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‘The Happy Warrior’ walks away happy – and proud of her work

Women's MMA pioneer Roxanne Modafferi will retire without winning a major title, but she's "just so happy" thinking about her career.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Indian teams clubbed with Indonesia, Japan

India has received decent draws in the Badminton Asia Team Championships with the men’s and women’s teams clubbed with defending champions Indonesia and Japan respectively, at the continental event sc

The Hindu

Found in translation

A tribute to the great New Zealand literary translator Geraldine Harcourt, who created an "unfathomable kind of magic".

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Biden administration strikes deal with Japan on steel tariffs - Roll Call

The Biden administration announced an agreement with Japan to temper a 25 percent Trump administration steel tariff.

Roll Call

Helene Elliott: Nathan Chen soars in short program at Winter Olympics

BEIJING — A shocking mistake by Yuzuru Hanyu of Japan cracked the door open for the end of his reign as two-time men's Olympic figure skating champion. Nathan Chen barged through that door, blowing past Hanyu on Tuesday with a brilliant, world-record performance that put him in the lead after…

Los Angeles Times

Fukushima operators send robot into worst-hit melted reactor

A remote-controlled robot is being used to probe the hardest-hit nuclear reactor at Japan’s wrecked Fukushima plant, as officials push forward with clean-up operations that have been mired in delays

The Independent UK

Chen Scores World Record for Massive Lead over Shocked Hanyu

In a reversal of fortunes from the last Olympic Games, American Nathan Chen scored a world record in the figure skating short program in Beijing on Tuesday, giving him a massive lead over a shocked Yuzuru Hanyu in their quest for the gold medal. At the Pyeongchang Games in 2018,…

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Japan halts shipment of black rockfish caught off Fukushima over radiation

Japan's health ministry said on Tuesday it had ordered the suspension of shipments of black rockfish caught off Fukushima prefecture after radiation exceeding an upper limit was detected in a catch late last month.

Reuters

Japan's Nissan swings back to profit despite chips crunch

Japanese automaker Nissan has swung back into the black for the quarter through December, despite shortages of computer chips that have hit the entire industry

The Independent UK

Nvidia’s $40bn takeover of UK chip designer Arm collapses

British company aims to seek stock market flotation after Japan’s SoftBank abandons sale

The Guardian - UK

Japan's SoftBank drops sale of Arm, plans IPO

Japanese technology investor SoftBank says its planned sale of the British semiconductor and software design company Arm to U.S. chip maker Nvidia has fallen through

The Independent UK

Japan finishes 4th in mixed team ski jumping

ZHANGJIAKOU, China - The Japanese quartet of Sara Takanashi, Yukiya Sato, Yuki Ito and Ryoyu Kobayashi finished fourth in the Olympic debut of mixed team ski jumping at the Beijing Games on Monday.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Tokyo: A holy land for 'Harukists' at Waseda Univ.

The Haruki Murakami Library in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, is a place where any "Harukist," or a fan of Haruki Murakami, would find irresistible. Here, they can access about 3,000 books and a vast vinyl record collection personally donated by Japan's foremost novelist. The library also houses copies of Murakami's novels…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Japan's 11-member Nambu family shows allure of frugality, limits of stimulus

When Japan handed Tokyo bus driver Keiki Nambu and his wife, Takako, $870 for each of their nine children, they spent it exactly as the government had feared: paying down a mortgage instead of going shopping.

Reuters

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Calls grow for Japan to ease border restrictions

The business community is calling for a relaxation of border restrictions implemented to mitigate the spread of the omicron coronavirus variant, but Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is treading carefully as the public has been supportive of strict measures.

The Guardian - AU

Covid live: Italy and Spain to ease mask mandate; UK records 66,183 new cases – as it happened

Italy and Spain relax rules on wearing masks in outdoor spaces; UK records 314 Covid-related deaths

Reuters

Japan parliament resolution on Ukraine condemns changing status quo with force

Japan's parliament on Tuesday adopted a resolution on rising tensions over Ukraine, denouncing any attempt to change the status quo by force and urging Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government to do all it can to help achieve peace.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Japan athletes make good start in Beijing, help brighten atmosphere

Japanese athletes have won a number of medals in the early days of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Their ability to display their strengths on this great stage, which comes around once every four years, reflects the strict training they have gone through.

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Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 day four – as it happened

Day four of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games

The Hindu

With East Asian doors shut, Indians fan out wide

China, Japan, Korea and Thailand have been off the tennis map for two years

ABC News

Where Australia's first international tourists will come from when borders reopen on February 21

Australia is preparing to welcome fully vaccinated international tourists once more in less than a fortnight, but where are the tourists likely to come from, and how easy will it be for them to return home?

The Times of India

Kuchisabishii: The Japanese word which has immense relevance to lockdown life

Kuchisabishii. If you know what this Japanese term means, you must have already linked it to lockdown binge eating by now. If you don't know what it is, by the time you read this article you will feel like you have been doing it all these years.

The Independent UK

Experts to visit Fukushima plant to check water release plan

Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency will visit Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant next week to review plans to begin releasing more than a million tons of treated radioactive water into the sea

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Japan takes bronze in figure skating team event

BEIJING -- Japan took home the bronze in team figure skating at the Beijing Olympics on Monday, its first-ever medal in this event.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Japan's Tech Giant Toshiba to Split

Embattled Japanese technology giant Toshiba plans to split into two companies, one focused on infrastructure and the other on devices, in its latest effort to placate unhappy shareholders. As part of the proposed plan, Tokyo-based Toshiba Corp. intends to sell its joint venture stake in Toshiba Carrier Corp. to the…

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