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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 21, 2022

Beware Italy’s ‘mafia entrepreneurs’

Italy's organized crime is expanding its reach by taking control of struggling businesses.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 21, 2022

Averting debt disaster in the developing world

The global community needs to do more to pull at risk countries from the brink of debt disaster.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 21, 2022

Frustrated and snubbed, Putin is running out of options

Facing setbacks on the battlefield and the diplomatic stage, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been under pressure to call for nationwide mobilization. It's already too late.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Sep 21, 2022

Arrest of Kadokawa chief rocks sprawling media empire

Initially a publisher of books and textbooks, over the years the company has expanded into movies, video games and apps.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2022

Japan weighs plan for ban on hotel guests without masks

The government will submit a bill at an extraordinary session of parliament next month that would revise the law governing hotels and inns, a report said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2022

COVID-19 tracker: Tokyo logs 7,059 coronavirus cases

The number of COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms under the metropolitan government's criteria decreased by seven from Tuesday to 21.
Japan Times
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Sep 21, 2022

No stars? No problem: Interest in sumo grows as it enters parity era

The ebb and flow of Japan's national sport is closely tied to the rise and fall of its grand champions, but overseas viewers are increasingly backing a wider variety of wrestlers.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 21, 2022

Looking for reasons to be cheerful about climate action

Those working on climate change worry that the barrage of bad news is causing 'climate doomism,' a sense of hopelessness that they fear may undermine action.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Sep 21, 2022

Garbine Muguruza senses improvement in Tokyo after difficult season

After a year of struggles on the court, the former world No. 1 is hopeful a strong performance at the Pan Pacific Open can springboard her to a potential WTA Finals title defense.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 21, 2022

Ukraine wants Japan to be a security guarantor

Given Japan is the world's No. 3 economy, and despite it's inability to grant substantive military support, Kyiv's pursuit of Tokyo's backing makes sense and would be a boon for Ukraine.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Sep 21, 2022

Guus Hiddink says Australia fit and ready to fight as World Cup looms

The 75-year-old Hiddink, who also guided South Korea to the 2002 semifinals, said that head coach Graham Arnold had done 'a beautiful job' to qualify for Qatar.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 21, 2022

Want a better IRS? Simplify the tax code

The biggest problem facing the IRS isn't bad management or a lack of resources, but the metastasizing complexity of the tax rules it must administer.
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington
WORLD / Politics
Dec 23, 2023

Push to disqualify Trump pits democracy against the rule of law

Trump’s status as the Republican front-runner for the presidential nomination has created severe tensions.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks after a U.N. Security Council meeting in New York on Friday.
WORLD
Dec 23, 2023

A world leader on Ukraine, the U.S. is now isolated over Gaza

With the year drawing to a close, the United States finds itself diplomatically isolated and in a defensive crouch over the Israel-Hamas war.
Hiroko Higashino, who was born with three fingers on her right hand, plays an AI-powered piano during a rehearsal for a Christmas concert in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Dec 23, 2023

AI-assisted piano allows disabled Tokyo musicians to perform Beethoven

To assist players, the Anybody's Piano tracks the notes of the music and augments the performance by adding whatever keys are needed but not pressed.
A member of the Israeli security forces inspects humanitarian aid trucks arriving from Egypt on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing with the southern Gaza Strip on Friday.
WORLD
Dec 24, 2023

Without a truce, U.N. resolution may do little for Gaza, aid groups say

Humanitarian assistance is "impossible" to deploy in an active combat zone, they said.
The SKS Doyles crude oil tanker sails through the Suez Canal on Thursday.
WORLD
Dec 24, 2023

Iran dismisses U.S. intelligence tying it to Red Sea attacks

The White House said that Iran was "deeply involved” in the planning of the Houthi attacks and has supplied weapons, financial support and training.
The Rev. Munther Isaac lights a candle next to an improvised crèche in Bethlehem on Dec. 13. The baby Jesus is lying not in a makeshift cradle of hay and wood, but among the rubble of broken bricks, stones and tiles that represent Gaza’s destruction.
WORLD / Society
Dec 24, 2023

‘God is under the rubble in Gaza’: Bethlehem’s subdued Christmas

The Israel-Hamas war has cast a pall over the birthplace of Jesus.
Russian conscripts watch a tank demonstration in Moscow in August 2022. Despite its bravado in public, the Kremlin has indicated its interest in striking a deal to halt the war so long as it could still declare victory.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 24, 2023

Putin quietly signals he is open to a ceasefire in Ukraine

The repeated interest in cutting a deal exemplifies how opportunism and improvisation have defined his approach to the war behind closed doors.
Ukraine passed a law in July to move the celebration of Christmas to Dec. 25 — the day when most of the Christian world marks the birth of Jesus.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 24, 2023

Ukrainians defy Moscow with first Dec. 25 Christmas

The move to celebrate the birth of Jesus on the day most Christians do deviates from the Orthodox Church observance of Jan. 7, seen as Russian heritage.
In writing "Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions," journalist Akshat Rathi said his goal was to try and determine where climate solutions are being built and uncover the challenges that they face.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / OUR PLANET
Dec 24, 2023

Finding crucial solutions in a time of climate crisis

Journalist Akshat Rathi explores the economic side of the emergency in his book ‘Climate Capitalism.'
Physical strength among children is on a recovery track as a whole, which the Japan Sports Agency said was a reflection of more opportunities for physical exercise following a relaxation of restrictions related to COVID-19 in the country.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 24, 2023

Physical strength of Japan junior high school girls at record low

Male students, however, scored better in the Japan Sports Agency's annual physical fitness survey for this year.
The faction led by former LDP Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai is the second group within the party that has allegedly listed kickbacks given to its members after they sold fundraising tickets, informed sources revealed Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 24, 2023

Embattled LDP's Nikai faction also suspected of logging kickbacks

The faction is suspected of not reporting excess fundraiser revenues as income but reporting the kickbacks as expenditures.
Workers plow a field at the site of an economic land concession outside Praeus K'ak village in Cambodia's Preah Vihear province on Dec. 6.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 24, 2023

'Doom for forests': Fears over new Cambodia land grants

Thousands are affected by economic land concessions (ELCs) — land grants to businesses that experts say have driven deforestation and dispossession.
Unlike his immediate predecessor, new Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi has chosen to speak in words of his own for some matters.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 24, 2023

Hayashi maneuvers through his new Cabinet position carefully

Hayashi has served in many Cabinet posts in the past, including defense minister, agriculture minister and education minister.
According to the Nara Prefectural Police and other sources, a slope about 5 meters high and 20 to 30 meters wide along National Route 169 collapsed, blocking the road with mud.
JAPAN / Society
Dec 25, 2023

Multiple cars may be caught in landslide in Nara Prefecture

According to authorities, a slope collapsed, blocking areas along the national road with mud.
Desi Permatasari, 32, comforts her daughter, Sheena Almaera Maryam, 5, who was prescribed contaminated cough syrup last year in their home in Bogor, Indonesia.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Dec 24, 2023

When children take toxic cough syrup — and live

In Indonesia, one of the places most impacted by the contamination, families struggle to care for survivors while taking action against those responsible.

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