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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 23, 2022

Three years into COVID-19, are we ready for the next pandemic?

Preparations to stave off the next pandemic are starting to ramp up, but far more needs to be done to avoid repeating past mistakes.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 23, 2022

What Taiwan can learn from Zelenskyy’s visit to Washington

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy knew his audience when he addressed a joint session of Congress in Washington, Taipei should do the same if it wants to secure U.S. support.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 23, 2022

MUFG weighs more share buybacks to boost returns as cash grows

The plan underscores the challenges facing Japan's biggest banks as they weigh how to invest billions of dollars in profits amid ultralow interest rates and tepid loan demand at home.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2022

Japan unveils record budget in boost to military capabilities

The draft budget features record military and welfare spending as Japan confronts regional security challenges from an ever-assertive China and an unpredictable North Korea.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 23, 2022

Daiwa chief expects more BOJ tweaks in pivot to policy tightening

Japan's 40-year high inflation and signs of distortions in the bond market mean it's a good time to start normalizing policy, Daiwa Securities Group CEO Seiji Nakata said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2022

Sam Bankman-Fried's $250 million bail among largest in U.S. history

Outsized bonds are more a means of establishing harsh financial consequences for bail-jumping and are often backed by assets worth only around 10% of the stated amount.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 23, 2022

Japanese homeowners face an unfamiliar headache: higher mortgages

The Bank of Japan whipsawed global financial markets when it said on Tuesday it would allow rates to rise a little more, signaling a potential end to ultralow rates.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 23, 2022

Twitter is said to have struggled over revealing U.S. influence campaign

The situation began in 2017 when an official working with U.S. Central Command requested that Twitter verify some of the military's accounts.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Dec 23, 2022

Over half of Japan's junior high school teachers work beyond overtime guidelines

'While there is an improving trend overall, we need to continue to promote efforts to reform working styles,' an education ministry official said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 23, 2022

Anchovies and sardines are a climate solution in a can

Tinned fish are among the lowest-carbon animal protein available, with potential to curb the world's enormous emissions from food.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 23, 2022

Jan. 6 panel releases report blasting Trump for assault on U.S. Capitol

Investigators for the panel interviewed more than a thousand witnesses and went over millions of pages of documents.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 23, 2022

U.S. scales back pandemic response even as China's COVID surge raises alarm

The shift, driven by congressional penny-pinching, marks a political, economic and public health gamble.
Leaders from the BRICS group of major emerging economies are set to meet this week in South Africa, but internal divisions are likely to slow any plans to expand the bloc, experts say.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 22, 2023

Divergent interests likely to slow BRICS expansion

Plans to expand the bloc and boost payments in local currencies will top the agenda at the group's summit this week.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean leader Yoon Suk-yeol attend a news conference during a trilateral summit at Camp David, Maryland, on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 22, 2023

U.S. pushes back against Chinese trilateral summit criticism

China said it had protested the summit to the three countries, claiming they had “smeared and attacked" China on Taiwan and maritime issues.
Cloning a person’s voice is increasingly easy. Once a scammer downloads a short sample from an audio clip they can use AI voice-synthesizing tools to create the content they need.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 22, 2023

Powered by technology, imposter scams drive new wave of fraud

Scammers methods sound like the stuff of science fiction, but advanced techniques are already available to criminals preying on everyday consumers.
An Air Koryo plane is reflected in a glass structure of the airport in Pyongyang in April 2017.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 22, 2023

North Korea sees first passenger flight in three years

An Air Koryo flight from Pyongyang landed in Beijing early Tuesday for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns began in 2020.
Shinobu Yamanaka, a mom of three sons and director of a day care facility in Konan, Kochi Prefecture, serves up to eight "members" six days a week.
JAPAN / Science & Health / FOCUS
Aug 22, 2023

Kochi dementia care center aims to set new paradigm in Japan

A new generation of people with Alzheimer’s in Japan are trying to change not only dementia care but also social attitudes toward patients.
Srettha Thavisin in Bangkok on Tuesday
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 22, 2023

Srettha Thavisin to become Thailand's prime minister

The Pheu Thai party's Srettha Thavisin will become Thailand's prime minister.
The European Union has named 19 platforms that face stricter rules on policing online content and transparency.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 23, 2023

Big tech to face full force of new EU law

The landmark law is part of the EU's legal arsenal deployed to bring tech companies to heel and enforce order.
An office worker in London. A new report found that 36% of so-called workpoints — cubicles and desks — are never occupied, "indicating a general oversupply.”
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 23, 2023

More than one-third of desks globally sit empty all week long

The dearth of desk usage could prompt employers to rethink their real estate needs.
X is planning to remove the headline and text while retaining just the lead image from links to news articles shared on the platform, Elon Musk has said.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 23, 2023

X plans to remove headlines from links to news articles

It is not immediately clear how the move will impact advertisers on the platform, which Musk claimed in July had 540 million monthly users.
A Dutch F-16 fighter jet. Although the jets will bring new capabilities to Ukraine's war effort, they also increase the complexity of managing a conflict where aviation has yet to take center stage in battles.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 23, 2023

F-16s: A victory and new challenge for war-torn Ukraine

Even though the jets bring new capabilities, they also increase the complexity of managing a conflict where aviation has yet to take center stage.
Pheu Thai's Srettha Thavisin. Thailand's parliament voted in favor of his prime ministerial candidacy in Bangkok on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 23, 2023

Thai property mogul Srettha Thavisin's unlikely rise to PM

The conservative establishment sees Srettha and his Pheu Thai party as more palatable than the progressive Move Forward Party.
A construction site in Dubai, where workers often face temperatures up to 45 degrees Celsius
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 23, 2023

As temperatures climb, millions more people face food insecurity

A recent study shows that extreme heat leads to an impossible conundrum for many workers: Risk your health to earn a living, or go hungry.
Flames reach upward along the edge of a wildfire near Mistissini, Quebec, in June.
ENVIRONMENT
Aug 23, 2023

As wildfires multiply, a new era of air pollution

The average American had already been exposed to 450 micrograms of smoke per cubic meter by early July, worse than from 2006-2022.
The darkened area surrounding Lahaina shows where the fire spread on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Aug. 13.
WORLD / Society
Aug 23, 2023

After Maui wildfire residents fear land grab may threaten culture

Hawaii's Office of Consumer Protection has warned of people making below-market offers, playing on fears of foreclosure and the cost of rebuilding.
A news report about Japan's decision to release treated radioactive water from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into the ocean is shown on a big screen in Beijing on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2023

China and Hong Kong to toughen import restrictions on Japan foods

Of Japan's exports of agricultural, forestry and fishery products and food items, 36% went to mainland China and Hong Kong in total in 2022.

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Wozme, founded by dancer and choreographer Wakaba Kohei, is composed of Kana Kitty, Ami Ishii, Akane Watanabe and Natsuki. Its aim is to inject elegance and beauty, traits traditionally associated with femininity, into the sometimes grotesque art form of butoh dance.
Wozme, an all-women dance troupe, wants to move the needle in butoh