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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 14, 2020
Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine candidates on FDA fast track
The U.S.-listed shares of the German firm climbed about 15 percent, while Pfizer's stock rose about 5 percent.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 6, 2020
How Angela Merkel inspires the Japanese
For Japan's ambitious female politicians, the German chancellor's approach to climbing up the political ladder by not focusing on gender issues is instructive.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jul 1, 2020
With Merkel at the helm, Europe faces a crisis with many fronts
For a leader who has steered Europe through two economic meltdowns, a migration crisis and a simmering showdown with Russia, Angela Merkel’s final act as German chancellor may be her biggest performance yet.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 15, 2020
U.S.-Germany crisis goes deeper than Trump’s planned troop cuts
The U.S.-German relationship has held the key to European security for seven decades.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 5, 2020
Europe also unites in stimulus zeal as Lagarde and Merkel team up
Joining the U.K. and Japan in emphasizing fiscal-monetary coordination, the two women put on an impresive show of financial force to get Europe past the pandemic.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 28, 2020
China to allow charter flights from eight countries but not from U.S.
China plans to allow chartered flights from eight countries as it loosens restrictions on inbound travel imposed for the coronavirus pandemic, though the U.S. won’t be included amid growing tensions between the two nations, people familiar with the matter said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 25, 2020
How Germany contained the coronavirus
In addition to a properly funded health system, technological edge and decisive leadership, public trust played a key role.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 16, 2020
Europe’s broken tourism industry struggles to save the summer
On the Greek island of Mykonos, Mayor Kostas Koukas is desperately trying to revive the tourism that is the life blood of the local economy.
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.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 12, 2020
Germany designates radical wing of far-right AfD as 'extremist entity'
Germany will step up surveillance of a radical wing of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party after the domestic intelligence agency designated it as an extremist entity that threatens democracy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 28, 2020
Huawei to build first European 5G factory in France to soothe Western nerves
Huawei will build its first European manufacturing plant in France, the chairman said on Thursday, as the Chinese telecom giant seeks to ease worldwide concerns stoked by U.S. charges that Beijing could use its equipment for spying.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2020
Germany's mighty carmakers watch with fear as 'golden age' fades
When Kristin and Thomas Schmitt took out a mortgage and bought a house last summer, the German couple's dream looked as if it was coming true. Two months later, they learned that the tire factory where both work would be shut down early next year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 21, 2020
Japan, Germany and the war on rationality
Shutting down nuclear power plants makes no sense if it means burning more coal.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2020
German court delays Tesla Berlin factory preparation amid environmental challenge
Elon Musk's plan to build an electric car plant in Germany has run into legal trouble after a court said clearing a forest near Berlin for a new Tesla Inc. factory must stop immediately while it considers a challenge by environmentalists.
BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2020
Bayer, now with BASF, faces more Monsanto pain after trial loss
The first U.S. trial over the dicamba herbicide has landed Bayer AG and its German rival, BASF SE, with another potentially multi-billion-dollar problem.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 16, 2020
'The West is winning': Misgivings in Europe as U.S. takes on China
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended on Saturday his nation's global role despite misgivings in Europe, vowing that Western values would prevail over Russian and Chinese desires for "empire."
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 10, 2020
The post-Brexit 'German question'
Brexit will influence the future direction of not only the U.K. but Europe as well, and it seems likely that it will alter the power balance between Germany and France in particular.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 10, 2020
Merkel protegee Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer won't run for chancellor, source says
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Chancellor Angela Merkel's protegee and leader of their conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), will not run for chancellor in Germany's federal election next year, a source in her party said on Monday.
Possibility of Nankai Trough megaquake now 80%, government panel reports
A map of the hypocentral region of an anticipated Nankai Trough earthquake
Crashed Jeju jet’s black box failure shows decadeslong gap in power rules
The flight data recorder retrieved from Jeju Air flight 2216, which crashed killing 179 people in December. Black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the flight stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, South Korea's transport ministry said Saturday.
Atsuyoshi Koike’s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go
Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a “sense of urgency” when it comes to Japan’s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. “We have to make sure we are successful,” he says.
Tokyo police arrest dentists and others over ¥20 million medical fraud
According to Tokyo police, a group of seven people, including dentists, submitted falsified claims in June 2023 for the treatment of 62 foreign students and technical trainees from Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka, fraudulently obtaining around ¥2.87 million ($18,500) in medical fees.
30th anniversary of Hanshin quake marked with desire to pass on lessons
Children pray for the victims of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake during an early morning ceremony to mark the 30th anniversary of the quake, in Kobe on Friday.
A slow dive into ‘a moment and an eternity’ with Ryuichi Sakamoto
From the mid-2000s onward, Ryuichi Sakamoto created a number of installation works, often in collaboration with Shiro Takatani, of multimedia art collective Dumb Type.
The efforts to bridge the disaster information gap, 30 years on
Roxana Oshiro and her husband gather their belongings in front of their house in Furukawacho, in Kobe's Suma Ward, after the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995.
Japan looks to up the ante with more money and partners in military aid program
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Philippine Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo hold a joint news conference in Taguig City, Metro Manila, the Philippines, on Wednesday.
Possibility of Nankai Trough megaquake now 80%, government panel reports
A map of the hypocentral region of an anticipated Nankai Trough earthquake
With new regional party, Shinji Ishimaru touts rebirth
Shinji Ishimaru announces details of his new regional party at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.

Podcast

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

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Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a “sense of urgency” when it comes to Japan’s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. “We have to make sure we are successful,” he says.
Atsuyoshi Koike’s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go
By Kazuaki Nagata and Richard Meyer

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