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WORLD
Mar 6, 2021

More than 20,000 U.S. organizations compromised through Microsoft flaw

More than 20,000 U.S. organizations have been compromised through a back door installed via recently patched flaws in Microsoft Corp.'s email software, a person familiar with the U.S. government's response said Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 4, 2021

Decade after Fukushima disaster, Greenpeace sees cleanup failure

Greenpeace said its own radiation surveys conducted over the last decade have consistently found readings above government target levels.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Mar 4, 2021

'When will it end?': How a changing virus is reshaping scientists’ views on COVID-19

Vaccine breakthroughs had initially sparked hope that the virus could be largely contained, but data on new variants has undercut that optimism.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 3, 2021

One in five Chinese Australians attacked or threatened in past year

The findings prompted a call from the Chinese Australian Forum for national leadership to tackle racism as Australia deals with a more assertive China.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Mar 3, 2021

Fear of being upstaged by China fuels Japan’s Olympics push

Japan's fear of losing face against its closest regional rival has upped the ante for the Summer Games.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Mar 3, 2021

Kaede Yasuno: ‘Nursing is a job with a lot of responsibility’

An acute care nurse on how she stays safe during the pandemic, the skills required to be a nurse and what inspires her in life.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 28, 2021

U.K.’s variant trackers led the way. Now others are following.

The COVID-19 Genomics U.K. Consortium has become a global model for analyzing genomes for signs that the coronavirus is gaining power to spread — or to kill.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Feb 28, 2021

Murder in the consulate: Pressure grows on Saudi crown prince

Saudi Arabia's crown prince, accused in a U.S. intelligence report of approving an operation to capture or kill a prominent journalist, crushed dissent and sidelined rivals in a push for power that has delighted admirers, unsettled Riyadh's traditional foreign allies and shocked human rights advocates....
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 28, 2021

U.S. seeks to put Saudi crown prince in his place — for now

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may have been spared direct punishment after a U.S. intelligence report implicated him in the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but he has not emerged unscathed.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 27, 2021

Hunting for a giant black hole, astronomers found a nest of darkness

No Gargantua dwells at the heart of stellar cluster NGC 6397. Instead, a few dozen smaller black holes seem to be swarming around in there, throwing their considerable masses around.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Feb 26, 2021

Fishermen call for calm in wake of China coast guard law

While government officials are alarmed at the provision for weapons use, no local Japanese fishing vessels travel near the Senkaku Islands nearest China.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 26, 2021

Japan’s factory output shows resilience despite emergency

Industrial output rose 4.2% in January from the previous month, with production of memory chips and semiconductor equipment climbing, the trade ministry reported Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Feb 26, 2021

Boisterous children and noisy neighbors put on the map in Japan

A new website is pledging to help house hunters avoid neighborhoods inhabited by 'stupid parents who let their children play on roads and parking lots.”
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 25, 2021

Director Kentaro brings an auteur’s touch to a soulful road movie

The 'Under the Turquoise Sky' director mixes realism, fantasy and comedy in his visually stirring feature debut about a Japanese man who goes on a journey of self-discovery in Mongolia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Feb 25, 2021

How to deal with China’s economic statecraft

Joint military drills and cooperation on energy are the first steps for Japan to enhance its ties with the U.S. and Australia to help counter Beijing.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 25, 2021

Cautious Asian nations start deploying vaccine now proven elsewhere

With the virus mostly contained throughout much of Asia, governments have had the luxury to wait and see how safely and effectively the vaccines can blunt disease.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2021

Deaths in Japan fall for the first time in more than a decade

The health ministry reported that the number of deaths across the nation dropped by more than 9,300 in 2020 to around 1.4 million.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 24, 2021

Keeping troops in Afghanistan makes America safer

The case for maintaining a small yet strong military presence in Afghanistan is sound, if not popular.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 24, 2021

Quarantines crushing air travel are getting longer and lonelier

Even as vaccines embolden countries to plot paths to reopening, authorities around the world are tightening the screws to stop COVID-19 mutations from slipping through quarantine.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 22, 2021

J. League and NPB hopeful current attendance limits will be eased

The members of the Nippon Professional Baseball and J. League joint COVD-19 task force feel their knowledge about the virus and the data they’ve collected has grown exponentially as they enter the body's second year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 22, 2021

How the big COVID-19 rebound keeps getting delayed, a bit

The next couple of months are going to be tough. The rosy prognosis for things to really get better has been shunted to the middle of the year.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 22, 2021

India wields colonial-era sedition law to detain farm protesters

In its struggle to quell unrelenting farmer protests, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration is using a colonial-era sedition law that has been used to lock up dissidents often without bail while they await trial — sometimes for years.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 20, 2021

Dive into rural Japanese life and get comfortable working with your hands

Part memoir, travelogue, ethnography and cookbook, “Water, Wood, and Wild Things” explores the intricate connections of new and old in a town in balance.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 19, 2021

A decade after 3/11, what lessons has Japan learned?

The March 11, 2011, earthquake's impact on the people and government of Japan has been both physical and philosophical.

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