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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 30, 2022

South Korea's Yoon declares mourning period after Halloween crush kills 153

Social media footage showed hundreds of people packed in the narrow, sloped alley crushed and immobile as emergency officials and police tried to pull them free.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Oct 30, 2022

Nets' Kyrie Irving says 'anti-Semitic' label 'not justified'

Nets owner Joe Tsai said in a Twitter post on Friday he was 'disappointed' that Irving drew attention to a 2018 film with a number of anti-Semitic tropes.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 30, 2022

Xi kicks off third term with flurry of diplomatic activity

His busy diplomatic schedule comes after he pledged at the Communist Party's twice-a-decade congress to ensure China leads the world in 'international influence.”
Japan Times
SOCCER
Oct 30, 2022

'No excuses' for Liverpool as Leeds ends unbeaten Anfield run

Liverpool have now lost twice as many games in the first 12 league games of this season as they did in 38 last season.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 30, 2022

Russia halts deal over Ukraine Black Sea grain exports after drone attacks

Russia told U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres in a letter that it was suspending the deal for an 'indefinite term' because it could not 'guarantee safety of civilian ships.'
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Washoku Essentials
Oct 30, 2022

The Ichimatsu motif: Cooking for both flavor and fortune

There's more than meets the eye for foods cooked with this distinctive checkerboard pattern.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 30, 2022

The rural temple where winemaking equals worship

Yamanashi Prefecture's Daizenji Temple is dedicated to the premodern monk who is said to have introduce the joy of wine to Japan.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 29, 2022

Buffaloes move to brink of Japan Series crown with victory in Game 6

Orix has won three straight games and can clinch the title with a victory in Game 7 at Jingu Stadium.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 29, 2022

Japan to set up new joint command to manage SDF operations: report

The joint command will be tasked with coordinating strategies with an eye on boosting Japan's defense cooperation with the U.S. military, the Nikkei newspaper reported.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 29, 2022

COVID-19 tracker: Japan logs 44,632 new cases and 39 deaths

The nationwide number of seriouslly ill coronavirus patients grew by eight from the previous day to 129.
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 29, 2022

F. Marinos holds onto J1 title destiny with Round 33 win over Reds

Braces by Elber and Anderson Lopes kept Kevin Muscat's men atop the table, leaving only season-finale opponent Vissel standing between them and the club's fifth league title.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2023

10 Japanese with 8 Palestinian family members flee Gaza to Egypt

Another Japanese national who is married to a Palestinian and lives in Gaza intends to stay there with the family, the chief cabinet secretary said.
The midway in Springfield, Massachusetts, lit up at night. Framingham, Massachusetts mayor Charlie Sisitsky said its geothermal pilot project could more than halve emissions and cut energy consumption for some properties by up to 70%.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Nov 2, 2023

U.S. cities expand geothermal energy to whole neighborhoods

The U.S. federal government is to back 11 pilot geothermal projects.
Afghan refugees arrive in a truck at a holding center as they prepare to depart for Afghanistan, in the town of Landi Kotal, Pakistan, on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans living in Pakistan faced the threat of detention and deportation on the day, as a government deadline for them to leave sparked a mass exodus.
WORLD / Society
Nov 2, 2023

Pakistan rounds up undocumented foreigners, mostly Afghans, early

The interior ministry said 140,322 people had already voluntarily left after days in which trucks full of people have jammed roads out of the country.
Treated water diluted with seawater flows to a downstream water tank at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant during a second release in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 2, 2023

Japan begins third release of treated Fukushima wastewater

The amount of water to be released in the latest round will be similar to the first and second, in which 7,810 tons of water was discharged.
The Chairman's steamed flower crab with aged Shaoxing wine and chicken oil
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 5, 2023

Seeking 'the perfect combination of Chinese and French cuisine'

Chefs Daniel Calvert and Danny Yip are old friends, but for the first time this month, they're collaborators.
This stir-fry is a staple of many Japanese meals, and the techniques used to make are also commonly used throughout traditional cuisine.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 5, 2023

Recipe: Carrot and burdock root stir-fry

When selecting "gobō," choose ones that are straight and relatively thin — the thicker, the older.
In addition to its regular whiskies, Suntory is released a limited-edition 100th Anniversary Hibiki blend retailing at $5,000 per bottle.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 5, 2023

A century of Suntory's whisky mastery costs $5,000 per bottle

Suntory's 100th anniversary blends are already selling for double their original retail prices online.
Under President Vladimir Putin rule, reason, logic, and humanity appear to have been systematically eroded from Russian life, similar to the era of Stalin and his gulags. 
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 2, 2023

Russian life imitates dystopian art

The state in Russia has always tended toward absolutism and its coercive and penal arms have rarely wielded as much power as they do now.
A Tasaki jewelry store in Ginza, Tokyo
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 2, 2023

MBK Partners to sell jewelry brand Tasaki for over $500 million

Alleged trade with Myanmar has limited the scope of potential bidders, sources said.
The world's largest pension fund lost 0.31% for the three months from July to September, trimming its overall assets to ¥219.3 trillion.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 2, 2023

Japan's GPIF reports ¥683 billion loss in July-September period

The news comes as a policy tweak by the central bank hits the government bond market.
Every time Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda has made an announcement since taking up his post, that information has appeared initially not in the public domain, but in the pages of the fourth estate.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 2, 2023

Bank of Japan leaks are making an awful mess

Central bank decisions can move billions of dollars and with the BOJ, the closely watched outlier that it is, its conclusions have more impact than most.
"The Ones Left Behind" documents the successes and struggles of single mothers in Japan.
PODCAST / deep dive
Nov 2, 2023

Why single mothers in Japan have been left behind

Filmmaker Rionne McAvoy joins us to discuss the hidden poverty present in one of the world’s richest nations.
The words of encouragement that star player Shohei Ohtani gave his teammates before their final game against the United States during the World Baseball Classic in March were among those nominated on Thursday to be the buzzwords of the year.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 2, 2023

Japan's 2023 buzzwords reflect light and dark sides of the year

From the year's scandals to its champions, the annual list of buzzword candidates highlights the nation's hope, fears and diversions.
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2023

Kishida unveils ¥17 trillion stimulus package amid pushback

A supplementary budget proposal — worth a total of ¥13.1 trillion — to back the package will be submitted to parliament in the upcoming weeks.
The civil case centers on whether a foreign national in a same-sex partnership with a Japanese citizen should be granted “long-term resident status,” which allows residency for up to five years in Japan.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 2, 2023

Tokyo High Court rejects same-sex couple's residence status lawsuit

The civil case centers on whether a foreign national in a same-sex partnership with a Japanese citizen should be granted “long-term resident status.”
Japan ruling bloc loses majority in Upper House after election drubbing
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who serves concurrently as president of the Liberal Democratic Party, leaves at the party's headquarters following announcement of Upper House election result projections in Tokyo early Monday.
‘Japanese First’ Sanseito emerges as powerful force after Upper House poll
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya in Tokyo on Sunday night
Foreign residents closely follow Japan's election and party pledges
A police officer walks past posters of Liberal Democratic Party candidates, as well as one showing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, outside the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sunday. As Japan’s foreign population continues to rise, one of the talking points during Sunday’s election was how the country should deal with the increase of international residents.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Hitomi Obara, 2012 Olympic champion in wrestling, dies at 44
Hitomi Obara competes at the London Olympics in August 2012.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Pentagon looks to unleash ‘military drone dominance’
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on July 10.
‘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

Podcast

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

Longform

In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
The rise of AI companionship in a lonely Japan
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