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LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Dec 10, 2021

Sports, silent meals and 'Shut Up!': What Japan was talking about in 2021

The year's top buzzwords were announced to great fanfare, but the real word on everyone's lip last week was 'omicron.'
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
May 10, 2021

Ethiopia’s crackdown on ethnic Tigrayans snares thousands

Tigray is the most dramatic example of ethnic and regional tensions that are surfacing across Ethiopia, imperiling the multiethnic democracy of Africa's second-most populous nation.
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
BUSINESS
Dec 19, 2020

U.S. blacklists dozens of Chinese firms, including SMIC and DJI

The United States added dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker SMIC and Chinese drone manufacturer SZ DJI Technology Co. Ltd., to a trade blacklist on Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration ratchets up tensions with China in his final weeks in office.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 19, 2020

‘Too big to fail’ isn’t just a financial problem

Key economic actors are rife with deep interconnections.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 16, 2020

Japan to end longest IPO drought since 2009 with three listings

Locoguide Inc., Ficha Inc. and Copa Corp. are expected to list on the bourse's Mothers market on June 24.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2018

Trump going ahead with tariffs on $16 billion more in Chinese imports

The U.S. said it will begin imposing 25 percent duties on an additional $16 billion in Chinese imports in two weeks, escalating a trade war between the world's two biggest economies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2018

Trump sets $50 billion in China tariffs with Beijing ready to strike back

U.S. President Donald Trump announced hefty tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports on Friday as Beijing threatened to respond in kind, in a move that looks set to ignite a trade war between the world's two largest economies.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language
Feb 5, 2018

Looking at what the world likes about Japan

Google Trends has released its search data on Japan for 2017 and topping several lists was the name Mao Kobayashi (u5c0fu6797u9ebbu592e).
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Sep 13, 2017

Hong Kong's lesson in accountability for Japan's ailing universities

One word is key to understanding why the Chinese territory's universities tend to outshine Japan's in world university rankings.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Aug 14, 2017

Some Japanese brand legacies stand to profit from geographical indication; others, not so much

In the not so distant future, Kraft Parmesan, a household name for grated cheese with its distinctive green package sold by a Japanese dairy company, may disappear from shelves in Japan or reappear bearing a different name.
EDITORIALS
Feb 4, 2017

Seeking Nature Heritage status

In seeking to get World Nature Heritage status for areas in southern Japan, the government needs to work harder at protecting the native species and habitats.
JAPAN / View from Osaka
May 14, 2016

Obama's Hiroshima visit sparks 'what if' questions

U.S. President Barack Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima later this month, the first ever by a sitting president, has rekindled the debate on both sides of the Pacific on what happened during the weeks leading up to the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of the city in the closing days of World War II.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2016

Japan lists medical facilities suitable for foreign tourists

With tourism hitting all-time highs, the Japan Tourism Agency has compiled a list of medical institutions that are particularly suited for non-Japanese patients.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 4, 2016

Collaborative spirit emerges at Asia's top restaurant awards

Just about everyone loves stars, lists and rankings, when they relate to what and where we eat — and even more so when they're seasoned with a dash of national pride. And nowhere is this more evident than at the announcement ceremony for the annual Asia's 50 Best Restaurants awards.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2014

Heritage listing a wake-up call for taking charge of Mount Fuji cleanup

Alpinist Ken Noguchi was devastated by Mount Fuji's designation as a UNESCO World Heritage site last year because the mountain's problems, including its excessive garbage and the irresponsible people who climb and manage it, had not been resolved.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 10, 2014

Cabinet approves bills to halt money laundering under pressure from global watchdog

The Cabinet rubber stamps bills that tighten rules against money laundering and terrorist financing to avoid being blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2014

Why are 6,000 reporters keeping a U.S. nonsecret?

Why would thousands of journalists representing hundreds of press and broadcast media outlets agree to keep a CIA secret that wasn't much of a secret in the first place and that ceased being secret the second they learned about it?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
May 17, 2014

Alien invasion threatening native species

An invasion has been going on under our noses. It is multipronged, ruthless and very difficult to repel. It has been called an "ecological apocalypse."
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 24, 2014

China chlorine suspected in new Syrian gas attacks

China's Foreign Ministry said it is investigating reports that a chlorine canister bearing the name of the country's biggest arms maker was shown in footage believed to document a gas attack in Syria this month.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
May 1, 2013

Is Hakuho on his way to becoming the greatest ever?

On sumo's list of all-time yusho winners, Hakuho currently stands tied with Kitanoumi on 24 championships to date. Just three men stand between the Mongolian and the all-time record: Asashoryu at 25, Chiyonofuji at 31 and Taiho at 32.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jan 14, 2013

Hit product lists laud the year's marketing successes

Toward the end of every year, Japan's print media and many business organizations look back on "hit products" whose successes helped define consumer spending over the previous 12 months.
EDITORIALS
Sep 18, 2012

Protect Japan's biodiversity

In releasing the newly revised Red List, a list that evaluates extinction risks of each individual species, on Aug. 28, the Environment Ministry announced that the Japanese river otter has become extinct. This is the first time that a mammal which was living during the Showa Era (1926-1989) has been...
BUSINESS
Sep 9, 2006

Dai-ichi Mutual hit again by leak

Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Co. said Friday a customer list containing personal data on 88 of its policyholders in Asao Ward, Kawasaki, has been leaked.
CULTURE / Books
May 28, 2006

Japanese scholars contribute to MEGA

In 1998, Izumi Omura, professor of economics at Tohoku University's graduate school in Sendai, and seven other scholars started a rather unusual job -- deciphering voluminous, almost illegible, 19th-century German handwritten manuscripts. The following year, Rolf Hecker from Germany joined the team,...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Dec 21, 2005

Soaking up surprises while out birding in the buff

Was it really just the other morning that I opened my eyes to behold a thick frost on the ground around me beside Lake Kussharo in the Akan National Park of eastern Hokkaido? It already seems an age ago.
As ‘Buy Canadian’ grows, more U.S. firms say retailers turning away products
Empty shelves with "Buy Canadian Instead" signs are seen in the American Whiskey section of the BC Liquor in Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 10.
U.S. tourist arrested after bringing a handgun into Japan
Hyogo police believe the handgun a U.S. tourist inadvertently brought into Japan slipped through security procedures at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture.
Trump unveils 10% global tariff, with Japan levy set at 24%
Trump tosses a MAGA hat to the crowd during an event in which he unveiled new tariffs in the White House on Wednesday.
Meiji says sayonara to bottled milk, a staple of Japan's bathhouses
Meiji bottled milk lined up in a fridge at Kosugiyu, a bathhouse in Tokyo. The sticker urges patrons to enjoy the milk one last time before it’s gone.
Japan’s leader didn’t read the job description
Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader Shigeru Ishiba is facing a political funding scandal that has damaged his reputation and sparked speculation that internal efforts to remove him are underway.
Nintendo to launch the Switch 2 on June 5
The controllers for the Switch 2 will attach to the console magnetically rather than sliding on rails as with the original device.
A new human trafficking trend emerges from Myanmar scam centers
Victims of scam centers who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar gather at a compound inside KK Park, a fraud center on the country's border with Thailand, after a multinational crackdown in February.
Meiji says sayonara to bottled milk, a staple of Japan's bathhouses
Meiji bottled milk lined up in a fridge at Kosugiyu, a bathhouse in Tokyo. The sticker urges patrons to enjoy the milk one last time before it’s gone.
A Canadian made a weekend trip to Costco a Japanese pastime
Under the watchful eye of Ken Theriault, Costco representative director and Japan country manager, the American membership-model wholesaler has flourished in Japan.
On defense, Japan may avoid Trump's worst impulses — for now
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth chat after reviewing an honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sunday.

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Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.
The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan
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