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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 10, 2021

Can Reddit's silver 'apes' beat the market?

Inspired by Reddit forum WallStreetBets, members of a 122,000-strong community hope to corner the silver market and bring down what they say is an unjust banking system.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / ANALYSIS
Jul 3, 2021

Scarce carbon storage threatens net-zero push as emissions keep rising

An accelerating push to build enough carbon capture and storage capacity to meet expected demand — and hold onto global climate goals — faces huge obstacles.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 2, 2021

Canada Day muted as country reckons with treatment of indigenous people

The discovery of hundreds of remains of children in unmarked graves at former indigenous schools has sparked a reckoning with the country's colonial past.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 3, 2021

The corporate world's favorite climate solution is mired in disagreements

Global warming is the world's biggest market failure and according to a task force, the solution might just be better trading.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2021

JBS moves to reopen ‘vast majority’ of beef plants after cyberattack

The JBS attack is thrusting America's system of churning out cheap meat back into the spotlight.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
May 24, 2021

Online harassment is all a part of Japan’s ‘post’ racism

Public figures in Japan have been making headlines by talking about the amount of racialized abuse they receive online. However, such bullying has been around for a long time.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 17, 2021

Ontario sets up checkpoints and shuts construction as virus surges in Canada

The province is forcing nonessential construction sites to shut down and closing recreational facilities including golf courses, playgrounds and soccer fields.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 17, 2021

'Like Godzilla, but actually real': study shows T. rex numbered 2.5 billion

Researchers unveiled the first calculation of the dinosaur's total population during the estimated 2.4 million years that this fearsome species inhabited western North America.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 24, 2021

Bitcoin’s carbon footprint conveniently downplayed during rally

The level of emissions, which have risen alongside a spike in Bitcoin's price, have grown by more than 40 million tons in the past two years.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Mar 18, 2021

China to begin trials for two Canadians detained amid Huawei feud

Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig will face their first court hearings on Friday and Monday, respectively, Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau said Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 23, 2021

Xinjiang genocide vote pressures Trudeau to take harder line on China

The nonbinding declaration from lawmakers represents a clear signal that they want Trudeau to maintain pressure on Beijing over human rights.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 6, 2021

On the brink: Canada care workers struggle to make ends meet in pandemic

Personal support workers (PSWs) have long wrestled with housing insecurity in expensive Canadian cities, but the pandemic has worsened the situation for many.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 28, 2021

Biden’s early climate blitz goes faster and further than expected

Biden's actions to date, and his far-reaching goals, reflect how much has changed in last the four years.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 25, 2020

Space oddity? Monolith in Utah desert mystifies helicopter crew

They were on a mission to count sheep when they found something they had not counted on.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Oct 26, 2020

The bureaucratic wall that hampers entry to Japan

The requirements Japan has put in place to enter the country amid the pandemic don't quite match up with the realities of what's going on overseas.
WORLD
May 5, 2020

Apple and Google ban use of location tracking in coronavirus contact tracing apps

Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google on Monday said they would ban the use of location tracking in apps that use a new contact tracing system the two are building to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 13, 2020

To Belgrade and beyond: Beijing exports China model of virus management

Last month, six Chinese medical professionals stepped off an Air Serbia jet in Belgrade to a red-carpet welcome from President Aleksandar Vucic and an array of cabinet ministers. After elbow-bump greetings, Vucic kissed Serbia's flag, then China's.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 10, 2020

Amid pandemic, it’s getting a lot harder to ship food around the world

The port backups that have paralyzed food shipments around the world for weeks aren’t getting much better. In fact, in some places, they’re getting worse.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 6, 2020

Cruise passengers 'in limbo' awaiting coronavirus tests off California

First, the food buffet was shut down as gloved staff scurried about wiping every surface in sight. Then the ocean liner's gym, bar, casino and boutiques were closed, with passengers urged to keep to themselves. Finally, they were confined to their staterooms.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 17, 2020

Anti-pipeline protests derail Trudeau's trip to Barbados

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has canceled his planned trip to Barbados for a regional conference to help resolve widespread rail disruptions caused by indigenous rights activists opposing the construction of a natural gas pipeline, his office said Sunday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 8, 2020

Cost of Trudeau's Trans Mountain pipeline balloons 70% to $9.5 billion

The cost to build Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's pet oil pipeline just got a few billion dollars more expensive.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 20, 2019

Canada's largest railroad hit by strike, putting Trudeau in hot seat

Thousands of workers at Canada's largest railway went on strike for the first time in a decade on Tuesday, disrupting the shipping of commodities and sparking calls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government to intervene.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2019

Exxon calls New York climate case a 'joke' on last day of trial

A lawyer for Exxon Mobil Corp. mocked New York's fraud lawsuit against the oil giant, saying the state had falsely accused engineers and scientists of cooking up a massive scheme to mislead investors about the financial risks of climate change.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 20, 2019

Justin Trudeau, Conservative rival trade barbs as campaign comes to end

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, facing the loss of his parliamentary majority in this week's election, traded attacks with his main rival Saturday as a bad-tempered campaign entered its final days.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Sep 28, 2019

Longtime judo coach Hiroshi Nakamura to be inducted into Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame

As a young man, Hiroshi Nakamura left Japan and settled in Canada.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Jun 16, 2019

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Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Apr 14, 2019

Capitals beat Hurricanes to expand series lead

Brooks Orpik scored less than two minutes into overtime, Alex Ovechkin had two assists and the Washington Capitals beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 on Saturday to give the defending Stanley Cup champions a 2-0 lead in the first-round series.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 24, 2019

China's next phase in the South China Sea

Beijing is now consolidating its gains and its control in the contested region.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 14, 2019

Pacific trade deal spurs Canadian farm sales to Japan as U.S. looks on

At the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo last month, beef promoters flew in a chef from Canada to cook New York strip steaks for hungry Japanese importers and restaurant suppliers.
Reader Mail
Dec 28, 2018

Leaving the IWC won't solve anything

Japan's decision to leave the International Whaling Commission ("Japan to leave IWC and resume whaling" in the Dec. 27 edition) is indeed a big blow to the global efforts in whale conservation.
Masamitsu Yoshioka, last Pearl Harbor bombardier, dies at 106
Masamitsu Yoshioka in 2023, when he was 105
High temperatures to continue in Japan throughout October
The city of Kumamoto on Sept. 18, when the temperature climbed to 37.5 degrees Celsius
Ishiba omits divisive proposals in first policy speech as PM
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers his inaugural policy address to parliament in Tokyo on Friday.
Tokyo passes nation's first customer harassment ordinance
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks to a reporter on Sept. 27. Aggressive acts toward front-line workers, dubbed "customer harassment," have become a growing problem.
The Russian war economy’s days are numbered
A funeral is held for Russian military personnel and civilians killed in the war with Ukraine, at a cemetery in Luhansk, in Russian-controlled Ukraine, in May 2023. The U.S. estimates that 120,000 Russian soldiers have been killed and another 180,000 injured, further worsening the nation's manpower shortages and economic output.
Japan great Ayami Sato helps shine light on women's baseball in new documentary
Ayami Sato is one of the best female players in baseball history.
Tokyo passes nation's first customer harassment ordinance
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike speaks to a reporter on Sept. 27. Aggressive acts toward front-line workers, dubbed "customer harassment," have become a growing problem.
Ishiba omits divisive proposals in first policy speech as PM
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers his inaugural policy address to parliament in Tokyo on Friday.
How climate change affects Japan's typhoons
A bus is seen submerged in floodwaters in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, on Aug. 29 as Typhoon Shanshan dumps torrential rain across southern regions of Japan.
Who can challenge Onosato's dominance? Takerufuji might be the best bet.
Takerufuji, the most recent Emperor’s Cup winner apart from Terunofuji and Onosato, claimed the second-tier title in September in his first full tournament back from injury after a six-month absence.

Podcast

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

Longform

Wozme, founded by dancer and choreographer Wakaba Kohei, is composed of Kana Kitty, Ami Ishii, Akane Watanabe and Natsuki. Its aim is to inject elegance and beauty, traits traditionally associated with femininity, into the sometimes grotesque art form of butoh dance.
Wozme, an all-women dance troupe, wants to move the needle in butoh
By Zoria Petkoska

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