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Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 13, 2022

50 million people stuck in 'modern slavery,' U.N. says

The number of people caught up in forced labor or forced marriage ballooned by 10 million between 2016 and 2021, according to a new report.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Sep 13, 2022

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has surgery on hand

Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy said at his Monday morning press conference that the team did not yet have a timeline for Prescott's return.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 13, 2022

Japan's August wholesale inflation hits 9% as price rises broaden

While recent falls in crude oil and global commodity costs took some pressure off fuel and scrap metals prices, prices rose for a broad range of items that more directly affect retailers.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 13, 2022

Cold shutdown at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant: what you need to know

The lack of external power to Europe's biggest nuclear facility had removed lines of defense guarding against a meltdown at the site, where there has been fierce fighting.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 13, 2022

BOJ could normalize policy in mid-2023, ex-board member says

Views on Japan's inflation dynamics are shifting among some experts after more than a decade of deflation and price weakness.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 13, 2022

Coal, lumber and food under threat from potential U.S. rail strike

Freight railroads and labor unions worked through the weekend to try to avoid a strike that could cost the U.S. economy more than $2 billion a day.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Sep 13, 2022

Long lines and lack of water mar Qatar World Cup stadium trial

Stadium stands were out of water by halftime and there was none outside, where the late summer temperature was 34 degrees Celsius, but felt far hotter because of the humidity.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Sep 13, 2022

Three Premier League games postponed ahead of royal funeral

English soccer's ruling body had already postponed all of last weekend's fixtures as a mark of respect to Queen Elizabeth.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 13, 2022

Japan’s top refiner is gearing up for the oil industry’s decline

Eneos Holdings has an outline for fusing operations but is still discussing which of its refineries to shutter when, the firm's president has said.
Office workers in the Central district in Hong Kong on Nov. 20
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 8, 2024

Hong Kong workers demand 6% raise to return to office fully

In a survey, 27% of people asked for a raise if their employers required them to work in the office five days a week.
In late 2023, a Chinese hacker group was blamed for an attack that compromised a Philippine government agency around the same time the two countries clashed in the South China Sea.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 8, 2024

Philippines turns to hackers amid Chinese cyberthreat

In a November report, a Chinese group known as Stately Taurus was blamed for an attack that had compromised a Philippine government agency for five days earlier in 2023.
Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster as seen from the Millennium Wheel in London
WORLD / Politics
Jan 8, 2024

China's top spy agency says it has exposed a British espionage case

The case highlights the ongoing heated exchanges the countries have traded over accusations of perceived spying.
The Yeouido financial district in Seoul
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 8, 2024

South Korea watchdog intensifies crackdown on China-linked notes

Authorities will investigate 12 institutions over the sale of equity-linked securities that are tied to the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index.
The Yangshan Deepwater Port in Shanghai. China’s manufactured goods surplus relative to global gross domestic product is now around 2%, and an estimated 45% of China’s manufacturing output is being exported as the nation’s 1.4 billion people can’t buy enough goods such as electric vehicles, ships and household appliances to meet the increased supply.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 8, 2024

Xi Jinping’s solution for China’s economy risks triggering new trade war

Manufacturing focus sets up Beijing for renewed tensions with both developed countries and emerging economies pushing to reach the lower rungs of the industrialization.
Taiwan flags adorn the streets of Taipei on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Jan 8, 2024

China's balloons inflate Taiwan poll fears

Since December, Taipei has said that mysterious balloons were crossing the Taiwan Strait, with their purpose being "gray-zone" harassment that stops short of open warfare.
Taiwanese flags at the Ministry of National Defense in Taipei in December 2022
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 8, 2024

U.S. policy unlikely to shift after Taiwan poll, ex-de facto envoy says

Any differences in Washington's reaction would be "nuanced," and rather involve "adjustments in degree than in type,” said former AIT chief Douglas H. Paal.
Members of the media take pictures of the ULA's new rocket Vulcan Centaur, which is set to make its maiden flight Monday with a payload that includes a private lunar lander, as well as the cremated remains of several people associated with the original "Star Trek" series, including creator Gene Rodenberry and cast member Nichelle Nichols, who portrayed the character Uhura.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 8, 2024

Private industry leads America's first moon landing since Apollo

A soft landing on the moon has only been accomplished by few national space agencies
French skipper Armel Le Cleac'h sails his Banque Populaire Ultim multihull (foreground) after the start of the Arkea Ultim Challenge, a solo round-the-world race on a multihull, off the coast of Brest on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 8, 2024

Around the world in 50 days? Six sailors in 'biggest challenge'

Under bright winter sunshine in the Brittany port of Brest, the first such race on superpowerful but relatively fragile trimarans got underway.
SOCCER
Jan 8, 2024

Barcelona edge brave Barbastro to reach Copa del Rey last 16

The record 31-time winners took a two-goal lead through Fermin Lopez and Raphinha, before Adria de Mesa pulled one back for the hosts.
Masaki Sato, who owns an 85-year-old property in the Akasaki district of Shika, Ishikawa Prefecture, walks in the district on Saturday after a major earthquake struck the Noto region on New Year's Day.
JAPAN / Society
Jan 8, 2024

Still standing: Unique houses survive quake in Japanese village

Despite a magnitude 7.6 quake only kilometers away, one small fishing village stood strong thanks to decades-old smart architecture.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 8, 2024

Storage media from offices of arrested LDP lawmaker were found damaged

Prosecutors believe that Yoshitaka Ikeda or his staff damaged the storage media in an attempt to destroy evidence.
West German midfielder Franz Beckenbauer (left) fights for the ball with Moroccan Benkhrif Boujemaa during a World Cup first round soccer match in Leon, Mexico, in June 1970. Beckenbauer died age 78 on Sunday.
SOCCER
Jan 9, 2024

German football mourns 'sublime' Beckenbauer

Franz Beckenbauer, a World Cup winner as both a player and a coach, died on Sunday at the age of 78.
Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes scores his team's second goal against Wigan in an FA Cup third round match in Wigan, England, on Monday.
SOCCER
Jan 9, 2024

'Job done' as Manchester United avoid FA Cup upset at Wigan

Diogo Dalot's first-half strike and a controversial penalty from Bruno Fernandes secured United's first away win since November.
Poland's Iga Swiatek serves against Germany's Angelique Kerber during their women's singles final match at the United Cup tennis event in Sydney on Sunday.
TENNIS
Jan 9, 2024

Swiatek tunes out the noise in search of first Australian Open title

The player got 2024 underway by winning all of her singles matches at the United Cup mixed team tournament, helping Poland to the final.
The fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 Max, which was forced to make an emergency landing with a gap in the fuselage, is seen during its investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 9, 2024

United finds loose bolts on planes, raising pressure on Boeing

U.S. regulators grounded 171 Max 9 planes after a panel blew off an Alaska Airlines-operated flight not long after taking off from a Portland, Oregon, airport
Japan won’t wait for G7 summit for possible U.S. trade deal
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top negotiator in tariff talks with the U.S. speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Friday.
Japanese universities step up to help international students after Harvard ban
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University. U.S. President Donald Trump has barred Harvard from accepting international students, prompting Japanese universities to offer support.
Japan eyes tougher rules for foreign residents and tax hike for tourists
A tax-free shop in Kyoto in April 2024. Last week, members of a Liberal Democratic Party study group drafted a proposal seeking to scrap the country's tax-free shopping system altogether.
Foreign tourists with unpaid medical bills in Japan to be denied entry
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during ministerial meeting meeting on foreign residents in Japan on Friday at the Prime Minister's Office.
Victims mourned 17 years after Akihabara indiscriminate attack
A mourner prays for the victims of an indiscriminate fatal attack on a street of Tokyo's Akihabara district on the 17th anniversary of the incident on Sunday.
What can Kenji Yanobe’s cosmic cats teach us about humanity?
Kenji Yanobe’s spacesuited cats are the main characters of “Ship’s Cat Island,” the inaugural exhibition at Hyper Museum Hanno in Saitama Prefecture.
From ridicule to redemption: Rice crisis returns Koizumi to the spotlight
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to the media as he inspects a warehouse storing stockpiled rice in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 30.
New Naoshima museum bets on Asia, not the West
Detail of Takashi Murakami, “Rakuchu-Rakugai-zu Byobu: Iwasa Matabei RIP” (2023-25)
Japan’s prison reform focuses on rehabilitation
Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Friday. Suzuki said preparations for the changes that will focus more on rehabilitation are being actively made at each correctional facility.
Accidents raise concern over how Japan vets foreign drivers
Keita Ueno (right), the owner of Kiki Driving School and an instructor who supports both foreign nationals and Japanese citizens returning from abroad in getting their foreign driver’s licenses converted, is worried about the current lax system for the process.

Podcast

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

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
By Alex K.T. Martin

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