All Blacks fully stretched by Japan before winning 38-31
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/all-blacks-fully-stretched-by-japan-before-winning-38-31
October 29, 2022, 10:12 AM
The All Blacks were shaken by a superb 80-minute performance by Japan and had to find depths of character and resolve to beat the Brave Blossoms 38-31 before…
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Phillies beat Astros 6-5 in World Series Game 1
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/nola-nowhere-near-perfect-for-phillies-in-houston-this-time
October 29, 2022, 6:10 AM
Aaron Nola was nowhere near perfect for the Philadelphia Phillies in Houston this time.
Nola was done after 4 1/3 innings in Game 1 of the World Series,…
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Japan reports 44,523 new coronavirus cases
https://japantoday.com/category/national/Japan-reports-44-523-new-coronavirus-cases
October 29, 2022, 12:39 PM
Japan on Saturday reported 44,523 new coronavirus cases, up 5,269 from Friday. Tokyo reported 4,121 new cases, up 601 from Friday.
The number of infected people hospitalized with…
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Australia repatriates 4 Australian women, 13 children from Syrian refugee camp
https://japantoday.com/category/world/australia-repatriates-australian-women-and-children-from-syrian-refugee-camp1
October 29, 2022, 5:51 AM
The Australian government has repatriated four Australian women and their 13 children from a Syrian refugee camp, Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil said on Saturday in a resumption…
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Police drive 'gyoza king' murder suspect 500 km to avoid yakuza public transport attack
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/police-drive-mobster-500-km-to-avoid-yakuza-public-transport-attack
October 29, 2022, 10:11 AM
A mobster arrested for allegedly murdering a prominent fast-food businessman who was head of Gyoza no Ohsho (King of Gyoza) in 2013, was driven some 500 kilometers Friday…
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Harris to replace Biden at last of three Asia summits
https://japantoday.com/category/world/vp-harris-to-replace-biden-at-last-of-three-asia-summits
October 29, 2022, 5:49 AM
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will represent the United States next month in Bangkok in the third in a trio of Asian summits, the White House confirmed Friday,…
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Tropical storm slams into Philippines; death toll rises to 72
https://japantoday.com/category/world/tropical-storm-slams-into-philippines-death-toll-rises-to-721
October 29, 2022, 5:50 AM
Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae slammed into the Philippines on Saturday, after unleashing flash floods and landslides that left at least 72 people dead, officials said.
Nalgae pounded the…
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Suspected groper injured after jumping onto train tracks in Tokyo
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/suspected-groper-injured-after-jumping-onto-train-tracks-in-tokyo
October 29, 2022, 8:37 AM
A man accused of groping a woman on a train was injured after he tried to flee by jumping onto train tracks in Tokyo on Friday night.
According…
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Red Bull fined $7 million for overspending F1 cost cap
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/red-bull-fined-7-million-for-overspending-f1-cost-cap
October 28, 2022, 9:32 PM
Fancy catering and energy drinks. Social security contributions and medical treatments for an employee that survived their illness.
Those are some of the expenditures Red Bull claimed Friday…
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Second 'We Build The Wall' fraud trial ends in conviction
https://japantoday.com/category/world/second-%27we-build-the-wall%27-fraud-trial-ends-in-conviction
October 28, 2022, 9:34 PM
A Colorado businessman was convicted Friday of charges that he and others siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars from an online fundraiser to build a wall along the…
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Confusion, concern, conspiracies, celebration after Musk takes over Twitter
https://japantoday.com/category/tech/musk-took-over-twitter.-then-some-users-began-testing-chaos
October 29, 2022, 5:23 AM
Confusion, concern, conspiracies, celebration.
In the hours after Elon Musk took control of Twitter, reaction on the platform ranged from triumph to despair.
While no immediate policy changes…
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Intruder seeking U.S. House Speaker Pelosi at her home beats husband with hammer
https://japantoday.com/category/world/u.s.-house-speaker-pelosi%27s-husband-assaulted-with-hammer-at-home
October 29, 2022, 6:54 AM
An intruder demanding to see U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi broke into her San Francisco home and attacked her husband with a hammer early on Friday, officials said,…
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Thousands of workers evicted in Qatar's capital ahead of World Cup
https://japantoday.com/category/fifa-world-cup-2022/exclusive-thousands-of-workers-evicted-in-qatar%27s-capital-ahead-of-world-cup
October 28, 2022, 9:25 PM
Qatar has emptied apartment blocks housing thousands of foreign workers in the centre of the capital Doha where visiting soccer fans will stay during the World Cup, workers…
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Canada raising money for Ukraine with sale of bonds
https://japantoday.com/category/world/canada-raising-money-for-ukraine-with-sale-of-bonds2
October 28, 2022, 9:33 PM
Canada will sell a government-backed, 5-year bond to raise money for Ukraine, the first country to do so, and it will impose new sanctions on 35 Russian individuals,…
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Russia declares end of mobilization for Ukraine
https://japantoday.com/category/world/russia-declares-end-of-mobilisation-for-ukraine
October 29, 2022, 5:23 AM
Russia announced on Friday it had finished calling up reservists to fight in Ukraine, having drafted hundreds of thousands of people in a month, with more than a…
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Rock ‘n’ roll star Jerry Lee Lewis dies at 87
https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/jerry-lee-lewis-outrageous-rock-%E2%80%98n%E2%80%99-roll-star-dies-at-87
October 28, 2022, 9:30 PM
Jerry Lee Lewis, the untamable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose outrageous talent, energy and ego collided on such definitive records as “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta…
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Iran protests flare again as U.N. voices concern at detainees' treatment
https://japantoday.com/category/world/iran-protests-flare-again-as-u.n.-voices-concern-at-detainees%27-treatment
October 28, 2022, 9:34 PM
Iranians kept up protests calling for the toppling of the Islamic Republic on Friday, as activists posted videos of crowds demanding the death of the supreme leader and…
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UK delays calling N Ireland election amid Brexit impasse
https://japantoday.com/category/world/uk-delays-calling-n-ireland-election-amid-brexit-impasse
October 28, 2022, 9:33 PM
Northern Ireland's political deadlock deepened Friday when the UK government delayed calling an early election for the Belfast-based Assembly after a deadline to restore the mothballed administration expired.…
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Czechs rally to demand resignation of pro-Western government
https://japantoday.com/category/world/czechs-rally-to-demand-resignation-of-pro-western-government
October 28, 2022, 9:34 PM
Tens of thousands of Czechs used a national holiday Friday to rally in the capital against the pro-Western government and its support for Ukraine’s fight against the Russian…
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NFL star Tom Brady, Gisele Bündchen announce divorce after 13 years
https://japantoday.com/category/sports/tom-brady-gisele-bundchen-announce-divorce-after-13-years
October 28, 2022, 9:32 PM
Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen have finalized their divorce, they announced Friday, ending the 13-year marriage between two superstars who respectively reached the pinnacles of fashion and football.…
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Finland, Sweden promise to join NATO together in united front to Turkey
https://japantoday.com/category/world/finland-sweden-promise-to-join-nato-together-in-united-front-to-turkey1
October 28, 2022, 9:33 PM
Finland and Sweden will joint NATO at the same time, their prime ministers said on Friday, presenting a united front to Turkey which has raised questions about both…
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Russian ambassador to Japan to leave post
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/update2-russian-ambassador-to-japan-to-leave-post-possibly-in-late-nov.
October 28, 2022, 9:28 PM
Russian Ambassador to Japan Mikhail Galuzin is expected to leave his post, possibly late next month, and it is not yet known who will succeed him, a Russian…
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Philippines floods, landslides leave 42 dead, dozens missing
https://japantoday.com/category/world/philippines-floods-landslides-leave-42-dead-dozens-missing
October 28, 2022, 9:34 PM
Philippine search and rescue teams pulled bodies from water and thick mud on Friday, bringing to 42 the death toll from flooding and landslides triggered by a storm,…
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Japanese automakers boost exports in September as yen hits 24-year low
https://japantoday.com/category/business/japan-automakers-boost-exports-in-sept.-as-yen-hits-24-yr-low
October 28, 2022, 9:35 PM
Toyota Motor Corp, Mazda Motor Corp, and Subaru Corp doubled vehicle exports in September from a year earlier as the negative impact from a global parts shortage eased…
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Itsukushima Shrine walkabout
https://japantoday.com/category/picture-of-the-day/Itsukushima-Shrine-walkabout
October 28, 2022, 9:22 PM
Visitors walk near the world heritage Itsukushima Shrine on the island of Miyajima in Hiroshima Prefecture on Friday. The famous torii gate in the bay, last repaired in…
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North Korea fires two missiles into sea as South wraps up drills
https://japantoday.com/category/world/north-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-off-its-east-coast
October 28, 2022, 7:36 AM
North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) off its east coast on Friday, South Korea's military said, while wrapping up nearly two weeks of major drills aimed…
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Cabinet OKs ¥29 tril spending plan to counter inflation
https://japantoday.com/category/politics/japan-to-ok-490b-in-stimulus-to-cushion-impact-of-inflation
October 29, 2022, 8:41 AM
Japan’s cabinet approved Friday a hefty economic package including 29 trillion yen in government spending to counter the blow to household budgets from inflation, signaling that the greater…
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Bank of Japan sticks to easing despite yen pressure
https://japantoday.com/category/business/bank-of-japan-sticks-to-easing-despite-yen-pressure
October 28, 2022, 7:34 AM
The Bank of Japan stuck to its ultra-loose monetary policies Friday, even as the yen comes under pressure from aggressive tightening by the U.S. Federal Reserve and other…
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Jailed yakuza member arrested for 2013 murder of Gyoza no Ohsho head
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/yakuza-man-to-be-arrested-for-2013-murder-of-gyoza-no-ohsho-head
October 29, 2022, 7:55 AM
An imprisoned senior member of an affiliate of one of Japan's major crime syndicates was arrested Friday on suspicion of shooting and killing the president of major fast-food…
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Japan reports 39,254 new coronavirus cases
https://japantoday.com/category/national/Japan-reports-39-254-new-coronavirus-cases
October 28, 2022, 11:57 AM
Japan on Friday reported 39,254 new coronavirus cases, down 3,483 from Thursday. Tokyo reported 3,520 new cases, down 421 from Thursday.
The number of infected people hospitalized with…
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