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JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 24, 2022

Kishida at odds with other LDP members over COVID-19 and foreign policy

With media polls showing Kishida's support rate is declining, questions about who is in charge — the prime minister or his party — are growing.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Jan 18, 2022

Naomi Osaka returns, ready or not

Back in Australia, the place where things last appeared right in her world, is she ready for the crucible?
Japan Times
LIFE / EVENTS AND INFORMATION
Dec 17, 2021

Groups raise money for Greek wildfire relief

The Japan-Greece Society, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year, has partnered with the city of Misato, Saitama Prefecture, and the Japanese participants of the Spartathlon ultramarathon to help raise relief money for Greece.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 19, 2021

Phenom Yoshinobu Yamamoto a man on a mission as Orix chases PL title

In the 23-year-old ace, who continues to dominate NPB pitching across all metrics, the club has another real chance at winning the Pacific League pennant for the first time as the Buffaloes.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 21, 2021

Philip Jodidio: ‘A willingness to transgress and a desire to be extremely innovative’

u2018Contemporary Japanese Architecture' author Philip Jodidio discusses the past and future significance of Japanese architecture and his career as an art/architecture critic and editor.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Jun 2, 2021

Japan’s much-maligned vaccine campaign quietly gathers speed

The seven-day average of doses given has quadrupled in just two weeks, with about a quarter of the nearly 14 million shots given coming in the past week alone.
BASKETBALL / NBA
May 23, 2021

Regular contract not enough for Raptors’ Yuta Watanabe

The former two-way signing wants to increase his offensive production next season in order to keep his spot on the squad.
JAPAN
May 8, 2021

Unused COVID-19 shots piling up in Japan amid slow rollout

Japan imported 28 million doses of Pfizer Inc.'s COVID-19 vaccine through late April, but has so far used only 15% of the stockpile, with the remaining 24 million doses sitting in freezers.

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