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HUNGER

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 2, 2020
China scores big against poverty but the poor haven’t gone away
Almost 90% of the population was below the international poverty threshold in 1981, according to the World Bank; by the 2019, that was under 1%.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2020
How the green revolution is harming Africa
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, around two billion people globally were experiencing food insecurity, and close to 750 million faced chronic or severe hunger.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 16, 2020
Storms and pandemic raise fear of worst North Korea famine since 1990s
Three destructive typhoons, U.S.-backed sanctions and the global pandemic are fueling concern that North Korea’s 26 million people could slip back into the devastating food shortages the country faced during the rule of Kim Jong Un’s father in the 1990s.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2020
Celebrating 75 years of the United Nations
The U.N. and the belief in global solidarity that it embodies have never been more essential as the world finds itself in turmoil amid a virus pandemic and a recession.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 6, 2020
First famines of coronavirus era are at world’s doorstep, U.N. warns
The first famines of the coronavirus era could soon hit four chronically food-deprived conflict areas — Yemen, South Sudan, northeast Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo — the top humanitarian official of the United Nations has warned.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 8, 2020
COVID-19 is spreading fast because billions don’t have water to wash with
A severe household water shortage facing two out of five people in the world is undermining efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 14, 2020
Global hunger and obesity are worsening due to coronavirus fallout
Hunger and malnourishment are increasing around the world as the coronavirus crisis pushes more people into poverty and limits access to healthy diets, according to the United Nations.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jun 30, 2020
Nepal families face hunger and skip meals as pandemic hits remittances
'I skipped several evening meals to save whatever little food I had for my daughter,' said Nepali housewife Shiba Kala Limbu.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 26, 2020
Kenyans brace for second — and possibly worse — onslaught of locusts
After desert locusts invaded her farm in central Kenya, Mary Muthoni, 61, ran around her corn fields shouting and banging on an old iron sheet in a desperate attempt to drive them away.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 3, 2020
Somalia declares locust plague emergency, appeals for funding
Somalia declared the worst desert locust invasion in a quarter-century a national emergency that's posing a major threat to an already fragile food situation.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2019
Tokyo rally protests prolonged detention of foreign nationals at immigration facilities
A rally was held in Tokyo on Thursday calling for an end to the prolonged detention of foreign nationals at immigration facilities across the country, with a woman pleading for the immediate release of her detained husband, who is on a hunger strike.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2019
Chief of U.N. agricultural fund warns Africa could face food shortages as populations grow
Over the past three days in Yokohama, top government and business leaders from Africa and Japan discussed what they see as an exciting future for booming African economies, at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 20, 2019
Japan considers $8.6 billion U.N. pledge to support progress on development goals
Japan is making arrangements for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to pledge about $8.55 billion at a U.N. meeting next month in New York as part of the country's contribution to attaining development goals set by the body, government sources said Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 29, 2019
Jailed British-Iranian aid worker ends hunger strike in Iran
Jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has ended a hunger strike in Tehran designed to push for her release, her husband told the BBC on Saturday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 27, 2019
Diseases and food shortages plague migrant 'jungle camp' in Bosnia
Aid workers sounded the alarm on Wednesday about health and hygiene conditions in a makeshift forest camp in Bosnia for hundreds of migrants as they face the spread of scabies and other diseases as well as food shortages.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 26, 2019
Heavy-weapons fire rocks Yemen's Hodeida as U.N. pushes to get warring sides to pull out
Yemen's warring parties exchanged heavy weapons fire overnight in Hodeida, residents and military sources said, as the United Nations scrambled to salvage a cease-fire deal in the Yemeni port city that is a lifeline for millions at risk of starvation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 22, 2019
Future of food under 'severe threat' amid rapid decline in species diversity, U.N. warns
The future of food supplies is under "severe threat" because of the number of animal and plant species that are quickly disappearing, a United Nations report said Friday as the world grapples with how to feed a growing population.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Nov 2, 2018
U.N. agencies' report says hundreds of millions of adults, children in Asia's booming cities are undernourished
Hundreds of millions of children and adults in Asia's rapidly expanding cities are undernourished, and will remain so without "inclusive, sustainable and nutrition-sensitive" urban planning, United Nations officials said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 7, 2018
Action needed to combat hunger
The number of people suffering from hunger is rising, in large part because of conflict and climate change.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Aug 30, 2018
Drought uncovers once-dreaded 'Hunger Stones' in Czech river
Ancient ominous warnings carved on usually submerged boulders along the Elbe River had for centuries driven fear into the hearts of Czechs, but their reappearance during this year's drought is just a reminder of how tough people had it.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Ukraine is far from doomed
When comparing Ukraine’s military situation in 2024 to Europe’s in 1941, Russia’s defeat seems entirely possible.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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