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SPORTS
Jan 8, 2021

Japanese sports brace for impact of new state of emergency

Upcoming sumo and rugby events will allow spectators, while pro basketball's B. League has raised concerns over restrictions covering the sale of food and drinks.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 8, 2021

North Korea's Kim hints at improving inter-Korean ties and foreign policy

The leader teased the possibility of improved ties with Seoul and vowed to expand 'external relations' in his first remarks on foreign policy since Joe Biden's election.
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COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jan 7, 2021

How Japan can become a data powerhouse

The country's new digital agency must take a lead in forming Japan's data infrastructure and global data rule-making, while benefiting the people.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 7, 2021

North Korea's Kim vows to boost nuclear-armed country's 'defense capabilities'

On the second day of a rare party congress, the strongman vowed to put 'state defense capabilities on a much higher level, and put forth goals for realizing it.”
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WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jan 7, 2021

For Democrats in Georgia, ‘There’s no going back’

Georgia going Democratic was not just a fluke for President-elect Joe Biden in November. There are forces at work that are rapidly turning the state blue, redrawing the U.S. electoral map.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 7, 2021

Environmental debt risk is bigger than Japan’s GDP

For Moody's Investors Service, environmental considerations are becoming increasingly relevant when assessing credit quality.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 6, 2021

For a post-nationalist Biden

Economic globalization is no longer compatible with the political balkanization that hypernationalism underpins.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 6, 2021

NYSE just gave China Inc. one more reason to leave

The New York Stock Exchange said late Monday that it no longer intends to move forward with the delisting of China's three state-owned telecom operators.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 6, 2021

Australia’s influence in Pacific Islands grows as China’s wanes

As Beijing has pulled back from the strategic region amid the pandemic, Canberra has stepped up support for vaccinations in the countries there.
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WORLD / FOCUS
Jan 6, 2021

Climate action is embedding into how the world works

Positive developments in 2020 are perhaps a strong sign that climate action is starting to be 'institutionalized.”
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 5, 2021

What is your moral plan for 2021?

Few people when making their New Year's resolutions— just 12%, according to one U.S. study — resolve to become a better person in general, meaning better in a moral sense.
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COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jan 5, 2021

The battle to modernize Japan

In a country of fax machines and fragmented central administration, Suga's vision of a digital agency looks hard to achieve.
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COMMENTARY / World / Beyond COVID-19
Jan 5, 2021

A new ‘Year Zero’

While COVID-19 delivered the final blow, it has been clear for at least two decades that the postwar model is no longer sustainable, environmentally or socially.
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BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 4, 2021

NYSE delisting of China’s top telecoms a symbolic blow as feud smolders on

Move follows order by U.S. President Donald Trump in November barring American investments in Chinese firms owned or controlled by the military.
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COMMENTARY / World / Beyond COVID-19
Jan 3, 2021

After the virus: Getting back on the Paris climate track

Though the agreement initially met with doubts, its primary mechanisms are proving their efficiency and efficacy.
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COMMENTARY / World / Beyond COVID-19
Jan 3, 2021

Has COVID-19 killed Asia’s growth miracle?

Although the COVID-19 crisis has exposed the vulnerabilities of global supply chains, pursuing a strategy of insourcing or localizing production would be devastating.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 1, 2021

In a world turned upside down, Japan will muddle through

Japan could use this year to prepare for inevitable changes in domestic and foreign affairs and better position itself for that world.
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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jan 1, 2021

Adults seek solace in the wisdom of children online amid pandemic

Parents have spent more time with their children over the past 12 months than perhaps any time in the country's history.
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LIFE / Lifestyle
Jan 1, 2021

After a year of anxiety, what can we expect from the Year of the Ox in 2021?

Astrologers say the ox denotes hard work, positivity and honesty — stable qualities that will be manifested in all of us in some way or another over the next 12 months.
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MORE SPORTS
Dec 31, 2020

In 2020, sports was about staying safe and speaking out

When the pandemic subsides, what will endure from 2020 in sports?
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EDITORIALS
Dec 31, 2020

COVID-19 exposes nation's shortcomings

Only by working together — as citizens and residents, politicians and medical health professionals — can we defeat COVID-19 and make 2021 the year of recovery and hope.
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BUSINESS
Dec 31, 2020

Japan's climate plan: Big on ambition but small in scope

Despite Suga's pledge, questions remain concerning the country's willingness to overhaul the world's third-largest economy, slash harmful greenhouse gas emissions and curtail global warming.
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BUSINESS
Dec 31, 2020

EU and China give political nod to market-opening investment pact

The breakthrough in negotiations on such a deal signals the bloc's determination to focus on economic opportunities in Asia even amid criticism of Beijing's record on human rights.
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LIFE / Style & Design
Dec 30, 2020

Pierre Cardin, designer to the famous and merchant to the masses, dies at 98

In 1957, Cardin became the first European designer to forge business ties with Japan, and within two years he was selling his fashions there.
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COMMENTARY / World
Dec 29, 2020

Undoing Trump regulations may divide Biden’s coalition

Some of the Trump administration's midnight rules will deserve wholesale repudiation. But others should be approached with a scalpel, not an ax.

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