Asia Pacific
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Centrefolded: Japan’s ‘porn disposal’ boxes phased out amid rise of the internet
The boxes served to protect the eyes of children from adult material littering the streets, but the shift onli…
- Japan, Electric, hybrid and low-emission cars, Automotive industry, Renault, Business, Nissan, Asia Pacific, Honda
Nissan and Honda end $60bn merger talks
Both Japanese carmakers say they will continue to cooperate on electric vehicle technologyJapan’s Nissan and H…
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‘An act of betrayal’: Japan to maximise nuclear power 14 years after Fukushima disaster
Tokyo wants to drop attempts to lessen its reliance on nuclear power, according to a draft energy planMore tha…
- Steel industry, Japan, US foreign policy, US news, Asia Pacific, China, Trump administration, Donald Trump
Trump and Japanese PM Ishiba talk tariffs and vow to stand against Chinese ‘aggression’
Leaders praise each other at White House but president warns Japan could face tariffs if it doesn’t cut US tra…
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Weather tracker: Japan’s record snowfall causes chaos as temperatures dive
Vehicles stranded, trains and planes cancelled, and schools closed after record 129cm of snow falls in 12 hour…
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Japan’s PM heads to Washington hoping he can recreate rapport of Trump-Abe era
Shigeru Ishiba will seek familiar guarantees: that the US will continue to stand on Japan’s side against China…
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Parts of Japan blanketed by thick snow during strongest cold front for years
Hokkaido and the Japan Sea coast have been hardest hit, forcing domestic airlines to cancel flights between ci…
- Australian television, Australian media, Japan, SBS, Air transport, Travel, Asia Pacific, Japan holidays
Away with Kumi Taguchi: ‘I am really comfortable and happy travelling on my own’
In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about travel, the TV presenter recounts a meal in Japan that took a d…
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Fears grow in Japan for truck driver trapped in sinkhole for third day
Residents near Tokyo question slow pace of effort to rescue 74-year-old as workers race to build 30-metre ramp…
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SoftBank ‘in talks’ to invest up to $25bn in OpenAI
Move reported by the FT would make Japanese group the largest financial backer of US startup behind ChatGPTBus…
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Race to rescue driver trapped in Japan sinkhole for two days
Attempts in Japan to retrieve the man were temporarily halted early on Wednesday after a second sinkhole appea…
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Picture prefect: Japanese city deploys guards to control unruly tourists seeking perfect shot
Overseas tourists are blocking roads or walking onto railway tracks in Otaru to capture its views, stoking loc…
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The Colors Within review – musical teen anime is a synaesthetic joy
Three adolescent misfits form a band in this luminous feature from Liz and the Blue Bird director Naoko Yamada…
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Stray Dog/High and Low review – Kurosawa lifts crime drama to astonishing new peaks
★★★★★/★★★★★Drawing on hardboiled US fiction, as American film had fed on his own Seven Samurai, the director b…
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‘Inside I was doing the Mario jump’ – how one artist became a key player in Nintendo’s story
Takaya Imamura worked at Nintendo for 32 years before leaving to create his own game, Omega Six. He shares ane…
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Last orders? Soaring costs and declining demand take toll on Japan’s legendary izakaya
Ramen restaurants also struggling as Japan’s culinary landscape faces economic challenges and changing custome…
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Japan’s coming of age ceremony – in pictures
Coming of Age Day is celebrated in Japan every January, when those becoming adults dress in formal kimonos, pr…
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Hammer attack injures eight students at Tokyo university
Japanese police say 22-year-old woman arrested as witness describes panic after attacker ‘all of a sudden’ beg…
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Japanese yakuza leader pleads guilty to trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar
US authorities charged Takeshi Ebisawa with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar for expected …
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Sushi restaurateurs fork out $1.3m for motorbike-sized tuna at auction in Tokyo
Onodera Group paid second highest price ever at prestigious annual new year auction at Tokyo’s main fish marke…