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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 14, 2021

Alzheimer’s drug furor highlights U.S. health system’s failures

The FDA didn't deny that the clinical-trial evidence was poor. It simply ignored that problem and used different reasoning to grant the drug 'accelerated approval.”
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Jun 14, 2021

Okinawa activists fear land-purchase bill will hit anti-base movement

Residents are asking the government to provide an explanation as to why the legislation is necessary.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Jun 14, 2021

In Japan, families hit by COVID-19 struggle to care for infected children

Some have to rely on food delivery services to survive, while some children are missing school or kindergarten for over a month.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 14, 2021

Budapest citizens rise up against a Chinese university and influence

Not everyone in Budapest is buying Orban's attempt at justifying the deal to build a Chinese university campus in the city.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2021

After the pandemic, a wave of spending by older consumers

Money managers see huge pent-up demand from wealthy older people for medical services and luxury goods.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2021

Carlos Ghosn escape accomplices plead guilty in Tokyo court

The Taylors' case in Tokyo is the latest addition to multiple legal proceedings around the world left in Ghosn's wake.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2021

Airlines plan to plow billions into flying taxis

Flying taxis have moved a step closer to becoming a fixture buzzing across the world’s urban skyscapes after startups in the U.K. and Brazil made commercial breakthroughs and a closely watched effort was unveiled in Los Angeles.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 14, 2021

Key takeaways from the G7 summit

While the world's response to COVID-19 dominated discussions, leaders appeared to have rediscovered the joy of diplomacy
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 14, 2021

As El Salvador makes bitcoins tender, traders mull where that leaves the dollar

Some observers wonder whether a bigger movement is afoot: replacing a conventional currency on a national scale and then beyond.
Yuko Obuchi, head of the LDP's Party Organization and Campaign Headquarters, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2025

LDP to actively use social media for election victory

Achieving a victory in the election for the upper chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament, is the most important challenge for the party this year.
U.S. Marines during training in Okinawa last month.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 22, 2025

U.S. Marines start to leave Japan, decades behind schedule

The U.S. base on Okinawa has relocated 105 Marines. But an agreement to move 9,000 in total is colliding with the perceived threat from a rising China.
Akie Abe meets with Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te (left) at the Taiwan Presidential Office in Taipei on Friday.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2025

Taiwan President Lai meets with Akie Abe, widow of slain prime minister

Lai told Akie at the meeting that Taiwan aims to protect the values of freedom and democracy, and deepen its friendship with Japan.
A poster depicting a hostage Omer Wenkert, at the site of the Nova festival where party goers were killed and kidnapped during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas gunmen from Gaza, in Reim, southern Israel, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Feb 22, 2025

Israel prepares to receive six more Gaza hostages as Bibas body identified

The fragile truce between Israel and Hamas militants had been threatened with derailment by the misidentification of a body released on Thursday.
Eliya Cohen, who was seized from a roadside emergency shelter on Oct. 7, 2023, waves during a public hostage handover ceremony staged by Hamas in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on Saturday.
WORLD
Feb 23, 2025

Israel will postpone the release of Palestinian prisoners

Benjamin Netanyahu's office has stated it will delay the exchange partly due to 'humiliating ceremonies' by Hamas.
Pope Francis in February 2016. As of Saturday, his condition "continues to be critical," the Vatican said.
WORLD
Feb 23, 2025

Pope Francis in critical condition after health deteriorates, Vatican says

The pope was diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs after being hospitalized earlier this month.
Forever Young wins the Saudi Cup at King Abdulaziz Race Course in Riyadh on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Horse Racing
Feb 23, 2025

Japan's Forever Young wins world's richest race

Forever Young passed Romantic Warrior 50 meters from the post to claim victory.
A campaign poster for Friedrich Merz, the Christian Democratic Union candidate for chancellor, in Potsdam, Germany, on Saturday
WORLD / Politics
Feb 23, 2025

Gloomy Germans vote in election which conservatives are set to win

The election campaign has been dominated by fierce exchanges over the perception that irregular immigration is out of control.
U.S. President Donald Trump during the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, on Saturday
WORLD / Politics
Feb 23, 2025

Trump tells CPAC his goal is a ‘lasting’ Republican majority

GOP allies, foreign leaders and Elon Musk joined Trump at CPAC on Saturday, rallying around his vision for tax cuts and government spending.
Donald Trump, then the Republican presidential candidate, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet at Trump Tower in New York City in September.
WORLD
Feb 23, 2025

Trump says U.S. wants return on Ukraine aid money

The comments came as Washington and Kyiv negotiate a mineral resources deal being pushed by Trump.
Mirra Andreeva reacts after a point during her match against Clara Tauson during the Dubai Championships on Saturday.
TENNIS
Feb 23, 2025

Russian teen Mira Andreeva makes WTA history with title in Dubai

After ousting three Grand Slam winners, including second-seeded Iga Swiatek, en route to the final, Andreeva ended Clara Tauson's own dream run at the tournament.
People demonstrate in support of Ukraine ahead of the third anniversary of the war with Russia, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Feb 23, 2025

Trump shakes transatlantic alliance with Russia pivot

Fears are growing in European capitals that the bond forged from the ruins of World War II is on the verge of collapse.
Luka Doncic was traded from the Mavericks to the Lakers on Feb. 2.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Feb 23, 2025

Dirk Nowitzki felt 'disappointed and sad' for Luka Doncic after trade

Nowitzki said he was shocked when he learned about the trade.
Elon Musk listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Feb. 11.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 23, 2025

Musk orders U.S. federal workers to report on work by Monday or resign

It is unclear what legal basis Musk has to terminate federal workers if they fail to respond or what would happen to employees that cannot detail confidential work.
A scene from Satoko Yokohama's "Umibe e Iku Michi" ("Seaside Serendipity")
CULTURE / Film
Feb 23, 2025

Japanese movies win accolades at Berlin International Film Festival

"Futsu no Seikatsu," an animated movie directed by Yoriko Mizushiri, was awarded the Silver Bear Jury Prize for a short film at this year's Berlin International Film Festival.
Emperor Naruhito speaks to reporters on Thursday. He turned 65 on Sunday.
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2025

Emperor turns 65, renewing wish for peace 80 years after end of WWII

At a news conference held at the Imperial Palace ahead of his 65th birthday, the emperor said he is grateful that Japan has been without war for 80 years.

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