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‘Everything, Everywhere’: Contemplative drama speaks to lonely drifters

[ad_1] Japanese filmmakers have been shooting abroad for decades but typically on studio projects that use their foreign settings as exotic backdrops.Kah Wai Lim, a Malaysian director who has long been based on Osaka, makes indie films that are the very definition of borderless, including his Balkan trilogy: “No Where, Now Here” (2018), “Somewhen, Somewhere” (2019) and his latest, “Everything, Everywhere.”Shot with a skeleton crew and using local non-professionals to flesh out the cast, these films are a mix of […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

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‘Sono Kodo ni Mimi o Ateyo’: An absorbing dive into pressures of the ER

[ad_1] Television dramas have been an effective recruitment tool for hospitals — and emergency rooms in particular. From George Clooney in “ER” to Ryohei Suzuki in “Tokyo MER,” successive generations of TV doctors and nurses have brought an aura of glamor to a profession more often defined by endless night shifts, impossible workloads and lousy pay.Early on during Takuro Adachi’s “Sono Kodo ni Mimi wo Ateyo” (which translates to “listen to that heartbeat”), Yu Sakuragi, a 26-year-old intern on ER […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

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How surfing is challenging tradition in a Ghanaian town

[ad_1] Sandy Alibo is the founder of Surf Ghana,, external an organisation which uses action sports to empower and educate young people and supports the building of a sustainable surfing infrastructure.However beautifully Busua's story is told, she says Ghana's surf scene depends on cold, hard numbers."In the village, they see money first," she says."Life is really difficult. People can earn 400-500 cedis (£26-£32) a month. The priority of every parent is to take care of their daughter and make sure […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

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Japan Times 1924: Rescue workers toiling to save eighteen lives

[ad_1] 100 YEARS AGOTuesday, Feb. 12, 1924Strenuous efforts are being made by willing workers to reach the eighteen men trapped a mile in from the entrance by the caving of the Tanna railway tunnel on Sunday. It is the hope of the rescue workers that the men are still alive and will be reached in time to snatch them from death, although the best that can be hoped for that the cave-in may be pierced by Friday. [ad_2] Source link

todayFebruary 1, 2024

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Developing countries should reject American-style protectionism

[ad_1] Project Syndicate – For nearly 50 years after the end of World War II, the United States led the effort to liberalize global trade through the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.In 1994, the U.S. rallied 123 countries to sign a multilateral treaty establishing the World Trade Organization, which subsumed GATT while expanding its scope to cover services trade and intellectual property.Paradoxically, America’s current industrial policy poses an existential threat to the multilateral trading system it worked so hard […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

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Kishida faces heat from all sides over political funds scandal

[ad_1] Prime Minister Fumio Kishida faced off against Japan's main opposition party Wednesday over the government’s disaster response one month after the New Year’s Day earthquake on the Noto Peninsula, as well as his handling of the political funds scandal that has engulfed the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.Kenta Izumi, leader of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, called on the government to raise the value of reconstruction grants given to disaster victims from the current ¥3 million ($20,300) to ¥6 […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

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New Japan envoy in China meets with national detained over spying

[ad_1] Beijing – New Japanese Ambassador to China Kenji Kanasugi met Tuesday with a compatriot who has been detained in Beijing on suspicion of espionage for the first time since the envoy assumed duties last month, a Japanese government source said.Kanasugi's move followed a meeting in November between his predecessor Hideo Tarumi and the man, a senior Astellas Pharma employee. The latest meeting was believed to show the new ambassador's resolve to secure the early release of the citizen.It was […]

todayFebruary 1, 2024

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