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Mar 20 2021
News
Spectators from abroad to be barred from Tokyo Olympics
At last it’s official after countless unsourced news reports and rumors: spectators from abroad will be barred from the postponed Tokyo Olympics when they open in four months.
The decision was announced Saturday after an online meeting of the International Olympic Committee, the Japanese government, the Tokyo government, the International Paralympic Committee, and local organizers.
Associated PressAug 29 2017
News
Trump on North Korea missile launch: 'All options are on the table'
President Trump said Tuesday that "all options are on the table" after North Korea launched a missile over Japan, an act that instantly renewed tensions in the region just days after the regime appeared to be backing down from threats against the U.S. and its allies.
Fox News DigitalSep 04 2020
News
SoftBank’s Bet on Tech Giants Fueled Powerful Market Rally
Investors watching the vertigo-inducing rise—and this week’s fall—of technology stocks are buzzing about a single trade, a giant but shadowy bet on Silicon Valley big enough to pull the market up with it.
The investor behind that trade, according to people familiar with the matter, is Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp., which bought options tied to around $50 billion worth of individual tech
Wall Street Journal (News)Feb 20 2022
Opinion
Entente Multiplies the Threat From Russia and China
It’s been more than 75 years since the U.S. last faced an axis of strategic threats. Fortunately, that axis proved dysfunctional. Had it been otherwise, Japan and Germany would have systematically attacked the Soviet Union, not America, first.
Our current strategic adversaries, Russia and China, aren’t an axis. They’ve formed an entente, tighter today than any time since de-
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Oct 05 2015
News
U.S. Reaches Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal With 11 Pacific Nations
The U.S., Japan and 10 countries around the Pacific reached a historic accord Monday to lower trade barriers to goods and services and set commercial rules of the road for two-fifths of the global economy.
Wall Street Journal (News)Jun 12 2021
News
Biden Pushes G-7 to Criticize China Over Forced-Labor Allegations
President Biden is pushing world leaders to call out China over allegations of forced labor in Xinjiang as the Group of Seven leading economies agreed to a global infrastructure plan meant to compete with Beijing.
Mr. Biden joined leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.K. for a session focused on China on the second day of the G-7 summit. The issue of how
Wall Street Journal (News)Jul 21 2021
News
Tokyo 2020 Reporters Say They’ve Been Forced Into Hotel Isolation Without Food
For sports reporters, being sent to cover the Olympic Games is the kind of dream assignment that makes them choose their careers in the first place. But the trip to Tokyo instantly descended into boring chaos for a group of journalists forced into isolation days before the Games begin.
Multiple reporters have complained that they’re being made to isolate after being exposed to the
Daily BeastOct 26 2021
News
Does nuclear power have a place in a green-energy future?
Countries around the world have set ambitious goals to fight climate change by drastically reducing their emissions in the coming decades. Doing so means replacing carbon-heavy power sources, like coal and gas, with green-energy solutions. Renewables like solar, wind and hydroelectric power will certainly play a major role. But environmentalists, scientists and lawmakers are divided on whether
Yahoo! The 360Jun 18 2017
News
Sleeping Sailors on U.S.S. Fitzgerald Awoke to a Calamity at Sea
Hundreds of sailors were asleep in their berths on board the United States Navy destroyer Fitzgerald early on Saturday when a cargo ship struck it broadside off Japan. After a frantic search through twisted wreckage and flooded cabins, the Navy said on Sunday that several sailors did not survive.
New York Times (News)May 20 2021
Analysis
Google is making search worse by making it easier
In his keynote address at Google’s annual conference for developers and journalists, CEO Sundar Pichai touted the AI tools the company is building to make search simpler. One of the core technologies in this effort is Google’s newly announced Multitask Unified Model (MUM), which aims to answer complex questions by synthesizing information from across the web into one coherent response from
Quartz