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Saffron was found without food or water in a home where his owner had passed away.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Mar 21, 2025

A shy cat looking for a new start

After being rescued from tough circumstances, Saffron is gradually coming out of his shell again.
President Donald Trump said the United States will sign a minerals and natural resources deal with Ukraine soon.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 21, 2025

Trump says U.S. will sign Ukraine minerals deal soon

The U.S. president made the comments at a White House event after signing an order to increase U.S. production of critical minerals.
It has become the government's urgent priority to address the issue of an acute labor shortage in the Self-Defense Forces, as recruitment has consistently fallen short of targets.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Mar 21, 2025

Higher pay and career support planned to help boost Japan's SDF ranks

Recruitment for the Self-Defense Forces has consistently fallen short of targets, with only about 10,000 personnel hired in fiscal 2023 — half of the quota of about 20,000.
Lyft envisions a hybrid future where human drivers will complement autonomous vehicle fleets, especially during periods of peak demand.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 21, 2025

Lyft to offer driverless ride-hails ‘as soon as this summer’

The company sees its human drivers transitioning to other work such as fleet management as autonomous rides become more ubiquitous.
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces and seen from across the Dnipro River, in Ukraine.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 21, 2025

Financial folly or pressure tactic? Trump eyes Ukraine's occupied nuclear plant

The vast plant is beset with problems and it would be years before there is even a hope of it making a return on investment.
A university student reads out the names of victims of U.S. air raids on Tokyo during World War II, during a memorial ceremony held in the capital on Thursday.
JAPAN / History
Mar 21, 2025

Names of Tokyo air raid victims read out in ceremony

About 80 people spent about five hours reading out the names of 4,138 victims.
Sachiko Asakawa (left) and her brother Kazuo Asakawa at a news conference in Tokyo in November 2009
JAPAN
Mar 21, 2025

Man recalls effects of Tokyo subway sarin attack on sister

Kazuo Asakawa's sister, Sachiko Asakawa, died in 2020 at the age of 56 after suffering severe aftereffects from the attack.
An economic dialogue between Japan and China will take place in Tokyo on Saturday, the same day as a meeting among top diplomats of the two countries plus South Korea.
BUSINESS
Mar 21, 2025

Japan and China set for economic talks as U.S. tariff pressure rises

The scale and proximity of the Chinese market means it is in Japan’s interest to maintain stable relations despite ongoing tensions.
Katsuya Okada (left), former secretary-general of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, and Li Shulei, head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China's Central Committee, in Beijing on Thursday
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 21, 2025

During visit to Beijing, CDP delegates affirm importance of Japan-China ties

Former CDP Secretary-General Katsuya Okada has called for stepping up interaction between "high-level" Japanese and Chinese politicians.
A maternal handbook used by Heba Jibril in northern Gaza
JAPAN / Society
Mar 21, 2025

In Gaza, Japan-backed maternal handbooks a vital source for child care

The health handbooks provide crucial information for women at a time when medical facilities are closed and digital information is scarce.
Kirsty Coventry speaks during a news conference after being elected as IOC president on Thursday.
OLYMPICS
Mar 21, 2025

Kirsty Coventry hopes to speak with Donald Trump about 2028 LA Games

Coventry, who is Zimbabwe's sports minister, as well as Africa's most decorated Olympian, said both the IOC and the United States wanted successful Olympics in 2028.
Eddie Jordan sits on the pitwall of the Montmelo circuit near Barcelona, Spain, during a practice on April 26, 2002.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Mar 21, 2025

Eddie Jordan was Formula One's 'rock 'n' roll' extrovert

The charismatic boss died of cancer on Thursday at the age of 76
AMKK’s latest exhibition, “X-Ray Flowers,” is the culmination of seven years of work aided by CT technologists, who help with the highly specialized imaging techniques.
CULTURE / Art
Mar 21, 2025

Avant-garde botanists AMKK illuminate the inner worlds of flowers

The punk florists' latest exhibition immerses visitors in darkness, bathed only in the glow of X-rays and CT scans of plants and flowers.
Celtics guard Jaylen Brown celebrates with the Larry O’Brien Trophy after Game 5 of the NBA Finals on June 17, 2024.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Mar 21, 2025

Reigning NBA champion Celtics agree to record-breaking $6.1 billion sale

The sale, which is still pending approval from the NBA Board of Governors, would break the record for most expensive sports team purchase in North America.
Orix Buffaloes pitcher Taisuke Yamaoka speaks to reporters in the city of Osaka on Friday for the first time since he was reported to have participated in a poker tournament run by a foreign casino website.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 21, 2025

Cabinet approves strategy to battle illegal online casinos

A National Policy Agency survey released earlier this month showed that nearly 3.37 million Japanese are estimated to have used overseas online casinos to illegally gamble.
Mount Fuji in November. For the first time, the government has released specific guidelines on how residents should act in the event that Mount Fuji erupts.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 21, 2025

Stay at home if Mount Fuji erupts, government panel says

Residents are recommended to store more than a week's worth of emergency supplies at home because volcanic eruptions can last longer than that.
The Pentagon's disbandment of the Office of Net Assessment ends a key institution that provided long-term strategic analysis, leaving the U.S. vulnerable to future geopolitical challenges.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 20, 2025

A sad day for U.S. strategic analysis as the Office of Net Assessment is disbanded

While most focused on the military, ONA was the only group to conclude that winning the Cold War relied on economic means, not troop numbers.
Climate change mitigation demands collective action from all levels of society, not just billionaires with private jets, as systemic change is necessary for meaningful progress.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 21, 2025

Billionaire’s private jet angst won’t save the world

Data center emissions in the U.S. already rival those of the domestic airline industry and are growing far quicker.
Shunbaisai Hokuei's tetraptych from the series "108 Heroes of the Theater Suikoden"
CULTURE / Books
Mar 22, 2025

Osaka’s kabuki fan culture fueled an elusive figure of the ukiyo-e scene

In his new book, John Fiorillo partly lifts the veil on Shunbaisai Hokuei, who dominated the ukiyo-e art world in the Kamigata region during the early 19th century. 
More companies are offering tailored solutions for the unique health and wellness needs of men.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 21, 2025

'Mentech' starts gaining traction in Japan

Inspired by products and services catering specifically to women, mentech aims to provide tailored solutions to meet the health and wellness needs of men.
Midwife Tabita dos Santos Moraes prepares cassava flour in Tefe in Brazil's Amazonas state last October. Tabita's great-grandmother taught midwifery to her aunts, who taught her mother, who taught her, starting at the age of 15.
ENVIRONMENT
Mar 21, 2025

In the remote Amazon, midwives care for women stranded by drought

Years of extreme droughts in the Amazon rainforest have made river journeys to and from remote communities perilous.
A sign at Tokyo's Haneda Airport shows users the way to the monorail in four different languages.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 22, 2025

Can we make it official? Language in the age of Trump.

The United States made English its main language, but in Japan things seem to be heading in a different way.
People work at an electrical substation, after a fire there wiped out the power at Heathrow International Airport, in Hayes, London, on Friday
WORLD
Mar 22, 2025

Heathrow rumbles back to life after substation fire shut down airport

Heathrow CEO Thomas Woldbye said, "We expect to be back in full operation, so 100% operation as a normal day,” by Saturday.
An employee works at a production line of 155 mm artillery shells at the plant of German company Rheinmetall, which produces weapons and ammunition for tanks and artillery.
BUSINESS
Mar 22, 2025

Europe is short of gunpowder and TNT when it needs them most

European governments dug into their munitions stockpiles to arm Ukraine, exposing how shallow their reserves were.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the Liberal Democratic Party's annual convention in Tokyo on March 9.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 22, 2025

Ishiba appears ready to speak before Diet ethics panel over gift vouchers

Yoshihiko Noda, leader of the CDP, and Yuichiro Tamaki, head of the DPP, have called on Ishiba to give explanations before a parliamentary ethics panel.
Keio University in Tokyo
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 22, 2025

Keio University team says stem cell treatment helped improve spine injuries

Keio University said that the motor function score for two patients improved after an operation to implant more than 2 million iPS-derived cells into a spinal cord.
Palestinians look on during the handover by Hamas of deceased Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on Feb. 20
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 22, 2025

Hamas remains potent threat to Israel despite muted response to strikes

Israel has inflicted serious damage on Hamas, but sources say the group has shown it can absorb major losses and still fight and govern.
Demonstrators hold signs near the White House as they protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2017.
ENVIRONMENT
Mar 22, 2025

What the $660 million Greenpeace verdict means for U.S. activism

Legal experts warn the decision could significantly deter other environmental groups from protesting oil and gas companies around the U.S.
Pieces of gum arabic, a natural emulsifier, displayed in a warehouse of an exporting company, in Port Sudan, Sudan.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 22, 2025

A genocidal militia in Sudan controls a key ingredient in Coke and Pepsi

Gum arabic acts as an organic emulsifier in consumer goods around the world — in candy, medicine, soda and cosmetics.
Others in the running to buy TikTok are Microsoft, Oracle and a group that includes Internet personality MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 22, 2025

AI startup Perplexity confirms interest to buy TikTok

Perplexity in a blog post laid out a vision for integrating its AI-powered internet search capabilities with the popular video-snippet sharing app.

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Passengers that were on a morning train attacked by members of the Aum Shinrikyo group wait for medical assistance outside Kasumigaseki Station on March 20,1995.
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