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Kapo Choryumon's signature crispy chicken, like much of Hong Kong cuisine, is a blend of influences from the former city-state's long and varied history.
LIFE / Food & Drink / Chefs Table
Aug 20, 2023

Where have Tokyo’s great Hong Kong restaurants gone?

Cantonese, British and Indian cuisines have all influenced Hong Kong recipes, flavor profiles and favored ingredients over the centuries.
“Days at the Morisaki Bookshop” centers on a woman who overcomes past difficulties by finding comfort and human connection at her uncle's charming bookstore.
CULTURE / Books
Aug 19, 2023

Satoshi Yagisawa’s novel has all the charm of a Jimbocho bookshop

“Days at the Morisaki Bookshop" is a heartwarming coming-of-age tale that will delight fans of Japanese literature.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during Round 3 at the LIV Golf-Bedminster 2023 at the Trump National in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Aug. 13.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 19, 2023

Trump center stage despite threat to skip Republican debate

The 77-year-old former president, who is rarely out of the headlines, has been vocal about possibly skipping the event in the city of Milwaukee.
A Chinese fighter jet takes part in military exercises around Taiwan in this screenshot from video released Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 19, 2023

China launches drills near Taiwan in response to VP's U.S. trip

The People's Liberation Army's Eastern Theater Command said it was carrying out joint naval and air combat readiness patrols around the island.
News footage of China's People's Liberation Army military drills around Taiwan in a shopping area of Beijing on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 20, 2023

Taiwan details China drills as VP says election not China's to call

Taiwan's election next year is a choice between democracy and autocracy, Vice President Lai Ching-te said following the military exercises.
Smoke from a wildfire envelops Kelowna, British Columbia, on Friday.
WORLD
Aug 20, 2023

British Columbia wildfires intensify, doubling evacuations to over 35,000

The Canadian province declared a state of emergency on Friday to access temporary authoritative powers to tackle fire-related risks.
Australia's Matildas huddle after the third-place final of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Brisbane on Saturday.
SOCCER / Women's World cup
Aug 20, 2023

Australia and Sweden turn attention to Olympics after World Cup run

The two teams face challenging qualifying groups later this year as they aim to secure their berths in the Paris 2024 women's soccer tournament.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference at Camp David in Maryland on Friday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 20, 2023

Biden wants to sell his economic plan. But there's a problem.

The White House is embracing "Bidenomics” — originally intended to deride the president's policies — to instead promote his stewardship of the economy.
Residents clean up debris in the aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis in Date, Fukushima Prefecture, in October 2019.
ENVIRONMENT / Earth science / OUR PLANET
Aug 20, 2023

A Japan research team dares to ask: Can typhoons be controlled?

Researchers in Yokohama are probing whether tropical cyclones can be weakened or diverted, with energy they produce also tapped to generate power.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 21, 2023

My Number and beyond: What's holding back Japan’s digitalization?

The transition from analog to digital in the public sector has been a long-standing challenge for the country, spanning at least the past two decades.
U.S. President Joe Biden (second from rigt), U.S. first lady Jill Biden (right), Hawaii Gov. Josh Green (second from left) and Jaime Green, first lady of Hawaii, visit an area devastated by wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii, on Monday.
WORLD / Society
Aug 22, 2023

Biden vows to help Maui rebuild after ‘unimaginable tragedy’

"Whatever you need, you’re going to get,” Biden said in the historic town of Lahaina, which was ravaged by the fires, vowing to help residents rebuild.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean leader Yoon Suk-yeol attend a news conference during a trilateral summit at Camp David, Maryland, on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 22, 2023

U.S. pushes back against Chinese trilateral summit criticism

China said it had protested the summit to the three countries, claiming they had “smeared and attacked" China on Taiwan and maritime issues.
Cloning a person’s voice is increasingly easy. Once a scammer downloads a short sample from an audio clip they can use AI voice-synthesizing tools to create the content they need.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 22, 2023

Powered by technology, imposter scams drive new wave of fraud

Scammers methods sound like the stuff of science fiction, but advanced techniques are already available to criminals preying on everyday consumers.
The European Union has named 19 platforms that face stricter rules on policing online content and transparency.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 23, 2023

Big tech to face full force of new EU law

The landmark law is part of the EU's legal arsenal deployed to bring tech companies to heel and enforce order.
Pheu Thai's Srettha Thavisin. Thailand's parliament voted in favor of his prime ministerial candidacy in Bangkok on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 23, 2023

Thai property mogul Srettha Thavisin's unlikely rise to PM

The conservative establishment sees Srettha and his Pheu Thai party as more palatable than the progressive Move Forward Party.
Anthony Edwards dunks during a friendly between the U.S. and Germany in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
BASKETBALL
Aug 23, 2023

U.S. bank on youth as they eye Basketball World Cup redemption

Head coach Steve Kerr has picked an up-and-coming group of players to gain redemption for four years ago when the U.S. slumped to seventh.
Artificial intelligence is likely to help Big Tech companies cement their industry dominance as they are the ones with the resources to develop and maintain the most powerful AI models.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 23, 2023

Unlocking AI’s potential for everyone

The tech industry’s dominant players are now deploying artificial-intelligence models to reinforce their positions in the market.
JAPAN
Aug 24, 2023

Japan begins controversial release of treated Fukushima water

The discharge is a major step in the decommissioning process for the reactors hit by meltdowns following the March 2011 tsunami.
Takeshi Kimura, special adviser to the board for Nippon Life Insurance Co.
ESG CONSORTIUM
Aug 28, 2023

PRI’s global ESG investing talks in Tokyo to tackle ‘sense of crisis’

The leading global conference on responsible investment will be held in Tokyo for the first time this fall, focusing on what investors can do to make society sustainable at a time when many industries are struggling to meet their targets for combating climate change.
Kim Hau's tea shop was raided by police in February 2022, when she was arrested for sedition.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 24, 2023

Ordinary Hong Kongers convicted under colonial-era sedition law

Authorities in Hong Kong are using the law to punish any kind of criticism or dissent, even coming from ordinary citizens rather than activists.
Staff from All Nippon Airways and a travel agency escort a Chinese tour group from Beijing upon their arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 24, 2023

Will 'explosive spending' return to Japan with China group tours?

Hopes the tours will herald big returns clash with a struggling Chinese economy and Japan's controversial release of treated wastewater into the sea.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (left), former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (center) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at the first debate between Republican candidates on Wednesday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 24, 2023

Absent Trump still steals show at raucous Republican debate

Trump's snubbing of the event deprived a chasing pack of rivals, whom he leads in polls, of the opportunity to direct shots at him live on stage.
Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding his private plane at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta on Thursday, where he turned himself in at the Fulton County Jail earlier in the evening.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 25, 2023

Trump booked at Georgia jail on election charges

Authorities said they took Trump's mug shot at Fulton County Jail — a first for the former U.S. president.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of Russian private mercenary group Wagner, speaks in an unknown location, in this still image taken from video published on Monday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 25, 2023

Prigozhin's presumed death may create new problems for Putin

A full investigation of the cause of the crash is unlikely to shake the belief that he was killed as an act of vengeance for staging a mutiny.
For drinks surrounded by some of Tokyo’s sleekest skyscrapes, Marunouchi House’s rooftop terrace can’t be beat.
LIFE / Food & Drink / Top 5
Aug 27, 2023

Skyline sips: Tokyo’s best rooftop bars

Instead of relegating it to a cherry blossom-related niche, Tokyo is recognizing the allure of drinking outside.
Sheep rest under a starry night in Pontimia Pasture in the Swiss Alps.
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife
Aug 25, 2023

Crying wolf to save livestock and their predator

Preservation groups have hailed the return of wolves, seeing it as a sign of a healthier ecosystem. But breeders decry soaring attacks on livestock.
Angels two-way player Shohei Ohtani has a torn UCL, the team announced on Wednesday night.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 25, 2023

Will Ohtani’s injury pick his pocket in free agency?

Baseball’s history-making two-way player has a torn ulnar collateral ligament.
Koji Suzuki rides on his surfboard in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Friday.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2023

Fukushima surfer hangs loose about treated water release

Koji Suzuki, 68, fled the tsunami in his car but was back riding the waves off Minamisoma four months after the disaster.
Since Waifu began, inclusivity goals have become more common in clubs across Tokyo.
CULTURE / Music
Aug 26, 2023

Queer clubbing moves beyond Ni-chome

Those looking for a safe space to party don't have to stick to one neighborhood in the capital.
Bob Barker, host of the television game show "The Price is Right," in December 2006
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Aug 27, 2023

Beloved U.S. game show legend Bob Barker dies age 99

Barker was a prominent animal activist, once donating $5 million to the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd, which named a vessel after him.

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Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
With Hall of Fame induction, Ichiro makes himself heard loud and clear