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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 19, 2018
China selects new economic team as Xi kicks off second term
Liu He, a key economic adviser to China's President Xi Jinping, was elected by parliament Monday to be a vice premier, and vice central bank Gov. Yi Gang was chosen to take over the helm at the People's Bank of China.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 27, 2018
Why 'Emperor Xi' should worry
China will learn that totalitarian states have short-term advantages but they don't end well.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 13, 2018
An excavation of hu-man traits
The excavation of the tomb of the Tang Dynasty general Mu Tai (660-729, buried in 730) took place in Qingcheng County in China's Gansu Province in 2001. Unearthed were colorfully painted and realistically detailed small-scale sculptures of "foreign" peoples and their animals, such as horses and camels,...
Japan Times
LIFE / Language
Jan 29, 2018
In dog-loving Japan, a year for the mutts among us to make our marks
Canine-lovers have plenty to celebrate, what with this year being Inu-doshi, the Year of the Dog).
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 22, 2018
China turning into a scientific superpower
China is rapidly gaining in the global race for knowledge.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 15, 2018
Inside the growing backlash against China
Chinese President Xi Jinping's increasingly aggressive and high-profile foreign policy is drawing fire from both Western and developing nations.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 26, 2017
China signals slower growth is acceptable to curb debt, poverty and smog
China can achieve a goal of doubling the size of its economy by 2020 even if annual expansion slows to 6.3 percent, according to a senior Communist Party official, signaling a greater willingness to tackle debt and pollution at the expense of growth.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2017
After bumper year this year, China's import growth seen tumbling in 2018
The pace of China's import growth is set to slow in 2018 following a boom this year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 4, 2017
Don't worry, China isn't taking over the world just yet
Some of China's greatest economic advances depend heavily on local conditions.
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Nov 27, 2017
A clash brewing between the CCP and China's entrepreneurs?
China's rising private-sector corporate stars view Communist Party control as a recipe for economic disaster.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 27, 2017
The next battle in Xi's war on corruption
Chinese President Xi Jinping has waged a relentless fight against corruption, but the war is far from won.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 7, 2017
What does China's 'chairman of everything' want?
Xi Jinping has major ambitions for China, the CCP and his legacy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 31, 2017
China emerges as job market of choice for analysts fleeing EU's MiFID II
Karen Tan finished her master's degree in mathematics at the University of Cambridge three years ago and set her sights on a career in U.K. finance.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 30, 2017
China versus the Washington Consensus
China's continued economic success calls into question longstanding assumptions about the optimal balance of state and market mechanisms in driving economic development.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 29, 2017
Xi's new strength obscures China's internal risks
Xi Jinping's new strength and power helps obscure China's internal risks, including the fundamental challenge of how to avoid a political hard landing.
EDITORIALS
Oct 26, 2017
Xi enshrined as China's leader
Xi Jinping has been elevated to a level of power unmatched by any Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. What will he do with it?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 19, 2017
Who has the world's No. 1 economy? Not the U.S.
The days of U.S. economic supremacy are over.
China seizes disputed reef near key Philippine military outpost
China Coast Guard officers unfurl a national flag on Sandy Cay reef, near the Philippine-held Thitu Island, in disputed waters of the South China Sea this month in this screen shot taken from Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
Japan to resist Trump efforts to form trade bloc against China
As Japan gears up for the trade talks, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is also seeking to cushion the blow that the U.S. tariffs may have on the domestic economy.
As many as nine dead after driver plows into Vancouver festival crowd
An ambulance is parked at the site of the Lapu Lapu day festival, where a vehicle drove into a crowd killing several people in Vancouver on Saturday.
Japan’s legal system struggles to deal with AI-made child sexual abuse images
AI-generated content — including those made using pictures of real people, which are known as “deepfakes” — is not explicitly covered under Japan's current legal framework, nor are human-drawn illustrations that depict child abuse.
How to bring up bad news in Japanese
As in other cultures, when someone shares bad news in Japanese it’s best to respond with supportive words.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
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