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What is the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’?

30 juillet 2025 à 02:58
Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active regions that encircle the Pacific Ocean.

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An image released by NASA showing the atmospheric plume from a volcano eruption in the Pacific island nation of Tonga in 2022.

Last Soldiers of an Imperial Army Have a Warning for Young Generations

28 juillet 2025 à 00:01
As the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, only a few veterans of Japan’s brutal war remain. “Never die for Emperor or country,” one advised.

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Last Soldiers of an Imperial Army Have a Warning for Young Generations

28 juillet 2025 à 00:01
As the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, only a few veterans of Japan’s brutal war remain. “Never die for Emperor or country,” one advised.

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Shunsaku Tamiya, Who Brought Perfection to Plastic Replica Models, Dies at 90

25 juillet 2025 à 11:44
He turned his family’s lumber business into a manufacturer of model kits that won global popularity for their quality and historical accuracy.

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Shunsaku Tamiya, who turned his family’s plastic model business into a global brand, held a scale replica of a German World War II Tiger tank at the hobby show in Shizuoka, Japan, in 2003.

Boeing Emerges as a Winner in Trump’s Trade Wars

25 juillet 2025 à 05:02
Countries striking agreements with the United States have pledged to buy more Boeing planes, but it’s not clear whether those orders were the result of President Trump’s tactics.

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Boeing’s assembly plant in North Charleston, S.C. The company employs tens of thousands of Americans and is one of the country’s top exporters.

South Korea Jockeys for a Deal With Trump at Least as Good as Japan’s

24 juillet 2025 à 14:48
The agreement that Japan secured has added pressure on South Korea to defuse the threat of high tariffs on its exports to the United States.

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Containers at a port in Busan, South Korea, in July.

The Latest Casualty of Social Media Hype Is Your Matcha Supply

24 juillet 2025 à 05:07
The powdered Japanese green tea is increasingly hard to find. Experts say its popularity on the internet is straining Japan’s tea industry.

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Matcha from Japan has exploded into a global craze, driven in part by buzz on social media, experts say.

Trump’s Tariffs Are the Highest in a Century. But After His Threats, They Seem Like a Relief.

23 juillet 2025 à 13:17
The president imposed tariffs on Japan, one of America’s closest allies, that would have been alarming just months ago. And markets went up.

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The key to clinching a trade deal between the United States and Japan appeared to be President Trump’s agreement to lower tariffs for Japanese cars to 15 percent, a rate that would have been shocking not long ago.

U.S. and Japan Reach Trade Deal

23 juillet 2025 à 02:54
President Trump said on Tuesday that the trade deal he struck with one of America’s closest allies would impose a 15 percent tariff on Japanese exports.

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Newly manufactured cars awaiting export at a port in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, in March.

In Japan, Anti-Establishment Parties Resonate With Young Voters

21 juillet 2025 à 20:50
Anti-establishment parties focused on wages, immigration and an unresponsive political elite struck a chord with working-age people in Japan.

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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba of Japan and other leaders of the Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo on Monday, a day after the party’s defeat in parliamentary elections.

Japan’s Long-Dominant Party Suffers Election Defeat as Voters Swing Right

20 juillet 2025 à 23:37
The loss on Sunday left the Liberal Democrats a minority party in both houses of Parliament, while two new nationalist parties surged.

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Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba of Japan, center left, vowed to stay in office despite the poor showing by his Liberal Democratic Party, which has led Japan for all but five of the last 70 years.

Sohei Kamiya Brings Trump-Style Populism to Japan’s Election

19 juillet 2025 à 06:37
With his calls to limit foreign workers, fight globalism and put “Japanese First,” Sohei Kamiya has brought a fiery right-wing populism to Japan’s election on Sunday.

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Sohei Kamiya, the leader of an upstart right-wing political party called Sanseito, delivering a campaign speech this month at Takasaki Station in Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo.

Japan Election 2025: What to Know

21 juillet 2025 à 21:22
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba was facing calls to resign after his long-governing party suffered a stark defeat on Sunday, as voters swung right.

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The Liberal Democratic Party, led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, seen standing, is now a minority party in both houses of Japan’s Parliament.

It’s No Bluff: The Tariff Rate Is Soaring Under Trump

14 juillet 2025 à 08:23
The president has earned a reputation for bluffing on tariffs. But he has steadily and dramatically raised U.S. tariffs, transforming global trade.

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President Trump argues that low tariffs have left the country at a disadvantage in the past, allowing Americans to import cheap products that put U.S. factories out of business and left the country dependent on foreign nations.

Flash Floods Are the ‘Hardest Kind’ of Disaster to Prevent, Experts Say

12 juillet 2025 à 05:01
Scholars and designers of early warning systems say that there are still huge gaps in our ability to predict flash floods and warn those at risk.

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Flood-damaged homes lining the river in Chiva, near Valencia, Spain, in November. A flood alert system was in place but was not immediately activated.
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