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Leaders of Japan and South Korea will meet Thursday to try and mend ties

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are hoping to overcome historical feuds and domestic politics that have sent relations to their lowest point in decades.

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Tokyo Coffee Shop Made Famous on TikTok Draws Returning Tourists Hungry for Pudding

With a rapid, right-hand swoop, Shizuo Mori served the last of about 50 puddings on Wednesday, a treat that's made his tiny Tokyo coffee shop a destination for tourists flocking to Japan after the end of COVID restrictions. Mori's trademark fling of the arm helps dislodge the eggy custard from…

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Yoon: Seoul-Tokyo ties key to address N Korea, supply chains

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol called for Japan to join his efforts to improve bilateral relations strained by historical grievances as he prepares to travel to Tokyo for a highly anticipated summit with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida

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Tokyo professor Adrian Cheok buys two blocks of land in Quilpie, outback Queensland

From the megacity of Tokyo, Adrian Cheok is planning to build his new home in a tiny Queensland town — plus a second house for the far-right former senator.

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British Olympic medal hopes seeing ‘more success than expected’ with 500 days until Paris 2024

Keely Hodgkinson was among the Brits to pick up medals recently at the Indoor Championships

The Independent UK

Nearly 4 billion yen. in found cash handed in to MPD in 2022

A record 3.997 billion yen in found cash was handed in to the Tokyo police last year, the highest amount since records began in 1940, the Metropolitan Police Department has said.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

AOC backs sports administrator Kitty Chiller despite fact-check failure at Olympic trials

The Australian Olympic Committee backs executive member Kitty Chiller despite an international gymnastics disciplinary process finding she gave a false statement as part of an investigation into Tokyo Olympics selection trials.

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Japan, S. Korea summit must overcome history to renew ties

South Korean and Japanese leaders will meet in Tokyo this week, hoping to resume regular visits after a gap of over a decade and overcome resentments that date back more than 100 years

The Independent UK

Japan court orders retrial for 87-year death row ex-boxer

Tokyo’s high court has ordered a retrial for an 87-year-old former boxer who has been on death row for more than five decades

The Independent UK

Kenzaburo Oe: novelist who won Nobel with 'poetic force'

TOKYO - Nobel-winning Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe, a leading liberal voice who defended the disenfranchised and challenged the conformity of modern society, has died aged 88.

Bangkok Post

Cubs in the WBC: Marcus Stroman, Roenis Elías, Owen Caissie turning heads

World Baseball Classic quarterfinals begin this week, hosted in Miami and Tokyo.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bristol's ramen pop-up serving noodles made by Michelin-trained chefs

Ramen and craft beer prove to be a heady mix at this Tokyo-inspired pub pop-up

Bristol Post

Terrifying moment Japan tsunami flattened entire towns and villages as it burst banks

Footage of the catastrophe shows an entire ocean climb 132ft in the air before coming crashing back down on residential areas in Fukushima Prefecture, which is around 160miles northeast of Tokyo

Daily Mirror

China condemns Japanese plan to release Fukushima water

China has condemned a plan by Japan to release treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, demanding that Tokyo first receive the approval of neighboring countries

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On a mission for momentoes

Hundreds of fans wait in a long, winding line for the souvenir shop at Tokyo Dome on Thursday morning ahead of the Japanese national team's opening game in the Tokyo pool of the World Baseball Classic later that evening. Replica uniforms, towels and other items featuring star players on the…

Daily Mirror

North Korea fires missile after sending chilling 'shooting range' threat

Kim Jong-Un's sister previously threatened to make the "Pacific our firing range" as Pyongyang launched two short-range ballistic missiles towards Japan, prompting Tokyo to request an emergency meeting of the UN security council

Bangkok Post

First Korea-Japan summit in four years planned

SEOUL: South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol will visit Japan next week, his office said on Thursday, as the two neighbours try to ease diplomatic strains over Japan’s wartime atrocities during its 35-year colonial rule.

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Steve Mallia completes Tokyo Marathon, receives Six Star Finisher medal

Steve Mallia weighed in at 110 kilos when his doctor told him he was headed for an early grave. Fourteen years later, he's received his Six Star Finisher medal.

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U.S. invites Japan, S. Korea to create nuclear deterrence body

WASHINGTON -- The United States has approached Japan and South Korea to create a new consultative body on nuclear deterrence to enhance information sharing and other matters, according to sources.

Belfast Live

Paris 2024: Irish boxing medal hopes hanging in the balance due to shortfall

Olympic Federation of Ireland's chief executive Peter Sherrard said the "challenge is whether they are going to have the people required to run the tournament"

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Overseas transplant groups to be surveyed

Following the recent arrest of a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization's director on multiple charges of unauthorized mediation of overseas organ transplants, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has said it will survey about 200 medical institutions across the nation to investigate the actual state of transplants abroad.

Bangkok Post

Japan’s space programme suffers setback

TOKYO: The inaugural launch of Japan’s next-generation rocket was aborted shortly after takeoff as launch controllers ordered it to self-destruct and plunge into the ocean, dealing a blow to the country’s aspirations to take on Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

The Independent UK

Yoon: Forced labor plan crucial for better ties with Japan

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is defending his government’s contentious plan to use local funds to compensate Koreans enslaved by Japanese companies before the end of World War II

Bangkok Post

1 dead, 6 missing as boat capsizes off disputed Japan islands

One person is dead and six missing, Japan's coastguard said Monday, after a boat capsized and was spotted in waters off the Tokyo-controlled Senkaku islets, which are also claimed by China.

France 24

South Korea announces plan to compensate victims of Japan's wartime forced labour

South Korea announced plans Monday to compensate victims of Japan’s forced wartime labour, aiming to end a “vicious cycle” in the Asian powers’ relations and boost ties to counter the nuclear-armed North.

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