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SOCCER
Aug 15, 2022

Kyogo Furuhashi scores first goal as Celtic routs Kilmarnock

Celtic moved back ahead of Rangers at the top of the Scottish Premiership on goal difference with a 5-0 thrashing of Kilmarnock on Sunday as both Moritz Jenz and Giorgos Giakoumakis scored on overhead kicks.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 15, 2022

Fed minutes may reveal inclinations on size of next rate hike

Are further rate hikes likely to be of smaller incremental size, or is the door really open to something larger?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 15, 2022

Japan’s economy recovers pre-pandemic size on consumption gain

Gross domestic product grew at an annualized pace of 2.2% in the second quarter of this year, coming in below the median estimate of 2.6%.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 15, 2022

Japanese government to keep imported wheat prices unchanged

The government plans to draw up in early September additional measures to tackle higher prices and other factors affecting people's lives.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 15, 2022

Salman Rushdie off ventilator and 'road to recovery has begun'

Rushdie was set to deliver a lecture on the United States' role as a haven for targeted artists when a man rushed the stage and stabbed him.
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2022

Japan to boost aid to children seriously disabled due to traffic accidents

Aging parents who look after such children worry what will become of them after their caregivers pass away.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Aug 15, 2022

Chelsea and Tottenham managers see red during contentious clash

Both managers, Antonio Conte and Thomas Tuchel, were sent off after the final whistle for their second physical altercation of the match.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 15, 2022

World embraces dirtier fuels as gas hits exorbitant heights

Natural gas is now the hottest commodity as Russia, a crucial source, maintains a stranglehold on supplies amid a global energy crunch.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 15, 2022

Russia unplugs foes, rewards friends in latest market reboot

The plan will focus on mobilizing capital at home while catering to places the Kremlin considers friendly.
Japan Times
ESG CONSORTIUM
Aug 15, 2022

OAT Agrio’s agrochemicals are from nature, for crops

OAT Agrio Co. Ltd. operates its business with the corporate philosophy of “We contribute to the people of the world with our agrotechnology and sincerity.” Listed on the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the company was established in 2010 through a management buyout from Otsuka Chemical...
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ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 15, 2022

Stranded tourists on virus-hit China resort island see hope after protests

Travelers can fly out of Hainan provided there are no new cases in their tour groups and hotels within the last seven days.
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits an aerospace company in Korolyov, outside Moscow, in October last year.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Feb 16, 2024

Russia seen as highly unlikely to put a nuclear warhead in space

A space threat identified by the U.S. could potentially be used for electromagnetic pulses to fry satellites' electronics.
Pedestrians in Piazza Cordusio in Milan. Europe's fertility rate has been stuck around 1.5 births per woman for the past decade.
WORLD / Society / ANALYSIS
Feb 16, 2024

How Europe can dodge a birth rate hard landing

Europe's fertility rate has been stuck around 1.5 births per woman for the past decade, far short of the 2.1 needed to maintain population levels.
The dekayama float ritual of the Seihaku Festival is held in Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture, in May 2019.
JAPAN
Feb 16, 2024

UNESCO-listed float festival to be skipped in wake of Noto quake

The ritual in Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture, is believed to date back to 1473.
A shooting that killed one person and wounded 22 took place near Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Feb 16, 2024

Police say argument led to shooting after Chiefs' Super Bowl parade

Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a popular Kansas City radio personality, was the lone fatality.
The U.K. economy has been hamstrung by the worst cost-of-living crisis in generations, as well as interest rate increases.
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 16, 2024

U.K. recession deals fresh blow to Rishi Sunak’s economic promises

Statistics showing the GDP contraction emerged at a particularly bad time for the U.K. prime minister, with two by-elections taking place in England.
Members of the LGBTQ community and supporters celebrate in front of the Greek parliament, after a vote in favor of a bill that approved allowing same-sex civil marriages, in Athens on Thursday.
WORLD / Society
Feb 16, 2024

Greece among first Orthodox Christian countries to legalize same sex marriage

While the ruling party abstained or voted against the bill, it gained support from the opposition in a rare show of cross-party unity despite tense debate.
Inspections by authorities found that puppies and kittens have been traded at younger ages than permitted by law, apparently because younger animals sell better.
JAPAN / Society
Feb 16, 2024

Birth date falsifications suspected for puppies auctioned in Japan

The Environment Ministry believes breeders altered dates of birth in order to put puppies and kittens up for auction even though they were too young.
Medical school students discuss striking against the government's medical policies, in Seoul in August 2020. The proposal at the time was shelved after intense opposition.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 16, 2024

South Korean trainee doctors quit to protest plan to add more physicians

Doctors throughout the country held rallies on Thursday, calling on the government to scrap the plan.
The government plans to establish a system that allows any child to enroll in day care establishments regardless of whether their parents work or not.
JAPAN
Feb 16, 2024

Japan's Cabinet OKs bill on measures to tackle falling birthrate

The bill includes plans to expand child benefits and establish a system allowing any child to enroll in day care establishments.
At the Akan International Crane Center, just north of the city of Kushiro proper, visitors can see the majestic red-crowned crane — a symbol of Hokkaido.
JAPAN / Society / Longform
Feb 17, 2024

Faces of the north: A Hokkaido town grapples with depopulation

Residents of Kushiro face an issue that more and more communities in Japan are having to deal with. The city may be young, but it's rich with tradition.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s first Kumamoto plant in the town of Kikuyo, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Feb. 10
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 16, 2024

Japan boosts aid to chip projects amid global race

Prompted by concerns, the government acted swiftly to prevent the potential loss of domestic production bases.
The decisions by JPMorgan and State Street to quit a global investor coalition will collectively remove trillions of dollars from efforts to coordinate Wall Street action on climate change.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 16, 2024

JPMorgan and State Street quit climate group as BlackRock steps back

Financial firms have faced growing pressure from Republican politicians over their membership in such groups.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally ahead of the Republican caucus in Las Vegas on Jan. 27.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Feb 22, 2024

How East Asia should prepare for a possible Trump comeback

Questions over defense funding and military support could potentially return to the fore for U.S. allies.
Displaced Palestinian children play as they take shelter at the border with Egypt, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 16, 2024

Egypt setting up shelter area for Palestinians at Gaza border, sources say

Some 1.5 million Palestinians are currently in Rafah. A mass exodus into Egypt due to an Israeli offensive would be "a sort of nightmare."
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton attends a Dior fashion show in Paris on Jan. 19.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 16, 2024

Max Verstappen expects Lewis Hamilton to have 'awkward' season with Mercedes

Hamilton stunned the sport by announcing that he would be leaving Mercedes to race for Ferrari next year.

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past