A princess is set to be wed, but it’s no fairy tale
Princess Mako of Japan must leave royalty behind to marry her college sweetheart
Japan’s ruling party elects centrist Fumio Kishida as new prime minister
Former foreign minister considered a moderate but adopted tough line against China in election campaign
Asia, the ‘factory of the world’, struggles to roll out Covid-19 vaccines
Countries that led the way in controlling virus last year fall behind in global vaccination drive
Exoplanet discovery may ultimately answer the question ‘Are we alone?’
Team led by Queen’s University astronomers detects new ‘chemical signature’
Borderless art: Belfast festival’s Richard Wakely prefers frictionless collaborations
If Brexit deadline holds, Belfast International Arts Festival will begin in the EU and end beyond it
The east’s awake: Japan’s bright young Irish trad musicians
The Toyotara Céilí band, who are playing in this year’s Fleadh Cheoil, are part of a growing number of young Japanese fiddlers and pipers playing Irish traditional music
Sweltering Japanese heat likely to take toll on athletes in 2020
Tokyo Letter: Olympic organisers appear to have played down hot and steamy conditions
Japanese electorate set to stick with devil it knows
Tokyo Letter: LDP’s Shinzo Abe may become Japan’s longest-serving leader since WWII
Mining Japan’s grey economy
Japan’s ageing populace is driving huge strides in technology and products
The artificial intelligence revolutionising healthcare
By 2019, all Irish maternity hospitals will be using advanced newborn-monitoring tech
Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to neutrino scientists
Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald win prize for research into mysterious particles
FT’s new owner has reputation for soft pedalling on tough stories
Japan’s Nikkei Group is buying FT from publisher Pearson
Japan turns to supermums to rescue economy
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been encouraging Japanese women to have it all
Cultured mind interpreting Japan and its people
Wild Geese: Peter MacMillan, University of Tokyo, Japan
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