Search - 2016

 
Menu
Search
 
November 27, 2024
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access
18,033 results
Sort by: Relevance Newest Oldest
After adjusting your search parameters, press Enter on your keyboard or click on the red magnifying glass to run your query again.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 25, 2020

Frontale clinches third J. League title after routing Gamba

Boasting the league's best offense and stingiest defense, Toru Oniki's men set a new J1 point record with four rounds remaining.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2020

A tale of two Chinese cities: Shenzhen and Shanghai

Shanghai and Shenzhen are both vital to China's economic future. But neither is more important than the other and each has a unique role to play.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 24, 2020

Why Democrats lost and will keep losing elections

When you expected to pick up tons of seats in the House and take back the Senate, and none of that happens and you just barely win the presidency, you basically got your a-- kicked.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 24, 2020

After Trump, Biden faces pressure to stand up to China by embracing Taiwan

As concerns grow about China's increasingly aggressive behavior on the global stage, Biden will face pressure from Democrats and Republicans to strengthen ties with Taiwan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 24, 2020

China and Japan race to dominate the future of high-speed rail

Japan and China are racing to build a new type of ultrafast, levitating train, seeking to demonstrate their mastery over a technology with big export potential.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2020

Biden picks Blinken, defender of global alliances, as top envoy

Antony J. Blinken, a defender of global alliances and one of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s closest foreign policy advisers, is expected to be nominated for secretary of state, a job in which he will try to coalesce skeptical international partners into a new competition with China, according to...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 23, 2020

The secret origins of China’s 40-year plan to end carbon emissions

With a September speech to the United Nations, Chinese President Xi Jinping put a 2060 end date on his country's contribution to global warming, taking almost the whole world by surprise.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 22, 2020

After 23 years of Chinese rule, Hong Kong is back to square one

Hong Kong's chief executive has created a path for the city's leadership to remove legislators at will, without involvement of the legislature itself or the judiciary.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Nov 22, 2020

Work from home in style with these design-focused office goods

As remote working becomes the norm, “On: Design” picks its favorite interior goods designed to help make the home office space less of an eyesore.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Nov 22, 2020

'Better off thanks to China': German firms double down on resurgent giant

Moves by some firms are complicating efforts by Chancellor Angela Merkel's government to diversify trade relations and become less dependent on Asia's rising superpower.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Nov 22, 2020

Seagulls reach Japan X Bowl after dramatic goal-line stand

The Obic Seagulls extended their 2020 season and punched their ticket to the Japan X Bowl after an extraordinary ending in their season-finale victory over the Panasonic Impulse on Saturday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 22, 2020

Tomoyuki Sugano's future bright despite loss in Japan Series opener

The Giants ace is expected to be one of the hottest targets of the MLB offseason if rumors of a posting come to fruition.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Nov 21, 2020

U.S. election helps disinformation on social media thrive in Japan

The 2020 U.S. presidential election has dominated much of the news cycle over the past couple of weeks, with social media playing a key role in the conversation.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 21, 2020

Japanese media weigh in on the U.S. election

'Biden may have been elected, but it won't be easy to repair the rifts that have widened over the past four years.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 20, 2020

U.S. firms turn upbeat on China after Biden win, survey shows

The survey, conducted Nov. 11-15, showed 54.8% of the respondents have become more upbeat about their business prospects in China.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Nov 20, 2020

Rise quarterback Kurt Palandech eager to impress in shortened season

The UNLV graduate's X League debut was delayed until earlier this month due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 19, 2020

Nissan’s U.K. arm tough to sustain without Brexit deal, chief says

The Japanese carmaker says the U.K. provided reassurances in 2016 that Brexit would not affect its competitiveness, when the firm announced a plan to expand operations in the country.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 19, 2020

Women handling the dead: More female morticians in South Korea as taboo fades

A growing number of South Korean women are training to be morticians, a field from which they had long been excluded, amid changing views on gender roles and a rising preference for women's bodies to be handled by women.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 19, 2020

Australian special forces suspected of 39 murders in Afghanistan

The report said the majority of those killed, which included prisoners, farmers and other Afghan locals, were captured when they were killed and therefore protected under international law.
Japan Times
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Nov 18, 2020

Popular rikishi Kotoshogiku and Gagamaru retire from sumo

Veteran ozeki Kotoshogiku hanging up his mawashi means there are now only four men in makuuchi still active who reached the sport's top division before the start of 2010.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 18, 2020

In the U.S., socialism isn't the way to win the working class

Unions and infrastructure don't fulfill the Republican's small-government dreams of previous decades, but they could represent a centrist alternative to the growing popularity of socialism.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 18, 2020

Ex-Hong Kong lawmakers arrested in latest blow to opposition

The arrests represent the latest blow to Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement following the passage of the national security law in June.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 18, 2020

Corporations and foreign nations pivot to lobby Biden

While Biden has taken steps to demonstrate his distance from lobbyists, his presidency is being welcomed in Washington's influence industry.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2020

As Asia moves forward, the U.S. sits on the sidelines

Donald Trump's absence marked the third consecutive year in which he failed to show up for the annual ASEAN get-together.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 17, 2020

Trump sought options for attacking Iran to stop its growing nuclear program

The president was dissuaded from moving ahead with a strike by advisers who warned that it could escalate into a broader conflict in his last weeks in office.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 17, 2020

Carlos Ghosn’s grand alliance showing cracks two years after his arrest

Nissan is exploring ways to sell some or all of its 34% stake in Mitsubishi Motors.
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
Trump pledges 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and more levies on China
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attends a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket, in Brownsville, Texas, on Nov. 19. Trump on Monday threatened to slap China, Mexico and Canada with hefty tariffs upon his return to the White House.
AI boom makes 139-year-old cable maker Japan’s hottest stock
Fujikura's headquarters in Tokyo's Koto Ward. The company's share price has surged by more than 400% this year.
Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat
Totopa in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward was picked by consultants TTNE as the best sauna of the year.
Funeral held for Princess Yuriko at Tokyo cemetery
Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, followed by Princess Aiko and Princess Kako, prepare to attend a funeral service for Princess Yuriko at Toshimagaoka Cemetery in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Are you leaving your loved ones digital legacies or headaches?
The National Consumer Affairs Center reports a growing number of consultations regarding "digital legacies" — data and online services left behind when people die.
Rayssa Leal and Chloe Covell on Japan’s teen skaters: We are friends, not rivals
Brazil’s Rayssa Leal celebrates after winning the women's Street League Skateboarding competition on Saturday in Tokyo.
An iconic 32-foot doughnut might give Randy’s an edge in Japan
Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, California. Replicas of the giant doughnut sculpture will be installed, where possible, at shops in Japan.

Podcast

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

Longform

Totopa in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward was picked by consultants TTNE as the best sauna of the year.
Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat
By Greg Dvorak

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

SWCC keeps changing with keyword ‘new challenges’
SWCC keeps changing with keyword ‘new challenges’

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER