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Disney resorts division head Josh D’Amaro
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 12, 2024
Disney plots villains-themed land and new cruise ships in resorts push
Disney is providing details after announcing plans for its parks and resorts unit last year that included doubling capital investment to $60 billion over 10 years.
Panthers players celebrate defeating the Oilers in Game 7 of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final in Sunrise, Florida, on Monday.
MORE SPORTS / Ice Hockey
Jun 25, 2024
Panthers beat Oilers 2-1 to win Stanley Cup final
Goals from Carter Verhaeghe and Sam Reinhart sealed a 4-3 series victory for the Panthers.
Oilers center Ryan McLeod celebrates his goal with teammates during the team's Game 6 win over the Florida Panthers on Friday in Edmonton, Alberta.
MORE SPORTS / Ice Hockey
Jun 23, 2024
In trying to make history, the Edmonton Oilers will be battling it
In defeating the Florida Panthers 5-1 on Friday, the Oilers became just the third team to even force a Game 7 after being down 3-0 in the Stanley Cup Final.
Oilers left wing Zach Hyman (center) celebrates his goal during Edmonton's Game 6 win on Friday.
MORE SPORTS / Ice Hockey
Jun 22, 2024
Oilers roll past Panthers to force improbable Game 7
Thanks to their 5-1 victory at home over the Florida Panthers on Friday, the Oilers have their chance to claim Edmonton's first championship since 1990.
Oilers forward Connor McDavid (center) celebrates scoring an empty-net goal alongside defenseman Mattias Ekholm (left) and forward Leon Draisaitl during Edmonton's Game 5 win over Florida on Tuesday.
MORE SPORTS / Ice Hockey
Jun 19, 2024
Oilers down Panthers to keep Stanley Cup dream alive
The Oilers built on the momentum from their 8-1 thrashing of Florida on Saturday to claim a hard-fought road win.
Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid controls the puck during Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals in Edmonton, Alberta, on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 16, 2024
Oilers stay alive with thrashing of Panthers in Game 4
With his third helper, McDavid set the NHL record for most assists in a single postseason with 32.
Panthers winger Vladimir Tarasenko scores a goal on Oilers goaltender Stuart Skinner during the second period of Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals on Thursday in Edmonton, Alberta.
MORE SPORTS / Ice Hockey
Jun 14, 2024
Panthers hold off Oilers to move within one win of Stanley Cup crown
One year after falling to Vegas in the Stanley Cup Final, the Panthers lead the series 3-0 and can claim the Cup on Saturday in Edmonton.
Oilers forward Connor McDavid is considered by many to be the best player in the NHL.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 7, 2024
Oilers head into Stanley Cup Final looking to end Canadian drought
No Canadian team has captured the Cup since the 1993 Montreal Canadiens.
Connor McDavid (left) is a big reason the Oilers are in the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since 2006.
MORE SPORTS / Ice hockey
Jun 6, 2024
Panthers search ways to stop Oilers' dynamic duo ahead of Stanley Cup Final
The Panthers are focused on figuring out a plan to slow down Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.
Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky is congratulated by his teammates following Florida's series-clinching win over the New York Rangers on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Ice Hockey
Jun 2, 2024
Panthers oust Rangers to return to Stanley Cup Final
The Panthers will get a chance to play for the Stanley Cup for the third time since entering the league as an expansion team in the 1993-94 season.
Sareee holds Konami by the limbs during a Sukeban event in Miami on Dec. 6. A unique form of Japanese wrestling that mixes fashion and theatrics has arrived in the United States.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 14, 2023
Can Sukeban make Japan-style female wrestling fashionable with Americans?
In Japanese women’s wrestling, athletes perform theatrical, hard-hitting punches and clever defenses while telling a story with their moves and costumes.
Members-only Japanese sushi restaurant Sushi Namba and jazz bar lounge Listening Room will open in Miami next summer.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 7, 2023
Top Tokyo sushi chef brings unique flavors to Miami, members only
A $10,000 fee will give members access to monthly seats at the sushi counter, as well as the bar and jazz lounge.
Disney said its parks, experiences and products segment has expanded at a combined annual growth rate of 6% since fiscal 2017, and generated $32.3 billion in operating income over the last 12 months.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 21, 2023
Disney to nearly double parks spending to $60 billion
Disney CEO Bob Iger and Josh D'Amaro, the company's parks chief, announced the accelerated pace of investment at a gathering of Wall Street analysts.
U.S. President Joe Biden looks on as Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a meeting at the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Society
Aug 29, 2023
Biden and Harris ask U.S. to fight racism after Florida shooting
A 21-year old white gunman shot and killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday.
Ryan Christopher Palmeter, 21, is shown in a still image from a surveillance video, holding a rifle outside a Dollar Store in Jacksonville, Florida.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 28, 2023
Florida shooter killed Black shoppers with legally purchased guns
Authorities have described the shooting as racially motivated, saying the man had authored "several manifestos" detailing his hatred for Black people.
Residents embrace after a deadly shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, killed three.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 27, 2023
Florida gunman driven by racial 'hate' kills three
The deadly incident in Jacksonville is the latest in a series of racially motivated shooting sprees in the United States.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jun 14, 2023
Vegas hits the jackpot, beating Florida to win Stanley Cup
The Vegas victory made good on Golden Knights owner Bill Foley's bold prediction that the expansion team would win a Stanley Cup within their first six seasons.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jun 6, 2023
Knights pound Panthers to go up 2-0 in Stanley Cup Final
Vegas captain Mark Stone said Jack Eichel's return from a crunching hit fired up the Golden Knights, who scored three goals in the third period for the second straight game.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jun 4, 2023
Strong third period lifts Knights over Panthers in Game 1
Adin Hill made 33 saves and Zach Whitecloud scored the go-ahead goal to highlight a three-goal third period for Vegas as the Golden Knights took Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jun 3, 2023
Golden Knights and Panthers each trying to capture first Stanley Cup title
Each team has reached the Stanley Cup Final for the second time in its history.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Sociologist Gracia Liu-Farrer argues that even though immigration doesn't figure into Japan's autobiography, it is more of a self-perception than a reality.
In search of the ‘Japanese dream’
By Thu-Huong Ha

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Azabudai Hills, Tokyo’s green new downtown ‘village’
Azabudai Hills, Tokyo’s green new downtown ‘village’

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