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BUSINESS
Oct 18, 2022

Exxon exits Russia empty-handed with oil project 'unilaterally terminated'

An Exxon spokesperson declined to comment on whether it will proceed to contest the seizure through an international arbitration process, a possibility flagged in August.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 18, 2022

Japan workplaces kick off omicron vaccine drive

As of Wednesday, the health ministry had received applications to give inoculations under the workplace vaccination program at 731 venues.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 17, 2022

Tokyo traders speculate on possibility of stealth intervention in yen

By one estimate, authorities may have spent around u00a51 trillion to support the currency.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 17, 2022

China’s unprecedented GDP data delay fuels worries about growth

The National Bureau of Statistics didn't give a reason for the delay and provided no information about a new release date.
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2022

Hitomi Soga vows to continue speaking out on abductions by North Korea

'I want to communicate my agony, loneliness and mortification as much as possible,' said Soga, who was abducted in 1978.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Oct 17, 2022

Buffaloes and Swallows prove last season's success was no fluke

The Swallows and Buffaloes will meet in the Japan Series for the second straight season.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 17, 2022

Project aims to help mothers run in Japan's local elections next year

The project — called “Kosodate Senkyo Hack!” — aims to give a greater voice in local politics to the dwindling ranks of families with small children.
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2022

Unification Church could be stripped of special status after Kishida probe

The group could lose its “religious corporation” status, which makes donations and other revenue made from religious activities exempt from taxation.
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2022

COVID-19 tracker: Tokyo logs 1,588 new cases

The seven-day average of new COVID-19 infections in the capital rose 2.2% from a week before to 3,095.4.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 17, 2022

Xi looks to harness Chinese 'fighting spirit' to take on U.S.

Leader Xi Jinping used a highly anticipated speech at a twice-a-decade Communist Party congress to deliver a clear message to those who want to thwart China's rise: You will fail.
A Ground Self-Defense Force marine takes part in a landing drill as a part of the country's nationwide 05JX military exercises on the island of Tokunoshima, in Kagoshima Prefecture, on Sunday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 19, 2023

Japanese marines drill on island seen as vulnerable to China

The joint exercises were meant to show the readiness of ground, sea and air forces to defend Japan's territory and infrastructure.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to face further headwinds at home, despite efforts to highlight his diplomatic achievements.
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2023

Kishida focuses on diplomacy amid poor public support rates

Showing off his contribution to the discussions at the APEC summit, the prime minister expressed his eagerness to continue with diplomacy. 
Children take shelter when hearing an air raid sirens during an event held by the Taiwanese civil defense organization Kuma Academy, in New Taipei City on Saturday to raise awareness of natural disaster and war preparedness.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 19, 2023

APEC over, Taiwan reports renewed Chinese military activity

With Chinese leader Xi Jinping in San Francisco last week, where he met U.S. President Joe Biden, the frequency of military activity had leveled off.
An Israeli soldier gestures from a tank, near a border area with Gaza, in southern Israel, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 19, 2023

Is Israel’s military strategy to eradicate Hamas working?

Israel is making progress in ground control of Gaza, but it has not vanquished Hamas or freed most of the hostages as global condemnation grows.
U.S. Marines stand by a transfer case during a repatriation ceremony for the possible remains of unidentified service members lost in the Battle of Tarawa during World War Two in the Republic of Kiribati, July 18, 2019.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 19, 2023

The bloody, 76-hour battle on a tiny atoll that helped end World War II

The Battle of Tarawa, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, took a heavy toll on American forces and led to outrage at home.
Elfyn Evans and his co-driver Scott Martin drive their Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 Hybrid past the Kumano Shrine during Rally Japan in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Nov 19, 2023

Elfyn Evans cruises to victory at season-ending Rally Japan

Evans took control after the second stage and stayed in front for the rest of a rally held in wild weather conditions in Aichi Prefecture.
BASEBALL
Nov 19, 2023

Australia gains crucial experience at Asia tourney in Tokyo

For smaller baseball countries like Australia, the opportunity for its young players to play Japan at a packed Tokyo Dome is invaluable.
Max Verstappen celebrates winning the Las Vegas Grand Prix on Saturday
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Nov 19, 2023

Verstappen battles through to win Las Vegas Grand Prix thriller

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc overtook Red Bull's Sergio Perez on the last lap to grab second place ahead of the Mexican.
Eom Dong-hwan, South Korea's minister for its defense acquisition program and administration, speaks at a ceremony marking Poland's receiving of its first delivery of South Korean K2 Black Panther tanks and K9 self-propelled howitzers in Gdynia, Poland, in December 2022.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 19, 2023

South Korea’s defense ambitions can be met by tech

Decades of facing down North Korea has forced Seoul to slowly build its own arms-producing capabilities instead of relying heavily on the U.S.
U.S. President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office of the White House in June 1972
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 19, 2023

Nixon's 1953 trip to Okinawa and its lasting impact

Nixon’s trip to Okinawa 70 years ago this month planted seeds for his agreeing to its reversion when he became the U.S. president.
U.S. President Joe Biden hosts Democratic congressional leaders at the White House in January.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 19, 2023

Why Democrats are 'ride or die' for Biden

Joe Biden has been unwilling to shift the responsibility for defending democracy to other shoulders. A lot of Democrats are uneasy with that.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 19, 2023

China's imports of Japanese fishery products down 99% in October

China fully banning imports of fishery products from Japan from Aug. 24 when the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant water discharge started.
Workers try to rescue 41 men trapped in a collapsed road tunnel in India's Uttarakhand state on Saturday.
WORLD
Nov 19, 2023

India prime minister's office joins rescue effort for trapped tunnel workers

Officials from various departments met Sunday to examine options to try to access the trapped Indian workers and to provide them with food and supplies
Taiwan People's Party chairman Ko Wen-je arrives for a news conference in New Taipei City on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 19, 2023

Taiwan opposition talks deadlocked with no signs of compromise

The issue of China, which views Taiwan as its territory, looms over the Jan. 13 parliamentary and presidential elections.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and others place a paper rose on an Liberal Democratic Party candidate's name to indicate a victory in the Upper House election, at the party's headquarters in Tokyo in July 2022.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2023

Criminal complaint filed against LDP factions over political funds

According to the complaint, the five LDP organizations are suspected of failing to list the names of organizations that paid more than ¥200,000 at events.

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A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
That sinking feeling: Japan’s aging sewers are an infrastructure time bomb