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JAPAN
Jul 16, 2022

Fukushima beach in former evacuation zone reopens after 11 years

The beach became the first swimming beach to reopen in areas once covered by evacuation orders issued after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 plant.
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Jul 16, 2022

Retiring Allyson Felix leaving sport with 'heart full of gratitude'

“I hope that I'll be remembered as a fierce competitor, but I think more important to me is really trying to leave this sport better than I found it.”
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 15, 2022

Pacific countries declare ‘climate emergency’ and pledge closer security coordination

Small islands in the region, as well as coastal mega-cities in China and South and Southeast Asia, have a particular vulnerability to the effects of climate change, namely rising sea levels.
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BUSINESS
Jul 15, 2022

Uber drivers to protest low pay and unsafe work after leaks

A leak has shown that Uber knowingly flouted laws, duped police and exploited violence against vulnerable drivers as it lobbied governments for access.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 15, 2022

Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing sees record profit on weak yen and sales boom

The weaker currency, which just hit a fresh 24-year low against the dollar, is boosting the income the company brings back home.
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Figure Skating
Jul 15, 2022

ISU drops Russia and China from figure skating Grand Prix calendar

The Grand Prix events are the most important in figure skating outside the Olympics and the World and European Championships.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 14, 2022

South Korea politics roiled by pair sent to North and likely killed

South Korean prosecutors are investigating members of former President Moon Jae-in's government over the 2019 forced repatriation of two North Koreans.
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ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jul 14, 2022

Blunders and miscalculations: How Sri Lanka plunged into crisis

The island nation is in its worst economic crisis in decades — and the fallout is already being felt in the corridors of power.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 13, 2022

Pacific looks to international court for help on climate

Vanuatu is spearheading a campaign to ask the Hague-based tribunal 'to protect the rights of present and future generations against the effects of climate change.'
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 13, 2022

Anti-American sentiment throws a long shadow over geopolitics

There is even a virulent strain of anti-American sentiment among countries with much to lose if they distance themselves from Washington and its policies.
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WORLD
Jul 13, 2022

Terror in Pakistan's north as melting glaciers cause severe floods

While responsible for less than 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions, the country's 220 million people are disproportionately impacted by climate change.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 13, 2022

Suspect in Abe assassination planned to attack religious group leader

Tetsuya Yamagami planned an attack on the Unification Church leader when she visited Japan in 2019 to attend an event.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 13, 2022

Sri Lankan president flees to Maldives amid protests as economic crisis spirals

The president's flight brings an end to the rule of the powerful Rajapksa clan that has dominated politics in the South Asian nation for the last two decades.
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WORLD
Jul 13, 2022

Biden heads to Middle East on oil mission amid concerns at home

The U.S. leader risks political embarrassment unless near-record U.S. gasoline prices reverse course, and must avoid a backtrack on human rights that would deepen discontent among his base.
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WORLD
Jul 13, 2022

Rivals vying to replace Johnson are diverse in background, not in plans

The degree of uniformity is especially striking, given that the candidates are competing to replace a prime minister who was criticized for lurching wildly from crisis to crisis.
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WORLD
Jul 12, 2022

For climate researchers, tiny sounds of melting glaciers haunting music to the ears

While young, the study of global warming through sound has boomed in recent years — and is advancing what scientists know about our rapidly changing world.
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TENNIS
Jul 12, 2022

Novak Djokovic hopes to play in Australian Open next year

Djokovic won the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon titles in 2021 but was unable to defend his Melbourne Park crown due to his refusal to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Jul 11, 2022

Bob Jungels wins Stage 9 of Tour de France

Bob Jungels won the ninth stage of the Tour de France at the end of a long solo mountain raid on Sunday after COVID-19 almost prevented the Luxemburg rider from starting the race last week.
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JAPAN / Politics
Jul 11, 2022

Women win record 35 of 125 seats in Japan's Upper House election

A record high 181 women ran in the Upper House poll, where half of the chamber's seats were up for grabs.
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BUSINESS / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Jul 11, 2022

Mazda’s decarbonization drive faces rough road ahead

Securing sufficient electricity supplies is complicating the firm's goal of achieving net-zero at its plants by 2035, while the carmaker is also not willing to let go of engines just yet.
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WORLD
Jul 11, 2022

U.K.'s chief envoy Liz Truss latest to announce bid in race to replace Boris Johnson

Eleven candidates have now entered the leadership contest, which is already becoming a battle over cash for households, with limited interest in fiscal restraint.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 11, 2022

Musk’s about-face on Twitter shifts takeover saga to Delaware

The billionaire co-founder of Tesla will need to make his case before a judge in Delaware that Twitter failed to uphold its side of a merger deal reached in April.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 11, 2022

Cutting China’s pork prices means reining in millions of farmers

A surge in the cost of China's staple meat has officials worried about inflation, which grew faster than expected in June.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 11, 2022

Myanmar's junta rolls out more Chinese surveillance cameras

Since the February 2021 coup, local authorities have started new camera surveillance projects for at least five cities.
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WORLD / Politics
Jul 10, 2022

How Sri Lanka spiraled into crisis

A rundown of the major steps that led demonstrators storming the president's residence and setting fire to the prime minister's home in Colombo.

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