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Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 28, 2022

American fracking veteran in Ukraine works to keep the gas flowing

His friends back in the U.S. told him he's crazy to stay — but Oleg Tolmachev said he couldn't see himself abandoning his newly adopted home at a moment like this.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 28, 2022

Putin declares a nuclear alert, and Biden seeks de-escalation

When the Russian leader ordered his nuclear forces into “special combat readiness,” the U.S. could have gone on high alert. Instead, the administration tried not to inflame him.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 28, 2022

Russia’s Ukraine invasion raises questions about global energy policy

As Russia's attack on Ukraine highlights holes in the West's energy security, some have questioned the move away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy sources.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Feb 27, 2022

Putin races against clock as fast military advance is ‘frustrated’

Russia's plans for Ukraine face rapidly rising costs due to delays caused by tougher-than-expected resistance from forces on the ground, even as its military retains overwhelming advantages.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Feb 27, 2022

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich gives trustees stewardship of club

The Russian billionaire has been named as a potential target for financial sanctions in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 25, 2022

Russia’s yearslong quest to quit dollar eases impact of sanctions

Russia slashed its dollar reserves to just 16% of the central bank's stockpile in 2021, down from more than 40% just four years prior.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Feb 25, 2022

Watanabe Kazan: One scholar’s equivocal rebellion

Watanabe Kazan discovered a talent for drawing early on and became a hack artist, painting on demand for pennies. It kept starvation at bay.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Feb 25, 2022

Translation: The fifth language skill no one tells you about

Knowing two languages must mean you can translate between them, right? Not necessarily. Here are a few tips for when you suddenly find yourself in a translator role.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 23, 2022

Bringing up a child in China costs much more than in U.S. and Japan, research finds

A new report shows the cost of raising a child in China in 2019 was nearly seven times the country's per capita GDP.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 23, 2022

Antarctic sea ice shrinks to smallest surface area on record

The ice surrounding the continent has retreated to 1.97 million square kilometers, below the previous record of 2.1 million square kilometers set in 2017.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 23, 2022

In an ‘age of pandemics,’ pathogen-sharing can't be optional

No one country should be free to hold essential data and pathogens hostage in the name of securing their own benefit at the cost of global public health.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 23, 2022

How a Saudi woman's iPhone revealed hacking around the world

An unusual error in spyware made by NSO allowed researchers to discover a trove of evidence suggesting the Israeli spyware-maker had helped hack the activist's smartphone.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2022

Makers of baby formula still break global marketing rules, WHO and UNICEF find

More than a third of women across all countries surveyed said that health workers had recommended a specific brand of formula to them.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2022

Japan set to fall short of February booster goal

The government plans to give boosters to 37.5 million people by the end of February, but to attain that target the pace of vaccinations would need to more than double.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 22, 2022

Ban on single-use plastics favored by 75%, global survey finds

Governments will meet in Nairobi this month to press ahead with an ambitious treaty on tackling plastic waste.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 22, 2022

XFL to collaborate with NFL on player safety

Additional avenues for collaboration may include international football development and scouting, as well as officiating, including the testing of different game rules for player protection.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Feb 21, 2022

Burakumin discrimination history revealed 100 years on from rights declaration

Growing up in the chaos that followed World War II wasn't the only thing that prevented Hikari, now 82, from learning to read and write.
Japan Times
Special Supplements / Ainu language special
Feb 21, 2022

Respected comic book spurs hope for indigenous tongue

In 2009, UNESCO in its “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” designated the Ainu language as being critically endangered. As the most dire of the five categories — only extinct is worse — used in the report, it highlighted the precarious state that had befallen the language.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 19, 2022

These vaccines have been embraced by the world. Why not in China?

Two years into the pandemic, China's 1.4 billion people still don't have access to one of the most effective coronavirus vaccines the world has to offer.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 17, 2022

New research helps explain the brightest, most energetic objects in the universe

The latest observations support a 'unified model' of active galactic nuclei, which holds that all such objects are the same but appear to have different properties when seen from Earth.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 16, 2022

Japan to shorten or drop quarantine requirements for most arrivals from March

The government is also expected to raise the cap on daily new entrants from overseas to 5,000 from the current 3,500.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2022

Mizuho and Mitsubishi UFJ among banks that gave coal sector over $1.5 trillion in three years

The Japanese firms, both members of the Net Zero Banking Alliance, were identified as the two biggest lenders in a report by a group of 28 nongovernmental organizations.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 15, 2022

'Vladdy daddy please no war...': Russia-Ukraine tensions loom large on social media

Gen Z is turning to TikTok and Instagram to hash over the tensions between Russia and Ukraine, while TikTok has become a source for researchers tracking Moscow's buildup.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 15, 2022

Denmark, overflowing with virus cases, embraces a ‘bring it on’ attitude

The government said this month it would no longer consider COVID-19 a 'socially critical disease” and dropped all restrictions, including a mask mandate in closed spaces.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 15, 2022

Calls for grass fields intensify following Super Bowl injury

Turf fields lead to 32% more non-contact knee injuries and 69% more non-contact foot and ankle injuries, a group advocating against artificial artificial turf at NFL stadiums said.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 15, 2022

Hosting the Olympics is costly. For China, it’s worth every billion.

For many cities, the Games make no economic sense. National pride and an enthusiasm for building transportation infrastructure change the equation for Beijing.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 14, 2022

Beijing vs. Tokyo: A tale of two cities' approaches to the pandemic Games

Influenced by ever-changing collective knowledge on COVID-19, the recent Olympic Games have taken radically different approaches to hosting the world's biggest international sporting events during a global pandemic.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 13, 2022

Nice fit: Joe Burrow belongs to everyone

Bengals QB Joe Burrow loves listening to rap, watching 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' playing Super Smash Bros., smoking victory cigars and throwing deep touchdown passes.

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