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Toyota sees 21% full-year profit decline as tariffs take a bite
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Toyota sees 21% full-year profit decline as tariffs take a bite

TOKYO (Reuters) — Toyota Motor expects profit to decline by a fifth in the current financial year, it said on Thursday, as weakness in the U.S. dollar and the impact of…
Posted by John McCarthy May 8, 2025
Mysterious underwater ‘pyramid’ believed to be 12,000 years old reshapes history
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News International News

Mysterious underwater ‘pyramid’ believed to be 12,000 years old reshapes history

TAIPEI CITY (DM) A "sunken pyramid" near Taiwan may rewrite everything we thought we knew about the ancient world. Sitting just 82 feet below sea level near the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, a…
Posted by John McCarthy April 8, 2025
Woman has burning sensation in legs after vacation — then doctors find brain parasites
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Woman has burning sensation in legs after vacation — then doctors find brain parasites

After a three-week-long vacation through Thailand, Japan and Hawaii, a 30-year-old woman learned she brought home an unwelcome souvenir, doctors said. When the woman first returned home to the coast…
Posted by John McCarthy February 22, 2025
Icky to some, ‘diamonds’ to others: How eels figure into money laundering in Haiti
Posted inBreaking News Caribbean News Crime News

Icky to some, ‘diamonds’ to others: How eels figure into money laundering in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE — In Japan, a prepared dish costs up to $90 a plate, while in the northeastern United States they are worth thousands of dollars a pound, fresh out of…
Posted by John McCarthy January 24, 2025
Trump announces $100 billion SoftBank investment in the US
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Trump announces $100 billion SoftBank investment in the US

PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump will join SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at his Florida home today to announce that the Japanese company is planning to invest $100 billion in U.S.…
Posted by John McCarthy December 16, 2024
US Marines start partial transfer from Okinawa in Japan to Guam under plan agreed 12 years ago
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US Marines start partial transfer from Okinawa in Japan to Guam under plan agreed 12 years ago

TOKYO (AP) — The partial transfer of U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam began on Saturday, 12 years after Japan and the United States agreed on their realignment to reduce the heavy…
Posted by John McCarthy December 16, 2024
100-year-old Pearl Harbor survivor recalls confusion and chaos during Japanese bombing 83 years ago
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100-year-old Pearl Harbor survivor recalls confusion and chaos during Japanese bombing 83 years ago

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Bob Fernandez thought he’d go dancing and see the world when he joined the U.S. Navy as a 17-year-old high school student in August 1941.…
Posted by John McCarthy December 7, 2024
Stolen shoe mystery solved at Japanese kindergarten when security camera catches weasel in the act
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Stolen shoe mystery solved at Japanese kindergarten when security camera catches weasel in the act

TOKYO (AP) — Police thought a shoe thief was on the loose at a kindergarten in southwestern Japan, until a security camera caught the furry culprit in action. A weasel…
Posted by John McCarthy December 4, 2024
Nobel Peace Prize given to Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo for its work against nuclear weapons
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Nobel Peace Prize given to Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo for its work against nuclear weapons

STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons.…
Posted by John McCarthy October 12, 2024
1 dead and dozens sickened after eating roasted eel from a Japanese department store
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1 dead and dozens sickened after eating roasted eel from a Japanese department store

TOKYO (AP) — One person died and nearly 150 others were sickened after eating grilled eel prepared by a restaurant chain and sold at a department store near Tokyo, officials…
Posted by John McCarthy July 30, 2024

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