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MOROCCO

Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Dec 15, 2022
Proud Moroccans praise team after thrilling World Cup run ends in semifinals
'We are really proud of this team ... we already made history so we can't judge them for this match,' 24-year-old Moroccan student Mohamad Alaoui said.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Dec 15, 2022
Morocco gave everything. It needed a little more against France.
The defending champions overcome a gallant Morocco 2-0 in the World Cup semifinal to remain on track to become the first nation to win back-to-back World Cups since Brazil in 1958 and 1962.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 14, 2022
A winning World Cup strategy unites the Arab world
Morocco's success in the World Cup has united Arabs throughout the Middle East and North Africa behind a common hope.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Dec 11, 2022
Morocco stuns Portugal in a historic victory for Arabs and Africa
While Morocco celebrates its victory and ponders the next step of its magical journey, the result almost certainly means the end of an era for Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Dec 9, 2022
Morocco's coach breaking new World Cup ground for Africans
The coach has seen several big decisions pay off in recent months and his tactics of allowing Spain possession worked as planned.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Dec 7, 2022
Moroccans celebrate 'historic' World Cup win over Spain
With shouts, songs, cries and tears, Moroccans exploded with joy as their football team beat Spain to reach the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Dec 7, 2022
Morocco shocks Spain on penalties to reach World Cup quarterfinals
Morocco is just the fourth African team in history to reach the last eight of the FIFA World Cup.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Dec 2, 2022
Morocco aiming even higher after advancing to knockout round at World Cup
Morocco coach Walid Regragui said the Atlas Lions are ready to "aim for the sky" after reaching the World Cup knockout round for the first time in 36 years on Thursday.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Dec 2, 2022
Belgium’s 'golden generation' reaches the end as Croatia and Morocco move on
The Belgians had chance after chance to win, but never scored against Croatia, which advanced. Morocco cruised past Canada to win the group.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Nov 15, 2022
Arab fans' World Cup fever cooled by Qatar costs
Despite the region's debut as host, many fans will watch from home, citing expensive flights and steep rates for accommodations.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 3, 2022
Moroccan nomads' way of life threatened by climate change
According to the last census, just 25,000 people in Morocco were nomadic in 2014, down by two-thirds in just a decade.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Feb 19, 2020
Macron unveils curbs on foreign imams and teachers amid wariness over 'separatism' risk
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would curb the practice of foreign countries sending imams and teachers to France to crack down on what he called the risk of "separatism.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 1, 2019
Moroccan court jails journalist on abortion charge that she denies, riling rights activists
A Moroccan court on Monday sentenced a journalist to a year in prison for sex outside marriage and having an abortion, both of which she denied, in a case that has outraged rights activists, who say the charges are politically motivated.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 10, 2019
Moroccan activists denounce arrest of journalist on abortion charges
Moroccan rights activists on Monday demanded the release of a journalist facing trial on charges of abortion and sex outside marriage, saying her arrest was politically motivated.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 5, 2019
Morocco and Spain to bolster cooperation to curb illegal EU-bound migration
Morocco and Spain pledged on Wednesday to cooperate more closely to curb illegal migration, an issue fueling the growth of far right and populist politics in Europe, following a near halving of migrant arrivals in mainland Spain this year from 2018.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 20, 2019
20 missing from migrant boat after ferry rescues 27 off Spanish coast
Spanish rescue services are searching for at least 20 people missing from a migrant boat found adrift in the Mediterranean after a passenger ferry rescued 27 people still aboard on Wednesday.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jun 15, 2019
Caster Semenya declines Rabat 800-meter race invitation, organizers say
Caster Semenya was invited on Friday to run in an 800-meter race in Morocco on Sunday — after previously saying she had been denied the right to participate in the event — but the invitation came too late for her to get there, her agent said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Apr 1, 2019
Pope hits leaders who build walls to keep migrants out, saying they ultimately imprison themselves
Pope Francis said on Sunday that political leaders who want walls and other barriers to keep migrants out "will end up becoming prisoners of the walls they build.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 24, 2018
Moroccan suspects in slaying of Nordic trekkers acted alone despite Islamic State vows: official
Moroccan authorities believe four suspects in the killing of two Scandinavian women in the Atlas Mountains were acting on their own initiative, even though they had just pledged allegiance to Islamic State, an official said on Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 20, 2018
Morocco links suspect in Scandinavian women's slaying to militant group and probes grisly video
A man suspected in the killing of two female tourists, from Norway and Denmark, in Morocco's Atlas Mountains belongs to a militant group, a prosecutor said on Wednesday, without identifying the group.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
Japan to aid introduction of multilingual ride-hailing apps
A Nihon Kotsu Co. taxi departs one of the company's service offices in Tokyo.
Seven & I founding family sounded out KKR and others about buyout: report
A 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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