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Back to SearchBaseball's world body eyes home run with esports
Baseball's governing body has teamed up with a Japanese video gaming giant in the world of esports. Officials hope success in the digital realm will …
2 years, 9 months ago
Tottori's sand dunes launch Japan's lunar ambitions
More than half a century after man first walked on the moon, the world's space powers are engaged in a new quest to unlock the secrets of Earth's nea…
2 years, 9 months ago
Daughter of British POW in Japan retraces her father's footsteps
A British woman whose late father was a prisoner of war in Japan during World War Two visited the country nearly eight decades after he left, to retr…
2 years, 9 months ago
Hong Kong wields old sedition law to further crackdown on people's freedoms
Authorities in Hong Kong are cracking down on critics of Beijing to the point of suffocation. Not only are they using a sweeping piece of national se…
2 years, 9 months ago
China's disappearing ministers leave Xi's allies looking over their shoulders
China's Defense Minister Li Shangfu has not been seen in public for more than a month, and the government is yet to say why. His absence is strange, …
2 years, 9 months ago
Kyoto, Kyiv unite in ballet spectacular
It's not every day the young students at Kyoto's Terada Ballet Art School get a visit from some of the world's top dancers. So, in August, when the c…
2 years, 9 months ago
Vienna talks on banning nuclear weapons come at critical juncture
The first meeting of states parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was held June 21-23 in Vienna. The talks came as Russia's inv…
2 years, 10 months ago
Japan's new foreign minister wastes no time in championing women's causes
Talk about a baptism of fire. Less than a week after becoming Japan's first female foreign minister in almost two decades, Kamikawa Yoko travelled to…
2 years, 10 months ago
Ukrainian dentist attempts career reboot in Japan
A Ukrainian dentist who fled invading Russian forces and moved to Japan is hoping to rebuild his career in his adopted country, but first he has to n…
2 years, 10 months ago
Sweden struggles to stop Quran burnings despite security threat
Sweden is on edge, as almost weekly demonstrations about the Quran trigger reactions across the country and diplomatic protests from abroad.
2 years, 10 months ago