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Japan Times
TENNIS
Jun 6, 2023

Holger Rune double-bounces into French Open quarterfinals

The Dane will now need to improve on last year's performance against Casper Ruud, when he lost a bad-tempered quarterfinal.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 6, 2023

City of Yokosuka adopts ChatGPT after favorable trial results

The city's authority was the nation's first local government to start trial use of the generative AI, which is driven by a machine learning model that works much like the human brain.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 6, 2023

China leads tech race, highlighting need for AUKUS sharing, think tank says

An analysis of 2 million science papers showed Beijing had a commanding lead in both hypersonics research and the technology to counter it, electronic warfare and key undersea capabilities.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 6, 2023

Apple’s $3,499 Vision Pro headset will test marketing might

The wearable device mixes virtual and augmented reality, meaning it can fully engross a user in content with high-resolution displays or overlay apps on top of the wearer’s field of view.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 6, 2023

Short film festival celebrates 25th anniversary with a post-pandemic focus

Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia will showcase 270 works and, for the first time in three years, the festival is bringing filmmakers back to Tokyo for the event.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 5, 2023

Japan won't detail time frame to balance budget in midyear policy

The annual policy, to be adopted by the Cabinet this month, is widely considered a key gauge of the government's will to restore fiscal health.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 5, 2023

Daiwa gives workers OK to 'freely use' ChatGPT as part of tech drive

The company has been strengthening the recruitment of science graduates to develop high-tech experts in house.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 5, 2023

Japan wants over 30% of executives at major firms to be women by 2030

Of firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Prime Market, 18.7% had no female board members as of the end of July 2022.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jun 5, 2023

Soccer great Zlatan Ibrahimovic announces retirement

The extroverted Swede's contract with Milan expires at the end of June and will not be renewed following a season plagued by injuries.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Jun 5, 2023

Fighters' Gosuke Katoh gets unique journey in Japanese baseball off to red-hot start

A single against the Giants extended his hitting streak since his debut to eight games — the longest by a rookie to start a career since the introduction of the NPB draft in 1966.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Jun 5, 2023

Miyu Kato apologizes for hitting ball girl with stray shot at French Open

Disqualified Japanese tennis player Miyu Kato issued an apology Sunday night after a ball she hit between points struck a ball girl during a French Open women's doubles third-round match.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 5, 2023

Japanese Supreme Court upholds man's death sentence for Manila murders

Toshihiko Iwama, 49, was sentenced to death by the Kofu District Court in 2017 for murdering two men for insurance payments.
Japan Times
SUMO
Jun 5, 2023

Newly minted ozeki Kirishima departs for long-awaited trip home to Mongolia

The Spring Grand Sumo Tournament winner returns home as the sixth Mongolian-born wrestler to achieve the esteemed rank, second only to yokozuna.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 5, 2023

Investigators' pressure seen as reason for GaaSyy's return to Japan

Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department said that GaaSyy’s return was the “result of UAE authorities’ measures and not a voluntary one.'
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 5, 2023

Japan high court denies retrial for 95-year-old woman over 1979 murder

A high court denied a retrial for a 95-year-old woman who served 10 years in prison for the murder of her brother-in-law in 1979 in Kagoshima Prefecture.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Jun 5, 2023

Bridge marks 35 years connecting island isolated under past leprosy policy

The Oku-Nagashima Bridge in Okayama Prefecture has become a symbol of acknowledgement that the segregation policy, under which patients suffered for decades from discrimination, was wrong.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 5, 2023

Carnival replaces Hong Kong's annual Tiananmen candlelight vigil

Underlining the difference from past years, notices near the event’s entrance were clear: no banners, leaflets, posters or other materials with political messages were allowed.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Jun 5, 2023

Nagano school runs course for girls dreaming of idol stardom

Six girls dreaming of debuting as idols joined the inaugural class that will pursue both academic studies and performing arts at Saku Chosei Senior High School.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2023

Eyewitness videos proving useful to police, but experts warn of risks

A recent robbery at a high-end watch store on a busy street in central Tokyo has led authorities to warn bystanders against recording videos of ongoing crimes for their own safety.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2023

Stone coffin opened at Yoshinogari site in southwestern Japan

The sarcophagus is believed to have been built in the Yayoi period during the time of the ancient country of Yamatai.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Jun 5, 2023

As Taiwan gears up for 2024 presidential poll, who are the top candidates?

The result will have profound global ramifications as Beijing continues to step up military activity and diplomatic pressure on the island.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 5, 2023

South Korean support for building own nukes plummets, survey finds

The plunge in support comes despite North Korea’s increased pace of missile launches and weapons tests.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 5, 2023

Nikkei tops 32,000 mark, hitting 33-year high on Wall Street surge

Active buying was sparked by a surge in U.S. stocks late last week on robust jobs data for May.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 5, 2023

'The more, the merrier': Trump boosted by bloated 2024 race

The larger the chasing pack, the more Donald Trump is likely to win by dividing the anti-Trump vote.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jun 5, 2023

Hideki Matsuyama finishes 7 strokes back at Memorial; Viktor Hovland wins in playoff

Hideki Matsuyama carded a 4-over 76 in the final round of the Memorial Tournament to finish seven strokes back as Norway's Viktor Hovland claimed the title in a playoff.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Jun 5, 2023

Heat rally in fourth quarter to pull even in NBA Finals

Miami erased an eight-point deficit entering the fourth quarter and overcame a 41-point, 11-rebound performance from Nikola Jokic.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 5, 2023

Far-right resurgence limits Olaf Scholz’s room for action in Germany

Once viewed as a radical fringe group, the Alternative for Germany is now attracting frustrated supporters of established parties.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Jun 5, 2023

Aryna Sabalenka skips news conference after setting up quarterfinal clash against Elina Svitolina

Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus set up a politically charged French Open quarterfinal with Ukraine's Elina Svitolina on Sunday and immediately set the tone for the high-profile confrontation by boycotting the media at Roland Garros for the second time.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 5, 2023

A major showdown is brewing over what counts as a carbon credit

A few sentences in a note from an obscure United Nations group has ignited a firestorm in the carbon removal world.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2023

For Sakie Yokota, one of two living North Korea abductee parents, resolving issue remains priority

Yokota, 87, marked the third anniversary of her husband's death with an expression of concern over resolving the issue of people kidnapped by the reclusive regime.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

Podcast

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

Longform

Traditional folk rituals like Mizudome-no-mai (dance to stop the rain) provide a sense of agency to a population that feels largely powerless in the face of the climate crisis.
As climate extremes intensify, Japan embraces ancient weather rituals
By Alex K.T. Martin

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