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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jun 21, 2014

Any publicity is good news for beer firms

At a Tokyo news conference on June 4, Sapporo Beer President Masaki Oga announced his company would halt sales of its Goku Zero alcoholic beverage after current inventory was shipped. The parent company, Sapporo Holdings, had been contacted by the National Tax Agency in January regarding the manufacturing...
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PRESS / Publications
Nov 20, 2013

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BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jul 25, 2010

Death of 'The Boss' huge news in U.S., not in Japan

I'm just back from a summer trip to the United States with time in northern New Jersey, where the big news last week was the death of New York Yankees owner George "The Boss" Steinbrenner on July 13, and the press coverage was extensive.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2009

NHK to launch global 24-hour news channel

NHK will launch Japan's first 24-hour international broadcasting service on Feb. 2.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Sep 18, 2007

Looking on the bright side

Last in a two-part series
EDITORIALS
Feb 8, 2007

More bad news for Mr. Abe

For the first time since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power in late September, more Japanese disapprove of his administration than approve of it. Although Mr. Abe's Liberal Democratic Party emerged victorious in the Aichi gubernatorial election Sunday, he will continue to experience difficulties...
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2006

Crown Prince avoids the succession issue at birthday news conference

Crown Prince Naruhito said Thursday he hoped all will go well with the pregnancy of his brother's wife, Princess Kiko, avoiding the issue of female succession, at a news conference the day before his 46th birthday.
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2004

Asahi news reporter axed for breaching promise with secret source

The daily Asahi Shimbun has forced a 46-year-old reporter to leave the company for secretly recording a conversation with a news source and giving a copy of the recording to another source.
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2003

News Corp. sells Sky Perfect stake

Australian media giant News Corp. said Friday it has sold its entire 8.1 percent stake in satellite broadcaster Sky Perfect Communications Inc. to three Japanese companies.
BUSINESS / Q&A
Jul 5, 2003

Interest-rate hikes: good news or bad?

Long-term interest rates surged this week. Is it good news or bad?
JAPAN
May 30, 2002

Kyodo News photographed, videotaped asylum seekers

Kyodo News announced Wednesday that widely used photographs and videotape of the incident involving five North Koreans seeking asylum at a Japanese consulate in China earlier this month were taken by its reporters.
JAPAN
Dec 28, 2001

Most-searched Net news was Sept. 11 terror attack

Yahoo Japan Corp. said the news most frequently searched for this year on its Web portal site was about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2000

It's summertime, and the news is slim

LONDON -- Those of us whose job is to feed the world a steady diet of "news" (99 percent of which is actually recycled "olds") are always grateful when a loon like Rabbi Ovadia Yosef opens his mouth and lets fly. Especially in August.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 1998

News exhibit to open in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA -- An exhibition on the history of English-language news coverage in Japan will open next Tuesday in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture.
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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.
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BUSINESS
May 10, 2023

Tucker Carlson plans show on Twitter, calling it last big free speech platform

Carlson was ousted last month from Fox News after evidence was found during court proceedings that he had insulted management, colleagues and guests.
JAPAN
Dec 30, 2022

Images of 2022: Japan news

From the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, to the reopening of borders amid the easing of the pandemic: The stories that defined 2022 domestically.
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WORLD / Politics
Nov 8, 2022

Voting-system firms battle right-wing rage against the machines

The efforts to fight misinformation have so far blocked any significant loss of business, but companies remain concerned as the belief in voter-fraud fictions continues to grow.
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WORLD / Politics
Nov 7, 2022

Russia reactivates its trolls and bots ahead of U.S. midterms

Researchers have identified a series of Russian information operations to influence American elections and, perhaps, erode support for Ukraine.
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WORLD
Nov 5, 2022

Twitter cuts spur concerns about U.S. midterm elections and human rights

Elon Musk's broad-based cuts at the social media site are leading current and former employees to question whether it will have the resources to effectively moderate content.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 15, 2022

China's Taiwan drills accompanied by wave of misinformation

As millions watched a Weibo livestream of a flight-tracking site showing Pelosi's flight landing in Taiwan, unsubstantiated claims emerged that her plane was forced to turn back to the U.S.
JAPAN / Explainer
Oct 3, 2023

Unpacking the latest Johnny & Associates news conference

The flood of information released during the agency's latest news conference may have been difficult to grasp. Here's what you need to know.
Elon Musk’s X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, is allowing child sexual exploitation material to rampantly proliferate, according to Australian regulators, the latest in a growing list of legal challenges the company is facing.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 17, 2023

Australian regulators latest in series of legal woes for Musk's X

X is allowing child sexual exploitation material to rampantly proliferate across the platform, according to Australian regulators.
Australia had the chance to embrace reconciliation with its First Nations peoples in the Voice referendum. Voters chose division instead.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 17, 2023

Ignorance sank Australia’s Indigenous Voice referendum

Australia had the choice to embrace reconciliation with its First Nations peoples. Misinformation, dirty politics and apathy prevailed instead.
Motorists drive past a giant billboard depicting Muslim people walking with their national flags toward the Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem, in central Tehran's Valiasr Square on Oct. 25.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 4, 2023

In a worldwide war of words, Russia, China and Iran back Hamas

Officials and researchers say the deluge of online propaganda and disinformation is larger than anything seen before.
A man wearing a t-shirt in support of QAnon, participates in a 'Back the Blue' rally in New York on Aug. 9, 2020.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 16, 2023

U.S. political violence driven by new breed of 'grab-bag' extremists

Such radicals eschew firm creeds. Instead, they embrace notions, no matter how divergent, that blends with their particular grievances.
Elon Musk attends an interview in New York on Nov. 29.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 10, 2024

SEC’s ‘compromised’ account amplifies X mistrust, security concerns

The high-profile breach comes at a time when X and billionaire owner Elon Musk are seeking to win back trust from both users and advertisers.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol delivers remarks during the Third Summit for Democracy in Seoul on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 18, 2024

South Korea-hosted summit warns of AI risks to democracy

South Korea is hosting the Summit for Democracy conference, an initiative aimed at discussing ways to stop the erosion of rights and freedoms.

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