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Figure Skating
Mar 21, 2023

Pressure on for skaters as championships return to Japan

All eyes will be on current No. 1s Shoma Uno and Kaori Sakamoto, who are aiming to defend their respective world titles in front of home fans at Saitama Super Arena.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 20, 2023

To combat food shortages, North Korea deploys the military

Kim Jong Un, the country's leader, has called for soldiers to be “a driving force” in increasing food production, a reflection of the North's economic and geopolitical challenges.
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SUMO
Mar 19, 2023

Female sumo wrestlers slap down prejudices in Brazil

The president of the Brazilian Sumo Confederation says women are behind the sport's growth in the country.
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 19, 2023

Laborious and luxurious, saffron takes root again in southwestern Japan

The world's most expensive spice flows through a small village in Kyushu.
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JAPAN
Mar 18, 2023

South Korea begins process to normalize GSOMIA intel pact with Japan

Seoul is eyeing measures to normalize the deal, a report said, with an official letter detailing the move set to be delivered to Tokyo soon.
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WORLD / Politics
Mar 18, 2023

Trump family failed to disclose foreign gifts — including Abe golf clubs — Democrats say

The former leader and his family allegedly failed to disclose gifts worth a total of more than $250,000 given by foreign governments while he was in the White House.
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WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Mar 18, 2023

Will Russia's Vladimir Putin really ever be arrested?

The ICC has issued an arrest warrant, but does this mean the Russian president, accused of the war crime of deporting children, is really ever likely to stand trial in The Hague?
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BASEBALL
Mar 18, 2023

Baseball icon Miguel Cabrera soaks up a lot of lasts at World Baseball Classic

As Cabrera, 39, gets ready to hang up his spikes, he is soaking up a lot of lasts, starting with his fifth and final World Baseball Classic.
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WORLD
Mar 17, 2023

Deported: The Iraq War veterans denied the right to live in the U.S.

Advocates and former military personnel argue that the U.S. government continues to fail many foreign-born post-9/11 veterans 20 years since the start of the Iraq War.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 17, 2023

Should Japan have a nuclear-sharing agreement?

While Japan may be softening to the idea of taking a more active role in its own security, persuading the Japanese to accept the idea of hosting nuclear weapons will not be easy.
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WORLD
Mar 17, 2023

Why does the U.S. still retain the biometrics of millions of Iraqis?

Biometrics of nearly 3 million Iraqis are being stored in a database in West Virginia — where they are still held 20 years after the Iraq War started.
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WORLD
Mar 16, 2023

Exiled Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui charged with billion-dollar fraud in U.S.

Guo and his financial adviser, Kin Ming Je, conspired to cheat thousands of victims via a series of fictitious businesses and investment opportunities, prosecutors allege.
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WORLD
Mar 16, 2023

Debts and investment spur Honduran change of allegiance to China

Honduran Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina said his country was 'up to its neck' in financial challenges and debt — including $600 million it owes Taiwan.
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 15, 2023

Will the Catholic Church rethink contraception?

A break with a view of sex and procreation rooted in medieval ideas of natural law is long overdue for the Catholic Church.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 15, 2023

Samurai Japan aims to leave Tokyo Dome with one last WBC victory

A win against the Mike Piazza-managed Italians would leave Shohei Ohtani and company two games away from reclaiming the trophy Japan last lifted in 2009.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 15, 2023

Australia skipper Dave Nilsson would welcome chance to manage in NPB

Baseball continues to bring the former Dragon back to Japan, and each trip has only reinforced the idea that the challenge of leading an NPB team is one he would gladly take on.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 14, 2023

North Korea fires at least two ballistic missiles toward Sea of Japan

The latest launches come as South Korea and the United States are conducting their largest joint military drills in five years.
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WORLD
Mar 14, 2023

Russia and Ukraine battle for Bakhmut as ICC seeks war crime arrest warrants

The International Criminal Court is expected to seek the arrest of Russian officials for forcibly deporting children from Ukraine.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 13, 2023

Japan's sushi chains roll out defenses against 'sushi terrorism'

The new measures include cameras using artificial intelligence and changes to how food items are delivered to customers.
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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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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 / 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 / Politics
Mar 11, 2023

Li Qiang appointed Chinese premier as Xi asserts influence

The former Shanghai party chief was named the successor of outgoing premier Li Keqiang at a meeting of the country's rubber-stamp parliament on Saturday.
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ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Mar 11, 2023

China in sights as U.S., Australia and Britain leaders set to meet on subs

U.S. President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will gather in California to flesh out the AUKUS security pact.
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JAPAN / Longform
Mar 11, 2023

Abandoned after 3/11, Fukushima starts attracting new residents

People are moving to areas near the crippled nuclear power plant in the prefecture lured by the promise of subsidies, discount housing and work opportunities. But will these migrants stay?
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JAPAN / FOCUS
Mar 10, 2023

How the 3/11 disasters set in motion an evolution of the U.S.-Japan alliance

The March 11, 2011, tragedy prompted a broad and important shift for the Self-Defense Forces and the country’s military alliance with the United States.
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JAPAN
Mar 10, 2023

Twelve years after 3/11, dispute grows over Fukushima’s radioactive soil

The central government has pledged to — and is legally obliged to — move all of the soil out of Fukushima Prefecture by 2045.

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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.