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Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 14, 2022

Climate disaster aid initiative 'Global Shield' launched at COP27

The plan, backed by the G7 and launched with initial funding of more than $200 million, aims to provide speedy financial support to communities battered by climate disasters.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 14, 2022

Zelenskyy visits Kherson following Russia's retreat

The Ukrainian president has said investigators have already documented more than 400 war crimes committed by the Russia's during their eight-month occupation of the city.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 14, 2022

Tokyo police uncover group targeting female dressing rooms at bathhouses

The international criminal investigation section of the MPD has arrested a total of 17 members of the group, with losses thought to total at least u00a5100 million.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 14, 2022

Intensifying geopolitical rivalries dominate ASEAN summits

ASEAN nations are working to ensure the current geopolitical dynamics between China and the U.S. do not turn into a new Cold War.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 14, 2022

Munetaka Murakami sets his sights on bigger things — including MLB

There are probably many in MLB who feel the 22-year-old is ready for the challenge after putting the baseball world on notice with his performance this past season.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2022

With new group, prefectural governors take aim at Tokyo's dominance

Nearly half of Japan's 47 prefectural governors formed the group amid frustration with the government's slow progress in reducing the concentration of people and firms in the capital.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Nov 14, 2022

From bad to worse? Next year’s economic risks are already here.

History says the Federal Reserve's high-speed interest-rate hikes may well tip the U.S. into recession in 2023. Few will be surprised if spiraling natural-gas prices do the same for Europe.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2022

Asia's richest man challenges China in show of support for Modi

With Sri Lanka in the throes of its worst economic crisis since independence, India is re-engaging and attempting to tilt the balance in a strategic tussle with China.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2022

COVID-19 tracker: Tokyo confirms 4,025 new cases

The seven-day average of new cases rose 30.1% from a week earlier to 7,501.9.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 14, 2022

Buffaloes and Swallows dominate 2022 Golden Glove selections

The pennant-winning Tokyo Yakult Swallows, who fell to the Buffaloes in the Japan Series, led the Central League with three selections.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Tohoku
Nov 14, 2022

Tohoku fruit producers look to overseas markets for growth

With Aomori marketing its apples in India, and Yamagata pears breaking into East Asia, the products are seen as being key to increased exports.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Nov 14, 2022

Newly found papers show lives of German prisoners of war in Hiroshima

Researchers say the records — rediscovered a century after the facility closed — are first-class materials that depict the character of the POWs and how they interacted with Japanese people.
Japan Times
Rugby
Nov 14, 2022

Hong Kong protest song replaces China anthem at South Korea rugby match

The tournament organizers issued an apology and played the Chinese anthem after the match.
Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa meets with her Thai counterpart, Parnpree Bahiddha-nukara, in Bangkok on Thursday.
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2023

Japan and Thailand to cooperate to improve investment climate

Thailand's foreign minister reportedly said that he hopes his country can cooperate with Japan in new areas, including digital transformation.
Climate activists protest demanding that the World Bank stop fossil fuel financing on the first day of the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, in Marrakech, Morocco, on Monday
ENVIRONMENT / Energy / ANALYSIS
Oct 13, 2023

Why money matters when taking climate change to court

More litigation funding for climate lawsuits could mean more cases.
Vitor Gaspar, director of the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department
BUSINESS
Oct 13, 2023

IMF official says fiscal reform will only grow more difficult

According to data from the IMF, Japan's national debt-to-GDP ratio topped 260% in 2022.
U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the 78th U.N. General Assembly in New York City last month.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 13, 2023

In U.S., Biden faces few calls to rein in Israel amid Gaza crisis

Allies of the U.S. president want to avoid giving Republicans making the crisis a political liability as he seeks re-election in 2024.
The U.S. is struggling to cut China off from top AI technology.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 13, 2023

Biden eyes adding AI chip curbs to Chinese companies abroad

Efforts to close the loophole allowing access to chips the show how the Biden administration is struggling to cut China off from top AI technology.
Pedestrians walk past a McDonald's restaurant in Hong Kong.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 13, 2023

Hong Kong takes economic hit as Chinese tourists fail to splurge

Changes in travel habits come as the Chinese economy weakens and youth unemployment remains high.
A fragment of a German cockroach found in Nara Prefecture
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 13, 2023

One of the world’s most common cockroaches may have origins in Japan

The discovery marks what could be the first evidence of the presence of the species during Japan’s Kofun Period.
Fukushiro Nukaga
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 13, 2023

LDP to recommend former finance minister as Lower House speaker

Fukushiro Nukaga, 79, is expected to take over for Hiroyuki Hosoda when parliament resumes next week.
There are expectations that Japan’s life insurers may increase purchases of Japanese government bonds as yields rise at home along with signs that the central bank is edging toward a normalization of monetary policy.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 13, 2023

Japan’s rising yields and yen hedging costs drive insurers to JGBs

Japanese government bonds are drawing interest amid signs that the central bank is edging toward a normalization of monetary policy.
Smoke billows following Israeli strikes amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Gaza, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 13, 2023

Israel calls for all civilians to leave Gaza City

Israeli said it would operate "significantly" in the coming days and that civilians would only be able to return when another announcement was made.
The Phillies' Nick Castellanos rounds the bases after hitting his second home run against the Braves in Game 4 of the NLDS in Philadelphia on Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 13, 2023

Nick Castellanos homers twice to power Phillies into to NLCS

The Phillies will host the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 1 of the best-of-seven National League Championship Series on Monday.
The Russian Olympic Committee was banned with immediate effect by the IOC on Thursday.
OLYMPICS
Oct 13, 2023

IOC bans Russian Olympic Committee over annexed Ukrainian territories

The IOC added the ROC would not be eligible for any funding after it recognized Olympic Councils from Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
South Korea's government and international rights organizations have said defectors who are deported back to the North face harsh punishment.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 13, 2023

South Korea protests to China over suspected North Korea repatriations

South Korea had been unable to determine the number of people involved and whether there were defectors among them.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping walks past then-Foreign Minister Qin Gang (front left) and defense chief Li Shangfu (front right) as he arrives for the closing session of the National People's Congress at Beijing's Great Hall of the People in March.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 13, 2023

With purges of top officials, is China’s Xi in trouble? Hardly.

The well-known opacity in Beijing may have clouded assessments of how the turbulence is affecting Xi’s grip on power
Asuka (left) and Mai Hatta. Their business, Hasora, near New Delhi, as partnered up with local organic vegetable farmers to sell fresh produce.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 24, 2023

Japanese sisters bring organic produce to residents in India

Mai and Asuka Hatta launched their firm after hearing from Japanese residents in India that they had difficulty obtaining fresh and safe vegetables.
Taiwan stuns Samurai Japan to capture Premier12 title
Japan starter Shosei Togo reacts after allowing a three-run home run against Taiwan in the fifth inning of the Premier12 final on Sunday.
Japan and U.S. to form missile plan in case of Taiwan emergency
A U.S. Marine Corps M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile (12SSM) system are put on display at a symposium at a base in Kisarazu, Japan, in June 2022.
Preparations for Osaka Expo well underway amid lack of excitement
The Grand Ring, a symbol of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka
Ishiba shelves proposal for liaison offices with North Korea amid rising tensions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks on Saturday in Tokyo at a rally that was held by a group of families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago to demand the immediate return of all abductees.
'Kohaku' still matters for J-pop bragging rights
Emerging Gen Z J-pop group ME:I will perform on this year's "Kohaku Uta Gassen," national broadcaster NHK’s New Year's Eve spectacle.
Are you leaving your loved ones digital legacies or headaches?
The National Consumer Affairs Center reports a growing number of consultations regarding "digital legacies" — data and online services left behind when people die.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
An iconic 32-foot doughnut might give Randy’s an edge in Japan
Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, California. Replicas of the giant doughnut sculpture will be installed, where possible, at shops in Japan.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Totopa in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward was picked by consultants TTNE as the best sauna of the year.
Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat
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