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SOCCER / World cup
Nov 22, 2022

Takehiro Tomiyasu says Japan has everything required to beat Germany

Wednesday's game at Khalifa International Stadium will mark the Samurai Blue's first time facing the four-time World Cup winners at the quadrennial tournament.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Nov 22, 2022

European teams shelve pro-LGBTQ armbands after disciplinary threat

The armbands had widely been viewed as a symbolic protest against laws in World Cup host Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 22, 2022

U.S. and China defense ministers meet for second time this year

The meeting Tuesday follows a three-hour meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping last week on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Nov 22, 2022

Veteran Samurai Blue keeper Eiji Kawashima not ready for back seat

The Strasbourg stopper bristled at the notion that he might be in Qatar primarily to provide a veteran presence in the dressing room when the subject was raised at Japan's camp on Sunday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 22, 2022

Carlyle expands presence in Japan's auto sector as EV shift shakes supply chains

U.S. private equity firm announced this month a u00a538 billion tender offer for Totoku Electric, a manufacturer of electric wire whose products include wiring for automotive seat heaters.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Nov 22, 2022

Lionel Messi determined to enjoy likely last World Cup hurrah

At 35 years of age, the diminutive magician is close to winding down his remarkable trophy-laden career.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 22, 2022

Power cut as 7.0 quake hits Solomon Islands

A tsunami warning had been issued for an area of the Solomon Islands coast, but authorities later said the threat had passed.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Nov 22, 2022

England off to flying start at World Cup as Iran keeps silent

Gareth Southgate's side galloped to a 4-0 advantage at Khalifa International Stadium with two goals from man-of-the-match Buyako Saka and a fine Raheem Sterling strike.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Nov 22, 2022

Gareth Bale rescues Wales with late equalizer against United States

The Welsh captain's successful 83rd-minute penalty conversion triggered roars from a large and raucous contingent of supporters at Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 22, 2022

Taiwan's Kuomintang finds new star in great grandson of Chinese nationalist leader

Chiang Wan-an was a teenager when his father sat him down to tell him he is the great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese nationalist leader who fought Mao Zedong's Communists forces.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Nov 22, 2022

NBA champion Warriors sued over FTX collapse

The Warriors last December had named FTX its official cryptocurrency platform, in what it called a first-of-its-kind cryptocurrency partnership in professional sports.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 22, 2022

Osaka man arrested for taking online job recruitment test for money

Nobuto Tanaka, 28, was arrested Monday for allegedly standing in for a female university student and taking an online recruitment test for a credit card company in April.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 22, 2022

String of ministerial changes may spur Kishida to reshuffle Cabinet

It is uncertain whether a hasty reshuffle will boost Kishida, given that there are only a limited number of fresh faces who would contribute to buoying the popularity of his Cabinet.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2022

Caution grows in Japan over spread of new omicron variants

The XBB and BQ.1 variants, both of which are spreading abroad after being first reported in September, are seen to have high immune evasion.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 22, 2022

NPB's 2023 season to begin at Fighters' new stadium

Nippon Ham and Rakuten swapped the rights to host their season openers in 2023 and 2024 in order to allow the Fighters to start next year at the new ballpark.
Shohei Ohtani had surgery on his right elbow in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 20, 2023

Shohei Ohtani not expected to pitch in 2024 after elbow surgery

Shohei Ohtani underwent a procedure on his elbow on Tuesday.
Orix's Yutaro Sugimoto drives in a run against the Marines with his first-inning single at Kyocera Dome Osaka on Tuesday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 20, 2023

Buffaloes beat Marines, cutting magic number to 2

The PL leaders extended their margin over the second-place Marines to 13.5 games.
North Korea's Ri Jo Guk (center) celebrates his goal against Taiwan in the men's soccer competition of the Asian Games in Jinhua, China, on Tuesday.
SOCCER
Sep 20, 2023

North Korea wins in international return as rival South hits nine

North Koreans are competing at the Hangzhou-hosted Asian Games in sports including athletics, gymnastics, basketball, football, boxing and weightlifting.
F. Marinos forward Takuma Nishimura (right) pressures the Incheon goal during their Asian Champions League game in Yokohama on Tuesday.
SOCCER
Sep 20, 2023

South Korea's Incheon upsets Yokohama F. Marinos in ACL group opener

In other ACL action, Kawasaki Frontale defeated Malaysia's Johor Darul Ta'zim.
Fiji can credit its historic Pool C win over Australia on Sunday to significant investment by World Rugby as well as the inclusion of a local team in the Super Rugby Pacific competition.
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Sep 20, 2023

Fiji shows the way, but it is unlikely many others will follow

More investment and structural changes will be needed before rugby union's minnows can regularly challenge the sport's leading nations.
Self-propelled electric vehicles move through the factory floor during a demonstration of its new assembly line technology at Toyota's Motomachi plant in the city of Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on Sept. 13.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 20, 2023

Toyota keeps up the push to prove it can embrace new technology

The carmaker was eager to show that it wasn’t about to sit idle as the global auto industry shifts toward electrification and automation.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 20, 2023

Zelenskyy tells U.N. it has stake against Russia 'genocide'

The Ukrainian president renewed an invitation for world leaders to join a "peace summit" to end the war on Kyiv's terms.
Urawa's notoriously fervent supporters are known for packing stands, as well as for repeated off-the-pitch incidents that have impacted the club's reputation.
SOCCER / J. League / From the Spot
Sep 20, 2023

Urawa pays price for hooliganism after years of looking the other way

The J. League club has been banned from playing in Japan's top club tournament after more than a hundred supporters took part in an August pitch invasion.
More companies are using employee share incentives as a tool to retain talent and comply with a request by the regulator to pay more attention to share price performance.
BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2023

Japanese companies warm up to employee stock incentives

More companies are using employee share incentives as a tool to retain talent.
An image of Jathedar Hardeep Singh Nijjar at the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, on Tuesday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has demanded that India treat Canada's allegations of Nijjar's killing with "utmost seriousness."
WORLD / Politics
Sep 20, 2023

Canada worked closely with U.S. on India's possible link to killing: source

U.S. authorities, earlier on Tuesday, said they supported Canada's investigation.
Kazunori Kataoka (left), director-general of the Innovation Center of NanoMedicine at the Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Promotion in Kanagawa Prefecture; Masahi Yanagisawa (right), director of the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine at the University of Tsukuba in Ibaraki Prefecture
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 20, 2023

Two Japanese researchers picked as 2023 Citation Laureates

Clarivate names researchers as Citation Laureates if they have made Nobel Prize-level research achievements and their papers are cited frequently.
A man in a business suit walks past activists during Climate Week in the Financial District of New York on Monday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 20, 2023

In New York, investors fill gaps left by inaction on climate change

Wealthy nations have famously dragged their feet on meeting a pledge of contributing $100 billion per year to developing nations, now four years overdue.
Many of the wealthy in Japan are becoming more keen to park their cash in private assets like equity, credit and real estate that aren't traded in public markets.
BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2023

Brokers tap demand for private assets among Japan's wealthy

Private assets are booming globally after decades-high inflation and rapid interest-rate hikes weighed on both shares and bonds.
The Japanese Embassy in Beijing
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 20, 2023

400,000 nuisance calls made to Japanese Embassy in China

Tokyo has repeatedly asked the Chinese government to take measures to stop the calls, but the situation has yet to improve.
Search and rescue volunteers in Derna, Libya, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Society
Sep 20, 2023

Journalists ordered out of flood-hit Libyan city after protests

An official in the administration that runs eastern Libya said that the decision to move journalists was unrelated to the protests there overnight.

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