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SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Oct 5, 2016
Match-rusty Japan left with little margin for error in qualifiers
National team manager Vahid Halilhodzic last week bridled at suggestions that he is making excuses for Japan's underwhelming start to the final round of 2018 World Cup qualifiers. But there will be no place to hide if the Samurai Blue slip further off the pace after games against Iraq and Australia over...
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BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 4, 2016
Hitachi Construction Machinery offers $529 million for Bradken
Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., the world's biggest maker of giant excavators, has offered 689 million Australian dollars ($529 million) to buy Australia's Bradken Ltd. The purchase would be its biggest ever and is likely to boost profit by about 10 percent, Nomura Securities Co. said.
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SOCCER
Sep 29, 2016
Halilhodzic brushes aside criticism, names 26-man squad
Japan manager Vahid Halilhodzic on Thursday shot back at critics who accuse him of making excuses for his team's poor start to its World Cup final qualifying campaign as he named a 26-strong squad for next month's games against Iraq and Australia.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 27, 2016
Hague court to arbitrate in East Timor-Australia maritime border dispute
The Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague has said it will oversee a compulsory conciliation between East Timor and Australia on their maritime boundary, rejecting Australian objections.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 26, 2016
Indonesia collars alleged key trafficker of people Down Under
Indonesian police have arrested an alleged people smuggler who has targeted Australia since 1999, Indonesian and Australian authorities said on Saturday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 17, 2016
Cancer overtakes heart disease as Australia's biggest killer
Cancer has become Australia's biggest killer, overtaking heart disease for the first time to take more lives than any other ailment, a government health agency said in a report released Tuesday.
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BUSINESS
Sep 15, 2016
Bigger, tastier and pinker: Australia's $1.5 billion super shrimp farm
Somewhere in the vast fishing waters off Australia's northern coast, the hunt is on for the Adams and Eves needed to start a super race of shrimp.
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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 13, 2016
Why burkini bans are unwise
Using bans to force immigrants to assimilate isn't the best way to integrate them into mainstream society.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 8, 2016
Abe, Turnbull resolute on Chinese territorial issue in South China Sea
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Australian counterpart, Malcolm Turnbull, have reaffirmed their shared stance on territorial tensions in the South China Sea, obliquely calling on China to comply with an international tribunal ruling rejecting its territorial claims to much of the waters.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 6, 2016
Australia's gulag of shame
It's sometimes horrifyingly easy for decent people to allow inhumanity to be inflicted by refusing to see what is before their eyes.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 31, 2016
Australia tells new lawmakers to take cautious view of Chinese investment
Australia has urged legislators to take a more cautious approach in backing China's pursuit of "legitimate interests" and stay alert to the motives guiding its investments, in a briefing book published by the nonpartisan parliamentary library.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 30, 2016
Latest poll shows support for Australian prime minister at all-time low
Support for Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has fallen to an all-time low, according to a poll Tuesday by The Australian newspaper.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 24, 2016
Frenchman shouts 'Allahu Akbar' as he stabs U.K. woman to death in Australia: police
A 29-year-old Frenchman shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) as he stabbed a British woman to death and wounded two people at a backpackers' hotel in northern Queensland, police said on Wednesday.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 24, 2016
India probes huge data leak at French submarine builder DCNS; Australian design unaffected
India is investigating damage caused to French Scorpene submarines that are being built in the country, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday, after the leak of documents relating to the vessel's combat capabilities.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 20, 2016
U.S. Navy's 'Green Fleet' may tap Australian biofuel
The U.S. may accept Australia's offer to supply biofuel for its Asia-Pacific fleet, advancing the U.S. Navy's goal of getting half its power from renewables by 2020.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 18, 2016
Aborigines fight planned nuke waste dump on land they call sacred, fearing 'cultural genocide'
Enice Marsh remembers the black clouds of "poison stuff" that billowed from the northwest after British atomic bomb tests in the 1950s spread fallout across swaths of South Australia.
OLYMPICS
Aug 14, 2016
Campbell regrets the 'greatest choke' in Rio
Cate Campbell will leave Rio with some extra weight in her baggage and on her mind — with the "greatest choke in history" accompanying the Australian swimmer's gold and silver relay medals.
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OLYMPICS
Aug 14, 2016
Japan drops final match of Olympic tournament
Already eliminated Japan crashed to its fourth defeat of the Rio Olympics women's hockey tournament after going down 2-0 to Australia in its final Group B game Saturday.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 5, 2016
Australia's China policy adrift
Australia's joining with the U.S. and Japan to oppose China's efforts in the South China Sea has incurred the wrath of Beijing.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 2, 2016
Refusal to nominate Rudd betrays Turnbull's weakness
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's rejection of Kevin Rudd's quest to lead the U.N. is a sorry reminder of the creeping U.S.-style partisanship of Australian politics.
Who needs AI when you have Hatsune Miku?
Over the first six months of 2024, a handful of songs using Vocaloid singer Hatsune Miku’s voice have enjoyed widespread attention, underlining a global interest in the character and the technology she represents.
Bloodied Trump survives assassination attempt at political rally
Former U.S. President Donald Trump is surrounded and evacuated by Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Trump was rushed off stage at the rally after shots rang out.
Shooter came within inches of killing Trump, but left few clues as to why
An aerial view shows the stage where Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump had been standing during an assassination attempt the day before, and the roof of a nearby building where a gunman was shot dead by law enforcement, in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Sunday.
Yen’s woes seem too big for even a BOJ hike this month to solve
The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo
How to beat Japan’s summer heat in ways better for the planet
Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.
The neurological disorder that 'kills culture'
Akiko Trush says her experience with the neurological disorder dystonia left her feeling like she wanted to chop her own hand off.
How to beat Japan’s summer heat in ways better for the planet
Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.
After Trump shooting, U.S. presidential race might take a violent turn
United States Secret Service Counter Snipers stand guard on a rooftop during a campaign rally for U.S. President Donald Trump in Avoca, Pennsylvania, in 2020.
No AC this summer? No problem (for me).
Think air conditioning is a requirement for a Tokyo summer? Think again.

Podcast

You can often see generations of families enjoying performances together at Fuji Rock Festival.
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Longform

Akiko Trush says her experience with the neurological disorder dystonia left her feeling like she wanted to chop her own hand off.
The neurological disorder that 'kills culture'
By Tomoko Otake

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