A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean?
His pronouncements could hardly sound more drastic. In interviews and public appearances, Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, has taken on the question of how to deal with the burdens of Japan’s rapidly aging society. “I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” he said during one online news program in late 2021. “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of
Suspect in Abe Shooting Held a ‘Grudge.’ Scrutiny Falls on a Church. (Published 2022)
TOKYO — When Tetsuya Yamagami was arrested after the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, he told the police he had “a grudge” against a “certain group.” But the authorities haven’t identified the organization or explained its connection to Mr. Abe. Scrutiny, amid a swirl of Japanese media speculation, is now focused on the Unification Church, the religious group known for i
Satellite images show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks, despite Russian claims. (Published 2022)
Satellite images show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks, despite Russian claims.The images rebut Russia’s claim that the killing of civilians in Bucha, near Kyiv, took place after its soldiers had left town. Satellite images rebut Russia’s claim that the killing of civilians in Bucha occurred after its soldiers had left town, a Times analysis found. Video contains graphic images.CreditCredit...Maxar T
China Asked Russia to Delay Ukraine War Until After Olympics, U.S. Officials Say (Published 2022)
WASHINGTON — A Western intelligence report said senior Chinese officials told senior Russian officials in early February not to invade Ukraine before the end of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, according to senior Biden administration officials and a European official. The report indicates that senior Chinese officials had some level of direct knowledge about Russia’s war plans or intentions before
J&J’s booster shot provides strong protection against severe disease from Omicron, a study says. (Published 2021)
A Johnson & Johnson booster shot provided strong protection against the Omicron variant, greatly reducing the risk of hospitalization, according to a clinical trial in South Africa. The study, which compared more than 69,000 boosted health care workers with a corresponding group of unvaccinated South Africans, found that two shots of the vaccine reduced the risk of hospitalization from Omicron by
Stephen Sondheim, Titan of the American Musical, Is Dead at 91 (Published 2021)
transcript The Last Word: Stephen SondheimIn a never-before-seen interview, Stephen Sondheim sat down with The New York Times in June 2008 to talk about his life, career and accomplishments. “One of the first things you have to decide on with a musical is, why should there be songs? You can put songs in any story, but what I think you have to look for is, why are songs necessary to this story? If
Ancient Footprints Push Back Date of Human Arrival in the Americas (Published 2021)
Ancient human footprints preserved in the ground across the White Sands National Park in New Mexico are astonishingly old, scientists reported on Thursday, dating back about 23,000 years to the Ice Age. The results, if they hold up to scrutiny, would rejuvenate the scientific debate about how humans first spread across the Americas, implying that they did so at a time when massive glaciers covered
Critics Pounce on Naomi Osaka After Loss, Denting Japan’s Claim to Diversity (Published 2021)
TOKYO — Just four days after Naomi Osaka mounted the stairs to light the Olympic cauldron, presented as a symbol of a new, more inclusive Japan, that image was undermined on Tuesday by a backlash that followed her surprise defeat in Tokyo. Many Japanese were stunned by Ms. Osaka’s third-round loss to Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic after she had been favored to take the women’s tennis go
Opinion | A Sports Event Shouldn’t Be a Superspreader. Cancel the Olympics. (Published 2021)
The Tokyo Olympics are in big trouble. Postponed by a year and slated to begin in July, the Olympics have become a political flash point in Japan, where almost 60 percent of the population opposes staging the Games this summer and where less than 2 percent of the population is vaccinated for Covid-19. The International Olympic Committee, local Olympic organizers and Japan’s ruling party maintain t
Some Covid-19 Patients Say They’re Left With Ringing Ears (Published 2021)
The suicide of Kent Taylor, the founder and chief executive of the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain, has drawn attention to a possible link between Covid-19 and tinnitus, the medical term for a constant ringing in the ears. Mr. Taylor suffered from a variety of symptoms following his illness, including severe tinnitus, his family said in a statement, adding that his suffering had become “unbearabl
An ‘Old Men’s Club’ Dominates Japan. The Young Just Put Them on Notice. (Published 2021)
TOKYO — For a moment, it looked as if the most powerful people in Japan were three 20-something women. In a country where the young are taught to keep quiet and defer to their elders, the trio of women decided to speak out after the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee made sexist remarks this month when he suggested that women talk too much in meetings. An online petition the women
Tokyo Olympics Chief Apologizes for Remarks Demeaning Women (Published 2021)
TOKYO — Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics, already facing rising costs and significant public opposition to this summer’s Games, faced a new furor on Wednesday after the president of the Tokyo organizing committee suggested women talk too much in meetings. The president, Yoshiro Mori, stoked a social media backlash after news reports emerged of his comments demeaning women during an executive meeti
Hopes for Tokyo’s Summer Olympics Darken (Published 2021)
Plans for the postponed Tokyo Olympic Games are growing more uncertain by the day. As coronavirus cases rise throughout Japan and in several large countries in Europe and the Americas, officials both in Tokyo and with the International Olympic Committee have begun to acknowledge that holding a safe Games might not be possible, endangering dreams that the Olympics could serve as a global celebratio
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