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JAPAN
Aug 9, 2022

Tokyo has already broken record for severe heat days in a year

Temperatures reached 35 degrees Celsius for the 14th time this year in the capital.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2022

China thinks it’s winning the race against the West — but is it?

The readiness to take a hard line on Taiwan is strengthened by the conviction among Chinese that the global balance of power is shifting and the tide of history favors their country.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 9, 2022

Worst Seoul storm in 80 years kills eight and floods capital

Unusually heavy rainfall and extreme heatwaves have hit many parts of the world this year, killing thousands and displacing millions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 9, 2022

Tokyo taxi fares set for rare hike as inflation pressures mount

The hikes are needed in order to improve the wages and working environment of drivers, as well as to cover for rising fuel costs, the transport ministry said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2022

Europe is faking solidarity, and Putin knows it

As shown by a compromise on saving natural gas, the EU can't defend itself against its enemies yet.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2022

COVID-19 tracker: Tokyo reports 29,115 new cases as infections continue to fall

The number of severe cases in the capital rose by one from Monday to 40, while the seven-day average of new infections came to 30,904 compared with 32,009 a week earlier.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 9, 2022

Taiwan accuses China of preparing for invasion as Taipei conducts own drills

Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu has accused Beijing of using U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit as a pretext for military action.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Aug 9, 2022

Women's cricket stars eye Olympic chance after Commonwealth Games

Women's cricket was on the Commonwealth Games program for the first time in Birmingham and had the spotlight to itself, with no matching men's tournament.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2022

In first, MSDF joins joint military exercise simulating 'threat to Japan's existence'

Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi revealed that the Izumo — one of the MSDF's two de facto aircraft carriers — and the Takanami destroyer took part in the RIMPAC drill.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 9, 2022

Why India produces twice as many female airline pilots as the U.S.

Some of the answers may offer lessons for other countries and sectors striving to get more women into their ranks.
With the wars in Ukraine and Gaza claiming America’s attention and the world undergoing a broader geopolitical reconfiguration, China might see a window of opportunity in forcing its claim on Taiwan.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 21, 2024

A Taiwan crisis is coming

Already, Xi Jinping has been stepping up intrusions into Taiwan's air defense zone and encircling the island with warships.
Demonstrators protest the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in front of the Russian Embassy in Berlin on Feb. 16.
EDITORIALS
Feb 23, 2024

Vladimir Putin must be shown the limits of his power

Navalny’s death deprives Russia of its most thoughtful and powerful opposition to President Vladimir Putin and his criminal clique.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets with Ukraine's prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, during the Japan-Ukraine Conference for Promotion of Economic Growth and Reconstruction in Tokyo on Monday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 23, 2024

Where others dither, Japan delivers on aid to Ukraine

Japan is doing all it can to prove to the Kremlin that it will ultimately be Ukraine, not Russia, that will prosper when the war is over.
A relative of a missing passenger on MH370, in Beijing on the one year anniversary of the aircraft's disappearance.
WORLD
Feb 23, 2024

A decade after MH370, planes still at risk of vanishing off the map

An industrywide push to eliminate the chances of a similar case has been stymied by bureaucracy and financial pressure.
A recent surge in Tokyo share prices has been driven by foreign investors' enthusiasm for rising corporate profits, with Japanese investors still wary after more than three decades of market malaise.
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2024

Japanese investors raise a glass to Nikkei record at Stock Pickers bar

Excitement among regulars at the intimate bar in Tokyo's Ginza district had been brewing since last week as the Nikkei approached its all-time high.
Pedestrians look at an electronic board displaying the Nikkei index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on a street in the Japanese capital on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 24, 2024

Record-high Nikkei’s rise just getting started on foreign demand

Investors and strategists are also watching for a broadening of equities gains that may take the wider Topix index to an all-time high this year.
Ukrainian evacuees arrive at Tokyo's Haneda Airport in April 2022.
JAPAN / Society
Feb 24, 2024

90% of Ukrainian evacuees in Japan unwilling to return home

According to the survey of 153 Ukrainian evacuees last month, only 16, or 10.5%, said they would return home immediately if a cease-fire is reached.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Jerusalem on Feb. 18.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 24, 2024

Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu issues first plan for postwar Gaza

The proposal, which calls for indefinite Israeli military control and buffer zones in the territory, was rejected by Palestinians.
Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus holds a model of the Odysseus lunar lander to show its position on the side, during a news conference at Johnson Space Center in Houston on Friday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 24, 2024

Moon lander tipped sideways on lunar surface but 'alive and well'

The moon lander dubbed Odysseus is is resting on its side a day after its touchdown as the first private spacecraft ever to reach the lunar surface.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to the media about sanctions against Russia, following his meeting with late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s widow and daughter in San Francisco on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 24, 2024

U.S. targets Russia with hundreds of sanctions over Ukraine war and Navalny death

The measures targeted Russia's Mir payment system, financial institutions and its military industrial base, as well as other areas.
The mother of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Lyudmila Navalnaya, delivers a video address in Salekhard, in the Russia's Yamal-Nenets region, in this image taken from video released Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 24, 2024

Russia threatening to bury Navalny on prison grounds, team says

Several leading Russian cultural figures and activists have called on authorities to release the opposition leader's body to his mother.
Jeff Bezos — the world’s second-richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Ranking — is investing in a business that’s developing human-like robots.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 24, 2024

Bezos and Nvidia join OpenAI in funding humanoid robot startup

The startup Figure AI is raising about $675 million in a funding round that carries a pre-money valuation of roughly $2 billion.
According to the latest data, new COVID-19 cases reported in the week to Feb. 11 stood at 13.75 per institution.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 24, 2024

Number of COVID-19 and flu cases remain high in Japan

Per-institution new flu cases in Japan came to 23.93 in the week to Feb. 11, up for the fifth straight week.
A symbolic illumination called "Ray of Memory" is seen over the graves of Ukrainian soldiers who died in the war with Russia, at Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 24, 2024

Ukraine on the defensive as Russia war enters third year

On Friday, more than 50 countries, including Japan and the United States, issued a joint statement blasting Russia for the invasion.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 24, 2024

Kishida pledges to expand aid to Noto quake areas

The prime minister apparently intends to reflect firsthand opinions in the government's restoration and reconstruction support measures.
Vocalist Adam Lambert (center) and original Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor hit Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo and Tokyo for the final leg of their marathon Rhapsody Tour.
CULTURE
Feb 24, 2024

Queen wraps marathon Rhapsody Tour in Japan

The final leg of the global tour hit four Japanese cities, providing fans with an appropriately grandiose send-off from the rockers on Valentine's Day.

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A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.
80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped