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JAPAN
Mar 8, 2022

Japan hits Russia and Belarus with more sanctions over Ukraine invasion

Relations between Japan and Russia — from diplomacy to business — are quickly growing fragile as Tokyo joins Western countries in putting pressure on Moscow.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 3, 2022

Historic EU move to provide arms to Ukraine seen as 'paradigm shift' for the bloc

The weapons funding plan marks the first time the European Union, founded to uphold peace after World War II, has collectively provided arms to a third country.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 28, 2022

How the U.S. could tighten sanctions on Russia

The United States has imposed several rafts of sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine while saying all options are on the table for additional action.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 27, 2022

Putin faces sanctions, but his assets remain an enigma

On paper, the Russian president appears to own very little. Yet estimates put his hidden wealth well over $100 billion.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 27, 2022

U.S., U.K., Europe and Canada to block Russian access to SWIFT

The decision by Western nations will exclude some Russian banks from the SWIFT messaging system, used for trillions of dollars worth of transactions between banks around the world.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 26, 2022

France seizes ship suspected of violating sanctions against Russia

The cargo vessel transporting cars, which was headed for St. Petersburg, is 'strongly suspected of being linked to Russian interests targeted by the sanctions.'
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2022

Japan opens up online applications for foreign nationals' entry permits

The government has also released details of eased border restrictions from March following Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's move last week to allow new entries of nontourist foreign nationals.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 24, 2022

Japan to accept Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine for border entry next month

The J&J shot, which has not been approved in Japan, will join a list of three other shots that have been approved by regulators as sufficient for nonresidents to enter.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 24, 2022

Russia could use cryptocurrency to blunt the force of U.S. sanctions

Sanctions have been a powerful tool for the U.S. because of the dollar's dominance in the global economy, but today's digital marketplace is changing that.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 19, 2022

‘Fortress Australia’ has a new message: Come back

Potential travelers and tourism operators alike are cautiously optimistic about 'Fortress Australia's” reopening, but many wonder if its COVID-19 rules will limit the sector's rebound.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 19, 2022

These vaccines have been embraced by the world. Why not in China?

Two years into the pandemic, China's 1.4 billion people still don't have access to one of the most effective coronavirus vaccines the world has to offer.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 18, 2022

Thought to be a success story, South Korea is forced to alter its COVID approach

The government will shift to dedicating its monitoring efforts to high-risk patients who are staying at home, supplying them with at-home treatment kits.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 15, 2022

Arm’s saga highlights complexity of techno-nationalism

Chip manufacturers feared that with the sale, Arm would no longer remain neutral, allowing Nvidia to dominate certain semiconductor markets.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Feb 9, 2022

SoftBank's choice of New York for Arm listing deals a blow to London

The U.K.'s largest homegrown tech firm's move to Nasdaq could pressure the government to speed up overdue reforms.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2022

How China’s communist officials became venture capitalists

The municipal government of Hefei has pioneered a shift in Chinese capitalism over recent years in which local governments are increasingly taking minority stakes in private companies.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Feb 7, 2022

Biankah Bailey: ‘Poetry speaks to the heart of society as it exists from moment to moment’

During Black History Month, writer Biankah Bailey has worked with the Tokyo Poetry Journal to produce 'Umoja,' a book featuring the work of Black creatives.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Feb 4, 2022

As COVID cases surge in Japan, is a state of emergency the way to go?

Record nationwide cases have moved the question to the top of the agenda, but some prefectures and experts are skeptical about what such a move really achieves.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 31, 2022

Buyback regulation concerns are overblown, Tokyo Stock Exchange chief says

Kishida's 'new capitalism” has been among the major themes for investors in Japan since he became prime minister last autumn.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jan 29, 2022

No, athletes are not dying from COVID-19 vaccines

The conspiracy theory that athletes are collapsing or dying after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine has resurfaced after two prominent voices advanced the idea.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 29, 2022

Biden considers Judge J. Michelle Childs for Supreme Court nomination

Other names expected to be on Biden's list include Ketanji Brown Jackson, a federal judge; Leondra Kruger, of the California Supreme Court; and Sherrilyn Ifill, a civil rights lawyer.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 25, 2022

The logistical nightmare of getting athletes to the Olympics

The official playbook stipulates people must take two COVID-19 tests within 96 hours of their departure to China, and one of those two tests must be within 72 hours.
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
CULTURE / Books
Jan 8, 2022

Exciting translations and books about Japan to bookmark for 2022

From Yoko Tawada's “Scattered All Over the Earth” to Sayaka Murata's “Life Ceremony,” this year's new releases are sure to brighten up your 2022.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Jan 7, 2022

Japan needs a real economic security strategy

Japan should make products that it and the rest of the world need so that the nation is considered an integral partner.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 6, 2022

Rapid COVID-19 tests are reselling for triple the retail price in U.S.

A spike in U.S. coronavirus cases has resulted in skyrocketing demand for at-home kits — and an unregulated private market selling them.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 4, 2022

Subtle word choice in China's IPO rules revives hope for Hong Kong

Speculation is growing that authorities may make it easier for companies to list in Hong Kong than in other offshore financial hubs.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Dec 30, 2021

Star receivers abound as Chiefs and Bengals jockey for playoff positions

After a rash of COVID-19 infections riddled Kansas City's two-deep a week ago, everyone on the 53-man active roster was free of the virus when preparations for the Bengals began Wednesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 29, 2021

How errors and inaction sent a deadly COVID-19 variant around the world

In early 2021, flare-ups in the Indian city of Amravati were the first visible warning that the delta variant was spreading. A devastating path across the world would soon follow.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 29, 2021

'Erasing history': Russia closes top rights group, capping year of crackdowns

The closure of Memorial International bookmarks a year in which Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin's top critic, was jailed, his movement banned and many of his allies forced to flee.
In a first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google
The Google logo is seen at the company's Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. Japanese authorities on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order to Google over an alleged violation of the country's anti-monopoly law.
Tokyo hotel operators face possible warnings over suspected price cartel
Foreign tourists gather on a platform at Kyoto Station on Wednesday.
Japan and the U.S. begin tariff talks on good terms, but without breakthroughs
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, speaks to reporters in Washington on Wednesday.
Magnitude 5.0 earthquake jolts Nagano
A map showing the location of an earthquake that hit Nagano Prefecture on Friday evening, with the numbers indicating the seismic intensity on the shindo scale to 7.
Parts of Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines to be suspended over weekend
Sections of the outer loop of Tokyo's Yamanote Line and the Keihin-Tohoku Line will be shut down all day Saturday, and from the start of service through around noon on Sunday.
Tokyo stock picker advises Trump-proofing portfolios with Godzilla-creator Toho
The head of Godzilla, a Japanese monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo. Toho is one tariff-defensive stock being recommended by brokers.
LDP and CDP lawmaker groups propose 0% consumption tax on food
A vegetable stand displays prices at a supermarket in Tokyo in 2023. Some lawmakers are proposing lowering the consumption tax on food to 0%, which is expected to result in a loss of up to ¥5 trillion in tax revenue annually.
Tokyo hotel operators face possible warnings over suspected price cartel
Foreign tourists gather on a platform at Kyoto Station on Wednesday.
Kyotographie 2025 opts for laughter and levity in the face of global strife
Palestinian American photographer Adam Rouhana’s exhibition at this year’s Kyotographie festival shows Palestinian life, not death and rubble.
Privacy and transparency clash in debate over bill on artificial insemination
Sachiko Ishizuka, who was born via artificial insemination by donor (AID), tells her story to lawmakers from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan on April 9.

Podcast

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

Longform

Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.
By Tomoko Otake

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