Asia Pacific
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Snow and freezing cold may shape outcome of Japan’s snap general election
Prime minister Sanae Takaichi acknowledges her decision to call early poll could prove challenging for voters …
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‘I lost part of my heart’: last of Japan’s pandas leave for China as ties fray
Hundreds at zoo in Tokyo say farewell to Lei Lei and Xiao Xiao, as China ends ‘panda diplomacy’ with JapanHund…
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The Fukushima towns frozen in time: nature has thrived since the nuclear disaster but what happens if humans return?
Fifteen years after a tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident, only bears, raccoons and boar are seen on…
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Black and white and sent back over: end of panda diplomacy as Japan returns bears to China
The departure of pandas will leave legions of Japanese admirers bereft, but it is also symptomatic of a dramat…
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Japan pauses restart of world’s largest nuclear power plant one day after it went online
Operator says it does now know when the problem at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata province will be so…
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Shinzo Abe’s killer sentenced to life in prison over shooting of Japanese former PM
Abe was killed by Tetsuya Yamagami in 2022 while campaigning in the city of Nara, a shooting that shocked Japa…
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Cosmic Princess Kaguya! review – trippy anime adapted from Japanese folk dives into virtual reality popworld
Emojis explode all over the screen in this hyperactive adaptation of a Japanese folk tale about a princess who…
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Chinese tourists shun Japan in wake of Taiwan invasion row
Number of high-spending Chinese tourists visiting Japan halved last month after PM said an invasion of Taiwan …
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Japan’s prime minister calls snap election as approval ratings ride high
Sanae Takaichi tells senior figures in ruling Liberal Democratic party she plans to dissolve lower house on 23…
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15 years after Fukushima, Japan prepares to restart the world’s biggest nuclear plant
A return to nuclear power is at the heart of Japan’s energy policy but, in the wake of the 2011 disaster, resi…
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Rental Family review – Brendan Fraser seeks meaning in pointless Japanese role-play drama
Fraser plays a hapless Tokyo-based actor working for a firm that offers bespoke therapeutic role-play services…
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Escape review – notorious Japanese revolutionary tells story of country’s most wanted criminal
Director Masao Adachi – formerly of the Japanese Red Army – on the infamous Satoshi Kirishima, who went on the…
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‘Yamagata is ramen’: Japan’s city of noodle fiends revels in ‘capital’ status
Noodle dish is nation’s favourite comfort food and source of civic pride – but it has health risksThe road to …
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‘Tuna King’ pays record £2.4m for 243kg giant bluefin at Tokyo auction – video
The head of the sushi restaurant chain Sushizanmai bid 510.3m yen (£2.4m) for a single bluefin tuna, the highe…
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‘Tuna King’ pays record £2.4m for giant bluefin at Tokyo auction
Kiyoshi Kimura will turn prized 243kg fish into sushi rolls selling for £2.4o at his restaurant chainA sushi e…
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‘A place of darkness and light’: the uninhabited Japanese island that became a rabbit paradise
Once host to a poisonous gas research facility, Okunoshima is now an Instagram-friendly tourist destinationThe…
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Female MPs in Japan seek to flush out sexism with call for more toilets
PM Sanae Takaichi joins petition asking for better facilities for women to match improved representationNearly…
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Demon Slayer economics: how the anime juggernaut became a saviour
Once underground art form now props up slumped box office sales and is used by governments to build soft power…
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‘People are wrestling with the burden’: Japan pivots to focus on nuclear power ‘maximisation’ alongside renewables
Post-Fukushima nuclear closures of dozens of reactors forced the country to rely heavily on imported fossil fu…
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Bells and whistles: how our reporter prepared for visiting bear hotspot – video
The town of Osaki has been making the headlines as a bear hotspot as Japan reels from a year of record ursine …