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Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 4, 2023

Growing pains: Niseko-area town of Kutchan faces questions over sustainable development

With tourism to Japan having fully resumed, developers are once again looking at the Niseko area as a place to invest and build. But can it be done sustainably?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 3, 2023

Cashless 'saisen' religious offerings spread amid COVID pandemic

Many believe that cashless saisen offerings could help reduce the spread of COVID-19 as people can avoid crowds forming around offering boxes at temples and shrines.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 3, 2023

Japan to relax rules on defense equipment transfer between nations

The move is aimed at supporting the shrinking domestic defense industry.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 3, 2023

Philippine leader to broach South China Sea issue on China trip

A business delegation is also traveling with Marcos and more than 10 bilateral agreements are expected to be signed on cooperation in areas including trade and investment.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 3, 2023

COVID-19 tracker: Tokyo reports 9,628 new cases

The figure was down by 12,435 from a week before, marking the seventh straight day of week-on-week declines.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 3, 2023

Actually, it has been a wonderful year for tech’s future

Things looked bleak for the technology sector in 2022. Yet progress across the board gives reason to be optimistic about the coming few years.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 3, 2023

The world’s fantasy destination has an answer to climate oblivion

The Maldives has turned to island building to stave off the impact of global warming, with tourists hoped to foot the bill. But the initiatives come with an environmental cost.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 3, 2023

A plea and a promise for 2023: No more ‘pacifism’

The characterization of Japan as a “pacifist” country is widespread — and very misleading.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 3, 2023

Reviving Japan's nuclear power industry will not be easy

All the country's reactors were shut down for safety checks after the Fukushima meltdown, and there are currently 33 considered operable. By mid-December, nine were generating electricity.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 3, 2023

'Big challenges': Choosing a nuclear career in Japan

In the decade after the Fukushima disaster, the number of atomic science students in Japan fell by more than a quarter, according to the education ministry.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Jan 3, 2023

No need to fold twin strollers, Tokyo bus firm reassures passengers

Toei Bus is trying to allay concerns about bus use that grew after a former national team volleyball player wrote about difficulties she experienced using the bus with her twins.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 3, 2023

Femtech taking off in Japan, but room for further growth remains

Analysts say consumers, businesses and the government must cooperate to help develop the industry.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jan 3, 2023

MLB stars put Japan on track to reclaim WBC crown

Yu Darvish and Seiya Suzuki will be playing in their third World Baseball Classic, with Shohei Ohtani set to make his debut after he sat out in 2017 with an ankle injury.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 3, 2023

How Russia’s war on Ukraine is worsening global starvation

Moscow blocks most shipments from Ukraine, one of the world's largest wheat producers, and its attacks on the country's energy grid also disrupt the flow of food.
Inter Miami's Lionel Messi scores against Orlando City during the first round of the Leagues Cup in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Wednesday.
SOCCER
Aug 5, 2023

Lionel Messi getting plenty of room to put on show for Inter Miami

Still saddled with the worst record in the league, Inter is playing with panache, and Messi, at times, looks unstoppable.
Signboards for the movies “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” at a theater in Los Angeles 
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 4, 2023

'Barbenheimer' highlights U.S. ignorance of nuclear reality

The “Barbenheimer” craze shows the U.S. education system needs work and Americans need lessons on nuclear weapons.
The protagonist of Yu Miri’s “The End of August” is a fictionalized version of the author’s maternal grandfather, a long-distance runner who lived in Japanese-occupied Korea.
CULTURE / Books
Aug 6, 2023

Yu Miri’s new book is a bleak, dizzying epic in colonized Korea

In “The End of August,” the Akutagawa Prize-winning author excavates her own family history and traces multiple generations living under Japanese rule.
Demonstrators hold a rally in Washington on Thursday, the day former U.S. President Donald Trump, who is facing federal charges related to attempts to overturn his 2020 election, appeared in a U.S. district court in the nation's capital.
EDITORIALS
Aug 4, 2023

The United States of America vs. Donald J. Trump

The outcome of the trial against former U.S. President Donald Trump will test the rule of law and U.S. democracy.
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the White House in Washington last month.
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2023

Biden order curbing investment to China expected in coming days

The goal of the order is to prevent U.S. capital and expertise from accelerating the development of tech that would support China's military.
Chinese Special Envoy for Eurasian Affairs Li Hui leaves the headquarters of the Russian Foreign Ministry following talks in Moscow in late May.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 5, 2023

China envoy to attend talks on Ukraine in Saudi Arabia

The talks on a peaceful settlement to the Ukraine war — a forum that excludes Moscow — is a diplomatic coup for Kyiv, the West and the Saudi hosts.
Already imprisoned Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny (second left) listens to his verdict over a series of extremism charges at the IK-6 penal colony, a maximum-security prison some 250 kilometers (155 miles) east of Moscow, on Friday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 5, 2023

Putin critic Alexei Navalny has 19 years added to prison term

The jailed opposition figure said after said the sentence was designed to cow the Russian people into political submission.
Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in Albia, Iowa, on July 27.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 5, 2023

Ron DeSantis' top donor says no more money unless changes made

The biggest individual donor to a group supporting the Florida governor's presidential wants DeSantis to adopt a more moderate approach.
Travis King
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 5, 2023

U.S. won't invoke POW status for soldier who fled to North Korea

The decision, which could mean Travis King is not covered by protections entitled under the Geneva Convention, is highly sensitive for the U.S. military.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping attends the joint news conference of the China-Central Asia Summit in Xian, China, in May.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 5, 2023

Xi spent two days outside China in 2023 as problems mount

Mounting domestic problems from a faltering economy to rare political scandals have demanded the Chinese leader's attention at home.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 5, 2023

Iran foreign minister eyeing Japan visit to meet Kishida

Kishida may bring up the issue of Tehran selling weapons to Moscow, with Japan aiming to leverage its relationship with Iran to help end the Ukraine war.
Japan ranked 116 out of 146 countries in last year’s Global Gender Gap Report by the World Economic Forum, far below all of its Group of Seven peers.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 5, 2023

Few top-listed Japan firms have 30% female directors, report says

Only 68 companies on the Prime Market Index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange have 30% or more women represented on the board, the Nikkei daily has reported.
The aftermath of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima in the closing days of World War II
JAPAN / History
Aug 5, 2023

Smithsonian museum plans to show photos of A-bomb aftermath

The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, however, does not currently plan to present photos or personal belongs of the bombing victims.
Noriyasu Kitabatake, a 21-year-old member of Nihon University's American football team, is arrested Saturday for alleged possession of cannabis and an illegal stimulant, at his dormitory on Saturday morning.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 5, 2023

Nihon University student arrested for alleged drug possession

A 21-year-old member of Nihon University's American football team was arrested Saturday for alleged possession of cannabis and an illegal stimulant.
Officials from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office remove seized items from the office of Liberal Democratic Party Lower House lawmaker Masatoshi Akimoto in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 5, 2023

LDP lawmaker embroiled in bribery allegation leaves ruling party

Lower House member Masatoshi Akimoto quit the ruling party in the wake of allegations that he accepted bribes from a wind power company.
People use umbrellas and parasols to seek relief from soaring temperatures while waiting to cross a street outside Tokyo's Shinjuku Station last week.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 5, 2023

Japan marks hottest day of year as mercury hits 40 C

The record temperature was marked in Date, Fukushima Prefecture, as a heat wave continues to scorch much of the country.

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