Month: February 2024

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Japan

The Okinawan Spam soul food sandwich that’s on a roll

[ad_1] Oita – The success of a Japanese man who took an onigiri (rice ball) sandwich — known for years as the soul food of Okinawa — and turned it into a booming franchise began when his wife cooked the pork and fried egg snack for him one morning at home.Shortly after his culinary revelation about a decade ago, Katsuaki Kiyokawa, 53, started a restaurant specializing in the pork tamago […]

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Japan

Parties clash over release of LDP’s internal funds scandal probe

[ad_1] Clashes between ruling and opposition parties over the release of an internal Liberal Democratic Party investigation into the recent political funds scandal continued Monday, causing an hourlong delay to the budget committee session.Opposition parties had demanded that the LDP publish a list of all party members responsible for the underreporting of political funds in the last five years, and voiced their dissatisfaction with the party’s efforts to uncover details […]

todayFebruary 6, 2024 1

Africa

Africa: Blinken Trip to Africa – America’s Impotence in the Post-Hegemonic World

[ad_1] Washington, DC — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to four African countries - Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, and Angola - on January 21-26, 2024, demonstrates just how worried US policymakers are about recent developments in Africa. Despite the demands on his time from the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, Secretary Blinken obviously knows he has to pay attention to Africa.  He and the Biden administration face six overlapping, simultaneous crises in different part of Africa:  the […]

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Japan

A painting by the Beatles from their Japan tour fetches $1.74 million

[ad_1] New York – A painting made collaboratively by the Beatles during their tour of Japan in 1966 has sold for $1.74 million in an auction at Christie's, according to the auction house. Christie's said the work later titled "Images of a Woman," auctioned in New York on Thursday, is "the only known painting made and signed" by all four members of the renowned British rock band — John Lennon, […]

todayFebruary 6, 2024 1

Africa

Senegal: Police fire tear gas to break up vote delay protest

[ad_1] Agitations over delayed presidential elections in Senegal have sparked protests with riot police firing tear gas to break up crowds on Monday. Protesters had gathered outside Senegal’s parliament to protest against President Macky Sall’s decision to abruptly postpone the election. The postponed election was planned for February 25, but President Sall said over the weekend that he had cancelled the poll due to electoral issues he feared would fuel […]

todayFebruary 6, 2024 1

Japan

Toshihiko Tanaka wins top prize for ‘Rei’ at Rotterdam film festival

[ad_1] The Japanese film "Rei" directed by Toshihiko Tanaka won the top Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, an annual event for up-and-coming filmmakers. Tanaka's film, which explores human connections through a woman who embarks on a journey through the mountains and her encounter with a deaf photographer, was selected from 14 titles in the feature competition. Director Toshihiko Tanaka (left) is pictured in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on […]

todayFebruary 6, 2024 1

Japan

OECD raises global growth outlook on strength of U.S. economy

[ad_1] The global economy is on course to hold up better this year than expected only a few months ago, as an improved outlook in the United States offsets euro zone weakness, the OECD said Monday.World economic growth is expected to ease from 3.1% in 2023 to 2.9% this year, better than the 2.7% expected in November in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's last outlook.In an update of […]

todayFebruary 5, 2024

Japan

U.S. CDC opens regional office in Tokyo

[ad_1] The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) opened its East Asia and Pacific regional office in Tokyo on Monday, aiming to shore up its ability to respond quickly to a future public health emergency.The regional office, located inside the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, will collaborate with 26 countries and territories in the region, including Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Island nations.With the memory […]

todayFebruary 5, 2024 1

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