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Japan ekes out growth as consumers splurge amid COVID surge

Japan’s economy grew at an annual rate of 2.2% for the April-June quarter from the previous quarter, as consumer spending rebounded with COVID-19 restrictions getting gradually lifted

The Independent UK

U.S. Women’s Amateur: Japan’s Saki Baba routs Canada’s Monet Chun in final at Chambers Bay

What a weekend for Japan's Saki Baba at the 122nd U.S. Women's Amateur.

USA Today Sports Media Group

V.P. Harris to make 1st trip to Japan for Abe funeral

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is set to visit Japan to attend the state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe scheduled for Sept. 27, sources in the Japanese government told The Yomiuri Shimbun. If realized, it will be her first visit to Japan since taking office.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

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Japan, U.K. to jointly develop fighter jet

The joint development of a next-generation fighter jet for Japan and the United Kingdom will likely involve a common airframe, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

U.S. Vice President Harris to attend Abe's state funeral - Nikkei

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will attend former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's state funeral on Sept. 27, Nikkei Asia reported on Sunday.

Reuters

Masayoshi Son sounds a warning for vision-peddlers everywhere

The SoftBank founder has sent investors an uncharacteristic message of risk aversion — and that’s a problem for Japan

Financial Times

Issey Miyake: Designer and fashion’s prince of pleats

One of the first Japanese designers to show in Paris, the maverick drew acclaim for his fusion of Eastern and Western influences and his experimentation materials

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Ex-F1 racer Kovalainen plans Japan WRC entry, eyes European outings

Ex-Formula 1 racer Heikki Kovalainen is pressing ahead with preparations for a one-off WRC outing in Japan in November and plans to contest more events in Europe in the near-future.

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Japan, U.S. rocketing ahead with lunar infrastructure plans

The U.S.-led Artemis Program is shooting for the moon. The international lunar exploration program has a broad range of objectives, including the return of humans to the surface of Earth's closest celestial neighbor for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

NPO planned organ transplants in Sri Lanka

In a case of suspected organ trafficking in living donor kidney transplants, a nonprofit organization in Japan had planned transplants in Sri Lanka this year and told an overseas coordinator it would send "two patients [at intervals] for a total of about 10 patients," The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned from…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Japanese minister visits Yasukuni shrine for war dead: Report

Yasukuni shrine for war dead is seen in China and South Korea as a symbol of Japan’s former military aggression.

Al Jazeera

Kovalainen pushing on with Japan WRC plans as JRC title looms

Ex-Formula 1 racer Heikki Kovalainen is pressing ahead with preparations for a one-off WRC outing in Japan in November as he stands on the cusp of domestic title success.

Motorsport

Japan cabinet minister visits Yasukuni shrine for war dead - Kyodo

Japan's industry minister Yasutoshi Nishimura on Saturday became the first member of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet to visit the controversial Yasukuni shrine for war dead in Tokyo, Kyodo news agency reported.

Reuters

Tropical Storm Meari hammers Japan with heavy rainfall, wind

Japanese weather officials say Tropical Storm Meari is unleashing heavy rains on the main island of Honshu as it heads northward toward the capital, Tokyo

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Shohei Ohtani’s mentor from Japan ‘relieved’ Angels star is excelling in majors

ANAHEIM, Calif. —The day before last month’s All-Star Game, Shohei Ohtani said he wanted to play in next March’s World Baseball Classic and was under the impression that the Angels would let him. And on Friday, before the team’s 4-0 home loss to the Minnesota Twins, one of Ohtani’s mentors…

The Independent UK

Tropical Storm Meari heads to Japan, packed with winds, rain

Japanese weather officials say Tropical Storm Meari is unleashing heavy rains on southwestern Japan as it heads northward toward the capital, Tokyo

Dublin Live

Irish traveller's warning about flying to Japan after losing thousands of euro

Donal and his wife were set to fly in Tokyo in September

Reuters

Japan PM Kishida pledges new steps to deal with rising fuel, food prices

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Friday he will instruct his government to come up with additional measures to cushion the economic blow from rising energy and food prices.

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Shake-up fails to lift support for Japan's cabinet amid questions over church -surveys

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet reshuffle appears to have done little to ease voter concerns amidst anger about the ruling party's ties to the Unification Church, opinion polls conducted by media groups indicated on Friday.

Reuters

Japanese lawmaker meets Myanmar junta as Tokyo calls for filmmaker's release

A Japanese ruling party lawmaker has met with Myanmar's junta leader, according to Myanmar state media, days after a Japanese documentary filmmaker was arrested while covering a protest in the Southeast Asian country.

The Guardian - UK

Issey Miyake obituary

Fashion designer whose innovative hi-tech creations were inspired by the ancient principles of Japanese clothing

Bangkok Post

Xi ‘let missiles fall in Japanese waters’

TOKYO: Chinese President Xi Jinping personally decided to let ballistic missiles launched by the military during recent drills near Taiwan fall in Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) to deter Tokyo’s interference in any cross-strait contingency, according to sources close to the matter.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

China to 'normalize' just-ended military drills around Taiwan

BEIJING/TAIPEI -- China's Eastern Theater Command announced Wednesday that it has completed a series of exercises around Taiwan, while also stressing its policy to continue conducting military drills in the area.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Religious group denies role in 'spiritual sales'

The president of the Japan branch of the religious group widely known as the Unification Church said Wednesday that the organization "has never conducted spiritual sales, neither in the past nor at present."

The Conversation

Japan's Obon festival: how family commemoration and ancestral worship shapes daily life

Each year in Japan, people celebrate ohigan, a period of seven days around both the vernal and the autumnal equinoxes, and obon, which stretches over a few days on either side of August 15.

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