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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 18, 2021

Amazon documents reveal company's secret strategy to dodge India's regulators

The revelations could deepen the risks facing the company as it encounters intensifying government scrutiny in one of its fastest-growing markets.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 26, 2021

Burnout and depression spiral among India’s traumatized doctors

Doctors describe a nightmare scenario: continued high-risk exposure to the virus, a never-ending flow of patients and deaths, and long hours in sweat-drenched PPE.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 1, 2023

Contaminated drugs, shredded papers: U.S. FDA uncovers failures in India pharma factories

Authorities have suspended the licenses of more than a dozen unlisted drugmakers in the wake of dozens of cough syrup deaths.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 21, 2023

U.S. report lists 'significant human rights' abuses in India

The findings come nearly a year after Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. was monitoring what he described as a rise in human rights abuses in India.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 14, 2022

Rare bird and forest protectors clash with India's clean energy vision

While government authorities argue that shifting India away from fossil fuels is a top priority, environmentalists and communities say nature is taking collateral damage.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 16, 2020

India and China add to nuclear arsenals in 2020, report says

India and China have added to their nuclear warhead stockpile in the last year while all other nuclear-armed nations like the U.S., Russia and France, continued to modernize their arsenal, according to a recent report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 4, 2023

China and India have fewer people than the U.N. thinks

The U.N.'s premature declaration that India has surpassed China as the world’s most populous country highlights the diminishing reliability of its population statistics.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 27, 2021

The young female climate activists driving change in Asia

A number of young women in the region are stepping forward to demand greater action on one of the defining issues of this generation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 22, 2022

Facebook's growth woes in India: Not enough women and too much nudity

In India, many women have shunned the male-dominated Facebook social network because they're worried about their safety and privacy.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 3, 2022

India's forest-planting push leaves Indigenous women out in the cold

Indigenous women are finding themselves in conflict with new Indian laws that mandate large-scale tree-planting to compensate for declines in forest cover.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 29, 2021

'Like the Stasi': Online volunteers in India silence critical voices

The suspension of dozens of social media accounts deemed to be critical of the government came shortly after the launch of a cybercrime volunteers program.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 1, 2022

Technicians left jobless as India's solar sector fails to match training with demand

Government data shows less than a third of trainees in a flagship project by India's Skill Council for Green Jobs have found jobs in the solar industry.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 4, 2021

Millions of defaults threaten future of microfinance in India

Worldwide, microlending's tremendous reach, once heralded as its greatest strength, now looks like a deep liability.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 17, 2021

Two of India’s richest men caught in crossfire over farming

The fight between the government and the farmers has revived the debate on what Modi's critics call the cozy nexus between the magnates and the popular leader.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 27, 2023

India’s June heat wave deaths are a harbinger of worse to come

The numerous anecdotal reports of a spike in deaths among the most vulnerable in society have heightened concerns about both central and local government preparations.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 14, 2021

Modi ally taps misinformation law to quash reports on India’s COVID-19 crisis

Journalists report receiving notices stating their reports are false and demanding that they reveal sources.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2020

India paid the price of lockdown for little reward

The troubles keep piling up for India, feted not long ago as a would-be commercial superpower. Economic data show the country is in far worse shape than previously thought, while it has overtaken Mexico to become the world’s third-largest tally of coronavirus cases. It will take the South Asian giant...
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 20, 2023

Himalayan glaciers could lose up to 75% of ice by 2100, report says

The melt is expected to cause dangerous flooding and water shortages for the 240 million people who live in the mountainous region.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 22, 2021

Chinese hackers target Indian agency and media company, report says

The agency, the Unique Identification Authority of India, holds the private biometric information of more than 1 billion Indian citizens.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 22, 2021

COVID-19 may have claimed as many as 5 million lives in India

The numbers, derived from research and local authority data, range from three to 10 times the official count, hinting that the true cost of its outbreak has been massively underreported.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 5, 2021

India’s suspect ‘Quad’ credentials

COVID-19 has brutally exposed the hollowness of India's pretensions to power, status and influence and boasts of being a vaccine superpower and pharmacy to the world.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Apr 25, 2023

Heat waves in India drive leading clean-energy state back to coal

Karnataka's situation foretells the challenge facing India as the planet warms: the need to fall back on coal as the only reliable fuel despite a growing clean energy supply.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 21, 2023

As India's population booms, where are its working women?

Economists say that India must not only create more jobs to keep its world-beating growth on track, but also foster employment conditions favorable to women.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 30, 2022

Evicted villagers pay a high price for India's hydropower push

The government has said hydropower, along with solar and wind, is vital to meeting India's pledge to get half of its energy from nonfossil fuel sources by 2030.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 1, 2020

Woman dies in New Delhi after gang rape, fueling outrage again in India

Of the tens of thousands of rape cases reported in India annually, only a handful result in prosecutions, National Crime Records Bureau figures show.
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 17, 2020

India's use of facial recognition tech during protests stirs criticism

When artist Rachita Taneja heads out to protest in New Delhi, she covers her face with a pollution mask, a hoodie or a scarf to reduce the risk of being identified by police facial recognition software.
Kashmiri journalists protest against internet blockade put by India's government in Srinagar in October 2019.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 24, 2023

Internet out: India deploys shutdowns in name of security

Some blackouts last hours, others days. Some stretch for months.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (center) waves to supporters during a road show as a part of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) election campaign ahead of the Telangana state assembly elections, in the city of Hyderabad on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 28, 2023

Hindu-Muslim tensions stoked online as India prepares to vote

During the BJP's rule over the past decade, party members and allies have been accused of inflammatory speech against Muslims.
Traffic along a highway amid heavy smog and pollution in New Delhi in November
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Dec 7, 2023

As China enjoys cleaner air, India's pollution struggle continues

Huge swaths of northern India choke on clouds of polluted air during winter as temperatures drop, winds disappear and farmers set fields ablaze.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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