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LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Aug 26, 2022

On Japanese Twitter, don’t LOL when you can wwww

Just as in English, Japanese web-speak has developed a few key terms that are unique to the social media landscape of this country.
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GLOBAL INSIGHT / Mauritius report 2022
Aug 26, 2022

Robust regulatory climate offers African platform

For a small island nation in the Southern Indian Ocean, Mauritius is certainly making a major impression on the global stage courtesy of a world-class international financial center (IFC) that provides a robust and reliable backbone for an attractive, safe and well-regulated financial services sector,...
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GLOBAL INSIGHT / Angola report 2022
Aug 26, 2022

Economic diversification creates exciting openings

The Angolan economy is opening up to international investors like never before, with the recent acceleration of its diversification drive attracting interest from foreign companies active in a broad range of industries and sectors. Long reliant on oil revenues to fund socioeconomic development projects...
GLOBAL INSIGHT / Angola report 2022
Aug 26, 2022

Liberalized telecommunications sector in good shape

Angola’s telecoms sector continues to develop at a decent pace thanks to a forward-thinking government and many incentives and measures that have encouraged cross-border investment agreements and enticed leading providers, whose investments have boosted coverage and competition and lowered prices for...
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GLOBAL INSIGHT / Angola report 2022
Aug 26, 2022

Huge reserves of black gold offer rich rewards for firms throughout supply chain

Angola’s oil industry has enjoyed a strong upward trajectory for several decades and the country is now one of the top oil-producing countries on the continent. While economic diversification is a promising medium- and long-term goal, the hydrocarbons sector’s rich potential has attracted a string...
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ASIA PACIFIC / EVENTS AND INFORMATION
Aug 26, 2022

Sake pairings have patrons saying yes to noh

Nestled under the trees of Fukutoku Shrine in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi Ward is Suigian, a restaurant and bar that houses a noh stage and a room for tea ceremony rituals. In July, the restaurant hosted the first two series of a five-series program that paired various types of sake with the traditional art...
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SOCCER
Aug 25, 2022

Urawa triumphs over Jeonbuk in shootout to reach ACL final

Ricardo Rodriguez's men will contend a continental final for the fourth time in the club's history after defeating their K-League rival over 120 thrilling minutes at Saitama Stadium.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 25, 2022

NTT West internet services disrupted for hours across wide area

The glitch disrupted Flet's Hikari services in central and western Japan and slowed speeds from Kansai to Kyushu.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 25, 2022

Can the Japanese learn to love nuclear power again?

The Japanese government is backing the construction of new reactors for the first time since Fukushima. It will have to convince a skeptical public first.
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CULTURE / Music
Aug 25, 2022

The composer who turns Hayao Miyazaki’s humane touch into music

Joe Hisaishi's scores have helped make Studio Ghibli films indelible. But in concert, the works stand on their own. That's because “it's about emotion,” he says.
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BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2022

Japan looks to beef up tax-free investing program to boost asset holding

The FSA is planning on requesting an increase to the investment caps for the NISA program and making it a permanent system.
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TENNIS
Aug 25, 2022

Rafael Nadal prepared to vie for U.S. Open title

While Nadal trains in New York, Djokovic remains in Europe hoping for a last-minute policy change by officials in the United States.
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MORE SPORTS
Aug 25, 2022

PGA Tour fires back at LIV Golf with sweeping changes to schedule and prize pool

The PGA Tour is overhauling its schedule and boosting its prize pool in response to a players meeting last week in Delaware and pressure from the upstart LIV Golf Series.
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MORE SPORTS
Aug 25, 2022

Max Verstappen eager for comforts of home as Formula One season resumes

Verstappen has a commanding 80-point lead over Charles Leclerc in the title race.
A woman makes a donation for people affected by the Noto Peninsula earthquake set up at Shinjuku's Keio Department Store's in Tokyo on Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2024

¥17 billion raised for quake-hit Ishikawa

A committee made up of members of related organizations will decide how to allocate the funds, which will be distributed via local municipalities.
General elections are scheduled in Pakistan for Feb. 8, with some accusing the military of trying to steer the results.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 1, 2024

Can Pakistan keep it together as an election looms?

Next week's elections in Pakistan could further ignite political and ethnic tensions, already running high. Will the army ever agree to share power?
The cancellation of an ANA flight is shown on a flight information board at Osaka's Itami airport on Thursday.
JAPAN / Society
Feb 1, 2024

No injuries as wing tips of passenger jets touch at airport in Osaka

The incident is the latest in a series of recent aviation mishaps, which has included a deadly collision between a passenger jet and a coast guard plane.
Ryu Shionoya, who headed the faction’s leadership committee but was never formally appointed chairman after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated in July 2022, announced that the faction was done on Thursday.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 1, 2024

Curtain falls on Abe faction's 45-year history but scrutiny to continue

Unanswered questions over members' involvement in the LDP's political funds scandal mean the dissolution may not be the end of the story.
A woman offers flowers for victims of the New Year's Day earthquake near the morning market in the city of Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Thursday. Most buildings in the market were burned down in a fire that followed the quake.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2024

One month after Noto quake, challenges remain in restoration effort

About 14,000 people are still living at evacuation shelters as officials race to repair infrastructure in the region.
An F/A-18 fighter jet takes off from the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier during a three-day maritime exercise between the U.S. and Japan in the Philippine Sea, between Okinawa and Taiwan, on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2024

U.S. and Japan conduct joint naval drills

U.S. Rear Adm. Carlos Sardiello called the joint exercises "a great rehearsal opportunity for us."
Black smoke rises from Jera's Taketoyo Thermal Power Station in Taketoyo, Aichi Prefecture, on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Feb 1, 2024

Jera to check two thermal power plants in Japan after fire

The firm will conduct inspections at the Hekinan facility in Aichi Prefecture and the Hitachi Naka plant in Ibaraki Prefecture.
The last scene of the moon taken by the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon with its navigation camera before dusk. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency released the image on Thursday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 1, 2024

Lunar night puts Japanese lander back to sleep

SLIM, dubbed the "Moon Sniper" for its precision landing technology, touched down within its target landing zone on Jan. 20.
Honda's four-seater CiKoMa EV can travel at speeds of up to 20 kph.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 1, 2024

Honda to test automated EV and logistic robot in Ibaraki Prefecture

The four-seater EV, named CiKoMa, can travel at speeds of up to 20 kph.
Building off her own experiences, “Voice” director Yukiko Mishima considers the effects of sexual assault and how the survivors and those around them continue with their lives.
CULTURE / Film
Feb 2, 2024

‘Voice’ examines the reverberations of trauma

Yukiko Mishima’s film draws from the director's own experience to shed light on life after experiencing assault.
Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton, seen after a third-place finish at the Bahrain Grand Prix in March 2022, will make a blockbuster move to Ferrari after the 2024 season.
SPORTS / Auto Racing
Feb 2, 2024

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton to make blockbuster move to Ferrari in 2025

Hamilton will exercise an option in his contract that will allow him to end his two-year deal with Mercedes after one year.
Yuma Kagiyama performs his short program at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Shanghai on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Figure skating
Feb 2, 2024

Yuma Kagiyama and Mone Chiba lead way at Four Continents

Yuma Kagiyama and Mone Chiba are in first place after the short programs.
Curbs on Boeing production in the wake of a mid-air blowout is adding to pressures forcing airlines to fly older planes for longer.
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Feb 2, 2024

Boeing 737 Max crisis adds to high demand for older planes

Curbs on Boeing production in the wake of a mid-air blowout are adding to pressures forcing firms to fly older planes for longer.
Changes from the World Bank are part of broader reform efforts to expand the development lender's mission to tackle climate change and other global crises, and vastly enlarging its lending capacity.
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 2, 2024

World Bank to offer access to emergency funds from existing loans

The move will offer nations hit by a hurricane, earthquake or pandemic a liquidity burst that could reduce hardship.
An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires toward Gaza on Thursday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war Cabinet have been under increasing pressure to bring home the hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 2, 2024

Gaza cease-fire negotiations advance as Israel-Hamas war grinds on

While talks are still in the early stages, sources said the proposal had a realistic chance of success and could lead to a longer-term cease-fire.

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