13.11.2024 11:07 BREAKING NEWS: U.S. dollar tops 155 yen for 1st time since late July
==KyodoRead full story here13.11.2024 11:28 Japan's nuclear watchdog formally decided Wednesday that a reactor in central Japan has failed to pass a safety review needed for its restart, in the first such case since the regulatory body's founding after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority said it confirmed its decision made in August not to approve the safety of the No. 2 reactor at the Tsuruga plant, operated by Japan Atomic Power Co., due to the possibility that an active fault runs underneath the offline unit. The NRA had also solicited public comments.
Read full story here13.11.2024 12:59 Over half of Japan's sporting bodies have taken measures against nonconsensual capturing and sharing of sexualized images of athletes, a Japan Sports Agency survey has revealed.
Wednesday marked four years since the Japanese Olympic Committee and seven other sporting organizations released a joint statement on the matter. Of 126 organizations surveyed between April and June, 62 of the 113 that replied said they were implementing countermeasures.
Read full story here13.11.2024 14:58 Japanese retail giant Seven & i Holdings Co. said Wednesday it is considering a management buyout proposed by a member of the company's founding family, in a move that could thwart a takeover bid by a Canadian convenience store giant.
The suggestion that will take the Japanese operator of the Seven-Eleven convenience store chain private is a fresh development in the takeover battle with Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., whose latest offer has been estimated to be worth around 7 trillion yen ($45 billion).
Read full story here13.11.2024 15:01 The New York Yankees slugger is expected to sign a deal north of $600 million that will come close to the real-dollar value of Shohei Ohtani's $700 million pact.13.11.2024 15:47 September champion Onosato suffered his first loss as an ozeki Wednesday against former sekiwake Abi on the fourth day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament.
Abi got the better of their initial collision, rocking the powerful 24-year-old backward. Onosato recovered briefly, but his left foot slipped on the sandy surface as he went on the attack, and Abi (3-1), now a No. 3 maegashira, floored him with a beltless arm throw.
Read full story here13.11.2024 18:22 Pulitzer Prize winner Hisham Matar’s third novel, My Friends, begins with a tender yet tense goodbye between two middle-aged friends, one of whom is compelled to search their past in order to understand how they got there. Decades earlier, Khaled, the book’s somber protagonist, found kinship with Hosam, an enigmatic writer and fellow Libyan dissident…13.11.2024 18:23 John Edgar Wideman’s genre-bending autobiography chronicles not only his life, but also those of African men and women who made their way to the U.S. through the trans–Atlantic slave trade. A poignant mix of memoir, autofiction, history, and poetry, Slaveroad begins by tracing the journeys of people like William Henry Sheppard, a descendant of enslaved…13.11.2024 18:23 New Yorker staffer Emily Witt’s debut memoir Health and Safety offers a sardonic look at her journey to try as many psychedelic drugs as possible. In 2013, after spending a few years on a prescribed antidepressant that “confirmed my love of stimulants,” Witt decided to try ayahuasca, a South American psychoactive beverage, for the first…13.11.2024 18:23 With his new book, The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, best-selling author and historian Hampton Sides reckons with the ambitions and intentions of Captain James Cook. In recent years, Sides writes, the enigmatic British explorer and gifted cartographer has become, in some respects, the…13.11.2024 18:23 In her debut memoir, best-selling cookbook author and food TV icon Ina Garten admits she has a “low threshold for boredom.” This, she writes, has made her more than willing to take wild risks “just to get out of that miserable state.” In Be Ready When the Luck Happens, Garten lays out her journey to…13.11.2024 18:24 Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, The Mighty Red, a captivating multigenerational tale set amid the 2008 financial crisis, begins with a frenzied proposal. Gary Geist, a wealthy and preternaturally lucky football player, asks Kismet Poe, his rebellious Ojibwe classmate, to marry him. This is much to the chagrin of Kismet’s superstitious truck-driver mom…13.11.2024 18:24 What does utopia look like for Black Americans? It’s the question at the heart of essayist, editor, and translator Aaron Robertson’s The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America, which explores the history and meaning of Black freedom movements in the U.S. The topic is a personal one for the author,…13.11.2024 18:24 Juli Min’s debut, Shanghailanders, is an ambitious family drama told entirely in reverse. The novel begins in 2040 with Leo Yang, an aging Chinese real-estate investor who finds himself drifting apart from his elegant Japanese French wife Eko, their precocious eldest daughters Yumi and Yoko, and the baby of the family, aspiring actress Kiko. To…13.11.2024 18:24 Tommy Orange’s family saga, Wandering Stars, picks up where his 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist, There There, left off. In the wake of a 2018 shooting, high-school freshman Orvil Red Feather struggles to make sense of the violence he has endured. To better understand what Orvil is up against, Orange takes us back to 1864 to…13.11.2024 18:25 In Kaveh Akbar’s debut novel, a National Book Award finalist, Cyrus Shams is sleepwalking through life. He’s a poet, newly sober, obsessed with death, and deeply depressed. When Cyrus was an infant, his mother boarded a plane in Tehran to visit her brother in Dubai. A U.S. missile mistakenly shot it down, and she was…13.11.2024 19:00 During his long career, West was a regular presence on stage and screen, his versatility allowing him to play a broad range of characters.13.11.2024 19:06 Defending champion Japan beat Australia 9-3 in their Group B opening game of the Premier12 baseball tournament Wednesday.
Japan's starting pitcher Haruto Inoue was given an early 5-0 lead and held Australia to two runs in five-plus innings, striking out eight and walking none at Vantelin Dome Nagoya.
Read full story here13.11.2024 19:29 Trump's first-term expansion in space will likely increase during his second presidency.13.11.2024 19:30 Jacques Audiards operatic musical stars Zoe Salda?a's, Karla Sofia Gascon, and Selena Gomez in an act of radical imagination. 13.11.2024 19:45 A new docuseries challenges half a century's worth of received wisdom about the influential social psychology study.13.11.2024 20:49 Rhetoric about Democratic shortcomings discounts Trump voters' agency and their desire for him to be President13.11.2024 21:00 The second season's two-part premiere ended with a shocking death. Here's why the twist works so well.13.11.2024 21:20 Wow! I just haven't had the timegood thing you reminded me!13.11.2024 22:18 Thune, who is 63 and in his fourth Senate term, has promised to work closely with Trump despite differences the two have had over the years.13.11.2024 22:45 These are the tips that sleep experts actually practice themselves.13.11.2024 23:05 Biden promised Trump a 'smooth transition'14.11.2024 1:00 Trumps election merely confirms a shift thats been happening for years.14.11.2024 3:19 President-elect Donald Trump stunned Senate Republicans by announcing that he will nominate Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general.14.11.2024 4:57 A working group of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Wednesday urged North Korea to improve the human rights situation in the country in line with nearly 300 recommendations, addressing issues such as the decades-old matter of abductions of Japanese nationals.
The group's report featured a total of 294 recommendations also covering torture, the death penalty and the "songbun" system that categorizes the population based on origin. The review, which began last week, was the first for North Korea in five years.
Read full story here14.11.2024 5:26 U.S. President Joe Biden will hold a farewell meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Lima on Saturday on the sidelines of an annual multilateral summit, senior administration officials said, as deep differences remain over a range of issues ahead of Donald Trump's return to the White House.
It will be their first in-person meeting in a year, with the U.S. officials saying Wednesday that Biden will take stock of efforts during his time in office to "responsibly manage" the intense competition between the two countries so as to prevent it from veering into confrontation or conflict.
Read full story here14.11.2024 5:48 Surangel Whipps Jr retains power in Palau, which is important to the US military amid tensions with China and is among a dozen diplomatic allies of TaiwanPalaus incumbent president Surangel Whipps Jr has been returned for a second term after a national election held last week, according to a final tally by the Palau Election Commission.The results showed Whipps Jr won 5,626 votes, defeating his brother-in-law Tommy Remengesau who received 4,103 votes.The headline of this story was amended on 14 November, 2024 Continue reading... ... Страницы: 604605606607608609610611612613614615616617618619620621622623624625626627628629630631632633634635636637638639640641642643644
Japan's nuclear watchdog formally decided Wednesday that a reactor in central Japan has failed to pass a safety review needed for its restart, in the first such case since the regulatory body's founding after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority said it confirmed its decision made in August not to approve the safety of the No. 2 reactor at the Tsuruga plant, operated by Japan Atomic Power Co., due to the possibility that an active fault runs underneath the offline unit. The NRA had also solicited public comments.
Read full story here
Over half of Japan's sporting bodies have taken measures against nonconsensual capturing and sharing of sexualized images of athletes, a Japan Sports Agency survey has revealed.
Wednesday marked four years since the Japanese Olympic Committee and seven other sporting organizations released a joint statement on the matter. Of 126 organizations surveyed between April and June, 62 of the 113 that replied said they were implementing countermeasures.
Read full story here
Japanese retail giant Seven & i Holdings Co. said Wednesday it is considering a management buyout proposed by a member of the company's founding family, in a move that could thwart a takeover bid by a Canadian convenience store giant.
The suggestion that will take the Japanese operator of the Seven-Eleven convenience store chain private is a fresh development in the takeover battle with Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., whose latest offer has been estimated to be worth around 7 trillion yen ($45 billion).
Read full story here
The New York Yankees slugger is expected to sign a deal north of $600 million that will come close to the real-dollar value of Shohei Ohtani's $700 million pact.
September champion Onosato suffered his first loss as an ozeki Wednesday against former sekiwake Abi on the fourth day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament.
Abi got the better of their initial collision, rocking the powerful 24-year-old backward. Onosato recovered briefly, but his left foot slipped on the sandy surface as he went on the attack, and Abi (3-1), now a No. 3 maegashira, floored him with a beltless arm throw.
Read full story here
Pulitzer Prize winner Hisham Matar’s third novel, My Friends, begins with a tender yet tense goodbye between two middle-aged friends, one of whom is compelled to search their past in order to understand how they got there. Decades earlier, Khaled, the book’s somber protagonist, found kinship with Hosam, an enigmatic writer and fellow Libyan dissident…
John Edgar Wideman’s genre-bending autobiography chronicles not only his life, but also those of African men and women who made their way to the U.S. through the trans–Atlantic slave trade. A poignant mix of memoir, autofiction, history, and poetry, Slaveroad begins by tracing the journeys of people like William Henry Sheppard, a descendant of enslaved…
New Yorker staffer Emily Witt’s debut memoir Health and Safety offers a sardonic look at her journey to try as many psychedelic drugs as possible. In 2013, after spending a few years on a prescribed antidepressant that “confirmed my love of stimulants,” Witt decided to try ayahuasca, a South American psychoactive beverage, for the first…
With his new book, The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, best-selling author and historian Hampton Sides reckons with the ambitions and intentions of Captain James Cook. In recent years, Sides writes, the enigmatic British explorer and gifted cartographer has become, in some respects, the…
In her debut memoir, best-selling cookbook author and food TV icon Ina Garten admits she has a “low threshold for boredom.” This, she writes, has made her more than willing to take wild risks “just to get out of that miserable state.” In Be Ready When the Luck Happens, Garten lays out her journey to…
Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, The Mighty Red, a captivating multigenerational tale set amid the 2008 financial crisis, begins with a frenzied proposal. Gary Geist, a wealthy and preternaturally lucky football player, asks Kismet Poe, his rebellious Ojibwe classmate, to marry him. This is much to the chagrin of Kismet’s superstitious truck-driver mom…
What does utopia look like for Black Americans? It’s the question at the heart of essayist, editor, and translator Aaron Robertson’s The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America, which explores the history and meaning of Black freedom movements in the U.S. The topic is a personal one for the author,…
Juli Min’s debut, Shanghailanders, is an ambitious family drama told entirely in reverse. The novel begins in 2040 with Leo Yang, an aging Chinese real-estate investor who finds himself drifting apart from his elegant Japanese French wife Eko, their precocious eldest daughters Yumi and Yoko, and the baby of the family, aspiring actress Kiko. To…
Tommy Orange’s family saga, Wandering Stars, picks up where his 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist, There There, left off. In the wake of a 2018 shooting, high-school freshman Orvil Red Feather struggles to make sense of the violence he has endured. To better understand what Orvil is up against, Orange takes us back to 1864 to…
In Kaveh Akbar’s debut novel, a National Book Award finalist, Cyrus Shams is sleepwalking through life. He’s a poet, newly sober, obsessed with death, and deeply depressed. When Cyrus was an infant, his mother boarded a plane in Tehran to visit her brother in Dubai. A U.S. missile mistakenly shot it down, and she was…
During his long career, West was a regular presence on stage and screen, his versatility allowing him to play a broad range of characters.
Defending champion Japan beat Australia 9-3 in their Group B opening game of the Premier12 baseball tournament Wednesday.
Japan's starting pitcher Haruto Inoue was given an early 5-0 lead and held Australia to two runs in five-plus innings, striking out eight and walking none at Vantelin Dome Nagoya.
Read full story here
Trump's first-term expansion in space will likely increase during his second presidency.
Jacques Audiards operatic musical stars Zoe Salda?a's, Karla Sofia Gascon, and Selena Gomez in an act of radical imagination. 
A new docuseries challenges half a century's worth of received wisdom about the influential social psychology study.
Rhetoric about Democratic shortcomings discounts Trump voters' agency and their desire for him to be President
The second season's two-part premiere ended with a shocking death. Here's why the twist works so well.
Wow! I just haven't had the timegood thing you reminded me!
Thune, who is 63 and in his fourth Senate term, has promised to work closely with Trump despite differences the two have had over the years.
These are the tips that sleep experts actually practice themselves.
Biden promised Trump a 'smooth transition'
Trumps election merely confirms a shift thats been happening for years.
President-elect Donald Trump stunned Senate Republicans by announcing that he will nominate Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general.
A working group of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Wednesday urged North Korea to improve the human rights situation in the country in line with nearly 300 recommendations, addressing issues such as the decades-old matter of abductions of Japanese nationals.
The group's report featured a total of 294 recommendations also covering torture, the death penalty and the "songbun" system that categorizes the population based on origin. The review, which began last week, was the first for North Korea in five years.
Read full story here
U.S. President Joe Biden will hold a farewell meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Lima on Saturday on the sidelines of an annual multilateral summit, senior administration officials said, as deep differences remain over a range of issues ahead of Donald Trump's return to the White House.
It will be their first in-person meeting in a year, with the U.S. officials saying Wednesday that Biden will take stock of efforts during his time in office to "responsibly manage" the intense competition between the two countries so as to prevent it from veering into confrontation or conflict.
Read full story here
Surangel Whipps Jr retains power in Palau, which is important to the US military amid tensions with China and is among a dozen diplomatic allies of TaiwanPalaus incumbent president Surangel Whipps Jr has been returned for a second term after a national election held last week, according to a final tally by the Palau Election Commission.The results showed Whipps Jr won 5,626 votes, defeating his brother-in-law Tommy Remengesau who received 4,103 votes.The headline of this story was amended on 14 November, 2024 Continue reading... ...