Corruption inquiry in Australia's NSW state uncovers China links to lawmaker
https://japantoday.com/category/world/corruption-inquiry-in-australia%27s-nsw-state-uncovers-china-links-to-lawmaker
June 29, 2023, 4:22 AM
The former premier of Australia's most populous state engaged in corrupt conduct involving another lawmaker with whom she was in a secret romantic relationship, a years-long corruption inquiry…
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Shimbashi, a once-popular watering hole for Tokyo salarymen, now a good place to avoid
https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/shimbashi-a-once-popular-watering-hole-for-tokyo-salarymen-now-a-good-place-to-avoid
June 29, 2023, 4:06 AM
At 4 a.m. on a Saturday in early June, the drinking area around JR Shimbashi Station is nearly deserted. Here, a man appearing in his mid-50s, without a…
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3 stabbed in Canada university building
https://japantoday.com/category/world/3-people-stabbed-in-canada-university-building-and-police-say-a-person-is-detained
June 29, 2023, 4:32 AM
Three people were stabbed on Wednesday in a university classroom in the Canadian city of Waterloo and a person has been taken into custody, police said.
The extent…
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Man arrested for filming up 9-year-old girl’s skirt at train station
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/man-arrested-for-filming-up-9-year-old-girl%E2%80%99s-skirt-at-train-station
June 28, 2023, 10:16 PM
Police in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, have arrested a 32-year-old man on suspicion of filming up the skirt of a nine-year-old girl at a train station.
According to police,…
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Basketball bliss
https://japantoday.com/category/picture-of-the-day/basketball-bliss-1
June 28, 2023, 8:53 PM
Japan bench players celebrate after their team's 91-66 win over Australia in the Women's Basketball Asia Cup in Sydney on Wednesday.
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Canada wildfires again bring more unhealthy air in North America
https://japantoday.com/category/world/canada-wildfires-again-bring-more-unhealthy-air-in-north-america3
June 28, 2023, 9:34 PM
Smoke from Canada's worst-ever wildfires was severely impacting air quality Wednesday across Ontario and at least 15 US states, with monitors warning that over one hundred million people…
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Madonna postpones Celebration tour due to 'serious bacterial infection'
https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/madonna-postpones-upcoming-celebration-tour-due-to-%27serious-bacterial-infection%27
June 28, 2023, 9:29 PM
Madonna has postponed her career-spanning Celebration tour due to what her manager called a “serious bacterial infection” and her ongoing recovery.
Manager Guy Oseary wrote on Instagram Wednesday…
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Protester burns Koran at Stockholm mosque on Eid holiday
https://japantoday.com/category/world/protester-burns-koran-at-stockholm-mosque-on-eid-holiday2
June 28, 2023, 9:34 PM
A man tore up and burned a Koran outside Stockholm's central mosque on Wednesday, an event that risks angering Turkey as Sweden bids to join NATO, after Swedish…
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The number of Kansas residents changing their gender jumped 300% before new law began
https://japantoday.com/category/world/the-number-of-kansas-residents-changing-their-gender-jumped-300-before-a-new-law-began
June 28, 2023, 9:34 PM
The number of people officially changing their gender in Kansas jumped more than 300% this year ahead of a new state law that legally erases their ability to…
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Katie Ledecky keeps on rolling more than a decade after her 1st Olympic gold
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/katie-ledecky-keeps-on-rolling-more-than-a-decade-after-her-1st-olympic-gold
June 28, 2023, 9:32 PM
Katie Ledecky will concede that a few things have changed over her long career at the top of swimming.
Like those nagging aches and pains.
She laughs when…
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Idris Elba uses his brains not brawn in new Apple TV+ series 'Hijack'
https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/idris-elba-uses-his-brains-not-brawn-in-the-new-apple-tv-series-%27hijack%27
June 28, 2023, 9:28 PM
Standing 6-foot-2-inches, Idris Elba's size helps to sell his characters. As a detective in “ Luther,” he often averted protocol and went rogue. On “The Wire,” he played…
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Olympic leaders in Brisbane promote policies to keep 2032 Games safe from financial wrongdoing
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/olympic-leaders-in-brisbane-promote-policies-to-keep-2032-games-safe-from-financial-wrongdoing
June 28, 2023, 9:32 PM
Olympic organizers from Australia said Wednesday they have safeguards in place to stop the 2032 Brisbane Games ever joining Paris, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro under investigation for…
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Debris from implosion of Titanic-bound submersible returned to land
https://japantoday.com/category/world/debris-from-implosion-of-titanic-bound-submersible-returned-to-land
June 28, 2023, 9:34 PM
Debris from the Titan submersible has been returned to land after a fatal implosion during its voyage to the wreck of the Titanic captured the world's attention last…
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Blinken says no nuclear deal on table with Iran
https://japantoday.com/category/world/blinken-says-no-nuclear-deal-on-table-with-iran
June 28, 2023, 9:34 PM
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that no new nuclear agreement was on the table with Iran, after quiet new diplomacy between the adversaries.
"There is…
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Hungary postpones vote on Sweden's NATO accession bid ahead of summit
https://japantoday.com/category/world/hungary-postpones-vote-on-sweden%27s-nato-accession-bid-ahead-of-summit
June 28, 2023, 9:34 PM
Hungary's parliament postponed ratifying Sweden’s NATO accession bid on Wednesday to its autumn legislative session.
The postponement, the latest in a long succession of delays that have gone…
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Biden says 'Bidenomics' will restore American dream
https://japantoday.com/category/world/biden-bets-on-%27bidenomics%27-for-2024-victory
June 29, 2023, 4:01 AM
U.S. President Joe Biden vowed Wednesday to restore the American dream in a speech promoting his "Bidenomics" policy that he said will deliver a clean break with decades…
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Top central bankers assert need for higher interest rates to tackle persistent inflation
https://japantoday.com/category/business/top-central-bankers-assert-need-for-higher-interest-rates-to-tackle-persistent-inflation
June 28, 2023, 9:29 PM
Leading global central bankers asserted Wednesday that they are not backing off their steep interest rate increases, pointing to inflation being more persistent than expected but still downplaying…
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Gymnastics star Simone Biles returning to competition in August in first meet since 2020 Olympics
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/gymnastics-star-simone-biles-returning-to-competition-in-august-in-first-meet-since-2020-olympics
June 28, 2023, 9:32 PM
Simone Biles is back.
The gymnastics superstar plans to return to competition at the U.S. Classic outside Chicago in early August, her first event since the pandemic-delayed 2020…
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French security forces deploy as anger simmers over fatal police shooting of teenager
https://japantoday.com/category/world/france-braces-for-protests-after-%27unforgivable%27-police-shooting
June 28, 2023, 9:34 PM
French security forces deployed in their thousands on Wednesday evening amid fears of more violent protests over the fatal shooting of a teenager by police.
Around 2,000 riot…
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Japan ruling parties to allow new fighter jets to be exported
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/refiling-japan-ruling-parties-to-allow-new-fighter-jets-to-be-exported
June 28, 2023, 9:28 PM
Japan's ruling parties are including provisions in their security policy blueprint that would allow the export of next-generation fighter jets to other countries, despite the country's strict regulations…
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South Korea boosts visas for skilled workers amid labor shortages
https://japantoday.com/category/business/south-korea-boosts-visas-for-skilled-workers-amid-labour-shortages
June 28, 2023, 9:30 PM
South Korea aims to issue a record number of visas for foreign skilled workers this year, as the justice minister announced on Wednesday a fifteen-fold increase in the…
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U.S. vying for third straight Women's World Cup title. But is the team vulnerable this time?
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/us-vying-for-third-straight-women%27s-world-cup-title.-but-is-the-team-vulnerable-this-time
June 28, 2023, 9:32 PM
Even without a few key players, the United States heads into the Women's World Cup with a formidable group of wily veterans and eager newcomers.
The question is,…
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Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek are No. 1 seeds for Wimbledon
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/carlos-alcaraz-not-novak-djokovic-and-iga-swiatek-are-the-no.-1-seeds-for-wimbledon
June 28, 2023, 9:31 PM
Carlos Alcaraz — not four-time defending champion Novak Djokovic — and Iga Swiatek were seeded No. 1 for Wimbledon on Wednesday, as expected, because the All England Club…
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Japan reveals guidelines to urge firms to develop defense technology
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/japan-reveals-guidelines-to-urge-firms-to-develop-defense-technology
June 28, 2023, 9:23 PM
The Japanese government on Wednesday revealed guidelines for the development of its defense technology with the aim of urging private firms and research institutes to join in creating…
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Missile kills 11 people in Ukrainian pizza parlor as Russia's aerial barrage continues
https://japantoday.com/category/world/death-toll-rises-to-8-in-russian-attack-on-a-restaurant-in-the-eastern-ukrainian-city-of-kramatorsk
June 29, 2023, 4:00 AM
Ukrainian authorities on Wednesday arrested a man they accused of helping Russia direct a missile strike that killed at least 11 people, including three teenagers, at a popular…
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Armed GSDF member briefly goes missing overnight in Sapporo
https://japantoday.com/category/national/armed-gsdf-member-briefly-goes-unaccounted-for-in-sapporo
June 28, 2023, 10:41 AM
A gun-carrying member of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force was briefly unaccounted for in Sapporo, Hokkaido, prompting local education authorities and schools to be on the alert, but he…
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Ohtani still hasn't decided whether he will participate in the Home Run Derby
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/ohtani-still-hasn%27t-decided-whether-he-will-participate-in-the-home-run-derby
June 28, 2023, 9:32 PM
Shohei Ohtani already knows he is headed to the All-Star Game in two weeks. It remains unclear whether he will take part in the Home Run Derby in…
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Tochigi Prefecture ordered to pay damages over fatal 2017 avalanche
https://japantoday.com/category/national/japan-pref.-ordered-to-pay-damages-over-fatal-2017-avalanche
June 28, 2023, 9:27 PM
A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered the Tochigi prefectural government and a high school athletic federation to pay 290 million yen in damages to the families of five…
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London jury sworn in for Kevin Spacey sex assault trial
https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/kevin-spacey-faces-sex-assault-trial-in-london-on-allegations-over-a-decade-old
June 28, 2023, 9:28 PM
Jurors who will decide the fate of actor Kevin Spacey were sworn in Wednesday in a London court as the Oscar winner faces charges of sexually assaulting four…
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Truck driver complained of illness before fatal bus crash in Hokkaido
https://japantoday.com/category/national/truck-driver-complained-of-illness-before-fatal-bus-crash-in-hokkaido
June 28, 2023, 7:35 AM
A truck driver who died in a recent collision with a bus that killed four others in Hokkaido had complained of ill health to his company at some…
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