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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 17, 2023

Japan weighs finally lifting age of consent from 13

The move to raise the age of consent to 16 is part of a package of reforms that would also clarify rape prosecution requirements and criminalize voyeurism.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 17, 2023

Off the record should mean off the record

An off-the-record remark may have take down a high-level Japanese bureaucrat. Such actions by journalists will only hurt journalism.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Feb 17, 2023

Is the Chinese balloon threat overblown?

Balloons are coming from China and collecting intelligence. But they have been doing so for some time and should not cause such massive alarm.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 17, 2023

Bilateral defense deals between Tokyo and Manila could reshape Indo-Pacific security

Philippine President Marcos visited Tokyo seeking key partners in the region to play a pivotal role in Manila’s new foreign policy direction.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 17, 2023

Sony chip unit sees limited impact from recent export curbs to China

Sony is the world's largest maker of image sensors widely used in smartphones and autos.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 17, 2023

Impacts of sea level rise and fragility of ice sheets underestimated, research shows

Melting ice that could lift global oceans by meters will likely crumble with another half degree Celsius of warming, and satellite data for many coastal areas has been misinterpreted.
Japan Times
Special Supplements
Feb 17, 2023

Japan Patent Office updates ‘JPO Key Features’ portal for global stakeholders

The Japan Patent Office recently updated “The JPO Key Features,” a section of its website that introduces the benefits of filing applications in Japan for global business development. This portal showcases the office’s efforts to provide speedy, high-quality examinations and outlines its Patent...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2023

'Zero-COVID' broke the system that keeps China's factories running

Some factory owners and recruiters say workers are reluctant to come back, scarred by the experience of long lockdowns, no wages and violent protests.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 17, 2023

Biden intends to speak with Xi to defuse tensions over balloon

Biden said the results of the administration's review of how to deal with unidentified objects going forward would be classified and shared with relevant members of Congress.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 16, 2023

Lewis Hamilton vows to continue speaking out about social issues

Hamilton has used his platform to highlight racial injustice, promote diversity and address a range of issues from the environment to human rights.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 16, 2023

How a fog of questions over a spy balloon and UFOs fed a diplomatic crisis

U.S. officials now suspect that the balloon was sent to spy on bases in Guam and Hawaii, and that other downed objects were not surveillance machines.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 16, 2023

Truckers and subsidies rev up interest in fuel cell vehicles

Vehicles with hydrogen fuel cells, in which hydrogen mixes with oxygen to produce water and energy to power a battery, can refuel in minutes.
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 16, 2023

BOJ head nominee Kazuo Ueda to speak at Lower House Feb. 24, lawmaker says

The hearing will be closely watched by markets for clues on how the 71-year-old academic could steer the central bank out its prolonged ultraloose monetary policy.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 16, 2023

Tiger Woods still playing to win as long as body allows

Tiger Woods reflected on LeBron James' NBA career scoring record, marveling at the Lakers great's continued dominance as he tries to prolong his own superstar career.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Feb 16, 2023

Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon bows out at 'critical moment' for independence fight

Her success has silenced many critics, but internal fault lines could be exposed by the vacuum she leaves behind.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 16, 2023

Three women and two children pulled from rubble in Turkey as aid reaches Syria

The combined death toll in Turkey and Syria has climbed to more than 41,000, and millions are in need of humanitarian aid.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 16, 2023

Putin, secure in power, sets stage for long and draining war

The Russian leader says Moscow is locked in an existential battle with an arrogant West that wants to carve up his country and its vast resources.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 15, 2023

Washington pushes for harsher action against banks with Russia ties

The West blocked several Russian banks' access to the international SWIFT payments system soon after Moscow invaded Ukraine in February last year.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 15, 2023

'Everything changed': Ukrainians look back on year of war

Not a single Ukrainian was left untouched by the Russian invasion. Three of them were interviewed about what they lived through, and how the war changed them.
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Feb 15, 2023

Living with disaster: Building the cities of the future

We speak to professor Hitoshi Abe, an architect who has some ideas on how to start designing our cities to better deal with such inevitable disasters.
JAPAN / Explainer
Feb 15, 2023

The continuing saga of the Tokyo Games scandal

The arrest of four more people last week has shaken the Japanese Olympic Committee and dealt a further blow to Sapporo’s quest to host the 2030 Winter Games.
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2023

Japan eyes eased rules for firing on aircraft violating airspace

The Defense Ministry earlier announced that it “strongly suspects” objects that flew over Japan in 2019, 2020 and 2021 were Chinese spy balloons.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 15, 2023

What Japan's commitment to deterrence will end up looking like

Japan’s government with its new strategy documents has broken ground with a public commitment to build up the country’s counterstrike and rapid mobilization capabilities.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 15, 2023

Elderly brothers eke out life among ruins of Ukraine war

'We are 80, we've worked all our lives, in the same garden and now we're waiting for death,' one of the brothers said. 'What else can we be waiting for?'
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 15, 2023

Tiger Woods laments 'turbulent' time for golf

While banned from PGA Tour events, LIV players have been invited to compete at the Masters, with tensions potentially expected at the traditional champions' dinner.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 15, 2023

U.S. inflation eases but policymakers' battle not over

The U.S. central bank has hiked interest rates rapidly in the past year to raise borrowing costs and cool demand in the world's biggest economy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 15, 2023

Omicron variant, thought to be milder, can increase risk for diabetes

Rates of newly diagnosed diabetes, high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol were higher in the 90 days after COVID-19 infection than the period before, according to a study.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 15, 2023

Rising seas threaten exodus on 'biblical' scale, warns U.N. head

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said countries such as Bangladesh, China, India and the Netherlands are all in danger.

Longform

Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a “sense of urgency” when it comes to Japan’s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. “We have to make sure we are successful,” he says.
Atsuyoshi Koike’s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go