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JAPAN
Jun 3, 2022

Skin rash more common in women after Moderna shot, Japan study finds

Swelling, pain and/or itchiness of the arm that received the vaccine was also more common among people in their 30s through 60s.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 3, 2022

Seven to see at this year’s Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia

The short film festival celebrates the briefest of screen gems. Festival winners not only get the respect of their peers but a shot at an Oscar as well.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jun 3, 2022

Looking to make an escape in Japanese? You'll need to know your kanji.

As the war in Ukraine looks far from over, there is no shortage of discussions on how to “get out” of such a dangerous situation. Here's a closer look at some escape-related terms.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / Vocabulary Boost
Jun 3, 2022

Returning a pencil, returning to work and the return of Okinawa

Last month marked the 50th anniversary of the return of Okinawa to Japanese control. But the word used for 'return' in this case wasn't the same as what you'd use to 'return' a pencil.
BUSINESS
Jun 3, 2022

Japan passes stablecoin bill that enshrines investor protection

Stablecoins must be linked to the yen or another legal tender and guarantee holders the right to redeem them at face value.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 3, 2022

Biden says 'Enough!' on gun violence and urges Congress to act

The president called for a number of measures historically opposed by Republicans in Congress, including banning the sale of assault weapons.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 3, 2022

Hideki Matsuyama disqualified from Memorial over equipment violation

The PGA's senior tournament director Steve Rintoul said images of the club were posted online and his team only learned of them after Matsuyama used it on the first tee.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 3, 2022

Beaming Queen Elizabeth waves to jubilee crowds, but will miss Friday service

The 96-year-old monarch appeared alongside her family, but the palace later said she had experienced a recurrence of mobility problems and some discomfort.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 3, 2022

China COVID victory claim undermined by arrests and sudden closures

Continued lockdowns for some Shanghai residents have resulted in conflicts with police, while a flash shutdown of a luxury shopping mall trapped shoppers and staff inside.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 3, 2022

As war rages into its 100th day, Russia now controls a fifth of Ukraine

Though battered, depleted and repulsed from their initial drive to capture the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Russian troops have used their superior artillery power to make new gains.
Japan Times
LIFE / EVENTS AND INFORMATION
Jun 3, 2022

Step back into the world of ‘Tokyo Vice’

Based on a memoir of the same name by Jake Adelstein, one of the first foreign journalists to work for a major Japanese newspaper, “Tokyo Vice” is a Japanese-American crime drama about Tokyo’s underworld set in 1999. Though not so distant, it’s a world that many living here today might not recognize....
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
LIFE / Style & Design / Longform
May 4, 2024

The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces

Once an exotic curiosity, Japanese gardens have gone on to inspire green thumbs around the world.
Palestinian group Hamas' top leader, Ismail Haniyeh, speaks during a news conference in Tehran on March 26.
WORLD / Politics
May 4, 2024

Hamas says delegation heading to Cairo for truce talks

Mediators have been waiting for a Hamas response to a proposal to halt the fighting for 40 days and exchange hostages for Palestinian prisoners.
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
WORLD / Politics
May 4, 2024

G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine

The plan is being discussed among the Group of Seven nations, with the U.S. pushing to have an agreement when G7 leaders meet in Italy in June.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the United Steelworkers Union headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 17. Biden made clear that he does not want the proposed takeover of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel to happen.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 4, 2024

Political furor over Nippon Steel's U.S. Steel bid puts investment panel in spotlight

Backlash over the deal has echoes of the 1980s when Nippon Steel tried and failed to buy another American metal company.
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers
BUSINESS / Economy
May 4, 2024

Ex-U.S. Treasury chief says currency interventions fail even at Japan’s scale

Policymakers likely spent some ¥9 trillion this week, an analysis of Bank of Japan accounts shows.
Shunichi Suzuki, Japan's finance minister
BUSINESS / Markets
May 4, 2024

Japan’s finance minister keeps traders guessing on yen intervention

The comments came days after Japanese authorities apparently entered the market to support the yen on two occasions this week.
A Long March 5 rocket, carrying the Chang'e-6 mission lunar probe, lifts off as it rains at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China's Hainan Province on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
May 4, 2024

China launches first probe to collect samples from far side of moon

Hundreds of onlookers gathered nearby to witness the latest leap for China's decadeslong space program.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference at WHO headquarters in Geneva in July 2020.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 4, 2024

'Get this done,' WHO chief urges pandemic accord talks

World Health Organization member states have spent the last two years drafting an international accord on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
BUSINESS / Markets
May 4, 2024

Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts

Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan.
Superintendent Mandeep Mooker, officer-in-charge of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT), speaks at a news conference providing an update into the Hardeep Singh Nijjar homicide investigation in Surrey, British Columbia, on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 4, 2024

Indian nationals charged in murder of Canadian Sikh activist

The murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, British Columbia, last year sparked a major diplomatic clash between India and Canada.
The National Diet building in Tokyo
JAPAN / Politics
May 4, 2024

Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'

The government said it was "unfortunate that comments not based on an accurate understanding of Japan's policy were made."
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (right) and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida shake hands during a joint statement at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
May 4, 2024

Japan and Brazil vow cooperation in fighting climate change

Kishida and Lula also agreed to work together to maintain and strengthen the international order based on the rule of law.
Members of the Polish military train with the Patriot air defense system at an airport in Warsaw in February 2023.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
May 4, 2024

Missile defense successes fuel global urgency to acquire systems

Experts say the practical and political incentives of investing in the systems will be too hard to ignore — and intensify arms races.
Japan players celebrate after beating Uzbekistan in the final of the Under-23 Asian Cup in Doha on Friday.
SOCCER
May 4, 2024

Kokubo's injury time penalty save secures Under-23 Asian Cup for Japan

Kokubo dived to his right to keep out Umarali Rakhmanaliev's spot kick to give Japan its second under-23 title since 2016.
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
JAPAN
May 4, 2024

Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings

Japan fell by two places from last year, and was ranked lowest among the Group of Seven major countries.
Winning warship bid gives Japan confidence boost as Tokyo eyes more exports
Australia’s decision to select Japan's upgraded Mogami-class warship, seen in this computer-generated image, has been “well received across Japanese industry," a Defense Ministry official said.
Two Japanese nationals shot dead in Manila
Commuters cross the street through traffic in Manila.
Osaka fire kills two firefighters and leaves four injured
Firefighters work at the scene of a fire in the Dotonbori district in the city of Osaka on Monday.
Trump’s peace-deal demands leave Ukraine's Zelenskyy with only bad options
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint news conference with the European Commission president in Brussels on Sunday.
Japan watches nervously as Trump ramps up pressure on Zelenskyy
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba takes part in an online meeting focused on Ukraine, with leaders from the "coalition of the willing," a group of nations that have pledged support for Kyiv against Russian aggression, late Sunday.
Winning warship bid gives Japan confidence boost as Tokyo eyes more exports
Australia’s decision to select Japan's upgraded Mogami-class warship, seen in this computer-generated image, has been “well received across Japanese industry," a Defense Ministry official said.
In Paris, chefs Chizuko Kimura and Kei Kobayashi make their mark
Chef Kei Kobayashi is France's only Japanese chef with three Michelin stars.
Top MLB prospect Rintaro Sasaki is committed to doing it 'the hard way'
Rintaro Sasaki hits a home run during a game against Duke at Stanford's Sunken Diamond on March 16.
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.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

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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