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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 20, 2020

What to make of the record defense budget

If the Abe administration is seeking to make its mark on defense spending, it will have to try again next year.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 20, 2020

COVID-19's economic hit is all in your mind

Psychology can be more powerful than facts when it comes to an epidemic's impact
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2020

A cold, hay fever or COVID-19? Japan's health guidelines raise questions

Experts have raised questions about asking the public to observe their symptoms at home closely before seeking a consultation.
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 20, 2020

Yen near nine-month low as China moves to help coronavirus-hit firms

The yen traded near a nine-month low versus the dollar on expectations that China would continue to act to reduce the outbreak's economic impacts.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 20, 2020

Coronavirus poses risks to fragile recovery in global economy, says IMF

The outbreak of new coronavirus COVID-19 has already disrupted economic growth in China, and further spread to other countries could derail a "highly fragile" projected recovery in the global economy in 2020, the International Monetary Fund warned Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 20, 2020

MUFG Bank to invest ¥80 billion in ride-hailing service Grab

MUFG Bank will form a capital and business alliance with Singapore-based ride-hailing service Grab, with the view to collaborating on retail financial services, sources have said.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Feb 20, 2020

Savor Italian fare prepared by Michelin chef

A shared love of noodles, fresh and seasonal produce that speaks of the local terroir and a remit to enjoy slow food — it's quite possible that Italian is more woven into Tokyo's food fabric than any other international cuisine.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2020

Machine lubricants leave bad taste for palm oil producers and buyers

The palm oil industry, long accused of large-scale deforestation, is bracing for another hit to its business: machinery lubricants seeping into the world's most consumed edible oil during processing.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
Feb 20, 2020

'Kurly in Kansai' host Ayana Wyse: 'I'm involved in the community, not the society'

As one half of the duo hosting the podcast 'Kurly in Kansai,' Ayana Wyse is doing her part in building a community for the international community in Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 20, 2020

Taigen Kawabe's Ill Japonia: Allowing yourself to learn from the new wave

Bo Ningen's Taigen Kawabe drops the guitars and starts rapping on his first release as III Japonia.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 20, 2020

Google's British users will lose EU data protection, sources say

Google is planning to move its British users' accounts out of the control of European Union privacy regulators, placing them under U.S. jurisdiction instead, sources said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 20, 2020

Four key dates, four missed chances for China to contain coronavirus

It's been more than two months since Dec. 12, the day doctors first noticed a Chinese patient display symptoms of the highly infectious coronavirus that has claimed more than 2,100 lives across the globe. In the weeks following that early case, authorities missed one chance after another to contain the...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 20, 2020

Democratic candidates pile on Bloomberg over wealth, race and sexism

Michael Bloomberg faced a barrage of attacks at his first Democratic presidential debate on Wednesday as his rivals rushed to criticize the billionaire businessman for his wealth, record on race and history of sexist comments.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 20, 2020

As COVID-19 spreads, Takeda CEO urges more industry investment in vaccines

The spread of novel coronavirus infections is starting to make one thing clear: More vaccine investment is needed, the CEO of Asia's biggest drugmaker said.
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2020

Spread of COVID-19 casts shadow over Japan's shuntō wage talks

The widening outbreak of the new coronavirus originating in China has started to affect annual shuntō wage negotiations.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2020

Magnitude 4.5 earthquake jolts Chiba Prefecture area

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake, which measured 4 on the shindo (intensity) scale, was detected at a depth of 30 kilometers in northeastern Chiba Prefecture, on Thursday at 12:53 p.m.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 20, 2020

'Shape of Red': A torrid but ultimately unsatisfying affair

Kaho plays a frustrated housewife who engages in a passionate tryst with a former boyfriend in Yukiko Mishima's latest film.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 20, 2020

'Fictitious Girl's Diary: The Movie': An honest portrait of office minutiae

Comedian Bakarhythm brings his nameless female bank clerk character to the big screen and lovingly documents the trivial goings-on in the life of a Japanese office worker.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Feb 20, 2020

Brazil's 'last samurai' seeks to keep tradition alive in South America

From the outside, the modest home of 61-year-old Edson Suemitsu looks little different from others in this middle-class neighborhood of Curitiba, a sleepy city in southern Brazil.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2020

Canada's indigenous lead climate charge with rail blockade over pipeline plan, put Trudeau in a bind

Canadian indigenous groups are leading the charge against fossil-fuel development in a country with the world's third-largest proven oil reserves, using rail blockades as leverage and putting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a bind.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 20, 2020

Turkey edges toward direct conflict with Russia-backed Syria as talks fail to halt assault

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday a military operation by his forces to push back a Syrian government offensive against rebels in northwest Syria was now "a matter of time" after talks with Russia failed to halt the assault.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Feb 19, 2020

Episode 39: What makes the J. League such a thrill to watch?

As the J. League season kicks off, Japan Times soccer (*cough* football) correspondent Dan Orlowitz tells us what makes the Japanese game so exciting to watch and what we can expect from the upcoming season.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2020

Diamond Princess ordeal ends for passengers who tested negative for COVID-19

The evacuation began Wednesday of a cruise ship quarantined after an outbreak of new coronavirus COVID-19, with several hundred passengers who had tested negative being allowed to leave the ship.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 19, 2020

U.S. track great DeeDee Trotter motivates junior high school students

Olympic gold medalist DeeDee Trotter has enough energy to warm up a room. Even a chilly gymnasium in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 19, 2020

Changing attitudes, not regulations, is the key to Japan's future

There is little indication that the Japanese public will change and allow the reforms required to put Japan's economy on a more stable footing and facilitate growth.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 19, 2020

Who can beat Donald Trump?

U.S. President Donald Trump is such an alarming figure that many Democratic voters so far appear willing to overlook in Michael Bloomberg what they would never forgive otherwise. And that, perhaps, is the clearest sign yet that American democracy is in crisis.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 19, 2020

Bernie should own the socialist label

Even if he loses, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders can rehabilitate socialism as an acceptable economic alternative. I
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
Women-only communities flourish in China
Chen Yani (right), nicknamed "Keke," eats lunch with friends and guests in a female co-living space she founded called "Keke's Imaginative Space" in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on July 14.
JR East cancels luxury train run over crew's boozing
East Japan Railway said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service, which was originally scheduled to depart from Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 30, after crew members were found to have been drinking alcohol on duty.
Man arrested over deadly stabbing of woman in Kobe
Masashi Tanimoto, 35, the suspect in the deadly stabbing a 24-year-old woman, is taken into custody in Kobe on Friday night.
Japanese city proposes two-hour daily limit for smartphone use
The Toyoake Municipal Government in Aichi Prefecture is planning to enact an ordinance to urge all smartphone users in the city to limit screen time to two hours a day outside work or school.
Alicia Keys closed Summer Sonic, but J-pop owned it
Summer Sonic’s 2025 lineup demonstrated its strength, showcasing the latest in J-pop, including “new kawaii” act Fruits Zipper.
Is the LDP’s catch-all approach to politics still effective?
Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15. Political commentator Toru Hashimoto has suggested that Takaichi ought to lead a group of like-minded hawkish politicians out of the Liberal Democratic Party and form their own party.
Fingers sore from too much phone time? You might have ‘sumaho yubi.’
A catch-all term for tendonitis and arthritis caused by excessive smartphone use, 'sumaho yubi' may be difficult to treat for gadget-crazy Japan.
As farm minister, Koizumi is held ‘hostage’ by Ishiba
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi (center) attends a Lower House session on Aug. 1. Locking Koizumi into the Cabinet is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s way of turning a potential rival into a team player, according to one expert.
Big burgers and bigger ambitions for Japan's Burger King
Kazuhiro Nomura, president of BK Japan Holdings, which operates Burger King in Japan

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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