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RUSSIA

Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Aug 20, 2022
NATO races to counter Russia’s threat in Europe’s weak spot
Moscow's war on its neighbor has raised questions as to whether NATO is doing enough to deter Russian expansionism after years of underinvestment and ignored warnings.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 20, 2022
Putin to allow inspectors to visit Russian-occupied nuclear plant
The French president's office said Moscow had 'reconsidered' a demand that the International Atomic Energy Agency travel through Russia to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear site.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 19, 2022
China’s reaction to Pelosi's Taiwan visit has air of deja vu
Beijing's Taiwan outbursts over Pelosi visit have been seen before, such as in the central government's purchase of the Senkakus.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 19, 2022
Japan’s largest online broker to shut crypto mining in Russia
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has created uncertainty over the prospects of the mining business, while crypto's global market rout has rendered it less profitable to mine tokens.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 19, 2022
U.N. chief seeks to secure Ukraine nuclear plant and explore peace talks
Antonio Guterres said he is gravely concerned by circumstances at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and called for military equipment and personnel to be withdrawn.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 19, 2022
Indonesian president says Xi and Putin will attend G20 summit
Putin's attendance could also bring him face to face with Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the first time since Russia's invasion.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 18, 2022
Pacific War hostilities didn’t exactly end on Aug. 15, 1945
The Soviet Union, and thus Russia, permanently damaged Japan's trust with its actions in Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2022
Japan utilities get contract offer from new Russian operator of Sakhalin-2
The Russian entity replaces the project operator Sakhalin Energy as Moscow rewrites rules for foreign firms operating in the country amid global sanctions after its invasion of Ukraine.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 17, 2022
Ukraine strikes again in Crimea, challenging Russian hold on peninsula
Ukrainian attacks in Crimea represent a growing challenge to Putin, with the peninsula's security key to Russia's military effort — and to Putin's political standing at home.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 17, 2022
How to win friends and drain Russia’s war machine
By establishing a buyers' cartel to impose a price cap on Russian crude, the West could achieve its goal of defunding Russia's war machine.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Aug 17, 2022
U.N. action to isolate Russia wanes almost six months into Ukraine war
'As the war has dragged on, it has become harder to find meaningful ways to penalize Russia,' said Richard Gowan, U.N. director at the independent International Crisis Group.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 16, 2022
Net-zero and Russia war drive nascent hydrogen economy
Green hydrogen is in sharp focus as governments seek to slash carbon emissions amid record-high temperatures and to safeguard energy supplies hit by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 15, 2022
Russia unplugs foes, rewards friends in latest market reboot
The plan will focus on mobilizing capital at home while catering to places the Kremlin considers friendly.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 15, 2022
Ukraine counters in the south as Russia pounds Donetsk region
Kyiv has said for weeks it is planning a counteroffensive to recapture Zaporizhzhia and neighboring Kherson province, the largest part of the territory Russia has seized.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 15, 2022
Putin says Russia and North Korea will expand bilateral relations
In a letter to Kim for North Korea's liberation day, Putin said closer ties would be in both countries' interests, and would help strengthen the security and stability of the region.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 14, 2022
The Group of 20 in an age of war
From a demographic perspective, the G20 is a much more legitimate grouping — in terms of representing a diverse, complex world — than the G7.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 14, 2022
With new weaponry, Ukraine is subtly shifting its war strategy
Despite massive losses, Russia still holds an advantage over Ukraine in a head-to-head fighting, but Ukraine is waging the war on its own terms.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 13, 2022
Shelling of Ukraine nuclear plant raising fears and outrage
The war in Ukraine has had no shortage of devastation, yet the repeated shelling of the sprawling Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in recent days has particularly roused widespread fears.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 12, 2022
Russia is scouring the globe for weapons to use against Ukraine
While Ukraine has received billions of dollars of weapons from the U.S. and Europe to help defend itself, Russia must rely on its own resources to support front-line forces.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 11, 2022
Germany looks like it is ready to begin a fourth nuclear exit
A wrongheaded phase-out of nuclear power plus a wrongheaded reliance on Putin's natural gas means Germany needs another U-turn.

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past