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Rugby
Dec 8, 2020

SANZAAR open to hub concept for future Rugby Championships

Rugby Championship organizer SANZAAR says it is open to hosting the competition in a centralized location again after this year's edition was reduced to three teams and played entirely in Australia due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Dec 8, 2020

Study 'mushiro' and 'kaette' rather than falling behind on your Japanese

The adverbs 'mushiro' and 'kaette' indicate alternative preferences, but the difference lies in whether the alternative comes down to personal judgement.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Dec 8, 2020

Let's discuss a possible state of emergency

Yasutoshi Nishimura, the minister in charge of Japan’s coronavirus response, has cautioned the nation that a state of emergency may have to be imposed if further spread of the virus is not contained, saying the next three weeks will be “crucial” to prevent taking such strong measures.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2020

California water futures begin trading amid fear of scarcity

Water has joined gold, oil and other commodities traded on Wall Street, highlighting worries that the life-sustaining natural resource may become scarce across more of the world.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 8, 2020

Biden chooses retired Gen. Lloyd Austin to be defense chief, report says

President-elect Joe Biden has chosen retired Gen. Lloyd Austin, who oversaw U.S. forces in the Middle East under President Barack Obama, to be his defense secretary, Politico reported on Monday, citing three people with knowledge of the decision.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Dec 7, 2020

'Shogun' Spencer Patton hits pandemic-era free agent market ready to play ball

Patton had a solid year under strange circumstances as COVID-19 forced NPB players and teams to deal with a lot as they tried to complete a season amid a pandemic.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 7, 2020

Is Hong Kong heading toward a Russian-style electoral system?

Dictators have realized that the most effective form of governance in the modern era is not an iron fist, but a birdcage with limited freedom.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Dec 7, 2020

Teenager Kaine Roberts getting chance to grow with Earthfriends

Newcomer Kaine Roberts is by far the youngest member of the Earthfriends Tokyo Z and has the chance to grow into an elite player.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attends a rally in Sao Paulo on June 29.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 16, 2025

Trump tariffs put Bolsonaro and Brazilian right in a bind 

Three people close to right-wing ex-President Jair Bolsonaro said they were stunned by Trump's latest tariff move and fear it may do more harm than good.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks at the opening ceremony of the third China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) in Beijing on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 16, 2025

U.S. says Nvidia's sales of AI chips to China are part of rare earths talks

The planned resumption is a reversal of an export restriction imposed in April that is designed to keep the most advanced AI chips out of Chinese hands.
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son (left) with OpenAI chief Sam Altman via video link
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 16, 2025

Masayoshi Son and Sam Altman see no end to AI demand and scaling

The two business partners argued that advancing AI would lead to new jobs that are not yet imagined, and the advancement of robotics will help kickstart a "self-improvement” loop.
A driverless car by Apollo Go, Baidu's robotaxi service, drives on a road in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on July 19, 2024.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 16, 2025

Uber teams up with China’s Baidu on global robotaxi rollout

Baidu’s autonomous vehicles will be available on the Uber app in Asia and the Middle East later this year, the companies said in a statement Tuesday.
Astellas Pharma's headquarters in Tokyo
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 16, 2025

Chinese court jails Japanese executive after sudden detention for spying

The convicted man, an executive of Japanese drugmaker Astellas Pharma, was detained in March 2023 and charged with espionage in October of that year.
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou during a news conference to present a major public finance recovery plan in Paris on Tuesday
WORLD / Politics
Jul 16, 2025

France's PM wants to scrap two public holidays to help fix government finances

"Everyone will have to contribute to the effort," Francois Bayrou said in a two-hour news conference, warning that public debt was a "mortal danger" for France.
A survey by Tokyo-based nonprofit Good Neighbors Japan showed that the number of respondents saying that their children eat two meals or fewer a day during holidays was about 2.5 times higher than during the school term, at 32.2%.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2025

More kids going hungry during school holidays as food costs soar, survey finds

Rising food and utility prices are placing additional pressures on families already struggling to make ends meet.
Kyle Schwarber of the Philadelphia Phillies celebrates with his teammates after the National League won a swing-off tiebreaker over the American League on Tuesday in the MLB All-Star Game.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 16, 2025

NL takes MLB All-Star Game in first tiebreaker swing-off

Shohei Ohtani had a hit in two at-bats for an NL team that jumped out to an early lead before hanging on for a win in a unique tiebreaker.
A man holds Nazi-related material after crates containing them were rediscovered at the Supreme Court in Buenos Aires in this picture released on May 11.
WORLD
Jul 16, 2025

A Nazi document trove raises questions for Argentina

A dozen boxes of Nazi documents were recently discovered in a basement archive of Argentina's Supreme Court.
Palestinian children stand in line for food distributed by a charity kitchen at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
WORLD
Jul 16, 2025

One in 10 children in its clinics are malnourished, U.N. Palestinian refugee agency says

More than 5,800 children have been diagnosed with malnutrition in Gaza, including more than 1,000 children with severe, acute malnutrition.
Tokyo ranks among the world's top tech talent hubs alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to Colliers' newly released global tech markets report.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 16, 2025

Tokyo emerges as a top market for global tech talent

As the search for tech talent intensifies, companies are deciding to invest more in regions that offer “more abundant and affordable tech talent.”
Soldiers stand during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to a military training area to find out about the training of Ukrainian soldiers on the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system, in Germany in June last year.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 16, 2025

Ukraine celebrates Trump's weapons reversal, but the 'devil's in the details'

U.S. President Donald Trump has finally found a way to like arming Ukraine: ask European allies to donate their weapons, and sell them American replacements.
Muneo Suzuki speaks in Sapporo on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 16, 2025

Prodigal Hokkaido son returns to campaign trail for last run in Upper House election

Muneo Suzuki's personality and past actions make him a divisive political figure, but he's teaming up with the Liberal Democratic Party for one final run.
Adam Silver, commissioner of the NBA, at a conference earlier this month.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Jul 16, 2025

Silver says NBA to study possible expansion beyond 30 teams

The NBA Board of Governors meeting in Las Vegas on Tuesday marked the first time team owners officially discussed expanding the league beyond 30 teams.
A drone view shows turf from Derryrush bog left out to dry after being harvested from the blanket bog in Derryrush, Ireland, in April 2024. Ireland's bogs were formed over thousands of years as decaying plants formed a thick layer of peat in wetland areas.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Jul 16, 2025

World risks up to $39 trillion in losses from vanishing wetlands: report

Some 22% of wetlands, both freshwater systems and coastal marine systems, have disappeared since 1970, the report says.

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"Shake hands with Lima-chan," a statue that shares the name of the Peruvian capital looks in the direction of Peru, where a sister statue, "Sakura-chan," is located. Erected in Yokohama's Rinko Park in 1999, it commemorates Peruvian-Japanese friendship.
The journey of Peru’s Nikkei: Finding identity in Japan