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WORLD
Jun 21, 2023
Lacking land, Israel to cover its rooftops with solar panels
By Ari Rabinovitch
Although drenched in sunshine, Israel is too small to rely on traditional, land-intensive photovoltaic power plants. It is also unsuitable for wind power and lacks water for hydropower.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 21, 2023
Washington recruits dogs and cats in war on rodents
By Issam AHMED
There were nearly 13,400 calls to a city hotline for rat issues in 2022, up around 2,000 on the year before, according to local media reports. Now, some residents are fighting back.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 21, 2023
Ukraine builds layered air defenses as Russia ramps up strikes
By Tom Balmforth
Russia has unleashed regular long-distance missile and drone attacks since October, but it seriously increased strikes in May as Ukraine prepared for a counteroffensive this month.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 20, 2023
Himalayan glaciers could lose up to 75% of ice by 2100, report says
By Gloria Dickie
The melt is expected to cause dangerous flooding and water shortages for the 240 million people who live in the mountainous region.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 20, 2023
Ukraine preparing 'biggest blow' after reclaiming villages, Kyiv says
By Pavel Polityuk and Tom Balmforth
A Ukrainian deputy minister said forces had retaken Piatykhatky, a settlement on a heavily fortified part of the front line near the most direct route to the country's Azov Sea coast.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 20, 2023
Europe now fastest-warming continent as heat outpaces global norms, report shows
By Olivia Rudgard
Climate and weather hazards in 2022 led to 16,365 deaths, mostly relating to heat waves, and caused $2 billion in damage, largely connected with floods and storms, according to the analysis.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jun 19, 2023
Amid U.S.-China rivalry, a landmark science deal faces new scrutiny
By Michael Martina
A debate is underway within the U.S. government about whether to let the U.S.-China Science and Technology Agreement expire later this year or to renegotiate the deal.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 19, 2023
New Eisai and Biogen Alzheimer drug faces hurdles in Europe
By Natalie Grover
Some doctors said its effect on the disease may not be clinically meaningful enough when weighed against the risk of brain swelling, its likely high price.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 19, 2023
Mass immigration experiment gives Canada an edge in global race for labor
By Randy Thanthong-Knight
A country that has about as many people as the state of California has added more than the population of San Francisco in immigrants over the past year.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 19, 2023
Trump lacked power to declassify secret nuclear arms document, experts say
By Jonathan Landay
The special status of nuclear-related information further erodes what many legal experts say is a weak defense centered around declassification.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 19, 2023
Global water reservoir volumes decline despite construction boom, study says
By David Stanway
The decline in storage volumes was concentrated in the south, where water demand increased rapidly and new reservoirs didn't fill up as quickly as expected.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 18, 2023
Austria foils pride parade attack, officials say
The men planning the Vienna's pride parade attack are suspected of being Islamic State sympathizers, according to Austria's domestic intelligence agency.
Japan ruling bloc projected to lose majority in Upper House election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks at the Liberal Democratic Party’s headquarters Sunday after exit polls showed poor results for the ruling coalition in the Upper House election.
Polls open for key Upper House election that could shake Japanese politics
People vote during Japan's Upper House election at a polling station in Tokyo on Sunday.
Sunken WWII Japanese warship Teruzuki found off Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands. A team from the U.S. nonprofit Ocean Exploration Trust has discovered the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki on the deep seabed off the Solomon Islands as the 80th anniversary of the war's end approaches.
Japan team finds ancient ocean full of squids
The ancient ocean was full of squids, whose population exceeded that of fish or ammonites, a Japanese research team mainly from Hokkaido University has found through a new method using technology.
Hitomi Obara, 2012 Olympic champion in wrestling, dies at 44
Hitomi Obara competes at the London Olympics in August 2012.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
In Gaza-made obi, Palestinian embroidery meets Japanese kimono
The Palestinian Embroidery Obi Project brings together a traditional Japanese garment and age-old designs from the Middle Eastern region.

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