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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 26, 2020

China’s digital currency will rise but not rule

A new version of the renminbi will fail to challenge the U.S. dollar's global dominance.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 26, 2020

Belarus is Putin’s to lose

The Russian president's continued support for the Lukashenko regime risks pushing the country toward the West.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 26, 2020

Melania Trump offers sympathy on coronavirus and racial suffering in speech

U.S. first lady Melania Trump offered sympathy for victims of the coronavirus pandemic and a plea for racial understanding in a Republican convention speech Tuesday aimed directly at the women voters who have abandoned U.S. President Donald Trump.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2020

How does the COVID-19 recession compare?

Although every recession is different, history offers lessons for the current pandemic-induced downturn.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 25, 2020

Trump re-election could calm China ties — or burn them down

With his plans to focus on the economy to secure re-election in tatters amid the pandemic, Trump needs another rallying point. Enter Beijing.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Aug 25, 2020

I'm happy to be in Japan, but it shouldn't have taken this long to get back

After six months stuck outside Japan, a British student reflects on his journey back to some kind of normalcy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 25, 2020

Russian-backed organizations amplifying QAnon conspiracy theories, researchers say

Russian government-supported organizations are playing a small but increasing role amplifying conspiracy theories promoted by QAnon, raising concerns of interference in the November U.S. election.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 25, 2020

MUFG plans to offer COVID-19 bonds to individual investors

Japan’s biggest lender is planning to raise funds from individual investors to help smaller companies and hospitals tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Aug 25, 2020

Let's discuss an app dispute

A Bloomberg article dives into a dispute companies are having with Apple and introduces English terminology used in legal disputes.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 24, 2020

China investors predict record defaults in risky end to 2020

Some fund managers are bracing for defaults on domestic Chinese debt to hit record highs this year.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Aug 24, 2020

Javelin thrower Genki Dean finds footing at National Stadium

The Golden Grand Prix was the first senior track event since the completion of the new National Stadium, and most athletes praised the facilities.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 24, 2020

Longtime White House adviser Kellyanne Conway to leave at end of August

White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said late Sunday that she will be leaving the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump at the end of August, citing the need to focus on her family.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 24, 2020

China's wedding gown city sees trade shrink as couples cut back amid virus

By 2023, China's market for goods and services related to nuptuals was expected to be worth 3 trillian yuan.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 23, 2020

Fomenting intellectual revolution in the MENA region

A lack of basic data and limited space for independent discourse are preventing needed reforms.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 23, 2020

Threatened by Facebook disinformation, a Buddhist monk flees Cambodia

The case shows how repressive governments can move with stunning speed to disgrace opponents, using social media and technology to amplify their divisive campaigns.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 23, 2020

Alexei Navalny, being treated in Germany, looms over Russian politics

How the incident will affect Russia's political scene will hinge in part on Navalny's longer-term condition and whether he will be able to return home, analysts said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 23, 2020

‘A bit surreal’: The lonely plight of the Great Barrier Reef

The pandemic has fast-forwarded a looming reckoning for the city of Cairns, the main gateway to the reef.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Aug 22, 2020

Yellow brick roads: How Japan's tactile paving aids solo travel

Revolutionary tiles may have given the visually impaired more independence, but developers aren't content to rest on their laurels just yet.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 22, 2020

'The Iconoclast' tackles Shinzo Abe’s political legacy

Tobias Harris' sweeping new biography serves as a definitive work on Japan's longest-serving prime minister.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 22, 2020

After COVID-19, China’s leaders face new challenges from flooding

Having brought the coronavirus pandemic largely under control, China’s leaders are now struggling with a surge of crippling floods that have killed hundreds of people and displaced millions across the central and southwestern parts of the country.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 22, 2020

Democrats tiptoe around how loudly to sound alarm on voting risk

Speakers at the Democratic National Convention this week had to walk a careful line between warning Joe Biden’s supporters of obstacles to voting and being so negative that they discourage participation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 22, 2020

Joe Biden campaign pulls in $70 million for convention week

Joe Biden’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee raised $70 million over the four-day Democratic National Convention, the campaign announced Friday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 22, 2020

Joe Biden says he would shut down the U.S. if scientists recommend it

U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he would listen to government scientists on the coronavirus — even if it means shutting the country down.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 21, 2020

Macroeconomic challenges amid the COVID-19 crisis

The government faces a difficult road ahead in guiding the economy through all the twists and turns of the pandemic.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 21, 2020

The impact of the U.S. presidential election on Japan-U.S. relations

No matter who wins on Nov. 3, the Japan-U.S. alliance maintains its strong foundation.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 21, 2020

Would Joe Biden be 'Obama 2.0' when it comes to Northeast Asia?

The former vice president, who formally accepted his party's nomination Thursday, is renowned for his foreign policy chops.
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
Real estate worth ¥25 trillion puts Japan companies in spotlight
Elliott Investment Management's stake in Tokyo Gas is centered around getting the utility to sell off its real estate holdings, including Shinjuku Park Tower, which houses the Park Hyatt Hotel Tokyo.
Two dead after fire at Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi’s apartment
A fire broke out on the sixth floor of an apartment building where Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi resides on Wednesday in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward.
Japan investigating Amazon for allegedly bullying other businesses
Packages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon warehouse
Tokyo’s take on that viral chocolate from Dubai
Cafe N°_5's take on the Dubai chocolate craze that has been circulating on social media over the past few months is a mix of bitter and sweet.
‘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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