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Aug 21, 2022

Open-water races at European championships end in chaos

After a delay of several hours, organizers ruled they could not be sure exactly when racing had stopped and therefore could not determine a final order.
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WORLD
Aug 20, 2022

Fear for future after mass die-off of fish in Poland's Oder River

As thousands of dead fish neared the banks of the Oder River in the village of Widuchowa on Aug. 11, local residents realized an ecological disaster had arrived.
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WORLD / Society
Aug 20, 2022

Soaring sanitary pad prices push girls out of school in Africa

The cost of sanitary pads has more than doubled in the last year in Ghana, forcing poorer families to focus on buying food over sanitary products.
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CULTURE / Art
Aug 20, 2022

Memento mori: Photography in the face of the inevitable

The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum examines how we face our own mortality in the new exhibition “TOP Collection: The Illumination of Life by Death.”
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LIFE / Travel
Aug 20, 2022

Sawanobori: The treacherous pursuit of waterfall climbing

Like many outdoor pursuits, “sawanobori” offers exhilarating thrills. Unlike most, those come alongside extreme risks.
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JAPAN
Aug 19, 2022

Tokyo’s travel promotion campaign to resume on Sept. 1

The subsidy on offer will be u00a55,000 per person per night for an overnight trip that costs u00a56,000 or more, and u00a52,500 per person for a day trip that costs u00a53,000 or more.
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JAPAN
Aug 18, 2022

Go with the flow: What to do when the Japanese police stop you for questioning

One former elite police official says the best course of action is to submit to questioning and resist the urge to resist.
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BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2022

U.S. and Taiwan begin formal negotiations on trade initiative

The first round of trade talks is set to take place 'early this fall,” the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said in a statement.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 18, 2022

COVID-19’s harmful effects on the brain reverberate years later

Cognitive deficits known colloquially as 'brain fog,” epilepsy, seizures and other longer-term mental and brain health disorders can remain elevated 24 months after infection.
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JAPAN
Aug 17, 2022

Japan and Britain in talks on joint fighter jet development

The Defense Ministry aims to integrate plans for a successor to the Air Self-Defense Force's F-2 fighter jet with those of an aircraft currently under development in Britain.
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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 17, 2022

What Southeast Asian nations want from Washington

Southeast Asia wants the U.S. to remain deeply engaged in regional affairs but not exacerbate tensions with China.
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BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 17, 2022

Big Tech helps Big Oil pump more, belying climate pledges

The tech giants began courting oil companies several years ago, eager for business from a lucrative but technologically backward industry.
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BUSINESS / Women at Work
Aug 16, 2022

Creating parity in the field of science in Japan

Noriko Osumi is one of the highest-ranking female scientists in Japan, and has worked to address the structural causes behind the severe lack of women within certain academic fields.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 15, 2022

Xi crackdown foils Shanghai-like COVID unrest in Xinjiang and Tibet

Broad surveillance measures used over the years against Tibetan Buddhists and mainly Muslim Uyghurs, both minority groups in China, are helping enforce lockdown rules.
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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 15, 2022

China has painted itself into a semiconductor corner

Lost billions, graft probes, and broken dreams are the result of over-ambitious goals to build a leading chip sector.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 15, 2022

China's Taiwan drills accompanied by wave of misinformation

As millions watched a Weibo livestream of a flight-tracking site showing Pelosi's flight landing in Taiwan, unsubstantiated claims emerged that her plane was forced to turn back to the U.S.
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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.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Aug 14, 2022

Yusuke Nagatani: ‘The future of manufacturing is Japanese companies like ours teaching and sharing their know-how abroad’

Yusuke Nagatani sees a bright future for the world of Japanese manufacturing, but he admits that if he hadn't searched for his current path on his own he might have never found it.
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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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LIFE
Aug 13, 2022

Summertime sadness: How to manage the warm weather blues

Think seasonal affective disorder is a winter-only woe? In Japan's scorching summers, think again.
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WORLD
Aug 12, 2022

Extreme heat uncovers lost villages, ancient ruins and shipwrecks

Climate change this year has triggered wildfires, drought and melting glaciers. But it's also revealed some weird and dark things about our past.
JAPAN
Aug 12, 2022

Omicron more likely to cause fever in children than previous variants, Japan study shows

The proportion of children who had a fever of 38 degrees Celsius or higher was some 40% among 2- to 12-year-olds during the omicron period, twice the rate during the delta period.
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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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Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years