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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 23, 2022

Porsche car carrier fire drags on days after crew left ship

Thousands of Porsches, Lamborghinis and other Volkswagen vehicles were being transported by the vessel, with their worth estimated to be roughly $155 million.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 23, 2022

Russia and the specter of a permanent Ukraine crisis

The relatively small step Putin took is not a sign of weakness nor the end of the Ukraine crisis. It's the strongest move he could have made in the conspiratorial, hostile world he inhabits.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 23, 2022

World should send 60 million COVID-19 vaccines to North Korea, U.N. investigator says

The shots could be a way to persuade the country to ease lockdowns that have left some of its 26 million people on the verge of starvation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 23, 2022

Climate forecasters warn of a ‘global wildfire crisis’

The likelihood of extreme, catastrophic fires could increase by up to one-third by 2050 and up to 52% by 2100, a new United Nations report estimates.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Feb 23, 2022

Putin moves on Donbas but signals deeper designs on Ukraine

The Russian leader has shifted the crisis into a new, more dangerous phase, suggesting his ultimate aims go far deeper than extending Moscow's sway over two struggling separatist regions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 23, 2022

In an ‘age of pandemics,’ pathogen-sharing can't be optional

No one country should be free to hold essential data and pathogens hostage in the name of securing their own benefit at the cost of global public health.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 23, 2022

Under pressure at home, Japan's agricultural lender pulls back from global investing

Norinchukin Bank was at one point the biggest buyer of a structured product known as collateralized loan obligations, drawing the ire of politicians and regulators.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 23, 2022

How a Saudi woman's iPhone revealed hacking around the world

An unusual error in spyware made by NSO allowed researchers to discover a trove of evidence suggesting the Israeli spyware-maker had helped hack the activist's smartphone.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 23, 2022

How to get hired if you're an older worker

The median retirement account balance for older workers in the age of COVID-19 is $15,000, which means it's likely many of those workers are looking to jump right back into the labor pool.
Japan Times
Feb 23, 2022

“ 田人馬 TA-ZIN-BA White” Sake Wins Silver Medal at the The International Wine Challenge (IWC)

Tsunan Sake Brewery recognized for brewing excellence at world's most prestigious blind tasting boards competition.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 23, 2022

Taiwan casts wary eye at China amid Ukraine crisis

While Taipei is always on alert, there have been no unusual maneuvers by Chinese forces in recent days, officials say.
President Shinji Kaneko (left) and other executives of Keikyu Department Store bow in apology during a news conference in Yokohama on Monday.
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2024

Grilled eel leaves one dead and 140 sick in Japan

The products included eel cooked in the traditional kabayaki style
Bronze medalists Kazuma Tomoto, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Yoshiaki Oiwa and Ryuzo Kitajima celebrate on the podium with their medals Monday in Versailles.
OLYMPICS
Jul 30, 2024

Japan earns first equestrian medal in 92 years

The last time Japan won an equestrian medal was in the 1932 Los Angeles Games, when Col. Takeichi Nishi won gold.
Japan's Ryuju Nagayama (right) refuses to shake hands with Spain's Francisco Garrigos after a controversial decision in their under-60 kg quarterfinal bout at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.
OLYMPICS / Judo
Jul 30, 2024

What’s in a handshake? In Olympic judo, quite a lot

In a sport that emphasizes respect, Japanese judo star Ryuji Nagayama made headlines after refusing to shake his opponent's hand after a controversial bout.
Genetic profiling performed in more than 8,000 patients with Parkinson's disease showed 13% had a genetic form of the progressive brain disorder.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 30, 2024

Genetic testing suggested for Parkinson's patients after gene mutation study

Genetic profiling performed in more than 8,000 patients with Parkinson's disease showed 13% had a genetic form of the progressive brain disorder.
Harley-Davidson motorcycles on display in Tokyo. Japan's antitrust watchdog has raided the manufacturer's Japan unit for allegedly imposing excessive sales quotas on its dealers.
JAPAN
Jul 30, 2024

Harley-Davidson's Japan unit raided after quotas force dealers into hardship

The motorcycle manufacturer's unit in Tokyo is also suspected of having dealers buy Harley-Davidson models that they did not want.
Rescue workers help residents move to a safer location after multiple landslides in India's southern state of Kerala on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 30, 2024

Landslide death toll in India's Kerala jumps to at least 41

India's southern Kerala state is prone to heavy rain and flooding.
Upper House lawmaker Muneo Suzuki speaks to reporters in Moscow on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 30, 2024

Pro-Moscow lawmaker Muneo Suzuki visits Russia again

The Upper House member defied the central government by flying to Moscow for talks with senior Russian officials.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris might maintain some of the economic policies of former President Donald Trump.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Jul 30, 2024

A President Harris might be decidedly Trumpy in approach to Asia trade

The efforts to contain China economically is a common theme that is likely to be maintained after the election.
China's President Xi Jinping (right) walks with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for a meeting in Beijing on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 30, 2024

Meloni touts China as a ‘key player’ in the Ukraine peace process

The Italian leader’s charm offensive in China comes just months after her abandonment of China's flagship investment pact threatened to derail bilateral ties.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (left), U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (second from left), Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo (second from right), and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro pose for a photo ahead of the allies' "two-plus-two" meeting at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City, Metro Manila, on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jul 30, 2024

Philippines gets 'unprecedented' aid — and reassurances — during talks with U.S.

Manila will receive $500 million in security assistance, months before the U.S. votes in a contentious presidential election.
A man bangs a cooking pot during a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government in Valencia, Carabobo state, Venezuela on Monday, the day after the Venezuelan presidential election.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 30, 2024

Vote tallies show proof of election fraud, says Venezuela’s opposition

Thousands of Venezuelans have taken to the streets of Caracas to protest what they say is President Nicolas Maduro’s fraudulent win.
Upper House lawmaker Megumi Hirose enters her house in Tokyo after it was raided on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 30, 2024

Tokyo prosecutors raid LDP lawmaker's home on suspicion of salary fraud

Megumi Hirose, 58, is suspected of providing one of her secretaries with a state-paid salary even though they reportedly did no real work.
Technicians assemble a component of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the CERN nuclear research facility in Cessy, France, in March 2007. International cooperation in science is essential for solving global challenges and maintaining innovation.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 30, 2024

Geopolitics threatens science and societal progress

In this world, the prospect of greater controls or reduced international cooperation can only be damaging.
Demonstrators march in Valencia, Venezuela, on Monday, a day after the Venezuelan presidential election. Protests erupted in parts of Caracas and elsewhere against the re-election victory claimed by President Nicolas Maduro.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 30, 2024

Venezuela needs its neighbors’ help more than ever

Maduro was never going to accept defeat and the idea he would quietly exit the presidential palace was always wishful thinking.
As of March 2023, there were 86 medicines that had been approved in Europe or the United States but remained unavailable in Japan.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jul 30, 2024

Japan unveils plan to improve access to foreign drugs

The road map to address what is known as "drug loss" envisions that development of in-demand medicines will start by April 2026.
‘Confugenics’ and East Asia's demographic crisis
East Asia’s fertility plunge is driven not just by financial costs but by perfectionist cultural expectations that burden parents with intense educational and social demands.
Japan prince comes of age as succession crisis looms
Prince Hisahito concludes his his elaborate "kakan no gi" coming-of-age ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday.
Bangladesh is a South Asian time bomb
Many Bangladeshis hoped that the overthrow of long-time leader Sheikh Hasina last year would revitalize the country’s democracy after an authoritarian lurch under the “iron lady.” Instead it has led to proliferating human-rights abuses, intensifying repression and widespread Islamist violence.
Japan to experience blood moon lunar eclipse on Monday
A blood moon is seen during a partial eclipse in the sky over Lake George near Canberra on March 14.
Japan's $550 billion investment pledge outlined in MOU
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, sign trade agreements on Thursday in Washington.
London’s calling and sumo’s top division — along with Hello Kitty — are ready to answer
Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Hello Kitty, an ambassador for sumo's upcoming tour to London, at Tokyo's Kokugikan on Tuesday
Resonac creates 27-member consortium to pursue advanced chip developments
Representatives from member companies of JOINT3, a consortium working together on semiconductor-related developments announced by Resonac, pose for a photo in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Haru Nemuri’s radical new album refuses easy listening
Musician Haruna Kimishima, better known as Haru Nemuri, confronts Japan’s politics, nationalism and censorship on her recent output.
Overseas sluggers step up to bat in small-town Hokkaido
The Betsukai Pilot Spirits welcomed new players (left to right) Yuta Yamanaka, Roman Guthrie, Scott Bellina and Leo Jiminian this year, pictured here with Yassir Lachkar of the Ishikari Red Phoenix.
Xi — joined by Kim and Putin — delivers stark warning at military parade
Chinese leader Xi Jinping walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing on Wednesday.

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

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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