild plants and a crepe prepared from "yamato-imo" yam.

Podcast

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

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
By Naoko Abe

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