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- Fukushima, Japan, Environment, Japan disaster, Nuclear power, World news, Documentary films, Asia Pacific, Energy, Culture, Film
Fukushima review – a devastating account of disaster and denial in 2011 nuclear catastrophe
A tense return to the disaster foregrounds the heroism of the ‘Fukushima 50’ while raising questions about cor…
- Critical minerals, Japan, International trade, Business, US foreign policy, Asia Pacific, China, Oil, Gas, Donald Trump
US and Japan unveil $36bn of oil, gas and critical minerals projects in challenge to China
Donald Trump says deals ‘end our foolish dependence on foreign sources’, while Japanese PM hails enhanced econ…
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Lunar new year 2026: year of the fire horse around the world – in pictures
From the heart of Beijing to far-flung Manilla, Panama, Moscow and New York, communities around the globe ring…
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Chinese tourists shun Japan over lunar new year holiday as rift deepens
Japanese prime minister’s refusal to back down over Taiwan comments brings more criticism and travel warnings …
- Japan, Science fiction and fantasy films, World news, Asia Pacific, Anime, Culture, Animation in film, Film
Lupin the IIIrd the Movie: The Immortal Bloodline review – eye-popping fan-service in latest in anime franchise
Takeshi Koike’s latest take on Monkey Punch’s vintage manga thief is beautifully animated, but the gossamer-th…
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UK consumer sentiment takes a tumble; bad weather threaten fruit supplies but boosts Morocco’s wheat crop – as it happened
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as UK households grow more worried about debtsUK c…
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Arthur Stockwin obituary
My former colleague and senpai Arthur Stockwin, who has died aged 90, was a pioneering scholar of modern Japan…
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Arthur Stockwin obituary
My former colleague and senpai Arthur Stockwin, who has died aged 90, was a pioneering scholar of modern Japan…
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Japan seizes Chinese fishing boat inside its economic waters amid rift with Beijing
Japan’s fisheries agency said the vessel failed to comply with an order to stop. The incident comes weeks afte…
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‘People ought to know’: Blue Boy Trial brings Japan’s trans history up to date
Kasho Iizuka’s feature casts trans actors to revisit a notorious 1965 trial that made gender reassignment ille…
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‘Letting the sound happen around you’: powerful sonic memorial remembers the dead
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork has created a sound installation emulating second world war spaces: a Japanese internme…
- Family films, Japan, World news, Asia Pacific, Books, Culture, Animation in film, Film, Film adaptations
Little Amélie review – tender and poignant study of the fragility of early childhood
Based on a 2000 novella, this sweet animation follows a young girl who wakes from a vegetative state on the ve…
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Australian ministers met Japanese gas companies 20 times amid fossil fuel lobbying push
Thinktank analysis suggests Japan campaigns to prolong the carbon industry in Australia and hinder move to cle…
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Weather tracker: Spain and Portugal hit by third deadly storm in two weeks
Storm Marta sweeps Iberian peninsula just days after Storms Kristin and Leonardo brought deadly flooding and m…
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Japanese shares hit record high as Sanae Takaichi wins landslide election victory
Prime minister’s Liberal Democratic party to be pressed on promised tax cuts and fiscal stimulus plansBusiness…
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Sanae Takaichi’s conservatives cement power in landslide Japan election win
Results mean coalition of recently installed PM has supermajority in lower house of parliamentJapan’s conserva…
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Dozens dead after record snow in Japan – and officials warn warmer weather will be treacherous
Dozens of people have died, including two Australians, as record-breaking snowfall blankets the northDozens of…
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‘Sana-mania’ grips Japan as ultra-conservative Takaichi expected to secure election landslide
The country’s first female PM is the object of a personality cult revolving around everything from her outfits…
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Japan cherry blossom festival cancelled because of unruly tourist ‘crisis’
Authorities scrap Arakurayama Sengen park cherry blossom festival near Mount Fuji because of tourists trespass…
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Japan’s record-breaking snowfalls – in pictures
Snowbanks reach shoulder height and tourists visit giant icy sculptures of baseball players as northern half o…