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BUSINESS
Jul 29, 2021

Coal country cleanup: U.S. plan sketches out possible future for former miners

The Biden administration wants to spend around $16 billion to help begin to clean up orphaned oil and gas wells and abandoned mine sites
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 29, 2021

Japan's basketball team on the ropes after lopsided loss to Slovenia

Now Japan needs to defeat Argentina, the 2004 Olympic gold medalists, in their final Group B game on Sunday in order to give themselves a chance of advancing to the knockout stage.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 29, 2021

Pandemic takes toll on athletes' mental health at Tokyo Games

Some struggling to cope with the challenges posed by the coronavirus while carrying their country's hopes on the global sports stage.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 29, 2021

'Of course I can': Pitcher Yukiko Ueno ensures legacy with golden Olympic repeat

As Japan has done countless times for nearly 20 years, Japan went to Ueno in the softball gold medal game to ask her to shoulder the burden once more.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2021

Even with delta surging, experts say two vaccine doses is enough for now

U.S. firm Pfizer Inc. has called for an additional third shot of its COVID-19 vaccine, citing new data showing its efficacy tails off after six months.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 29, 2021

Men's Olympic soccer and the struggle for legitimacy

Poor performances by some of the sport's powerhouses, including France — who were beaten by Japan 4-0 on Wednesday — are a reminder that the Olympic tourney is a different beast.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 29, 2021

How behavioral economics views mask mandates

What we know from behavioral economics suggests that universal mask requirements will undermine the effort to get as many people as possible vaccinated.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 29, 2021

Pole vaulters Sam Kendricks and German Chiaraviglio contract COVID-19, sending chill through Games

Kendricks, a double world champion, has been ruled out of the Olympics after testing positive for COVID-19, leading to members of the Australian team being put into isolation on Thursday.
The bill calls for mandatory prior approval by an independent organization to break into the server of an attack source and render it harmless.
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2025

Japan to penalize the illicit use of cyber defense information

The penalties are part of a broader government plan to introduce active cyber defense, or preemptive action to prevent cyberattacks.
SpaceX's Starship rocket after launching from South Padre Island near Brownsville, Texas, on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 17, 2025

SpaceX's Starship breaks up in space, forcing flights to divert

Video footage showed orange balls of light streaking across the sky over the Haitian capital of Port-Au-Prince, leaving trails of smoke behind.
Private firefighters gather near their vehicles at a mall in Pacific Palisades, California, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Society
Jan 17, 2025

Private firefighters highlight wealth divide in ruined Los Angeles

Questions are being asked about how some of the city's superrich seem to have survived almost unscathed after enormous blazes spread through the metropolis.
Rakuten Group CEO Hiroshi Mikitani speaks during an interview at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 17, 2025

Rakuten’s Mikitani wants to sell bonds to Japanese investors

Market pricing indicates that views on Rakuten are improving after years of losses and a stretched balance sheet.
The families of the victims of sexual violence and others hold a news conference in the city of Osaka on Dec. 4 after submitting a petition to the Osaka Prefectural Assembly calling for the continuation of the Sexual Assault Crisis Healing Intervention Center Osaka, a one-stop support center within a hospital.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Jan 17, 2025

Osaka sexual violence support center faces existential threat

SACHICO, Japan's first one-stop support center within a hospital setting for women affected by sexual violence, has been asked to leave Hannan Chuo Hospital.
Firefighters walk next to the remains of beachfront houses that burnt down in the Palisades Fire, in Malibu, California, on Thursday.
WORLD
Jan 17, 2025

Los Angeles evacuees told not to go home for at least another week

Emergency responders are removing toxic waste from incinerated neighborhoods and cutting off electricity and gas lines that pose a hazard amid the ruins.
Sunflowers grow in an empty plot of land in 1995 in Kobe where a home once stood before being destroyed by the Great Hanshin Earthquake.
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2025

30 years after the Kobe earthquake, sunflowers serve as a ray of hope

The sunflowers that grew in an empty plot of land in Kobe became the topic of picture books and textbooks.
Terunofuji won 10 titles in sumo's top division during his career.
SUMO
Jan 17, 2025

Yokozuna Terunofuji retires after injury-plagued career

Terunofuji, who has already acquired Japanese citizenship, will become a stablemaster after his retirement.
Suspect Kenichi Hosoya, who was rearrested, enters Asakusa Police Station on Friday in Tokyo's Taito Ward. The handcuffs and waist ties are blurred for privacy reasons.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 17, 2025

Tokyo couple re-arrested in ¥26 million insurance fraud murder case

The couple had already been arrested four times last year for allegedly murdering four family members.
Those who lived in Japan’s Nara Period, which lasted from the year 710 to 794, by and large knew themselves to be blessed. It wasn’t just those in power who felt it, either. From nobles to commoners, the poets seemed to have democratized joy itself.
JAPAN / History / The Living Past
Jan 17, 2025

From Genji to 'hikikomori,' how we make peace with disappearing

Japan’s reverence for impermanence reveals a profound connection between beauty and loss, from poetic musings to spiritual retreats, echoing in modern expressions of solitude.
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Philippine Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo hold a joint news conference in Taguig City, Metro Manila, the Philippines, on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jan 17, 2025

Japan looks to up the ante with more money and partners in military aid program

As funds for Japan's official security assistance increase, so will Tokyo's efforts to boost the number of countries it assists, according to the Foreign Ministry.
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya speaks to reporters at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday following talks with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 17, 2025

Top Japan diplomat to highlight investment and defense spending at Trump inaugural

Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya will be the first senior Japanese official to meet members of the incoming president's governing team.
Bob Uecker gestures after throwing out the first pitch before the Game 1 of the National League Division Series between the Brewers and Diamondbacks on Oct. 1, 2011.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 17, 2025

Beloved Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker dies at 90

"Ueck was the light of the Brewers, the soundtrack of our summers, the laughter in our hearts, and his passing is a profound loss," the team said in a statement.
Alberto "Beto" Carrasco" (center) and his compatriots in Namnam Space
COMMUNITY / Issues / The Foreign Element
Jan 20, 2025

Namnam reborn: A queer, anarchist space resettles in Tokyo's Koenji

After previous incarnations in Shinjuku Ni-chome and Kawasaki, Namnam is bringing art, music and camaraderie to a new neighborhood.
Hideki Matsuyama won the Genesis Invitational at Riveria Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California, on Feb. 18, 2024.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Jan 17, 2025

Tiger Woods-hosted PGA Tour event to be relocated due to LA wildfires

The PGA Tour event that Tiger Woods was scheduled to host in Southern California next month will be played at an alternate venue due to the massive wildfires that have ravaged parts of Los Angeles, the Tour said on Thursday.

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