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JOE BIDEN

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 24, 2021
U.S. sends carrier into South China Sea as Chinese bombers fly near Taiwan
The dispatch of the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group to the waterway was seen as an implicit message to China just days after U.S. President Joe Biden's inauguration.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 24, 2021
Biden team to unveil more climate policies as it calls on China to toughen targets
John Kerry, Biden's special climate envoy, said a recent pledge by China, the world's top greenhouse gas emitter, was 'not good enough.'
WORLD / Politics
Jan 23, 2021
How will Biden deal with China?
Back in 2008, when Joe Biden was on the campaign trail running for vice president, the Democratic senator from Delaware once told fundraisers that the world will “test the mettle” of Barack Obama.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 23, 2021
In Senate deal, Trump impeachment trial put off until early February
The leaders of the U.S. Senate agreed on Friday to push back former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial by two weeks, giving the chamber more time to focus on President Joe Biden's legislative agenda and Cabinet nominees before turning to the contentious showdown over Trump.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 23, 2021
U.S. Senate confirms Lloyd Austin in historic vote, installing first Black defense secretary
His most immediate agenda includes an increasingly muscular China, an aggressive Russia, the protracted conflict in Afghanistan and a vague and looming threat of Iran.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 23, 2021
More than 150 National Guard members in Washington for inauguration test positive for COVID-19
Between 150 and 200 National Guard deployed to Washington to provide security for President Joe Biden's inauguration have tested positive for the coronavirus, a U.S. official said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 22, 2021
Biden and Trump deliver vastly different messages
Joe Biden’s inauguration last week was the most heavily guarded in memory: Washington’s entire National Mall was fenced off; numerous military checkpoints were set up; and 25,000 National Guard troops were deployed to prevent the public from entering the city center.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 22, 2021
Diet in review: Suga defensive on virus response but steadfast on Olympics
Japan's prime minister took heat from one opposition lawmaker after another during three days of question-and-answer sessions.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 22, 2021
They’re breaking glass and criticizing Biden. From the left.
In the hours after Biden's inauguration, hundreds of people gathered for a series of events across the liberal city of Portland, Oregon — not to celebrate, but to protest.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 22, 2021
U.S. Congress approves waiver for Lloyd Austin to be defense chief
The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to pass the waiver exempting Austin, who left the military in 2016, from a law that bars officers from the Pentagon's top civilian post.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 22, 2021
Biden seeks five-year extension of New START arms treaty with Russia
The treaty, which is due to expire on Feb. 5, limits the United States and Russia to deploying no more than 1,550 strategic nuclear warheads each.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Jan 21, 2021
An ordinary president shoulders an extraordinary burden
Biden has promised an aggressive and activist agenda for his first ten days, with actions of both domestic and international import; his priority is attending to his nation's ills.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jan 21, 2021
Asia wonders: Can a Biden-led U.S. return to form?
The newly minted U.S. leader is looking to reassure a world wary of capricious American foreign policy during the Trump administration.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2021
From day one, Biden moves to undo Trump’s legacy
Biden took a series of executive actions on issues including immigration and criminal justice. He also moved to rejoin the Paris climate accord.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 21, 2021
'No plan, no Q, nothing': QAnon followers reel as Biden inaugurated
In one Telegram channel with more than 18,400 members, QAnon believers were split between those still urging others to 'trust the plan' and those saying they felt betrayed.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Pope Francis, radical leader who broke the papal mold, dies at 88
Pope Francis blesses the faithful during the weekly general audience at the Vatican in August 2023.
Japan mulls reviewing car safety rules to strike deal with Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister and top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday.
Japan tariff negotiator rules out quick U.S. deal despite push by Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to reporters upon his arrival at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday, a day after talks in Washington.
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
The floor is art: Takuro Tamayama transforms mundanity
Takuro Tamayama’s sculpture “Models (Pair, 6 sets, 12 rings)” comes with a mathematical formation that scales it for different spaces.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Calling all Potterheads: ‘The Goblet of Fire’ comes to Tokyo
The Tokyo version of the globe-trotting exhibition features a Ministry of Magic set, which includes an imposing replica of the Magic Is Might monument representing magical fascism.
Tokyo stock picker advises Trump-proofing portfolios with Godzilla creator Toho
The head of Godzilla, a Japanese monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo. Toho is one tariff-defensive stock being recommended by brokers.

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