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Mar 15, 2021

Saints QB Drew Brees announces retirement

Brees is the NFL's all-time leader with 80,358 career passing yards and 7,142 completions.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 15, 2021

Rakuten sees biggest surge in 18 years after Tencent and Japan Post invest

The e-commerce pioneer is looking to expand its capabilities in artificial intelligence, financial technology and mobile networks.
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BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 15, 2021

China’s economic activity data soars a year after lockdown

Official figures show eye-popping growth rates of more than 30% for some areas, though the data is distorted by comparisons from a year ago when the economy was virtually shut down.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 15, 2021

Nomura to expand structured finance in private markets push

A new team will look beyond stock offerings, corporate debt issuance and other more conventional areas of corporate finance to drive growth.
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PRESS / Events
Mar 15, 2021

第2回ESG Talkサントリーホールディングス新浪剛史氏

株式会社ジャパンタイムズキューブ(代表取締役:末松弥奈子)は、日本国内でESG(環境・社会・企業統治)について積極的に発言するリーダーにインタビューするシリーズ、「ESG Talk」の第2回目ゲストとして、サントリーホールディングス株式会社...
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WORLD
Mar 15, 2021

Boris Johnson moves to defuse anger over U.K. police violence

Images of male officers pinning down female demonstrators at a Saturday event meant to draw attention to violence against women have drawn criticism.
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WORLD / FOCUS
Mar 14, 2021

As vaccine nationalism deepens, governments pay to bring production home

Governments across the globe are rushing to access fragmented vaccine production after manufacturing setbacks deprived European Union members of drugs made on their own soil this year.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Mar 14, 2021

China and U.S.-Japan alliance to take top billing as senior Biden officials visit Tokyo

Both nations are expected to use the meeting to set the agenda for the alliance, making abundantly clear the shifting U.S. and Japanese perceptions of China.
Several Europe-based carmakers have withdrawn or cut guidance in response to the trade war, including Jeep-owner Stellantis, Porsche and Mercedes-Benz Group.
BUSINESS / Markets
May 5, 2025

European firms fare better than expected through early trade pain

Companies on the MSCI Europe index are averaging earnings growth of 3.8% so far, outpacing preseason estimates of a 1.4% decline.
With the June 1 reform of imprisonment penalties, Japan will shift the main objective of imprisonment from punishment to preventing repeat offenses.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 5, 2025

Japanese prisons prepare for imprisonment penalty reform

Japan will shift the main objective of imprisonment from punishment to preventing repeat offenses.
People wait for dinner at a shelter run by Sant'Egidio, a Catholic association dedicated to social outreach, across the street from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome on April 24.
WORLD / Society
May 5, 2025

Homeless sheltered by Pope Francis wonder who will follow

Pope Francis shunned much of the pomp and privilege of the papacy and sought to make the Roman Catholic Church more inclusive and less judgmental.
China's Bayan Obo rare earth mine in Inner Mongolia. As U.S.-China tensions strain critical mineral supply chains, Tokyo’s multipronged approach based on sovereignty, resilience and sustainability is gaining quiet relevance.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 5, 2025

Japan's resource security path may hold answers to trade turmoil

Critical mineral supply chains are made vulnerable by China's dominance and U.S. protectionism. Japan's strategy may provide clues as to how to secure these vital resources.
In France, a state-of-the-art rare earths plant to extract key minerals like dysprosium and terbium is being built with French and Japanese support — the first of its kind outside China. Its significance goes beyond the project itself.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 5, 2025

New rare earth plant shows strength of Japan-France cooperation

In France, a state-of-the-art rare earths plant is being built with French and Japanese support, showing the way for those who see the benefits of working together and not alone.
Members of Israeli security services inspect a crater near a road outside Israel's Ben Gurion airport after a missile launched from Yemen struck the area on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
May 6, 2025

Israel launches strikes on Yemen's Hodeidah Port after Houthi attack

The airstrikes came a day after the Iran-aligned militants fired a missile that struck near Israel's main airport.
Pope Francis waves to the crowd from his popemobile as he arrives at the Manger Square before presiding over an open-air mass on May 25, 2014 outside the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank Biblical town of Bethlehem.
WORLD / Society
May 6, 2025

Francis' popemobile converted into clinic for Gazan children

The iconic open-sided vehicle will head to the Gaza Strip if and when Israel opens a humanitarian corridor.
An Indian soldier stands guard on a street, following the Pahalgam attack in south Kashmir, in Srinagar on May 5.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 6, 2025

Pakistan tests missile and India orders drills amid Kashmir standoff

Relations between the nuclear-armed states have nosedived since gunmen killed 26 people on April 22 in an attack targeting Hindu tourists in Indian Kashmir.
A student from Hiroshima Jogakuin University (center) makes paper cranes with event attendees at the Peace Memorial Park on Monday in the city of Hiroshima.
JAPAN
May 6, 2025

Hiroshima Children's Peace Monument marks 67th anniversary

Students from Hiroshima Jogakuin University, which organized the ceremony, placed about 7,000 paper cranes at the monument.
Victims of scam centers who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar on the border with Thailand-Myanmar after a multinational crackdown on the compounds run by criminal gangs, operated by the Karen National Army in Myawaddy, Myanmar, on Feb. 26.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 6, 2025

U.S. puts sanctions on Myanmar warlord and militia linked to online scams

Saw Chit Thu is a central figure in a network of illicit and highly lucrative internet scam operations targeting Americans, the U.S. Treasury says.
Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato (center) delivers a speech at the annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank on Monday in Milan.
JAPAN
May 6, 2025

Asian Development Bank will hold its annual meeting in Nagoya in 2027

It will be the first time in 10 years for the ADB's annual meeting to be held in Japan.
A survey by a private group found that 30% of people in de facto marriages in Japan have not filed for marriage registration because they or their partners do not want to change their surnames.
JAPAN
May 6, 2025

About 30% of those in de facto marriages refuse to marry over surname change

Nearly half of such people are willing to file if a system allowing married spouses to use different surnames is introduced.
While for Aston Martin, it’s all about delivering luxury, their regional president for Asia Gregory Adams' start in the auto industry in Japan was far more humble.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 6, 2025

The drive for luxury: Aston Martin Asia's president explains the desire for more

“No one needs an Aston Martin,” said the company's regional president for Asia — it is more about emotion and less about practicality.
Cubs pitcher Shota Imanaga throws during his start against the Brewers on Sunday.
BASEBALL / MLB
May 6, 2025

Cubs place Shota Imanaga on injured list with hamstring strain

Imanaga was injured in the sixth inning of a scoreless pitcher's duel Sunday when he reached for the back of his left leg in pain.

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"Shake hands with Lima-chan," a statue that shares the name of the Peruvian capital looks in the direction of Peru, where a sister statue, "Sakura-chan," is located. Erected in Yokohama's Rinko Park in 1999, it commemorates Peruvian-Japanese friendship.
The journey of Peru’s Nikkei: Finding identity in Japan