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WORLD
Mar 13, 2023

Pain and faint hopes as Iraqis look back at U.S. invasion

Reflecting on past horrors and dashed hopes, some Iraqis note signs of progress over the intervening two decades, but few voice any real optimism about the future.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 13, 2023

How ‘excuseflation’ is keeping prices — and corporate profits — high

Companies across the U.S. are using unusual disruptions as an excuse to raise prices for their goods and services, thereby allowing them to expand profit margins.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 13, 2023

Europe is knocking on debt’s door

By continuing to issue common bonds to finance its expenditures, the European Commission is harming savers and undermining the creditworthiness of national governments.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 13, 2023

Ukraine must rewrite Russia’s narrative in the Global South

Ukraine has won the West’s support in the war against Russia. But to ensure victory, it will need the developing world’s, too.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 13, 2023

Masatoshi Ito, founder of Japanese retailer Ito-Yokado, dies at 98

The company Ito founded was the predecessor to Seven & I Holdings, operator of more than 83,000 7-Elevens dotting the globe, with about a fourth of them in Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Mar 13, 2023

Traditional ama fishing in Mie in danger as diver numbers plunge

The method is practiced primarily by women and is characterized by skin-diving and a hand-catching method that prevents overfishing.
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WORLD
Mar 13, 2023

A (literal) passport out of Russia: Give birth in Argentina

Since the Ukraine war, pregnant Russians have been flocking to the South American country, where obtaining citizenship is relatively easy if your child is born there.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 13, 2023

Chinese-brokered deal upends Middle East diplomacy and challenges U.S.

The Americans, who have been the central actors in the Middle East for the past three-quarters of a century, now find themselves on the sidelines during a moment of significant change.
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BUSINESS
Mar 13, 2023

China's new premier warns 2023 growth target will be 'no easy task'

Beijing set the economic growth target of 'around 5%' this month, one of the lowest in decades as China emerged from strict 'zero-COVID' rules that dragged on its GDP.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 13, 2023

'Everything Everywhere' dominates at Oscars, capping award-season sweep

The unconventional sci-fi drama won seven Academy Awards, including best picture, while Michelle Yeoh made history as the first Asian best actress winner.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Mar 13, 2023

Seedings for NCAA men’s tournament show wide-open field

The tournament has an on-any-given-Sunday feel, where blue bloods don’t feel so rich, mid-majors don’t feel so middling and every team enters with questions — even at the top.
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BUSINESS
Mar 13, 2023

China is still backing an elusive breakthrough for solar panels

Developers are racing to bring perovskite — solar cells that are theoretically more powerful, cheaper and less energy intensive to produce than existing technology — to the mass-market.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 13, 2023

Rice into low-carbon plastic: bringing hope to a struggling Fukushima town

A toasted rice aroma hangs around the factory line, where rice is combined with small plastic beads, heated and kneaded before being extruded in thin rods.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 13, 2023

A lost decade worse than Japan’s threatens to change U.K. forever

U.K. faces handicaps including soaring inflation that make it a very different economic environment to 1990s Japan.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 13, 2023

North Korea launches missiles from submarine as U.S.-South Korea military drills start

North Korea said it fired two “strategic cruise missiles” from a submarine, hours before South Korea and the U.S. kicked off their largest joint military exercises in five years.
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CULTURE / Books
Mar 13, 2023

Osamu Dazai gets silly while facing fears in 'The Flowers of Buffoonery'

Translator Sam Bett brings out the fragile personalities in the author's early novella, a predecessor to his modern classic novel “No Longer Human.'
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Destination Restaurants
Mar 12, 2023

Dewaya: Sansai cuisine worthy of a pilgrimage

Chef Haruki Sato prizes the freshest ingredients, even if that means digging them up in the dead of winter.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Mar 12, 2023

Shohei Ohtani homers to power Samurai Japan to victory over Australia

Shohei Ohtani connected on his first home run of the WBC and Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck out eight batters to help Japan finish the first round 4-0.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 12, 2023

Boris Johnson wants to knight his dad? That's Britain.

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson may be causing the latest dismay, but much of Britain’s political class no longer knows how to behave.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Mar 12, 2023

Czech players revel in WBC experience after facing Shohei Ohtani and Samurai Japan

A 10-2 defeat at Tokyo Dome didn't dampen the enthusiasm of a team that is quickly becoming known as the Cinderella story of the ongoing World Baseball Classic.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Mar 12, 2023

Reina Iizuka: ‘Rugby and football are basically cousins’

She was the first woman to play university-level men's tackle football in Canada and now Reina Iizuka has come to Japan and joined a rugby squad.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Mar 12, 2023

Recipe: Botamochi sweets to welcome spring

Spring is just about to ... well ... spring, and these sweet adzuki treats are traditional equinox bites.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Mar 11, 2023

China role in Saudi-Iran deal a tricky test for U.S.

The surprise deal to restore diplomatic ties offers much for the United States to be intrigued about. It also contains an element sure to make officials in Washington deeply uneasy.

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