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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 17, 2021

Japan leads the 'middle powers' in shaping Asia's future

Arguably, no middle power in Asia is as important as Japan, which, as a leading source of infrastructure investments, also enjoys tremendous good will in the region.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
May 15, 2021

Sebastian Coe says COVID-19 vaccine a big factor in making Tokyo Games happen

The Olympics were postponed in March last year following the start of the pandemic but Coe said he believes athletes are in a different frame of mind heading into the July 23-Aug. 8 games.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
May 15, 2021

Athletes willing and eager to participate in Tokyo Olympics

Athletes have apparently not been deterred by the conditions they will likely compete under in Tokyo.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
May 14, 2021

Promoter says Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury will fight on Aug. 14 in Saudi Arabia

British rivals Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua have agreed to stage their world heavyweight unification title fight on Aug. 14 in Saudi Arabia, promoter Eddie Hearn said Thursday.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
May 14, 2021

Japan names 20-man provisional basketball roster for Tokyo Olympics

NBA players Rui Hachimura and Yuta Watanabe were among those named to the provisional roster.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 14, 2021

Too cold to handle? Race is on to pioneer shipping of hydrogen.

Companies including Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries are beginning to develop a new generation of vessels that can deliver hydrogen to heavy industry.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
May 13, 2021

South Korea unveils $450 billion push to seize global chipmaking crown

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will lead more than 510 trillion won of investment in semiconductor research and production in the years to 2030 under a national blueprint devised by Moon.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 13, 2021

The limits to U.S.-China climate cooperation

The best we can hope for is that the two superpowers are disciplined enough to avoid endangering humanity's survival as they jostle for geopolitical advantage.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
May 12, 2021

Kenya's Timothy Cheruiyot adjusts to reality of preparing for the Olympics in a pandemic

Coach Bernard Ouma barked orders to start stretching and the team of a dozen athletes fanned out in the morning sunshine, leaving a good two meters between them.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 12, 2021

A one-Earth balance sheet

The Earth is a single living, self-regulating system, and it demands a single, shared system of accounting that balances at the global level.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 11, 2021

China makes us rethink capitalism

Make no mistake: China is in many important ways a capitalist country; but Chinese capitalism is a very different animal from that practiced in the West.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 11, 2021

China posts slowest population growth since 1950s

There were 1.412 billion people in China last year, a once-a-decade census report showed, with the annual average growth of 0.53% in the past decade the slowest since 1953.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 11, 2021

Thousands of staff suspended as Myanmar junta targets universities

Students and teachers have been prominent in protests since the army detained Aung San Suu Kyi and halted a decade of tentative democratic reforms.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 10, 2021

Unused doses pile up as mistrust blights Hong Kong vaccine drive

So many shots are languishing that the government has warned that some will expire in September.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
May 10, 2021

China tech titans go all in amid global electric car frenzy

The lure is an industry that's becoming increasingly high tech as it pivots away from the combustion engine, with sensors and operating systems making cars more like computers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 9, 2021

Colonization by other means: China’s debt-trap diplomacy

In stark contrast to China's loans, interest rates for Japan's infrastructure loans to developing countries, for example, mostly run below half a percent.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
May 8, 2021

Them's fightin' words: How militaristic vocabulary works its way into Olympics coverage

Militaristic language has made its way into headlines about the Olympics, but that may say more about Japan's news media than the actual situation.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 7, 2021

Japan's premier art collective teamLab celebrates 20 years with a spot of tea and a Miami bash

Marking 20 years, teamLab has a lot to be proud of when it comes to making an impact on the international art scene. The collective's success was not a foregone conclusion, however.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 5, 2021

France battles over whether to cancel or celebrate Napoleon

By choosing to lay a wreath Wednesday at Napoleon's tomb under the golden dome of Les Invalides, Macron is stepping into the heart of France's culture wars.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 5, 2021

As cars go electric, China builds a big lead in factories

Chinese manufacturers are using the billions they have raised from international investors and sympathetic local leaders to beat established carmakers to the market.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 4, 2021

Biden tax rule would take billions from biggest fortunes at death

Ending the current practice of stepping up the tax basis of inherited assets and raising the capital gains tax rate would amount to the biggest curb on dynastic wealth in decades.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 2, 2021

Indian diaspora struggles to help homeland ‘gasping for air’

The diaspora is collecting funds, lobbying governments in countries where they reside and making pledges to shuttle essential supplies and equipment.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
May 2, 2021

‘Tokyo Junkie’: Robert Whiting recounts a lifelong addiction to his adopted city

The author and longtime Japan resident tackles his hardest writing project ever — “interviewing himself” for a memoir on his life, the changing urban landscape and, of course, baseball.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 1, 2021

Scientists warned India over a new variant in early March. They say they were ignored.

In March and early April, millions of largely unmasked people attended religious festivals and political rallies that were held by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and opposition parties.
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
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