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Familiar faces return to the big screen in 2024

[ad_1] Previewing Japanese films for any given year is partly an exercise in deja vu — I’ve seen these movies before, or rather ones very much like them. This is especially true of Toho, the studio, distributor and exhibitor that towers over its competition like its iconic character, Godzilla.Toho’s lineup for 2024, features many familiar franchises and genres, which will doubtless produce most of the year’s biggest box-office hits for […]

todayJanuary 19, 2024

Japan

Patrick Mahomes braces for raucous environment in first road playoff game

[ad_1] Two-time Super Bowl champion Patrick Mahomes will finally face rabid, boisterous and unfriendly fans in a postseason setting.Mahomes, who is in his sixth season as a starting quarterback, will play his first road playoff game on Sunday night when his Kansas City Chiefs face the Buffalo Bills in the AFC divisional round in Orchard Park, New York.Mahomes has played 12 playoff games at home during his career, but has […]

todayJanuary 19, 2024

Africa

Africa: Blinken Heading to Africa Next Week On Four-Nation Tour

[ad_1] State Department — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Angola next week, the State Department announced, his fourth trip to the African continent. The trip comes after 17 Cabinet-level official visits last year as a follow-up to the 2022 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington. President Joe Biden has also expressed his desire to visit Africa this year, but no definite plans have been announced. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said […]

todayJanuary 19, 2024

Japan

Philippines to propose ASEAN AI regulatory framework

[ad_1] The Philippines plans to propose the creation of a Southeast Asian regulatory framework to set rules on artificial intelligence (AI), based on the country's own draft legislation, the speaker of its Congress said on Wednesday.At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Martin Romualdez said on that the Philippines would present a legal framework to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) when it chairs the bloc in 2026."We'd like […]

todayJanuary 19, 2024

Japan

Japan can guilt-trip its stocks past bubble-era highs

[ad_1] Thirty-eight thousand nine hundred fifteen point eight-seven.It’s a number seared into the mind of any long-term Japan stock-watcher: The Nikkei 225’s all-time high, recorded on the last trading day of 1989. The nation’s economic bubble had already begun to burst and early that next year the index tumbled. The S&P 500 has gained some 1,200% since then, while the Nikkei has yet to scale those heights once more.But after […]

todayJanuary 19, 2024

Japan

Suguru Osako to skip Tokyo Marathon in order to compete in Boston Marathon

[ad_1] Paris Olympic hopeful Suguru Osako revealed Thursday he will skip the March 3 Tokyo Marathon in favor of competing in the Boston Marathon the following month. Osako, who was sixth at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, is currently on track to claim the third and final Japanese men's marathon slot for Paris by virtue of his third-place finish in October's Marathon Grand Championship. Another Japanese runner must clock 2 […]

todayJanuary 19, 2024

Africa

Africa: Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Molly Phee Previewing the Secretary’s Trip to Cabo Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, and Angola

[ad_1] Office of the Spokesperson — MR TEK:  Thank you and good morning, everyone.  Welcome to today’s background call on Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s travel to Cabo Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, and Angola.  This call will be on the record and is embargoed until its conclusion. Joining on this – joining us this morning is Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Molly Phee.  She’ll provide some brief opening remarks, and then we’ll turn it over to your questions.  […]

todayJanuary 19, 2024

Japan

Taiwan’s TSMC to launch Kumamoto chipmaking plant in February

[ad_1] Taipei – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company will formally open its new chipmaking foundry in Kumamoto Prefecture on Feb. 24, its chairman said Thursday, as part of its plan to expand its global manufacturing footprint.TSMC — whose clients include Apple and Nvidia — controls more than half the world's output of silicon wafers, used in everything from smartphones to cars to missiles.The company has in recent years had to navigate […]

todayJanuary 19, 2024

Japan

LDP political funds probe nears close with top lawmakers likely unscathed

[ad_1] A week ahead of the opening of what is set to be a particularly heated session of parliament, an ongoing investigation into a slush funds scandal entangling the upper echelons of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party is drawing to a close, with all party heavyweights largely unscathed.Apprehension in the political center of Nagatacho since the investigation started late last year is likely to dissipate following the indictment of clerical […]

todayJanuary 19, 2024

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