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Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 16, 2022

Texas synagogue hostages freed, gunman dead after standoff

All hostages held by a gunman at a synagogue in Texas have been freed after a standoff that ended in the death of their captor.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jan 16, 2022

Josh Allen throws five touchdowns as Bills maul Patriots

Buffalo became the first playoff team since at least 1950 to not punt or attempt a field goal and go the full game without a turnover.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 16, 2022

Investors search for safe havens as omicron takes hold in Asia

The threat of the omicron variant is becoming real for many of Asia’s biggest countries just as it looks set to subside in some Western nations, and that’s complicating investors’ search for winning share bets in the region.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jan 16, 2022

Sevilla derby abandoned after Sevilla player hit by pole

Video replays showed a pole-shaped object hitting Jordan on the head moments after Nabil Fekir had equalized for host Real Betis to draw the last-16 tie level at 1-1.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 16, 2022

The decades of discoveries before the ‘miraculous’ sprint to a vaccine

The breakthroughs behind the vaccines unfolded over decades, little by little, as scientists across the world pursued research in disparate areas.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 16, 2022

Former French justice minister jumps into crowded presidential race

Christiane Taubira, who served as justice minister in the last Socialist government, formally announced her intention to run for French president in an already crowded race.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jan 16, 2022

Biden’s bad winter gets worse with inflation, virus and Russia

U.S. President Joe Biden entered the new year with his signature economic plan stalled, inflation at 40-year highs and Russia threatening war in Ukraine.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 16, 2022

‘Kofu II’: Meitei’s sonic landscapes conjure the Japan of yesteryear with Edo aesthetics

Meitei has come a long way from the chilly, ambient flavors of his 2019 album “Komachi.” That offering, released on Berlin label Metron Records, left us with a headful of fragile soundscapes and nature-inspired sculptures — much of it born of a ghostly lo-fi world.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Jan 16, 2022

A tragic narrative for women persists even as times change

A Heian Period text reads, 'Ladies must often depend on men who are nothing to them — it is the way of the world.' In Japanese literature, not much has changed.
McLaren driver Lando Norris during the Italian Formula One Grand Prix in Monza, Italy, on Sunday
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Sep 2, 2024

McLaren boss says both F1 titles now on and orders may follow

McLaren is only eight points behind Red Bull in the constructors' standings.
Job seekers crowd a job fair at Liberation Square in Shijiazhuang, China, in 2018.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Sep 2, 2024

New unproductive forces: the Chinese youth owning their unemployment

Urban youth unemployment for the roughly 100 million Chinese aged 16-24 spiked to 17.1% in July, a figure analysts say masks millions of rural unemployed.
Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah crosses the ball during an English Premier League away fixture against Manchester United on Sunday.
SOCCER
Sep 2, 2024

Salah says current season will be last at Liverpool

The Egyptian helped Liverpool administer an emphatic 3-0 victory over Manchester United on Sunday.
A Ukrainian firefighter works to extinguish a burning car after what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian missile strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Sunday.
WORLD
Sep 2, 2024

Russia strikes Kharkiv following Ukraine's mass drone attack

Russia said Kyiv had launched one of the biggest drone attacks against it since the full-scale war began.
Factory activity in China contracted for a fourth straight month in August, with subindexes showing deepening deflationary pressures.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 2, 2024

China faces calls for stimulus as growth engines stall amid property woes

Factory activity contracted for a fourth month in August, with subindexes showing deflationary pressures and latest sales figures showing a worsening residential slump.
PRESS
Sep 3, 2024

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Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te speaks to veterans during the 66th anniversary of the Kinmen artillery battle in Kinmen, Taiwan, on Aug. 23. In an interview with local media broadcast on Sunday, Lai said that it is not for the sake of territorial integrity that China wants to annex Taiwan.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 2, 2024

If China wants Taiwan, it should also take back land from Russia, Lai says

The Taiwanese president referenced the 1858 Treaty of Aigun in which China signed over a vast tract of land in what is now Russia's far east to the Russian empire.
Tongan dancers performing a traditional dance at the closing ceremony of the 53rd Pacific Island Forum leaders' meeting in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, on Friday. Taiwan said it signed a pact with the forum's secretariat on Friday that will see it continue its support for the strategically important region until 2027.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 2, 2024

Taiwan staves off exclusion with Pacific island cooperation pact

The signing of the pact will see the self-ruled island continue its support for the Pacific islands until 2027.
An abandoned house in Urayama, Saitama Prefecture. Buying an <i>akiya</i>, which means empty house in Japanese, can be a rewarding experience that yields a unique space and a livable home, competitively priced. Or it could turn out to be a money pit.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 2, 2024

First lesson of Japan’s akiya gold rush: No such thing as a free house.

Renovations are usually the most expensive part of the journey and the laundry list of what needs to be done is long and tends to get longer after the process starts.
Cows graze in a field near the Green Bank Telescope, a 100-meter fully steerable radio telescope, at the Green Bank Observatory in the U.S. National Radio Quiet Zone in Green Bank, West Virginia, on May 20.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 2, 2024

Inside the 'golden age' of alien hunting at the Green Bank Telescope

If intelligent life exists out there, there's a good chance the teams at the world's largest fully steerable radio astronomy facility will be the first to know.
Naoya Inoue (left) and TJ Doheny pose after the official weigh-in ahead of their boxing super-bantamweight title fight in Yokohama, on Monday.
MORE SPORTS / Boxing
Sep 2, 2024

Unbeaten 'Monster' Inoue still feels pressure ahead of Doheny clash

Inoue is stepping into the ring for the first time since he stopped Mexico's Luis Nery in front of 55,000 fans at the Tokyo Dome in May.
The X account of Elon Musk in seen blocked on a mobile screen on Saturday after Brazil's telecommunications regulator suspended access to the X social network in the country to comply with an order from a judge who has been locked in a monthslong feud with the billionaire.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 2, 2024

Musk’s Starlink defies order to block X in Brazil

The move illustrates the sheer power of the billionaire and his business empire and how he leverages it to confront authorities and challenge laws he does not like.
Keisuke Yoshida, 42, is accused of killing his wife by poisoning her with methanol at their home in Tokyo’s Ota Ward between Jan. 14 and 15 in 2022.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 2, 2024

Ex-employee of Daiichi Sankyo denies poisoning his wife with methanol

Keisuke Yoshida, formerly a senior researcher at the pharmaceutical firm, said he had never thought of killing his wife.
Concern about the yen strengthening might limit the Bank of Japan's room for maneuver.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 2, 2024

Yen calling the shots as BOJ mulls rate increase

Analysts are concerned that the BOJ is at risk of going too far with its rate hikes and that the currency is close to being too strong.
A Samsung high-bandwidth memory chip. South Korea is among a handful of semiconductor powerhouses that face a potential U.S. ban on exports to China of state-of-the-art chips, including high-bandwidth memory, used to train artificial intelligence.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 2, 2024

South Korea wants U.S. ‘carrots’ for embracing China chip curbs

South Korean trade minister says incentives ‘would help U.S. policy be embraced more easily.’
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.
Tropical Storm Peipah brings heavy rain to parts of western Japan
Tropical Storm Peipah made landfall in western Japan on Friday, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue warnings of landslides and other disasters due to heavy rainfall in several areas.
Trump signs order reducing tariffs on Japanese autos
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, shake hands.
Tamagotchi hatches 100 million shipments worldwide thanks to ’90s nostalgia
The latest version of Tamagotchi, called Tamagotchi Paradise, is awarded the best digital toy at Tokyo Toy Show on Aug. 28.
Japan alerting consumers to cash-on-delivery problems
In fiscal 2024 through March this year, the National Consumers Affairs Center received inquiries and gave advice on problems associated with cash-on-delivery services.
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.

Podcast

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

Longform

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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