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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2022

Europe is faking solidarity, and Putin knows it

As shown by a compromise on saving natural gas, the EU can't defend itself against its enemies yet.
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2022

COVID-19 tracker: Tokyo reports 29,115 new cases as infections continue to fall

The number of severe cases in the capital rose by one from Monday to 40, while the seven-day average of new infections came to 30,904 compared with 32,009 a week earlier.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 9, 2022

Taiwan accuses China of preparing for invasion as Taipei conducts own drills

Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu has accused Beijing of using U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit as a pretext for military action.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Aug 9, 2022

Women's cricket stars eye Olympic chance after Commonwealth Games

Women's cricket was on the Commonwealth Games program for the first time in Birmingham and had the spotlight to itself, with no matching men's tournament.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2022

In first, MSDF joins joint military exercise simulating 'threat to Japan's existence'

Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi revealed that the Izumo — one of the MSDF's two de facto aircraft carriers — and the Takanami destroyer took part in the RIMPAC drill.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 9, 2022

Why India produces twice as many female airline pilots as the U.S.

Some of the answers may offer lessons for other countries and sectors striving to get more women into their ranks.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 9, 2022

Japanese merchants’ mood takes biggest hit since winter omicron wave

A gauge of sentiment among store managers, taxi drivers and others who deal directly with Japanese consumers slid 9.1 points to 43.8 last month.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health / FOCUS
Aug 9, 2022

Monkeypox cases driven 'underground' by anti-gay stigma in India

In parts of the world where LGBTQ people face stigma and bias, patients are reluctant to seek testing or treatment for a disease that has recently afflicted gay and bisexual men.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 9, 2022

Biden gets big economic win as inflation threatens legacy

The success of the Inflation Reduction Act will give Democrats a rallying cry for midterm elections.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Aug 9, 2022

Real Madrid motivated ahead of Super Cup clash with Frankfurt

Real coach Carlo Ancelotti sees echoes of his team's fighting spirit in underdog opponent Frankfurt, and is aware that his players should not take last season's Europa League winner lightly.
Ukrainian evacuees arrive at Tokyo's Haneda Airport in April 2022.
JAPAN / Society
Feb 24, 2024

90% of Ukrainian evacuees in Japan unwilling to return home

According to the survey of 153 Ukrainian evacuees last month, only 16, or 10.5%, said they would return home immediately if a cease-fire is reached.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Jerusalem on Feb. 18.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 24, 2024

Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu issues first plan for postwar Gaza

The proposal, which calls for indefinite Israeli military control and buffer zones in the territory, was rejected by Palestinians.
Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus holds a model of the Odysseus lunar lander to show its position on the side, during a news conference at Johnson Space Center in Houston on Friday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 24, 2024

Moon lander tipped sideways on lunar surface but 'alive and well'

The moon lander dubbed Odysseus is is resting on its side a day after its touchdown as the first private spacecraft ever to reach the lunar surface.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to the media about sanctions against Russia, following his meeting with late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s widow and daughter in San Francisco on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 24, 2024

U.S. targets Russia with hundreds of sanctions over Ukraine war and Navalny death

The measures targeted Russia's Mir payment system, financial institutions and its military industrial base, as well as other areas.
The mother of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Lyudmila Navalnaya, delivers a video address in Salekhard, in the Russia's Yamal-Nenets region, in this image taken from video released Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 24, 2024

Russia threatening to bury Navalny on prison grounds, team says

Several leading Russian cultural figures and activists have called on authorities to release the opposition leader's body to his mother.
Jeff Bezos — the world’s second-richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Ranking — is investing in a business that’s developing human-like robots.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 24, 2024

Bezos and Nvidia join OpenAI in funding humanoid robot startup

The startup Figure AI is raising about $675 million in a funding round that carries a pre-money valuation of roughly $2 billion.
According to the latest data, new COVID-19 cases reported in the week to Feb. 11 stood at 13.75 per institution.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 24, 2024

Number of COVID-19 and flu cases remain high in Japan

Per-institution new flu cases in Japan came to 23.93 in the week to Feb. 11, up for the fifth straight week.
A symbolic illumination called "Ray of Memory" is seen over the graves of Ukrainian soldiers who died in the war with Russia, at Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 24, 2024

Ukraine on the defensive as Russia war enters third year

On Friday, more than 50 countries, including Japan and the United States, issued a joint statement blasting Russia for the invasion.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 24, 2024

Kishida pledges to expand aid to Noto quake areas

The prime minister apparently intends to reflect firsthand opinions in the government's restoration and reconstruction support measures.
Vocalist Adam Lambert (center) and original Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor hit Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo and Tokyo for the final leg of their marathon Rhapsody Tour.
CULTURE
Feb 24, 2024

Queen wraps marathon Rhapsody Tour in Japan

The final leg of the global tour hit four Japanese cities, providing fans with an appropriately grandiose send-off from the rockers on Valentine's Day.
Padres starter Yu Darvish throws during a spring training workout in Peoria, Arizona, on Feb. 13.
BASEBALL / MLB
Feb 24, 2024

Padres star pitcher Darvish aims to be ready for series in Seoul

The 37-year-old threw 32 pitches in a simulated inning on Friday and wants to take the mound when the Padres play the Dodgers in South Korea next month.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 24, 2024

Chip giant TSMC shifts away from hot spot Taiwan with Japan plant

The chipmaker's new plant in Kumamoto will boost the resilience of global supplies of the crucial hardware, founder Morris Chang told an opening ceremony.
SOCCER
Feb 24, 2024

Want to play in the Asian Champions League? It will cost you.

Urawa Reds reported to the FIFPro union that only the finalists would earn enough prize money to recover their costs.
For all of U.S. President Joe Biden’s talk about the sanctions, his team is still unwilling to go after revenue streams that experts argue would really cripple Russia’s economy, for fear of setting off broad shocks that could rebound on the U.S. economy.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Feb 24, 2024

U.S. sidesteps riskiest sanctions in latest move against Russia

The U.S. is concerned that the toughest measures left in Washington's arsenal risk roiling the global economy.
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
JR East cancels luxury train run over crew's boozing
East Japan Railway said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service, which was originally scheduled to depart from Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 30, after crew members were found to have been drinking alcohol on duty.
Women-only communities flourish in China
Chen Yani (right), nicknamed "Keke," eats lunch with friends and guests in a female co-living space she founded called "Keke's Imaginative Space" in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on July 14.
Demystifying the manufacturing success of China
China’s massive scale, strong education system and competitive local governance have enabled it to reach the technological frontier and dominate high-tech manufacturing despite its low per capita gross domestic product.
Infectious diseases to watch for in Japan this summer amid surge of cases
An illustration of a colony of the Bordetella pertussis bacterium that causes pertussis, or whooping cough. As of Aug. 10, there were 64,467 cases reported this year, according to the latest data from the Japan Institute for Health Security.
As farm minister, Koizumi is held ‘hostage’ by Ishiba
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi (center) attends a Lower House session on Aug. 1. Locking Koizumi into the Cabinet is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s way of turning a potential rival into a team player, according to one expert.
Big burgers and bigger ambitions for Japan's Burger King
Kazuhiro Nomura, president of BK Japan Holdings, which operates Burger King in Japan
Tokyo crowned No.1 'workation' spot
Workations were a burgeoning trend in the corporate world for years before the COVID-19 pandemic turbocharged it.
Atsushi Kitagawara’s exhibition finds poetry in architecture
The inverted cone, one of Atsushi Kitagawara’s six signature elements in architecture, is a key feature of the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection museum building.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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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.
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