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RUSSIA

Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jun 4, 2022
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine forces Biden to rewrite U.S. security plan
The new draft emphasizes the importance of both Europe and Asia to U.S. national security interests, a shift from an earlier version that focused more squarely on China and Asia.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 4, 2022
100 days of war: Death, destruction and loss in Ukraine
Russia's brutal invasion has ripped apart predictions, reawakened old alliances, tested others and spread death and destruction across Ukraine.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 3, 2022
Ukraine investigates deportation of children to Russia as possible genocide
International humanitarian law classifies the forced mass deportation of people during a conflict as a war crime. 'Forcibly transferring children' in particular qualifies as genocide.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 3, 2022
U.S. technology, a longtime tool for Russia, becomes a vulnerability
While the technology made by American and European companies has been turned against Ukraine, the situation has also given the U.S. and its allies a source of leverage against Russia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 3, 2022
The global economy in transition
The green transition is a powerful mechanism for increasing resilience and reducing vulnerability to the weaponization of energy supplies.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 3, 2022
In a museum show, Ukraine tells the story of a war still in progress
The effort to chronicle the war even as battles continue to rage in Ukraine is one of several ways that the government is highlighting the devastation its people have endured.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 3, 2022
Putin’s unconditional surrender should not be the goal
The Ukrainian demand that Russia withdraw its troops is a legitimate position to adopt. But it is a position, not an ultimatum; compromises should be reached once negotiations begin.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 3, 2022
As war rages into its 100th day, Russia now controls a fifth of Ukraine
Though battered, depleted and repulsed from their initial drive to capture the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Russian troops have used their superior artillery power to make new gains.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jun 2, 2022
Europe eyes common subsea wind power grid to bolster energy security
An idea being looked at are offshore grids, with new wind farms connected to hubs, or energy islands, and linked by interconnecting power cables.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 2, 2022
Europe’s Russian oil ban could mean a new world order for energy
In effect, Europe is trading one unpredictable oil supplier — Russia — for unstable exporters in the Middle East.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 2, 2022
As food shortages loom, a race to free Ukraine’s stranded grain
The Lithuania route appears to be the most promising for getting food quickly to areas like the Middle East and Africa that need Ukrainian grain the most, even if it is also a long shot.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 2, 2022
The U.S. is sending advanced weapons to Ukraine. But conditions apply.
There is no question that the decision to give Ukraine the weapons they have requested for weeks marked a major escalation in the kind of military aid that Washington is providing.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 2, 2022
Putin thinks his biggest ally in Ukraine is time
For Ukraine, still outgunned and economically devastated, a key risk lies in the durability of the lifeline of fiscal and military support from abroad.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jun 1, 2022
Indian private refiners profit from cheap Russian crude as state refiners suffer
Private refiners have helped drive total Indian fuel exports 15% higher in the first five months of 2022 compared with the same period in 2021.
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2022
Japan’s experience rebuilding can help Ukraine, Tokyo's envoy says
Ukraine has estimated direct losses from the war totaling at least $650 billion, with the indirect cost being as much as $1 trillion.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 1, 2022
‘The killings didn’t stop’: In Mali, a massacre with a Russian footprint
Witnesses and analysts say the death toll was between 300 and 400 by their most conservative estimates, with most of the victims civilians.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 1, 2022
The decline and fall of 'Davos Man'
The Ukraine invasion loomed large at this year's annual World Economic Forum, where political and business leaders once gathered to celebrate globalization and pursue more of it.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 1, 2022
With 100 million refugees, the migrant crisis has barely begun
War and famine will make millions more take flight. And then comes climate change. How will the world cope?
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 1, 2022
How the world is paying for Putin's war in Ukraine
Russia is being propelled by a flood of cash that could average $800 million a day this year — and that's just what the commodity superpower is raking in from oil and gas.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 1, 2022
Russian yachts and money going where U.S. influence has waned
Turkey, Israel and the UAE have emerged as magnets for Russia's wealthy.
Most Japanese teens struggling with school find end of summer ‘painful’
Some 93.1% of Japanese teenagers who struggle with school life said they felt like they “wanted to disappear from the world" at the end of summer vacation ahead of the start of a new term, according to a recent survey released by Yokohama-based nonprofit Daisan Kazoku.
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Mitsubishi’s wind-power retreat a blow to Japan's alternative-energy goals
Wind turbines in the town of Happo in Akita prefecture. Wind power is a key part of Japan's alternative energy drive.
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.
Akazawa's trip to Washington for tariff talks abruptly canceled
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, had been set to fly to Washington on Thursday.
Mitsubishi’s wind-power retreat a blow to Japan's alternative-energy goals
Wind turbines in the town of Happo in Akita prefecture. Wind power is a key part of Japan's alternative energy drive.
Virtual singer Kaf's music becomes magic in 'Kamitsubaki City Under Construction'
Virtual singer Kaf got her start in 2018 by posting songs and covers to YouTube. Now, after having performed live shows at major venues including Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan, she is turning to voice acting and starring in the new anime series “Kamitsubaki City Under Construction.”
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.
In pictures: Koenji Awa Odori 2025
Japan Times
Koshien’s dark summer forces reckoning for high school baseball
Koryo High School players greet their cheering section after beating Hokkaido’s Asahikawa Shiho in the first round of Summer Koshien on Aug. 7. The school withdrew three days later as a bullying scandal enveloped the team.

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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