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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 12, 2022

For Biden and Xi, a long relationship with rising mutual suspicion

The men, who first met as vice presidents, plan to hold face-to-face talks for the first time as national leaders, and at a time when animus defines U.S.-China relations.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 12, 2022

Biden casts America as climate leader, while activists push him to do more

At climate talks in Egypt, President Biden apologized for his predecessor's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 11, 2022

G20 leaders set for high-stakes summit amid war, rivalries and food insecurity

From food and energy insecurity to the Sino-U.S. rivalry and the war in Ukraine, Group of Twenty leaders will have their work cut out for them when they meet next week in Indonesia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 10, 2022

Republicans misjudged the power of abortion rights

Republicans found out in the U.S. midterms that reproductive freedom is as much a core issue as inflation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Women at Work
Nov 10, 2022

Approaching life as an independent nonexecutive director with resolve

From startups to conglomerates, Makiko Nakamori has balanced sitting on a range of boards with motherhood and managing her own accounting practice.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Nov 7, 2022

‘Plastic-free’: Fukuoka man's monthlong project highlights wider waste issue

A Fukuoka man has shared his quest to buy products in reusable containers to avoid single-use plastic.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Nov 7, 2022

Okinawa’s shima-dōfu makers fight to preserve their tradition

The people who make the products are having to contend with rising soybean prices and strengthened food hygiene rules.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Nov 6, 2022

'Kokoro': Lafcadio Hearn's insights into a country he loved

The collection of 15 essays and stories, which explore the inner lives of Japanese society through topics such as karma, art and architecture, reveal the writer's deep affection for Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 5, 2022

'Negotiating our future': Youth set to grab power roles at COP27

Young people have long been at the forefront of green protests and activism outside the corridors of power. Now many are striding into those corridors.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 5, 2022

Twitter cuts spur concerns about U.S. midterm elections and human rights

Elon Musk's broad-based cuts at the social media site are leading current and former employees to question whether it will have the resources to effectively moderate content.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Nov 1, 2022

COP27 climate summit to test resolve of world battling war and inflation

With nations dealing with the fallout of urgent crises, questions loom over whether they will act quickly and ambitiously enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 31, 2022

Teens turn to TikTok in search of a mental health diagnosis

While social media can help people feel less alone, using it to evaluate symptoms has several downsides.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Oct 31, 2022

Fukushima firms work to address low rate of fathers taking paternity leave

The reluctance of fathers to use paternity leave is said to be attributable to the absence of working environments where it is seen favorably and the difficulty of securing staff for cover.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / Regional voices: Chubu
Oct 31, 2022

40 years on, Suzuki aims to recover 50% market share in India

With about 3,400 new car dealers throughout the country, the firm boasts the largest sales network in the industry in India.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 29, 2022

Viagra, exorcism and lies: Brazil's testy final election debate

Far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and leftist ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva slung insults as they debated topics such as the economy, corruption and the Amazon rainforest.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 29, 2022

Heat waves cost poor countries the most, exacerbating inequality

Periods of extreme heat cost the global economy about $16 trillion dollars between 1992 and 2013, the study calculated, with poor countries most affected.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2022

Get ready to relearn how to use the internet

Everyone knows that an AI revolution is coming, but no one seems to realize how profoundly it will change their day-to-day life.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2022

Shigeyuki Goto tapped as Japan's new economic revitalization minister

Daishiro Yamagiwa stepped down from the post over his ties with the controversial Unification Church, and the prime minister will be hoping the change eases criticism over the issue.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Oct 24, 2022

War orphan hopes tragedies that harm Japan-China ties won't happen again

Kohei Yamada, 85, was left behind in China amid the chaos of the end of World War II. He returned to Japan after the two countries normalized ties.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Oct 24, 2022

Second generation of Unification Church followers begin to speak out

Growing up constrained by the church's doctrine and expected to act as role models for believers, some children suffer when trying to seek their own religious freedom.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 24, 2022

Next-gen activists take on nukes

2022 has been an important turning point as many countries around the world renewed their determination to cooperate with each other to abolish nuclear weapons in the face of the looming nuclear threat arising from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 18, 2022

Demanding Pyongyang disarm may hurt more than help

Does the demand that North Korea give up its nuclear weapons deepen the instability that it is ostensibly aimed at eliminating?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2022

Unification Church could be stripped of special status after Kishida probe

The group could lose its “religious corporation” status, which makes donations and other revenue made from religious activities exempt from taxation.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Tohoku
Oct 17, 2022

Miyagi stores and facilities offer hours with less sensory stimulation

The trend of dimming lighting and reducing sounds for people with developmental and other disabilities has started to attract nationwide attention.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Oct 17, 2022

In Japan, body hair removal transcending age and gender boundaries

At the same time, there are also moves to rethink the notion that hairless skin is beautiful.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Oct 17, 2022

Xi speech offers little to lift China's worsening growth outlook

The Chinese president praised 'COVID zero,' his no-tolerance approach to containing infections, while repeating prior language on the property sector, currently in its longest-ever slump.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 15, 2022

Musk’s Starlink isn’t only option for Ukraine, Pentagon says

Musk, the world's richest person, has threatened to cut financial support for the high-speed broadband system that has become an essential communications tool for Kyiv.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 14, 2022

Aoyama Gakuin students rally for second SDGs week

Aoyama Gakuin, a comprehensive educational institution in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward, held its second Aoyama Gakuin Global Week from Sept. 23 to Oct. 1. AGGW is an annual event highlighting activities and projects associated with the United Nations sustainable development goals that take place on campus....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 13, 2022

‘Break of Dawn’: Extraterrestrial adventures lack momentum

Tomoyuki Kurokawa's anime about a group of children's quest to help an alien return home is a nostalgia trip that takes on weighty themes but slogs toward the end.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 11, 2022

China’s cryptocurrency holdouts test the boundaries of Xi’s crackdown

Beijing's move to banish cryptocurrency trading and mining seemed poised to snuff out the entire domestic industry, but that's not how things turned out.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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