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Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jan 25, 2021
How space became the next ‘great power’ contest between the U.S. and China
Among the most important national security issues now facing U.S. President Joe Biden is how to contend with the threat that China poses to the American military in space.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jan 24, 2021
The arrest of Asia's 'most-wanted' drug boss
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimated that Tse Chi Lop's drug syndicate earned as much as $17 billion from trafficking drugs in 2018.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 24, 2021
U.S. sends carrier into South China Sea as Chinese bombers fly near Taiwan
The dispatch of the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group to the waterway was seen as an implicit message to China just days after U.S. President Joe Biden's inauguration.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 24, 2021
New U.S. defense chief confirms Senkakus fall under security treaty
Tokyo likely to be encouraged by new U.S. defense chief's apparent embrace of Japan's “Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy.'
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 23, 2021
How will Biden deal with China?
Back in 2008, when Joe Biden was on the campaign trail running for vice president, the Democratic senator from Delaware once told fundraisers that the world will “test the mettle” of Barack Obama.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 23, 2021
'One village, one policy': China keeps it local to battle COVID-19 wave
After keeping confirmed new COVID-19 infections to just a handful a day for months, China has seen a spike in cases since the beginning of the year.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 23, 2021
Hong Kong imposes city’s first COVID-19 lockdown in Kowloon area
Hong Kong is locking down thousands of residents for the first time over the weekend to contain a worsening outbreak of the coronavirus.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 23, 2021
A year later, the first post-pandemic city
The long months of harsh lockdown have faded from view in Wuhan, the first city in the world devastated by the new coronavirus.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 22, 2021
China’s disputed virus theory has shoppers shunning foreign food
The consumer distrust is being fueled at least partly by statements from the government, which has taken increasingly drastic steps to curb the risk of the virus spreading via food imports.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 22, 2021
New China swine fever strains point to unlicensed vaccines
The variants of the disease cause a chronic condition that reduces the number of healthy piglets born.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 22, 2021
China trade row has cost Australia $3 billion in lost exports
The relatively small impact suggests there is little economic need for the country to bow to pressure from Beijing.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY
Jan 21, 2021
The ugly truth about a 'beautiful sight' in Hong Kong
One weaponized use of the Nancy Pelosi's quote in reference to the Capitol attack comes from a staunchly nationalistic Beijing tabloid.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jan 21, 2021
How Japan can help the U.K. meet its China challenge
With London and Tokyo sharing a view on the impact of Beijing's rise, now is the time for a bilateral policy dialogue to further align their diplomatic, economic and security interests.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 21, 2021
Wanted: Communist Party leadership to keep Vietnam in sweet spot amid U.S.-China tensions
Vietnam's ruling Communist Party gathers for a congress next week that will help shape the country's global role for the next five years, selecting new leaders and setting policy as tensions bubble with Beijing and Joe Biden settles in at the White House.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 21, 2021
Vaccines become latest front line in China's campaign to win hearts of Taiwanese
China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, is making the free-of-charge offer at a time when the democratic island has yet to begin vaccinations of its own.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 21, 2021
China barricades part of capital as COVID-19 outbreak escalates
Beijing has imposed a lockdown of 1.7 million people in part of the Chinese capital as officials race to prevent a COVID-19 resurgence in the country’s northern region from seeping into its most important city.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 21, 2021
Taiwan-Biden ties off to strong start with invite for top diplomat
Taiwan's relationship with its most important global backer has gotten off to a strong start with U.S. President Joe Biden's new administration, after the island's de facto ambassador attended his inauguration.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 21, 2021
Twitter locks out Chinese Embassy in U.S. over post on Uighurs
Twitter Inc. has locked the official account for the Chinese Embassy to the U.S. after a post that defended the Beijing government’s policies in the western region of Xinjiang, where critics say China is engaged in the forced sterilization of minority Uighur women.
Japan investigating Amazon for allegedly bullying other businesses
Packages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon warehouse
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Japanese man broke into 1,000 homes to 'relieve stress'
Fukuoka Prefectural Police Headquarters in Fukuoka. Police took a 37-year-old man into custody on Monday on suspicion of trespassing on a property in Dazaifu City.
Wild boar injures six at Himeji child care facility
Hyogo Prefectural Police headquarters. A wild boar attacked children and staff at a child care facility in the prefecture on Tuesday.
Russia says it will respond if U.S. places missiles in Japan
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova at a news conference in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in June
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
China defense minister being investigated for corruption, report says
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun attends the opening ceremony of the Xiangshan Forum at the Beijing International Convention Center on Sept. 13. Dong is the third consecutive incumbent or former defense chief to be probed over alleged corruption.
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.

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