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Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 13, 2022

China’s ice hockey squad shows a powerhouse’s weakness: team sports

The Chinese team in the Beijing Olympics could shock the Games. But it is more likely to underscore how little infrastructure the country has for team sports.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 12, 2022

Failed test casts shadow over figure skating, the Olympics’ showcase event

'It's either an intentional delay to allow her to compete or gross incompetence and has resulted in mayhem,' the head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has said.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 11, 2022

Olympics venues slowly add spectators — and a bit of buzz

Organizers are not selling tickets to the general public, instead distributing them to selected groups of coronavirus-screened attendees.
EDITORIALS
Feb 11, 2022

Focus on the substance, not the symbols, of a Japan-U.S. partnership

The Kishida administration will be better served by concentrating on and building upon positive developments with the United States.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 10, 2022

Mikaela Shiffrin under same spotlight Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles faced at Tokyo Games

'It's been an OK couple of days but still tough because you feel like this moment is building and building and building and you feel a bit weighed down by it but I'm OK to feel that way.'
Japan Times
PODCAST / deep dive
Feb 9, 2022

The rise and fall of Japan's ski industry

Japan Times contributor Francesco Basetti joins Deep Dive to discuss the rise and fall of the Japanese ski industry, and how resorts are faring with so few people able to enjoy them.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Feb 9, 2022

Omicron threatens to extend sumo's two-year absence from Osaka

Losing the spring tournament would be a huge blow to the sport's birthplace, but the spread of COVID-19 within sumo is making it a possibility.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Feb 9, 2022

Raging river: Tracing the Arakawa, Japan’s most dangerous water source

While supplying Tokyoites with drinking water, the river has also been prone to deadly floods over the centuries — risks that are now being escalated by climate change.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 8, 2022

Beijing wanted the Winter Olympics. All it needed was snow.

The secret of winter sports is that many competitions take place on artificial snow. China's water-scarce capital had to go to enormous lengths to make enough of it.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 4, 2022

In Beijing, the subject on everybody’s mind but not lips

Political activism has surfaced at many international events, including the Tokyo Olympics last summer, but no other host nation has been as strict as China in policing political dissent.
Japan Times
PRESS / Events
Feb 3, 2022

“Patagonia's initiatives for environmental groups and 1% for the Planet” with Marty Pomphrey

The Japan Times Cube Inc. (representative director: Minako Suematsu) launched Roundtable by The Japan Times, a series of talk events broadcasted in Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 1, 2022

How does Merck's COVID-19 pill compare to Pfizer's?

Pfizer said final trial results showed that its treatment reduced the chance of hospitalization or death by 89%, while Merck said their pill reduced those chances by 30%.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Feb 1, 2022

A photographer to the stars takes up in Tokyo

There are billions of unique individuals in the world. Matthew Jordan Smith says if you want to stand out as a photographer, you need to fine-tune your vision.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 29, 2022

Taiwan athletes won't participate in Winter Games opening ceremony

Self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by China, had feared Beijing could 'downgrade' Taiwan's status by putting its athletes alongside those from Chinese-run Hong Kong at the opening ceremony.
JAPAN
Jan 18, 2022

Japan plans to issue quasi-emergency status for 13 omicron-hit prefectures

With quasi-emergency measures already in place in Yamaguchi, Okinawa and Hiroshima prefectures, the expansion would bring the total to 16 out of 47 prefectures.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 18, 2022

China decides not to sell Olympics tickets to Chinese public

Authorities in China, who had pressed ahead defiantly to fill the venues with spectators, have now had to bow to the grim realities of the pandemic.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 18, 2022

Jamaican Benjamin Alexander beat odds to qualify for giant slalom

Alexander said his career was made possible by the Jamaican bobsleigh team that competed in Calgary, Canada in 1988, which inspired the movie 'Cool Runnings' five years later.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jan 8, 2022

Putin sends message to the West as his troops turn tide in Kazakhstan

Ahead of high-stakes security talks with the U.S., it also sent a reminder of just how determined the Russian president is to defend what he sees as his own neighborhood.
Japan Times
PRESS / Events
Jan 7, 2022

“Integrating sustainability through local and global strategies” with Gavin Dixon

The Japan Times Cube Inc. (representative director, Minako Suematsu) launched Roundtable by The Japan Times, a series of talk events broadcasted in Japan.
JAPAN
Jan 5, 2022

2022 shaping up as pivotal year for success of 2025 Osaka Expo

The Kansai region hopes to wow the world with flying cars, new medical technologies and hydrogen- and ammonia-powered vehicles and buildings. But is there enough time?
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jan 4, 2022

Fast-spreading omicron to test Beijing Winter Games bubble

Core to the planning is the rigidly-enforced closed loop that physically separates Games-related personnel from the local population.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 3, 2022

U.S. Capitol riot panel faces difficult questions as anniversary approaches

Thursday marks a year since a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building, leading to deaths, injuries and a traumatized nation.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Dec 23, 2021

NHL pulls players out of Beijing Olympics due to COVID-19

The decision comes as a huge disappointment for NHL players, who had negotiated a return to the Olympics into the current Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 22, 2021

Typhoon Rai's deadly path through Philippines 'exceeded all predictions,' forecaster says

A lack of real-time data and case studies of similar storms in the region made it difficult for forecasters to predict just how much the storm would intensify.
BUSINESS / Tech / Longform
Dec 20, 2021

How Twitter moderates content in Japan

Japan's top social media platform is drawing increased scrutiny about its operations, particularly in the wake of several high-profile cyberharassment incidents.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Pope Francis, radical leader who broke the papal mold, dies at 88
Pope Francis blesses the faithful during the weekly general audience at the Vatican in August 2023.
Japan mulls reviewing car safety rules to strike deal with Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister and top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday.
Japan tariff negotiator rules out quick U.S. deal despite push by Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to reporters upon his arrival at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday, a day after talks in Washington.
Shohei Ohtani announces birth of daughter
Shohei Ohtani and his wife Mamiko Tanaka attend a Lakers game in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2024.
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
The floor is art: Takuro Tamayama transforms mundanity
Takuro Tamayama’s sculpture “Models (Pair, 6 sets, 12 rings)” comes with a mathematical formation that scales it for different spaces.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Calling all Potterheads: ‘The Goblet of Fire’ comes to Tokyo
The Tokyo version of the globe-trotting exhibition features a Ministry of Magic set, which includes an imposing replica of the Magic Is Might monument representing magical fascism.
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.

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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