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Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Jun 20, 2021

How Japan's vaccine drive turned into a comeback story

Given the importance of vaccinations, an expert says Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's heavy-handed approach with municipalities could be credited for the accelerated pace.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 18, 2021

Biden signs 'Juneteenth' bill and asks U.S. to reflect on slavery's 'terrible toll'

The bill marks the day in 1865 when a Union general informed a group of enslaved people in Texas that they had been made free two years earlier.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jun 16, 2021

Suga's policy wins overshadowed by COVID-19 as Diet session wraps up

Without the pandemic, the prime minister would have enough achievements under his belt to be untroubled by a forthcoming LDP leadership contest and general election.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / ANALYSIS
Jun 13, 2021

With Trump gone, NATO wages war on climate threat

Facing a battle against global warming, NATO has for the first time made it a central focus of planning and strategy.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jun 10, 2021

Top Japanese health adviser warns of another state of emergency in August

As parts of Japan near the planned end of a third state of emergency, infectious disease experts warn that a fourth declaration in Tokyo might be right around the corner.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 9, 2021

Suga says vaccinations for all residents will be completed by November

The prime minister's remark comes as inoculations have picked up speed across the country, after his administration faced criticism for an initially slow rollout.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 9, 2021

Keeping free speech safe

There was a time when the threat to academic freedom in democratic countries came primarily from the right. Today, however, most of the opposition to freedom of thought comes from the left.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 8, 2021

Renewable energy boom unleashes a war over talent for green jobs

Difficulty securing a well-trained workforce could end up being a bottleneck in an industry that is key to slashing emissions.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 7, 2021

Hungary appears to back-pedal on Chinese university plans after protests

Hungary appeared to backtrack on plans to build a Chinese university in Budapest after thousands took to the streets at the weekend accusing the government of cozying up to Beijing, provoking an angry Chinese response.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 7, 2021

SoftBank fund invests $50 million in Black and Hispanic-led startups

The firm created its Opportunity Fund barely a week after the murder of George Floyd last year.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Jun 6, 2021

Japan Times 1971: Japanese believe they are 'superior'

As witnesses took to the stand at the 1946 Tokyo trials, they addressed the propaganda campaign that led the Japanese to think they were superior. Attitudes hadn't changed 25 years later.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 5, 2021

‘Waffles + Mochi’ teaches kids how to eat — with gusto

The new food-travel show from Netflix and the Obamas' Higher Ground takes kids on a global journey to learn about ingredients and how to cook with them.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Jun 4, 2021

In Japan, the light at the end of the pandemic's tunnel remains distant

The vaccine rollout may be accelerating, but the nation remains far away from a return to normalcy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
May 26, 2021

Can this U.S. city heal racial wounds by busting up its freeway?

New York State wants to replace an elevated stretch of freeway with a street-level boulevard to knit the city's urban grid back together.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
May 26, 2021

'Death cross': South Korea's demographic crisis marks a warning to the world

The government has shifted its policy focus away from reversing population decline and toward finding a way to live with it.
CULTURE / Books / The World of Translators
May 16, 2021

Masatsugu Ono: ‘I always feel for those on the periphery of society’

Translator and Francophile Masatsugu Ono draws on stories of his hometown in Oita Prefecture to inform his writing.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 15, 2021

Taiwan tightens curbs after surge in domestic COVID-19 cases

Taiwan raised its coronavirus alert level on Saturday in Taipei, bringing measures for two weeks that will shut many venues in the wake of 180 new domestic infections.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 12, 2021

It’s time we learn to live with coronavirus

In reality, no one has definitive answers and stronger restrictions have not resulted in fewer COVID-19 deaths.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
May 10, 2021

Ethiopia’s crackdown on ethnic Tigrayans snares thousands

Tigray is the most dramatic example of ethnic and regional tensions that are surfacing across Ethiopia, imperiling the multiethnic democracy of Africa's second-most populous nation.
Japan Times
PRESS / Events
May 3, 2021

Toward the Realization of Zero Emissions in 2050

The Japan Times ESG Promotion Consortium (Representative: Minako Suematsu, Chairman and President of The Japan Times Co., Ltd.) will hold an "ESG Symposium" on May 13, 2021 with the theme "Toward the Realization of Zero Emissions in 2050”.
Japan Times
May 3, 2021

Toward the Realization of Zero Emissions in 2050

The Japan Times ESG Promotion Consortium (Representative: Minako Suematsu, Chairman and President of The Japan Times Co., Ltd.) will hold an “ESG Symposium” on May 13, 2021 with the theme “Toward the Realization of Zero Emissions in 2050”.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 1, 2021

A grudge match in Japan: One corner, two 7-Elevens

A fight playing out in Osaka will have ramifications for 7-Eleven and the rest of Japan's major franchises.
‘Mount Fuji Lawson’ becomes a symbol of Japan’s overtourism problem
A couple poses for a wedding photo in front of a Lawson in the town of Kawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Aug. 25.
Woman dies after possible knife attack in Setagaya
Police investigate the scene where a woman was found bleeding on a street in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Monday.
Japan to launch broad review of immigration policies amid rise in foreign nationals
Foreign tourists at Narita Airport in June. A report released Friday stresses that Japan is at a turning point and that current ad-hoc measures on immigration are no longer sufficient.
More sweltering days forecast for September after hottest summer on record
By the end of August, 8,341 people had been transported by ambulance for heatstroke in Tokyo alone.
How Tokyo's Ueno Zoo helps their animals cope with extreme heat
A polar bear at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo on Thursday. The Arctic animals are among the most vulnerable species to Japan's scorching summer heat and zookeepers have to take a number of precautions in order to keep them safe.
‘Mount Fuji Lawson’ becomes a symbol of Japan’s overtourism problem
A couple poses for a wedding photo in front of a Lawson in the town of Kawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Aug. 25.
‘Cool’ Patagonia wants to take used items into the mainstream
"It's not just about sales. It's about system change," said Marty Pomphrey, general manager of Patagonia Japan, on Aug. 6.
How Tokyo's Ueno Zoo helps their animals cope with extreme heat
A polar bear at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo on Thursday. The Arctic animals are among the most vulnerable species to Japan's scorching summer heat and zookeepers have to take a number of precautions in order to keep them safe.
Japan is warming up to tattoos — just not permanent ones
Tattoos have a complex history in Japan, but new types of temporary ink are letting locals curious about body art experiment without the commitment.

Podcast

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

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
By Alex K.T. Martin

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