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BASKETBALL / B. League
May 29, 2021

Chiba Jets move to within a game of elusive B. League title

The Jets, who have come up short twice before in the finals, pulled away in the second half to top the Utsunomiya Brex by an 85-65 score.
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BUSINESS / FOCUS
May 28, 2021

Chip crisis forces carmakers to rethink just-in-time ordering

The shortcomings of that system were made starkly clear this year as the automakers confronted a dearth of the chips they need to build advanced functions into their vehicles.
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MORE SPORTS
May 28, 2021

Strong field promises an exciting, dramatic race

As the month of May leads us toward the hotter days just around the corner, it’s once again time for one of Japan’s great horse races, the Japanese Derby, or Tokyo Yushun, as it is sometimes called here in Japan. This Sunday sees the race run at its traditional home, Tokyo Racecourse in Fuchu, just...
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MORE SPORTS
May 28, 2021

Efforts being made to save horses after racing careers

In horse racing, it is simply a fact that the strong win and the weak lose.
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BUSINESS
May 28, 2021

U.S. senators and pro-China business lobby at odds over chip subsidy bill

A key goal of the funding is to bring the world's most advanced chip plants to the United States, but only foreign firms have the technology to do that.
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BUSINESS
May 27, 2021

World faces longer supply shortage as China’s factories squeezed

Higher input prices and a weak recovery in domestic consumer demand meant Chinese manufacturing investment from January to April was 0.4% below the same period in 2019.
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ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
May 26, 2021

'Death cross': South Korea's demographic crisis marks a warning to the world

The government has shifted its policy focus away from reversing population decline and toward finding a way to live with it.
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BUSINESS / Companies
May 25, 2021

Smart rings seen as new frontier for cashless payments

As retailers around seek ways to make it easier to shop seamlessly without touching anything, MTG in Japan is betting its technology can rule them all.
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COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
May 25, 2021

How Japan can avoid losing out on the world stage

Tokyo must learn from its history of making bad decisions and being slow to deal with postwar crises.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
May 25, 2021

Jets down Golden Kings to set up finals showdown with Brex

The Chiba Jets Funabashi will play at Yokohama Arena with the B. League title on the line for a third time after they defeated the Ryukyu Golden Kings in the playoff semifinals.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
May 24, 2021

Brex make title statement with sweep of rival Brave Thunders

Among the B. League's elite teams, Utsunomiya is probably the most cohesive unit, with playing time spread out and little reliance on particular star players.
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BUSINESS / FOCUS
May 24, 2021

Huarong drama: Inside the race to avert disaster at China’s biggest ‘bad bank’

The company's fate will test China's vast, debt-ridden financial system, the technocrats working to fix it, and the foreign banks and investors caught in the middle.
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COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
May 24, 2021

Online harassment is all a part of Japan’s ‘post’ racism

Public figures in Japan have been making headlines by talking about the amount of racialized abuse they receive online. However, such bullying has been around for a long time.
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ASIA PACIFIC
May 24, 2021

Risk of nuclear war over Taiwan in 1958 said to be greater than publicly known

The famed source of the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg, has made another unauthorized disclosure — and wants to be prosecuted for it.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
May 23, 2021

Regular contract not enough for Raptors’ Yuta Watanabe

The former two-way signing wants to increase his offensive production next season in order to keep his spot on the squad.
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BUSINESS / FOCUS
May 23, 2021

How Ford burned $12 billion in Brazil

Ford Motor Co announced the closure of its manufacturing plants in January, dealing a heavy blow to its more than 5,000 workers in the country and almost 300 dealerships.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
May 22, 2021

Urawa withstands Vissel pressure to deliver second-half knockout

Andres Iniesta and company failed to take advantage of a strong first half at Saitama Stadium as Japan U-24 call-up Zion Suzuki recorded his third straight clean sheet.
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ASIA PACIFIC
May 22, 2021

Myanmar's junta leader says Aung San Suu Kyi will soon face trial

'Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is in good health. She is at her home and healthy. She is going to face trial at the court in a few days,' Gen. Min Aung Hlaing said.
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BUSINESS / FOCUS
May 22, 2021

Global chip shortage likely to continue to haunt Japanese automakers

Manufacturers and tech players are itching to get free of a chip shortage that has derailed their production, but are likely in for a bit of a wait.
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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
May 22, 2021

Calling out the elephant in the blogosphere

Two Japanese blogs have made headlines recently for racist remarks against ethnic Koreans, while online discussion starts to ask what Japanese people should do in response.
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CULTURE / Film
May 20, 2021

Actress Mei Nagano gets ready to rumble in 'Office Royale'

The star of NHK's 'Half Blue Sky' learns how to hit and has some laughs along the way in Kazuaki Seki's 'Office Royale.'
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COMMENTARY / World
May 19, 2021

Don't be the next $5 million hacker payday

Often all it takes is an oblivious worker clicking a tainted e-mail link, or an IT department getting momentarily lazy about computer-system hygiene.

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