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After the tsunami: what happened to the girl from Fukushima?

Her story symbolised Japan’s hope of renewal following the earthquake and nuclear disaster. Ten years on loss still dominates her life

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The Fukushima disaster was not the turning point many had hoped

Finance & economics

With growth on track, China starts to unwind stimulus

Its exit will offer a partial preview for others

United States

America’s payrolls smash through expectations

Can the labour-market recovery last?

Science & technology

The race to teach sign language to computers

Paying attention to what deaf users actually want is vital

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The post-pandemic safety-net

Britain’s budget • Bumpy bond markets • Fukushima, ten years after • The pope in Iraq

Business

Bartleby: How companies should handle vaccines

Balancing the rights of stakeholders

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The world’s first fitness influencer was a Victorian strongman

A century before Instagram, Eugen Sandow used familiar techniques to build a fitness empire

Vaccinating the world

International

As covid-19 vaccines spread, so do underhand ways to get them

Not everyone is prepared to wait their turn

Business

A billion-plus covid-19 shots in 2021. Can Serum Institute do it?

The Indian vaccine-maker may account for almost half the world’s supply

The Economist explains

What is COVAX?

The vaccine-sharing scheme is designed to help poor countries compete in the vaccination race

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Evidence from Britain shows covid-19 vaccines are very effective

As America’s covid-19 toll passes 500,000, in Britain inoculations are helping to reduce deaths and hospitalisations

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The lessons of Fukushima

March 6th 2021
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Leaders

How to make a social safety-net for the post-covid world

Governments must remake the social contract for the 21st century

Business

McKinsey’s partners suffer from collective self-delusion

The smuggest guys in the room

Science & technology

DNA from Neanderthals affects vulnerability to covid-19

One genetic legacy is protective. Another is harmful

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New data show that leading covid-19 vaccines have similarly high efficacy

Studies of millions of people, with the same place and time, provide fairer comparisons than clinical trials do

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Joe Biden’s foreign policy

United States

Can Joe Biden get America out of the Middle East?

The past two American presidents thought they were too involved with the Middle East, but the Middle East refused to let them go

Europe

Repairing the transatlantic rift will be tricky

Donald Trump has left a lot to fix

International

What the world wants from Joe Biden

The Americas

Joe Biden will shift gears in Latin America

Special report: The future of travel

What will travel look like after the pandemic?

Covid-19 has brought international travel to a standstill. But it will recover and may even become a better experience, says Simon Wright

Could covid-19 shake up air travel for the better?

Governments’ re-entry into airlines may spur more competition

How today’s reviled airlines could become greener

The pandemic has drawn attention to the environmental damage caused by air travel

Business travel may never fully recover from covid-19

Business class was late to the game. It might be early to leave too

The pandemic has hurt corporate jets less than commercial ones

The wealthy are not bound by airline schedules

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