Australia part of Asia, minister says on visit to Malaysian birthplace
https://japantoday.com/category/world/australia-part-of-asia-minister-says-on-visit-to-malaysian-birthplace
June 30, 2022, 7:07 AM
Visiting the Malaysian city where she was born, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said her story showed that Australia was part of Asia, as new data showed more…
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Asia stocks mixed after Wall Street down, China manufacturing up
https://japantoday.com/category/business/asia-stocks-mixed-after-wall-st-down-china-manufacturing-up
June 30, 2022, 6:21 AM
Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday after the U.S. economy contracted and China reported stronger factory activity.
Shanghai and Hong Kong gained, while Tokyo and Seoul declined. Oil…
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Ohtani strikes out 11, extends scoreless streak in 4-1 win over White Sox
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/ohtani-ks-11-extends-scoreless-streak-in-4-1-win-over-wsox
June 30, 2022, 5:36 AM
Shohei Ohtani extended his scoreless streak to 21 2/3 innings while pitching five-hit ball into the sixth with 11 strikeouts in the Los Angeles Angels' 4-1 victory over…
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Ex-KAT-TUN singer Tanaka arrested again for drug possession, 9 days after getting suspended sentence
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/ex-kat-tun-singer-tanaka-arrested-again-for-drug-possession-9-days-after-getting-suspended-sentence
June 30, 2022, 7:50 AM
Police in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on Thursday arrested a former member of KAT-TUN, an all-male idol group, on suspicion of violating the Stimulants Control Law, just nine days…
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Electricity grid strained as record heatwave scorches Kanto area
https://japantoday.com/category/national/Electricity-grid-strained-as-record-heatwave-scorches-Kanto-area
June 30, 2022, 7:48 AM
Japan's electricity grid creaked on Thursday under the strain of Tokyo's hottest June since records began, with the unexpected shutdown of a power plant raising fears that tens…
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Russia steps up attacks in Ukraine after landmark NATO summit
https://japantoday.com/category/world/russia-steps-up-attacks-in-ukraine-after-landmark-nato-summit1
June 30, 2022, 4:25 AM
Russia pressed on with its offensive in eastern Ukraine on Thursday after NATO branded Moscow the biggest "direct threat" to Western security and agreed plans to modernize Kyiv's…
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Ferdinand Marcos Jr sworn in as Philippine president
https://japantoday.com/category/world/Ferdinand-Marcos-Jr-takes-oath-as-Philippine-president
June 30, 2022, 5:35 AM
Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the namesake son of an ousted dictator, was sworn in as Philippine president Thursday in one of the greatest political comebacks in recent history but…
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Tokyo reports 3,621 coronavirus cases
https://japantoday.com/category/national/Tokyo-reports-3-621-new-coronavirus-cases
June 30, 2022, 8:00 AM
The Tokyo metropolitan government on Thursday reported 3,621 new coronavirus cases, down 182 from Wednesday and up 1,208 from last Thursday.
Japanese media reported that the Tokyo government is…
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Personal info on California gun owners wrongly made public
https://japantoday.com/category/world/personal-info-on-california-gun-owners-wrongly-made-public
June 30, 2022, 12:48 AM
The California Department of Justice on Wednesday acknowledged the agency wrongly made public the personal information of perhaps hundreds of thousands of gun owners in up to six…
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'Lessons learned', but no details of royal review of Meghan bullying claims
https://japantoday.com/category/world/%27lessons-learned%27-but-no-details-of-royal-review-of-meghan-bullying-claims
June 29, 2022, 11:30 PM
Buckingham Palace says lessons have been learned following a review into bullying allegations made by royal staff against Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, although it declined to give…
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U.S. newspapers continuing to die at rate of 2 each week
https://japantoday.com/category/business/u.s.-newspapers-continuing-to-die-at-rate-of-2-each-week
June 29, 2022, 11:27 PM
Despite a growing recognition of the problem, the United States continues to see newspapers die at the rate of two per week, according to a report issued Wednesday…
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Japan's perilously low birthrate a forgotten election issue
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/focus-japan%27s-perilously-low-birthrate-a-forgotten-election-issue
June 30, 2022, 7:49 AM
Geopolitical and economic concerns are dominating headlines ahead of the upcoming House of Councillors election, putting the critical issue of Japan's stubbornly low birthrate on the backburner at…
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Beat the heat
https://japantoday.com/category/picture-of-the-day/beat-the-heat-5
June 29, 2022, 9:56 PM
A variety of products to beat the summer heat are seen at a Loft store in Tokyo on Wednesday, as temperatures stay high across Japan.
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1/6 hearings fuel the question: Did Trump commit a crime?
https://japantoday.com/category/world/1-6-hearings-fuel-the-question-did-trump-commit-a-crime
June 30, 2022, 4:11 AM
The House Jan 6 committee has heard dramatic testimony from former White House aides and others about Donald Trump’s relentless efforts to overturn the 2020 election — and…
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Alleged truck driver posed as victim after Texas migrant deaths
https://japantoday.com/category/world/alleged-truck-driver-posed-as-victim-after-texas-migrant-deaths2
June 29, 2022, 10:41 PM
The alleged driver of a truck carrying dozens of migrants who died in the suffocating heat in Texas this week initially tried to pass himself off as a…
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Taliban to meet U.S. on releasing frozen Afghan funds after quake
https://japantoday.com/category/world/taliban-to-meet-us-on-releasing-frozen-afghan-funds-after-quake
June 29, 2022, 10:36 PM
A Taliban delegation arrived in Qatar on Wednesday for talks with the United States on unlocking some of Afghanistan's reserves following a devastating earthquake, with Washington seeking ways…
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U.S.-Iran indirect nuclear talks in Doha end without progress
https://japantoday.com/category/world/u.s.-iran-indirect-nuclear-talks-in-doha-end-without-progress
June 29, 2022, 10:09 PM
Indirect talks between Tehran and Washington aimed at breaking an impasse over how to salvage Iran's 2015 nuclear pact have ended in Qatar without the progress "the EU…
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Copenhagen gives Tour de France rapturous reception
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/copenhagen-gives-tour-de-france-rapturous-reception
June 29, 2022, 10:38 PM
Raucous crowds at the Copenhagen Tivoli theme park gave the Tour de France the kind of reception organizers could only have dreamed of on Wednesday.
The loudest cheers…
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China's image slips further in developed world: survey
https://japantoday.com/category/world/china%27s-image-slips-further-in-developed-world-survey
June 29, 2022, 10:10 PM
Increasingly large majorities in the developed world see China unfavorably, with record levels of criticism in the United States, Germany and South Korea, a survey said Wednesday.
A…
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Leaders of U.S., S Korea and Japan agree on closer cooperation over N Korea
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/leaders-of-u.s.-south-korea-and-japan-agree-closer-cooperation-over-north-korea-threat
June 29, 2022, 9:58 PM
The leaders of the United States, South Korea and Japan on Wednesday expressed deep concern over North Korea's missile tests and said they would cooperate more closely to…
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Gas leak may have killed 21 youths in South Africa tavern
https://japantoday.com/category/world/gas-leak-may-have-killed-21-youths-in-south-africa-tavern1
June 29, 2022, 10:43 PM
Twenty-one young people found dead in a tavern on South Africa's east coast over the weekend may have died by poisoning from a gas leak, a source close…
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Kishida seeks major upgrade of NATO partnership
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/update3-japan-pm-seeks-major-upgrade-of-nato-partnership-after-russia%27s-war
June 30, 2022, 7:50 AM
Japan intends to upgrade its partnership with NATO significantly after Russia's war against Ukraine as the security of Europe is inseparable from that of Asia, Prime Minister Fumio…
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Last remaining WWII Medal of Honor recipient dies at 98
https://japantoday.com/category/world/last-remaining-wwii-medal-of-honor-recipient-dies-at-98
June 29, 2022, 10:11 PM
Hershel W. “Woody” Williams, the last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, whose heroics under fire over several crucial hours at the Battle of Iwo…
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Tan's doubles partner angered by Wimbledon withdrawal
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/tan%27s-doubles-partner-angered-by-wimbledon-withdrawal
June 29, 2022, 10:31 PM
A day after eliminating Serena Williams from Wimbledon in her debut at the grass-court Grand Slam, Harmony Tan surprised and angered her doubles partner by withdrawing from that…
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Japan says China has built another gas drilling facility in contested sea
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/japan-says-china-built-another-gas-drilling-facility-in-contested-sea
June 29, 2022, 9:59 PM
Japan's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday confirmed that China has finished building a new drilling facility for gas fields in a contested area of the East China Sea for…
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Sweet 16 for Djokovic as Murray exits Wimbledon
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/%27brick-wall%27-djokovic-murray-eye-wimbledon-third-round1
June 29, 2022, 10:07 PM
Defending champion Novak Djokovic reached the Wimbledon third round for the 16th time on Wednesday as career-long rival Andy Murray suffered his earliest-ever exit from the All England…
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Ukrainians search for 20 missing after Russia strikes mall
https://japantoday.com/category/world/ukrainians-search-for-20-missing-after-russia-strikes-mall
June 30, 2022, 5:09 AM
Russian forces battled Wednesday to surround the Ukrainian military’s last stronghold in a long-contested eastern province as shock reverberated from a Russian airstrike on a shopping mall that…
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New Zealand Maori beat Ireland 32-17 in 1st tour match
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/new-zealand-maori-beat-ireland-32-17-in-1st-tour-match
June 29, 2022, 10:08 PM
A dominant first-half performance set the New Zealand Maori on course to a 32-17 win over the touring Ireland rugby team Wednesday in the first of two matches…
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Aquaculture drives aquatic food yields to new high
https://japantoday.com/category/world/aquaculture-drives-aquatic-food-yields-to-new-high
June 29, 2022, 10:10 PM
The amount of fish, shellfish and algae caught in the wild and farmed in aquaculture hit a record 214 million tons in 2020, the Food and Agriculture Organization…
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Lone surviving attacker in Paris massacre guilty of murder
https://japantoday.com/category/world/verdict-looms-in-trial-over-2015-paris-extremist-attacks
June 29, 2022, 10:09 PM
The lone survivor of a team of Islamic State extremists who terrorized Paris in 2015 was convicted Wednesday of murder and other charges and sentenced to life in…
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