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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 23, 2022

Why India is losing faith in the West

Criticizing India for continuing to buy oil from Russia is especially galling, given that European nations have yet to wean themselves off Russian energy supplies.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 21, 2022

Truth is another front in Putin’s war

The Kremlin has used a barrage of increasingly outlandish falsehoods to prop up its overarching claim that the invasion of Ukraine is justified.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2022

Seizing superyachts is not the best way to help Ukraine

Anti-oligarchism only makes sense as part of a total war against the Putin regime, which is not the policy the West has chosen.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2022

Saudi Arabia’s oil-for-yuan bid won’t threaten the dollar

In an increasingly divided world, it makes sense to look for a good alternative to the greenback. Now is not that time.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 20, 2022

British royal couple starts Caribbean tour dogged by protest in Belize

Coinciding with the Queen's 70th year on the throne, the Duke and Duchess arrive nearly four months after Barbados voted to cut ties with the monarchy.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 18, 2022

For a Dutch province, Ukraine war is a call to pump natural gas

Residents had been opposing gas production since earthquakes started to force them out of their homes a decade ago. Russia's invasion of Ukraine changed their minds.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 18, 2022

U.S. universities are running out of customers

The combination of a stronger labor market and a fewer young people poses an existential challenge to higher education's business model.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 18, 2022

In Philippines election, priests opposed to Marcos adopt pink

Like-minded clerics in Asia's biggest Catholic nation have abandoned their neutrality to oppose the presidential bid of the son of a former dictator.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 17, 2022

The silver lining hidden in the battle against long COVID

Long COVID-19 research could reveal clues to help fight Alzheimer's, Lyme Disease and other illnesses.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 17, 2022

Sanctions on Russia are also about protecting Japan, says Taro Kono

Some officials in Tokyo, including Kono, worry Russia's attack on Ukraine could embolden Beijing to act against Taiwan.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2022

Why so many countries want to sit out the new Cold War

Some countries' distrust of aggressive regional powers such as Russia and China is balanced by suspicions that the U.S. is a profoundly weakened and highly unstable superpower.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2022

Singapore still wants smart, rich expats

Singapore recently tightened visa rules for white-collar workers, adding hoops to a process that employers already complain is too onerous.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 12, 2022

Top China COVID fighter is woman who hit party’s glass ceiling

Sun Chunlan is the only female vice premier in China's entrenched patriarchy, the sole woman on its powerful 25-member Politburo and the top official overseeing pandemic control.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 11, 2022

Russia’s independent journalists need help

Even before the war, committing journalism in Putin's regime had become a hazardous task.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 10, 2022

They predicted the Ukraine war, but did they still get it wrong?

Realists predicted some kind of conflict over Ukraine. But realism's predictions still did not describe the reality.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Mar 10, 2022

Are Ukrainians who flee 'refugees' or 'evacuees'? For Japan, it's complicated.

Many governments and organizations describe Ukrainians escaping Russia's invasion as refugees, but Tokyo is using a term that more closely translates to 'people who have been evacuated.'
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 10, 2022

'Wedding High’: Nuptial chaos delivers big laughs

The ensemble comedy about a wedding gone wrong has some hilarious moments and digs into the ups and downs of Japanese weddings.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 9, 2022

Vladimir Putin’s goodbye will be a long one

Russia's president is in a tight spot, isolated, with his economy crumbling. But this is only the beginning of the end.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Mar 9, 2022

Sanctions and sanctuary: Japan responds to Russia's war in Ukraine

As Vladimir Putin's grim war in Ukraine escalates, The Economist's Tokyo bureau chief, Noah Sneider, joins to discuss the reasons for the conflict, the lengths to which Japan is supporting Ukraine, and how the war will redefine relationships between Japan and its northern neighbor, Russia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 9, 2022

Crispr might actually live up to its immense hype

The Nobel prize-winning technology is moving from a concept to the clinic at a breathtaking pace.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Mar 9, 2022

China’s fears of an Indo-Pacific NATO are more myth than reality

Southeast Asia's modern-day foreign policy is mostly aimed at avoiding becoming a battleground in great-power competitions, as occurred during the Vietnam War and other bloody conflicts.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 8, 2022

The letter ‘Z’ has become a symbol for Russians who support the invasion of Ukraine

The letter's ubiquity has led many to conclude that its adoption is an orchestrated Kremlin effort to drum up support for the war.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 7, 2022

How Putin destroyed the three myths of America’s global order

Putin's gambit is producing an intellectual paradigm shift, a recognition that this war may be a prelude to more devastating conflicts unless democratic states respond.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Mar 7, 2022

Untangling the roots of the instability in Japan and China's relationship

As the two nations mark the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic ties, military tensions and economic interdependence lie at the heart of their ongoing friction.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 7, 2022

Australia to build new $7.4 billion base for nuclear submarines

The move, to be announced by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, will be the first construction of a major new base in Australia since the 1990s.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2022

Russia has unleashed a new age of nuclear proliferation

Even if Vladimir Putin is bluffing on using nuclear weapons, his threat is more frightening than anything since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2022

China’s Ukraine doublespeak is becoming unsustainable

Beijing is fence-sitting on the Ukraine crisis as it tries to balance its Russia alignment with its principles of territorial integrity.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2022

Japan's rigid COVID-19 border controls hurt foreign students, but also the country’s future

Japan's closed borders over the past two years have created difficult obstacles and deflected students to other countries, including South Korea.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 2, 2022

Russian troop deaths expose a potential weakness of Putin’s strategy

Neither side's claims have been independently verified, but one American official put the Russian losses as of Monday at 2,000, an estimate with which two European officials concurred.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 1, 2022

With the invasion of Ukraine, the test of wills begins

The West hoped to deter Putin from invading. It failed. Now the question is whether the countries aligned against him can impose sufficient pain to force a retreat.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
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.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
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.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.

Podcast

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

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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