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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 10, 2021

How sustainable are the world's sovereign wealth funds?

The world's biggest funds are making only patchy progress in adapting investment plans to account for environmental, social and governance factors.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 10, 2021

A money-loser, yet a medal-winner: The dichotomy of hosting the Games

Hosting an Olympic Games is an economic disaster, even in nonpandemic times. After more than a century and over 50 installments, there are enough case studies to conclude that the home nation is invariably the biggest loser from the world’s largest sporting event.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 10, 2021

U.S. ratings for Tokyo Olympics plunge to half of 2012 Games

Comparisons with previous Olympic Games are imperfect given the different times zones, the pandemic and fewer streaming options in the past.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 9, 2021

Biden’s Iran nuclear deal ambitions shrink as tensions flare

The Biden administration faces the sobering reality that returning to the Iran nuclear deal may no longer be feasible.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2021

Phasing out faxes faces fierce resistance from Japan's bureaucrats

After a government task force issued a notice telling ministries to abandon their fax machines, it was inundated with about 400 responses from officials.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 9, 2021

How we saw it: The Japanese Women's Olympics

Japan collected 58 medals, its most at a Summer Olympics, and more than half of the honors involved female athletes.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Aug 9, 2021

How a little-known G7 task force unwittingly helps governments target critics

Anti-money laundering guidelines are being used by some countries to investigate and freeze the assets of rights groups, lawyers and journalists.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 8, 2021

Italy basks in Tokyo Games medal glory as COVID-19 gamble pays off

While other nations were shutting gyms, pools and tracks amid the pandemic, Italy provided an exemption for some 250 elite athletes to keep training for much of the past 18 months.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 8, 2021

Serbia overpower South Korea to win bronze in women's Olympic volleyball

Rio silver medalists Serbia overpowered South Korea in straight sets in the women's volleyball tournament on Sunday to take the bronze medal at the Tokyo Games.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 8, 2021

France overcomes ROC to win first men's volleyball gold

France beat the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) team in the men's volleyball final on Saturday in a sensational five-set match to grab their first Olympic gold medal in the sport.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 7, 2021

U.S. women crush Spain to win third successive gold in water polo

Spain settled for silver and Hungary took bronze with a gritty 11-9 win over the Russian Olympic Committee team.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 7, 2021

London defined Boris Johnson. Then Brexit changed the metrics.

The city that made the British prime minister's political career risks becoming an economic casualty of his premiership.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 7, 2021

Once a synchro star, host Japan struggles to retain bronze in artistic swimming

Though Japan has never won gold since synchronized swimming became an Olympic sport in 1984, it has taken either silver or bronze, in duet or team, every year except for London 2012.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 7, 2021

Olympics a hit for Japan’s athletes, not for its prime minister

For Prime Minister Suga, the Olympics are more of a letdown and unlikely to improve his chances in a looming general election or provide much of a boost to the economy.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 7, 2021

The Japanese don’t sleep on trains because it’s safe — they’re exhausted!

Surveying 500 businesspeople aged 20 to 69, President found that 74.2% claimed to have trouble sleeping. This puts them at risk of exhaustion, depression, cancer and dementia.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2021

Italy sprints to gold in men's 4x100-meter final; Japan does not finish

The athletes were already gone but it didn’t matter. The party in the stands went on without them as the members of the Italian delegation joyfully sang along with the song being played at National Stadium on another golden night for their nation at the Tokyo Olympics.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY
Aug 6, 2021

Duterte in a bind over Philippines’ golden Olympic moment

Amid a brewing nationalist brouhaha, President Duterte never stops praising China while gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz calls for the assertion of Philippine claims in the South China Sea.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2021

Olympic race walkers battle 'brutal' heat in Sapporo

Olympic race walkers had to fight through 'brutal' conditions as temperatures climbed steadily during their 50-km race to top 30 degrees Celsius by 9 a.m. in Sapporo on Friday.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2021

Silver lining: Japan’s Kiyou Shimizu grateful to have competed in karate's Olympic debut

The Osaka native said that she was grateful that the sport's profile was raised through the Games and that it was a privilege to be able to perform at Nippon Budokan.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2021

Japan's men's table tennis team tops South Korea for Olympic bronze

Japan's trio of Jun Mizutani, Koki Niwa and Tomokazu Harimoto clinched bronze in the men's team event on Friday after a 3-1 win over South Korea.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 6, 2021

China’s demographic manipulation

Officially, China's demographic situation was nothing to be alarmed about. But less than a month after the census was released, Beijing suspiciously loosened the family-planning rules.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2021

Day 13 recap: Giants of the track fall, skateboarders soar and a bite backfires

U.S. men continued to splutter on the track, kayaker Lisa Carrington became New Zealand's most decorated Olympian and American Ryan Crouser broke his own shot put world record three times.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 5, 2021

Japanese wrestler Risako Kawai follows up sister's gold with one of her own

Risako Kawai took gold Thursday by beating Belarus's Iryna Kurachkina 5-0 in the women's 57 kg freestyle wrestling final.

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