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Why is Japan’s Fukushima water release so controversial?

The United Nations atomic watchdog is expected to give its approval to the plan, but controversy continues.

Al Jazeera

Out of the darkness comes light for Leyton Orient

In today’s Football Daily: Leyton Orient, Soccer For Life and Chelsea’s ‘class’

The Guardian - UK

For Japan's ageing soccer players, 80 is the new 50

Mutsuhiko Nomura's soccer career has spanned 18 World Cups, or 70 years, to be exact.

Reuters

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Japan PM Kishida fires aide over same-sex couple outburst

(Refiles to fix typo in par 6)

Reuters

Japan will continue to monitor COVID situation in China, govt says

Japan will continue to monitor the COVID-19 situation in China and deal "flexibly" with border control measures, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Monday.

Reuters

Japan PM Kishida to pick new BOJ chief while monitoring economy

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will make a decision on the next Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor while watching future economic trends, he said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Sri Lanka's cancer patients struggle amid economic chaos

Priyantha Kumarasinghe starts his day in the small Sri Lankan town of Maharagama with a breakfast of two biscuits and a small glass of tea, followed by a round of cancer medicines.

Reuters

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Japan court upholds ban on same-sex marriage but offers hope

Tokyo court says Japan’s lack of legal protection for same-sex couples to become families violates their rights.

Al Jazeera

Unification Church ex-members in Japan rail at politicians who embraced it

When Sun Myung Moon, the Korean founder of the Unification Church, needed money for its extensive spiritual and business ventures he would look to Japan, according to some former members.

Reuters

Last handful of fish: Crisis pushes more Sri Lankans into poverty

In her outstretched palms, 49-year-old Nilanthi Gunasekera holds her family’s last remaining handful of dried fish – a reminder of Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis in decades.

Reuters

End protest crackdown: UN, rights groups tell Sri Lanka president

Human rights experts urge the newly appointed leader Ranil Wickremesinghe to end the crackdown against the protesters.

Al Jazeera

Fatty 'katsuo' fish may foreshadow climate change, threat to Japan's sushi

For half a century, Takeo Nakajo has been catching katsuo, or skipjack tuna - indispensable in Japanese cuisine whether eaten raw, dried or used as a base for the broth.

Reuters

Biden says he would be willing to use force to defend Taiwan against China

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday he would be willing to use force to defend Taiwan against Chinese aggression in a comment that seemed to stretch the limits of the ambiguous U.S. policy towards the self-ruled island.

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