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Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 7, 2022

A bad month for Trump: Three takeaways from Raphael Warnock's win in Georgia

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock beat Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election that fortified the Democrats' Senate majority.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 7, 2022

Polluters' policies would see warming above 1.5 Celsius limit, analysis says

The assessment found that the United States, Canada, Australia and the European Union are working off plans that could see warming between 2.1 C and 3.4 C.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Dec 7, 2022

China's aviation comeback stokes tensions over access to Russian airspace

Western carriers haven't had access to Russia's air corridors since the Ukraine invasion triggered Western sanctions and retaliatory bans by Moscow.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2022

Japan to raise childbirth allowance to ¥500,000 amid rising costs

Costs for childbirth have been rising in Japan in recent years, with the average total now exceeding the allowance.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 7, 2022

China eases COVID restrictions in major shift in virus policy

By jettisoning key tenets of the virus elimination strategy, China's switch in COVID-19 policy is suddenly moving faster than expected.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 7, 2022

Giants go big with $360 million offer for Aaron Judge

Judge turned down a seven-year, $213.5 million extension offer from the Yankees in March and went on to hit an American League-record 62 home runs.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2022

U.S. and Australia invite Japan to step up troop rotations

Japan, a treaty-bound ally of the U.S., has in recent years sought growing diplomatic cooperation with Australia.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 7, 2022

EV battery-makers face emissions challenge, Panasonic unit head says

Customers are now adding carbon footprints as a measurement when assessing batteries, the senior executive said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 7, 2022

Nomura’s crypto arm seeks profit in two years in shakeout after FTX crisis

The unit, Laser Digital, will leverage the backing of the Tokyo-based investment bank to win over institutional investors and plans to add 50 employees by March.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2022

Explosion in Tokyo manhole kills two

Police will investigate the case with a view to bringing a charge of professional negligence resulting in death.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 7, 2022

Ukrainian strikes on Russian bases score symbolic win

Kyiv has yet to claim responsibility, but experts believe Ukraine used Soviet-era drones from the 1970s, possibly modified to carry weapons.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 7, 2022

South Korea debt crisis is a cautionary tale as era of easy money ends

Even relatively safer financial systems like South Korea's face threats of contagion.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Dec 7, 2022

G7's Russian oil price cap evolves from revenue squeeze to market anchor

Analysts said the cap will have little immediate impact on the oil revenues that Moscow is currently earning to fund its war machine.
Passengers wait for their train in front of a TV broadcasting a news report on North Korea firing a ballistic missile, at the main railway station in Seoul in July.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 13, 2023

North Korea fires off two ballistic missiles as Kim visits Russia

Both missiles appeared to have landed outside Japan's exclusive economic zone, which extends 200 nautical miles (370 km) from its coast.
A man stands next to a damaged car in Derna, after a powerful storm and heavy rainfall hit Libya on Tuesday.
WORLD / Society
Sep 13, 2023

Over 5,000 dead in Libya as dam collapses worsen flood disaster

Libya, a North African nation splintered by a war, was ill-prepared for the storm, which swept across the Mediterranean Sea to batter its coastline.
Nadia Umana, a Colombian environmental leader threatened by criminal gangs, poses for a picture during an interview in Bogota on Aug. 30.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 13, 2023

Colombia deadliest country for green activists in 2022: report

Many of those targeted were Indigenous people, members of Afro-descendant communities, small-scale farmers and environmental activists.
David Dahlquist, senior trial counsel in the antitrust division at the U.S. Department of Justice (left), and Kenneth Dintzer, litigator for the U.S. Department of Justice, leave federal court in Washington on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 13, 2023

Google’s search domination began with plan to combat rivals

Google argues the company has won market share because it has the best search engine, not because of a lack of competition.
A TSMC plant under construction in Kikuyo, Kumamoto Prefecture
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 13, 2023

TSMC prizes Japan's chips skills after U.S. stumbles

The chipmaker is taking an increasingly optimistic view of Japan as a production base, as problems persist at its new factory in Arizona.
Former world No. 1 Simona Halep has been provisionally suspended since October 2022 after a positive doping test.
TENNIS
Sep 13, 2023

Simona Halep to appeal four-year ban for anti-doping rule violations

The 31-year-old former Wimbledon and French Open champion had been provisionally suspended since October 2022.
The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 13, 2023

BOJ watchers bring forward rate hike forecasts on Ueda’s remarks

Economists moved forward their forecasts for an end to negative interest rates after the BOJ chief touched on that possibility in an interview.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida leaves his office residence in formal attire to attend an attestation ceremony at the Imperial Palace with his reshuffled Cabinet in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 13, 2023

Kishida replaces top diplomat and boosts women in Cabinet reshuffle

Among the more stunning moves was the prime minister’s decision to have former Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa replace Yoshimasa Hayashi as top diplomat.
An earthquake simulation test machine shown at the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Tuesday
JAPAN
Sep 13, 2023

State-of-the-art quake simulation test shown to media

The institute hopes that the machine will help uncover the mechanism of earthquakes in a natural setting in order to predict large quakes.
A team of lawyers — which represent the plaintiffs of a lawsuit claiming that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Cabinet neglected their constitutional obligation to call a parliamentary session — walk to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Sep 13, 2023

Top court rejects claims over Abe's failure to call Diet session

Presiding Justice Yasumasa Nagamine at the top court's Third Petty Bench made the decision to dismiss the three appeals.
According to Justice Ministry statistics, about 20% of the inmates who ended up in prisons and other correctional facilities nationwide in 2021 were suspected of having intellectual disabilities.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 2023

'Osaka Model' for aiding disabled lawbreakers reaches crossroads

The "Osaka Model" for aiding lawbreakers with disabilities has reached a crossroads due to challenges with securing welfare and personnel.
A U.S. Marine shows off a Grp I UAS Black Hornet drone as part of the Rim of the Pacific 2016 exercise at Camp Pendleton, California, in July 2016.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 13, 2023

U.S. allies and partners critical for Pentagon’s drone swarm strategy

Questions remain about how much technology Washington will be willing to share without the risk of compromising security.
Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong (left) while being monitored by a Taiwanese Keelung class warship (right) at sea. Taiwan said on Wednesday that it had detected numerous Chinese warplanes around the island.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 13, 2023

Taiwan reports 28 Chinese air force planes in its air defense zone

Taipei said that war planes, including J-10 fighters, had flown into the southwestern corner of the island's air defense identification zone, or ADIZ.
Asep Muizudin Muhamad Darmini was recently discharged from a hospital in Jakarta after being treated for a respiratory illness caused by the city's air pollution.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Sep 13, 2023

Breathless Indonesians irate over pollution crisis in Jakarta

Air pollution is hardly a new phenomenon in the city, but monitors and activists say the effects have been even worse than usual this year.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
Japan to aid introduction of multilingual ride-hailing apps
A Nihon Kotsu Co. taxi departs one of the company's service offices in Tokyo.
Seven & I founding family sounded out KKR and others about buyout: report
A 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo
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
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”

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

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Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
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