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GOTABAYA RAJAPAKSA

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 22, 2022
A fallen dynasty backs Sri Lanka’s leader as creditors seek answers
Foreign currency reserves in the country continue to dwindle, falling to less than $1.8 billion in August, with IMF funds unlikely to arrive for several months.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Sep 7, 2022
With an IMF deal in hand, Sri Lanka now courts China and India
To get debt to a sustainable level, Beijing, New Delhi, Tokyo, multilateral organizations and global asset managers must all swallow losses.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 3, 2022
Sri Lanka's ousted ex-president gets government residence and security on return
The former president met with a group of ruling party members and lawmakers at the airport early on Saturday before being whisked to a residence allocated by the government.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 27, 2022
Why Sri Lanka imploded
Sri Lanka's ruling Rajapaksa family's ill-advised economic handouts and unsustainable policies eventually ran into a wall.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 23, 2022
Sri Lanka troops demolish main protest camp
Troops and police Special Task Force commandos wielding batons and armed with automatic assault rifles charged on people blockading the seafront Presidential Secretariat in Colombo.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jul 21, 2022
For Sri Lanka's new leader, a daunting challenge awaits
Ranil Wickremesinghe, who has had six stints as prime minister, is taking charge of a nation of 22 million people grappling with myriad issues even aside from the recent political turmoil.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 19, 2022
Three-way fight to lead bankrupt Sri Lanka
The winner will take charge of a bankrupt nation that is in talks with the IMF for a bailout, with its 22 million people enduring severe shortages of food, fuel and medicines.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 15, 2022
Sri Lankan president hands in resignation after fleeing to Singapore
The announcement triggered jubilation in the commercial capital Colombo where protesters massed outside the presidential secretariat, defying a citywide curfew.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 14, 2022
Outgoing Sri Lankan president lands in Singapore after fleeing uprising
Outgoing Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa landed in Singapore on Thursday, flight tracking data showed.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 14, 2022
The fall of the house of Rajapaksa
Through a combination of authoritarianism, nepotism, cronyism, and hubris, the Rajapaksa family weighed down Sri Lanka's economy with more debt than it could possibly bear.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 13, 2022
Sri Lankan president flees to Maldives amid protests as economic crisis spirals
The president's flight brings an end to the rule of the powerful Rajapksa clan that has dominated politics in the South Asian nation for the last two decades.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 13, 2022
Once a civil war leader, now deposed: Sri Lanka's Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees nation
An immigration official said Rajapaksa, his wife and two bodyguards left the country by a Sri Lankan air force plane in the early hours of the day he was due to resign.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 12, 2022
Sri Lanka’s fallen dynasty is already planning its next comeback
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's 36-year-old nephew Namal Rajapaksa has already been thinking of how the family can restore its reputation over the long term
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 11, 2022
Embattled leaders in hiding, Sri Lankans ask: What’s next?
It is clear that whoever takes the reins of the Sri Lankan government will be walking into a crisis, inheriting a crashed economy and a public that is exhausted and furious.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 10, 2022
How Sri Lanka spiraled into crisis
A rundown of the major steps that led demonstrators storming the president's residence and setting fire to the prime minister's home in Colombo.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 10, 2022
Sri Lanka's president to resign after being chased from home
The events on Saturday were the culmination of months of anti-government protests fueled by an unprecedented economic crisis that bankrupted the South Asian island nation.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 9, 2022
Brothers at odds, but ruling family still holds key to Sri Lanka's future
Two brothers who had dominated Sri Lanka's politics for nearly 20 years have gone their separate ways.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 7, 2022
China shifting focus to Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka president says
In recent months, Beijing has taken its time reissuing a loan to Pakistan and has hesitated in responding to Sri Lanka's request for fresh credit.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 11, 2022
Sri Lanka protesters call for new government a day after clashes kill eight
Sri Lanka has been suffering its worst economic crisis in history, with a severe shortage of foreign exchange stalling essential imports, including drugs and fuel.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 28, 2022
A powerful dynasty bankrupted Sri Lanka in just 30 months
In recent weeks Sri Lanka has run out of cash to pay for essential goods like food and fuel, leading to long petrol lines and daily 13-hour power cuts.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

Podcast

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

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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