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JAPAN / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Apr 11, 2022

Small and midsize Kyushu firms look to Africa for growth

Smaller firms, however, may face hurdles such as a lack of information on the region and difficulty securing financing.
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JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Apr 11, 2022

Hand-made stuffed bear a reminder of hometown lost to Fukushima disaster

Fans of the stuffed bear grew gradually, and collaborations with a major cosmetics company and an airline operator for led to the production of featured bears.
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LIFE / Travel
Apr 11, 2022

In Europe, it’s planes vs. trains. For many travelers, rail is the way to go.

Train travel in Europe is on the upswing, but to see major growth in passenger traffic, the continent's railways will have to overcome a number of challenges.
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BASKETBALL / NBA
Apr 11, 2022

Playoff makeovers may upend the NBA championship chase

Over the coming days and weeks, opposing coaches will overprepare for the possibility that long-injured stars could return.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 10, 2022

With a $2.1 million cure their only hope, Indian parents plead for help online

India makes many of the world's drugs, but treatments for rare diseases like spinal muscular atrophy are imported and prohibitively costly.
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WORLD
Apr 10, 2022

Spurred by Putin, Russians turn on one another over the war

Citizens are denouncing one another, illustrating how the war is feeding paranoia and polarization in Russian society.
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WORLD
Apr 9, 2022

Russian blunders in Chernobyl: ‘They came and did whatever they wanted’

As the staging ground for an assault on Ukraine's capital, Chernobyl was probably not the best choice. But that did not seem to bother Russian generals.
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WORLD
Apr 9, 2022

Land mines on a timer, scattered over a Ukrainian town

When Sergiy, 47, got out of bed Sunday morning in this small town in northeastern Ukraine, he discovered a chilling new hazard in a war filled with them: He had woken up in a minefield.
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BUSINESS
Apr 9, 2022

The huge endeavor to produce a tiny microchip

Microchips are in many ways the lifeblood of the modern economy. They are also intensive to produce and made on gigantic, ultraclean factory room floors that can be seven stories tall.
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WORLD
Apr 9, 2022

‘The city lives’: With Russian forces gone, Kyiv starts to revive

In Kyiv this week, instead of seeking shelter in the subway, people are now riding it as residents return and the city's businesses and schools reopen.
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WORLD
Apr 9, 2022

Supply chains widely tainted by forced labor in China, witnesses say

Human rights activists, labor leaders and others have urged the U.S. to put its weight behind a coming ban on products made with forced labor in the Xinjiang region.
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BUSINESS / Women at Work
Apr 7, 2022

Miyuki Suzuki sets example for Japan Inc. with grace and 'spine of steel'

During a varied career with stints at a number of firms, Suzuki has strived to empower her team members — something of a novel approach in Japan's corporate world.
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WORLD
Apr 7, 2022

More Russians consider costs of war in Ukraine as casualties mount

Six weeks after the start of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the reality of war is increasingly intruding into the lives of regular families as death notices and body bags arrive.
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CULTURE / Film
Apr 7, 2022

Helping Hollywood avoid claims of bias is now a growing business

Studios are signing up consultants to help make sure their movies or shows don't raise any cultural red flags.
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PODCAST / deep dive
Apr 6, 2022

Tokyo's energy crisis — a decade in the making

Bloomberg energy reporter Shoko Oda joins Deep Dive to explain why the energy crisis was a decade in the making.
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WORLD
Apr 6, 2022

How America watches for a nuclear strike

Hundreds of imaging satellites, as well as other private and federal spacecraft, have been looking for signs of heightened activity among Russia's nuclear forces.
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COMMENTARY / World
Apr 6, 2022

Hong Kong in 2047: What to expect over the next 25 years

Twenty-five years ago, at midnight on June 30, 1997, Britain handed over Hong Kong, its colony for 150 years, to China in return for a promise that the region would be given “a high degree of autonomy” and retain its lifestyle for the next 50 years under a “one country, two systems” formula....
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WORLD
Apr 6, 2022

Why tracking Russian President Vladimir Putin’s wealth is so difficult

That many extravagant assets speculated to be Putin's are owned or controlled by the state shows how his private interests have merged with those of his government.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 6, 2022

Elon Musk joins Twitter’s board, pitching ideas big and small

The move has implications for a social network where world leaders, lawmakers, celebrities and more than 217 million users conduct their daily public discourse.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 5, 2022

Balkanization is the future of the global economy

A U.S.-China trade war, the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine are three blows that spell an end to globalization.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 5, 2022

Bristling against the West, China rallies domestic sympathy for Russia

While Russia batters Ukraine, officials in China have been meeting to study a Communist Party-produced documentary that extols President Vladimir Putin of Russia as a hero.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 5, 2022

With each new crisis in Hong Kong, pressure built on a Beijing loyalist

On Monday, those pressures appeared to boil over as Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced that she would not seek a second five-year term.
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JAPAN
Apr 4, 2022

Asia welcomes travelers, but Japan says, not yet

Countries across region are reopening borders to tourists, but Japan continues to turn them away. And it is not rushing to change things.
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WORLD
Apr 4, 2022

Images of civilian victims in Ukraine spur foreign volunteers to fight

Many were inspired by what they saw on social media and TV and make up part of more than 20,000 people from 52 countries who have volunteered to fight, Ukraine's top diplomat has said.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 4, 2022

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says she won’t seek second term

The city's current No. 2 official, John Lee, is forming a team to prepare for an electoral run, local media reported.
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WORLD
Apr 4, 2022

‘This is true barbarity’: Life and death under Russian occupation

The town of Trostyanets was occupied by Russian forces for a month before the Ukrainian military liberated it. Residents described weeks of hunger and horror.
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JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Apr 4, 2022

As the pandemic drags on, more in Japan find solace in 'oshikatsu' devotion

Made more accessible through new technology, styles of fandom long monopolized by those obsessed with pop culture, anime and manga are, for many, becoming a vital part of lockdown life.
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BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 4, 2022

The best game that money could buy

In MLB, where players' salaries are public but owners' revenues are not, teams can spend as little as they want. They can also spend as much as they want.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 3, 2022

Cuts in Britain could cause a COVID-19 data drought

As countries step back from tracking and tracing the virus, experts worry that it could hinder preparation for new surges or emerging variants.
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WORLD / ANALYSIS
Apr 3, 2022

For Putin, invasion is the latest in a long string of failures in Ukraine

Putin has made many attempts to undermine Ukraine — both overtly and covertly — but has been thwarted on at least three significant occasions.

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