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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 14, 2020

Vietnam leadership wrangling heats up as Communist Party meets

As Vietnam's ruling Communist Party started a weeklong meeting on Monday, discussion has intensified over the top leadership that will emerge and set the tone for the next five years in the fast-developing Southeast Asian country.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 14, 2020

BOJ seen extending pandemic-fighting programs this week, according to survey

All but one economist projected the BOJ will make no change to its interest rates, forward guidance or key asset-purchase program.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 14, 2020

Brexit deal gets fresh impetus from leaders’ diplomatic push

Forty-eight hours of intense diplomacy injected fresh momentum into a process that had seemed to be reaching the end of the road.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 13, 2020

Don’t let Iran get away with hostage-taking

When the old hostages are sent home, the regime simply arrests new ones to replenish its stock of political pawns. The vicious circle is repeated.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 12, 2020

Rising suicide figures reflect many women’s despair in a pandemic

Almost as anguishing as having no future is having an unknown one.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 11, 2020

‘It’s hard to prove’: Why antitrust suits against Facebook face hurdles

Any company breakup may face the skepticism of courts, which have been hesitant about undoing mergers because that can sometimes cause more harm to consumers than good.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 10, 2020

'Buy or bury': Facebook faces U.S. lawsuits that could force sale of Instagram

The complaints say the social media giant relies on a strategy to snap up rivals and keep smaller competitors at bay.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2020

Hybrids are quietly selling faster than fully electric cars

Many conventional automakers are mulling their options, trying to decide which technologies will reign in the decades between now and a full transition away from combustion engines.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 8, 2020

Support wanes for Go To Travel campaign as coronavirus continues to spread

A nonpeer-reviewed study published Monday found a higher incidence of health issues that resemble symptoms of COVID-19 among participants in the tourism program.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 7, 2020

China peddles falsehoods to obscure origin of COVID-19 pandemic

Beijing has distorted comments from foreign experts to falsely suggest that there is broad consensus that the virus first surfaced outside the country.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 6, 2020

Report points to microwave ‘attack’ as likely source of illnesses that hit diplomats and spies

The report provides the most definitive explanation yet of the strange illness that struck scores of U.S. government employees.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2020

Atomic heat in small packages gives big industry a climate option

With miniature nuclear reactors, firms aim to feed pollution-free heat to industries that make steel, cement, glass and chemicals.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 5, 2020

Spaces for living: How Tokyo’s urban landscape deals with change

Exploring the city's constant flux — and the cost to its heritage.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Food Sustainability in Japan
Dec 5, 2020

Japan’s first community fridge opens in Okayama

The Kitanagase Community Fridge provides free food, produce and household goods to low-income families.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 4, 2020

What Africa needs now is its own Japan or Singapore

What Africa might need is its own Japan — a pioneering country that can industrialize first, and then invest in the rest of the continent.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 2, 2020

Wiser heads must prevail after killing of top Iranian nuclear scientist

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was quick to blame Israel, describing the act as an indication of “desperate warmongering of perpetrators.”
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 2, 2020

China scores big against poverty but the poor haven’t gone away

Almost 90% of the population was below the international poverty threshold in 1981, according to the World Bank; by the 2019, that was under 1%.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 2, 2020

Language and lockdowns amid the pandemic

Reducing the issue to a binary question (Should we lock down or not?), or even a linear one (How much should we lock down?), oversimplifies a complicated problem.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 2, 2020

What Bitcoin's new record means for Wall Street

Bitcoin won't be viewed as an existential threat to the banking system just because its price is soaring. But it won't be ignored either.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 2, 2020

U.S. prosecutors probe suspected effort to buy a presidential pardon

The disclosure of an alleged attempt to purchase a pardon comes as the term of U.S. President Donald Trump winds to an end, which is traditionally a time when pardons are meted out.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 2, 2020

Ivory Coast, Ghana halt cocoa farm aid to punish businesses for 'not supporting farmers'

Competing viewpoints of chocolate markets and cocoa producers have collided in spectacular fashion, thrusting normally hidden machinations into rare public view.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Dec 1, 2020

Pacific League far ahead of Central League in NPB arms race

Factors such as pitching have created a gulf on the field, while the PL has also innovated more with online broadcasting and brand marketing.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 1, 2020

‘Trump Is Better’: In Asia, pro-democracy forces worry about Biden

Some pro-democracy campaigners in Asia are drawn to Trump's willingness to flout diplomatic protocol, abandon international accords and keep his opponents off-balance.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 30, 2020

Warp speed for clean energy? That won't work.

It might it be easier for the government to subsidize battery research, rather than pre-ordering particular battery units for later distribution? Maybe so, and it would be smart policy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 30, 2020

The implausibility of the ‘Vietnam model’ for North Korea: The security factor

Kim Jong Un cannot decentralize the economy regardless of how external conditions develop as fear of losing control would render such reforms impossible.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2020

Key Japanese lawmaker says third extra budget may not be last

A key ruling party lawmaker said an extra budget being drafted now may not be the end of Japan’s stimulus spending this fiscal year given the uncertainty surrounding the spread of the coronavirus.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Nov 30, 2020

Airlines face ‘mission of the century’ in shipping vaccines

Laid low by a COVID-19 outbreak that's decimated passenger demand, airlines will be the workhorses of the attempt to eradicate it, hauling billions of vials to every corner of the globe.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 29, 2020

Division or dialogue with China?

Less chaotic does not necessarily mean less confrontational: Biden has called Chinese President Xi Jinping a “thug” and pledged to “pressure, isolate and punish China.”

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