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Japan Tech Giant Toshiba Studying Going Private as an Option

Toshiba executives said Friday that privatization remains an option for the Japanese technology company, as they defended their efforts to choose the right bidder to restore what they called “a strong Toshiba.” Tokyo-based Toshiba has been trying to win over shareholders to a restructuring plan. The company has not given…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Plane takes 12 hours to fly from Dallas to LA

Flight bound for Tokyo forced to make a U-turn

The Independent UK

Japan and Brazil linked by soccer, baseball and immigration

Brazilians will feel at home when Brazil plays Japan next week in Tokyo in a soccer game between their national teams

The Independent UK

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Sports Ministry provides financial assistance to athletes, including Manika Batra, for future competitions

NEW DELHI: The Sports Ministry on Thursday granted financial assistance to several athletes across the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) core and development groups, including Tokyo Paralympics silver medallist Nishad Kumar and ace woman table tennis player Manika Batra, to support them in their preparations for upcoming competitions.

The Times of India

Writer Hayashi to become chairperson at Nihon Univ.

Award-winning writer Mariko Hayashi has been unofficially named the new chairperson of her alma mater, Nihon University in Tokyo, which has been shaken by criminal offenses by a former chairperson and other senior executives, according to sources.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Toyosu tuna auction reopens to public

The public was able to view tuna auctions at the Toyosu wholesale market in Tokyo's Koto Ward for the first time in about five months on Thursday, as viewing had been suspended as a result of the pandemic.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Real World NOLA: Somebody's baby tonight

Salon recaps the seventh episode in which, at long last, Tokyo and the house recreate a classic reality TV song

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From fast food to fine art: the US chef who helped ramen conquer the world

Ivan Orkin spent years learning about Japanese cooking – and especially how to perfect the celebrated noodles. He reveals the secret to the perfect bowl

The Guardian - UK

Door reopens for foreign workers with visas

"Is that to eat here?" Vietnamese workers said cheerfully in Japanese as they practiced taking orders at a training facility of a hamburger shop operator in Tokyo. They were there to learn the fast food business, some of the many foreign workers who have finally been allowed into Japan.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Ellen Keane waiting on negative tests before cranking up World Championship preparations

The Paralympic gold medallist was hit by Covid a week ago and will miss start of Team Ireland training camp in Fuerteventura but also confirms that she will be at Paris 2024

Irish Mirror

Plane takes 12 hours to fly from Dallas to LA

Flight bound for Tokyo forced to make a U-turn

The Independent UK

Long jumper M Sreeshankar secures gold in Greece

NEW DELHI: Tokyo Olympian Murali Sreeshankar clinched his second gold medal of the season with a jump of 7.95m at the Venizeleio-Chania 2022 athletics meet in Chania, Greece.

The Times of India

How Japan, U.S. will lead amid global disarray / Tokyo helps connect democracies amid threat to international order

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has wrapped up a busy few days for Japanese diplomacy. Kishida met with U.S. President Joe Biden, who was on an official trip to Asia, and hosted a Quad summit with Biden and the leaders of Australia and India. These meetings came as the international order…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Japanese Derby draws over 62,000 horse-racing fans

More than 62,000 spectators hoofed it to Tokyo Racecourse in Fuchu, Tokyo, on Sunday, with many betting on the Japanese Derby for 3-year-old colts and fillies.

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The Independent UK

Plane takes 12 hours to fly from Dallas to LA

Flight bound for Tokyo forced to make a U-turn

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‘China in mind’: Japan mulls beefing up military as Ukraine war rings alarm

Country could double spending and acquire ‘first-strike’ capability in shift away from defensive postwar posture

Bangkok Post

Biden needs to do better in Asia

When Joe Biden arrived in Asia last week for the first visit to the region of his presidency, he aimed to pick up where his predecessor left off. Landing in South Korea on May 20 as events in North Korea and the Ukraine crisis loomed large, Mr Biden then travelled…

Bangkok Post

Tourists and the Japanese art of pandemic envy

The first tourists have begun to trickle back into Japan, with a few guided tour groups arriving this week in a small experiment designed to get locals used to the idea of foreign visitors. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is promising to let in more package tours starting next month as…

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The Hindu

Deepening strategic commitment

China is not only the glue that holds the Quad together; it is also the fuel that may drive the grouping’s inner consolidation

The Times of India

India’s rowers impress at World Cup 1

Olympians Arjun Lal Jat and Arvind Singh replicated their Tokyo Games performance in light-weight men’s doubles sculls while the quartet of Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Punit Kumar and Ashish gave India its best result in the men’s four at the Rowing World Cup 1 in Belgrade, Serbia, on Sunday.

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: The Flight Attendant; Lucy Worsley Investigates: The Witch Hunts; Tokyo Vice; Big Boys

Sky’s spiky airline espionage veers off course; 90s noir hits Japan; and Derry Girls’s Dylan Llewellyn stars in a big-hearted campus comedy

ABC News

Skateboarders join the Queensland Academy of Sport, keeping up with the 'big shift' in the Olympics

The recognition of skateboarders by the QAS reflects a "big shift" in the sport since the Tokyo Olympics — and it's creating more pathways for young skaters.

The Independent UK

Kye White finishes third at BMX Racing World Cup event in Glasgow

White delayed his return to training following his silver medal in Tokyo.

The Hindu

No taking pressure: Neeraj Chopra wants to repeat Tokyo Olympics approach in World Championships

Chopra is currently training at Kuortane Olympic Training Centre in Finland, where he reached on Thursday after shifting base from Turkey

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Ex-Japanese Red Army leader Shigenobu leaves prison

Fusako Shigenobu, a former leader of the Japanese Red Army terrorist group, was released from a Tokyo prison on Saturday after serving a 20-year sentence for her involvement in a hostage incident at the French Embassy in The Hague in 1974, among other charges.

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