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Asian shares mostly higher after Wall Street hits 2023 peak | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis...
3+ hour, 5+ min ago —...Hong Kong’s Hang Seng sank 0.8% to 16,208.21 and the Shanghai Composite... ...Asian shares mostly gained on Monday after Wall Street reached a... ...Street Asia shares gain after Wall St rally as investors pin hopes... ...week in nearly a year Wall Street soars to best day since summer...

Households cut spending on food due to rising cost of living | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis...
3+ hour, 6+ min ago —...By YOICHI YONETANI/ Staff Writer Zoom The Akidai supermarket in Tokyo... ...(Yoichi Yonetani) The rising cost of living is causing more and more... ..., a research associate at Itochu Research Institute Inc.... ...REPLACES SCANDAL-HIT MAYOR Okubo wins Koto Ward mayoral race with...

Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’ is No. 1 at the box office, a first for the Japanese anime master | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis...
6+ hour, 40+ min ago —...(Studio Ghibli/GKIDS via AP) NEW YORK--For the first time in Hayao... ...by Luca Padovan in English and Soma Santoki in Japanese, in a scene... ..., Christian Bale, Dave Bautista and Mark Hamill, follows a boy who... ..., Studio Ghibli vice president, said the previously retired Miyazaki...

Death of last surviving Alaskan taken by Japan during WWII rekindles memories of forgotten battle | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis...
6+ hour, 40+ min ago —...ANCHORAGE--Gregory Golodoff spent most of his years on a quiet Alaska... ...after Japanese troops captured remote Attu Island during World War... ...His sister, Elizabeth “Liz” Golodoff Kudrin, the second-to-last surviving... ...anthropologist with the National Park Service in Anchorage....

Study: Those in long-term care more at risk after 2011 quake | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis...
1+ hour, 3+ min ago —...By KEITARO FUKUCHI/ Staff Writer Zoom Toyoaki Sawano, a doctor at... ...Jyoban Hospital and a member of the research team (Keitaro Fukuchi... ...Toyoaki Sawano, a doctor at Jyoban Hospital in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture... ...of Radiation Health Management at Fukushima Medical University. ...

KDDI network outage was fixed after 3 hours, company says | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis...
2+ hour ago —...By SHINYA MATSUMOTO/ Staff Writer A widespread network outage early... ...on Dec. 11 was restored after about three hours, telecom giant KDDI... ...Koto Ward mayoral race with LDP, Koike backing Kishida expected... ...users dropped 45% during outage VOX POPULI: KDDI’s systems failure...

Kishida expected to widen his purge of Abe faction members | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis...
2+ hour, 46+ min ago —...(Takeshi Iwashita) Prime Minister Fumio Kishida plans to expand his... ...By SHINKAI KAWABE/ Staff Writer Zoom Fumio Kishida enters the prime... ...Research Council, and Tsuyoshi Takagi, chairman of the LDP’s Diet... ..., the internal affairs minister; and Ichiro Miyashita, the agriculture...

Verdict in SDF sexual assault case to be handed down on Dec. 12 | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis...
3+ hour, 8+ min ago —...(Amane Shimazaki) The Fukushima District Court will rule on Dec.... ...Zoom Rina Gonoi, a former Ground Self-Defense Force member, who came... ...The three--Shutaro Shibuya, 31, Akito Sekine, 29, and Yusuke Kimezawa... ...for 26th straight winter Verdict in SDF sexual assault case to be...

GSDF member arrested, says he killed random victim in Kyoto | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis...
3+ hour, 45+ min ago —...Yukito Mizushima, 21, is accused of fatally stabbing Yoshijiro Okada... ...(Keitaro Nishizaki) KYOTO--A Ground Self-Defense Force member was... ...military chief voices anger after latest Chinese coast guard incident... ...crash VOX POPULI Osprey crash shows Japan’s subservient status to...

EDITORIAL: Positive PISA test results should provide clues for better education | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis...
6+ hour, 49+ min ago —...Japan’s performance in the test remained on high levels, even though... ...Of the 81 participating countries and regions, Japan ranked second... ...--The Asahi Shimbun, Dec. 10 Japan scores 3rd in reading skills on... ...The OECD attributed Japan’s high performance partly to shorter school...