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Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom review – intriguing fantasy franchise is far from your average anime
Its Game of Thronesian intrigue, benevolent Skeletor protagonist and surprising lack of gratuitous violence se…
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Robot retrieves radioactive fuel sample from Fukushima nuclear reactor site
Plant’s owners hope analysis of tiny sample will help to establish how to safely decommission facilityA piece …
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Weather tracker: More rain forecast in Spain as storms push in
Heightened risk Cádiz river could overflow, with yellow and orange rainfall warnings for southern regionsThe l…
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Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color review – magnificent monster in mono
Black and white re-release of one of the fire-breathing lizard’s best outings looks terrific and has an intrig…
- Los Angeles Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani, Japan, Baseball, US sports, MLB, World news, Asia Pacific, Sport
Japan gripped by two things: a general election and Shohei Ohtani’s shoulder
Speculation about the country’s political future is competing for space with the fortunes of the Los Angeles D…
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Japan’s ruling coalition to lose majority in election, national broadcaster says
PM Shigeru Ishiba’s Liberal Democratic party faces losses amid voter anger over funding scandal and cost of li…
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Japan’s new PM in precarious position as country votes in tight election
Shigeru Ishiba may struggle to win majority, undermining his position as Liberal Democratic party leaderCitize…
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The Guardian view on North Korea’s competing calendars: arranging the days of our lives | Editorial
Pyongyang may be moving away from its Juche dating system, but others cling to their own kinds of time despite…
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Black Box Diaries review – inside the remarkable events that triggered Japan’s #MeToo movement
Japanese journalist Shiori Itō tells how she pursued her rape case against a prominent TV executive This is th…
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‘They refused to let me go’: Japanese workers turn to resignation agencies to quit jobs
One in six workers has engaged a firm to hand in notice for them, as younger workers reject traditional work e…
- Greenland, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Environmental activism, Japan, Environment, Europe, Whaling, World news, France
Anti-whaling activist held in Greenland appeals for political asylum in France
Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd organisation faces extradition to Japan after arrest in Nuuk in JulyPaul Watso…
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My Hero Academia: You’re Next review – old-style superhero battle anime with hint of the surreal
The fourth film spin-off from the daffy Japanese X-Men knock-off beams its dream-like action into a flying for…
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Nobel peace prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ group
Nihon Hidakanyo receives accolade for campaign to rid world of nuclear weapons by ‘describing the indescribabl…
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The Last of the Sea Women review – female Korean divers as picturesque eco-feminist tradition
Sue Kim’s film about South Korea’s underwater fishers has everything from nuclear pollution to sexism to cover…
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Tokyo cracks down on ‘kasuhara’ amid rise in customers abusing staff
A wave of abusive consumers has prompted authorities to introduce the country’s first ordinance to protect ser…
- #MeToo movement, Japan, Sexual harassment, Rape and sexual assault, World news, Documentary films, Film
‘Editing it was like exposure therapy’: Shiori Ito, the reluctant face of Japan’s #MeToo movement
After reporting a high-profile journalist for sexual assault, Ito was championed and vilified. She relives tha…
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Buried US second world war bomb explodes at Japanese airport
Unexpected blast at Miyazaki airport makes crater in taxiway and leads to grounding of 80 flights but no injur…
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Japan’s incoming prime minister Shigeru Ishiba to call snap election – reports
The 67-year-old will seek an early public mandate after seeing off a rightwing challenge to become the leader …
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Japan’s incoming prime minister Shigeru Ishiba to call snap election – reports
The 67-year-old will seek an early public mandate after seeing off a rightwing challenge to become the leader …
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Japan’s magic bullet: 60 years of the train that helped rebuild the idea of a country
Over just a few days in 1964, the launch of the shinkansen and the Tokyo Olympics trumpeted the emergence of a…