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Analysis-From quarantine boxes to luxury cabins, China’s prefab home factories pivot to exports

Workers are seen at the construction site of a makeshift hospital being built to quarantine related personnel and treat patients of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) when necessary, in Baqiao district of Xian, Shaanxi province, China January 5, 2022. Picture taken January 5, 2022. (China Daily via REUTERS)

BEIJING/HONG KONG—Sun Guangqing’s prefabricated homes factory in China opened in 2022 just as the property sector entered a prolonged crisis and only months before ‌Beijing lifted pandemic curbs, developments that crippled its two main sources of demand. [Read More]

A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.

A series based on diplomatic documents declassified by Japan’s Foreign Ministry

Here is a collection of first-hand accounts by “hibakusha” atomic bomb survivors.

Cooking experts, chefs and others involved in the field of food introduce their special recipes intertwined with their paths in life.

A series about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II