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LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 14, 2022

In Canada's extreme north, grocery bills reach 'alarming' levels

Would you pay triple what you do now for a 12-pack of soda? If you live in Nunavut, you have no choice.
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BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 13, 2022

Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. suspended 80 games for drug violation

Tatis, 23, hasn't played for the Padres this season after undergoing surgery on his broken left wrist in March.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 13, 2022

Japan's Skylark to shut 100 outlets, including Gusto family restaurants

Skylark decided to close some of its outlets as its profitability deteriorated due to higher prices and a decrease in customers due to COVID-19.
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BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 13, 2022

Apps turning restaurant leftovers into cheap meals take off in Asia

The buffet at Singapore's Grand Hyatt hotel typically sets diners back about $70. Those on a tighter budget, and with an eye on sustainability, can fill a box for a tenth of that price.
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ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Aug 13, 2022

China's sharper focus on military option for Taiwan raises risks with U.S.

Security analysts expect Chinese forces, particularly the navy, to maintain extensive patrols around Taiwan, pushing over the median line.
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CULTURE / Books
Aug 13, 2022

A new life is born from a lie in Emi Yagi's 'Diary of a Void'

Emi Yagi's debut novel, which won the prestigious Osamu Dazai Prize in 2020, offers a penetrating look at the pressures of Japan's work culture and gender expectations.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 12, 2022

'Line through our hearts': A Kashmir village, 75 years after partition

Since early 2021, the Line of Control that cuts Kashmir into two, has been mostly quiet, following the renewal of a ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan.
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WORLD
Aug 12, 2022

Arctic warming is happening faster than described, analysis shows

Over the past four decades, the region has been heating up four times faster than the global average, not the two to three times that has commonly been reported.
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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 12, 2022

Why might China avoid strong inflation?

The Chinese government knows an overly strong stimulus would entail excessive monetary expansion and a surge in inflation.
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BUSINESS
Aug 12, 2022

Johnson & Johnson to end global sales of talc-based baby powder

The company faces about 38,000 lawsuits from consumers and their survivors claiming its talc products caused cancer due to contamination with asbestos, a known carcinogen.
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WORLD
Aug 12, 2022

Striking drop in stress hormone cortisol can predict long COVID, study finds

Levels of cortisol in the blood of those with the condition were roughly half those found in healthy, uninfected people or individuals fully recovered from COVID-19.
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ASIA PACIFIC / EVENTS AND INFORMATION
Aug 12, 2022

High school artfest celebrates young artists

On Aug. 3, the 23rd International High School Art Festival awards ceremony took place at the Grand Ballroom of the Ritz Carlton Tokyo hotel. Since its inception in 2000, the festival, which is open to high school artists from around the world aged 15 to 18, has made considerable strides toward “becoming...
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BUSINESS / FOCUS
Aug 12, 2022

Climate change and scarcity chip away at de-growth taboo

De-growth — the idea that a finite planet cannot sustain ever-increasing consumption — is about the closest you can get to a heresy in economics.
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CULTURE / Music
Aug 11, 2022

Perfume looks to the future with kindness

The pop group taps into the nostalgic sounds of city pop and melancholic views of the present in its seventh full-length album, “Plasma.”
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ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 11, 2022

North Korea declares victory over COVID while revealing Kim suffered fever

Kim's sister has vowed 'deadly retaliation' against South Korea, which Pyongyang blames for causing the outbreak.
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JAPAN
Aug 11, 2022

Gifu project to rescue cats using tax donation system draws backers

The government in Hida, Gifu Prefecture, gives donors return gifts associated with cats to encourage feline devotees across the country to make active contributions to society.
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BUSINESS
Aug 11, 2022

Fed officials say rates likely to rise into next year to curb inflation

Two U.S. Federal Reserve officials have responded to softening inflation data by saying it doesn't change the U.S. central bank's path toward even higher interest rates this year and next.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 10, 2022

Toshiba logs surprise quarterly operating loss as costs surge

Chief Financial Officer Masayoshi Hirata told reporters that the conglomerate's first quarterly loss in two years came amid jumps in prices for steel and copper.
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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2022

Far-right populists come out of the racist closet

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's recent denunciation of “mixed race” countries indicates that far-right populists no longer feel they need to mask their true beliefs.
LIFE / Style & Design
Aug 10, 2022

The fabric of timelessness in the visionary designs of Issey Miyake

A visionary ahead of his time, Japanese designer Issey Miyake was able to not only see the future but shape it.
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WORLD
Aug 10, 2022

Russia launches Iranian satellite amid Ukraine war concerns

Iran, which has maintained ties with Moscow, has sought to deflect suspicions that Russia could use the Khayyam satellite to spy on Ukraine.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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WORLD
Aug 9, 2022

FBI searches Trump's Florida home as part of presidential records probe

The unprecedented search of a former president's home would mark a significant escalation into the records investigation, which is one of several probes Trump is facing.
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JAPAN / Politics / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Aug 8, 2022

Political newcomer Sanseito making waves in Okinawa elections

Sanseito, which has strong conservative policies, was formed in 2020 under the slogan, “There is no party we want to vote for, so we are creating one ourselves from scratch.”
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BUSINESS / FOCUS
Aug 8, 2022

Yen shorts fall out of fashion as recessionary fears end year’s hottest forex trade

Three key pillars of the sell-the-yen trade — a widening U.S.-Japan interest-rate gap, soaring oil prices and the loss of the currency's haven status — are crumbling.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Aug 8, 2022

Number of kids on nursery waiting lists plummets in Tokyo

The number of children on day care waiting lists in Tokyo hit a record low as of April this year, falling 97% from the most recent peak of 8,586 in 2017.

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers