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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 25, 2021

Winter is coming for Europe's pandemic optimists

The urge to abandon caution when COVID-19 cases are low, which is essentially what some European nations did this summer, is part of the problem.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 25, 2021

JPMorgan Chase CEO joins Lithuania and WTA in testing China on free speech

Jamie Dimon knew right away Beijing wouldn't like his joke about the Communist Party's downfall, noting immediately afterward: 'I can't say that in China.”
Japan Times
SPORTS
Nov 25, 2021

Does the sports world still need China?

The rewards for international sports leagues doing business in China are plain: lucrative broadcast deals and millions of new consumers. But the risks are also clear.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2021

Will a wealth tax affect Singapore’s rivalry with Hong Kong?

Singapore wants to take a different path from Hong Kong and may turn to some kind of tax on capital — perhaps as early as next year's budget.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2021

The Fed has risen too far above political control

The problem with the Fed is that the need for stability — and for avoiding market shocks — cuts across the desire to exert more democratic control over the central bank.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2021

Of course stereotypes are holding women back

Workplace discrimination has been a feature of virtually all of world history, so nobody should be shocked by evidence that it continues today.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2021

El Salvador plans first 'Bitcoin City' backed by Bitcoin bonds

El Salvador in September became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 22, 2021

Milton Friedman is more relevant than ever

There are periodic attempts to knock Milton Friedman off his pedestal. For the most part, however, his legacy remains strong.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 21, 2021

Russia just created a cloud of bullets in space

It's important to look at Russia's use of a missile to destroy a satellite in the context of the increasing weaponization of the cosmos.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Nov 19, 2021

China can’t censor away growing anger over athlete’s #MeToo accusation

Peng Shuai's case is the first #MeToo accusation leveled against someone within the highest ranks of power in China.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 18, 2021

Why Iraqi Kurds are fleeing their peaceful homeland

Given that so many Iraqi Kurds are now seeking instead to escape from the region shows the extent to which hopes for economic and political opportunity in the post-Saddam Hussein era have evaporated.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2021

Nuclear fusion is close enough to start dreaming

The possibility of carbon-free energy generation raises a seldom discussed question: Just how much would it change the world if cheap and clean energy sources were truly abundant?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 15, 2021

Even China's biggest company is looking for an exit

With the once-hot China market cooling, Tencent plans to invest more to leverage its foreign exposure including beefing up overseas games publishing operations.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 15, 2021

Japan and Germany align on an Indo-Pacific strategy

The world needs to pay attention to the security arrangements being made between Japan and Germany and their Indo-Pacific strategies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 15, 2021

Forget the words of this COP26 deal. Follow the money.

The costs of subsidizing fossil fuels go up with each passing year, making it harder to abandon them even as their damage accumulates.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Nov 15, 2021

Maligned Mitchell Marsh all smiles after Australia wins T20 World Cup

Few players have divided opinion in Australian cricket over the last decade more than Mitchell Marsh.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 12, 2021

TIFF's Director in Focus Keisuke Yoshida makes a case for compassion

The underrated director of films such as “Himeanole,” “Blue” and “Intolerance” gets his due at this year's Tokyo International Film Festival.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2021

Diplomats dither while millions of people starve

Afghans are trapped between a radical Islamist group and a global community apparently content to sit back and let their aid-dependent country plunge into crisis.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 10, 2021

There’s an $80 billion hole in India’s climate pledge

As long as free electricity for pumping groundwater remains a popular ploy to garner farmers' votes, politicians won't want to lose control of the power sector.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 10, 2021

Energy’s year of recovery more like a remission

Until news of the COVID-19 vaccine broke, energy had been the worst performing sector in 2020, falling by more than half.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 10, 2021

The U.S. should be realistic about missile defense

The U.S. should be vigilant about emerging threats, but pouring more money into unproven missile-defense technologies isn't the answer.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 9, 2021

China’s bid to join CPTPP: Neither serious nor sincere

China cannot believe it can abuse countries in pursuit of its national interests, defying international law, and then expect those same countries to offer it material benefits under the CPTPP.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 9, 2021

Taiwan outlines plans to counter China’s ‘gray zone threats’

The biennial military strategy report cited warplane incursions, speedboats ramming coast guard vessels and 'cognitive warfare.”
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Nov 9, 2021

Why the U.S. is struggling to formulate a trade policy on China

Any measures taken against Beijing could see retaliatory moves leveled at Washington, and could run counter to world efforts for peaceful exchange.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 8, 2021

Hey, Elon: We made a $6 billion plan to end world hunger

In the coming decades, what we eat and how we grow it will change radically, and we need everyone onboard — the U.N. and Elon Musk alike — to fund the shift to sustainability.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 7, 2021

COVID-19 drugs will change the way we live with the virus

New COVID-19 drug approvals couldn't be timelier as hospitals face massive backlogs of delayed procedures.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 7, 2021

There’s an unseemly rush to power EV batteries

While lithium has been through a similar surge on the back of EVs before, this time there's a legitimate demand-supply issue with a shortage on the horizon.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 5, 2021

Climate change will kill national sovereignty as we know it

In a world where all countries collectively face the planetary emergency of global warming, sovereignty is simply no longer a tenable concept.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
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.
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.
Japan to aid introduction of multilingual ride-hailing apps
A Nihon Kotsu Co. taxi departs one of the company's service offices in Tokyo.
Seven & I founding family sounded out KKR and others about buyout: report
A 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo
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.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”

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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