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...Biden’s intervention comes a day after the Financial Times first reported that he was preparing to voice concerns about the Japanese group’s proposed acquisition of the Pennsylvania-based steelmaker....
...A 7.5kg reduction in CO₂ emissions, it adds for reference, is the equivalent of forgoing using a hairdryer for 78 days (based on an average use of 10 mins per drying session)....
...Japan’s meteorological agency warned of more big shocks in the coming days....
...Such paperwork ordinarily takes no more than 10 days to complete....
...“A lot of people say Prime Minister Kishida is entering the closing days of his administration, but I actually think he will hold out,” Toshikawa said....
...Events: Japanese foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi leaves Tokyo for a visit to the UK and France. The IMD World Competitiveness Center launches its annual ranking of countries....
...Following a three-day meeting in Karuizawa, a resort near Nagano, Japanese foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said G7 solidarity was stronger than ever amid concerns over whether the world’s advanced economies...
...Earlier in the day, Japan also passed a bill to “promote understanding” of LGBT+ issues....
...In a joint communiqué released after a three-day foreign ministers’ meeting in Japan, G7 member countries called on Beijing to refrain from coercion against Taiwan, while committing to “intensifying, fully...
...“We only use fresh ingredients we buy from the markets on the day,” says Atsushi Matsumoto, who has owned the restaurant with a business partner since the early 1990s....
...The Okinawa prefectural government said that a record 981 new cases were found on Thursday, a jump from 623 the previous day....
...Dutton’s comments also came days after Paul Keating, the former Australian prime minister, said Taiwan was “not a vital Australian interest” and that Canberra should not be drawn into a conflict with Beijing...
...Fittingly, Coventry cathedral this month hosted its annual Hiroshima Day memorial service....
...“Every single day something changes and it makes you more aware of the need to look and take note....
...I visited the orchard a day or two before the spring equinox....
...They summarily rejected one of my brightest PhD students for a visa for just five days to attend this year’s IADR, held in London this week....
...When Matthew Hough, the restaurant’s general manager, said how nice it was to see him again, his response was a jokey, “Well, it’s only been a couple of days.”...
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...Two days later, a policeman on a motorbike ran over his colleague during the procession....
...He pointed to Yoshimasa Hayashi, a political veteran and former agriculture minister, as one option....
...of 146 days....
...“We thought the INCJ offer was good, but the decision is up to Sharp,” Motoo Hayashi, Meti minister, said on Thursday. “We will closely watch how Sharp will grow under foreign capital.”...
...Some day it will swing back to Japanese.” When that day comes, the micro-trend for restoring “worthless” old houses may have finally gone mainstream....
...New York and Paris were initial favourites, then Singapore – until, one day, the chef Joël Robuchon sat across the counter from him and suggested London....
...Behind White Rainbow, as it is called, is the London-based Japanese financier and collector Yukiko Ito Pajot....
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