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OLYMPICS
Feb 6, 2022

Swedish Olympic speed skater Van der Poel ends Dutch monopoly in men's 5,000 meter

Sweden's Nils van der Poel stormed to victory in Olympic speed skating with a record time of six minutes 08.84 seconds.
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JAPAN
Feb 6, 2022

Japan's star figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu tops Games' mascot in popularity

On Weibo, the phrase 'The time for Hanyu to compete is set' was number one by Sunday evening, with fawning fans pouring out their admiration for the 'Ice Prince.'
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WORLD / Society
Feb 6, 2022

A surging population brings risks for next host of global climate talks

Every child comes with its blessing, the Egyptian saying goes. With the country's population now soaring beyond 100 million, that adage is being put to the test like never before.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 6, 2022

Facebook’s cataclysm was a win for capitalism

Facebook fell because it's being outcompeted. TikTok, a video app that barely existed five years ago, is swooping up younger users.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 6, 2022

Is it time for plant liberation?

Plants don't have central nervous systems, nor the neurons that form the consciousness of animals, but they have dopamine and serotonin, that function like neurotransmitters.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / OBITUARY
Feb 6, 2022

Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar, 'the Nightingale,' dies at 92

Mangeshkar's voice has rung out of television sets and from movie theaters for most of independent India's three quarters of a century, making hers the defining voice of many generations.
JAPAN / Explainer
Feb 6, 2022

Volatile international oil situation takes toll on Japan’s gas prices and policy

The price at the pump reached u00a5170 per liter on Jan. 24 — the highest it's been in over 13 years.
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WORLD
Feb 6, 2022

Jammed in a cage with no escape, women suffer mining’s dark side

From South Africa's ultra-deep shafts to the vast iron ore pits of Western Australia, the message from the world's mines is overwhelming: Women are not safe.
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WORLD
Feb 6, 2022

Russian forces at 70% of level needed for full Ukraine invasion, U.S. officials say

In the event of an invasion, civilian casualties could range from 25,000 to 50,000, according to U.S. estimates.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 6, 2022

Middle Eastern flavors from Byblos and Falafelista spice up takeouts amid the latest COVID-19 wave

With the amount of new coronavirus cases once again on the rise, you may prefer to revert back to the practice of ordering food to go.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 6, 2022

North Korea grows nuclear, missiles programs, profits from cyberattacks: U.N. report

The annual report note cryptocurrency theft and the largest number of missile launches in a single month for the country's weapons programs.
Former Kobayashi Pharmaceutical President Akihiro Kobayashi (second from right) speaks during a news conference in Osaka on Aug. 8 along with President Satoshi Yamane (third from right).
JAPAN / Society
Aug 14, 2024

Kobayashi Pharma fails to report 11 more suspected deaths

The 11 cases had been classified into a wrong category in the process of sorting out the inquiries made to its call center.
People walk past a banner with a picture of late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a street in Tehran on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 14, 2024

Only Gaza cease-fire can delay Iran's Israel response, Iranian officials say

Iran, along with allies such as Hezbollah, could launch a direct attack if the Gaza talks fail or it perceives Israel is dragging out negotiations.
Ukrainian soldiers ride in armored personnel carriers near the Russian border in Sumy region, Ukraine, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Aug 14, 2024

Ukraine says it's advancing in Russia's Kursk region and hints at 'next steps'

Ukraine blindsided Moscow by pouring thousands of troops into the western Russian region of Kursk last week.
An Israeli tank near the Israel-Gaza border on July 25
WORLD / Politics
Aug 14, 2024

U.S. approves sale to Israel of $20 billion weapons package

Washington is facing mounting domestic and international criticism for its support of Israel.
Following the Paris Olympics, two swimming pools, the climbing wall and the skateboard parks are set to be dug out and moved — most of them to the poverty-stricken Seine-Saint-Denis suburb northeast of Paris.
OLYMPICS
Aug 14, 2024

Olympics infrastructure and equipment heads for 'second life' post-Games

Over decades, the world's biggest sporting event has forged a reputation for monumental waste, but Paris organizers are hoping to change that.
In the past 11 months, health minister Keizo Takemi has been charting his own path, seeking to make Japan's health care policies more global and digitalized.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 14, 2024

Global mindset crucial for reform of Japan's health care, minister says

International strategies and domestic health care reform are inextricably linked, says health minister Keizo Takemi.
Health minister Keizo Takemi fields questions from reporters in March after a Cabinet meeting to deal with health problems caused by Kobayashi Pharmaceutical's beni kōji red yeast rice supplements.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 14, 2024

Health Minister Keizo Takemi on how to improve Japan's health care system

Digitalization, hiring high-skilled foreign workers and increasing wages are among the steps that Japan could take.
Manchester City players celebrate with the trophy after winning the Community Shield over Manchester United at Wembley Stadium in London on Saturday.
SOCCER
Aug 14, 2024

Time for Manchester City's case to resolve itself, says Premier League chief

City was charged in February last year with more than 100 alleged breaches of finance rules since the club's acquisition by the Abu Dhabi-City Football Group.
Paris Saint-Germain forward Goncalo Ramos (right) celebrates with teammates after scoring in a preseason friendly against Germany's RB Leipzig on Saturday.
SOCCER
Aug 14, 2024

Ligue 1 begins post-Mbappe era further weakened after TV rights fiasco

League grapples with a loss of star power as its TV deal falls further beyond other European leagues.
Philippine Defense Minister Gilberto Teodoro (right) speaks during a joint press conference with German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius at a hotel in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines, on Aug. 4.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 14, 2024

Manila looks beyond Asia for defense support

Germany is the latest Western power to announce plans to deepen security ties with the Philippines amid Manila's escalating territorial disputes with China.
The city of Kurayoshi in Tottori Prefecture relocated privately-managed war memorials erected in various places in the city to a plot of land owned by the city.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 14, 2024

Maintaining privately built war memorials an urgent task in Japan

Of 16,235 memorials for the war dead built by members of the public, 780 were damaged, according to a welfare ministry survey.
A satellite image from Wednesday afternoon shows Tropical Storm Ampil south of Japan
JAPAN
Aug 14, 2024

Typhoon to force railway closures as it nears Kanto on Friday

The storm is expected to peak in intensity between Friday and Saturday, prompting the closure of the Tokaido Shinkansen between Tokyo and Nagoya.
JPMorgan Asset Management (Japan) President Shoichi Okoshi speaks during an interview in Tokyo in July.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 14, 2024

JPMorgan wants a 30% female exec ratio in Japan

The Japanese affiliate of U.S. financial giant JPMorgan Chase plans to adopt the threshold within several years
Naomi Osaka reaches for a ball during her loss to Elise Mertens at the WTA Tour stop in Toronto last week.
TENNIS
Aug 14, 2024

Naomi Osaka perplexed by power struggles after Cincinnati setback

The 26-year-old was beaten by Ashlyn Krueger in the second round of qualifying for the Cincinnati Open, the latest setback in a patchy run of form.
Takashi Morita, a proponent of implementing Japan's A-bomb survivors' support law overseas, died of old age at a hospital in Sao Paulo on Monday.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 14, 2024

Takashi Morita, who led efforts to help A-Bomb survivors overseas, dies at 100

Morita was exposed to radiation from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945 when he was a military police officer.

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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