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US ambassador to Japan calls Chinese ban on Japanese seafood 'economic coercion'
TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel accused China on Friday of using “economic coercion” against Japan by banning imports of Japanese seafood in response to the release of treated wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, while Chinese boats continue...
Stock market today: Asian shares mixed after interest rates-driven sell-off on Wall Street
Asian shares were mixed on Friday after another slump on Wall Street driven by expectations that U.S. interest rates will stay high well into next year. Hong Kong and Shanghai advanced while Tokyo, Seoul and Sydney declined. U.S. futures edged higher and oil prices rose. ...
Japan TV network will acquire Totoro creator Studio Ghibli as animation studio prepares for future
TOKYO (AP) — Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese animation studio of Hayao Miyazaki, will become a subsidiary of Nippon Television Network Corp., both sides said Thursday. Succession worries had been a priority at Ghibli, as Miyazaki has turned 82, and producer Toshio Suzuki is 75,...
Japan's troubled Toshiba to delist after takeover by Japanese consortium succeeds
TOKYO (AP) — A 2 trillion yen ($14 billion) tender offer for troubled electronics and energy giant Toshiba by a Japanese consortium has been completed, clearing the way for it to be delisted, the company said Thursday. In the tender offer, announced last month and ended Wednesday,...
Gymnastics star Simone Biles is heading back to Belgium for the 2023 world championships
KATY, Texas (AP) — Simone Biles is heading back to where her record-breaking reign atop gymnastics began. The American star headlines the five-woman U.S. team that will compete at the 2023 world championships in Belgium during the first week of October. Biles' appearance will be...
Protesters demand that Japan save 1000s of trees by revising a design plan for a popular Tokyo park
TOKYO (AP) — Protesters in Tokyo formed a human chain Sunday to demand the government save thousands of trees by revising its plan to redevelop a popular downtown park. Demonstrators, many wearing green shirts and holding up signs saying, “Save Jingu Gaien," demanded the...
Eno Ichikawa, Japanese Kabuki theater actor and innovator, dies at 83
TOKYO (AP) — Eno Ichikawa, who revived the spectacular in Japanese Kabuki theater to woo younger and global audiences, has died. He was 83. Ichikawa died after suffering heart problems on Wednesday in Tokyo, the entertainment company Shochiku Co., a major Kabuki producer, said...
Japan's Kishida shuffles Cabinet and party posts to solidify power
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida shuffled his Cabinet and key party posts on Wednesday to strengthen his position before a key party leadership vote next year, bringing in a new defense minister and the country's first female foreign minister since 2002. Kishida...
Japanese boy-band production company sets up panel to compensate sexual assault victims
TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese boys-band production company at the center of an unfolding sexual abuse scandal, Johnny & Associates, chose three former judges Wednesday to head its effort to compensate hundreds of victims. The Tokyo-based agency also said it will not take its usual...
Stock market today: Asian shares mostly slide despite Big Tech rally on Wall Street
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Tuesday despite a Big Tech rally on Wall Street, as investors looked ahead to data on U.S. consumer prices set for later in the week. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 surged 0.7% in morning trading to 32,686.67. Australia's S&P/ASX 200...
