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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 22, 2023

Toyota’s new EV plan is a big reality check

Getting drivers to adopt electric vehicles — and buy into the technology transition — will require a fundamental shift in Toyota’s thinking.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2023

China and Japan square off over arms and balloons at security talks

The talks, the first in four years, come as Tokyo worries that Beijing will resort to force to take control of Taiwan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2023

Japan to start new round of COVID-19 vaccination from May for elderly

The new inoculation drive comes despite the government's decision to downgrade the legal status of COVID-19 to the same category as common infectious diseases like seasonal flu.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS / Karolos Grohmann
Feb 22, 2023

IOC stands firm against banning Russia despite risk of boycott

Officials suggest the IOC is prepared to risk a boycott in order to maintain its 'non-negotiable' stance that the Games remain above and beyond politics.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2023

Japan firms make a show of raising wages to tempt talent and stem brain drain

An official at an employers' group said any effort by individual companies in annual wage negotiations was unlikely to draw enough attention to aid recruitment.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2023

Japan Post retiring cheap postcards amid digital shift

For years, the company's international aerograms and postcards have allowed senders in Japan to convey messages to people abroad for just ¥90 and ¥70, respectively.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 22, 2023

Hong Kong revokes visa of scientist jailed for creating first gene-edited babies

He Jiankui was imprisoned in 2019 for experimenting on human embryos, in a controversial exercise that saw twin girls born with genes he altered while trying to confer immunity to HIV.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 22, 2023

Scientists newly confirm 1,350 km metallic structure at heart of Earth's inner core

The research studied waves from 200 earthquakes with magnitudes above 6.0 ricocheting like ping pong balls up to five times within the planet.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2023

Philippine lawmakers ratify entry to world's largest trade pact

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership includes 10 Southeast Asian economies along with China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Feb 22, 2023

Rui Hachimura and Yuta Watanabe to shoulder Japan's FIBA World Cup hopes

Japan's two NBA stars will be expected to play key roles for the Akatsuki Five when they co-host the tournament's group stage in Okinawa later this year.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Feb 22, 2023

Liverpool rebuild begins now after Real Madrid humiliation

Instead, despite scoring twice inside the first 15 minutes, Liverpool's frailties were brutally exposed by the Spanish titan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 22, 2023

Tokyo High Court dismisses challenge to Japan's ban on dual nationality

The decision endorsed a lower court ruling that dual citizenship 'could cause conflict in the rights and obligations between countries, as well as between the individual and the state.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2023

Airlines turn profitable amid travel surge after COVID cutbacks

'Aviation is investible again,” said a portfolio manager in Sydney. 'Asian airlines are going to go through the roof.”
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Feb 22, 2023

Brittney Griner signs deal to return to Phoenix Mercury

The two-time Olympic gold medalist and eight-time WNBA All-Star was released last December in a prisoner swap with Russia in exchange for arms dealer Viktor Bout.
Japan Times
Figure Skating
Feb 22, 2023

WADA to appeal to CAS over figure skater Kamila Valieva's doping case

A Russian tribunal found that, although the athlete had committed an anti-doping rule violation, she had committed 'no fault or negligence.'
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 22, 2023

Formula One rewrites its rule on shortened races

Last year's rain-hit Japanese Grand Prix was halted after two laps and resumed more than two hours later with 28 of the scheduled 53 laps completed.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 22, 2023

Thai prime minister to dissolve parliament, paving way for next election

The move could be an attempt to buy time for his new party to campaign and recruit members to run for office.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Feb 22, 2023

Gareth Southgate's 'gentle revolution' to be brought to London stage

'Dear England,' named after an open letter Southgate wrote to England fans in 2021, is scheduled to open in June.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 22, 2023

Four-day week liked by U.K. employers in world's largest trial

Employees at 61 companies across Britain worked an average of 34 hours across four days between June and December 2022, while earning their existing salary.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 22, 2023

Biden vows Russia will never win Ukraine as Putin fights on

Speaking in the capital of NATO ally Poland, Biden pledged that 'Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia — never.'
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Feb 22, 2023

Nuclear risk seen rising as Putin 'suspends' last treaty with U.S.

The move raises the risk of a new arms race — in parallel with the war in Ukraine — in which neither side can rely on the stable, predictable framework.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 21, 2023

China decoupling debate misses the most important point

The decoupling of China and Western economies will be very expensive, but there are other needs to be considered.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 21, 2023

Japan keeps economic view, citing wholesale inflation slowing in February

The prices of goods traded between companies tend not to affect consumer prices immediately, and economists expect consumer inflation to remain at high levels.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 21, 2023

Putin suspends last nuclear treaty with U.S. and puts new missiles on combat duty

The New START Treaty limited both sides to 1,550 warheads on deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine ballistic missiles and heavy bombers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 21, 2023

Severe allergy season in Japan threatens to drag down spending

Households are expected to hold back from eating out, clothes shopping or participating in leisure activities.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 21, 2023

Why the world needs a deal to protect its oceans

The ocean supports a huge range of biodiversity, including potentially millions of species that humans have not discovered yet.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2023

COVID-19 tracker: Tokyo reports 1,451 new cases

The seven-day average of new cases came to 1,240.4, compared with 1,757.1 a week earlier.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 21, 2023

Ukraine’s future is not in NATO

Ukraine won’t become a party to the NATO treaty, but it can expect a close and continuing partnership with Europe and the U.S.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 21, 2023

U.S. Supreme Court to hear case that targets a legal shield of tech giants

Critics of Section 230 say it lets tech companies avoid responsibility for harms on their watch, while supporters say that without the shield the firms will stifle free expression.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 21, 2023

Tech layoffs cause havoc for Indian workers in the United States

Under the terms of their visas, workers who are laid off face the prospect of having to leave the country in 60 days.
Dominant Natsumi Tsunoda delivers Japan's first gold medal at Paris Olympics
Gold medalist Natsumi Tsunoda celebrates on the podium after she won the women's under 48-kg division at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.
Japan's Hifumi Abe defends Olympic title after sister falls early
Hifumi Abe reacts after defending his Olympic title in the judo men's under-66 kg division at the Champ-de-Mars Arena in Paris on Sunday.
When did summer in Japan stop being fun?
Summer in Japan is now consistently brutal enough to drive you indoors and keep you there until autumn.
In historic move, U.S. to upgrade military command structure in Japan
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (left to right), U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and Defense Minister Minoru Kihara prior their "two-plus-two" talks at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on Sunday
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
For aging Japan, a troubling link between heat and dementia
The latest research indicates that heat stress is likely to worsen the condition of people with Alzheimer’s disease — which accounts for over half of all dementia cases in Japan — by making them more irritated or exacerbating their cognitive decline.
In historic move, U.S. to upgrade military command structure in Japan
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (left to right), U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and Defense Minister Minoru Kihara prior their "two-plus-two" talks at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo on Sunday
Influencers helped cause overtourism. Can they help fix it?
More tourists than ever are guided around Japan based on the content they consume online, but can those same creators help direct them to less-populated areas of the country?
Japan's extreme heat is causing a rethink of school sports
The students at Mitaka Municipal No. 7 Junior High School have access to various cooling devices for when they play sports.
When did summer in Japan stop being fun?
Summer in Japan is now consistently brutal enough to drive you indoors and keep you there until autumn.

Podcast

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

Longform

Traditional folk rituals like Mizudome-no-mai (dance to stop the rain) provide a sense of agency to a population that feels largely powerless in the face of the climate crisis.
As climate extremes intensify, Japan embraces ancient weather rituals
By Alex K.T. Martin

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