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Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 30, 2021
Barbados ditches Britain's Queen Elizabeth to become a republic
The birth of the republic severs almost all of the colonial bonds that have tied the island to England, but some also wonder what this transition actually means.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 29, 2021
Fixing Europe’s migrant predicament requires a new approach
The causes behind the sudden and ugly new migrant tableau are blurred, but one theory is the Belarus government may be inviting immigrants in and then urging them to enter Poland and the EU.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 29, 2021
COVID-19 has changed socialized medicine in Britain forever
How did the U.K. make it through the past 20 months of COVID-19? The private sector's role in delivering publicly funded care needs to be acknowledged.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 28, 2021
Boris Johnson courts edgy MPs who may one day end his career
Johnson has been hosting weekly drinks and canapes for Tory MPs, divided into groups according to the years they entered Parliament, to try to soothe nerves.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 27, 2021
China asserts nuclear influence before key Iran deal talks
China is drawing a link between nuclear talks and a Western submarine pact in the Pacific, potentially adding another obstacle to the tortured process of reaching a deal with Iran.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 26, 2021
Did AstraZeneca keep Britain safer from COVID-19 than Europe?
It's suggested that Britain's home-grown jab may be the reason the country is faring better with the latest COVID-19 wave than Europe. Still, is there evidence for that?
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 25, 2021
At least 27 dead after migrant boat capsizes in English Channel
The dead, including five women and a little girl, were part of a group whose inflatable boat was found completely deflated by rescuers
Japan Times
SOCCER
Nov 25, 2021
English soccer risks financial chaos without more even sharing
A report published late Wednesday found that despite the wealth in the Premier League, teams across the English game have fallen into administration 62 times since 1992.
Japan Times
SPORTS
Nov 25, 2021
Does the sports world still need China?
The rewards for international sports leagues doing business in China are plain: lucrative broadcast deals and millions of new consumers. But the risks are also clear.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Nov 23, 2021
'Living hand to mouth': Europe's gas crunch shows little sign of easing
This year's power price shock has pushed several European and British energy suppliers out of business, as they cannot always pass on price rises to customers.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 16, 2021
For Meghan, an image rendered in a U.K.-U.S. split screen
Although the Duchess of Sussex remains a polarizing figure in Britain, she has been able to restyle herself in the U.S. as a business owner and social activist.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Nov 5, 2021
Johnson's COVID-19 gambit steers Britain's health care system into uncharted waters
Britain, its hospitals and its COVID-19 strategy are under the microscope as the country enters the dangerous winter period.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 4, 2021
Inbound capital shows Macron’s 'startup nation' on track to challenge London
The French leader's efforts inviting investors every year to the Elysee Palace, organizing tech summits in Versailles and implementing reforms are starting to pay off.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 4, 2021
Japan among holdouts to deal on overseas fossil fuel funding
The U.K. has corralled about 20 nations to back a pledge to stop supporting foreign fossil fuel projects, but China and Japan aren't among them, sources say.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2021
Britain begins to think the unthinkable: Life after the queen
'Long live the Queen” was the proclamation made following her accession to the throne. But ever since her husband's death her subjects are beginning to grasp that her life has a terminus.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 3, 2021
France’s top diplomat in Australia accuses Scott Morrison of deceit
The spat represents the fallout from the AUKUS accord and doubts about Australian leadership ahead of upcoming elections.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 3, 2021
U.K. and India plan to connect the world's green power grids
Linking the grids would allow parts of the world with excess renewable power to send it to areas with deficits.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Nov 2, 2021
'Perfect storm': Poor Britons caught in cost-of-living squeeze
Economic and policy analysts say the world's fifth-biggest economy faces a deepening cost-of-living crisis.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Nov 2, 2021
AUKUS has a significant part to play in the 'new Cold War' against China
The grouping of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States has beefed up maritime capabilities, but has also created tension and suspicion among friends.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 30, 2021
Macron gets Biden to apologize before real G20 work begins
On the eve of the Group of 20 summit meeting in Rome, the U.S. president admitted his administration had been 'clumsy” in handling a new defense pact with Australia and the U.K.
Japan ruling bloc projected to lose majority in Upper House election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks at the Liberal Democratic Party’s headquarters Sunday after exit polls showed poor results for the ruling coalition in the Upper House election.
Polls open for key Upper House election that could shake Japanese politics
People vote during Japan's Upper House election at a polling station in Tokyo on Sunday.
Sunken WWII Japanese warship Teruzuki found off Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands. A team from the U.S. nonprofit Ocean Exploration Trust has discovered the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki on the deep seabed off the Solomon Islands as the 80th anniversary of the war's end approaches.
Japan team finds ancient ocean full of squids
The ancient ocean was full of squids, whose population exceeded that of fish or ammonites, a Japanese research team mainly from Hokkaido University has found through a new method using technology.
Hitomi Obara, 2012 Olympic champion in wrestling, dies at 44
Hitomi Obara competes at the London Olympics in August 2012.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
In Gaza-made obi, Palestinian embroidery meets Japanese kimono
The Palestinian Embroidery Obi Project brings together a traditional Japanese garment and age-old designs from the Middle Eastern region.

Podcast

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

Longform

After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
By Megha Wadhwa

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