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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 10, 2022
Honda raises annual profit forecast after beating quarterly view
Honda raised its operating profit forecast to u00a5830 billion ($6.15 billion) from u00a5810 billion for the year ending March 31.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2022
Keeping cool as U.S.-China tensions simmer
Both Beijing and Washington need to make sure the new low in relations does not become the new normal.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 10, 2022
Japan's new defense chief set to have his work cut out for him — again
Yasukazu Hamada, a 10-term Lower House lawmaker, previously served as defense minister between 2008 and 2009.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 10, 2022
China says Taiwan’s leaders are increasing risk of war
Taipei must change course to reduce tensions, the Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing said, in its first white paper published since Chinese President Xi Jinping took power.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 10, 2022
South Korea and China foreign ministers discuss North Korea and K-pop ban
On the agenda was boosting cultural and people-to-people exchanges as well as restarting exports of K-pop and Korean movies, dramas and games, which have been effectively banned in China.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 10, 2022
Nancy Pelosi trip hinders Biden effort to galvanize Asia against China
The shockwaves from the highest-level U.S. visit to Taiwan in a quarter century are still reverberating around the region days after she flew back to Washington.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 10, 2022
The U.S.-China rift moves climate politics into an era of competition
The next three months before countries meet in Sharm El-Sheikh for COP27 will show whether the era of cooperation has given way to competition.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Aug 9, 2022
Upping the ante: Key takeaways from China’s major drills around Taiwan
China's largest-ever military exercises around Taiwan have provided analysts with potential insight into how Chinese forces might operate around the self-ruled island in case of a conflict.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2022
China thinks it’s winning the race against the West — but is it?
The readiness to take a hard line on Taiwan is strengthened by the conviction among Chinese that the global balance of power is shifting and the tide of history favors their country.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 9, 2022
Taiwan accuses China of preparing for invasion as Taipei conducts own drills
Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu has accused Beijing of using U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit as a pretext for military action.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2022
In first, MSDF joins joint military exercise simulating 'threat to Japan's existence'
Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi revealed that the Izumo — one of the MSDF's two de facto aircraft carriers — and the Takanami destroyer took part in the RIMPAC drill.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Aug 9, 2022
More Chinese women delay or give up on having babies after 'COVID zero' ordeal
Strict controls on people's lives may have caused profound damage on their desire to have children, demographers say.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 9, 2022
U.S. revamps sub-Saharan Africa strategy amid growing Chinese and Russian influence
It is “impossible to meet today's defining challenges without African contributions and leadership,” the White House said in a policy paper.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 8, 2022
China holds fresh military drills around Taiwan
The exercises, the PLA's Eastern Command said, were 'focusing on organizing joint anti-submarine and sea assault operations.'
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 8, 2022
Beijing laws are the barrier to improving Hong Kong’s human rights image
To improve Hong Kong's deteriorating image, the starting point is at home, not overseas
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 8, 2022
As Beijing rages over Taiwan, mood on China's streets muted
While it is difficult to gauge Chinese public opinion, experts say the public broadly supports reunification and would not accept moves suggesting acceptance of Taiwan's independence.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2022
Carbon prices in Asia are too cheap to help curb emissions
Asia is struggling to adopt ambitious pollution pricing instruments, especially at a time of soaring inflation, rising energy prices and economic instability.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 8, 2022
COVID stigma in China can cost recovered patients jobs and homes
One former worker at a government-run isolation facility in Shanghai slept on the streets during parts of June since he couldn't find work or housing after getting infected.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Aug 8, 2022
With military drills near Taiwan, Xi tries to salvage Pelosi crisis
Chinese leader Xi Jinping may not have been able to stop Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, but he has ordered his country's military to rehearse for a much more aggressive step.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami