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The Japan Times / The New York Times Weekend Edition

2025年01月04日発売

目次: The Japan Times / The New York Times Weekend Edition
2025/1/4　No.44,484
The Japan Times section contents

NEWS
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[National]
・Biden to block Nippon Steel’s acquisition ほか

[Business]
・Soccer star’s venture capital AI fund raises $98M ほか

[World]
・South Korea’s Yoon avoids arrest as standoff deters investigators ほか

[Sports]
・No. 1 seed in NFC up for grabs in showdown ほか

[Week in review]
・Syria eyes ties with Ukraine amid waning Russian influence ほか

OPINION
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・Hope for the economy in 2025, but dangers loom
・Japan poised to lead in a brighter carbon market era

英国The Economist（エコノミスト）

2025年01月04日発売

目次: The fight over America’s economy
The world this week
The world this week
The weekly cartoon
This week’s cover

Leaders


The fight over America’s economy
Tech is coming to Washington. Prepare for a clash of cultures
Out of Trumpian chaos and contradiction, something good might just emerge
Estlink 2 repair work in July 2024
Flagship effort
Finland’s seizure of a tanker shows how to fight Russian sabotage
The growing threat to undersea cables demands a robust response
Tall buildings appearing between snow mountains
Northern lights
To see what European business could become, look to the Nordics
The region produces an impressive number of corporate giants
People wade through a flooded street during heavy rain in Chennai, India
Living with heat, drought and floods
Smarter incentives would help India adapt to climate change
It is the biggest test case for how hot, hard-up countries can cope
An open book with a red price tag on its pages, connected by a black string, set against a green background.
Labour of fluff
The Starmer government looks a poor guardian of England’s improving schools
It is fiddling with what works and not yet dealing with what doesn’t

Letters

On Taiwan, data in politics, Kevins, ultra-processed foods, Iran, Scotland, stockmarkets
Letters to the editor
Briefing

A photo collage about plastic surgery boon, featuring public figures like Joe Jonas and Kim Kardashian
Nip, tuck, lift, plump
Young customers in developing countries propel a boom in plastic surgery
Falling costs and converging beauty standards spur new habits
Asia

A woman is crosses a dried up lake at Boklung near Kathiatoli in Nagaon District, Assam, India
Adapt or fry
How 1.4bn Indians are adapting to climate change
Wheels of fortune
Economic bright spots are getting harder to find in Thailand
Tourism
Why you’re not on holiday in India right now
Banyan
Another accidental aircraft shootdown is a matter of when, not if
China

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends BRICS in Kazan, Russia
The year ahead in China
Xi Jinping has much to worry about in 2025
Dam!
China approves the world’s most expensive infrastructure project
Eyes everywhere
How China turns members of its diaspora into spies
United States

The French Quarter, near Bourbon Street is blocked off late morning with a heavy police and FBI presence.
Terrorism in America
The Bourbon Street attack was part of a new pattern
Out for the count
Homelessness rises to a record level in America
The last ByteDance
Duelling arguments take shape in the TikTok-ban case
Tocqueville updated
Overall, American states are becoming more democratic
The upside of MAHA
RFK junior is half right about American health care
Above the fruited plain
Jimmy Carter reshaped his home town
The Americas

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro.
The coming coronation
Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro looks set to take the throne
Turning off the tap
Why Spanish firms have cooled towards Latin America
No Master in Disaster
Failure to prepare for climate change is costing Honduras dear

Middle East & Africa


Out with a whimper
The era of multilateral peacekeeping draws to an unhappy close
The endless war
Eastern Congo is as wretched as ever
Road from ruin
Syria’s new rulers have inherited an economic disaster
All together now?
The fate of minorities in post-Assad Syria
Europe

oil tanker Eagle S (L), next to tugboat Ukko, off Porkkalanniemi, Kirkkonummi, in the Gulf of Finland,
Arresting spectacle
Finland seizes a tanker, getting tough on hybrid warfare
Closely watched trains
A Prague-Berlin train loses its old-world dining cars
Muskular intervention
Elon Musk’s praise for the far right infuriates most of Germany
Europe’s missing pieces
Serbia and its neighbours are still far from joining the EU
Charlemagne
Why Canada should join the EU
Britain

Illustration of school chairs falling off a red price tag.
Show your work
Labour lacks good ideas for improving Britain’s schools
Guess who’s back?
Inflation in Britain looks irritatingly persistent
Wet, wet, wet
Britons brace themselves for more floods
Bagehot
The four worst words in British politics
International

illustration of people dancing and celebrating under a colorful sunset, holding bottles and glasses, with scattered items like bottles and a cane on the ground.
Ageing disgracefully
Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation
Gen ZZZ
Young people are having less fun
Business

Illustration of a viking helmet with nordic bank notes pierced on its horns
Way of the Viking
Why are Nordic companies so successful?
Playing offence
Netflix has big ambitions for live sport
Follow the money
Meet Silicon Valley’s shrewdest talent spotters
Weed Inc
America’s marijuana industry is wilting
Party-state entanglement
China is catching up with America in quantum technology
Bartleby
Beware the dangers of data
Schumpeter
MAGA’s war on talent frightens CEOs—and angers Elon Musk
Finance & economics

Silhouettes of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Scott Bessent, and Stephen Miller scaling down in decending order, alternating red and black.
Prepare for battle
Will Elon Musk dominate President Trump’s economic policy?
Place your bets
What investors expect from President Trump
Footloose factories
China’s firms are taking flight, worrying its rulers
Defying export fatalism
Manmohan Singh was India’s economic freedom fighter
Free exchange
Would an artificial-intelligence bubble be so bad?
Science & technology

New Glenn during successful integrated vehicle hotfire.
Lift-off at last?
Can Jeff Bezos match Elon Musk in space?
Smoke and sensors
New firefighting tech is being trialled in Sardinia’s ancient forests
The long shots
Cancer vaccines are showing promise at last
Culture

This is an illustration of a wooden director's chair with a black seat and a backrest featuring the Colombian flag (yellow, blue, and red stripes). The background is a soft pink color.
Luces, cámara, acción!
The Colombian powerhouse behind some of streaming’s biggest hits
Sympathy for the devil
Why do rebels and revolutionaries love “Paradise Lost”?
Strange and familiar places
What Haruki Murakami’s fans get wrong about him
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary

Jimmy Carter in 1976
The pilgrim from Plains
Jimmy Carter was perhaps the most virtuous of all America’s presidents

New Internationalist（ニューインターナショナリスト）英語版

2024年12月10日発売

目次: THE BIG STORY
Entering the Matrix: The digital age has increased the potency and complexity of misinformation. To tackle it, we need a systemic response

Red Letter Day: In 1924 an infamous document brought down Britain’s first Labour governmentit was a forgery. Conrad Landin looks at the ongoing legacy of the Zinoviev letter, an early example of fake news.

Big Whoppers: Our online spaces are rapidly transforming into cesspits of lies. With disinformation campaigns aplenty, Paula Lacey puts four egregious cases under the magnifying glass.

The Philippines Disinformation Machine: the sophisticated networks of digital strategists, paid influencers and young workers fueling the Philippines flourishing disinformation industry.

Dying in the passive voice: Through a powerful series of illustrations, Mona Chalabi exposes how the mainstream media distorts the truth around Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Fact Checkers to the rescue? How effective is fact-checking at tackling disinformation?

CURRENTS
Serbia: The EU’s dirty lithium deal: Autocratic Serbian President is ignoring widespread domestic opposition and push through legislation allowing the controversial lithium extraction to begin.

Iran wages war on VPNs: VPN use has become so prevalent in Iran that it has generated a multi-million dollar market of providers.

Will Zimbabwe ditch the death penalty? Stakes are high for capital punishment in Zimbabwe with a death penalty abolition bill in motion

Tajikistan: Pamiri minority faces silent crisis: President Rahmon has systematically dismantled the power-sharing agreement that ended the country’s civil war in 1997, eroding the autonomy promised to the Pamiris with frequent military offensives.

Military radar station threatens rural Wales: The Pembrokeshire Against Radar Campaign (PARC) cites a range of concerns, including disruption of the landscape, damage to wildlife and tourism industries and potential health risks of living near one of the highest radiation projects ever built on British soil.

Tanzania silences the Maasai: Tanzania’s government is under increasing scrutiny for excluding Maasai pastoralists ahead of November local elections, effectively disenfranchising some 40,000 voters in the country’s north.

King Charles vs Australia’s First Nations: High-ranking officials including King Charles are granted legal immunity while the Attorney General has unchecked power to block genocide cases from proceeding in the country’s courts.

Surrogacy rights for all India: India’s new surrogacy regime discriminates on the basis of gender and marital status, according to a new public interest petition.

COMMENT
Beyond Apartheid: One democratic state for Palestinians and Israelis is the only viable and just solution

View from India: With millions killed by air pollution every year, meaningful action is long overdue

View from Africa: Young people in Uganda are using traditional nude protest to fight their generation’s battles

View from Brazil: As fires rage across Brazil, local candidates squabble over Maduro and Hamas

REGULARS
Letter from Kampala: a memorable visit to a small, relatively isolated, Jewish community in the hilltops of eastern Uganda.

Country Profile: Haiti: The echoes of the 1804 revolution, which saw Haiti overthrow French colonial rule, still resonate with the struggles of its people today

Cartoon History: the Chartists, a 19th-century movement in Britain which inspired rebels
across the globe.

Southern Exposure: Gordwin Odhiambo captures children using a makeshift net for a ball game in Ngong forest, Nairobi.

The Interview: Anoosheh Ashoori speaks to Maxine Betteridge-Moes about how he survived Iran’s notorious Evin prison.

Temperature Check: the push to stop the world’s forests being used for fuel.

Hall of Infamy: Javier Milei: Argentina’s ’anarcho-capitalist’ leader is a dream come true for the rich and powerful.

Agony Uncle: Is it okay to set your ethical lifestyle choices aside to avoid conflict with your grandmother?

FEATURES
Love and Sacrifice: As he turns 80, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado looks back on his illustrious career

The battle for Biafra’s soul: the growing violence in a region still struggling for independence from Nigeria.

Is the freeze over? why geopolitical tensions over Antarctica could have a wider impact.
Women’s Agency in War: in eastern Congo women and girls face the brunt of violence. Sophie Neiman tells their stories of resilience.