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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 29, 2020
Alcohol fight highlights battle between Indian states and Narendra Modi
In the tug-of-war between India’s states and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s federal government for cash to fight the coronavirus outbreak, liquor has become the latest battleground.
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MORE SPORTS
Apr 29, 2020
Judo coach Kosei Inoue weathering coronavirus storm
Kosei Inoue is trying to maintain his focus and keep his athletes in high spirits during the COVID-19 pandemic
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 29, 2020
Americans losing faith in what Trump says about the coronavirus, poll shows
Americans appear to be losing faith in what President Donald Trump says about the coronavirus pandemic, with almost everyone rejecting Trump's remark that COVID-19 may be treated by injecting infected people with bleach or other disinfectants, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 28, 2020
Not all pachinko parlors in Tokyo shut; 600 still being investigated
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has clarified Gov. Yuriko Koike's statement that all pachinko parlors in Tokyo have complied with requests to suspend business as of Tuesday morning, after at least four were found to still be operating in the afternoon.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 28, 2020
ANA reports biggest quarterly group net loss in January-March period
The company said its group net profit in the business year ended March plunged 75.0 percent from a year earlier to u00a527.66 billion.
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JAPAN
Apr 28, 2020
Japan says no lawmaker served as go-between in selection of mask suppliers
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday that no national lawmaker or regional assembly member served as a go-between in the government's selection of companies to provide cloth face masks to households in the fight against the coronavirus.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 28, 2020
Stimulus steps cannot easily buoy coronavirus-hit economy, Abe says
Speaking in a parliamentary session, Abe said the current economic situation is 'psychologically more challenging than the Great Depression' in the 1930s.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 28, 2020
Nissan expects fiscal 2019 net loss due to coronavirus impact
Nissan will delay the release of its full-year earnings results to May 28 from the middle of May.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Apr 28, 2020
Formula One still faces challenge with revised season plan
Formula One plans to start its stalled season with two races behind closed doors in Austria in July before more of the same at Britain's Silverstone circuit, insiders said on Monday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 28, 2020
Piglets aborted and chickens gassed as pandemic slams meat sector
Farmers say they have no choice but to cull livestock as they run short on space to house their animals or money to feed them.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 28, 2020
Uninfected crew on cruise ship in Nagasaki to be sent home
A total of 148 crew members aboard the Costa Atlantica have tested positive for COVID-19.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / FOCUS
Apr 28, 2020
On Japan's stretched front line, doctors and nurses DIY a coronavirus response
Hospitals like St. Luke's in Tokyo are saving their limited ICU capacity for an increasing number of critically ill patients and improvising makeshift gear to protect front-line staff.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 28, 2020
COVID-19 strategy: The Japan model
The nation has a comparatively low mortality from COVID-19 despite the absence of a strict lockdown.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2020
How lockdown could lead to stronger parliaments
Parliamentary democracies need parliaments to function. This is as true of the Westminster institution in London, sometimes described as the mother of parliaments, as it is of the Diet in Tokyo or of any other parliamentary legislatures in states round the world that struggle (and the struggle is constant)...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2020
Why China’s propaganda efforts so often backfire
An obsession with finding enemies and uniting the front makes it difficult to 'tell China's story well.”
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2020
We can’t get together until tests get better
More coronavirus tests won't be enough to stop social distancing, but better tests might be.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2020
Coronavirus has exposed the EU’s creeping irrelevance
Europe's nations were supposed to find a common identity and strength in unity. The pandemic has shown this to be a figment.
Japan Times
Rugby
Apr 28, 2020
England's Ellis Genge wants new players' union after COVID-19 pay cuts
England prop Ellis Genge has called for a new, more independent players' union amid dissatisfaction among fellow professionals about how pay cuts as a result of the new coronavirus pandemic have been handled by clubs and rugby authorities.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 28, 2020
The British expat paying $7,000 a month to swim in Singapore’s lockdown
Not helping any with Singapore’s image as home to a bunch of crazy-rich Asians comes the almost too-ridiculous-to-be-true story of a man who rented a swimming pool for 10,000 Singapore dollars ($7,040) a month.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 28, 2020
Italy wants to reopen. Businesses ask: Where's the money?
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced Roberto Ferraro to shut the patisserie he runs in Amelia, a scenic hilltop town in central Italy, he had just rented out a new site to increase production of ice cream and start selling it abroad.
'Super spicy' potato chips land Japan students in hospital
High school students were taken to hospital in Tokyo on Tuesday after eating "super spicy" potato chips.
Japan finds a 'stealth' cure for zombie businesses: Let them fail
A worker at Sakai Seisakusyo prepares to transport metal rods at its factory in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, on July 8.
Japan keeps up yen warnings as two-day intervention suspected
An electronic screen displays a graph showing yen exchange rates surging against the U.S. dollar amid an alert to the possibility of intervention in Tokyo on Friday.
Hyogo governor stands firm on not resigning despite official's death
Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito speaks to reporters on Tuesday.
Four injured after man sets fire to Japan city hall
Police said four people were injured after a man set fire to a city hall in Aichi Prefecture, with local media reporting he had been arrested.
The neurological disorder that 'kills culture'
Akiko Trush says her experience with the neurological disorder dystonia left her feeling like she wanted to chop her own hand off.
How to beat Japan’s summer heat in ways better for the planet
Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.
After Trump shooting, U.S. presidential race might take a violent turn
United States Secret Service Counter Snipers stand guard on a rooftop during a campaign rally for U.S. President Donald Trump in Avoca, Pennsylvania, in 2020.
No AC this summer? No problem (for me).
Think air conditioning is a requirement for a Tokyo summer? Think again.
She’s paying ¥1 million to help behind the scenes at the Paris Olympics
Mai Tarumi, who previously volunteered at the postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021, has a travel budget of ¥1 million for her trip to volunteer at the Paris Games.

Podcast

You can often see generations of families enjoying performances together at Fuji Rock Festival.
Japan’s summer music festivals are feeling the heat in more ways than one

Longform

Akiko Trush says her experience with the neurological disorder dystonia left her feeling like she wanted to chop her own hand off.
The neurological disorder that 'kills culture'
By Tomoko Otake

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