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Japan Times
Figure Skating
Mar 25, 2023

Beijing 2022 team skaters remain frustrated at lack of medals

The official results of the event remain in limbo due to the ongoing legal case involving Russian skater Kamina Valieva's infamous December 2021 doping test.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Mar 19, 2023

True test arrives for Samurai Japan in the form of resilient Mexico

Samurai Japan and its collection of MLB and NPB stars will be favored against Mexico in their WBC semifinal, but the team will have to rise to meet its toughest challenge yet.
BASEBALL
Mar 9, 2023

Cardinals' Lars Nootbaar happy to expand his baseball family with Samurai Japan

The run-up to the World Baseball Classic has been a whirlwind, once-in-a-lifetime experience for the 25-year-old who arrived in Japan on March 2.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Mar 1, 2023

Jon Rahm motivated by No. 1 battle with rivals

The Spaniard holds the spot entering this week's Arnold Palmer Invitational.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 24, 2023

The world’s most painful trade is finally ending as dollar peaks

Investors say the dollar is on the way down because the bulk of Fed rate increases is over, and most other currencies will strengthen as their central banks keep tightening.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 21, 2023

COVID hasn’t taught the world how to beat the next deadly virus

Elimination measures were once the gold standard for dealing with deadly new viruses. But China’s extreme 'zero-COVID' policy and its abrupt reversal has cast doubts over the approach.
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BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2023

One of the world’s cleanest new skyscrapers collides with the future

One Vanderbilt in New York is built to be especially climate friendly. But the design landscape is changing so quickly that some features are now yesterday's news.
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Rugby
Feb 1, 2023

Playing regrets give new England coach Steve Borthwick an edge

The 43-year-old former lock won 57 caps from 2001-10 and was England's captain in 21 of those tests.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 15, 2023

U.S. climate envoy heads to Beijing as world’s top polluters look for ways to stem crisis

As floods and heat waves made worse by global warming rattle the globe, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry will explore ways the world’s top two polluters can cooperate.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 8, 2023

AI robots at U.N. reckon they could run the world better

They robots were assembled for what was billed as the world's first news conference with a packed panel of AI-enabled humanoid social robots.
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WORLD / ANALYSIS
Jun 24, 2023

Paris finance summit breaks new ground in climate and poverty fight

France hammered home a key underlying principle for the reforms under discussion — that 'no country should have to choose between fighting poverty and fighting for the planet.'
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BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Jan 16, 2023

China boost for flagging world economy set as reopening starts

The growth impulse will be felt through services sectors such as aviation, tourism and education as Chinese people pack their bags for international travel.
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Rugby
Jan 13, 2023

Japan's Tevita Tatafu to join Bordeaux-Begles following Rugby World Cup

Japan No. 8 Tevita Tatafu will join French outfit Bordeaux-Begles next season, his Japanese side Suntory Sungoliath announced on Thursday.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 10, 2023

Track and field finals at Paris 2024 to take place in the evening

World Athletics said that events would be spread out over 11 days, starting with the 20-kilometer race walks on Aug. 1 and ending with the women's marathon on Aug. 11.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead
Jan 9, 2023

Navigating perfect economic storms

Throughout the pandemic, Indonesia has managed to be one of the few countries in the world that sustained its economic performance even through a global aggregate demand shock.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 27, 2022

How Christmas has turned into an orgy of consumption

The Christmas holiday rooted in pagan rituals was transformed into a celebration of commerce by writers, artists, retailers and Madison Avenue.
Japan Times
PRESS / Events
Dec 27, 2022

“Creating a sustainable world by the power of data science” with Yuki Kishi

The Japan Times Cube Inc. (representative director: Minako Suematsu) launched Roundtable by The Japan Times, a series of talk events broadcasted in Japan.
BUSINESS
Dec 27, 2022

Dissecting Japan's hit consumer products of 2022

The two items that topped Nikkei Marketing Journal's annual rankings were not products per se but product attributes reflecting consumers' response to inflation.
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WORLD
Dec 25, 2022

World is starving for peace, Pope Francis says in Christmas message

Pope Francis condemned the use of food as a weapon of war, saying the war in Ukraine has put millions at risk of famine, as well as wars in other countries.
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BUSINESS
Dec 21, 2022

Hyundai, the world's third-largest carmaker, takes aim at Toyota and Volkswagen

The world's third-largest carmaker isn't from the U.S., Japan or Europe, at least not anymore. It's South Korea's Hyundai.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 14, 2022

Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University lets international students shape their world

Established in 2000, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, popularly known as APU, is a higher education facility in Beppu, Oita Prefecture. It boasts an enrollment of over 5,500, split closely between domestic and international students, the latter of whom have come from more than 103 countries and regions...
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ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 10, 2022

How will China turn its economy back on? The world is about to find out.

Now that China has finally started rolling back its strict mix of mass testing, lockdowns and quarantines, its economy is entering a delicate period.
Chinese buyer of Okinawa Island to make visit in summer
Yanaha Island in Okinawa Prefecture as seen from a ferry.
Protesters storm South Korea court after it extends Yoon's detention
A motorcade believed to be carrying impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeo arrives at the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, South Korea, late Saturday.
German ambassador warns of Trump plan to redefine constitutional order, document shows
German Ambassador to the U.S. Andreas Michaelis has described U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's agenda for his second White House term as one of "maximum disruption."
AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo win U.S. approval for breast cancer drug
Daiichi Sankyo's headquarters in Tokyo
TikTok shuts down U.S. access as Trump seeks app's reinstatement
After months of legal tussles, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that would ban TikTok in the name of national security.
For tourists in search of seasonal sights, Yamagata makes its case
For some time away from Tokyo's suffocating urban sameness, Yamagata Prefecture is home to a soothing array of natural abundance.
A slow dive into ‘a moment and an eternity’ with Ryuichi Sakamoto
From the mid-2000s onward, Ryuichi Sakamoto created a number of installation works, often in collaboration with Shiro Takatani, of multimedia art collective Dumb Type.
The efforts to bridge the disaster information gap, 30 years on
Roxana Oshiro and her husband gather their belongings in front of their house in Furukawacho, in Kobe's Suma Ward, after the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995.
Japan looks to up the ante with more money and partners in military aid program
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Philippine Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo hold a joint news conference in Taguig City, Metro Manila, the Philippines, on Wednesday.
Possibility of Nankai Trough megaquake now 80%, government panel reports
A map of the hypocentral region of an anticipated Nankai Trough earthquake

Podcast

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

Longform

Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a “sense of urgency” when it comes to Japan’s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. “We have to make sure we are successful,” he says.
Atsuyoshi Koike’s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go
By Kazuaki Nagata and Richard Meyer

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