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RUSSIA

Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 2, 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine moves toward ‘war of drones’ as winter looms
The war's different theaters — front line, long range and economic — are tightly interwoven. Taken together, they suggest Putin still has an ambitious strategy to control Ukraine.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 1, 2022
Putin says power grid strikes were in response to Crimea drone attack
The Russian leader told reporters on Monday that Ukrainian drones had used the same marine corridors that grain ships transited under a U.N.-brokered deal.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 31, 2022
U.N., Turkey and Ukraine press ahead with Black Sea grain deal despite Russian pullout
Russia, which invaded Ukraine on. Feb 24, on Saturday halted its role in the Black Sea deal for an 'indefinite term,' cutting shipments from one of the world's top grain exporters.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 31, 2022
From Cuban missiles to Putin’s Ukraine nuclear crisis
Unlike Russian President Vladimir Putin, former Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis had the wisdom not to start an apocalyptic war simply to save face.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 30, 2022
Russian ambassador to Japan to leave office: report
Russian Ambassador Mikhail Galuzin often advocated a hard-line stance toward the long-standing Tokyo-Moscow dispute over four Russian-held islands claimed by Japan.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 30, 2022
Russia halts deal over Ukraine Black Sea grain exports after drone attacks
Russia told U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres in a letter that it was suspending the deal for an 'indefinite term' because it could not 'guarantee safety of civilian ships.'
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 29, 2022
Russia declares end of Ukraine mobilization campaign
Moscow said it had finished calling up reservists to fight in Ukraine, having drafted hundreds of thousands in a month and sending more than a quarter of them to the battlefield.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 28, 2022
Pentagon’s strategy won’t rule out nuclear use against nonnuclear threats
China remains Washington's 'most consequential strategic competitor for coming decades,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a letter presenting the new defense strategy.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 27, 2022
Russian nuclear rhetoric rekindles German Cold War fears
With the Ukraine border less than a nine-hour drive from Berlin, war feels uncomfortably close for many, though there is no imminent threat on domestic soil.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 27, 2022
Ukrainians hold out in east and prepare to battle for Kherson
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a Wednesday evening video address that there would be good news from the front but he gave no details.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 27, 2022
One missile shook Ukraine’s grain trade. Another might kill it.
If Russia doesn't renew a grain deal that allowed Ukraine back into global markets, it could send prices soaring again and savage Ukrainian farms.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Oct 26, 2022
Brittney Griner's nine-year drug sentence upheld in Russia
In a statement, the WNBA star's lawyers said it would be some time before she was moved to a prison colony, and that they had not yet decided whether to try to launch another appeal.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 26, 2022
Vladimir Putin’s crazy intimidation game
The Russian president's nuclear threats are intended to intimidate, not to incinerate Ukraine.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 26, 2022
Battling the cold in the trenches of eastern Ukraine
With 'tactical socks,' NATO standard sleeping bags and even a sauna, a unit of soldiers from Ukraine's 5th brigade is preparing for winter in a trench on the eastern front.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 26, 2022
Why is Russia suddenly talking about ‘dirty bombs’?
The idea of radiological dispersal devices is not new, and Russia's claim that Ukraine would build and use one has been met with scorn from the West.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Oct 25, 2022
Russian hurdler Natalya Antyukh could lose London gold over doping
Antyukh won the title at the London Games in August 2012, beating American Lashinda Demus, who will be upgraded to the gold if the International Olympic Committee acts on the AIU ruling.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 25, 2022
Putin’s threats worry Ukraine’s NATO allies as sign of Russian desperation
The view among Ukraine's allies is that the Kremlin is trying to scare them with the talk of 'unthinkable” weapons into reducing their supplies of weapons and other support for Kyiv.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 24, 2022
Ukraine slams Russia's 'dirty bomb' claims as dangerous lies
Western allies warned Moscow against using any pretext for escalating the conflict.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 23, 2022
Ukraine faces power cuts after Russian strikes as more flee Kherson
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pledged that his military would improve on an already good record of downing missiles with help from its partners.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 23, 2022
Using adoptions, Moscow turns Ukrainian children into spoils of war
Soldiers took children from orphanages and group homes to be adopted in Russia — but they also took children whose relatives or guardians want them back.
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Koshien’s dark summer forces reckoning for high school baseball
Koryo High School players greet their cheering section after beating Hokkaido’s Asahikawa Shiho in the first round of Summer Koshien on Aug. 7. The school withdrew three days later as a bullying scandal enveloped the team.
Akazawa's trip to Washington for tariff talks abruptly canceled
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, had been set to fly to Washington on Thursday.
Confusion over Japan’s ‘hometown’ plan overshadows African development event
First Lady Yoshiko Ishiba (center, in white and blue dress) hosts an event on Japanese culture with the first ladies of African leaders on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Aug. 21.
Mitsubishi’s wind-power retreat a blow to Japan's alternative-energy goals
Wind turbines in the town of Happo in Akita prefecture. Wind power is a key part of Japan's alternative energy drive.
Koshien’s dark summer forces reckoning for high school baseball
Koryo High School players greet their cheering section after beating Hokkaido’s Asahikawa Shiho in the first round of Summer Koshien on Aug. 7. The school withdrew three days later as a bullying scandal enveloped the team.
Is Kishida plotting a return of the king? Or would he rather stay a kingmaker?
Former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida chairs a plenary session at the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Aug. 21.
Japanese prefectures break with labor ministry on minimum wage
The ministry of labor has suggested a 6% minimum wage increase, but most prefectures reporting so far are opting to go slightly higher.
Philippines quietly deepening ‘unofficial’ defense ties with Taiwan
Filipino soldiers take part in a flag-raising ceremony on Mavulis Island during a visit by the Philippines' Armed Forces chief of staff, in Batanes, the Philippines, in June 2023. Batanes, a group of idyllic islands at the country’s northernmost tip, sits about 160 kilometers from Taiwan.
Are 'coolcations' the answer for Japan's heat-weary tourists?
Hikers on a trail in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. As extreme heat continues to grip Japan, a tectonic shift may be underway in the nation’s summer tourism scene as more people gravitate toward cooler destinations.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

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
By Alex K.T. Martin

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