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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2021

SoftBank-backed Snapdeal targets $250 Million IPO in 2022

The e-commerce startup co-founded by Wharton alumnus Kunal Bahl in 2010 focuses on the less-affluent and less tech-savvy bulk of the population living outside India's biggest cities.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 30, 2021

Chinese province targets journalists and foreign students with planned new surveillance system

While it is unclear if the surveillance system is currently operating, security officials in China plan to use it to track 'suspicious people.'
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 29, 2021

Deep underground, a Chinese miner discovered poetry in the toil

More than three decades after scribbling his first poem as a teenager in the mountains of northern China, Chen Nianxi is living a literary dream.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 29, 2021

COVID-19 has changed socialized medicine in Britain forever

How did the U.K. make it through the past 20 months of COVID-19? The private sector's role in delivering publicly funded care needs to be acknowledged.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 29, 2021

Japan labor boss finds widespread resistance to female leaders

Tomoko Yoshino is considering ways to provide practical training for women in presentation and persuasion skills to help them advance.
Japan Times
GLOBAL INSIGHT / Jamaica report 2021
Nov 29, 2021

Outstanding tourism offerings are second to none

Prior to COVID-19 casting its unwelcome shadow over Jamaica’s sun-kissed shores, the popular Caribbean country had enjoyed strong, single-digit percentage growth in foreign visitor numbers and was on track to receive 5 million tourists in 2020 and generate $5 billion in tourism-related revenue.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 27, 2021

Locked in: Hong Kong's COVID-19 rules take mental toll on pilots

Pandemic-related precautions under China's zero-COVID policy are making working conditions difficult for Cathay Pacific pilots even as other Asian countries slowly reopen.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 25, 2021

JPMorgan Chase CEO joins Lithuania and WTA in testing China on free speech

Jamie Dimon knew right away Beijing wouldn't like his joke about the Communist Party's downfall, noting immediately afterward: 'I can't say that in China.”
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Nov 25, 2021

Putin's Ukraine gambit seen as part of play for new Biden summit

The other big aim is to signal to the West that it should stop helping Ukraine upgrade its military, sources say.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 23, 2021

Some U.S. states logging COVID-19 outbreaks as bad as those seen last November

In 15 states, patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 are taking up more ICU beds than a year earlier, according to Department of Health and Human Services data.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 23, 2021

China’s record-low birthrate confirms population challenges facing Beijing

The new figures show population growth in the world's No. 2 economy is slowing dramatically, with some demographers estimating it could start falling as soon as this year.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 23, 2021

Suspect in Wisconsin parade carnage was out on bail from domestic abuse case

In addition to the five people killed, 48 were injured including six children who remained hospitalized in critical condition Monday, authorities said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 23, 2021

Biden reappoints Jerome Powell as U.S. Fed chief

The U.S. president said his decision would ensure stability and independence at the central bank, and avoid politicizing the role.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2021

A new source of fuel in an aging Japan: adult incontinence

Waste from adult diapers is growing by tens of thousands of tons a year in Japan. One town may have a solution: recycle it into fuel pellets.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Nov 20, 2021

The lawyers who helped build — and bring down — Carlos Ghosn

A small clutch of attorneys from Latham & Watkins advised Nissan for years on how to compensate its then chairman and CEO. They were then enlisted to investigate the fallen auto titan.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 18, 2021

History in the making: Kobe's Japan-Taiwan Exchange Summit

The Kobe Declaration will likely go down in history as an important turning point in Japanese-Taiwanese relations, particularly for its call for a Taiwan Relations Act for Japan.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2021

Russia’s Communist Party comeback

Amid all this silencing and persecution of anti-government voices, an unlikely group has survived and become the Kremlin's only real opposition: the Communist Party.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 17, 2021

Japan's Recruit, the world’s top job finder, wants to get rid of resumes

Employers are struggling to fill both white- and blue-collar positions as job seekers re-evaluate their priorities post-pandemic.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 17, 2021

China’s reopening efforts may begin after Winter Olympics, adviser says

Henry Wang Huiyao, adviser to China's State Council, has called for more global leadership so that 'we can facilitate travel' and 'the movement of people.'
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2021

Nuclear fusion is close enough to start dreaming

The possibility of carbon-free energy generation raises a seldom discussed question: Just how much would it change the world if cheap and clean energy sources were truly abundant?
Japan Times
France Report 2021
Nov 17, 2021

An ‘exceptional partnership’

Following the success of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, Paris is getting ready to welcome the world in 2024.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 16, 2021

Pfizer to allow generic versions of its COVID-19 pill in 95 countries

A Pfizer executive said last week the market for the drug might be up to 150 million people and that many countries might also be interested in buying doses for their strategic reserves.
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2021

New normal takes shape as Japan announces 'vaccine-test package'

Those showing proof of vaccination or a negative test result would be able to enter eating and drinking establishments as normal, even under a state of emergency.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 16, 2021

Flooding and nuclear waste endanger a tribe’s ancestral land

The ancestral lands that the Prairie Island Indian Community call home has been whittled down to about one-third of their original size.
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.
‘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.
Surrounded by Chinese bases, a tiny Philippine island stands firm
A Philippine Navy sailor looks at a China Coast Guard vessel just off the coast of Pag-asa Island in the disputed South China Sea last month.
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.
Suntory CEO Takeshi Niinami resigns over alleged possession of illegal drugs
Takeshi Niinami, then-chief executive officer of Suntory Holdings, in May 2024
Tamagotchi hatches 100 million shipments worldwide thanks to ’90s nostalgia
The latest version of Tamagotchi, called Tamagotchi Paradise, is awarded the best digital toy at Tokyo Toy Show on Aug. 28.
Why Stalin didn’t invade Hokkaido still largely unknown, 80 years after WWII
During a survey to collect the remains of victims from the Taito Maru, one of the vessels involved in the Three Ships Incident, a metal helmet was found near the stern of the vessel on Aug. 5, 1984, at Rumoi Port. No human remains were discovered.
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.
Surrounded by Chinese bases, a tiny Philippine island stands firm
A Philippine Navy sailor looks at a China Coast Guard vessel just off the coast of Pag-asa Island in the disputed South China Sea last month.
‘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.

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