From Japan Today
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Biden picks up another big union endorsement, this one from building trades workers
President Joe Biden picked up the endorsement of North America’s Building Trades Unions at a Wednesday event where the president and his allies set out to dismantle Republican Donald Trump's reputation as a successful real estate developer. “Donald Trump is incapable of running anything,” said Sean McGarvey, the organization’s president.
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Ukraine uses long-range missiles secretly provided by U.S. to hit Russian-held areas, officials say
Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles provided secretly by the United States, bombing a Russian military airfield in Crimea last week and Russian forces in another occupied area overnight, American officials said Wednesday. Long sought by Ukrainian leaders, the new missiles give Ukraine nearly double
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TikTok CEO expects to defeat U.S. restrictions: 'We aren't going anywhere'
TikTok's chief executive said on Wednesday that the company expects to win a legal challenge to block legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden that he said would ban the popular short video app used by 170 million Americans. "Rest assured - we aren't going anywhere," CEO Shou Zi
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Biden signs Ukraine aid, TikTok ban package after Republican battle
U.S. President Joe Biden signed a hard-fought bill into law on Wednesday that provides billions of dollars of new U.S. aid to Ukraine for its war with Russia, notching a rare bipartisan victory for the president as he seeks reelection and ending months of wrangling with Republicans in Congress. "It
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In Hamas video, U.S.-Israeli hostage says living in Gaza 'hell'
Palestinian militant group Hamas released Wednesday a video of an Israeli-American man held hostage in Gaza who is seen alive and saying that the captives are living "in hell". He identifies himself as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, one of the hostages abducted from the Nova music festival in southern Israel during
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Israel says Rafah assault looms; massive Gaza airstrikes end weeks of relative calm
Israeli warplanes pounded the northern Gaza strip for a second day on Wednesday in a fierce assault that has shattered weeks of comparative calm, and Israel said it was moving forward with plans for an all-out assault on Rafah in the south. After weeks of reduced fighting following an abrupt
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Arizona indicts 18 in case over 2020 election in Arizona, including Giuliani and Meadows
An Arizona grand jury has indicted former Donald Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Rudy Giuliani along with 16 others in an election interference case. The indictment released Wednesday names 11 Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring that Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in Arizona
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Memorial service held for 107 victims of 2005 fatal train derailment in Hyogo
West Japan Railway Co (JR West) officials, survivors and relatives of victims of a fatal train derailment in 2005 in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, attended a memorial service on Thursday morning. On April 25, 2005, a speeding train on the JR Fukuchiyama Line jumped the tracks on a tight bend during
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Australia, New Zealand honor their war dead with dawn services on Anzac Day
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered across Australia and New Zealand for dawn services and street marches Thursday to commemorate their war dead on Anzac Day. New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon attended a dawn service in his country’s largest city, Auckland, while Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese saw the sun rise at a
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No 'East Side Story' musicals for Gen Z foreign delinquents
With the declining number of births, it goes without saying that crimes by juveniles in Japan must inevitably decline, right? Wellnot necessarily. According to Spa (April 9-16), the number of foreigners in their teens and early 20s has increased, and some of them have banded together to break the law.
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Yokohama's night
Players of Yokohama F. Marinos celebrate after defeating Ulsan Hyundai 5-4 in a penalty shootout in the second leg of the AFC Champions League semifinal soccer match against Ulsan Hyundai in Yokohama on Wednesday night. See story here.
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Ancestry website cataloguing names of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II
The names of thousands of people held in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II have been digitized and made available for free, genealogy company Ancestry announced Wednesday. The website, known as one of the largest global online resources of family history, is collaborating with the Irei Project, which