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PS5 price hike puts 'Final Fantasy 16' in danger

The console exclusivity of 'Final Fantasy 16' has Japanese fans worried they won't be playing the game now that the PS5 has a higher price tag.

Inverse

Race against time to find donor for tot with rare leukaemia who is half Caucasian half Japanese

Flaminia Pugliese needs a bone marrow transplant but the donor needs to be half Japanese and half Caucasian and so far nobody has been able to help

Wales Online

Government eyes ways to lure foreign students back to Japan

The government plans to revise its basic strategy for accepting foreign students in an effort to restore the numbers of such students, which dropped due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

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Reality of overseas organ transplants / Lack of organ donors needs to be immediately addressed

A Tokyo-based nonprofit organization called the Intractable Disease Patient Support Association is suspected of having facilitated a kidney transplant that used a trafficked organ from a living donor overseas. The Yomiuri Shimbun asked experts in the relevant legal and medical systems for their opinion on this matter. In this installment,…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Lessons from Ukraine / Japan's cyberdefense called main weakness in alliance with U.S.

Wednesday marked six months since Russia invaded Ukraine. Since the conflict began, new modes of war and related defense issues have come to light. This series explores possible lessons for Japan.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Toyota touts Michigan's contribution to research and development

YORK TOWNSHIP AND YPSILANTI, Mich. — Toyota Motor Co. may not be the first company that comes to mind when it comes to Michigan automakers, but the Japanese carmaker says the state is playing a key role in the research and development of new products and technologies.

Tribune News Service

Goofy dances and instant noodles made this Japanese executive a TikTok star

The chief executive and general manager at a tiny Japanese security company are among the nation's biggest TikTok stars, drawing 2.7 million followers and 54 million likes.

WEKU

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Abe murder suspect says life destroyed by mother's religion

Tetsuya Yamagami, the alleged assassin of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, was born into an affluent but troubled family

The Independent UK

Japan set to become one of world's biggest defence spenders

TOKYO: Japan is set to approve what could be its biggest increase in defence outlays since the end of the war, putting it on a path to become one of the world's top military spenders.

The Times of India

Japan to spend $1.83 million on slain ex-PM Abe's state funeral

Japan will spend about 250 million yen ($1.83 million) on a state funeral for slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday.

Reuters

Pot-bellied Japanese security guards reach TikTok stardom

They’re your run-of-the-mill Japanese “salarymen,” hard-working, pot-bellied, friendly and, well, rather regular

The Independent UK

Exclusive-Japan seeks to organise Sri Lanka creditors' meeting on debt crisis-sources

Japan is seeking to organise a Sri Lanka creditors' conference, hoping it could help solve the South Asia nation's debt crisis, but uncertainties cloud the outlook for any talks, three people with knowledge of the planning said.

Reuters

Net zero goal draws help from Japan

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has been working closely with Japan to find ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions throughout the capital, as the city aims to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

Bangkok Post

Japan to pledge around $30 billion in African aid at conference - Sankei

Japan is set to promise some $30 billion in aid for African development at a conference to be held in Tunisia this weekend, the Sankei Shimbun daily reported on Friday.

Reuters

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Bangkok Post

Kunlavut and Busanan coast into QF

Kunlavut Vitidsarn and Busanan Ongbamrungphan advanced to the quarter-finals of the BWF World Championships on Thursday at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Japan.

Bangkok Post

Sales of tour packages to Japan expected to surge

Sales of outbound package tours to Japan are expected to surge in the fourth quarter once the mandatory pre-arrival RT-PCR test is dropped on Sept 7, while sales of tour packages to South Korea have continued to decline.

ABC News

Fire of Love documentary is a love story between scientists and the volcanoes that killed them

The couple who died in an eruption in Japan in 1991 amassed hours of footage over three decades, which has been utilised in this documentary, narrated by Miranda July.

Reason

Japan Is Reopening Nuclear Power Plants and Planning To Build New Ones

If Japan can get over its anti-nuclear Fukushima freak out, then the rest of the world should too.

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Irish Mirror

Ireland team v Japan: Greg McWilliams makes three changes for second Test in Tokyo

Dorothy Wall and Sam Monaghan are unavailable for selection due to injury, while Christy Haney and Nicole Cronin are also ruled out

Chronicle Live

Japan's current travel restrictions as tough Covid rules remain in place

Japan is considering lifting restrictions on visitors entering the country to boost tourism

Motorsport

Motorsport.tv guide: What's on 27-28 August weekend?

Another bumper weekend is in store for Motorsport.tv viewers as it marks the livestream return of Japan's premier series SUPER GT, the highly competitive and popular British Superbike Championship, and a pivotal round in the European Le Mans Series, as well as many other racing series live on Motorsport.tv.

The Guardian - AU

Japan’s police chief to resign after fatal shooting of Shinzo Abe

Itaru Nakamura says fresh start needed after assassination ‘to ensure this never happens again’

Asharq Al-Awsat

Japan Seeks 'Sustainable World' in Africa Aid Forum

With its stated purpose to "create a sustainable world together", Japan on Saturday kicks off its aid conference for Africa, where rival China has invested heavily in recent years. The eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD8) comes against the backdrop of China's rising influence, cemented on the continent…

Evening Standard

Japan police chief resigning over assassination of ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Shinzo Abe was shot dead at the age of 67 at a political campaign event in Nara in western Japan

WEKU

Japan police chief to resign over shooting death of former prime minister

A police report found holes in former prime minister Shinzo Abe's protection that allowed the alleged attacker to shoot him from behind.

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