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Starbucks Coffee Japan will replace paper straws with plant-based biomass plastic straws from next month.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 6, 2024

Starbucks in Japan to ditch paper straws for plant-based biomass plastic in 2025

The coffee company says the new straws are fully biodegradable in seawater and soil, and will not soften like paper ones.
Filipino housekeepers undergo training to work for a Japanese staffing company. By applying the same criteria when hiring overseas and local workers, Japanese firms tend to underutilize the unique skills that foreign nationals can bring.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 8, 2024

Firms should quit turning foreign workers into Japanese ones

Many foreign nationals struggle with the idiosyncrasies of Japan's employment system. Firms tend to assimilate overseas personnel rather than utilize their unique skills.
A Syrian rebel fighter kisses a child as they gather in Homs after Syria's army command notified officers on Sunday that President Bashar Assad's 24-year authoritarian rule had ended on Sunday.
WORLD / FOCUS
Dec 9, 2024

How Syrian rebels' stars aligned for Assad's ouster

Opposition militias sensed an opportunity to loosen the president grip on power when, about six months ago, they received Turkey's tacit blessing for a major offensive.
The Tokyo-based company Kioxia Holdings’ IPO price was ¥1,455, right at the middle of its range. That valued the firm at ¥784 billion ($5.2 billion).
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 9, 2024

Bain-backed Kioxia sets IPO price, valuing memory maker at $5.2 billion

The Tokyo-based company’s IPO price was ¥1,455, right at the middle of its range.
Factory workers make jeans in Dhaka in March 2023.
BUSINESS
Dec 9, 2024

Extreme heat puts garment factory workers at risk, study shows

New European Union regulations make retailers selling in the bloc legally liable for conditions at their suppliers.
Police officers reinvestigate a Tobu Tojo Line railroad crossing in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on Dec. 27, 2023, after a man was fatally hit by a train weeks earlier.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 9, 2024

Tokyo police arrest four men on suspicion of staging colleague’s suicide

They allegedly coerced the 56-year-old victim into standing on railway tracks where he went on to be fatally struck by a train.
Former Pirates star Dave Parker participates in a ceremony honoring the Pirates' 1979 World Series team in Pittsburgh on May 25.
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 9, 2024

Dave Parker and Dick Allen elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Needing a vote of at least 75%, Parker received 14 of 16 votes and Allen, who died in 2020 at the age of 78, got 13 votes.
Ant and Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 9, 2024

Jack Ma pushes AI drive in rare speech since Ant crackdown

The co-founder of Ant and affiliate Alibaba showed up to talk about the next 20 years of the fintech company and the opportunities brought on by artificial intelligence.
A sign warns of a nearby bear sighting in Takikawa, Hokkaido, in October.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 9, 2024

Firearm permit ruling casts shadow over work of Hokkaido bear hunters

A local high court upheld a decision to strip a hunter of his permit over allegations he fired in the direction of buildings during a culling.
Dining habits have changed since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, with alcohol consumption experiencing a drop.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 9, 2024

Hundreds of izakaya going bust as prices rise and customers change

In the first 11 months of this year, 203 of these establishments went out of business, more than the entire year of 2020 when COVID-19 became a pandemic.
Roki Sasaki delivers a pitch during the first inning of the World Baseball Classic semifinal against Mexico in Miami in March 2023.
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 10, 2024

45-day negotiation window set to begin as Marines post Roki Sasaki

The right-handed flamethrower has until 7 a.m. (JST) on Jan. 24 to sign with an MLB team.
The French headquarters of Huawei Technologies in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris in 2020. Companies that maintain business ties with Huawei could lose access to work for the Pentagon, which committed nearly $460 billion on contracts in fiscal 2023.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 10, 2024

Huawei suppliers to face further U.S. limits under defense bill

The bill's language effectively bars Pentagon contractors from selling chips and the equipment for making or designing them to Huawei or its affiliates.
Police escort Luigi Mangione to his arraignment at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, on Monday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 10, 2024

Murder charges filed against suspect in UnitedHealthcare shooting

The suspect, identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, was captured in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in a McDonald's after a customer and an employee believed he resembled the gunman.
Sumiteru Taniguchi, a former co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo (right), explains about hibakusha to then U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in August 2010 in front of a photo of himself suffering from severe burns as a child in Nagasaki.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2024

Hidankyo carries on hopes of late hibakusha in Nobel win

Now-deceased hibakusha spearheaded antinuclear activities while grappling with severe injuries, illnesses and the loss of their families.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a hearing in his trial on corruption charges at the district court in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 11, 2024

Israel's Netanyahu dismisses allegations in corruption trial

Benjamin Netanyahu is the first sitting prime minister of Israel to face a criminal trial.
Signage at the Tencent headquarters in Shenzhen, China
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 11, 2024

Scrappy studio boss feeds Tencent’s lofty global game ambitions

"Arena Breakout: Infinite" is Tencent’s newest "Call of Duty"-style PC shooter, targeting a genre that typically tops spending charts.
A restaurant owner waits for customers at her empty restaurant in Seoul on Oct. 31.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Dec 11, 2024

South Korea's fading nightlife signals shift in hard-drinking culture

The change has been driven by corporate Korea's slowdown on after-work drinking sessions, younger female workers' refusal to partake and inflation.
Incumbent Mayor Shuhei Azuma announces the opening of applications for a possible successor at a news conference on Sept. 25.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 11, 2024

City in Osaka Prefecture looks for new mayor using job search site

The idea is to encourage more people to get involved in local government in Japan, but questions have emerged about the project and its implications.
“Ainu Puri” is a nuanced portrait of Shigeki Amanai (left), a modern Ainu man who strives to uphold his culture and heritage in daily life.
CULTURE / Film
Dec 12, 2024

‘Ainu Puri’: A vital portrait of indigenous culture in contemporary Japan

Takeshi Fukunaga’s documentary is an engaging examination of the life and community of a Hokkaido man devoted to his Ainu heritage.
Najem al-Moussa, 36, his wife Bushra al-Bukaai, 30, and their five children at their home in Athens on Tuesday.
WORLD / Society
Dec 12, 2024

Syrian refugees in Europe fear being forced home after Assad's fall

"I consider my life to be here. Not just me, but my children," said one Syrian refugee who is living in Athens.
There is no guarantee that bird flu will ever begin transmitting between humans, and U.S. health authorities have emphasized that the risk to the general public remains low.
WORLD
Dec 12, 2024

'Knocking on our door': Experts warn of bird flu's pandemic threat

U.S. health authorities have emphasized that the risk to the general public remains low.
Naoshi Hirata, chairperson of the Earthquake Research Committee, speaks at a news conference on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Dec 12, 2024

Experts warn of more strong Noto Peninsula earthquakes

"It's impossible to say when the series of seismic activities will end," said the chairperson of the Earthquake Research Committee.
A man carries merchandise at a market near the border with Argentina, in Nanawa, Paraguay, in May.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 12, 2024

Argentina inflation hits four-year low as locals hope worst is over

Argentina, emerging from a period of major economic crisis and still grappling with rock-bottom foreign currency reserves and 50% poverty, has seen inflation come down.
Actor Sadao Abe accepts the 2024 U-Can New Word and Popular Phrase Award for ふてほど (futehodo), the abbreviated title for his series, “Futekisetsu nimo Hodo ga Aru!” (“Extremely Inappropriate!”).
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Dec 12, 2024

How often do Japan's buzzwords make it into the vernacular?

We crown a new one every year, but trendy terms tend to disappear from public consciousness if they're related to pop culture.
Nvidia will end the year with about 4,000 people in China, up from just about 3,000 at the start of 2024, people familiar with its operations said.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 12, 2024

Nvidia steps up hiring in China to focus on AI-driven cars

The tech giant will end 2024 with about 4,000 employees in China, after starting the year with around 3,000.
U.S. first lady Melania Trump, U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie Abe, in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in May 2019
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 12, 2024

Widow of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes to meet with Trump

Akie Abe's late husband was once dubbed the “Trump Whisperer” for his close ties with the former U.S. president.
A student at the University of Toronto campus. New immigration laws drastically reduce the number of foreign students in Canada.
WORLD / Society
Dec 12, 2024

Immigration whiplash hits Canada’s colleges in warning for economy

Concerns are mounting about damage to Canada’s reputation as a higher-education hub for talented young people who aim to join the workforce.
International Gymnastic Federation Morinari Watanabe is one of seven candidates running to succeed current International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.
OLYMPICS
Dec 12, 2024

IOC presidential hopeful Morinari Watanabe calls for changes in marketing strategy

Watanabe is one of seven candidates running to lead the IOC.
Former China coach Li Tie, seen during a World Cup qualifier in September 2021, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on corruption charges on Friday.
SOCCER
Dec 13, 2024

Former China men's soccer coach Li Tie sentenced to 20 years in jail for corruption

Anti-graft authorities in China took aim at the sports industry in 2022 and announced a string of convictions for former soccer administrators this week.
Numbered evidence markers indicate where bullet casings were located at the crime scene outside the New York Hilton Midtown, where Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot, Dec. 4.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 13, 2024

Suspect in UnitedHealthcare shooting visited Japan, then vanished

New details are emerging about Luigi Mangione’s growing impatience with "a capitalist society” and his search for refuge in the mountains of Japan.
China seizes disputed reef near key Philippine military outpost
China Coast Guard officers unfurl a national flag on Sandy Cay reef, near the Philippine-held Thitu Island, in disputed waters of the South China Sea this month in this screen shot taken from Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami
A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
California says it overtakes Japan to become world’s No. 4 economy
Vehicles travel along the 110 freeway in downtown Los Angeles. California's GDP has overtaken Japan's to become the world's fourth largest economy, according to the U.S. state.
Arunima Mazumdar: ‘Japanese literature has a niche but deeply engaged readership in India’
Arunima Mazumdar, a New Delhi-based communications professional, began sharing her love of Japanese literature online in 2022. The platform has grown into a robust community known as Dokusha Book Club.
Counting the reasons why there are so few American cars in Japan
Tesla's store in Tokyo's Shibuya district. While sales of American cars in Japan appear to be shrinking, Tesla's presence in the country is growing.
Expo '25 gives the world a masterclass in mascots
2025 Osaka Expo mascot Myaku-Myaku dances on the stage during the event's official opening ceremony on April 12.
Japan struggles with gray zone of AI deepfakes exploiting children
AI-generated content — including those made using pictures of real people, which are known as “deepfakes” — is not explicitly covered under Japan's current legal framework, nor are human-drawn illustrations that depict child abuse.
‘Wildcat Dome’ challenges Japan's historical narratives
On the surface, "Wildcat Dome" tells a personal story of damaged children — now adults — bound together by tragedy. Underneath, there’s a constant undercurrent of political consequence, invisible and pervasive like radioactive particles.
Reclaiming Sanya, one meal at a time
Magokoro Yoshihira (center) is the managing director of Yui Associates, which operates the neighborhood fixtures of Sanya Cafe and Juyoh Hotel. Yusuke Takahashi (left) met Yoshihira during a difficult period in his life and now works as the cafe’s chef. Nancy Anne (right) has worked for over 10 years at Juyoh Hotel and enjoys the multicultural environment.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
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