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WORLD
Aug 11, 2019

Tesla electric car catches fire after hitting tow truck in Moscow

A Tesla electric car caught fire after crashing into a tow truck on a Moscow expressway late Saturday.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Aug 11, 2019

A pup gets a new name, now he needs a new home

This lovable mutt came to ARK last summer along with a number of other dogs. They were all named after the former owner, who had died, and then had numbers added on. Thus, "Pondi Two" was born.
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LIFE / Digital / ON: GAMES
Aug 11, 2019

Welcome to the Summer Games

Join the Olympic fever with Sega's official Tokyo 2020 Olympics game; Judge Eyes finally gets its release; and Arc System Works turns the Kill la Kill anime into a fighting game.
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JAPAN / Politics
Aug 11, 2019

In generational shift, Japan stands firm in feud with South Korea

When Yohei Kono made a landmark 1993 apology to the wartime "comfort women," the chief Cabinet secretary was speaking for a moderate conservative mainstream seeking to reconcile with its Asian neighbors.
EDITORIALS
Aug 11, 2019

Keep looking for ways to fight piracy websites

Government measures to crack down on online piracy of manga and anime content have failed to move forward after a series of plans and ideas discussed since last year by a panel of experts at the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry and the Cultural Affairs Agency stalled in the face of various...
WORLD
Aug 11, 2019

Saudi-led coalition moves against separatists who seized Aden

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COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 11, 2019

Flexible work style — can it be sustainable?

We see signs of what can drive a transformation of the way people work in Japan. What we need is to make these moves and developments sustainable.
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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 11, 2019

What will you be wearing when 2030 rolls around?

Silicon Valley needs to transform our closets the way it transformed our desktops.
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CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Aug 11, 2019

'Cannon Busters': Bending anime rules in all the right ways

When LeSean Thomas saw director Katsuhiro Otomo working through the night in a behind-the-scenes documentary of the anime 'Akira,' he thought: 'That's what I want to do.' Now, 20 years later, Thomas' 'Cannon Busters' is debuting on Netflix.
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JAPAN / Politics
Aug 11, 2019

Reiwa Shinsengumi chief says fledgling party ready to cooperate with other opposition forces

New political party Reiwa Shinsengumi is ready to cooperate with other parties under certain conditions for the House of Representatives election, leader Taro Yamamoto said in a recent interview.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 11, 2019

Via language, song and nature, young Taiwanese reconnecting with indigenous roots

The Truku elders of Taiwan still dream about their mountain home four decades after bulldozers tore it down — a classic symptom of trauma as community members struggle to accept their loss.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Aug 11, 2019

Chinese startup LinkSpace revs up for boom in reusable rockets

Chinese startup LinkSpace on Saturday completed its third test of a reusable rocket in five months, stepping up the pace in China's race to develop a technology key to cheap space launches in an expected global boom in satellite deployment.
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ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Aug 11, 2019

Myanmar politicians take advantage of China's junket tours

The National League for Democracy was forged in an uprising against one-party rule. Its activists spent years in jail under Myanmar's military junta. But since taking power three years ago, the party led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has found an unlikely ally — the Chinese Communist Party.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 11, 2019

British crew looks to win SailGP regatta in home waters

The notorious English weather and the home country's crew have already left their mark on SailGP's European debut even before an official race has sailed.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2019

Olympics traffic control test involving reserved coin-operated parking conducted in Tokyo

A public-private council that includes the transport ministry and the Tokyo Games organizing committee conducted a test Saturday to assess the effectiveness of making coin-operated parking lots reservation-only as one of the traffic control measures during the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2019

Japan to standardize English road signs in run-up to 2020 Tokyo Olympics

The transport ministry plans to standardize English descriptions on road signs across the country to make them easier for overseas visitors to understand in the run-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.
CARTOONS / ZERO GRAVITY
Aug 11, 2019

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Growing families are being priced out of Tokyo’s condo market, forced to choose between downtown convenience and suburban space.
Is living in central Tokyo still affordable?