Japan Fights Its Largest Wildfire in More Than 30 Years
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Japan Fights Its Largest Wildfire in More Than 30 Years

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Japan’s largest wildfire in more than three decades was burning through a forested area of a small coastal city on Sunday after killing at least one person, damaging dozens of homes and prompting evacuation orders for thousands of residents, fire officials said. The…

Why Japanese Oscar Contender ‘Black Box Diaries’ Isn’t Being Shown in Japan
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Why Japanese Oscar Contender ‘Black Box Diaries’ Isn’t Being Shown in Japan

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A film by a Japanese woman about her search for justice from uncooperative authorities after she reported being raped is a contender at Sunday’s Academy Awards. Yet, despite being the first full-length documentary made by a Japanese director ever nominated for an Oscar,…

South Korean Police Investigate Japanese Woman for Kissing BTS Star Jin
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South Korean Police Investigate Japanese Woman for Kissing BTS Star Jin

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The South Korean police have summoned a Japanese woman for questioning after she was accused of kissing Jin, a member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, without consent during a public event last year. The Japanese woman, whose name was not revealed, was in…

Honda and Nissan Scrap  Billion Merger Plan
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Honda and Nissan Scrap $50 Billion Merger Plan

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A $50 billion merger between Honda Motor and Nissan Motor, which would have established one of the world’s largest auto groups, has been called off. In December, Japan’s second- and third-largest automakers said they were exploring plans to combine their operations with the…

Lunar New Year 2025 Photos: See Year of the Snake Celebrations Across Asia
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Lunar New Year 2025 Photos: See Year of the Snake Celebrations Across Asia

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines More than a billion people across the world, from China to the Philippines to diaspora communities in the United States, began celebrating the Lunar New Year on Tuesday with fireworks, family time and feasts. On Wednesday, the first new moon of the Year…

Japan Stocks Sink as Rout in Technology Shares Spreads to Asia
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Japan Stocks Sink as Rout in Technology Shares Spreads to Asia

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A sell-off in the biggest technology companies in the United States rippled into Asia on Tuesday, with stock markets in Japan falling as U.S. markets appeared to stabilize. Japan’s tech-heavy Nikkei 225 fell 1.4 percent with Softbank, the Japanese investment firm with major…

Japan Raises Interest Rates to Highest Level Since 2008
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Japan Raises Interest Rates to Highest Level Since 2008

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In a number of ways, Japan’s economy seems to have gone back in time. Inflation and wage growth are mostly back where they were in the early 1990s, just before the spiral of price deflation and economic stagnation that became known as “the…

Rubio Oversees Halt to Foreign Aid and Meets With Asian Diplomats on Day 1
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Rubio Oversees Halt to Foreign Aid and Meets With Asian Diplomats on Day 1

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Secretary of State Marco Rubio walked into the State Department on Tuesday for the first time in his new job, taking the reins of the main agency carrying out U.S. foreign policy at a time of violent global crises and as other nations…

Meet Japan’s Original Decluttering Guru (No, Not That One)
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Meet Japan’s Original Decluttering Guru (No, Not That One)

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Before Marie Kondo captured the world’s attention with her exhortations to rid ourselves of items that did not “spark joy,” there was another Japanese guru of decluttering. Her name is Hideko Yamashita. And while Ms. Yamashita, 70, has never reached Ms. Kondo’s level…