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LIFE
Sep 9, 2022

Dream job: The Japanese man who gets paid to do nothing

'Basically, I rent myself out,' says Shoji Morimoto, who rents himself out as a companion for u00a510,000 a booking.
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2022

As Japan's neighbors ramp up offensive capabilities in cyberspace, SDF aims to bolster defense

In its budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, the Defense Ministry is requesting more than u00a575 billion — a twofold rise — to bolster the SDF's cyberdefense.
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WORLD
Sep 5, 2022

Nigerian middle class heads for exit as problems mount in the country

Anecdotal evidence suggests that among the middle classes, emigration has spiked, fueled by a slumping currency, worsening insecurity, spiraling inflation and corruption.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 3, 2022

'We've gone back 50 years': Pakistan farmers count flood damage

Pakistan's farmers are still counting their losses from the devastating floods that have put a third of the country under water, but the long-term impact is already clear.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 3, 2022

U.S. angers China with potential $1.1 billion arms sale to Taiwan

Beijing has threatened countermeasures over Washington's sale of military equipment to Taipei, including 60 anti-ship missiles and 100 air-to-air missiles.
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BUSINESS
Sep 1, 2022

China party congress to offer clues on overhaul of economic team

China watchers say the next generation of officials are likely to have previously served in senior economic roles, ensuring policy continuity.
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WORLD
Sep 1, 2022

U.N. report accuses China of ‘serious’ rights abuses in Xinjiang

In its response, included with the report's publication, the Chinese government has said that the assessment 'wantonly smears and slanders China.”
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ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 25, 2022

Australia digging deep to reshape itself as green energy superpower

Everyone from oil majors to billionaire mining magnates is looking for a way to capitalize on the fossil-fuel giant's transformation.
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BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 24, 2022

Saudi Arabia's 'surveillance city': Would you sell your data to The Line?

The country's poor human rights record does not bode well for responsible data usage or the safeguarding of individual privacy, digital rights experts say.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 21, 2022

No fuel, no hope: Sri Lankans flee crisis in mass brain drain

Exact numbers are unavailable, but data suggests the scale of exiting professionals could significantly delay an economic recovery.
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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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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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BUSINESS / Longform
Aug 15, 2022

The race to power a low-carbon future with next-generation EV batteries

The stakes are high for those competing to create the batteries needed to power the electric vehicles of the future, but even higher for a world in the throes of climate change.
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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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WORLD
Aug 11, 2022

Trump taps small, trusted pool of lawyers as legal woes mount

Overlapping circles when it comes to who has represented the former U.S. president and those around him could pose conflicts of interests as cases progress.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Aug 10, 2022

Serena Williams to retire from playing after U.S. Open

The 23-time Grand Slam champion and former world No. 1 said Tuesday that she was 'evolving away from tennis' and was ready to focus on motherhood as well as her business interests.
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BUSINESS
Aug 8, 2022

Corporations join the nuclear fusion craze

TAE Technologies' CEO says more corporate partnerships are coming after his company demonstrated a key breakthrough in constructing viable reactors.
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ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Aug 8, 2022

With military drills near Taiwan, Xi tries to salvage Pelosi crisis

Chinese leader Xi Jinping may not have been able to stop Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, but he has ordered his country's military to rehearse for a much more aggressive step.
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BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2022

China's factory activity contracts unexpectedly in July as COVID flares up

The official manufacturing purchasing managers' Index fell to 49.0 in July from 50.2 in June, below the 50-point mark that separates contraction from growth.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 2022

Japan to let prefectures declare new anti-COVID measures but won't curb social activities

Governors will now be able to declare that their prefectures are in need of measures to counter the BA.5 subvariant when their health care systems are severely strained.
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BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jul 29, 2022

South Korean inflation raises risk of widening worker unrest

Warnings have been given about a new wave of agitation by contract workers who have long borne the brunt of the country's corporate cost cutting.
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WORLD
Jul 19, 2022

Sidelining of spy chief spotlights Ukraine's battle to purge Russian agents

Zelenskyy hailed the dismissal of top members of the nation's security and law enforcement agencies as part of a process of 'self-purification.'
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WORLD
Jul 17, 2022

As Biden reaches out to Mideast dictators, his eyes are on China and Russia

Biden outlined a five-part 'new framework for the Middle East” that included supporting economic development, military security and democratic freedoms.
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BUSINESS
Jul 16, 2022

China's surging hydropower a boon for its climate goals and energy bills

Plentiful rainfall and fast-growing new capacity for other renewable sources have cut needs for fossil fuel.
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WORLD
Jul 15, 2022

Amid devastating heat, Europe's climate change impacts make adaptation harder

Heat waves and droughts are expected to overwhelm swaths of the continent this summer, causing fires, halting power plants and cutting crop output.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 14, 2022

The fall of the house of Rajapaksa

Through a combination of authoritarianism, nepotism, cronyism, and hubris, the Rajapaksa family weighed down Sri Lanka's economy with more debt than it could possibly bear.
JAPAN
Jul 12, 2022

Shinzo Abe’s funeral procession passes through a somber Tokyo

Crowds looked on as a black hearse carrying Abe's body, with his wife, Akie, in the passenger seat, headed toward Japan's political center of Nagatacho.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Jul 10, 2022

With fresh mandate, Kishida set to have hands full in coming months

Fresh off his party's Upper House election victory, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is expected to set his sights on a signature economic policy, Japan's COVID measures and a defense overhaul.

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