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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 27, 2022

China wants to ‘speed up’ its seizure of Taiwan, Blinken says

The latest comments from the top U.S. diplomat expand on his previous argument that China may try to seize Taiwan on a 'much faster timeline” than previously thought.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 27, 2022

One missile shook Ukraine’s grain trade. Another might kill it.

If Russia doesn't renew a grain deal that allowed Ukraine back into global markets, it could send prices soaring again and savage Ukrainian farms.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 27, 2022

Camping gear in high demand among youths in Japan

Behind the robust sales is the growing popularity among youths of solo camping trips to avoid close-contact settings amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 27, 2022

Climate-warming methane levels made biggest-ever jump in 2021, U.N. says

The U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization said levels of climate-warming carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide all reached new records last year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2022

Global economy must green faster to prevent dire climate impacts

Progress across 40 key indicators must accelerate dramatically to stay in line with the Paris treaty goal of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 27, 2022

Japanese Tesla supplier to take on Chinese rivals to tap EV boom

Sumitomo Metal Mining wants to start making materials for a cheaper type of electric vehicle battery that contains no nickel.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 27, 2022

‘Whisper of the Heart’: First love story is sweet but shallow

Yuichiro Hirakawa's live-action adaptation of a manga by Aoi Hiiragi predictably pulls at heartstrings, but doesn't measure up to the classic anime version released in 1995.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 27, 2022

‘Goodbye, Bad Magazines’: A sympathetic eulogy to adult entertainment

Shoichi Yokoyama's lighthearted romp offers an inside view of the collapse of Japan's pornography industry, but sidesteps some of the trickier ethical issues.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 27, 2022

As with Ukraine, a coalition should pressure Myanmar's junta, U.N. expert says

Russian weapons being used in Ukraine are also killing people in Myanmar, an independent U.N. expert said in making the appeal.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 27, 2022

Nagano music festival stays true to Seiji Ozawa's musical legacy

The maestro's daughter, Seira Ozawa, sees his passion reflected at the month-long Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 27, 2022

Earth on track to warm above 2 degrees despite climate action

Despite some progress in the last year, governments need to do more by 2030 to ensure that the global temperature increase is below 2 degrees and ideally closer to 1.5 degrees.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 26, 2022

Myanmar junta defends air strikes killing 60 people at concert

Sunday's aerial attack in Kachin State killed concert performers along with civilians and militia officers.
The Tigers' Sheldon Neuse (center, No. 7) celebrates with his teammates following his three-run homer in the fourth inning of Game 7 of the Japan Series against the Buffaloes at Kyocera Dome Osaka on Sunday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 6, 2023

Sheldon Neuse and the catch that ended the Tigers' 38-year drought

For the American, a win in the Japan Series was a perfect ending to a year that did not go the way he had hoped during the regular season.
Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa meets with the families of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas militants to the Gaza Strip, during a visit to Tel Aviv on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 6, 2023

Israel-Hamas conflict to dominate Tokyo summit of top G7 diplomats

Japan will be looking to further align the bloc’s responses to the war amid growing calls for a humanitarian pause in the fighting.
A serviceman of an artillery unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine holds a howitzer ammunition before firing toward Russian troops at a position near a frontline, at an undisclosed location in Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 6, 2023

'We're losing': Ukrainians reel from war chief's stalemate warning

The frontline between the Ukrainian army and Russian forces occupying the east and south of the country has barely moved since last November.
The National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo's Ueno district
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 6, 2023

Japan's national science museum holds record crowdfunding campaign

The institution has raised ¥920 million through the 90-day campaign, with 57,000 members of the public chipping in.
Nobuhiro Torii, president of Suntory Spirits, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 27.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 6, 2023

Suntory to boost output as Japanese whisky sees global boom

Suntory Spirits has begun two-year renovations at its Yamazaki distillery in Osaka Prefecture and its Hakushu distillery in Yamanashi Prefecture.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu points to a red line he drew on the graphic of a bomb used to represent Iran's nuclear program as he addresses the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York in September 2012.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 6, 2023

Israeli minister's Gaza nuclear comments spotlight opaque arsenal

The country has long had a policy of ambiguity as to whether it has nuclear weapons, though it is widely believed to possess a sizable number.
Poland's Iga Swiatek in action during her WTA semifinal match against Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka in Cancun, Mexico, on Sunday
TENNIS
Nov 6, 2023

No. 2 Swiatek beats No. 1 Sabalenka in WTA semifinal

Sabalenka had beaten Swiatek in last year's WTA Finals semifinals and they had split two prior meetings this year, both on clay.
Ukrainian Olympic artistic swimmers Vladyslava (left) and Maryna Aleksiiva on April 6. The sisters are training ahead of the Paris Games in the city of Kharkiv, despite regular bouts of shelling there.
OLYMPICS
Nov 6, 2023

Ukrainian artistic swimmers train for Paris Olympics near front

After Russia invaded, the team moved to Italy and then Kyiv, before returning to Ukraine's second largest city.
People walk past ginkgo trees in Tokyo's Meiji Jingu Gaien area in November 2022.
JAPAN / Explainer
Nov 6, 2023

What to know about the Meiji Jingu Gaien redevelopment plan

The project is controversial due to the potential felling of thousands of trees, loss of green space and threat to historic gingko trees.
Vehicles and pedestrians by the intersection of Burgos and Real streets in Tacloban city, Leyte province, the Philippines, on Oct. 12.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Nov 6, 2023

Sex trafficking plagues Philippine city where typhoon wrought havoc

Typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 6,000 people and displaced millions, triggered a humanitarian crisis that provided fertile ground for traffickers.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 6, 2023

China and Australia agree to turn the page as tensions ease

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is seeking to mend relations between the trading partners after disputes in recent years.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony to mark Defender of the Fatherland Day at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in central Moscow in February 2017.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 7, 2023

Russia's Putin to stay in power past 2024, sources say

The Russian leader has decided to run in the March presidential election, a move that will keep him in power until least 2030.
Yogendra Puranik, the first person from India to win elected office in Japan, at the Indian cultural center he manages in Tokyo's Edogawa Ward in October 2022.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 6, 2023

Japan needs Indian migrants. How can it attract them?

India can help fill the domestic labor gap, but for migrants to succeed, Japan must embrace a genuinely intercultural approach.
Zero carbon energy accounts for 28% of Japan's grid, falling short of countries like Germany, whose share of clean energy generation reached 58% last year.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 6, 2023

How Japan became the land the energy transition forgot

Its symbol may be the rising sun, but a wholesale adoption of renewables by Japan is light years away, mired in bureaucratic and technical hurdles.
Poland's Iga Swiatek kisses her trophy on the podium after winning the WTA Finals Championship in Cancun, Mexico, on Monday.
TENNIS
Nov 7, 2023

Swiatek wins WTA Finals and regains world No. 1 ranking

The Polish player broke Pegula five times and won the final 11 games in a 59-minute slaughter to capture her first WTA Finals title.

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