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Oppenheimer to finally be released in Japan after ‘Barbenheimer’ backlash

Audiences in Japan will finally get to see Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan’s hit biopic about the creator of the nuclear bomb – following criticism that it was marketed in a way that trivialised the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The movie’s distributor in Japan, Bitters End, said on Thursday that the film, which examines […]

Minus Trump, GOP Hopefuls Square Off In Tuscaloosa For Final Debate

TUSCALOOSA, AL — Four candidates vying for the Republican Party’s nomination for the 2024 presidential election took the stage in Tuscaloosa Wednesday night for a heated fourth and final debate before the Iowa primary in January. Click here to subscribe to our free daily newsletter and breaking news alerts. The event, which was hosted by […]

Hype over baseball star Shohei Ohtani builds as Blue Jays make their bid

Any day now, it could be “Shotime” — as baseball dynamo Shohei Ohtani is known — in Toronto. The world of major league baseball has lurched to an anxious standstill this week as Ohtani, the 29-year-old Japanese designated hitter and pitcher and currently the sport’s most-desired free agent, will choose where he lands next. The dramatic Ohtani sweepstakes […]

Wall Street Puts a ‘Sell’ on Its China Holdings

Wisconsin Republican Mike Gallagher, who chairs a House committee on China, was surprised to find they didn’t need much coaxing. They told him they already were ratcheting back their investments there. Their motivation wasn’t China’s human-rights record, but its economic one. In closed-door meetings at the Council on Foreign Relations, the financiers ticked off their […]

Once Unstoppable, Alibaba Is Now Faltering

The e-commerce giant was a major driver of China’s growing consumer economy as it pioneered online shopping in China. Over the years, it also expanded into cloud computing, physical supermarkets and digital entertainment. Now, its grip on online retail is weakening. In recent months, the company lost a long-running chief executive, while a restructuring plan […]

DiscoverE Announces Judging Opportunities for the 32nd Annual Global Future City Competition: Electrify Your Future

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — DiscoverE (Discover Engineering), a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring the next generation of engineers, is calling on engineering and technical professionals along with anyone who wants to make a difference, to volunteer as judges for the 32nd Annual Future City Competition. Judging opportunities are available in January (select a region near you), or […]

Tokyo makes high school free for all families, even the rich ones

Even public high schools charge tuition in Japan, but that’s going to be ending soon in the nation’s largest city. Despite its characterization as a studious society that values formal education, high school isn’t part of compulsory education in Japan. That said, the chances of finding employment that pays enough to become financially independent with […]

Blue Eye Samurai anime on Netflix: Why the surprise hit works

The criteria for success on Netflix have always been slippery, particularly regarding the platform’s hit-and-miss efforts with anime. Yet in the month since its November 1 release, Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai has established itself as a bona fide hit, spending two weeks in the global top 10 and reaching the top 10 mark in 50 […]

Christine Sinclair calls time on international career in emotional farewell game

VANCOUVER — Christine Sinclair went out the way she wanted to. With a win. But there were also tears, a bumper crowd of 48,112, and a little Celine Dion on Tuesday. In the wake of Canada’s 1-0 win over Australia in Sinclair’s farewell international game, one Canadian icon played out another. Current and former Canadian […]

Christine Sinclair calls time on international career in emotional farewell game

VANCOUVER — Christine Sinclair went out the way she wanted to. With a win. But there were also tears, a bumper crowd of 48,112, and a little Celine Dion on Tuesday. In the wake of Canada’s 1-0 win over Australia in Sinclair’s farewell international game, one Canadian icon played out another. Current and former Canadian […]

Growing AI reliance, X’s reckoning, tech guardrails still absent

MANILA, Philippines – Disinformation remains rampant. One only has to look at the ongoing Israel-Hamas war that has observers in chaos as to which is real and which is not.  Elon Musk’s X, and its demolition of its trust and safety team early in his ownership stint along with other questionable policies, have supercharged this […]

Sinclair calls time on international career in emotional farewell game

Captain Christine Sinclair helped Canada to a win in her international swansong Tuesday, wiping away pre-game tears to help set up the goal in a 1-0 victory over Australia. The 40-year-old from Burnaby gave way to 35-year-old Sophie Schmidt of Abbotsford in the 58th minute, marking the end of an glittering international career that produced […]

Japan Super Budget Dining – What’s the best way to spend 1,000 yen at Fuji Soba?

There’s more than noodles that’s worth ordering at this ubiquitous soba chain. Welcome back to Japan Super Budget Dining, the series where our panel of hungry reporters head to one of Japan’s most popular chain restaurants and put together the best meal they can with a budget of 1,000 yen (US$6.80). Today we’re visiting Fuji […]

Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow jumps bail to stay in Toronto

TORONTO — A prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist says she’s decided to live permanently in Canada, after jumping bail from the Chinese territory. Agnes Chow says in Chinese-language posts on social media she plans to stay in Toronto, where she has been studying for the past three months at a university she doesn’t name, and […]

Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow jumps bail to stay in Toronto

TORONTO — A prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist says she’s decided to live permanently in Canada, after jumping bail from the Chinese territory. Agnes Chow says in Chinese-language posts on social media she plans to stay in Toronto, where she has been studying for the past three months at a university she doesn’t name, and […]

Democracy activist Agnes Chow, now in Canada, won’t return to face trial in Hong Kong

One of Hong Kong’s best-known pro-democracy activists, who moved to Canada to pursue her studies, said she would not return to the city to meet her bail conditions, becoming the latest politician to flee Hong Kong under Beijing’s crackdown on dissidents. Agnes Chow, a famous young face in the city’s once-vibrant pro-democracy movement, was arrested in 2020 […]

Studio Ghibli releases The Boy and the Heron merchandise in Japan【Pics】

Finally, the collection we’ve all been waiting for! It’s been nearly five months since The Boy and the Heron, the long-awaited anime feature film from Studio Ghibli and its lauded director Hayao Miyazaki, was released in Japan on 14 July. In that time, the studio has been drip-feeding our merchandise-loving hearts with free-to-use images and […]

‘Sometimes a game of football shows you anything is possible’

This is why we will never fall out of love with football. This. Days like this. Days when logic disappears, when a giant gets slayed, when the little guy wins. That’s what Ange Postecoglou is. He may be regarded as an overnight sensation but it has taken 27 years for him to become one. Managerial […]

Morning Update: Diplomats sent to hot spots overstepped their authority, former CSIS director says

Good morning, Richard Fadden, a former national security adviser who also once headed Canada’s spy service, says that during his time in government there were internal reports of diplomats with the Department of Global Affairs’ foreign-information gathering unit overstepping their authority. That puts the Global Security Reporting Program (GSRP), which sends diplomats to hot spots […]

The OnePlus 12 has a bigger battery than any of the best phones

The OnePlus 12 is being fully unveiled tomorrow (December 5), but in its continued quest to reveal everything about the phone before launch, OnePlus has announced the battery capacity, and at 5,400mAh it’s bigger than even the batteries in the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra and the iPhone 15 Pro Max. This spec […]