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Zhang Yabo, a former police officer tasked with enforcing China¡¯s campaign to surveil, detain and indoctrinate the Uyghur population, shows a photo of his baptism as a Roman Catholic in April 2025 on his laptop, in southern Germany on June 24.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 30, 2026
He helped China repress Uyghurs. He says he¡¯s a victim, too.
Former police officer Zhang Yabo described Xinjiang as a giant prison that imprisoned not only countless innocent Uyghurs ¡°but also the souls of those ordered to enforce it.¡±
The uncertain reaction to Xi Jinping¡¯s display of warmth toward business made sense: China¡¯s executives are eager for a reset after years in the cold but ever wary of meddling.
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 24, 2025
Is Xi¡¯s sudden embrace of business for real? China is left guessing
China¡¯s private sector has good reasons to worry that Beijing could meddle more in businesses in the name of supporting them.
Angry at what they view as China's state-led xenophobia, taught in schools and prevalent online, some people are taking action after the killing of a 10-year-old Japanese boy on his way to school in China, even at their own personal risk.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 16, 2024
Killing of Japanese boy leaves Chinese asking: Is this my country?
Some Chinese people believe the boy was a victim of surging anti-Japanese sentiment fueled by China¡¯s government.
Chinese influencer Li Ying used social media to help tell the world about last year¡¯s protests in China. Now in exile, he has been threatened and lost his livelihood for his defiance.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 12, 2023
¡®I have no future¡¯: China¡¯s rebel influencer is still paying a price
To some Chinese, painter and art school graduate Li Ying is a superhero who stood up to their authoritarian government and leader.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 31, 2023
China¡¯s young people can¡¯t find jobs. Xi Jinping says to ¡®eat bitterness.¡¯
A record 11.6 million college graduates in China are entering the workforce this year, and 1 in 5 young people are unemployed.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 30, 2022
Proud, scared and conflicted. What the China protesters told me.
After nearly three long years of COVID zero, which has turned into a political campaign for Chinese President Xi Jinping, China¡¯s future looks increasingly bleak.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2022
China¡¯s business elite sees the country that let them thrive slipping away
China¡¯s leader, Xi Jinping, used an important Communist Party congress last month to establish near-absolute power and make it clear that security would trump the economy.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 9, 2022
Has Shanghai been Xinjianged?
Shanghai and Xinjiang used to be two sides of the China coin; the former glamorous and thriving, the latter dark and repressed. Now both are subject to social control and surveillance.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 2, 2022
COVID, Russia and economy put the ¡®China model¡¯ to the test
On social media, a growing number of citizens are accusing the Communist Party of breaching its social contract with the people as China faces down numerous challenges.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 5, 2022
How China embraces Russian propaganda and its version of the war
In much of the world, Russia is losing the information war over Ukraine. In China, though, it¡¯s winning big.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 10, 2022
China¡¯s anti-graft show is educational, with unintended lessons
The state-produced documentary was meant to celebrate the success of Xi Jinping¡¯s anti-corruption campaign, but the series may have done the opposite.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 9, 2022
As Beijing takes control, Chinese tech companies lose jobs and hope
The crackdown is killing the entrepreneurial drive that made China a tech power and destroying jobs that used to attract the country¡¯s brightest.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 20, 2021
With its human rights record in question, China turns to an old friend
Perhaps no international organization has a more symbiotic relationship with Beijing than the IOC.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 10, 2021
China¡¯s youth are embracing Mao¡¯s message
The chairman¡¯s call for struggle and violence against capitalists is winning over a new audience of young people frustrated with long work hours and dwindling opportunities.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 27, 2021
China punishes those who question ¡®martyrs.¡¯ A sleuth keeps track.
An online spreadsheet with an anonymous minder tabulates Xi Jinping¡¯s crackdown on speech.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 10, 2021
The Great Firewall cracked, briefly. A people shined through.
For years, the Chinese government has prevented its 1.4 billion people from speaking freely online. Then, for a precious few days, that wall was breached.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 16, 2021
As Trump clashes with Big Tech, China¡¯s censored internet takes his side
Blurring the distinction between companies and government, official propaganda outlets use Trump¡¯s ouster from Twitter and Facebook to argue that nobody in the world enjoys free speech.
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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