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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 28, 2022

What analysts say is next for Asian markets after Fed decision

They warned not to expect an inflection point for the dollar and saw the euro remaining under pressure into the winter and the yen trading around its recent range.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 28, 2022

Russian forces capture Ukraine's second biggest power plant

Seizing the Soviet-era coal-fired Vuhlehirsk power plant in eastern Ukraine would be Moscow's first strategic gain in more than three weeks.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / Sound Off
Jul 28, 2022

'Sailor-Moon'-inspired group SG5 shows how anime can lift up J-pop

As the music industry opens up to digital realities, the Sailor-Scout-themed pop group and other nascent acts are utilizing anime's popularity to leapfrog into greater consciousness.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 28, 2022

‘Yokaipedia’: Fantasy flick takes a page out of ‘Harry Potter’

Takashi Yamazaki's supernatural adventure film will cast a spell on younger viewers, but parents should find it entertaining, too.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 28, 2022

Akane Sakanoue shines in ‘Lovely Little Ai’

Candice Mana Ono's LGBTQ-friendly debut features Akane Sakanoue as a teenage girl who goes from a lonely wallflower to a confident fashionista with the help of a friend and confidante.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 28, 2022

Fed hikes rates while signaling more tightening to come

Policymakers have raised the benchmark lending rate another 75 basis points to a range of 2.25% to 2.5% and said they anticipate 'ongoing increases” will be appropriate.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jul 28, 2022

Japan clinches East Asian title with win over South Korea

The Samurai Blue won the East Asian Football Federation E-1 Championship for only the second time thanks to a 3-0 victory over the three-time defending champions at Toyota Stadium.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 27, 2022

Death toll rises following powerful Philippines earthquake

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake killed at least five people in the northern Philippines, toppling buildings and shaking high-rise towers in the capital Manila.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 27, 2022

IMF top economist sees Japan's monetary easing as appropriate

Top IMF chief downplayed concerns that a weaker yen due to low interest rates in Japan will adversely affect the country's economy by pushing up import prices.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 27, 2022

Japan firms start providing 'inflation allowance' to workers

Computer software developer Cybozu has decided to make special lump-sum payments to employees in Japan and abroad in July and August.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 27, 2022

Google search ad sales beat targets despite global 'uncertainty'

The online search giant has weathered storms better than social media companies, bringing in revenue through a greater variety of functions in the ad market.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 27, 2022

How to counter Iran’s missiles and proxies

With hopes for a broader deal fading, the U.S. must find other ways to confront nonnuclear threats.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 9, 2024

OpenAI’s Sam Altman returns to board after probe clears him

Altman was cleared of any wrongdoing that would have mandated being fired, according to a report based on a monthslong investigation.
An image taken from video of a U.S. Navy F/A-18 jet crew’s encounter with an unexplained anomalous phenomena
WORLD / Politics
Mar 9, 2024

Pentagon review finds no evidence of alien cover-up

But the new report suggests that the public’s belief that the government is hiding what it knows will probably continue.
Former U.S. President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during an election night watch party at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 9, 2024

Japanese government making preparations for 'Trump wins' scenario

The Foreign Ministry is fully mobilizing the Japanese Embassy in Washington and consulates across the United States to analyze his remarks.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 9, 2024

Space One postpones bid to be Japan's first private firm to put satellite in orbit

The Tokyo-based startup halted the mission after a ship ventured into a "maritime warning area" just 10 minutes before the launch.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2024

Reservations open for subsidized trips to areas hit by Noto quake

Tours to Niigata, Toyama and Fukui prefectures sold out on a host of websites soon after the start Friday, displaying robust demand for the campaign.
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security is considering adding Chinese chipmaker ChangXin to its so-called Entity List, which restricts companies’ access to U.S. technology.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 9, 2024

U.S. mulls blacklisting CXMT to further curb China’s chip advance

The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security is considering adding the chipmaker to its so-called Entity List.
A solar farm owned by the Huaneng Group in Shilin, China on March 2. Beijing is set to further increase its manufacturing and installation of solar panels, as it seeks to master global markets and wean itself from imports.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 9, 2024

China racing ahead on plans to dominate solar energy industry

Beijing is set to further increase its manufacturing and installation of solar panels as it seeks to master global markets and wean itself from imports.
Women and babies at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, in January.
WORLD / Society
Mar 9, 2024

Millions of Sudanese go hungry as war disrupts food supply

The number of Sudanese facing emergency levels of hunger — one stage before famine — has more than tripled in a year to almost 5 million.
French President Emmanuel Macron greets Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Feb. 26.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 9, 2024

Macron and Scholz, never close, spar over policy toward Ukraine and Russia

A fraught relationship has recently turned bitter, with insults and barbs threatening European unity at a critical moment.
Displaced Palestinians wait to receive United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) aid, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 9, 2024

UNRWA report says Israel coerced some agency employees to falsely admit Hamas links

The assertions are contained in a report by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency dated February 2024.
U.S. President Joe Biden makes a campaign stop at Strath Haven Middle School in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Mar 9, 2024

Providing both bombs and food, Biden puts himself in the middle of Gaza’s war

Biden's decision to send aid by air and sea represents a shift prompted by the growing humanitarian crisis. But it also raised uncomfortable questions.
TSMC and other leading-edge chipmakers are engaged in negotiations with the Commerce Department over a pool of about $28 billion in grants targeted for advanced factories.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 9, 2024

TSMC to win more than $5 billion in grants for U.S. chip plant

The move would mark a major milestone in U.S. President Joe Biden’s effort to revitalize American semiconductor manufacturing.
A worker checks the carbon fiber at the composite production line at the Swancor factory in Nantou, Taiwan, in February.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Mar 9, 2024

Recycling wind turbine blades can solve the industry’s biggest problem

Swancor is one of several firms globally trying to develop products that mimic the physical properties of current blade material but can be recycled.
Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori speaks during an interview on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 9, 2024

Fukushima governor urges state to clarify soil policy

Fukushima will host interim storage facilities for the soil on the premise that the soil is stored at final disposal sites outside the prefecture.
An image taken from a video shot by a minidrone on Feb. 28 shows the conditions outside the pedestal inside the No. 1 reactor at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 10, 2024

Combination of two options proposed for Fukushima plant debris removal

A government-backed firm has proposed a combination of removing debris exposed in the air and solidifying debris using a filler.
Millions told to evacuate as heavy rain sparks flooding and landslides in Kyushu
Heavy rain falls in the city of Kumamoto on Monday morning.
Osaka Expo highlights the challenge of holding events in Japan's scorching summer
People huddle near a large fan blowing icy-cold mist at the Osaka Expo on July 12. Amid Japan's relentless summer heat, organizes have put myriad measures in place in order to keep guests safe.
Chinese vessels collide while pursuing Philippine boat in South China Sea
This handout video grab released and taken on August 11, 2025 by the Philippine Coast Guard shows an incident between a Chinese Navy vessel (left) and a Chinese Coast Guard ship as seen from a Philippine fisheries boat near Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea.
Weather agency warns of landslides and flooding in Kyushu as heavy rain continues
An embankment on the Amikake River that collapsed due to heavy rain in Aira, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Friday. Downpours continued in the Kyushu region over the weekend.
Tokyo’s WWII museums hold diverse views on war and peace
A carrier-based Type 52 Zero fighter marks the entrance foyer of Yasukuni Shrine's Yushukan, a museum that tells a more nuanced story of Japan's experience in World War II than the controversies around the shrine might suggest.
Osaka Expo highlights the challenge of holding events in Japan's scorching summer
People huddle near a large fan blowing icy-cold mist at the Osaka Expo on July 12. Amid Japan's relentless summer heat, organizes have put myriad measures in place in order to keep guests safe.
At Himawari Shokudo 2, Italian food with a Japanese soul
At Himawari Shokudo 2, chef Hozumi Tanaka serves Italian-inspired fare with a focus on Toyama produce, such as this appetizer of lightly blanched "hotaru ika" (firefly squid) served atop mixed wild plants and a crepe prepared from "yamato-imo" yam.
Cheer with caution: Expert advises sports fans have game plan for extreme heat
A Cardinals fan fans himself during the seventh inning of a game against the Pirates in St. Louis, Missouri, in June 2022.
Australia's warship selection signals Japanese defense industry's arrival
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate. Australia's selection of an upgraded version of the Mogami-class warship for its next frigate class could prove to be a watershed moment for Japan’s defense industry.
Japan's inheritance tax is high, unforgiving and sometimes avoidable
The National Tax Agency at the Ministry of Finance, Kasumigaseki, Tokyo. Japanese tax authorities can bill foreign residents in Japan for assets inherited globally.

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