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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 25, 2020

Japan’s economic backbone creaks under the weight of COVID-19

Domestic small and medium-size businesses are bearing the brunt of business closures amid a nationwide state of emergency.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 20, 2020

Strength in numbers: A more open approach to tracking the virus in Japan

Like many foreign residents of Japan during the early days of the country's COVID-19 outbreak, Shane Reustle and Jiahui Zhou recall poring over websites run by the health ministry and local municipalities to try to get a clear picture of how infections were spreading in the world’s third-largest economy....
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 17, 2020

With Japan-wide emergency, Abe highlights sense of crisis over virus

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday evening pressed for cooperation from all citizens in the fight against the spreading coronavirus following his decision to expand the state of emergency nationwide.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 16, 2020

Tokyo's bumper virus emergency fund highlights yawning wealth gap

The Tokyo package offers u00a5500,000 to u00a51 million in cash for small businesses that voluntarily comply with virus countermeasures and curtail or suspend their operations.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 15, 2020

COVID-19 pandemic prompts a digital revolution

Even as the novel coronavirus pandemic throws the global economy into turmoil and as commercial activities are paralyzed in Japan under the state of emergency declared by the government, at least one sector is seeing an expansion in demand — “virtual” business models and online transactions that...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Food Sustainability in Japan
Apr 11, 2020

To meat, or not to meat: The future of Japanese cellular agriculture

Would you notice if the cubed meat in your cup noodle wasn’t “real” meat? If you did, would you care? What if the future of our meat supply counted on it?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 10, 2020

Tokyo announces monthlong action plan to contain coronavirus outbreak

The plan, which took effect Saturday and lasts until May 6, requests the temporary closure of a long list of businesses and private facilities.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 7, 2020

Emergency declared in Japan for Tokyo, Osaka and five other virus hot spots

Basic infrastructure — electricity, water supply and gas — as well as businesses such as supermarkets, banks and public transportation, will not be impacted by the declaration.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 6, 2020

What makes up the Inamori management philosophy?

The engine of a pure and beautiful altruistic mind is much powerful than one driven by desires.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 5, 2020

Could Keir Starmer be U.K. Labour’s knight in dull armor?

After a decade in the political wasteland, members of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party have chosen a moderate, unflashy lawyer as their new leader. Their hope is that turning the page on the socialist radical Jeremy Corbyn, who was resoundingly rejected by voters last year, will see them re-take...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 4, 2020

No lockdown needed? Japan stores are shutting down voluntarily

Japan's restaurant, bar and chain stores are taking matters into their own hands by voluntarily shuttering hundreds of stores to help curb the coronavirus spread.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Apr 3, 2020

Aichi schools' field trip plans upended by spread of COVID-19

As the number of COVID-19 infections surge, especially in the Tokyo metropolitan area, many junior high schools in Aichi Prefecture have been forced to change their school trip schedules, which are typically held in the spring with third-year students traveling to the Kanto region, or other destinations....
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 1, 2020

NSC change prepares Japan for new global realities

Japan is moving toward a wiser decision-making process when it comes to key security questions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 1, 2020

The Battle of Okinawa: Could more civilians have been saved?

The true lesson of the Battle of Okinawa may be that civilian deaths in war can and should be kept to the absolute minimum.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 31, 2020

More than 1,000 workers may lose jobs in Japan due to virus spread

Many of the workers seen to be fired are in the tour bus or hotel industries.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / FOREIGN AGENDA
Mar 30, 2020

Facing the COVID-19 crisis in Japan with a disability

One thing that's clear about the coronavirus pandemic is that if even one person is left behind, it could prove disastrous to us all.
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 27, 2020

Burning wood can be a clean source of power after all

Burning large amounts of wood from forests can cut greenhouse gas pollution — but only alongside policies that encourage new trees to quickly absorb carbon dioxide.
Reader Mail
Mar 27, 2020

Foreign teachers need financial assistance

With the possibility of the coronavirus outbreak growing worse and the difficulty many workers face, foreign teachers such as myself also have concerns.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 25, 2020

Now is the time for Japan to make a digital shift

The coronavirus pandemic has made it clear that Japan lags far behind other countries in putting new digital technologies to actual use.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 25, 2020

Toward a 2021 Tokyo Olympics

By postponing the games, Abe has put Japan — and himself — at the center of the post-pandemic recovery effort.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Mar 25, 2020

25 years after Tokyo subway attack, Aum is a shadow of its former self

Doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo's sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway trains shocked Japan and the world, raising concerns over nonstate organizations obtaining weapons of mass destruction.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2020

As virus cases surge, Tokyo governor says lockdown may be only way to stem rise

An additional 17 individuals were confirmed on Tuesday to have tested positive, the largest number of cases the city has seen in a single day.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 22, 2020

Apparent false conviction brings Japan's justice system back into the spotlight

After already having served a 12-year prison sentence following her conviction for murdering a patient, former assistant nurse Mika Nishiyama, 40, is expected to finally be acquitted on March 31.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 21, 2020

Coronavirus will change how we shop, travel and work for years

Every economic shock leaves a legacy. The deadly coronavirus will be no different.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2020

A silent hero of the coronavirus crisis

Were it not for technology, the battle against COVID-19 would be lost by now.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 17, 2020

The world is at war

All countries should be following China in confronting the coronavirus directly with all available resources, and they should take a lesson from Germany in managing the economic fallout.
Taiwan stuns Samurai Japan to capture Premier12 title
Japan starter Shosei Togo reacts after allowing a three-run home run against Taiwan in the fifth inning of the Premier12 final on Sunday.
Ishiba shelves proposal for liaison offices with North Korea amid rising tensions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks on Saturday in Tokyo at a rally that was held by a group of families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago to demand the immediate return of all abductees.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Japan beats Taiwan ahead of rematch in Premier12 final
Keita Sano celebrates with his teammates after scoring on Kotaro Kiyomiya's two-run triple against Taiwan during their Premier12 game at Tokyo Dome on Saturday.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
An iconic 32-foot doughnut might give Randy’s an edge in Japan
Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, California. Replicas of the giant doughnut sculpture will be installed, where possible, at shops in Japan.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.

Podcast

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

Longform

Totopa in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward was picked by consultants TTNE as the best sauna of the year.
Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat
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