Japan

[ad_1] With “The Young Strangers,” Takuya Uchiyama has made both one of the bleakest and most bracing films to come out of Japan this year. The 32-year-old’s commercial debut confirms the promise shown by his 2020 indie sleeper hit, “Sasaki in My Mind.” It’s an audacious and emotionally wrenching film. While its displays of virtuoso technique might sometimes distract from the story it’s telling, the cumulative effect left me breathless.Based […]

[ad_1] Hurricane Milton is closing in on Florida’s west coast, packing torrential rainfall and a destructive storm surge that could inundate some of the state’s fastest-growing counties.Milton was 50 miles (80 kilometers) west-southwest of Sarasota at 6 p.m. Wednesday, according to an update from the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Vertical wind shear over the Gulf of Mexico has knocked back Milton’s top winds to 120 mph (193 kph), leaving it […]

[ad_1] A new Japanese professional volleyball league, which begins its inaugural season on Friday, will take on the challenges to come while holding big dreams and aspirations, its chairman, Masaaki Okawa, said in a recent interview.The SV. League replaces the V. League as Japan's top volleyball league, following a reform initiative that Okawa has been involved in since autumn 2022.Okawa is a leading figure in the country's sports business world, […]

[ad_1] Kushiro, Hokkaido – Public prosecutors indicted the president of a tour boat operator on Wednesday over a fatal sinking incident off the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido in April 2022. The Kushiro District Public Prosecutor's Office charged Seiichi Katsurada, 61, head of Shiretoko Yuransen, based in the Hokkaido town of Shari, with professional negligence resulting in death. Katsurada has denied the charges, according to investigators. The Japan Coast Guard arrested […]

[ad_1] A third of the 158 agreements signed under the Japan-led Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) are linked to fossil fuel technologies, according to a report recently published by an international climate and energy research group. Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will chair an AZEC summit set to take place in Laos on Thursday on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit. The 11 AZEC partner countries are […]

[ad_1] South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol called again for unification of the Korean Peninsula to free it from nuclear threats in a renewed challenge to Pyongyang’s moves to rule out the possibility of rapprochement."A unified Korean Peninsula that is free and open will also create a strong impetus for economic development and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific," Yoon said Wednesday in a speech in Singapore. "Across the energy, logistics, transportation, infrastructure […]

[ad_1] BERLIN – German coach Juergen Klopp has been appointed head of global soccer for Red Bull, which owns several clubs, including RB Leipzig and New York Red Bulls, the company said on Wednesday, in his first job since leaving Liverpool earlier this year.Klopp, who ended his successful nine-year stint with Liverpool at the end of last season, will be starting on Jan. 1, 2025."After almost 25 years on the […]

[ad_1] ClassPass is betting that more people in Japan want to go to the gym and that more visitors to the country want to maintain their fitness routines.The New York-headquartered company, which provides access to gyms globally on a membership basis, started operating in Japan on Sept. 19. It has signed up 200 gyms and fitness studios in the country, mainly in Tokyo.“I think there's the potential for Japan to […]

[ad_1] Former Prime Minister Taro Aso has once again found himself at the center of controversy over Taiwan on Wednesday, after delivering remarks a day earlier that referred to the island as an important “country” for Japan — despite Tokyo's lack of formal diplomatic ties with Taipei.In his remarks at an event in Tokyo celebrating Taiwan’s National Day, which Taipei was set to mark Thursday, Aso called the democratic island […]