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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Feb 7, 2021

What is needed to bring back freedom of movement

As Japan struggles to find a way to resume normal life and international travel, a lesson could be learned from Taiwan's approach.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Feb 6, 2021

China's latest weapon against Taiwan: the sand dredger

Taiwanese Coast Guard commander Lin Chie-ming is on the front line of a new type of warfare that China is waging against Taiwan. China's weapon? Sand.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 5, 2021

Facebook faces reckoning in Myanmar after being blocked by military

Facebook will have to decide how to play the delicate balance of protecting the democratic politicians and activists versus cooperating with the new regime to get services restored.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 5, 2021

One year after the Diamond Princess outbreak, COVID-19 lessons still to be learned

The outbreak of COVID-19 on a cruise ship anchored off Yokohama last February provided an early test of Japan's defenses against a deadly virus that would later go on to upend our lives.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 2, 2021

Hong Kong threatens to knock down doors to force COVID-19 tests

Government targeting those who don't respond to authorities conducting mandatory-testing blitzes as the city tries to end a persistent winter wave of coronavirus cases.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 1, 2021

Governments exploit COVID-19 tracing data for other uses, risking backlash

In Singapore, public support for a contact tracing app took a hit after authorities disclosed in January that police had used the app's data in a murder investigation.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jan 31, 2021

Pandemic spurs quest to enroll more Black Americans in vaccine trials

The efforts rely on grassroots partners such as churches and health centers, and aim to topple long-standing barriers that keep minorities from participating in trials.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jan 30, 2021

'Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration' creates the man anew

One of the joys of reading about history is the way in which each generation interprets the past through its own perspective. This isn’t simply new facts coming to light or official documents being unsealed — rather, it’s the historian’s equivalent of “the observer effect” in physics: It’s...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Tohoku
Jan 29, 2021

Fukushima businesses struggling to stay afloat despite government help

Financial issues will not end soon, given that only a portion of the residents who evacuated from disaster-stricken areas have returned or are expected to.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jan 28, 2021

China’s crackdown will shake up world’s largest fintech market

The nation's financial watchdogs have made it their primary goal this year to curb the 'reckless” push of technology firms into finance.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 28, 2021

Japan’s old politicians struggle to convince young people to stay home

Students and young professionals say government communication has failed to be empathetic to their situation and is unconvincing.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 27, 2021

Indian farmers clash with police in Delhi as protests mount

The escalation of the farmers' protest adds to Modi's challenges amid efforts to reverse a contraction in Asia's third-largest economy due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 26, 2021

SoftBank’s Son to step down as chairman at mobile unit

SoftBank Corp. shares have gained about 4% this year and closed little changed Tuesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 25, 2021

India tackles epic logistical challenge to deliver vaccines to villages

Negotiating cows, debris, thick fog and hairpin bends, and fighting fatigue, Porija drove nearly 24 hours within three days to collect and deliver shots to the town of Koraput.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jan 24, 2021

How U.S. CDC missed chances to spot COVID-19's silent spread

At a key moment in the pandemic when Americans were quarantined after possible exposure to the virus, the CDC resisted studying if the disease could be spread by those without symptoms.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 24, 2021

In crises, vaccines can be stretched, but not easily

Splitting doses, delaying second shots, injecting into the skin instead of the muscle and employing roving vaccination teams have all saved lives — when the circumstances were right.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Jan 23, 2021

The ultimate colors to illuminate your 2021

“On Design” looks at a few recent product releases that highlight Pantone's newest color(s) of the year.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 23, 2021

World leaders urged to learn from pandemic in adapting to climate change

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the world what it is like to go through a dangerous emergency of the kind that could occur if climate change accelerates — and offers lessons on how to respond, the head of the U.N. climate science panel said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jan 21, 2021

How Japan can help the U.K. meet its China challenge

With London and Tokyo sharing a view on the impact of Beijing's rise, now is the time for a bilateral policy dialogue to further align their diplomatic, economic and security interests.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jan 21, 2021

Asia wonders: Can a Biden-led U.S. return to form?

The newly minted U.S. leader is looking to reassure a world wary of capricious American foreign policy during the Trump administration.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 19, 2021

Japan eyes use of robots to boost COVID-19 testing as Olympics loom

A Kawasaki Heavy Industries-built prototype uses a robotic arm to take a sample from a person's nose and can deliver the results in about 80 minutes.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 18, 2021

Tech censorship is the real gift to Putin

Authoritarians these days have to pay lip service to freedom of speech; what the social media platforms have done takes that concern out of the equation.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Jan 18, 2021

Perhaps it's time to un-discover some of 2020

We discovered a vaccine for COVID-19 in record time, but there are a few things that writer William Lang would like to un-discover about the pandemic if possible.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jan 17, 2021

Children’s screen time has soared in the pandemic, alarming parents and researchers

Nearly a year into the coronavirus pandemic, parents are watching their children slide down an increasingly slippery path into an all-consuming digital life.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 12, 2021

Worsening U.S.-China tensions put companies in crosshairs

Both Washington and Beijing took steps over the weekend that threaten to further ratchet up tensions and cloud the outlook for cross-border commerce.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 10, 2021

Scaling roofs and mountains, Philippine students battle to take online classes

Since the pandemic forced him into remote learning, 10-year-old Jhay Ar Calma has often had to climb on to the corrugated iron roof of his home in a poor neighborhood of Manila to get an internet signal.
Taiwan stuns Samurai Japan to capture Premier12 title
Japan starter Shosei Togo reacts after allowing a three-run home run against Taiwan in the fifth inning of the Premier12 final on Sunday.
Japan and U.S. to form missile plan in case of Taiwan emergency
A U.S. Marine Corps M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile (12SSM) system are put on display at a symposium at a base in Kisarazu, Japan, in June 2022.
Preparations for Osaka Expo well underway amid lack of excitement
The Grand Ring, a symbol of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka
Ishiba shelves proposal for liaison offices with North Korea amid rising tensions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks on Saturday in Tokyo at a rally that was held by a group of families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago to demand the immediate return of all abductees.
'Kohaku' still matters for J-pop bragging rights
Emerging Gen Z J-pop group ME:I will perform on this year's "Kohaku Uta Gassen," national broadcaster NHK’s New Year's Eve spectacle.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
An iconic 32-foot doughnut might give Randy’s an edge in Japan
Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, California. Replicas of the giant doughnut sculpture will be installed, where possible, at shops in Japan.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.

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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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Totopa in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward was picked by consultants TTNE as the best sauna of the year.
Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat
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