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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 1, 2022

For China’s leader, another dilemma: How to mourn Jiang Zemin

Paying tribute to Jiang while preventing him from becoming a symbolic cudgel against the current regime will be a challenge for Xi Jinping in the coming weeks
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Dec 1, 2022

LIV Golf adds more events for 2023

The LIV Golf tour added three tournaments to its 14-event schedule in 2023.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 1, 2022

Unusual 'triple-dip' La Nina weather may persist into March, U.N. says

The current large-scale cooling of surface temperatures is the first triple-dip La Nina of the century and only the third since 1950, the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 1, 2022

U.S. Fed chair signals rate hikes will slow, likely next month, but continue

Policy-sensitive two-year Treasury yields fell on Powell's remarks, erasing increases on the day, and the dollar slipped in value against major rivals on foreign-exchange markets.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2022

Japan tells China and Russia it has 'severe concerns' over joint air patrols

Japan's Defense Ministry said its Air Self-Defense Force scrambled fighter jets in response to the patrols.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Dec 1, 2022

U.S. Republicans slam Biden's cautious response to China COVID protests

The White House has said it backs the right of people to peacefully protest in China but has stopped short of criticizing Beijing.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 1, 2022

Quebec plans to bar long-term immigrants who don’t speak French

The nationalist Coalition Avenir Quebec party was re-elected with a huge majority in October, partly on a platform of protecting French as the dominant language in the province.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 1, 2022

Japanese corporate capital expenditure up in third quarter

Spending was up by 9.8% from the same period a year earlier, for a sixth straight quarterly increase.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Dec 1, 2022

Australia rejoices as Socceroos reach World Cup knockout stage

Australia manager Graham Arnold believes his team has a case to be considered as the new 'golden generation' of Australian soccer.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 1, 2022

U.S. Capitol assault sedition verdict raises stakes for Trump

The jury conviction Tuesday of two militia leaders on charges of seditious conspiracy raises the possibility that Trump could himself be charged with sedition.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 1, 2022

Zelenskyy praises German parliament for declaring Ukraine famine a genocide

In November 1932, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin dispatched police to seize all grain and livestock from newly collectivized Ukrainian farms, including the seed needed to plant the next crop.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 1, 2022

FTX’s Japan unit drafts plan to return client funds

The proposal, which has yet to be finalized, centers on using a platform called Liquid to facilitate the return of assets starting in January.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2022

Princess Aiko, only child of Emperor Naruhito, turns 21

The princess is currently a third-year student at Gakushuin University's Faculty of Letters and has continued to attend classes online amid the pandemic.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Dec 1, 2022

Japan captain Maya Yoshida calls Spain match most important of career

'Of course, it is possible to draw and see what happens with Germany against Costa Rica. But, basically, we have to try to win the game.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 1, 2022

Japan government stayed out of currency markets in November

For now, stepping back from intervention removes a potential source of conflict between Washington and Tokyo.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 1, 2022

‘First Love’: More of a fling than a true romance

A Netflix series inspired by two Hikaru Utada pop songs is frivolously entertaining but doesn't carry much weight.
Sompo Japan Insurance President Giichi Shirakawa apologizes during a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 8, 2023

Sompo Japan president to resign for Bigmotor insurance fraud scandal

The insurer's close relationship with the used car dealership has come under scrutiny since the firm was found to have made fraudulent insurance claims.
French President Emmanuel Macron (center) and deposed president Ali Bongo of Gabon (center left) at an African Union-European Union summit in 2017
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 8, 2023

A domino effect in Africa, embarrassment in Paris

A new season of military coups is sweeping over Africa, with grave implications for France and the West as they struggle to maintain influence.
Harvard historian Calder Walton says U.S. leaders have ignored China’s massive, multifront intelligence push.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 8, 2023

The vulnerability of open societies to foreign espionage

Are Western nations, with their open societies, making the same mistake with China as they did with the Soviet Union?
An autonomous truck in Stack AV’s test fleet
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 8, 2023

SoftBank backs autonomous trucking firm started by ex-Ford execs

The new firm, named Stack AV, is led by three executives who previously ran Argo AI, the self-driving operation that Ford and VW shut down last year.
Mana Iwabuchi poses during her retirement news conference on Friday.
SOCCER
Sep 8, 2023

World Cup winner Mana Iwabuchi retires with 'no regrets'

Mana Iwabuchi was a member of the Nadeshiko Japan team that won the 2011 Women's World Cup.
Prime Minster Fumio Kishida talks with his Cambodian counterpart, Hun Manet, as they arrive at the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations Summit in Jakarta on Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Sep 8, 2023

The ASEAN Summit gives us just more of the same

ASEAN needs to address problems internal divisions and maintain its role in the region.
Johnny & Associates President Julie Keiko Fujishima (second from right) acknowledged that company founder Johnny Kitagawa had sexually abused agency employees for decades during a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 7.
CULTURE / Music / Sound Off
Sep 9, 2023

What’s in a name? A lot of baggage and trauma, unfortunately.

Johnny and Associates' recognition of abuse is a step in the right direction, but more needs to be done to move forward.
Kazuo Ueda
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 9, 2023

BOJ's Ueda signals chance of ending negative rates, report says

The central bank could have enough data by year-end to determine whether it can end negative rates, Gov. Kazuo Ueda said in an interview.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during the ASEAN-Indo Pacific Forum in Jakarta on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 9, 2023

Kishida plans to reshuffle Cabinet and LDP leadership Wednesday

Among the LDP leadership, Kishida plans to retain Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi and Vice President Taro Aso.
A man receives a COVID-19 vaccination  at Aoyama University in Tokyo in August 2021.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 9, 2023

Japan to end free COVID-19 vaccinations in March

From fiscal 2024, the country will provide a COVID-19 shot once a year between to people aged 65 or over who are at high risk of severe symptoms.
Then-Chinese Premier Li Keqiang waves as he leaves a joint news conference with then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and then-South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the last trilateral leaders' meeting between China, South Korea and Japan, in Chengdu, China, in December 2019.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 9, 2023

Japan, China and South Korea diplomats may meet this month

The planned working-level talks could set the stage for the resumption of annual three-way leader summits, which have been suspended since 2019.
The average for summer bonuses this year was slightly higher than the ¥845,453 in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, and trailed only the ¥870,731 in 2018, the labor ministry said Friday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 9, 2023

2023 summer bonuses second-highest on record in Japan

Bonuses at major Japanese companies this summer averaged ¥845,557, up 1.59% from a year before, the labor ministry has announced.
Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi offers prayers in front of a church in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 9, 2023

Japan top diplomat makes first visit to Ukraine since war's start

Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi met with a number of high-ranking officials in Kyiv, including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
A woman in front of her earthquake-damaged house in the old city in Marrakesh on Saturday
WORLD
Sep 10, 2023

Death toll of powerful Morocco earthquake exceeds 2,000

Near the epicenter of the country's deadliest quake in more than six decades, Moroccan earthquake survivors prepare to spend a night outside.

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