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Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 10, 2020

Japan says it wants to take lead with G7 on Hong Kong security laws

Observers say Japan has been concerned that taking too hard of a line with China on Hong Kong could alienate Beijing just as stability returns to Sino-Japanese ties.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 10, 2020

A ‘new normal’ in cyberwar should scare us to action

Cyber capabilities are much less expensive to develop and easier to acquire than traditional warfare — and can be just as destructive.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 10, 2020

'Comfort women': Time’s up for activist leadership

An era of activists speaking on behalf of the women has come to a natural end.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 10, 2020

Retracted COVID-19 studies expose gaps in vetting of U.S. health data firms

As hospitals have moved to electronic health records, independent analytics firms have started buying hospital data sold without patient names.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 10, 2020

Japan broadcaster NHK under fire over flawed video on anti-racism movement

Public broadcaster NHK has apologized for its attempt to educate viewers on the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, after its video on anti-racism demonstrations came under fire for lacking context on racial injustice and the police brutality that had spurred such protests worldwide.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 9, 2020

U.S. troop cuts in Germany would be a disastrous mistake

If the Americans pulled soldiers out of the country, it would be another nail in the coffin of the West.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 9, 2020

How to stay cool as planet warms? Singapore may have a solution

In Singapore, close to the Equator, temperatures regularly rise above 32 degrees Celsius (90 Fahrenheit) — but inside the soaring glass greenhouses of Gardens by the Bay, the country’s award-winning botanical park, it’s a pleasant 24 degrees.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY
Jun 8, 2020

COVID-19 crisis could make Europe a real global force

The vicissitudes of U.S. policy make the EU-Japan partnership, and cooperation with other like-minded governments, ever more urgent.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 8, 2020

Hydroxychloroquine farce has tragic consequences

A rush to publish studies based on flawed science gets us no closer to a cure, and hurts public trust.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 8, 2020

HSBC’s tightrope act opens up internal fault lines in Hong Kong turmoil

HSBC Holdings PLC’s endorsement of a proposed Chinese security law in Hong Kong has begun to widen fault lines over the British institution’s relationship to the city’s masters in Beijing.
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / Los Angeles report 2020
Jun 8, 2020

The Japanese Lifeline in Southern California

In 1862, six years before it opened up to the West, Japan sent its first diplomatic delegation to San Francisco to open an embassy in the United States. The event ushered in the first wave of Japanese immigrants, or Issei, to the West Coast. And by 1910, Los Angeles had the largest population of Japanese...
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / Los Angeles report 2020
Jun 8, 2020

Torrance: Growth driven by Japanese partners

Torrance has always valued its Japanese businesses and will continue to do so. Amid the ongoing global turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Torrance is gradually reopening for business. In the past year, the city welcomed back Sanrio and Oriental Motor.
Japan Times
GLOBAL MEDIA POST / Los Angeles report 2020
Jun 8, 2020

Fuji Natural Foods: Safety is top-of-mind

For more than 40 years, Fuji Natural Foods has actively advocated for higher food quality and safety standards in the United States. Beginning its operations in 1979 as a sprout grower in California, Fuji has developed a food safety plan that has played an important role in the company’s success. ...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 7, 2020

COVID-19 vaccine trials are unnecessary, uninformative and unethical

Deliberately infecting human volunteers with the coronavirus could be far more costly than the pandemic.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jun 6, 2020

Fakalo Pizza Gallery: New digs, same heartfelt pizzas

Fakalo Pizza Gallery remains a labor-of-love operation with a half-dozen varieties each of red (tomato) and white (cheese) on the menu.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jun 6, 2020

Australia debates risks of logging fire-damaged forests

In the Yarra Ranges, in southeastern Australia, a logging clearcut sits like a scar on the hillside.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 6, 2020

Shigeru Yokota’s death a reminder that time is running out on abduction issue

Yokota's death is a blow to the families fighting to get their loved ones back, and the 'top priority' issue might now be treated as a mere distraction amid the pandemic.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jun 6, 2020

George Floyd's death sparks new generation of activists in U.S.

Kristina Knox, a 25-year-old child development teacher from Maryland, cried for days after watching video footage of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man in Minneapolis who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck while Floyd gasped for air.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 5, 2020

Why we need the spirit of Bobby Kennedy now

The ongoing pandemic isn't the first time the U.S. has had to confront its collective pathologies.
Japan Times
SOCCER / From the Spot
Jun 5, 2020

JFA's vision for new pro women's league ambitious, but Women's World Cup bid remains pragmatic

The WE League has the right message, but delivering on its promises for the sport will take more than a slogan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 5, 2020

Travel restriction poses challenges for Japanese firms with international workforce

Researchers who work in laboratories and new employees expected to acquire skills during workplace training sessions have been left in limbo.
Reader Mail
Jun 5, 2020

COVID-19 patients suffering in silence are the heroes in Japan’s ‘success’

In his June 2 opinion piece, Tomoya Saito paints a rosy picture of "The secret of Japan's success in combating COVID-19," but the contact tracing and public information campaigns that he touts as being exceptional are not: They are average at best when compared to those of peer industrialized nations....
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 4, 2020

Has racism exacerbated the COVID-19 crisis?

Mass incarceration and other social ills made the world more vulnerable.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 4, 2020

Joe Biden was rescued by black voters. Now he has to excite them

African American supporters have been urging him to offer concrete solutions, and they say not being Donald Trump isn't enough.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 3, 2020

Hong Kong’s leader decries U.S. ‘double standards’ over protests

Hong Kong’s leader blasted the U.S. for "double standards” in the way it handles protests after the Trump administration vocally supported sometimes-violent demonstrations in the Asian financial hub.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 3, 2020

Rethinking the world's largest cities in wake of COVID-19

Grammy award-winner Petula Clark famously sang that the "lights are much brighter" downtown, but the coronavirus pandemic may change city centers across the world, as more people choose to work remotely and companies ditch large office towers.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 3, 2020

Protests over George Floyd's death expose strained race relations worldwide

Images of a white police officer kneeling on the neck of African American George Floyd, who later died, have sparked protests from Amsterdam to Nairobi, but they also expose deeper grievances among demonstrators over strained race relations in their own countries.
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.
Japan investigating Amazon for allegedly bullying other businesses
Packages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon warehouse
Trump team weighs direct talks with North Korea's Kim
Then-U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea, in June 2019.
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.
Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire, brokered by U.S. and France, takes effect
People near Martyrs Square in Beirut watch as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces a cease-fire on television on Tuesday.
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki 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.
China defense minister being investigated for corruption, report says
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun attends the opening ceremony of the Xiangshan Forum at the Beijing International Convention Center on Sept. 13. Dong is the third consecutive incumbent or former defense chief to be probed over alleged corruption.
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.

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