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Water is whipped up by high winds onto the shore of Phuong Luu lake as Super Typhoon Yagi hits Haiphong, Vietnam, on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 7, 2024
Super Typhoon Yagi hits Vietnam after casualties in China's Hainan
Yagi is the world's second-most powerful tropical cyclone in 2024 and has already brought strong winds and rain to China and the Philippines.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
May 31, 2023
Chinese island shows the way to an all-electric future by 2030
An extensive network is part of a plan by the provincial government to end the sale of fossil fuel cars by 2030 and have EVs and hybrids account for 45% of the island’s fleet.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 7, 2022
Over 80,000 tourists trapped in 'China's Hawaii' after COVID-19 outbreak
Tourists want to leave must test negative in five PCR tests over seven days, health authorities said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 4, 2020
China envisions a new Hong Kong, firmly under its control
Hainan province, an island the size of Maryland in the South China Sea, has been envisioned as a free-trade port and international commercial hub.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 4, 2016
China boosts space program with new heavy rocket's launch
China has launched its new Long March-5 heavy rocket, state media said, sending its payload into orbit in the country's latest step in advancing its space exploration program.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 20, 2016
China denies interceptors flew too close to U.S. spy plane, demands end to surveillance flights
Beijing demanded an end to U.S. surveillance near China on Thursday after two of its fighter jets carried out what the Pentagon said was an "unsafe" intercept of a U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 14, 2015
China's unfinished island wars
China will continue to pursue its claim to the Spratly Islands, but Hainan and Taiwan remain the two great pearls of its maritime frontier strategy.
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Feb 1, 2014
Steamer surveys new island; Forces land on Hainan Island; Kyu Sakamoto profiled; Leftists suspected in shrine bombing
The N.Y.K. Bonin liner Chefoo, which returned to Yokohama yesterday, gave an interesting account of her exploration of the newly formed island near Minami Iwojima.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 20, 2014
Ambiguous fisheries law sets up in-your-face conundrum for China
The ambiguity of China's 'new' fisheries law courts conflict by setting up an in-your-face conundrum for its neighbors
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Feb 25, 2013
Endless effects of 'pacification' wars
Unnecessary U.S. wars in the Middle East have unintended consequences at home just as Japan's war against China still casts its shadows to this day.
Nippon Steel alleges undue White House influence on doomed deal review
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington on Dec. 10.
Record 78% of people in Japan feel anxious, government survey finds
The public opinion survey on people's lives, conducted by the Cabinet Office, found that 28.1% of respondents think that their standard of living is at a lower-middle level among the general public — the highest percentage to give that response in 35 years.
Police raided suspect's home to arrest him after fatal Kitakyushu stabbing
Broken window glass is seen at Masanori Hirabaru's house in Kitakyushu's Kokuraminami Ward.
Taiwan lawmakers brawl over bills that would 'damage democracy'
Lawmakers from the Democratic Progressive Party and opposition party Kuomintang brawl in parliament in Taipei on Friday.
Mother hopes for reunion with daughter ensnared by Tokyo host clubs
The Kabukicho district in Tokyo, where the daughter of a woman in her 60s fell deeply into the host club culture.
Casual workouts, cool living, ‘complete’ food: Japan’s health trends of 2024
In 2024, efficiency trumped effort among Japan's fitness-focused aspirants.
The mighty Mekong River's growing plastic problem
A group of elephant keepers in Chiang Saen, Thailand, remove plastic waste from the Ruak River, a tributary of the Mekong River, as a pair of Asian elephants bathe behind them.
Japanese officials inspect Yokota Air Base over PFAS concerns
The Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo in September 2019. An inspection of the base by Japanese government officials on Friday came amid public pressure to investigate suspected links between the use of PFAS-containing firefighting foam by the U.S. base and contamination of soil and groundwater in western Tokyo.
Crime numbers rise in Japan for second straight year
A police officer stands in front of the residence of a man alleged to have stabbed two junior high school students in Kitakyushu.
A year of Oscar wins and a quiet push for diversity
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Evil Does Not Exist,” released in Japanese theaters in April, sharply dramatizes the clash between rural and urban values. The film won five awards at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, including the second-place Silver Lion prize.

Podcast

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

Longform

Yasuyuki Yoshida stirs a brew in a fermentation tank at his brewery in Hakusan.
The quake that shook Noto's sake brewing tradition
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