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CULTURE / Film
Jul 15, 2021

‘Restart’: There’s no place like home for second chances

Director Hiroshi Shinagawa, who endured his own struggles as a young comic, shows the darker side of showbiz, as well as the welcoming beauty of Shimokawa, Hokkaido Prefecture.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 15, 2021

How a ban on a swim cap galvanized Black swimmers

After a backlash, members of the International Swimming Federation are reconsidering a ban they put on a swim cap designed for Black hair.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 15, 2021

‘Tokyo Kurds’: A sobering look at lives in limbo

Fumiari Hyuga's documentary about asylum seekers in Japan is an intimate portrait of life with freedom hanging in the balance.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 15, 2021

Facebook and Instagram to invest over $1 billion in content creators

Facebook Inc. will spend $1 billion on social media creators through the end of 2022 in a fight for top talent announced in a week when TikTok became the first rival mobile app to hit 3 billion global downloads.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Jul 15, 2021

How vaccine chaos left Australia locked down and exposed

A slow vaccine rollout has left the country exposed to outbreaks as newer, more virulent strains slip through border curbs.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 14, 2021

Biden’s Afghan blunder

Joe Biden's approach entails effectively admitting that a terrorist militia has defeated the world's most powerful military, and then handing Afghanistan back to that militia.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jul 14, 2021

Fifty years since Kissinger's secret visit, Sino-U.S. ties now fraying fast

The downward trajectory is unlikely to be altered any time soon, experts say, as top officials in both countries are buckling down for a long-haul competition.
Tokyo is expected to lead the season with its first cherry blossoms on March 21, followed by Fukuoka, Kochi and Hiroshima prefectures as well as the city of Yokohama on March 22.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2025

Cherry blossom season predicted to begin in Tokyo on March 21

This year’s cherry blossom season is expected to align with or slightly precede historical averages in western and eastern Japan.
A packed Fuji TV news conference on Monday in Tokyo
JAPAN / Media
Jan 29, 2025

Shukan Bunshun corrects article on scandal over former Fuji TV host

According to the correction, Masahiro Nakai was the one who invited the woman to the gathering, not the Fuji TV official.
Many workers at small companies continue to fall behind as wages fail to keep up with inflation.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 29, 2025

Smaller Japanese companies unlikely to meet wage-increase target for 2025

For this year’s spring negotiations, the Japanese Trade Union Confederation set hike targets of more than 6% for smaller firms.
U.S. surfer John John Florence rides a wave during a practice session earlier this month off the north shore of Maui, Hawaii.
MORE SPORTS / Surfing
Jan 29, 2025

Absent champions, fresh venues in focus as surfing's world tour begins

Hawaii's John John Florence, who won his third world title last year, is taking the year off tour but will compete as a wildcard at the season opener in Hawaii.
Fuji TV adviser Hisashi Hieda in 2005
JAPAN / Media
Jan 29, 2025

Who are the key figures involved in the growing Fuji TV scandal?

Koichi Minato, who resigned as president of Fuji TV on Monday, will be one focus of a third-party probe, given his executive role when the incident occurred.
Kirsty Coventry, who is bidding to become the next president of the International Olympic Committee, in Paris on Aug. 10, 2024.
OLYMPICS
Jan 29, 2025

Kirsty Coventry hopes to make waves in IOC presidential race

The former swimming star is one of seven candidates bidding to succeed Thomas Bach as president of the International Olympic Committee.
Shilling poses for a picture at her home in California, Maryland, on Jan. 19.
WORLD
Jan 29, 2025

How transgender troops prepared to fight Trump's new policy

Transgender advocates say the lawsuit is the first shot in what they predict will be a long fight.
Rock patterns formed by crystalized minerals along the Dead Sea shore near Kibbutz Ein Gedi in eastern Israel on Dec. 30. The Dead Sea, nestled where Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian territory meet, has famously been dying for years.
ENVIRONMENT
Jan 29, 2025

Dead Sea an 'ecological disaster,' but no one can agree how to fix it

Tackling cross-border environmental issues is no longer a priority for governments in the region.
JR Central's "Doctor Yellow" T4 train arrives at Tokyo Station on Wednesday after completing its final shinkansen track inspection.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2025

'Doctor Yellow' train completes final shinkansen track inspection

JR Central's T4 Doctor Yellow entered into service in 2001, and covered some 1.57 million kilometers.
A U.S. soldier walks past a razor wire-topped fence at the "Camp X-Ray" detention facility at the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2014.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 30, 2025

Trump to prepare facility at Guantanamo for 30,000 migrants

U.S. border czar Tom Homan said the facility in Cuba would be used to hold the 'worst of the worst.'
U.S. President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 30, 2025

Trump reverses spending freeze order that sparked chaos

The abrupt move — only two days after the freeze was first announced — quickly drew parallels to the chaotic policy rollouts that unfolded during Trump’s first administration.
Trump started his term on Jan. 20 by issuing an executive order "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism," which declared the government will only recognize two sexes — male and female.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 30, 2025

LGBTQ+ Americans in crisis as Trump rolls back rights

Nine organizations supporting LGBTQ+ people said they had a surge in use of their crisis services and calls to their helplines on Trump's first day in office.
Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on Jan. 16
WORLD / Politics
Jan 30, 2025

Syria's al-Sharaa declared president for transition, consolidating his power

Al-Sharaa said the first priority in Syria was to fill a vacuum in government "in a legitimate and legal way."
Manchester City's Savinho celebrates after scoring against Club Brugge during their Champions League match at Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England, on Wednesday.
SOCCER
Jan 30, 2025

Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain stay alive in Champions League

On a dramatic night in which only two of the closing 18 matches were dead rubbers, Man City got the win it needed to avoid an embarrassing exit.
Relatives of people who died in Spain's disastrous floods, as well as protesters, demonstrate against Valencia's regional leader, demanding his resignation for his handling of the emergency, in Valencia, Spain, on Dec. 29.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 30, 2025

Chinese online operation called for toppling Spain's government: report

The online operation from China, called Spamouflage, has been operating in several countries since 2017, online analysis outfit Graphika said.

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