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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
May 19, 2022

More pain in Sri Lanka before any resolution to crisis

To bring back some stability, new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has proposed selling the national airline, printing more money and possibly raising taxes.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 19, 2022

Katsumoto Saotome, who preserved memories of Tokyo firebombing, dies at 90

He compiled six books of survivors' recollections of the 1945 attack. He also founded — without government support — a memorial museum.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 18, 2022

Ukrainian holdouts in Mariupol surrender to an uncertain fate

The surrender directive, issued late Monday, made the soldiers prisoners and ended the most protracted battle so far of the nearly 3-month-old Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 18, 2022

U.S. seeks to wean India from Russian weapons with arms-aid package

The package under consideration would include foreign military financing of as much as $500 million.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 17, 2022

Buffalo shooter suspect laid out plans on Discord app for months

The record of his conversations indicate that the alleged shooter had typed out plans to commit a rampage fueled by his white supremacist beliefs for months.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 16, 2022

North Korea's Kim blames ‘irresponsible’ officials for COVID-19 outbreak

The isolated country reported 392,920 new 'fever cases” and eight new deaths nationwide in a 24-hour period ending 6 p.m. Sunday, state media reported.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
May 16, 2022

'Copycat' mass shootings becoming deadlier, experts warn after New York attack

One way to try and combat the rise in such hate crimes is for the media to avoid publishing details of the shooters' personal lives, one expert says
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
May 15, 2022

Sara Yoshihara: ‘The best reaction is when a kid with allergies stops by and gets to have a treat’

A wheat allergy diagnosis prompted Hototogisu Bakery and Farm to switch to gluten-free products, which has helped foster a community.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KANPAI CULTURE
May 15, 2022

Make rice, not war: Chefs and brewers cook for Ukraine

Some of Japan's top chefs, brewers and distillers came together to support Ukraine with nothing more than rice and seaweed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
May 14, 2022

Era of lost connectivity on in-flight Wi-Fi may be nearing an end

A spate of new in-flight connection deals in recent weeks, including the first aircraft contracts signed by SpaceX's Starlink satellite unit, aim to make high-speed Wi-Fi less glitch-free.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
May 14, 2022

Hero to hindrance: Australia's Morrison hurts party's election hopes

The PM's personality is now a liability, with public attacks from members of his own party and polls showing his government on track to lose to the Labor Party in the May 21 election.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
May 13, 2022

Finding the right words for when you discover a lost item in Japan

Take a verb and turn it into a noun simply by adding 'mono' to the end of it and you're halfway to verbalizing that you've found something that was lost.
JAPAN / FOCUS
May 12, 2022

50 years after handover, Okinawa more self-sufficient but U.S. base issue casts shadow

Former governor says the prefecture has come on leaps and bounds since reversion to Japan in 1972, but the question of bases has seen little progress.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
May 12, 2022

How China’s plan to reform the factor market will work to develop its economy

Government documents state that the country is aiming for “landmark achievements” in its reform efforts by 2025.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 12, 2022

Kim Jong Un orders lockdown after North Korea reports first COVID-19 case

Until Thursday, leader Kim Jong Un's regime had denied it had any COVID-19 cases, a claim doubted by experts in the U.S., Japan and other countries.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 11, 2022

Private meal with kingpin offers clues to how Marcos will rule Philippines

A dinner he attended soon after entering the race last October may provide clues on his priorities — and to whom he's beholden.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 11, 2022

China rebukes U.S. for changing Taiwan wording on State Department website

The website's section on relations with Taipei removed wording on not supporting Taiwan independence and on acknowledging Beijing's position that it is part of China.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 10, 2022

Biden speeds up military aid to Ukraine, drawing U.S. deeper into war

Recent developments have underscored just how engaged the United States has become in the conflict in Ukraine.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 10, 2022

Ukraine's Odesa douses fires after Russian Victory Day strikes

There was no let up in fighting across Ukraine, with Russian strikes on targets in the east and south.
JAPAN / Science & Health / EXPLAINER
May 10, 2022

The coronavirus keeps subtly changing, but how serious are new subvariants?

In the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is no shortage of new coronavirus variants to track.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 9, 2022

China says it has conducted military exercises near Taiwan

China said that naval and air force assets carried out drills from Friday to Sunday to the east and southwest of Taiwan to 'further test and improve the joint combat capability of multiple services and arms.'
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
May 8, 2022

Sota Atsumi brings Parisian flair back home to Tokyo

One of the most intriguing restaurant openings at the end of last year passed under the radar of many Tokyo gastronomes. That was due in part to timing: In November, the pandemic still had many people leery about eating out. But the other reason for the low-key start is that Sota Atsumi, the chef in...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
May 7, 2022

As conflict and climate change bite, are high food prices here to stay?

War in Ukraine slashed wheat and fertilizer exports, while climate-induced disasters destroy harvests — together, they create harrowing risks to global food security.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 6, 2022

When will this inflation ever end?

To understand the increase in consumer price inflation around the world, one must look not only at supply and demand but also at the wedge that the coronavirus introduced between them.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 5, 2022

The vanishing COVID variants: Lessons from gamma, iota and mu

While understanding omicron remains a critical public health priority, there are lessons to be learned from lesser lineages of the coronavirus.
Toyoko Kids: The lonely street children of Tokyo
Many young people who feel neglected at home flock to the Toyoko area to find a community where they can fit in.
Japan unveils new overtourism countermeasures
The majority of tourists in Japan tend to stay in Tokyo, Osaka or Kyoto, resulting in overcrowding in popular tourist spots and a strain on transportation systems.
South Korea couple beat same-sex barriers to parenthood
South Korean lesbian couple Kim Kyu-jin (left) and her wife, Kim Sae-yeon, pose with a "pregnant woman" badge during an interview in Seoul last month.
Rising sex tourism exposes loopholes in Japan's anti-prostitution law
While financial misfortunes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have driven some women to work the streets, others simply want more money to spend — or want to pay off their debts — at host clubs.
Opportunities await the bold in the Year of the Wood Dragon
2024 marks the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, with the year predicted to be a good time for fresh starts.
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.
YouTube Music Weekend is where Japan’s internet-born performers go global
Headlining the second day of YouTube Music Weekend is Vocaloid artist Kikuo, who, with 1.46 million YouTube subscribers, is one of the most popular artists in the genre.
Japan looks to build drone ‘shield’ in record defense budget request
A group of Ground Self-Defense Force service members discuss drone operations and capabilities at a joint static display during the Orient Shield 24 opening ceremony at the Yausubetsu Training Area in Hokkaido in July last year.
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.
Jesse Kirkwood: ‘Languages are entire cultural universes with all sorts of baggage’
Jesse Kirkwood is part of a vibrant field of translators who have nurtured what might be called a “post-Murakami era of Japanese literature and translation,” one book at a time.

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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