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BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 10, 2020

Tencent targets Japanese anime and manga to jump-start global growth

The Chinese firm sees Japan's entertainment exports as being ripe for optimization, with better distribution and marketing generating vastly greater revenues.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 10, 2020

Retracted COVID-19 studies expose gaps in vetting of U.S. health data firms

As hospitals have moved to electronic health records, independent analytics firms have started buying hospital data sold without patient names.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 10, 2020

China and scientists dismiss study suggesting coronavirus spread in August 2019

Beijing dismissed as "ridiculous" a Harvard Medical School study of hospital traffic and search engine data that suggested the novel coronavirus may already have been spreading in China last August, and scientists said it offered no convincing evidence of when the outbreak began.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 10, 2020

SoftBank to expand Vision Fund cuts to as many as 80 workers

SoftBank Group Corp.’s Vision Fund is preparing to cut staff by about 15 percent after reporting record losses for the last fiscal year, according to people familiar with the matter.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 10, 2020

Kim raises pressure on South Korea's Moon to split with Trump

Both North Korea and left-leaning supporters of South Korean President Moon Jae-in want him to restore economic ties broken by security tensions. But pleasing them would mean angering U.S. President Donald Trump.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 10, 2020

The pandemic has everyone ditching coal quicker — except Asia

While the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating the death of coal in developed nations, the dirtiest fossil fuel is alive and kicking in Asia.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 10, 2020

U.S. Navy to bar Confederate flags from ships, aircraft and bases

The U.S. Navy is working to ban the Confederate battle flag from all public spaces on Navy installations, ships and aircraft, the service said Tuesday, as the military and the country as a whole grapple with questions about racial inequality.
JAPAN
Jun 10, 2020

Japan broadcaster NHK under fire over flawed video on anti-racism movement

Public broadcaster NHK has apologized for its attempt to educate viewers on the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, after its video on anti-racism demonstrations came under fire for lacking context on racial injustice and the police brutality that had spurred such protests worldwide.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 9, 2020

Nightlife districts demonized over infection fears while grappling with coronavirus impacts

Heated media coverage has zeroed in on Kabukicho, catapulting the area to a new level of notoriety.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 9, 2020

Malaysia to ask Bangladesh to take back Rohingya refugees found at sea

Malaysia will ask Bangladesh to take back about 300 Rohingya refugees detained after a boat carrying them entered its waters this week, the southeast Asian nation's defense minister said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 9, 2020

Tokyo reports 12 new coronavirus cases, keeping count below 20 for third straight day

The daily count for the capital has been in the double digits for nine consecutive days.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 9, 2020

Time to build the post-pandemic world order

This is not only a battle about now but also over what comes next.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 9, 2020

Was the front door worth it?

The Hagerty Incident would affect Japan-U.S. relations for years to come.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 9, 2020

Why not apply 'danshari' to work and life?

The pandemic has given people an opportunity to reconsider what's important in their lives.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 9, 2020

U.S. troop cuts in Germany would be a disastrous mistake

If the Americans pulled soldiers out of the country, it would be another nail in the coffin of the West.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 9, 2020

Rage against the pandemic

Racial disparities in the impact of the COVID-19 crisis are fueling the U.S. protests.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 9, 2020

Tepco plans ¥2 trillion green power push by 2030

The spending plans are among the most ambitious from Japanese utilities, which lag global peers in shifting away from fossil fuels.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 9, 2020

World Bank forecasts worst recession in eight decades as virus persists

According to a semi-annual report per-capita output will contract in more than 90 percent of countries, the largest percentage since 1870.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jun 9, 2020

North Korea severs hotlines in message to South — and U.S.

Pyongyang has “completely shut down all contact” with Seoul in a move some see as a message to Washington.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 9, 2020

Amsterdam to clean up sex-and-drugs tourism in post-virus reboot

As the coronavirus pandemic raged in March and April, the 500-year-old Amsterdam city-center became a ghost town: The scantily clad sex workers in brothel windows in small alleys like Stoofsteeg in the red-light district were gone, as were the hordes of tourists who come there to gawk at them; Coffee...
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 9, 2020

Trump's troop cut in Germany blindsided U.S. officials, sources say

U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to cut U.S. troop levels in Germany blindsided a number of senior national security officials, according to five sources familiar with the matter, and the Pentagon had yet to receive a formal order to carry it out, Reuters has learned.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jun 9, 2020

Can the U.S. end China’s control of the global supply chain?

The trade war amplified calls in the U.S. and elsewhere for reducing dependence on China for strategic goods. Now, the pandemic has politicians vowing to take action.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 9, 2020

U.S. prosecutors say Britain's Prince Andrew not cooperating in Epstein probe

U.S. prosecutors have accused Britain's Prince Andrew of failing to cooperate with multiple requests they made to interview him about his contacts with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died last August in a New York City federal prison.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 9, 2020

How to stay cool as planet warms? Singapore may have a solution

In Singapore, close to the Equator, temperatures regularly rise above 32 degrees Celsius (90 Fahrenheit) — but inside the soaring glass greenhouses of Gardens by the Bay, the country’s award-winning botanical park, it’s a pleasant 24 degrees.

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