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Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Jul 3, 2020

Former baseball prospect Tsuyoshi Akuzawa takes over Crane Thunders

The Gunma Prefecture native has been tapped to run the B. League second-division side, four decades after he became a local legend for his Koshien heroics.
SPORTS
Jun 30, 2020

Expert calls on Japanese sports industry to innovate after pandemic

Managing director of Sports Branding Japan believes leagues and teams must come up with new business models in the wake of the coronavirus.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jun 27, 2020

How China is tightening its grip on Hong Kong's economy

International firms are increasingly being displaced in the territory by Chinese companies moving in and gaining a strong foothold.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 25, 2020

Activist investors busier than ever in Japan despite coronavirus

Shareholder activists are saying they have more than enough cash to weather the coronavirus pandemic and boost shareholder returns.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 19, 2020

U.K. firms apologize for slavery links as Bank of England plans to remove pictures

Global protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd are pushing the U.K. to acknowledge past links to slavery and racism.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jun 16, 2020

Former South Korean 'comfort women' support group hit by criticism and probe

The lawmaker who previously led the group faces calls to step down after being accused of misusing funds.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 14, 2020

'Slow-moving train wreck': Hong Kong’s rich preparing for worst-case scenario

One Hong Kong businessman moved $10 million to Singapore and plans to transfer more. Another is eyeing London property, worried that prices in Hong Kong are too high. Well-to-do families across the city are opening offshore bank accounts and applying for alternative passports.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 8, 2020

Analysts see pandemic accelerating pace of mergers in Japan

Transactions here and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific will pick up before the U.S. and Europe do, experts say.
LIFE / Travel
Jun 6, 2020

Getting the wheels back on Japan's travel industry

Unprecedented travel restrictions have crippled tourism, forcing businesses in the sector to rethink strategies and explore new opportunities.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2020

SoftBank creates $100 million fund to back companies led by people of color

The effort stems from U.S. and international disgust with the death of George Floyd, who died after a white Minneapolis cop knelt on his neck for over eight minutes.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 22, 2020

Facebook embracing remote work beyond Silicon Valley, Zuckerberg says

Facebook will also build three new 'hubs' in Atlanta, Dallas and Denver where remote workers in those areas could occasionally convene.
Japan Times
SOCCER
May 22, 2020

Italy's heritage authority approves San Siro demolition

Italy's heritage authority raised no objections to tearing down Milan's 1920s-era San Siro arena, a document seen by Reuters showed, removing a major obstacle to plans by the city's top-flight soccer clubs to replace it with a new stadium.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
May 19, 2020

Uber’s job cuts and office closures reflect narrowing ambitions

As recently as this year, the company was promising to usher in a self-driving revolution and popularize flying cars.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 15, 2020

Migrant workers on virus front line as Southeast Asia returns to work

Temperature checks and mandatory virus tests are some of the measures becoming the new normal for migrant workers in Malaysia and Thailand.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 11, 2020

In post-lockdown era, car usage could rebound as people avoid public transport

As lockdowns ease and parts of the world reopen for business, driving has emerged as the socially distant transportation mode of choice.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 5, 2020

Researchers nearly double U.S. coronavirus death projection due to easing

Nearly 135,000 Americans were forecast to die from COVID-19 through the beginning of August, almost double the last prediction, due to loosening of lockdowns, according to an updated forecast from the University of Washington on Monday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 29, 2020

Alcohol fight highlights battle between Indian states and Narendra Modi

In the tug-of-war between India’s states and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s federal government for cash to fight the coronavirus outbreak, liquor has become the latest battleground.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 28, 2020

The British expat paying $7,000 a month to swim in Singapore’s lockdown

Not helping any with Singapore’s image as home to a bunch of crazy-rich Asians comes the almost too-ridiculous-to-be-true story of a man who rented a swimming pool for 10,000 Singapore dollars ($7,040) a month.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 27, 2020

Bailouts and delistings loom for Japan’s beleaguered regional banks

Coronavirus crisis expected to cause bad loans to climb and investment income to evaporate
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 21, 2020

Don’t worry, everything will get back to ‘normal’ in America

Once the hazard of coronavirus is gone, the inequities of daily will return with a vengeance.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 9, 2020

Huge Australian household debt threatens to worsen recession

Thuy Pham has run two jobs for much of her working life, and a little over two years ago all that effort paid off when she realized a dream of buying her own home. As the coronavirus shutdowns have deepened, that’s started to unravel: First she was stood down from one job, then the other, and now she’s...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Fincity.tokyo
Apr 8, 2020

Tokyo initiative, firms committed to boosting Japanese financial market’s image

In recent years, a surge of hedge funds and private equity funds have cropped up in Tokyo’s chief metropolitan area.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Food Sustainability in Japan
Apr 4, 2020

Breaking ground: Young farmers embrace urban agriculture in Tokyo

Kei Kawana’s kingdom is Neighbor’s Farm, a 2,000-square-meter plot overlooked by the Tama Monorail, which regularly zips by overhead. This March, she celebrated her first year of agricultural activity, the culmination of many years of patient work, planning and wading through bureaucracy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Mar 29, 2020

Global wave of consumer default underway, beginning in China

Like millions of people around the world, Zhang Chunzi borrowed money she thought she would be able to repay. Then the new coronavirus changed everything.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 22, 2020

Corporate bailouts need strings attached

Americans shouldn't allow themselves to be conned by big corporations once again.
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Japan team finds ancient ocean full of squids
The ancient ocean was full of squids, whose population exceeded that of fish or ammonites, a Japanese research team mainly from Hokkaido University has found through a new method using technology.
Students in Japan struggle with Japanese language and math sections on national exam
The correct answer rate for the Japanese language section on a national test dropped to 67.0% from 67.8% the previous year among elementary school sixth-graders.
Japan launches government body to address concerns over foreign nationals
The new administrative body would serve as a cross-agency "control tower" to respond to issues such as crime and overtourism involving foreign nationals, according to the government.
Tens of millions of yen found at home of Aum Shinrikyo founder's wife
The house of the wife of the late Chizuo Matsumoto, the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult's founder, in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, in July
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.
Tokyo stocks hit by a perfect storm of tariffs, politics and budget worries
Tokyo stocks are underperforming shares in other large markets globally.
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Tokyobike founder believes in taking in sights of dynamic cities slowly
Ichiro Kanai, founder and president of Tokyobike, is developing a niche but a new customer base who want to cycle as part of a lifestyle.

Podcast

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

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After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
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