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OLYMPICS
Jul 24, 2021
German cyclist, Dutch rower out of Olympics after positive COVID-19 test
German cyclist Simon Geschke has withdrawn from Saturday's Tokyo Olympics road race after testing positive for COVID-19, his team said Friday.
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JAPAN
Jun 30, 2021
Japan backs ASEAN's move to send envoy to Myanmar as coup continues
Since Myanmar's junta ousted the country's civilian government, more than 800 people have been killed in clashes between protestors and the military.
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BUSINESS
Jun 9, 2021
Tax deal by G7 countries exposes European policy rift on havens
The global deal on corporate tax looks set to pit large members such as Germany, France and Italy against Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
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BUSINESS
Oct 8, 2020
Who pays for toilet paper? Big questions loom in work-from-home era
As the world convulses in crisis, and tens of millions of us dig in for the long haul of working from home, one question looms large: Who pays for the tea and toilet paper?
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 23, 2020
Twitter hackers accessed private messages from 36 accounts, including Netherlands official
Twitter said on Wednesday that the hackers who breached its systems last week likely read the direct messages of 36 accounts, including one belonging to an elected official in the Netherlands.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 3, 2020
The battle to stop global warming is increasingly being fought in the courtroom
Climate change may be having its day in court.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 11, 2020
Just Eat Takeaway to buy Grubhub for $7.3 billion to enter U.S.
For Uber, losing the deal is a blow to its plan to turn a profit from food delivery as the pandemic decimates its main business of ride hailing.
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WORLD
Jun 9, 2020
Amsterdam to clean up sex-and-drugs tourism in post-virus reboot
As the coronavirus pandemic raged in March and April, the 500-year-old Amsterdam city-center became a ghost town: The scantily clad sex workers in brothel windows in small alleys like Stoofsteeg in the red-light district were gone, as were the hordes of tourists who come there to gawk at them; Coffee shops on historic plazas like Rembrandtplein and Leidseplein didn’t get the visitors who descend upon the city by the thousands for the cannabis they sell.
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WORLD
Jun 3, 2020
Protests over George Floyd's death expose strained race relations worldwide
Images of a white police officer kneeling on the neck of African American George Floyd, who later died, have sparked protests from Amsterdam to Nairobi, but they also expose deeper grievances among demonstrators over strained race relations in their own countries.
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SOCCER
May 4, 2020
Netherlands coach Ronald Koeman undergoes heart procedure
Netherlands coach Ronald Koeman underwent a heart procedure Sunday at a hospital in Amsterdam after feeling pain in his chest, his management company said in a statement.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 27, 2020
Nearly all Vietnamese minors at Dutch asylum centers were trafficked out, official says
Almost all the Vietnamese children who arrived in Dutch asylum centers in recent years disappeared and were probably trafficked, the Dutch government adviser on human trafficking has said.
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JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Mar 14, 2020
The Edo Period: An era of utter weirdness
The Edo Period (1603-1868) was a bizarre time that visitors to Japan could not help but comment on — the countless laws, the brutal punishments ... and the dogs.
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WORLD
Mar 10, 2020
Dutch prosecutors accuse Russia of trying to 'thwart' MH17 investigation
Dutch prosecutors accused Russia on Tuesday of trying to sabotage the investigation into the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine in 2014, saying this cast "a dark shadow" over the impending trial of four suspects in the crash.
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BUSINESS
Feb 13, 2020
Letter bombs explode in ABN Amro and Ricoh offices in Netherlands alleged bitcoin extortion
Two letter bombs exploded on Wednesday at two separate locations in the Netherlands but nobody was hurt in the incidents, which police blamed on an extortionist who had demanded payment in bitcoin.
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BUSINESS
Feb 11, 2020
Carlos Ghosn used Nissan-Mitsubishi venture to inflate pay, companies' lawyers allege
Carlos Ghosn, the fugitive former auto executive, used a joint venture between Nissan and Mitsubishi to inflate his pay, effectively clawing back a cut to his declared wages, and to cover a personal tax debt, lawyers for the companies said on Monday.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Feb 8, 2020
Ryunosuke Kuroda: Galloping into dressage
Having based himself in Europe to hone his equestrian skills, Kuroda now has his eye on representing Japan as a dressage rider at the Tokyo Olympics.
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JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Feb 8, 2020
Engelbert Kaempfer on the old roads of Japan
'Japanese travel more often than other people,' wrote Engelbert Kaempfer, the 17th-century physician, scholar, naturalist and explorer whose 'History of Japan' (1712) was the first full-length foreign-language portrait of the nation.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 8, 2020
Dutch 'walking bike' helps disabled people regain mobility, sit tall
Lindsey Main was an active Massachusetts woman who enjoyed yoga, running and walking her dog, until she suffered a stroke in January 2018 and lost mobility.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 25, 2020
Dutch regulators order Suzuki to report on alleged SUV emissions fraud
Suzuki Motor Corp. has received an order from Dutch automobile regulators to report on alleged diesel emissions falsifications regarding its sport utility vehicles.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 18, 2019
Amsterdam trials 'bubble barrier' to clean river of plastic waste
Amsterdam is trying out a "bubble barrier" to help remove plastic from the city's canals by capturing trash hidden beneath the surface of the water.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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.
A peek inside the brains of ‘super-agers’
For a little more than a decade, scientists have been studying a subset of people they call "super-agers.” These individuals are age 80 and older, but they have the memory ability of a person 20 to 30 years younger.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
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.
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.
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.

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