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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 5, 2020

What does Vietnam think of America's Indo-Pacific strategy?

The South China Sea is where the rubber meets the road for U.S.-Vietnam security ties, and in this regard, Hanoi has gone as far as it is comfortable.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 5, 2020

Local governments in U.S. 'overwhelmed' in race to trace COVID-19 contacts

Many city and county departments say they lack the money and staff to expeditiously identify people who have been exposed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 5, 2020

Creditors at odds with shareholders over Seven & I's Speedway mega-deal

The bond market is raising questions about what the price tag would mean for the company's relatively strong credit ratings.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 5, 2020

Heat wave Harry? As temperatures soar, naming the threat may save lives

Giving heat waves names and strength ratings, as is done with typhoons and hurricanes, could drive home the spiking danger from a threat that kills more people in the United States each year than storms and floods but rarely hits headlines, heat experts said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 5, 2020

SoftBank backs 29-year-old’s venture aiming to become Netflix for fiction

Radish's growing stable of in-house soap-opera scriptwriters conceive new episodes in various genres every four or six hours.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Aug 5, 2020

TikTok’s price is a giant question mark in an already complex deal

Analysts and bankers have pegged the value of the video-sharing app's U.S. business at anywhere from $20 billion to $50 billion.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 5, 2020

This is the hard-liner China chose to oversee Hong Kong security

Artist. Propagandist. Urban planning enthusiast. Traditional Chinese medicine student. Zheng Yanxiong doesn’t fit the usual mold of a top Communist Party security agent.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 5, 2020

Proportion of youth with COVID-19 triples in five months, WHO says

Young people who are hitting nightclubs and beaches are leading a rise in fresh coronavirus cases across the world, with the proportion of those aged 15 to 24 who are infected rising threefold in about five months, the World Health Organization said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2020

Delay the election? U.S. presidents often do things they can’t do

The stock response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the general election might be delayed because voting during a pandemic would involve a record number of mail-in ballots, a format he argues is unreliable and susceptible to fraud, is that he doesn’t have that power.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2020

The China hawks got it mostly right

Are there any China accommodationists left in Washington?
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Aug 4, 2020

BYOB: Runners must carry own bottles for trash-free Shonan Marathon

Organizers expect the waste-saving initiative to prevent six tons' worth of carbon dioxide emissions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Aug 4, 2020

Microsoft’s long history in China complicates potential TikTok deal

Hawks in the Trump administration oppose any purchase of the social-media service by the tech giant, citing its contributions to 'the Great Firewall of China.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Aug 4, 2020

Seven & I deal shows store sales make gas-stations appealing despite virus

'The disadvantage of not winning this bid would have been other competitors expanding their business,” said the president of the 7-Eleven Inc. U.S. operation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 4, 2020

Japan’s steel woes set to be laid bare as top mills give updates

The coronavirus pandemic has seen steel mills across the country reduce or halt production.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 4, 2020

Sharing Hiroshima's legacy in the age of COVID-19

Amid the pandemic, the city has been looking for ways to help hibakusha tell their stories and let the past live on.
JAPAN
Aug 4, 2020

Tokyo test centers trade fax machines for computers with new coronavirus reporting system

It is hoped this will help the capital avoid faulty or delayed reporting moving forward, but whether it streamlines the process hinges on how fast the transition happens.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Aug 4, 2020

Last Korean war criminal in Japan still pushing for compensation

'Listen to me. Why are they treating us differently? It's unfair and doesn't make any sense. How can I accept this unbelievable situation?' 95-year-old Lee Hak-rae says.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 4, 2020

COVID-19 long-term toll signals billions in health care costs ahead

Late in March, Laura Gross, 72, was recovering from gall bladder surgery in her Fort Lee, New Jersey, home when she became sick again.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 4, 2020

'Gnarly' tumor shows dinosaurs also got cancer

When scientists first unearthed fossils of a horned dinosaur called Centrosaurus in the badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park in Canada's Alberta province in 1989, they spotted a badly malformed leg bone they figured was a healed fracture.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 4, 2020

American journalists in Hong Kong could be Beijing’s next target

China could take aim at American journalists in Hong Kong, if the U.S. doesn’t renew visas for Chinese journalists, Global Times Editor-in-Chief Hu Xijin said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 4, 2020

Trump’s TikTok assault opens new front in tech war with China

By going after TikTok, the U.S. is expanding a fight against Beijing using Chinese-style restrictions on tech companies in a move that could potentially have enormous ramifications for the world’s biggest economies.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Aug 4, 2020

It looks like your Japanese is improving with 'sō da'

The 'su014d da' structure can help convey hearsay and conjecture in Japanese.
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Aug 4, 2020

78% of A-bomb survivors feel difficulty in conveying experience: poll

As survivors of the atomic bomb get older, it's hard for them to keep up their important educational activities.
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.
Japanese star convicted of indecent assault in Hong Kong
J-pop idol Kenshin Kamimura leaves the West Kowloon Law Courts on bail in Hong Kong on Wednesday, after he was found guilty of indecent assault of a woman who worked as his interpreter at a restaurant in Mong Kok district in March this year.
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.
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

Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers
By Tomoko Otake

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