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UKRAINE

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 13, 2023
Europe is knocking on debt’s door
By continuing to issue common bonds to finance its expenditures, the European Commission is harming savers and undermining the creditworthiness of national governments.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 13, 2023
Ukraine must rewrite Russia’s narrative in the Global South
Ukraine has won the West’s support in the war against Russia. But to ensure victory, it will need the developing world’s, too.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 13, 2023
Casualties in Donetsk mount as Russia and Ukraine fight for Bakhmut
Kyiv said Russian forces had suffered more than 1,100 dead in recent days in the Bakhmut area, while Moscow said 220 Ukrainian services members had been killed in 24 hours of fighting.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 13, 2023
Fueled by Ukraine, European arms imports double in 2022
With a 93% jump compared to the year before, imports have also increased due to accelerating military spending by European states including Poland and Norway, researchers said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 10, 2023
Russia shifts tactics with deadly missile strikes on Ukraine
Ukraine said it shot down 34 of the 81 missiles fired, a lower than usual proportion because the barrage included three classes of weapon against which it has no defense.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 9, 2023
Russian missiles hit Ukrainian cities and cut power to nuclear plant
Russian missiles knocked out the power supply to Europe's largest nuclear plant during a barrage of strikes targeting cities across Ukraine.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Mar 9, 2023
Facing minefields and cash crunch, Ukraine farmers to sow smaller crop
Ukrainian farmers, who began planting spring crops last week, earn less than before as buyers factor in the war's higher costs and risks, giving them little incentive to maximize output.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 9, 2023
After Ukraine, does Putin have his eyes on another country?
Moldova is leaning West. That’s why the Kremlin is taking aim at the former Soviet republic.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 8, 2023
China says it’s neutral on the Russia-Ukraine war, but is it?
Xi Jinping may see Vladimir Putin as a kindred spirit, but what does the People's Liberation Army think of the Russian military?
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Mar 8, 2023
World Athletics renews funding for Ukrainian athletes
World Athletics announced it was renewing its Ukraine Solidarity Fund as well as taking several steps towards achieving gender equity.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 8, 2023
Intelligence suggests pro-Ukrainian group sabotaged pipelines, U.S. officials say
There is no evidence that the perpetrators of the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines were acting at the direction of any Ukrainian government officials.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 7, 2023
Putin has decided to normalize his war
Vladimir Putin's just-grin-and-bear-it message in his state-of-the-nation speech means that he has no idea how Russia wins the war.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 7, 2023
Ukraine seeks U.S. cluster bombs to adapt for drone use
Kyiv has urged members of Congress to press the White House to approve sending the weapons but it is by no means certain that the Biden administration will sign off on that.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2023
Be very wary of the slippery slope of occupation
To condemn Russian colonialism properly, one must be consistent and also condemn other examples, not least Israel’s subjugation of Palestinians in the occupied territories.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 6, 2023
South Korea is exporting billions in arms, just not to Ukraine
Traditional weapons suppliers like the US have faced production shortages in the war effort, and South Korea has stepped in to fill the gap in the global arms market.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 6, 2023
Polish-German tensions expose crack in unified Ukraine front
Quarreling in Warsaw and Berlin over missiles, tanks and spare parts has reached a new level.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 5, 2023
With Ukraine under pressure in Bakhmut, fight becomes a battle over roads
The Ukrainian military acknowledged that soldiers inside the city were encircled on three sides by a combined force of the Russian army and the Wagner private military company.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 4, 2023
The West tried to isolate Russia. It didn’t work.
A year into the war in Ukraine, it’s becoming clearer: While the West’s core coalition remains remarkably solid, it never convinced the rest of the world to isolate Russia.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 4, 2023
Biden and Germany's Olaf Scholz vow to punish Russia for war in Ukraine
Separately, an EU official said any arms provided by China to Russia in its war against Ukraine would trigger sanctions.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 2, 2023
How Putin's war is poisoning Ukraine's breadbasket
Scientists looking at soil samples taken from the recaptured Ukrainian region of Kharkiv found high concentrations of toxins such as mercury and arsenic from munitions.
Japan stands its ground after Trump letter delivers 25% U.S. tariff shock
U.S. President Donald Trump (left) and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at Morristown Airport, New Jersey, on Sunday. Trump on Monday sent letters to 12 countries notifying them of new "reciprocal" tariff rates effective Aug. 1.
Japan to set up 'control tower' for crimes by foreign residents
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
China’s housing crisis is worse than it seems
Residential buildings under construction in Shanghai in July 2022. The Chinese government risks long-term decline by repeating Japan’s policy mistakes in handling its real estate and demographic crises.
Japan and Canada ink key intel-sharing deal
Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand shakes hands with Japan's top diplomat, Takeshi Iwaya, at the end of a signing ceremony for an information security agreement, after bilateral talks in Tokyo on Tuesday.
NGOs condemn rise in anti-immigrant rhetoric ahead of Upper House vote
Sanseito head Sohei Kamiya holds a board that reads "Japanese First" in Tokyo on July 2. In a joint statement on Tuesday, eight human rights nongovernmental organizations described the far-right party's stance as "hate speech."
Japanese dancers find a home abroad at Houston Ballet
“Giselle” lead Yuriko Kajiya (center), performing with Connor Walsh as Albrecht, is one of six Japanese dancers at Houston Ballet.
From the Abes to the Ohtanis: How siblings shape athletic development
Olympic judoka Uta Abe (second from left) and Hifumi Abe (second from right) with their brother Yuichiro (center) and their parents. “I’m always consciously trying to be a good older brother,” Yuichiro said.
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Scams involving police impersonation surge
A video by the National Police Agency warns about fake scams.
Lawson to let visitors use larger parking lots as paid car campsites
A Lawson convenience store in Yachiyo, Chiba Prefecture. A new service from the company comes amid the rise in inbound tourists, making hotels and inns harder to book and more expensive.

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