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CLIMATE CHANGE

Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 9, 2020
Biden considering new White House office on climate change
Democrat Joe Biden is considering creating a special White House office led by a climate "czar” to coordinate efforts to fight global warming if he is elected president, according to people familiar with the deliberations.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 8, 2020
Climate change-hit nations say survival hangs on tougher 2020 action
The world is set for warming of close to 3 degrees Celsius over preindustrial times even if emissions-cutting pledges made so far are delivered.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 7, 2020
For Trump, a pattern of denial, from coronavirus to Russia to climate change
A recurrent theme of Trump's presidency is the rejection of obvious facts when they don't meet his political needs.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 6, 2020
Political 'retreat' on Paris pact harms all nations, U.N. climate chief says
Rich nations are failing on promises to help poorer ones meet the goals of the Paris agreement on climate change, even though such help would be "not charity but a global act of self-interest," U.N. climate chief Patricia Espinosa said on Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 6, 2020
Plastic pandemic: COVID-19 trashed the recycling dream
The pandemic has intensified a price war between recycled and new plastic, made by the oil industry.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Oct 5, 2020
As cities bake on a warming planet, insurers cook up heat wave cover
Longer and hotter heat waves driven by climate change are becoming an increasingly dangerous — and costly — menace.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 30, 2020
Japan’s offshore wind backers see clean heir to coal and nuclear
Offshore wind could help replace facilities built during Japan's economic boom from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 30, 2020
Rejoining Paris deal would be easy for Biden. The hard part is averting climate disaster.
For a U.S. President Joe Biden, rejoining the Paris agreement would be almost as simple as signing an autograph. The hard part would be everything else.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 29, 2020
Batteries are key to a greener and more electric future
The race to improve battery technology is proceeding on several fronts, the most visible of which is that for electric vehicles.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Sep 29, 2020
China’s top climate scientists unveil road map to 2060 goal
One of China's climate research institutes on Sunday laid out a plan of increasing renewable and nuclear energy and completely phasing out coal power.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 28, 2020
After oil: Throwing money at green energy isn’t enough
COVID-19 and factors are giving governments the chance to move ahead on ambitious plans to advance the transition to alternative energy sources.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 28, 2020
Saudi Arabia sends blue ammonia green fuel to Japan in world first
Japan aims to be a world leader in the use of hydrogen, which is contained in ammonia, as an energy source.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 28, 2020
With EU help, Taiwan gets rare win in China naming dispute
Taiwan expressed satisfaction on Monday and said the European Union had stepped in to help after a global alliance of mayors stopped referring to Taiwanese cities as part of China, in a rare win for the island amid growing Chinese pressure.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Sep 28, 2020
Disease-spreading ticks keep marching north amid climate change
While broad correlation between ticks' spread and global warming is clear, predicting where they will go next as the climate changes is surprisingly daunting.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 27, 2020
Europe’s green state control
Apparently, the bureaucrats in Brussels think that they — and only they — know which technological pathways are best for building a sustainable future.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 24, 2020
China pledge and Biden win could move climate goals into view, scientists say
Keeping planetary heating in check could help avoid some of the worst predicted impacts of climate change, from wilder weather and sea level rise, scientists say.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2020
Coal’s last refuge crumbles with China’s renewables plan
If Asia — and in particular China, which accounts for about half the world's coal consumption — can't break the habit, devastating climate change will be unavoidable.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2020
Avoiding a 'climate lockdown'
To avoid such a lockdown scenario aimed at mitigating climate change, the world must overhaul its economic structures and do capitalism differently.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Sep 22, 2020
Fierce, frequent climate-fueled wildfires may decimate forests worldwide
As climate change makes regions more arid, wildfires have grown more frequent and ferocious.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2020
Don’t give up on recycling plastics
Fortunately for the world, the recycling industry has a history of transforming what was previously “unrecyclable” into useful products. It's poised to do so again.
Nissan says it will not take new U.S. orders for Mexican-built Infiniti SUVs
A Nissan manufacturing complex in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Nissan says it will not take new orders from the United States for two Mexican-built Infiniti SUVs following new auto tariffs levied by the U.S.
Why Japan is running out of rice — and farmers to grow it
An ongoing shortage of rice has resulted in rising prices for Japan's main food staple.
Nikkei plunges in third-biggest daily loss ever amid Trump tariff concerns
Pedestrians stand in front of an electronic board showing the numbers of the Nikkei Stock Average on the Tokyo Stock Exchange along a street in the Japanese capital on Monday.
Ride-hailing services spreading in Japan
Vehicles used for ride-hailing services in the city of Kiryu, in Gunma Prefecture
Japan responds to Trump's tariffs with a polite phone call and request
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attends a joint press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington on Feb. 7.
‘Let’s make it practical’: NATO chief eyes greater defense-industrial ties with Japan
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte plans to visit Japan on Tuesday and Wednesday — his first to the Indo-Pacific region since taking office in October, as he seeks to implement lessons from the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Tottori takes a bold leap forward in the arts
The city of Kurayoshi in Tottori Prefecture celebrated the opening of its public art museum with festivities such as a parade that drew 1,000 revelers.
Haruki Murakami TV adaptation revisits 30 years of watershed moments
Though Haruki Murakami's trademark whiff of offbeat existentialism is threaded throughout NHK's "After the Quake," the final episode — conceived as a sequel to the story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" — is the most stylized, featuring an anthropomorphic talking frog (voiced by Non) and his erstwhile associate Katagiri (Koichi Sato).
Nintendo to launch the Switch 2 on June 5
The controllers for the Switch 2 will attach to the console magnetically rather than sliding on rails as with the original device.
A new human trafficking trend emerges from Myanmar scam centers
Victims of scam centers who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar gather at a compound inside KK Park, a fraud center on the country's border with Thailand, after a multinational crackdown in February.

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An ongoing shortage of rice has resulted in rising prices for Japan's main food staple.
Why Japan is running out of rice — and farmers to grow it
By Alex K.T. Martin

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