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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 12, 2021

Pirated-entertainment sites are making billions from ads

Websites and apps featuring pirated movies and TV shows make about $1.3 billion from advertising each year, including from major companies like Amazon.com Inc., according to a study.
Japan Times
PRESS / Publications
Aug 6, 2021

New issue of Foreign Student Times published

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 21, 2021

Generation Z should fear a guaranteed income

A new paper suggests the skeptics may be right: A universal basic income may cause more harm than good for a very high cost.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 20, 2021

Tree-huggers know more than you think

Planting trees is good for the environment. The first and most immediate benefit is their ability to remove particulate matter and other forms of air pollution.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 18, 2021

‘Long COVID’ fears grow in U.K. as curbs end and delta surges

For about 1 million people across the U.K., COVID-19 didn't just go away. Instead it lingered, causing exhaustion, shortness of breath, cognitive issues and other health problems.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 17, 2021

Moon 'wobble' and climate change seen as driving coastal flooding in 2030s

U.S. coastlines will face increasing flooding in the mid-2030s thanks to a regular lunar cycle that will magnify rising sea levels caused by climate change, according to research led by NASA scientists.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 9, 2021

Pfizer outlines booster plans while regulators signal caution

Pfizer Inc. plans to request U.S. emergency authorization in August for a third booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 9, 2021

Countries using Chinese-made vaccines and AstraZeneca increasingly eye boosters

Officials are being motivated by concerns that delta and other variants appear to be breaking down defenses of vaccines not made from the supereffective messenger RNA technology.
Japan Times
LIFE / Longform
Jul 8, 2021

In search of Japan's lost wolves: Zoological mystery

The true identity of the Japanese wolf has attracted much research, and yet the elusive carnivore remains one of Japan's greatest zoological mysteries.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2021

Paid maternity leave saves lives

Without paid leave, mothers often return to work before they are healthy enough to do so, resulting in a ripple effect of postpartum health complications.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 15, 2021

A top virologist in China, at center of a pandemic storm, speaks out

The virologist, Shi Zhengli, said in a rare interview that speculation about her lab in Wuhan was baseless. But China's habitual secrecy makes her claims hard to validate.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 8, 2021

Gangrene and hearing loss show delta variant may be more severe

In England and Scotland, early evidence suggests the strain — which is now dominant there — carries a higher risk of hospitalization.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jun 6, 2021

Should we worry so much about our BMI?

There are few single measures in health care that seem to carry as much weight as body mass index, or BMI. We encounter it not just at doctor’s offices, but with online calculators and smart scales, at gyms and even when determining eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jun 4, 2021

Dress like Naruto? Great cosplay. Speak like Naruto? Hmm, chotto …

With anime's popularity booming, some may see it as a shortcut to learning Japanese. But you wouldn't necessarily learn English from Donald Duck, would you?
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 20, 2021

Dogs sniffing COVID-19 from sweat fare nearly as well as PCR tests

The results mean that virus-sniffing dogs could be more widely deployed in airports, train stations or wherever crowds amass to screen people.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
May 17, 2021

Global officials embrace what experts have long said: COVID-19 is airborne

Scientists are calling for ventilation systems to be overhauled like public water supplies were in the 1800s after fetid pipes were found to harbor cholera.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
May 13, 2021

Chinese shot takes controversial path to vaccinating the world

Used to operating within China, where public opinion is censored, Chinese vaccine-makers have had a tough time showing their 'growth in front of the world,' an expert said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 4, 2021

Hard to believe, but we’re running out of sand

Sizzling demand in a post-pandemic recovery will encourage the usual bad behaviors that accompany exploding markets: environmental degradation, forced labor and criminal profiteering.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health / FOCUS
Apr 29, 2021

Her prophecy of an Australian inferno was proven right

Climate change is a politically charged issue in much of the world. But the debate is especially heated in Australia.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 17, 2021

Why the vaccine safety numbers are still fuzzy

If there is a connection between the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and a rare clotting syndrome, new cases are likely to emerge now that the word is out.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 5, 2021

School's out in much of the world, but Japanese teachers are happy to return

Japan's situation contrasts sharply with that in other countries, where the question of whether to reopen schools has become a hot-button political issue.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 1, 2021

Beijing is getting better at disinformation on global social media

Several in-depth investigations published over the past two months have shed light on the evolution of disinformation campaigns originating in China.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 31, 2021

WHO chief faults COVID-19 report for dismissing lab leak theory

A group of more than a dozen nations, including Japan and the U.S., issued a joint statement saying the mission's report lacked sufficient access.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 22, 2021

Whale sightings aid quest to protect wildlife in Indian Ocean oasis

Scientists are on a quest to document whales and other marine mammals living around the Mascarene Plateau, hoping to bolster arguments for protecting the remote underwater ridge.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 18, 2021

Carbon emissions from trawler fishing on a par with aviation

Bottom trawling, a fishing method that involves dragging heavy nets across the ocean floor, produces 1 gigaton of carbon emissions on average each year, a study has found.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / The World of Translators
Mar 13, 2021

Cathy Hirano: Translation is a door to another world

Translator Cathy Hirano balances her time between freelance translations and young adult literature, and has earned accolades for both. Although her most recognized translations are for lifestyle guru Marie Kondo’s wildly popular works, starting with “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,” Hirano’s...
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.
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.
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.

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

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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
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