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Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 8, 2022

Halvor Skiftun Digernes finds a new life's calling crafted from clay

The former mixologist and Tokyo cafe co-founder is combining his creative interests with a new passion — ceramic arts.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Oct 8, 2022

Mending fashion’s threadbare relationship with sustainability

Another season gone and another round of promises from designers the world over to become more eco-friendly dashed.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Oct 7, 2022

What did Japan learn from its largest and deadliest COVID wave?

While the surge of infections — fueled by the BA.5 subvariant of the omicron variant — has subsided, some important questions remain unanswered.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2022

Former Unification Church member recounts fear and hardship as daughter of devout followers

The former member said that as a child she was forced to attend the church's worship services and read its doctrine, and was banned from having romantic relationships.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 7, 2022

Mass killing at Thai preschool prompts calls for drug crackdown

Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra urged the government to 'speed up the suppression of drugs, especially methamphetamine tablets.”
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 7, 2022

Google to open first Japan data center to accelerate Asia push

The new facility, based in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, will accelerate the operation of Google tools and services and support economic activity and jobs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2022

Sumitomo Mitsui punished for market-rigging at brokerage arm

The financial watchdog also ordered SMBC Nikko to suspend operations related to block offers for three months, in a fresh blow to the company's reputation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 7, 2022

Nobel Peace Prize awards activists pushing for human rights in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus

The prize was awarded to rights advocate Ales Bialiatski of Belarus, Russian human rights group Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2022

Toyota says about 296,000 pieces of customer info possibly leaked

The automaker said, however, that there was no possibility that users' sensitive personal information was leaked.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 7, 2022

After floods linked to climate change, disease threatens survivors in Pakistan

Four months after the start of record monsoon rains, standing water has curdled into a pestilent soup breeding malaria, cholera and dengue.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Oct 7, 2022

Suzuka endures as one of Formula One's most popular and celebrated circuits

As the F1 circus pulls into Mie Prefecture for the first time since 2019, drivers and fans alike are eagerly anticipating the return of one of the sport's top venues.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Oct 7, 2022

Frances Tiafoe shakes off 'really bad' jet lag to reach Japan Open semifinals

Jet-lagged Frances Tiafoe flew into the Japan Open semifinals in straight sets on Friday, clinching each with an ace to beat Serbia's Miomir Kecmanovic 6-0, 6-4.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 7, 2022

China, Taiwan and where the KMT fits in

The opposition Kuomintang party is needed to maintain a channel of communication between Beijing and Taipei.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Oct 7, 2022

The time to remain resolute is when North Korea provokes

North Korea's leadership truly believes it needs nuclear weapons to survive — and Russia's nuclear threats appear to backstop that logic.
LGBTQ activists gather outside Russia's Supreme Court building in Moscow on Thursday. The Supreme Court's banning of the "international LGBTQ+ social movement" resulted from a request from the justice ministry.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 1, 2023

Russia's Supreme Court bans LGBTQ movement and labels it as 'extremist'

The move forms part of a pattern of increasing restrictions in the country on expressions of sexual orientation and gender identity.
FC Cincinnati forward Brenner (left) in action against Columbus Crew midfielder Darlington Nagbe at Lower.com Field in Columbus, Ohio, on Aug. 20.
SOCCER
Dec 1, 2023

'Hell is Real' in American soccer's new hotbed

When it comes to Ohio, there is the authentic feel of a real local derby around the clash between FC Cincinnati and Columbus Crew.
The front page of The Japan Times on Christmas Eve in 1948 carries news of high-profile executions.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Dec 1, 2023

1948: Tojo and six others hanged

December reports focus on some major events from Japan's past: the 1923 earthquake, World War II and the 1970s oil shock.
Offshore wind turbines at the Scroby Sands Wind Farm, operated by E.ON SE, near Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom. Foreign wind power companies say Japan's development process for offshore wind power takes much longer than in other countries, leading to more uncertainty and risks.
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2023

Foreign wind power players urge Japan to scale up offshore auctions

"If you want to create appetite from investors you need to propose larger plants"
The launch of a rocket carrying a spy satellite, as claimed by the North Korean government, in a location given as North Gyeongsang Province, North Korea, in this handout picture obtained on Nov. 21.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 1, 2023

U.S., Japan and South Korea hit North with sanctions over satellite

The move comes after North Korea successfully launched its first reconnaissance satellite, designed to monitor U.S. and South Korean military movements.
One of Qatar’s lead negotiators Abdullah Al Sulaiti (right) works inside an operation room set up to coordinate the truce and release of hostages between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Doha on Sunday.
WORLD
Dec 1, 2023

How Qatar swayed Israel and Hamas to make a temporary truce work

After seven days of truce, Israel confirmed Friday it was resuming hostilities.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (third from right) and Digital Minister Taro Kono (second from right) attend a meeting with experts to discuss measures to implement administrative reforms through digitalization, held on Oct. 3 at the Digital Agency in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2023

Japan falls out of top 10 in digital government rankings

The result reflects a series of problems with the country's My Number social security and tax identification cards.
Capital spending on goods excluding software rose 0.3% in the three months through September compared with the previous quarter, possibly serving as an encouraging sign for the Bank of Japan.
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2023

Japan’s capital spending nudges higher in sign of resilience

Some analysts still warn that GDP could contract again in the current quarter
Yoshikazu Uchikawa, head lawyer representing plaintiffs of a lawsuit demanding that cuts in welfare benefits be revoked, speaks at a news conference in Nagoya on Thursday following a Nagoya High Court ruling.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 1, 2023

Japan high court revokes welfare benefit cuts

The plaintiffs argued that there was an error in the method for calculating the price index used as the basis for the reductions.
The health ministry compiled a draft plan to strengthen regulations on the sales of over-the-counter drugs, including banning retailers from selling cough and cold remedies that may be abused to people under 20 in large volume.
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2023

Japan to tighten regulations on over-the-counter drug sales

The plan comes in response to the spread of overdoses mainly among young people.
A man walks past national flags of participating countries at the venue of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai on Thursday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Dec 1, 2023

Early pledges on 'loss and damage' fund build shaky trust at COP28

More pledges are expected to be made to the new fund during the two-week COP28.
Fresh U.S. data shows price pressures are easing and the labor market is gradually cooling, evidence that the slowdown the Federal Reserve has tried to engineer with its rate hikes to date is underway.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 1, 2023

U.S. Fed officials feel rate hikes likely done, but too soon to know

Models suggest Fed policy is the most restrictive it has been in 25 years, and it will probably need to stay restrictive for "quite some time."
Daikin plans to start introducing the custom chips in high-end air conditioners from 2025 and is looking at using them in about a fifth of units by the end of the decade.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 1, 2023

Japan air conditioner king Daikin eyes custom chips for energy savings

Bespoke silicon costs more than off-the-shelf alternatives but offer better efficiency and allow a reduction in the use of other components.
Tigers manager Akinobu Okada speaks during a news conference in Tokyo after the buzzword of the year was announced on Friday. The team's slogan, an indirect reference to victory, took the top spot.
JAPAN / Society
Dec 1, 2023

Japan’s 2023 buzzword of the year is all about winning

A.R.E — based on the Japanese word “are” (“that”) — took the top spot, after the Hanshin Tigers popularized the term as an indirect reference to victory.
Pedestrians along the Bund in Shanghai on Oct. 29. The Chinese government is pushing a narrative that the city will play an important role in reinvigorating the nation’s economy.
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2023

Xi’s Shanghai visit sells city’s ‘innovation’ image

State media video footage using soaring music showed a stoic Xi making a visit to the Shanghai Futures Exchange and watching a robot demonstration.
New Cabinet photo on government website had minor edits, Hayashi admits
An Oct. 1 picture of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and his Cabinet posted on the website of the Prime Minister's Office (right) appears slightly different from one taken by a media agency (left). Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi admitted on Monday that the photo underwent minor digital edits before being uploaded to the government website.
Rising sex tourism exposes loopholes in Japan's anti-prostitution law
While financial misfortunes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have driven some women to work the streets, others simply want more money to spend — or want to pay off their debts — at host clubs.
Experts move to allay replicon COVID shot fears in Japan amid backlash
A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Tokyo on Oct. 1. Experts say fears over the newly approved replicon vaccine are unwarranted.
Ishiba's 'Asian NATO' dead on arrival as new PM set for diplomatic debut
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has floated an idea of creating an Asian version of the NATO security framework.
Hedge funds warming to yen caught out by biggest drop in 15 years
Speculative investors flipped to a net long position on the yen just before Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said the nation wasn’t ready for further interest rate hikes, data shows.
Japan pushes fossil fuel tech in Asia carbon neutrality initiative
Coal-fired power plants in Bataan, the Philippines, in June 2023. A third of the 158 agreements signed under the Japan-led Asia Zero Emission Community are linked to fossil fuel technologies, a recent study by a climate research group has found.
The forgotten Japanese naturalist who created a U.S. national park
Without Japanese outdoorsman George Masa, America might not have the Great Smoky Mountains National Park — so why do so many people in Japan not know he existed?
Experts move to allay replicon COVID shot fears in Japan amid backlash
A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Tokyo on Oct. 1. Experts say fears over the newly approved replicon vaccine are unwarranted.
Rising sex tourism exposes loopholes in Japan's anti-prostitution law
While financial misfortunes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have driven some women to work the streets, others simply want more money to spend — or want to pay off their debts — at host clubs.
Important tool or alarmism? Japan experts split on megaquake advisories.
A damaged road in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Jan. 6, after a major earthquake struck the area on New Year's Day

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

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Dul Saroth (left) and Soeum Samrach, deminers with the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority, practice using the Advanced Landmine Imaging System in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province in August.
The Japanese tech that could one day make Southeast Asia landmine-free
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