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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 12, 2021

The Western news media’s lurid Orientalism

Western media have been filled with images of dead bodies and other graphic scenes that generally would not be shown following a similar disaster in a Western country.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 11, 2021

Biden reportedly set to tap Rahm Emanuel as U.S. ambassador to Japan

The decision to nominate the former Chicago mayor, known more for his sharp tongue than his foreign policy chops, is expected to be formally announced later this month.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 11, 2021

Five things moms gained during COVID-19 — and should refuse to give up

While the pandemic has brought many of us to the brink of our sanity, it has also forced many organizations to give moms long-overdue concessions. We must refuse to give them back.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 10, 2021

China’s much-hyped digital yuan leaves early users underwhelmed

Observers suspect China has high hopes for international use of the digital yuan as Xi Jinping tries to lessen his country's reliance on the U.S.-led global financial system.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
May 9, 2021

Military coup puts Telenor's future in Myanmar on the line

The firm, one of the biggest foreign investors in Myanmar, must now decide whether to ride out the turmoil, or withdraw from the market.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 9, 2021

Colonization by other means: China’s debt-trap diplomacy

In stark contrast to China's loans, interest rates for Japan's infrastructure loans to developing countries, for example, mostly run below half a percent.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
May 8, 2021

A humbling NBA moment brings cheers from Japan

Going viral because you got dunked on? Yikes — unless you're Yuta Watanabe, whose effort has endeared him to a growing wave of basketball fans in his home country, Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 7, 2021

Rice is keeping world’s food crisis from getting worse

Rice is the predominant source of nourishment each day for more than 3 billion people, and yet it hasn't rallied anything like other agricultural commodities.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 7, 2021

Japan's premier art collective teamLab celebrates 20 years with a spot of tea and a Miami bash

Marking 20 years, teamLab has a lot to be proud of when it comes to making an impact on the international art scene. The collective's success was not a foregone conclusion, however.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 5, 2021

Years of unheeded warnings. Then the subway crash Mexico City had feared.

Ever since it opened nearly a decade ago, the newest Mexico City subway line had been plagued with structural weaknesses that led engineers to warn of potential accidents.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 5, 2021

As cars go electric, China builds a big lead in factories

Chinese manufacturers are using the billions they have raised from international investors and sympathetic local leaders to beat established carmakers to the market.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 4, 2021

Hard to believe, but we’re running out of sand

Sizzling demand in a post-pandemic recovery will encourage the usual bad behaviors that accompany exploding markets: environmental degradation, forced labor and criminal profiteering.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 4, 2021

Samsung windfall gives richest South Korean woman $7 billion fortune

Hong Ra-hee boosted her fortune after receiving billions of dollars in stocks in the much-awaited transfer of her husband's assets.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
May 4, 2021

NFL looks to score touchdown with Olympic flag football

Advocates for the non-contact version of the American sport are pushing for its inclusion at the 2028 Los Angeles Games.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 3, 2021

Stung by 2015 fires, Indonesia's shift to forest protection reaps rewards

A bold policy reset amid the crisis has helped the country achieve four straight years of declines in deforestation.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 2, 2021

The two sides of Chinese GDP

And the key takeaway here is that China remains a poor country, despite its phenomenal headline GDP growth over the past four decades.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 1, 2021

Scientists warned India over a new variant in early March. They say they were ignored.

In March and early April, millions of largely unmasked people attended religious festivals and political rallies that were held by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and opposition parties.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 29, 2021

Amid pandemic chaos and protests, India's farmers eye record wheat crop

While India battles soaring COVID-19 infections, on the outskirts of New Delhi, thousands of farmers still occupy camps where they are keeping up a monthslong sit-in protest against government legislation that they say harms them.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health / FOCUS
Apr 29, 2021

Her prophecy of an Australian inferno was proven right

Climate change is a politically charged issue in much of the world. But the debate is especially heated in Australia.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Apr 27, 2021

On Myanmar crisis, ASEAN pushes boundaries of 'noninterference'

The summit's concluding 'consensus statement' stretch the bounds of ASEAN's longstanding principle of noninterference in members' internal affairs.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 26, 2021

Chloe Zhao and ‘Nomadland’ win at 2021 Oscars

Zhao, who is Chinese, became only the second woman, and the first woman of color, to win the best director award.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Apr 26, 2021

China’s maritime policies need a considered response from Japan

Careful countermeasures must be considered as Beijing integrates its ocean organizations and steps up its territorial goals.
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.

Podcast

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

Longform

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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