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JAPAN
Jul 14, 2022

Japan's MSDF deploys new frigates with labor-saving features

Officials hope that the Mogami-class vessels will contribute to strengthening Japan's defense capacity, while at the same time promoting work-style reform.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jul 14, 2022

Blunders and miscalculations: How Sri Lanka plunged into crisis

The island nation is in its worst economic crisis in decades — and the fallout is already being felt in the corridors of power.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 14, 2022

Biden, battered at home, basks in unvarnished praise in Israel

At a red-carpet airport ceremony flush with fawning on both sides, Israeli President Isaac Herzog called his U.S. counterpart 'our brother Joseph.”
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 14, 2022

Japanese software-maker promises workers inflation relief pay

Rapid price rises in countries where Cybozu operates, including Japan, the U.S. and Australia, have been severe enough to make annual salary increases insufficient, the company said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 14, 2022

Panasonic to build EV battery plant for Tesla in Kansas

The plant, to be built in De Soto, Kansas, is central to Panasonic's effort to ramp up production for electric vehicles as it pushes for gains in battery power and performance.
Japan Times
LIFE
Jul 14, 2022

The rapid rise of round-the-clock fitness in Japan

The world's largest fitness chain is expanding its footprint in a nation opening up to the merits of building up muscle.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 14, 2022

U.S. successfully tests pair of Lockheed hypersonic missiles

The successful tests show progress among the myriad U.S. hypersonic weapons development efforts, which have in cases been beleaguered by failed tests.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 14, 2022

Hot U.S. inflation fuels bets on supersized Fed rate hike

A bevy of U.S. central bankers in recent weeks have signaled support for a second straight 75 basis points rate increase at their upcoming policy meeting on July 26 and 27.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 14, 2022

MUFG said to be considering bid for Indonesia’s Panin Bank

The interest in Panin Bank comes as the Gunawan family, which controls about 46% of shares in the Southeast Asian bank, is also working to explore options for its stake.
JAPAN
Jul 14, 2022

Japan's Princess Yuriko, 99, infected with coronavirus

The widow of the late Prince Mikasa and aunt of Emperor Emeritus Akihito, the father of Emperor Naruhito, does not have serious symptoms.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jul 14, 2022

Jonas Vingegaard snatches Tour de France lead away from Tadej Pogacar with epic ride in Stage 11

Jonas Vingegaard threw everything at Tadej Pogacar to replace the defending champion as the overall Tour de France leader.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 14, 2022

Last maternity clinic in Ukraine-controlled Donbas a lifeline as war closes in

The center, roughly 40 kilometers from the closest front line, gives a glimpse of the suffering the war is inflicting on pregnant women.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Jul 14, 2022

Shanghai COVID-19 cases drop below 50 per day in sign flareup under control

The city recorded 47 infections for Wednesday, down from 55 on Tuesday. While daily cases have jumped from single digits last week, they are no longer rising precipitously.
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits a church outside Moscow on Sunday, a national day of mourning following the attack on the Crocus City Hall on Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 26, 2024

Putin forgot Islamic State thinks he too is the West

The leader portrays Russia as a victim of Western imperialism, but the Islamic State terrorists who attacked Moscow on Friday reject this narrative.
High school students visit seawalls in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Thursday during a weeklong tour of areas hit by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in the prefecture.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 26, 2024

Students from wildfire-struck Hawaii learn about disaster recovery in Miyagi

The students visited four municipalities in Miyagi Prefecture to study their efforts to rebuild following the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami.
Afghan evacuees arrive at Narita International Airport in October 2021. Applicants from Afghanistan made up the majority of those recognized as refugees by the Japanese government last year, similar to 2022.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 26, 2024

Japan granted refugee status to record 303 asylum-seekers in 2023

While this is a jump from the 202 people in 2022 and a new record high, the number is still considerably lower when compared with Western countries.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 26, 2024

Same-sex partners should get spousal survivor benefits, Supreme Court rules

It is the first time the Supreme Court has reached a judgment on survivors benefits for crime victims who have same-sex partners.
Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at the China Development Forum 2024 in Beijing on Sunday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 26, 2024

Western business leaders help China challenge economic slump fears

Global executives are keen to show interest in participating in China's giant market despite deepening political tensions and moves to favor local firms.
Kim Yo Jong, who serves as a top adviser to her brother, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said Tuesday that Pyongyang had ruled out holding a leaders' summit with Japan.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 26, 2024

North Korea rules out summit with Japan and rejects more talks

The sister of leader Kim Jong Un said that a meeting was not of interest to the North, alluding to Tokyo's unyielding stance on the abductions issue.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 26, 2024

Unification Church fined for not answering government questions

The Tokyo District Court ordered the group to pay a fine of ¥100,000 for its refusal to answer some questions put to it by the culture ministry.
Diapers for adults are displayed at an event in Tokyo in March 2018. The number of births in Japan dropped to a new low in 2023, with more than twice as many deaths as new babies.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 26, 2024

Plunging births push Japanese diaper maker to switch to adult market

Japan has the world's oldest population after Monaco, and the market for adult diapers is "expected to grow domestically."
A supporter of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds a sign in London on Tuesday. Assange's many supporters hail him as an anti-establishment hero who is being persecuted for exposing U.S. wrongdoing and alleged war crimes.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 26, 2024

Julian Assange wins temporary reprieve from extradition to U.S.

U.S. prosecutors are seeking to put Assange on trial under the Espionage Act over WikiLeaks' high-profile release of confidential U.S. records.
The meeting between Japanese Ambassador to China Kenji Kanasugi and a Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma who has been detained by Chinese authorities on suspicion of espionage lasted about 30 minutes.
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2024

Japan's envoy to China meets detained Astellas worker

The meeting was held in Beijing for about 30 minutes. The man had no particular health problems, according to the sources.
Ukraine forward Artem Dovbyk (11) and midfielder Oleksandr Zinchenko celebrate after the team secured its berth in Euro 2024 with a win over Iceland, in Wroclaw, Poland, on Tuesday.
SOCCER
Mar 27, 2024

Mykhailo Mudryk sends war-torn Ukraine to Euro 2024

"I am very proud to be a Ukrainian, to be of the same blood as those who are now giving their lives for our freedom," captain Oleksandr Zinchenko said.
Saudi Arabia fans cheer on the national team during a World Cup qualifying match in Riyadh on March 21.
SOCCER / World cup
Mar 27, 2024

Ten years from home World Cup, Saudi Arabia sizes up 'huge challenge'

As the only bidder, Saudi Arabia was anointed host of the 2034 World Cup last October by FIFA.
At least 139 people were killed when gunmen in camouflage stormed Crocus City Hall. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the mass shooting.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 27, 2024

Russia's security chief accuses Ukraine, U.S. and U.K. of being behind Moscow shooting

Hardliners in Moscow could use the claim to justify an escalation of the Ukraine war and to explain how security services failed to prevent the attack.
Japanese chocolatier Yasushi Sasaki holds a box of chocolates in his workshop in the Brussels commune of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 27, 2024

A Japanese 'flavor wizard' conquers the homeland of chocolate

Yasushi Sasaki has been named Brussels' chocolatier of the year by the prestigious Gault & Millau food guide.
The Dali cargo vessel that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse in Baltimore, Maryland, on Tuesday
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2024

Baltimore’s freak bridge collapse reverberates from cars to coal

The aftermath of the bridge’s collapse throws another spotlight on the fragile nature of global supply chains.
Hiker missing in Hokkaido after bear attack found dead
The Rausu mountain range at Hokkaido's Shiretoko National Park. A man in his 20s who went missing after being attacked by a bear while hiking on Mount Rausu has been found dead.
As Japan marks 80 years since WWII surrender, Ishiba expresses remorse
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba lays a flower during the memorial service at the Nippon Budokan on Friday.
Trump shifts stance on road to Ukraine peace after meeting Putin in Alaska
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on next to Russian leader Vladimir Putin during a news conference following their meeting to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers
Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
War must never be repeated, says WWII guerrilla commander
Former teacher Satoshi Ito speaks during an interview in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, in June. Ito underwent training for guerrilla warfare at a secret school to prepare for a possible battle in mainland Japan during World War II.
In preserving Japanese hospitality, ‘details are everything’
Beniya Mukayu, a traditional "ryokan" inn located in Ishikawa Prefecture, considers itself at "the heart of onsen towns, local residents, farmers, fishermen, sake brewers and artisans" — all of which need new, sustainable methods of serving visitors to survive into the future.
A seaside hotel built on competitive Japanese cycling
In a region more associated with art, Keirin Hotel 10 takes a decidedly more athletic approach to attracting tourists.
Reading the Japanese clock: Are times a-changin'?
People walk past a time board at Hakata Station in Fukuoka. Luckily for those trying to catch a train, reading a clock is universal.
The indelible memory of being a part of Unit 731
Hideo Shimizu, 95, says he cannot forget seeing the prisoners' bloody wills scribbled on the walls of prison cells at Unit 731 in 1945.
Recent deaths of Japanese boxers underline importance of emergency action plans
The Japan Boxing Commission's safety protocols have been thrust into the spotlight following the deaths of Shigetoshi Kotari and Hiromasa Urakawa, who suffered fatal brain injuries while fighting on the same card on Aug. 2.

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers
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