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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 8, 2021

COVID-19 brings sister cities closer together

Japan and the United States share more sister city relationships with each other than with any other country.
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Feb 8, 2021

Tom Brady’s seventh Super Bowl win ends NFL’s most challenging year

Brady guided the Buccaneers to a 31-9 romp that recalibrated his own standard for greatness.
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SPORTS
Feb 8, 2021

NPB and J. League to push for shorter quarantines for athletes

Both leagues hope to hasten the integration of dozens of players and coaches who are waiting to enter the country and join their teams ahead of their respective seasons.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Feb 7, 2021

Is there a best time of day to exercise?

A useful new study of exercise timing and metabolic health suggests that, at least for some people, the answer is a qualified yes.
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Feb 7, 2021

Peyton Manning and Charles Woodson highlight eight-member Hall class

Peyton Manning, Charles Woodson and Calvin Johnson were among the eight players selected Saturday night for enshrinement into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as headliners of the Class of 2021.
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Feb 7, 2021

Leon Spinks, who took Muhammad Ali’s crown and lost it, dies at 67

The St. Louis native, who rose to prominence with a gold-medal performance at the Montreal Games, outlasted Ali in their famous 1978 bout before his career began to decline.
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WORLD
Feb 6, 2021

Biden ends military aid for Saudi war in Yemen. Ending the war is harder.

Nearly six years of war have shattered Yemen in a way that could thwart efforts to make peace, regardless of whether American bombs are no longer used.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 6, 2021

What awaits Navalny in Russia’s brutal penal colony system

Its prison camps, descended from the Soviet gulag, are notoriously harsh. But in a shift from the Stalin era, inmates have treated political prisoners with respect.
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JAPAN / Politics
Feb 5, 2021

Budget talks overshadowed as more issues pile up for Suga

There is mounting pressure on the prime minister on issues ranging from a potential ethics violation involving a family member to sexist remarks by the Tokyo Games chair.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 5, 2021

Biden and Xi: Cooperation should come first, tit-for-tat later

If neither Biden nor Xi wants to risk any political capital to make the first move, the U.S.-China relationship is highly likely to worsen further.
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Feb 4, 2021

NFL's female pioneers eager to see more women in football

The ascent of women to top sports jobs remains an aberration and not the norm.
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WORLD
Feb 3, 2021

Container crunch upends global food trade while ships queue at U.S. ports

Food is piling up in all the wrong places, thanks to carriers hauling empty shipping containers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 3, 2021

Suu Kyi is proven right about Myanmar

Faced with a constricting institutional and constitutional position, Suu Kyi's efforts to extricate the military from the power structure was always going to be a huge challenge.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 3, 2021

Olympics as game changer for Japan’s LGBT rights

Japan is a democracy with an active civil society, yet Olympic athletes and visitors may be surprised to learn that there are no national anti-discrimination laws on sexual orientation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Feb 2, 2021

Black and Latino New Yorkers underrepresented in COVID-19 vaccine rollout

Data also showed at least 94,000 people who live outside New York were vaccinated in the city, and that among them racial disparities were even wider.
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WORLD
Feb 2, 2021

Study shows COVID-19 variant spreading in Britain could become resistant to vaccines

Experiments in test tubes suggest that some of its mutations allow the coronavirus to hold onto cells more tightly.
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COMMENTARY / World
Feb 1, 2021

On China, Biden should be like Trump

The contrast with President Donald Trump's divisive, isolationist rhetoric could not be sharper. But adopting a different tone is easier than reversing America's relative decline.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 1, 2021

India-Japan cyber cooperation: From strength to strength

In India, defense experts fear allowing Huawei and ZTE's 5G technology in India would seriously compromise the entire command and communication structure of the Indian military.
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COMMENTARY / World
Feb 1, 2021

Facebook and Apple will miss 2020, unlike everyone else

For the third quarter in a row, Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc. generated billions upon billions in profits and flexed the power of their dominant businesses.
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JAPAN
Feb 1, 2021

Mayor gives Japan's first approval for restart of reactors over 40 years old

Takahama Mayor Yutaka Nose reached his decision after receiving assurances from the government that it would boost revitalization projects and the town's funding.
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BUSINESS
Feb 1, 2021

Glitzy high-rise offices lose luster as Japan works from home

Advertising agency Dentsu Group Inc. and logistics firm Nippon Express Co. are among those firms now considering selling their Tokyo headquarters.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 31, 2021

Biden’s vaccine challenge

In many ways, the United States is at war against COVID-19. But the existing systems for delivering what is needed to win are weak, fragmented and, especially, uncoordinated.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 31, 2021

Japan’s super-spreader weekends

Recent COVID-19 cases in Japan have shot up sharply, leading to another round of partial lockdowns, but reported cases appear subdued compared to the United States or Europe.

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