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Vice Foreign Minister Masataka Okano in Seoul in October
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 10, 2025
Japan announces new national security adviser
Masataka Okano is a 60-year-old career diplomat with experience in both Washington and Beijing and a former chief of the Foreign Ministry’s Russia division.
On the first day of the 2000s, the world was relieved that the Y2K computer glitch was mostly nothing. And in Russia, Vladimir Putin came to power.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Jan 1, 2025
Japan Times 2000: Japanese celebrate new year
Check out what was on the front page on Jan. 1 in 1925, 1950, 1975 and 2000.
Takeo Akiba, secretary-general of Japan's National Security Secretariat, meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 5, 2024
Japanese and Chinese diplomats discuss bilateral summit
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has expressed a willingness to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping later this month in Brazil.
Saga Indonesia Dreams players speak with Yuji Fukuhara, who set up the unique Kyushu-based club, during a training session last month in Takeo, Saga Prefecture.
BASEBALL
Jul 18, 2024
Kyushu team nurturing 'baseball evangelists' to spread game in Asia
Kyushu club hopes its players, mostly hailing from parts of Asia where baseball is not popular, will help promote the sport in other parts of the continent.
As the 1924 Exclusion Act came into effect in the United States, people in Japan were not happy. It would define American immigration policy for near three decades.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Jul 1, 2024
Japan Times 1924: Anti-America Day observed by all Japan
Two very different views of the United States from Japan, separated by 25 years and, more importantly, a war, define this month's look back at Japanese history.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 11, 2022
Bank of Japan may ditch yield cap next year as inflation perks up
The Bank of Japan must guard against the risk of inflation well exceeding its expectations, says Takeo Hoshi, an academic with close ties to incumbent central bank policymakers.
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2022
In meetings with Japanese officials, experts divided over 'counterstrike capabilities'
Foreign policy and defense specialists voice mixed opinions of controversial policy during 17 meetings with government officials, summary shows.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 6, 2021
Does Japan breed leaders? Does it even need to?
A panel of four men at the tops of their fields discusses what it means to be a leader and comes to the conclusion that Japan doesn't necessarily breed them.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 1, 2021
Suga denies plan to dissolve Diet and postpone LDP leadership race
Oct. 17 is now viewed as the likeliest election day, as it could go ahead without disrupting the LDP vote or creating a political vacuum by shortening lawmakers' terms.

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Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’