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BASKETBALL / B. League
May 13, 2021

B. League playoffs kick off with plenty of things to watch

After being forced to cancel the playoffs last season, eight B. League teams are ready to vie for the title this year.
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JAPAN
May 13, 2021

Japan to ban re-entry of foreign residents who visit India, Nepal and Pakistan

The new rules will still allow Japanese nationals to re-enter and will not bar many foreign residents who left before the measure takes effect.
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COMMENTARY / World
May 13, 2021

Unseen digital cash will stretch your money

These invisible blockchain tokens could still turbocharge our everyday money: by making it move faster and stretching its worth.
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COMMENTARY / World
May 13, 2021

Will Moon Jae-in's appeasement policy work this time?

History may eventually show that Mr. Moon's fanciful but unrealistic appeasement policy vis-a-vis North Korea between 2017 and 2022 failed to work.
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COMMENTARY / World
May 13, 2021

The limits to U.S.-China climate cooperation

The best we can hope for is that the two superpowers are disciplined enough to avoid endangering humanity's survival as they jostle for geopolitical advantage.
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OLYMPICS
May 13, 2021

IOC expresses confidence despite public opposition to Tokyo Games

As things stand now we are moving full ahead. We continue to plan for full games. That's the way it has to be for us,' IOC spokesman Mark Adams said.
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BUSINESS / Companies
May 13, 2021

SoftBank tumbles after record profit fails to impress

Investors are skittish about whether SoftBank will keep buying back its own stock after completing a u00a52.5 trillion allotment for repurchases.
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WORLD
May 13, 2021

Wealthy nations’ vaccine spree obscures global pandemic misery

As India grapples with a deadly surge among its population of 1.4 billion, worries are growing for many other spots all over the planet.
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BUSINESS
May 13, 2021

Elon Musk sends Bitcoin tumbling with shock U-turn on payments

In a post on Twitter Wednesday, Musk cited concerns about 'rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions.”
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WORLD
May 13, 2021

WHO urged to reform after panel finds failures worsened pandemic

The international system remains unfit to avoid another disease spiraling into one that matches COVID-19, an independent review has found.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
May 13, 2021

Chinese shot takes controversial path to vaccinating the world

Used to operating within China, where public opinion is censored, Chinese vaccine-makers have had a tough time showing their 'growth in front of the world,' an expert said.
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ASIA PACIFIC
May 13, 2021

India's oxygen shortage sparks hunt for $1,000 machines

Portable oxygen concentrators are becoming a line of defense for those seeking to avert breathing difficulties while recuperating at home.
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WORLD
May 13, 2021

Biden signs order to boost cybersecurity after pipeline hack

U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order intended to strengthen cybersecurity by improving information sharing about attacks with the private sector and adopting better safety practices throughout the government.
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CULTURE / Music
May 13, 2021

What will music festivals look like in the wake of the pandemic? We'll start to find out this summer.

Naoki Shimizu, the man behind Japan's massive Summer Sonic festival, talks about COVID-19 precautions and new ideas for moving forward.
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WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
May 13, 2021

Israel-Gaza crisis drags Biden into vortex he sought to avoid

Biden had been trying to pivot America's foreign policy to China, revive the Iran nuclear deal and wind down America's 'forever wars.”
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ASIA PACIFIC
May 13, 2021

U.S. calls Xinjiang an 'open-air prison,' as it slams religious persecution by China

Also on Wednesday, the U.S., Germany and Britain clashed with China at the United Nations over the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
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CULTURE / Film
May 13, 2021

'Along the Sea': Akio Fujimoto presents a gripping story of young Vietnamese women trying to survive Japan

The Vietnamese technical trainees in 'Along the Sea' are seldom seen or heard in Japanese society, but the actors' performances make it hard to look away.
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CULTURE / Film
May 13, 2021

‘Headless Girl’: A lighter approach to the act of historical interpretation

A planned peace memorial triggers open conflict in Ken Kawai's “Headless Girl,” a scattershot satire about who gets to write history.
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COMMENTARY / World
May 12, 2021

The Western news media’s lurid Orientalism

Western media have been filled with images of dead bodies and other graphic scenes that generally would not be shown following a similar disaster in a Western country.
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BUSINESS
May 12, 2021

Global firms leave Myanmar office block with military ties

The site in Yangon was leased from the military, according to a 2019 fact-finding mission established by the United Nations.
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JAPAN
May 12, 2021

Tokyo 2020 sponsor Toyota 'conflicted' over pandemic Olympics

'To be honest, we are conflicted every day over what the best course of action is,' said Jun Nagata, the automaker's operating officer.
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BUSINESS
May 12, 2021

After $260 billion slide, Alibaba aims to show the worst is over

Alibaba has agreed to a record $2.8 billion penalty from Beijing and vowed to change certain practices deemed anti-competitive.
JAPAN / FOCUS
May 12, 2021

How domestic clinical trials slow Japan's vaccine approval process

To achieve greater efficiency and flexibility, some have argued that Japan should institute its own version of the emergency use authorization framework seen in the U.S.
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LIFE / Lifestyle / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
May 12, 2021

Celebrating Ramadan during a pandemic: ‘As Muslims in Japan, we have to make the vibes by ourselves’

This year, iftar meals were again a homebound affair for many Muslims in Japan, and what used to be grand, communal gatherings changed into much smaller celebrations.

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A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.
80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped