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Official account of Japan's most widely read English-language news source. Est. 1897. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/

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The 27-year-old, battling to keep his weight under the division limit, secured the berth to represent Japan at next year's Paris Olympics by clinching a podium finish in the Serbian capital. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2023/09/19/more-sports/wrestling-higuchi-worlds-silver/?utm_content=bufferc6b75&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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[Commentary] Given the growing political turmoil in the Kremlin, Xi Jinping's big bet on his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, has become much riskier. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2023/07/17/commentary/world-commentary/china-russia-relations-3/?utm_content=buffer4c37f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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Japanese police plan to launch a new unit next spring to investigate a rising number of scams nationwide that often target the elderly. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/15/national/crime-legal/fraud-department-japanese-police/?utm_content=buffer05ac9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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Police arrested four people on Thursday for allegedly abandoning the body of a 6-year-old boy in the city of Kobe. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/national/crime-legal/kobe-boy-abandoned-body-arrests/?utm_content=buffer0023d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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Japanese and South Korean foreign ministers have reaffirmed close cooperation in dealing with North Korea's military threat. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/14/national/icbm-cooperation-sk/?utm_content=buffer7a08d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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Pita Limjaroenrat has failed to reach the needed majority to become Thailand's next prime minister. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/13/world/pita-loses-thailand-pm-bid/?utm_content=buffer151ff&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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The past three days were quite likely the hottest in Earth’s modern history, as an astonishing surge of heat across the globe continued to shatter temperature records from North America to Antarctica. | via The New York Times https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/07/world/science-health-world/global-heat-records-broken/?utm_content=buffer44b8c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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Amid her visit to Beijing, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that a decoupling of the U.S. and Chinese economies would be "virtually impossible" and would destabilize global markets. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/07/asia-pacific/us-china-economic-decouple-impossible/?utm_content=bufferb2177&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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Japanese workers’ wages have jumped by more than twice the pace expected by economists, offering the Bank of Japan a sign that upward momentum in pay may be strengthening. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/07/business/wage-growth-boj/?utm_content=buffer4e80c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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Fertilizer made from human waste is finding new favor in Japan as Ukraine's war hikes the price of chemical alternatives. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/06/national/human-waste-fertilizer/?utm_content=buffer6feda&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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IAEA chief Rafael Grossi met local residents to assuage concerns over the safety of Japan's plan to release treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into the ocean. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/05/national/grossi-fukushima-visit/?utm_content=buffer9fcf6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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A former operations executive on the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee admitted Wednesday to bid-rigging charges related to the Summer Games. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/05/national/crime-legal/yasuo-mori-bid-rigging-tokyo-olympics/?utm_content=bufferadcda&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #news #japan #2020tokyoolympics #dentsu #hakuhodo #japanesecourts

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Taiwan's Legislative Speaker You Si-kun led a trial run of a ferry service on Tuesday from the island's eastern county of Yilan to Japan's westernmost inhabited island of Yonaguni, in a bid to boost tourism and ties. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/national/taiwan-yilan-yonaguni-ferry/?utm_content=buffercf142&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #news #japan #okinawa #yonaguni #keijifuruya #taiwanjapanrelations #yousikun

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Ryosuke Takashima, who rose to national prominence after becoming the youngest city mayor ever in Japan, has made education reform a key focus of his time in the role. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/national/politics-diplomacy/youngest-mayor-education/?utm_content=buffer539cf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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Cats are considered lucky in Japan, and owners of the popular pets spend big on their care. But how do you know when they're feline down? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/national/science-health/cats-pain-app/?utm_content=buffer0607c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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Remarks by Japan's top financial diplomat likely signal Tokyo's desire to keep the market on guard about possible currency intervention to prop up the yen, which has been hovering near ¥145 to the dollar. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/04/business/financial-markets/japan-yen-dollar-us-dialogue/?utm_content=buffera04d4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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Tesla and China's BYD hit new sales records, widening their lead as the world’s top-selling EV makers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/03/business/tesla-byd-electric-vehicles-record-sales/?utm_content=buffer2ad0f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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The Japanese government plans to start releasing once-contaminated water from Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings' plant in Fukushima Prefecture this summer. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/02/national/radioactive-water-release/?utm_content=buffer3e301&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #news #japan #fukushima #nuclearpower #fukushimano1nuclearpowerplant #komeito #natsuoyamaguchi

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Japan and the European Union are considering issuing a joint statement announcing their intention to enhance maritime, cyberspace and supply chain security cooperation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/03/national/jp-eu-summit/?utm_content=bufferfc14d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #news #japan #fumiokishida #eujapanrelations

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The average income of lawmakers fell ¥990,000 from the previous year to ¥21.56 million in 2022, down for the fourth straight year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/03/national/lawmakers-income-2022/?utm_content=bufferc478d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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Several billions of dollars left in a project to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to the world’s poorest could be diverted to prepare for other pandemics, COVAX's partners have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/27/world/covid-vaccine-initiative-billions-left-over/?utm_content=buffere560b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #news #worldnews #health #who #covid19

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Verified accounts were initially limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, Elon Musk said, adding that unverified accounts will be limited to 600 posts a day with new unverified accounts limited to 300. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/07/02/business/tech/twitter-tweet-limit-musk/?utm_content=buffer914c8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #news #tech #socialmedia #twitter #elonmusk #tech

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Mount Fuji may have erupted more frequently than once thought, a research team has announced, which could potentially impact disaster preparedness in eastern and central Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/30/national/science-health/mount-fuji-eruption-history-frequent/?utm_content=buffer9254a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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Business tycoons see Brazil as a leader in the green hydrogen economy for one simple reason: the abundance of renewable energy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/30/world/brazil-aim-green-hydrogen-export-market/?utm_content=bufferb596c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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The yen's depreciation against the dollar is "rapid and one-sided," Japan's top currency diplomat Masato Kanda said, after the U.S. currency hit a seven-month high in the ¥143 zone. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/26/business/yen-weakening/?utm_content=buffer77836&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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Here’s what you need to know about the Wagner Group, its role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and why its leader is accused of mutiny. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/24/world/russia-wagner-group-explainer/?utm_content=buffer210ce&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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The United States has granted its first ever approvals to two companies to sell chicken grown directly from animal cells, becoming only the second country to allow lab-grown meat to be offered to consumers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/22/world/us-approves-lab-grown-chicken/?utm_content=buffera5907&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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Australia's internet safety watchdog has hreatened to fine Twitter for failing to tackle online abuse, saying Elon Musk's takeover had coincided with a spike in "toxicity and hate." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/06/22/business/australia-twitter-clean-up-hate/?utm_content=bufferd0d36&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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[Commentary] Target proves yet again that companies are better off avoiding the minefield of social activism and just concentrating on making money for shareholders. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2023/06/20/commentary/world-commentary/corporate-social-activism/?utm_content=buffer0c2af&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

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