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CULTURE / Music
Aug 18, 2022

Nanako Sato brings back the groove of a bygone era

The singer-songwriter's latest release, “Radio Moon and Roses 1979Hz,” captures the creative freedom of 1970s Japan.
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BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 17, 2022

A $379 billion hole emerges in developing nations’ coffers

In a sign of just how powerful the forces are driving the dollar higher, efforts to prop up currencies have done little to stabilize foreign-exchange markets.
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BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2022

Tencent unveils first sales fall as economy sinks

Tencent Holdings' sales fall has underscored the extent to which China's worsening economy is hurting its biggest corporations.
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JAPAN
Aug 17, 2022

Japan and Britain in talks on joint fighter jet development

The Defense Ministry aims to integrate plans for a successor to the Air Self-Defense Force's F-2 fighter jet with those of an aircraft currently under development in Britain.
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BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2022

Japan utilities get contract offer from new Russian operator of Sakhalin-2

The Russian entity replaces the project operator Sakhalin Energy as Moscow rewrites rules for foreign firms operating in the country amid global sanctions after its invasion of Ukraine.
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JAPAN
Aug 17, 2022

COVID-19 tracker: Japan cases rise back above 200,000 as 15 prefectures set records

A total of 286 deaths were reported nationwide, including 35 in Osaka and 25 in Tokyo.
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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 17, 2022

The Afghan abyss: One year after the U.S. pullout

The Taliban regime is behaving as expected, turning the country into a breeding ground for international terrorism, narcotics trafficking, and mass migration.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 17, 2022

Lay Japan’s war debates to rest along with Abe

Commemorating the end of World War II can be a sensitive moment in Japan. How to honor the slain prime minister is now another one.
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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 17, 2022

What Southeast Asian nations want from Washington

Southeast Asia wants the U.S. to remain deeply engaged in regional affairs but not exacerbate tensions with China.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 17, 2022

Germany may consider Olympic bid after multi-sport Munich event

The Bavarian capital is hosting the European Championships, with large crowds flocking to venues that are still in regular use after having been built for the 1972 Summer Games.
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JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 17, 2022

Japan set to permit online sales of COVID-19 test kits

The move is aimed at reducing the number of people visiting so-called fever clinics in order to be tested and comes amid the nation's largest wave of infections.
Domino's Pizza Japan has apologized for a video of its employee pretending to pick his nose and wipe it on pizza dough.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 13, 2024

Domino's apologizes over online video of employee's pizza antics

The pizza delivery giant's move came after a video surfaced online Monday of an employee pretending to pick his nose and wipe it on pizza dough.
Japan is eyeing a system that would make it easier for rental housing owners to lease their properties to elderly people.
JAPAN / Society
Feb 13, 2024

Certification system eyed for rental housing with elderly watch services

For certified rental housing, watch services would be provided mainly by local social welfare corporations and nonprofit organizations.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will delay the launch date of the second model of its new H3 flagship rocket from the initially planned Thursday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 13, 2024

Japan delays H3 rocket's second launch due to bad weather

The new launch date will be announced later, but weather conditions at the launch site, Tanegashima Space Center, appear to set recover late Friday.
Wang Xiuting chats with her virtual boyfriend on Wantalk — an AI chatbot created by Chinese tech company Baidu, on her phone in Beijing.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Feb 13, 2024

'Better than real men': Young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends

Users say they are driven by a desire for companionship because China's fast pace of life and urban isolation make loneliness an issue for many.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from launchpad SLC-40 at the Kennedy Space Center on NASA's PACE mission in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Feb. 8.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Feb 13, 2024

Apollo to Artemis: Why America is betting big on private space

While it has seen some successes, the move could put the U.S. at risk of falling behind its principal space rival, China, in achieving major milestones.
An anti-seismic reinforced building at the Keiju Medical Center in Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture, suffered broken pipes and water leakage following a New Year's Day earthquake.
JAPAN / Society / Regional voices: Chubu
Mar 4, 2024

Hospitals in Japan slow to adopt seismic isolation in their buildings

Facilities severely hit by the New Year's Day quake have not been able to resume surgeries and other medical services.
Masahiro Inoue, incoming chief executive officer of Daihatsu Motor, during a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 13, 2024

Toyota replaces Daihatsu chief after safety scandal

Masahiro Inoue, the CEO of Toyota Latin America, will replace Soichiro Okudaira effective March 1.
Clone piglets born Sunday with genetically modified embryos
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 13, 2024

Japan startup creates pigs with organs suitable for human transplants

Research in the field helped produce pigs that have a smaller chance of immune rejection by human recipients by manipulating 10 related pig genes.
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva (right) speaks during the World Governments Summit in Dubai on Monday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 13, 2024

IMF and World Bank warn Gaza and Red Sea chaos imperils global economy

The Israel-Hamas war and its knock-on effects could impact the world the longer the fighting drags on, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said.
PVV's Geert Wilders addresses the media at The Hague on Feb. 7.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 13, 2024

Dutch government formation still a puzzle 12 weeks after election

A right-wing majority or minority government are both possible, but its unclear if poll winner Geert Wilders' Freedom Party can string one together.
A Lower House budget session discusses the political fund scandal in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 13, 2024

LDP survey shows 85 members failed to report political funds

The survey’s results are unlikely to bring an end to the scandal, with its methods criticized by opposition parties as inadequate and lacking objectivity.
U.S. television host Tucker Carlson interviews Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in on Feb. 6. Carlson was criticized for failing to challenge the Russian leader on much of what he said.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 11, 2024

Putin interview showed why he really invaded Ukraine

Tucker Carlson lobbed questions to help the Russian president serve up his usual string of half-truths and outright falsehoods about the war in Ukraine.
A sign erected in Hokkaido’s port of Nemuro calls for the return of the Russian-occupied islands that Japan calls the Northern Territories.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 13, 2024

Geopolitical chess: Unpacking the Northern Territories conundrum

While domestic motivation for Tokyo to resolve the Northern Territories dispute may endure, the opposite is true in Moscow.
Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto votes at a polling station during the general election in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 14, 2024

Prabowo on track to win Indonesia’s presidential election

This is Prabowo’s third time to run for the country’s top job, after losing in 2014 and 2019 to incumbent Joko "Jokowo" Widodo.
Canned ready-to-drink cocktails, including Asahi Breweries' 9% Clear Cooler Strong chūhai produced in conjunction with Seven & I Holdings, at a 7-Eleven store in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Tuesday
BUSINESS
Feb 13, 2024

Asahi calls time on new strong chūhai amid low-alcohol shift in Japan

New versions of the canned fizzy cocktails with alcohol content of 8% or higher will not be launched in order to “reduce inappropriate drinking.”

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