Academics may debate whether the U.S. could have achieved Japan’s “unconditional surrender” without the bomb.

Source: https://truthout.org/articles/us-veto-of-ceasefire-resolution-reflects-its-colonial-view-on-whose-lives-matter/

Africa accounts for only 0.003% of Japan’s $2 trillion global foreign direct investments.

Source: https://www.africanews.it/english/investing-in-africa-is-profitable-african-development-bank-president-tells-japanese-investors/

After Hakamada’s lawyers appealed, Japan’s Supreme Court quashed the High Court decision in December 2020 and asked the Court to re-examine the appeal on the decision to grant retrial.

Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/03/japan-retrial-ruling-is-step-towards-justice-for-worlds-longest-serving-death-row-prisoner/

Again and again, Japanese prime ministers have hesitated to go against the powerful conservative faction to offer a direct apology for Japan’s colonial period.

Source: https://thediplomat.com/2023/05/why-wont-japan-apologize-in-a-way-that-satisfies-south-korea/

And while he loves taking on the establishment, he’s very much an iconoclast, whose use of humor in official settings is also a rarity in Japan’s beige officialdom.

Source: https://time.com/6279775/taro-kono-japan-digital/

Another example is the new military alliance between the US, Japan, and South Korea which had to partially override deep enmity based on Japan’s brutal colonial occupation of Korea before and during World War II.

Source: https://chinaworker.info/en/2023/10/09/41671/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-new-cold-war-heats-up

As Japan’s premier racing series, SUPER FORMULA, we are delighted to partner with ASPIRE for the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League to see racing and technology come further together.

Source: https://mid-east.info/abu-dhabi-announces-worlds-largest-autonomous-racing-league/

As the winter ski season reaches its peak, the slopes of Japan’s major resorts are growing increasingly busy now that foreign tourism has resumed, and many may be looking to take their vacations a step further by going backcountry skiing.

Source: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/02/03/national/backcountry-skiing-risks-measures/

A three-time winner of the Sawamura Award (Japan’s Cy Young), the 25-year-old could command the biggest contract given out to a true pitcher.

Source: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/gallery/mlbs-top-20-available-free-agents-start-of-winter-meetings

Back in 2017, when Japan’s finances were in much better shape than today, any request that it stump up a greater contribution to the cost of its defence was pilloried as the height of fiscal irresponsibility.

Source: https://japantoday.com/category/politics/japan-eyes-record-7.7-tril.-yen-defense-budget-for-fiscal-2024

Before that, Robbie Deans was axed by Rugby Australia and became a serial winner again in Japan’s domestic competition.

Source: https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-union/wallabies-beware-fiji-s-emergence-as-a-genuine-power-may-have-begun-20230827-p5dzrb.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

Beijing’s foreign ministry said it firmly opposed the G7 statement and late Sunday said it had summoned Japan’s ambassador to China as part of its protest to the summit host.

Source: https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/05/22/beijing-chides-japan-britain-and-anti-china-g7-summit/

Berkshire Hathaway’s issuance of $4bn of bonds back in September 2019 began a process through which it built stakes of just over 5 per cent in each of Japan’s five largest trading houses by the following August.

Source: https://www.ft.com/content/446bf09b-8cca-4f24-8ab4-b51bdcfeb93b

But Japan’s consumer inflation rate hit a 41-year high of 4% in December.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ap-japan-tokyo-shinzo-abe-goldman-sachs-b2297865.html

But Japan’s haul has steadily declined over the last 10 years, falling to a record low in 2022 of 3.85 million tons, down 7.5% from the previous year.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-23/japan-scrambles-save-fishing-industry-sushi

By contrast, when the destruction of Japan’s rice crop had been proposed in 1944, Adm.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/01/books/review/the-long-reckoning-george-black.html

Cane is among several of the sport’s stars, including World Player of the Year Ardie Savea and SA flyer Cheslin Kolbe, who will play in Japan’s League One in 2023, enticed by high salaries and a relatively compact rugby calendar.

Source: https://www.heraldlive.co.za/sport/rugby/2023-11-29-all-blacks-should-reconsider-overseas-eligibility-rules-says-cane/

China’s Shanghai Composite dropped 0.41% in trade, while Japan’s Nikkei 225 was the sole gainer, up by 0.24%.

Source: https://www.financialexpress.com/market/nifty-to-rise-above-18600-or-see-further-correction-check-us-stocks-asia-shares-fii-activity-sgx-nifty-more/3109660/

City will face either Mexican side Club Leon or Japan’s Urawa Red Diamonds in the Club World Cup semi-finals on December 19 with the final taking place in Jeddah on December 22.

Source: https://newsday.com.ng/erling-haaland-to-return-to-man-city-training-ahead-of-club-world-cup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=erling-haaland-to-return-to-man-city-training-ahead-of-club-world-cup

Economists’ median forecast for Japan’s fiscal 2023 core consumer inflation rate was unchanged at 2.8 percent, while the fiscal 2024 rate was revised up to 2 percent, suggesting the BOJ’s target will be met for a much longer period.

Source: https://business.inquirer.net/422259/boj-will-end-negative-interest-rates-in-2024-economists-say