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Investigators involved in the case shed light on one of Japan’s biggest crime stories of the 2000s in “Tokyo Police Files: The Lucie Blackman Case.”
CULTURE / Film
Jul 27, 2023

‘Tokyo Police Files: The Lucie Blackman Case’: Notorious crime story gets slick Netflix treatment

The detectives are the stars in the Japan-only version of Netflix’s true-crime documentary about a missing-person investigation that captured the nation’s attention.
Cincinnati Opera’s new production of “Madame Butterfly,” directed by Matthew Ozawa, frames the action as a virtual-reality fantasy of Japan.
CULTURE / Stage
Jul 27, 2023

Reimagining ‘Madame Butterfly,’ with Asian creators at the helm

As opera houses rework Puccini’s classic, criticized for stereotypes about women and Japanese culture, artists of Asian descent are playing a central role.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Jul 27, 2023

Hoshoryu's Nagoya triumph shows enduring power of Mongolian rikishi

Kirishima and Hoshoryu’s promotions to ozeki have shown that the Mongolian era of sumo dominance isn’t close to concluding just yet.
People attend a mass rally denouncing the U.S. in Pyongyang on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 27, 2023

North Korea, China and Russia mark Korean War anniversary

The celebrations come at a crucial time for Kim Jong Un as he seeks to ease up on pandemic border controls that slammed the brakes on his economy.
Troops take part in a military parade to mark the 75th founding anniversary of North Korea's army, in Pyongyang, on Feb. 8.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 27, 2023

What we know after 70 years of the Korean War armistice

Despite remains technically at war for 70 years, the signing of an armistice deal on July 27, 1953, turned a divided peninsula into the world's longest ceasefire.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (left) and Papua New Guinea Defense Minister Win Bakri Daki walk to their meeting in Port Moresby on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 27, 2023

Austin visit signals Papua New Guinea's growing strategic importance

Topping the agenda were discussions with Prime Minister James Marape on the implementation of two landmark security pacts that Washington and Port Moresby negotiated in May.
Lighting fireworks on Myeongpa Beach, where families can camp near the DMZ border, in Goseong-gun, South Korea, on July 30, 2022. ​In recent years, northern counties of South Korea have become unlikely tourist destinations, attracting people drawn to the history of the DMZ.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 27, 2023

Life along the Korean DMZ, 70 years after the fighting ended

After nearly eight decades of living separated across the tightly sealed border​, many South Koreans see reunification as a distant dream.
BASEBALL / MLB / Sac Bunts
Jul 27, 2023

Angels would be taking major gamble by keeping Shohei Ohtani

The Angels have reportedly decided to not trade Shohei Ohtani, setting up the possibility of losing him for nothing in the offseason.
A truck transports new Tesla cars at its factory in Shanghai in May 2021.
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jul 28, 2023

Global automakers scramble to reset China strategies as sales slow

Some German brands and General Motors are betting on new electric vehicles, while Toyota and others have shifted to cost-cutting mode.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 28, 2023

Japan’s average minimum wage set to top ¥1,000

With the government eager to create a healthy cycle of pay and price increases, the minimum wage panel suggested a record 4.3% hike from the current average of ¥961.
Olga Kharlan (left) and Anna Smirnova compete during the Fencing World Championships in Milan on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS
Jul 28, 2023

Ukrainian fencer disqualified for refusing to shake hands with Russian

Olga Kharlan, a four-time Olympic medalist and world champion, won the individual sabre bout 15-7 and then refused to shake hands with her opponent.
JAPAN
Jul 28, 2023

Kansai Electric restarts 48-year-old Takahama reactor

It is the second time that a reactor over 40 years old has been reactivated, after the restart of the No. 3 reactor at Kansai Electric's Mihama plant, also in Fukui.
Pan Gongsheng
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Jul 29, 2023

China’s central bank chief is taskmaster Xi couldn’t let retire

Pan Gongsheng is expected to turn around growth slowdown for the world's second largest economy and safeguard the $60 trillion domestic financial system.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 29, 2023

Iori Yamasaki wins fourth straight start as Giants top Dragons

The Giants held off the Dragons at Tokyo Dome to earn their third straight win.
Paris' Japan Expo, a gathering for fans of Japanese pop culture, says it attracts 250,000 attendees per day.
CULTURE
Jul 30, 2023

In France, Japonisme has turned into Japanmania

Through architecture, fashion, culinary arts and even sports, aspects of Japanese culture are attracting a large portion of France’s population.
In the kitchen or on the road, be open to discovery and good things will happen.
LIFE / Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
Jul 30, 2023

Recipe: Street stall-fresh Shan-style noodles

Open your mind to wan dō fen, a hearty and strikingly hued dish of noodles cooked with chickpea custard, chili crisp oil and assorted toppings.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in July 2022
WORLD / Politics
Jul 30, 2023

Biden presses ahead with effort to broker Israeli-Saudi rapprochement

The fact that U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan returned to Jeddah so soon after his last visit suggests prospects for an accord.
England's Stuart Broad discusses his decision to retire following the end of play on Day 3 of the final Ashes test in London on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Cricket
Jul 30, 2023

England cricket great Stuart Broad to retire after 'wonderful ride'

The 37-year-old seamer is the fifth most successful bowler in test history with 602 wickets.
France's Leon Marchand poses with his gold medal after winning the men's 200-meter individual medley during the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Jul 30, 2023

Bob Bowman says Leon Marchand can handle Paris Games pressure

With three gold medals and a world record, the French sensation has been one of the competition's stars at this week's world championships in Fukuoka.
SOCCER / Women's World cup
Jul 30, 2023

Plenty of respect as Nadeshiko Japan prepares to face Spain

Japan and Spain have been two of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup's standout teams and both have already qualified for the last 16 out of Group C.
The batsman’s place can be a lonely one — in the center of the field, surrounded by the opposition — but you can always look back to your pavilion for support.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / Longform
Jul 31, 2023

Sweat, stumps and solidarity on the cricket pitch

It's a hot day and the Yokohama Alpha Quashers are about to take on the Chiba Sharks, fighting for a chance to move higher in the Japan Cricket League.
Many of the entrepreneurs who’ve become superwealthy are now seeking to manage and transfer riches to their descendants in Asia. That’s resulting in a surge in family office demand.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 31, 2023

Asia’s richest families fuel race for lucrative finance jobs

Many of Asia's superwealthy are now seeking help managing their estates just as old-money families in the West have done for decades.
Max Verstappen celebrates after winning the Belgian Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps, Spa, Belgium, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS
Jul 31, 2023

Red Bull's Max Verstappen storms to eighth straight win despite penalty

The defending two-time world champion and runaway series leader came home 22.305 seconds ahead of teammate Sergio Perez.
Chef and restaurant owner Rikuo Morimoto, who runs the restaurant Andante in Tokyo, on May 1. A 2019 government report estimated that about 1.27 million small business owners would be 70 or older by 2025 and have no successors.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 6, 2023

'Era of mass closures': The Japanese firms with no successors

A 2019 government report estimated that about 1.27 million small business owners would be 70 or older by 2025 and have no successors.
Colombia fans cheer outside Sydney Football Stadium before their team's match against Germany at the Women's World Cup on Sunday.
SOCCER / Women's World cup
Jul 31, 2023

Passionate Colombia fans set tone at Women's World Cup

"It was a great atmosphere. I don't know where all the Colombian fans came from. They were really a great crowd, my compliments. It wasn't easy."
Director Dean Johnson wanted to strip back the staging of “Once – In Concert” in a way that honored the film. The production had a limited run at the London Palladium earlier this year and Johnson notes the Tokyu Orb Theater has a similar set up.
CULTURE / Stage
Jul 31, 2023

'Once' speaks the universal languages of music and love

Award-winning Irish theatrical production brings its dry wit and catchy songs to Tokyo for a midsummer musical experience.
Australia's Hayley Raso (center) celebrates scoring the team's first goal against Canada during a Group B finale at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Melbourne on Monday.
SOCCER
Aug 1, 2023

Hayley Raso stars as Matildas dump Canada to surge into last 16

Australia thrived on the pressure in front of more than 27,000 in Melbourne to consign Canada to an early flight home.
The emergency vacuum building sits south of the reactor site at the Darlington Nuclear generating station in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, in April 2016.
WORLD
Aug 1, 2023

Canada turns to nuclear after 30-year pause amid demand surge

There are plans to make a plant the world’s largest and a pledge to add three small modular reactors to a site where another is already being built.
New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins (center) and others, as Britain signs the treaty to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, in Auckland on July 16.
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Aug 1, 2023

China entry into trans-Pacific trade pact faces political hurdles

China should be able to meet standards set out in the pact, experts say, forcing members to make a politically uncomfortable decision on letting it join.
Tiger Woods will join five other players on the PGA Tour's policy board.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Aug 2, 2023

Tiger Woods joins PGA Tour's policy board as player director

The move is part of new governance and transparency measures announced by the Tour that promises to give players more say in future decisions.

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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