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BUSINESS
Sep 21, 2022

BOJ’s Kuroda set to risk further yen weakening after Fed decision

A key focus of a BOJ meeting ending Thursday will be if it changes its forward guidance, as it's widely expected to end its COVID funding program.
Japan Times
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Sep 21, 2022

Record five Asian players at Presidents Cup a sign of golf's growth

Hideki Matsuyama, the 2021 Masters champion, has been joined by four South Korean players in the International team at Quail Hollow.
Japan Times
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Sep 21, 2022

Monaco gets three-year extension as F1 sets record 24-race calendar

FIA announced approval of the calendar on Tuesday, with the Las Vegas Strip circuit taking a Nov. 18 date as the season's penultimate round and third in the United States.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 21, 2022

U.S. judge asks Trump's lawyers if he declassified records in FBI search

Roughly 100 of the documents seized in the court-approved Aug. 8 search at Trump's home at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach had classified markings.
Japan Times
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Sep 21, 2022

Zdeno Chara retires after 24 seasons

Two years after winning the Norris Trophy for the best defenseman in the 2008-09 season, the Slovakian helped the Bruins win their only Stanley Cup in the past 50 years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 21, 2022

Fed set to hike rates as central banks adopt hawkish stance not seen in decades

The danger, according to former one International Monetary Fund chief economist, is that they collectively go too far, driving the world economy into an unnecessarily harsh contraction.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 20, 2022

Giants keep up pressure in race for third with victory over Swallows

Home run leader Munetaka Murakami remained stuck on 55 after going 0-for-3.
JAPAN
Sep 20, 2022

Tokyo police's security boost underway week before Abe's funeral

The ceremony is expected to attract some 6,000 attendees, including Imperial Family members, members of the Diet, foreign dignitaries, and heads of local governments.
JAPAN
Sep 20, 2022

Sugihara Museum in Lithuania facing financial hardships

The ambassadors from Japan and other countries posted in Lithuania have sent letters to the Baltic nation's culture ministry calling for the protection of the historical heritage.
Damaged buildings following the earthquake in Jishishan county, in China:s Gansu province on Dec. 20. Many of the homes destroyed in the quake were made of earth-wood or brick-wood structures.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 25, 2023

Two still missing a week after China quake as death toll rises to 149

Many of the homes destroyed were built from an earlier era with poor defenses against earthquakes, local authorities say.
An Aladdin X staff member plays Suika Game on its home projector in Tokyo on Friday. Suika Game was originally developed for the company's line of home projectors.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 25, 2023

Suika Game: How a Japanese home projector app became a viral hit

The puzzle game has ranked No. 1 in Nintendo Switch software downloads, topping titles such as Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
Kazuhiro Araki, head of the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN), said that the issue of abductions would not be resolved unless the government put the unrecognized abductees on its official list and negotiated with North Korea.
JAPAN
Dec 25, 2023

Families seek reunion with kin possibly abducted to North Korea

Their advanced age and a lack of information about the missing cause them increasing frustrations.
JAPAN / Society
Dec 25, 2023

Japan to open nursery places to all children by fiscal 2025

At the moment, typically only children from families where both the parents are working are admitted to day care.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 25, 2023

Daihatsu halts three assembly plants over testing fraud scandal

It is unclear when the company will resume production, which is expected to be suspended until at least the end of next month.
While harsh comments from older generations can sometimes be seen as rude, consider instead that they’re often trying to teach us something they hold on to.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 26, 2023

A survival guide for your first Japanese-style at-home New Year’s

Meeting your partner’s Japanese family for the New Year’s holidays? Here are some do’s and don’ts for an ‘oshōgatsu’ success story.
Bottled and canned cocktails are predicted to be worth $21.1 billion (about ¥3 trillion) in the U.S. alone by 2027.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Dec 31, 2023

Are canned cocktails poised for a meteoric U.S. rise?

The bottled and canned cocktail market is predicted to be worth $21.1 billion (about ¥3 trillion) in the U.S. alone by 2027.
Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (23) moves the ball up court during the first half of a game against Boston Celtics in Los Angeles on Monday.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Dec 26, 2023

Celtics feast on Lakers' home court in classic NBA Christmas clash

The game between the teams that share the record for most NBA titles with 17 apiece was one of five on the Christmas Day slate.
Designated hitter and closer Shohei Ohtani (center) and catcher Yuhei Nakamura are mobbed by their Samurai Japan teammates after Ohtani struck out American slugger Mike Trout to clinch Japan’s third World Baseball Classic and first since 2009, at LoanDepot Park in Miami on March 21.
SPORTS
Dec 26, 2023

Images of 2023: Sports

For some, 2023 was a year of sweet victory, after many years of not making it to the summit. For Shohei Ohtani, it was yet another year of brilliance.
An electronic board displays various companies' share prices at a business district in Tokyo in October.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 26, 2023

Japan’s labor demand holds steady in positive sign for wages

The job-to-applicants ratio eased a tad to 1.28, meaning there were 128 jobs offered for every 100 applicants, the labor ministry reported.
A statue depicting Brazilian football legend Pele, designed by Brazilian artist Luis Costa, at Rei Pele pier in Brazil's Sao Paulo state. Friday will mark the first anniversary of the former player's death.
SOCCER
Dec 26, 2023

Pele 'would have been sad' at state of Brazil team, says son

"This crisis didn't appear overnight, there are big and complex problems," said Edinho, 53, who is one of Pele's seven children.
Sayyed Razi Mousavi, senior adviser for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
WORLD / Politics
Dec 26, 2023

Iran vows retribution after Israel kills senior general in Syria

Razi Mousavi is the most senior commander with Iran's Quds Force to have been killed outside Iran since the death of Gen. Qasem Soleimani in 2020.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny appears for his court hearing in Moscow on Jan. 28, 2021.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 26, 2023

Russia moves opposition leader Alexei Navalny to Arctic prison

Temperatures at the 'Polar Wolf' colony, one of the toughest prisons in Russia, are set to drop to around minus 28 degrees Celsius over the next week.
Nancy Mills in a photo that appears to have been taken on Amami Oshima
JAPAN / History
Dec 26, 2023

New Yorker recalls life on Amami island 70 years after reversion

Tracing her early childhood through photographs and letters, 74-year-old Nancy Mills wishes for Amami residents' happiness.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 26, 2023

Japan's SLIM precision moon lander enters lunar orbit, JAXA says

If successful, the touchdown would make Japan only the fifth country to have landed a probe on the moon, after the United States, Russia, China and India.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
WORLD / Politics
Dec 26, 2023

Civilians in Gaza navigating 'human chessboard,' says U.N. official

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue the fight against Hamas militants amid international pressure to reduce harm to civilians.

Longform

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic