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Keyu Jin
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 1, 2022
America is fueling Chinese techno-nationalism
China is pursuing its goal of bolstering its technological capabilities with an intensity unseen since Mao Zedong committed to developing nuclear weapons six decades ago.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 7, 2022
China bets on a common prosperity
China¡¯s leaders believe their country is on the verge of a transformation into a truly ¡°modern socialist economy.¡± They¡¯re not alone.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Beyond COVID-19
Jan 2, 2021
The shape of China¡¯s recovery
Having matured and grown more patient, China is less impetuous about achieving short-term gains, and more invested in creating opportunities for its people over the long term.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 1, 2019
China¡¯s 70 years of progress
Assuming the worst about China could have catastrophic consequences.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 7, 2017
What does China¡¯s ¡®chairman of everything¡¯ want?
Xi Jinping has major ambitions for China, the CCP and his legacy.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 1, 2016
China wisely taking a neutral stance for now
China isn¡¯t jumping to conclusions about future U.S. policies, much less taking premature action.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 8, 2016
Xi Jinping is no Mao Zedong
Much of the world is watching Chinese President Xi Jinping with suspicion as he re-centralizes authority and pursues a radical anti-corruption campaign that many think is a fig leaf for a political purge.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 8, 2016
Prep for China¡¯s two-child consumption engine
China¡¯s abolition of its one-child policy is going to have a profound impact on the country¡¯s economy.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 16, 2015
China¡¯s masses stubbornly refuse to consume
A Chinese economic ¡®rebalancing¡¯ — replacing investment and exports with services and domestic consumption — remains a distant prospect.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2015
Job growth missing from China¡¯s economic rise
China¡¯s focus on industrialization explains why its economic miracle has created relatively few new jobs.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 27, 2015
Vested interests stalemate reforms in China
Unless and until China¡¯s top leaders overcome resistance from vested interests, progress on reform will remain sluggish.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 19, 2012
Why do nations¡¯ savings patterns differ so much?
Ever since the integration of emerging markets into the global economy began in the early 1990s, three striking trends have emerged: a divergence in private savings rates between the industrialized core and the emerging periphery (the former experiencing a sharp rise, and the latter a steady decline);...
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
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