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Japan Times
SOCCER
Jan 2, 2023

Days of wins and roses: Covering Pele’s Cosmos

Pele remained humble while turning the Cosmos into one of the hottest tickets in New York.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 27, 2022

China to drop COVID-19 quarantine for incoming travelers

From Jan. 8, visitors will be required to show only a negative PCR test taken within 48 hours.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Dec 17, 2022

In suspending journalists on Twitter, Musk flexes his media muscle

Elon Musk's decision to abruptly suspend several journalists underscored the role of a simpler, more enduring element of American life: the press baron.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 14, 2022

Scientists achieve nuclear fusion breakthrough with blast of 192 lasers

If fusion can be deployed on a large scale, it would offer an energy source devoid of the pollution and greenhouse gases caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 24, 2022

Haunted by disaster, volunteers search for survivors in Indonesia

Amid aftershocks and landslides from Monday's deadly quake in West Java, bands of volunteer rescuers have put aside their daily lives to save others.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 10, 2022

Biden celebrates beating the odds, but he faces a new challenge

The president conceded that Donald Trump's supporters retain enormous influence and will be a challenge for him.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 5, 2022

Russia sends ill-trained draftees into combat amid losses, analysts say

Ukraine's military and Western analysts say Russian forces are making fruitless attacks in eastern Ukraine and taking heavy losses after a hastily arranged draft added over 300,000 troops.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Sep 30, 2022

Japanese lawmakers moving to make state funeral rules

The move comes after the recent state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe saw a split in opinion among both the public and politicians.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 16, 2022

Rise of far-right party in Sweden was both expected and shocking

The Sweden Democrats, with roots in neo-Nazism, came in second in national elections and will have a powerful influence on a new center-right government.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 13, 2022

From policy to pageantry: Prime Minister Liz Truss’ dizzying first week

Truss took over a British government facing an economic emergency. But those problems have been eclipsed by the queen's death, an epochal event that has put politics on hold.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 9, 2022

A global outpouring of grief mixes with criticism of the monarchy

Many of the official reactions of leaders read as prepackaged sentiment. But some seemed genuine, as if a profoundly important constant in life had suddenly vanished.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 3, 2022

The two parties finally agree on something: American democracy is in danger

In a remarkable consensus, a new Quinnipiac University poll found that 69% of Democrats and 69% of Republicans say that democracy is 'in danger of collapse.”
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 27, 2022

Ukraine weighs a risky offensive to break out of a stalemate

Both Russia and Ukraine are preparing for a protracted standoff, but Ukraine has greater incentive to try to avoid it.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 18, 2022

As Russia runs low on drones, Iran plans to step in, U.S. officials say

The potential delivery of hundreds of Iranian drones would help the Kremlin replenish a fleet that has suffered steep losses in Ukraine.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 3, 2022

In city where ‘Europe starts,’ ethnic Russians begin questioning Putin’s war

Narva, Estonia, is the EU's most ethnically Russian city, with a population supportive of Vladimir Putin. But the conflict in Ukraine has set off a “mental war” between old and young.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 31, 2022

Why China is miles ahead in a Pacific race for influence

To many observers, the South Pacific today reveals what American decline looks like. Even as U.S. officials have tried to step up their game, they are still far behind.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 29, 2022

Gun massacres test whether Washington can move beyond paralysis

Emerging details of the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, suggest that few of the proposals under discussion would have made much of a difference.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 18, 2022

With Ukraine taking firmer stance, peace talks grind to a halt

After weeks of trying to hammer out a peace deal, negotiators for Russia and Ukraine appear further apart than at any other point in the nearly three-monthlong war.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 26, 2022

U.S. officials repeatedly urged China to help avert war in Ukraine

The Americans presented Chinese officials with intelligence on Russia's troop buildup in hopes that President Xi Jinping would step in, but were repeatedly rebuffed.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Feb 14, 2022

Failed coup puts spotlight back on Guinea-Bissau's role in cocaine trade

The country's location and lax law enforcement make it attractive to cartels, who have looked to avoid scrutiny typically reserved for cargoes originating in South America.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 16, 2022

Texas synagogue hostages freed, gunman dead after standoff

All hostages held by a gunman at a synagogue in Texas have been freed after a standoff that ended in the death of their captor.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 16, 2022

The decades of discoveries before the ‘miraculous’ sprint to a vaccine

The breakthroughs behind the vaccines unfolded over decades, little by little, as scientists across the world pursued research in disparate areas.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 17, 2021

On podcasts and radio, misleading COVID-19 talk goes unchecked

According to a survey, many young people primarily get their news through audio, trusting it more than print or video.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2021

China’s record-setting incursions into Taiwan’s ADIZ

Incursions into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) by Chinese military aircraft have broken consecutive records in the past week, with 154 warplanes dispatched to Taiwan’s ADIZ over the past five days.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 16, 2021

How many Olympic medals are enough?

Is the obsession with winning Olympic glory a healthy form of patriotism or an unhealthy kind of nationalism?
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jul 3, 2021

Japan’s LGBTQ community ends up losing thanks to intraparty politics in the LDP

The media coverage of a bill on LGBTQ 'understanding' focuses on a conservative purity test instead of the contents of the legislation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 17, 2021

The man behind Brazil's search for miracle COVID-19 cures

One official's ascent reveals the central role that unproven treatments continue to play in Brazil.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 21, 2021

Two very different ‘two-plus-two’ meetings

Were the Tokyo and Seoul two-plus-two meetings successful? For Japan, it was a great beginning and much more successful than expected.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 31, 2020

Sean Connery, the actor who introduced world to James Bond, dies at 90

Though he made more than 60 films, Connery was most closely affiliated with the debonair fictional British spy he portrayed seven times.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 4, 2020

Shigeru Ishiba offers raft of fresh policy ideas ahead of LDP election

The former defense minister pledged to retain the best of Abe's legacy, addressing wealth gaps while adopting a clear-eyed but hawkish stance on regional security.
Chinese buyer of Okinawa Island to make visit in summer
Yanaha Island in Okinawa Prefecture as seen from a ferry.
Protesters storm South Korea court after it extends Yoon's detention
A motorcade believed to be carrying impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeo arrives at the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, South Korea, late Saturday.
German ambassador warns of Trump plan to redefine constitutional order, document shows
German Ambassador to the U.S. Andreas Michaelis has described U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's agenda for his second White House term as one of "maximum disruption."
AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo win U.S. approval for breast cancer drug
Daiichi Sankyo's headquarters in Tokyo
TikTok shuts down U.S. access as Trump seeks app's reinstatement
After months of legal tussles, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that would ban TikTok in the name of national security.
For tourists in search of seasonal sights, Yamagata makes its case
For some time away from Tokyo's suffocating urban sameness, Yamagata Prefecture is home to a soothing array of natural abundance.
A slow dive into ‘a moment and an eternity’ with Ryuichi Sakamoto
From the mid-2000s onward, Ryuichi Sakamoto created a number of installation works, often in collaboration with Shiro Takatani, of multimedia art collective Dumb Type.
The efforts to bridge the disaster information gap, 30 years on
Roxana Oshiro and her husband gather their belongings in front of their house in Furukawacho, in Kobe's Suma Ward, after the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995.
Japan looks to up the ante with more money and partners in military aid program
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Philippine Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo hold a joint news conference in Taguig City, Metro Manila, the Philippines, on Wednesday.
Possibility of Nankai Trough megaquake now 80%, government panel reports
A map of the hypocentral region of an anticipated Nankai Trough earthquake

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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
By Kazuaki Nagata and Richard Meyer

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