Oil prices, Asian shares gain after tech rally on Wall St
https://japantoday.com/category/business/oil-prices-asian-shares-gain-after-tech-rally-on-wall-st
April 5, 2022, 7:51 AM
Shares edged higher in Asia and oil prices also advanced after a tech-driven rally on Wall Street. Trading was light with many regional markets including those in China…
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Fisheries remain opposed to Fukushima water discharge
https://japantoday.com/category/national/fisheries-remain-opposed-to-fukushima-water-discharge
April 5, 2022, 10:20 AM
Japan's fisheries federation remained firmly opposed to the government plan of discharging treated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea, its leader told Prime…
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Australia accelerates missile upgrade due to growing threats
https://japantoday.com/category/world/australia-accelerates-missile-upgrade-due-to-growing-threats
April 5, 2022, 6:38 AM
Australia has accelerated plans to buy long-range strike missiles years ahead of schedule because of growing threats posed by Russia and China.
Defense Minister Peter Dutton said Tuesday…
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California may empower citizens to sue over illegal firearms
https://japantoday.com/category/world/california-may-empower-citizens-to-sue-over-illegal-firearms
April 5, 2022, 4:47 AM
For all California's nation-leading attempts to regulate firearms, the state has not found a way to deter those happy to skirt the laws with stolen or homemade and…
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Landslide hits British family in Australia; 2 dead, 2 injured
https://japantoday.com/category/world/landslide-hits-british-family-in-australia-2-dead-2-hurt
April 5, 2022, 5:03 AM
A British family of five was caught in a landslide while walking in Australia's Blue Mountains, and the father and 9-year-old son died. The mother and their teenage…
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Case involving 19-year-old accused of murder, arson sent back to prosecutors
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/case-involving-19-year-old-accused-of-murder-arson-sent-back-to-prosecutors
April 5, 2022, 8:00 AM
A 19-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of killing a married couple and torching their home in Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture, last October, was sent back to…
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Tokyo reports 6,968 new coronavirus cases; nationwide tally 45,684
https://japantoday.com/category/national/Tokyo-reports-6-968-new-coronavirus-cases
April 5, 2022, 10:17 AM
The Tokyo metropolitan government on Tuesday reported 6,968 new coronavirus cases, up 2,584 from Monday and down 878 from last Tuesday.
By age group, 1,525 cases were in…
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N Korean leader's sister warns of nuclear response if provoked by South
https://japantoday.com/category/world/N-Korean-leader%27s-sister-warns-of-nuclear-response-if-provoked-by-South
April 5, 2022, 3:00 AM
For the second time this week, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un berated South Korea for touting its supposed preemptive strike capabilities against the…
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Japan's historic yakuza leaders wax philosophic, with selected memorable quotations
https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/japan%27s-historic-yakuza-leaders-wax-philosophic-with-selected-memorable-quotations
April 5, 2022, 1:14 AM
In 1855, John Bartlett, who ran the University Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, privately printed a "A Collection of Familiar Quotations." The book, which contained 258 pages of…
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Arsenal's top four bid rocked in Palace defeat
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/arsenal%27s-top-four-bid-rocked-in-palace-defeat
April 4, 2022, 10:01 PM
Arsenal's bid to finish in the Premier League's top four suffered a significant setback as Crystal Palace swept to an impressive 3-0 win on Monday.
Mikel Arteta's side…
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Rivals say Tiger can handle difficult walk at Masters
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/rivals-say-tiger-can-handle-difficult-walk-at-masters
April 4, 2022, 10:02 PM
Tiger Woods looks ready to manage the challenge of walking 72 holes at Augusta National only 14 months after suffering severe right leg injuries in a car crash.…
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Russian, Ukrainian ballet stars to dance together in Naples
https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/russian-ukrainian-ballet-stars-to-dance-together-in-naples
April 4, 2022, 9:59 PM
A Ukrainian ballerina who fled the war in her homeland and a Russian ballerina who quit the Bolshoi Ballet over the Russian invasion rehearsed on a stage in…
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Arrest made in connection with Sacramento mass shooting
https://japantoday.com/category/world/Arrest-made-in-connection-with-Sacramento-mass-shooting
April 4, 2022, 10:04 PM
Sacramento police announced an arrest Monday connected to the shooting that killed six people and wounded a dozen others in the heart of California’s capital as at least…
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Europe-South America partnership could challenge FIFA power
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/europe-south-america-partnership-could-challenge-fifa-power
April 4, 2022, 10:02 PM
In a small ground-floor office suite in London's affluent Mayfair district, FIFA's control over world football was eroded with a handshake and low-key unveiling.
The deeper alliance between…
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More than a dozen killed in eastern Congo attack
https://japantoday.com/category/world/more-than-a-dozen-killed-in-eastern-congo-attack
April 4, 2022, 10:04 PM
Suspected rebels attacked a village in eastern Congo with machetes and guns, killing at least a dozen civilians, Congo’s army and a survivor said Monday.
Fighters believed to…
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Ecuador prison riot leaves 20 dead, 5 seriously injured
https://japantoday.com/category/world/ecuador-prison-riot-leaves-20-dead-5-seriously-injured
April 4, 2022, 10:04 PM
A clash between prison gangs armed with guns and knives left 20 people dead, Ecuadorian officials said Monday, and they announced that they had fully regained control of…
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Hayashi returns from Poland with 20 Ukrainians
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Hayashi-returns-from-Poland-with-20-Ukrainians
April 5, 2022, 7:51 AM
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi returned from Poland on Tuesday with 20 Ukrainians displaced by Russia's ongoing war on their country as Tokyo seeks to play a greater…
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War or no war, Ukrainian families board train home
https://japantoday.com/category/world/war-or-no-war-ukrainian-families-board-train-home
April 4, 2022, 10:03 PM
Inside a snow-capped train station on the Polish-Ukrainian border, Olga Korotkova waited quietly among dozens of Ukrainian families to go home to her war-torn country.
Przemysl station is…
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Japan defense chief looks to boost defense capabilities 'drastically'
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/japan-defense-chief-looks-to-boost-defense-capabilities-drastically
April 4, 2022, 9:45 PM
Japan's defense minister said Monday his ministry will consider requesting a larger budget for the next fiscal year to strengthen defense capabilities "drastically" to deal with China's intensifying…
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Easter delays for UK travelers as COVID cancels flights
https://japantoday.com/category/world/easter-delays-for-uk-travelers-as-covid-cancels-flights
April 4, 2022, 10:04 PM
British travelers going abroad for the Easter holidays faced disruptions Monday as two main carriers, British Airways and easyJet, canceled dozens of flights due to staff shortages related…
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June Brown, 'EastEnders' icon Dot Cotton, dies at 95
https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/june-brown-%27eastenders%27-icon-dot-cotton-dies-at-95
April 4, 2022, 9:59 PM
June Brown, who played the chain-smoking Cockney matriarch Dot Cotton on the British soap opera “EastEnders” for 35 years, has died. She was 95.
The BBC, which produces…
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Iga Swiatek becomes 1st Polish tennis player ranked No. 1
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/iga-swiatek-becomes-1st-polish-tennis-player-ranked-no.-1
April 4, 2022, 10:02 PM
Iga Swiatek moved up one spot to the top of the WTA rankings on Monday, becoming the first tennis player from Poland to be No. 1 in the…
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Elon Musk buys large stake in Twitter, sending stock soaring
https://japantoday.com/category/business/elon-musk-buys-large-stake-in-twitter-sending-stock-soaring
April 5, 2022, 5:41 AM
Twitter's shares soared after Tesla CEO Elon Musk disclosed on Monday a large stake in the social media company, which he has criticized for its approach to speech…
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Japanese team proves iPS-based cornea transplant safe in world-1st trial
https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-team-proves-ips-based-cornea-transplant-safe-in-world-1st-trial
April 5, 2022, 8:01 AM
A Japanese university research team said Monday it has concluded that the world's first clinical trial, transplanting corneal tissues derived from induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells,…
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LGBTQ safe space opens in Osaka
https://japantoday.com/category/national/lgbtq-safe-space-opens-in-osaka
April 4, 2022, 10:03 PM
A center serving as a safe space for LGBTQ people and other sexual minorities to come together opened in Osaka this month.
Run by the nonprofit organization Nijiiro…
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U.N. warns Earth 'firmly on track toward an unlivable world'
https://japantoday.com/category/features/environment/un-panel-to-release-report-on-efforts-to-curb-climate-change
April 4, 2022, 10:10 PM
Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of climate scientists said…
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China sends in military to help with Shanghai COVID outbreak
https://japantoday.com/category/world/china-sends-in-military-to-help-with-shanghai-covid-outbreak
April 4, 2022, 8:00 AM
China has sent more than 10,000 health workers from across the country to Shanghai, including 2,000 military medical staff, as it struggles to stamp out a rapidly spreading…
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Colorful locomotive
https://japantoday.com/category/picture-of-the-day/Colorful-locomotive
April 5, 2022, 3:17 AM
A person walks past a locomotive in Tokyo on Monday.
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Russia faces global outrage over bodies in Ukraine's streets
https://japantoday.com/category/world/Russia-faces-global-outrage-over-bodies-in-Ukraine%27s-streets
April 5, 2022, 5:40 AM
Moscow faced global revulsion and accusations of war crimes Monday after the Russian pullout from the outskirts of Kyiv revealed streets strewn with corpses of what appeared to…
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Australia backed to host men's, women's rugby World Cups
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/australia-backed-to-host-men%27s-women%27s-world-cups
April 4, 2022, 6:09 AM
World Rugby says Australia could become “the heart of the rugby universe” by hosting the men’s and women’s World Cups respectively in 2027 and 2029.
Australia already is…
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