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Nov 8, 2024 | 
tokyoupdates.metro.tokyo.lg.jp | Annelise Giseburt
Born in Tokyo and raised in nearby Kawasaki City, an ambitious Gokan moved to New York City in 2006 at age 23 with five years of bartending experience and the dream of "being number one." He was propelled to fame by winning the 2012 Bacardi Legacy Cocktail Competition with his original cocktail "Speak Low," which combined rum, sherry, yuzu zest, and matcha. In 2014, Gokan opened his first bar in Shanghai, named Speak Low after his award-winning creation.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Annelise Giseburt
This is a sponsored story, created and edited exclusively by Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Tokyo Updates website. The Tokyo metropolitan area aims to be disaster-resilient and to protect its citizens from natural disasters. With many rivers flowing through the area, authorities do their utmost to mitigate damage from flooding. The Metropolitan Outer Area Underground Discharge Channel is a unique feat of engineering built to keep homes and businesses safe and dry.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Alex Martin |Annelise Giseburt
The biggest typhoon in more than seven decades has hit China’s financial capital, bringing gale-force winds and heavy rain to the eastern seaboard and disrupting holidaymakers at the start of a days-long national festival. Typhoon Bebinca — known as Beibijia in China — crossed the coast in the Yangtze River Delta region at around 7:30 a.m. local time on Monday, according to state media reports.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Alex Martin |Annelise Giseburt |Stuart Williams
Persecution of bereaved relatives. Impunity for perpetrators. Rampant executions and infighting among the opposition. A bleak picture confronts opponents of Iran's clerical authorities two years after a protest movement erupted that they hoped would be a turning point in the four-and-a-half-decade history of the Islamic republic.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Alex Martin |Annelise Giseburt |Dan Williams
A missile fired by Yemen’s Houthis reached central Israel, setting off sirens from the outskirts of Tel Aviv to the Jerusalem foothills, and partially broke apart in midair after it was shot at, the Israeli military said. The Iranian-aligned rebels, whose long-range attacks on Israel in solidarity with Hamas’ almost year-old war against it from Gaza have mostly been intercepted over the Red Sea, said the missile they used on Sunday was new and hypersonic. They didn’t elaborate.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Alex Martin |Annelise Giseburt |David Ljunggren
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was safe on Sunday after what the FBI said appeared to be a second assassination attempt while he was golfing on his course in West Palm Beach, Florida. Law enforcement officials said U.S. Secret Service agents spotted and fired on a gunman in some bushes near the property line who dropped an AK-47-style assault rifle and was arrested after fleeing the scene.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Alex Martin |Annelise Giseburt
Volunteers rushed to areas inundated by floods in Myanmar on Sunday as the country's death toll from the Typhoon Yagi deluge surged to 113 and remote areas reported increasing numbers of dead and missing. Floods and landslides have killed more than 400 people in Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand in the wake of Typhoon Yagi, which hit the region last weekend, according to official figures.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Alex Martin |Annelise Giseburt |Nithin Coca
As the Japanese government begins the process of reviewing and updating its basic energy plan, calls are growing for the country to expand the role of renewables like wind and solar power and make more progress toward a clean energy transition. Underscoring those calls, the current policy is ranked as “insufficient” by the nonprofit Climate Action Tracker in terms of meeting emissions reductions necessary for the world to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Alex Martin |Annelise Giseburt
There was a sadness in Amber’s eyes when she first came to ARK’s shelters earlier this year. Believed to be about 12 years old and surrendered to the shelter due to family circumstances, the Plott hound mix had originally belonged to a violent man. Amber had been forced to have litter after litter as a breeding dog, and the sadness in her eyes, scars covering her body and one mangled ear are all a testament to the pain and suffering she has endured.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
japantimes.co.jp | Alex Martin |Annelise Giseburt
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would inflict a "heavy price" on the Iran-aligned Houthis who control northern Yemen, after they reached central Israel with a missile on Sunday for the first time. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the group struck with a new hypersonic ballistic missile that traveled 2,040 km (1270 miles) in just 11 1/2 minutes.
