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At the site where former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot. People have been praying and offering flowers, bottles of tea and water, and watermelons.
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Many thanks to a JR Sobu Line local service train conductor who slowed down the train so that passengers could see fireworks over Sumida
River. #隅田川花火大会2023
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The Japanese govt is expected to unveil policy on easing border control measures as early as next week, broadcaster TBS reported.
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"Dear customers
My oh my, my son's homework for the summer break is not done at all. Due to this emergency situation, we'll be closing on Friday night. We'll be open for business as usual from Monday."
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My friends in America who were vaccinated hit the beach and went to a tailgate this weekend.
Japan now enters a third state of emergency and I can’t go anywhere. I don’t even know when I can get my shot.
To put as eloquently as I can, it sucks.
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Someone told me once, “English is not your first language, & you want to be a journalist? (Sneer) Good luck w/ that.”
I went to one of the best journalism schools in the US, wrote 200+ articles for an award-winning student newspaper & interned(ing) @AP, @TB_Times & @nytimes.
What is something you were told you could never do (or do well) that you have accomplished/are in the process of accomplishing?
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The head of finance at the Japanese Olympic Committee died in an apparent suicide Monday morning, Nippon TV reports.
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THE END OF AN ERA:
Today is the last day Tokio’s “Ambitious Japan” melody will be used on the Tokaido Shinkansen 🚅
JR Tokai even ran a full page ad in the Nikkei paper this morning.
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Japanese newspapers this morning. Those headlines read: Former Prime Minister Abe Was Shot To Death
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You can tell the winter is coming in Japan because you can now get hot beverages in almost all vending machines. I got a bottle of hot chocolate and burned my right hand 🤪
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Tokyo governor has urged people from forgoing going home/taking a summer vacation for the Obon holidays due to the delta variant.
Someone shared a list of excuses to go home for the holidays by sarcastically citing remarks used to justify hosting the Olympics.
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✨LIFE UPDATE✨
Friday will be my last day at @japantimes. Starting next week, I will be an autos and mobility technology correspondent for @Reuters based in Tokyo!
金曜日をもってジャパンタイムズを退職することになりました。 来週からはロイター通信で自動車業界を担当します!
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For those who are sick and tired of seeing cherry blossoms photos ...
1. What’s wrong w/ you?
2. Here are more photos.
3. Enjoy life.
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It began to rain in Nara about 10 min ago, but more than 50 people are standing in a queue waiting for their turns to offer their condolences to the former prime minister.
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On Reuters wire:
JAPAN PM KISHIDA: JAPAN TO RELAX BORDER RULES ON COVID FROM SEPT 7
JAPAN PM KISHIDA: JAPAN TO WAIVE TEST FOR VACCINATED PASSENGERS ARRIVING TO THE COUNTRY FROM SEPT 7
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🔷Career update🔷 Thrilled to announce I'll be joining The @japantimes, an English language newspaper in Japan, in a few weeks. I'll be covering everything from business to culture as a domestic news reporter. Stay tuned for interesting stories out of Japan & Japanese food pics.
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Personal news: Excited to announce that I'll be joining the @japantimes politics team primarily covering the parliament and the Prime Minister's Official Residence (a.k.a. Kantei). I'll be chasing day-to-day drama unfolding Nagatacho, so I hope you'll join me here.
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A tent for flowers was set up near the crossing where former Prime Minister Abe was shot. Flowers and bottles of tea, water and Japanese sake were on the table. (A photo was taken earlier today).
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Good morning to y’all — especially to the classy lady who was holding an open bottle of corona beer waiting for a Yamanote Line train on the platform at 5:30 in the morning.
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A reminder from the Nagoya city subway: you can’t bring dead bodies to the train.
Good to know. Good to know.
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An aquarium in Tokyo is asking the public to FaceTime in tablets set up in front of a water tank for garden eels, who "are forgetting" about humans due to prolonged closure and bury themselves in the sand as soon as staff approaches over wariness.
sumida-aquarium.com/news/det…
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This morning’s major Japanese newspaper front pages all lead with a headline “Russia invades Ukraine.”
It’s noteworthy that tabloid Sankei Sports puts the invasion on the front page.
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TOKYO, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Japan on Tuesday said it stood ready to join the United States and other G7 industrialized nations in slapping sanctions on Russia, should President Vladimir Putin order an invasion of Ukraine.
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I spent years learning a new language and worked hard to get acclimated to the U.S., which was a success.
Now, I've been back in Japan for more than 2 years, and I feel like I'm going through the same process to get re-acclimated to my home country 🙃 It's exhausting.
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Food for thought: I want to acknowledge that despite hardships, @japantimes has continued to manage publishing high-quality newspapers in English every day. I wish international news outlets give more credit to news orgs doing excellent reporting in non-native languages.
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Exciting career news: I will soon be joining the @japantimes business desk, covering Japanese economy and finance. Do you have any story ideas/tips? Send them on my way 👉🏻satoshi.sugiyama@japantimes.co.jp
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Ding, ding, ding 🚨 I am going to graduate from @SyracuseU this weekend and my parents flew thousands of miles from Japan to see me. Incredibly grateful for their support.
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JAPAN CIVIL AVIATION BUREAU OFFICIAL: LOOKING AT TRANSCRIPT, THERE IS NOTHING THAT AMOUNTS TO THE COAST GUARD PLANE BEING GRANTED TAKE-OFF PERMISSION
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When an earthquake hits Japan, Japanese broadcasters does ...
1. NOT hide under the desk but yell viewers to do so, screaming “be calm and protect yourself first and foremost.”
2. NOT cue for commercial.
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Yesterday, I crossed the finish line and completed my 10-week internship @nytimes foreign desk. Here are some last words (or tweets rather?) I would like to share. (THREAD: 1/5)
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From this evening’s tabloid:
Left-leaning Nikkan Gendai, left, talks about the impact of his death, act of “unforgivable” terrorism against freedom of speech a few days before the election.
Right-leaning Yukan Fuji leads with tribute to the former PM Abe.
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Happy #NationalGirlfriendsDay to my dearest: newspapers. I stumbled into you when I was a kid, and I’ve been in love with you ever since. Y’all look as stellar as ever. Thanks for informing me about what’s going on and keeping me company during my commute and weekends.
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🔸Life update thread🔸After I wrapped up my summer internship, I've been looking for job in a limited time period granted under immigration rule. Unfortunately time is running out, and I decided it's in the best interest for me to leave the U.S. by the end of the month. (1/8)
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Dear PR professionals out there:
👏🏻We 👏🏻 don't 👏🏻 share 👏🏻 a 👏🏻 full 👏🏻 story 👏🏻 w/ 👏🏻 you 👏🏻 before 👏🏻we👏🏻journalists 👏🏻 publish 👏🏻it 👏🏻
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US military did not conduct PCR testing before its troops leave the U.S. to enter Japan, govt spokesman said. In one base in Okinawa, a cluster of 227 cases have been confirmed.
The Asahi editorial called U.S. bases "a huge hole in border control system."
asahi.com/ajw/articles/14506…
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I was jealous that my friends back in America were eating turkey for Thanksgiving, so I got myself KFC and am going to binge-watch old SNL episodes.
Sure I am from Japan but America, you taught me well.
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Today's front page of the Nagasaki Shimbun. The black dots represent the number of nuclear weapons worldwide while the red dots (the two dots below the flag) show the cases they were used (Nagasaki and Hiroshima).
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Japanese defense minister tweeting this @BorisJohnson
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Footage of Japanese PM Ishiba dozing off during a special parliamentary session to choose prime minister is going viral on social media.
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Excuse me, 1350 unread emails? Like, how are you not bothered by it (my boss on the foreign desk was way worse, to be fair)🧐?
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Btw, today is my 2-year anniversary @japantimes 🥳🥳🥳 thank you all for reading my stories!
My latest @japantimes: The teleconference between Suga and the president-elect came at a fraught and highly unusual moment in American politics as Trump refuses to concede the election, attributing the result to unsubstantiated accusations of voting fraud.
japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/1…
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REUTERS EXCLUSIVE:
One of the frontrunners to become Japan's next premier said on Friday that reports the U.S. is poised to block Japan's Nippon Steel from buying U.S. Steel X.N over national security concerns is "very unsettling" and could dent trust between the allies.
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My senior year:
Washington Post --> Rejected
Reuters --> Rejected
Denver Post --> No reply
Buffalo News --> No reply
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NY Times (via @DJNF) --> Accepted (did I think I will land the internship? Heck no!)
The point being: You don't know the outcome until you apply.
The deadline to apply for the @washingtonpost summer internship program is FRIDAY! It's an amazing experience working with many of the best journalists on the planet. You can't get it if you don't apply so APPLY! intern.washpost.com/
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Graduated w/ my dream school, interned at NYT, visited cities I wanted to visit (Houston, Philly, New Orleans, Buffalo etc.), landed a reporter job at a major English-language daily newspaper in Tokyo, got a grip on managing anxiety and took a first step into adulthood.
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Today’s Sankei newspaper pays tribute to Apple Daily, a pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong, that is being shut down as authorities ramp up attack on freedom of speech.
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As COVID daily cases surpassed 2,800 today in Tokyo, a record high, the Suga administration is getting increasingly skeptical of the effectiveness of the state of emergency currently imposed in Tokyo. Since the SOE was the "last trump card," the govt is running out of options.
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My first credit (a contributing line) appeared in today’s @nytimes international section! nyti.ms/2JJaxLP
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I woke up around noon but I cleaned my room, bathroom, toilet and kitchen, did the laundry and made dinner (chicken Alfredo). Please clap.
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(Belatedly) Japanese newspapers this morning.
Biden's comment on military involvement in Taiwan from Monday was dominant headlines in Sankei, Asahi and Nikkei -- while it was side headlines in Mainichi and Yomiuri. Tokyo ran a story about it on page 2.
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The Sankei blasting Kishida on border control: "Is there any justification for continuing the de facto isolation of the country ... while allowing the spread of the omicron, which is believed to have originated with the U.S. military stationed in Japan?" sankei.com/article/20220112-…
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One of rare peaceful mornings when I get to sit at the table, eat a croissant and read three newspapers.
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What G7 leaders had at lunch
Appetizer
Marinated Salmon, with Live Scallop Confit Asparagus Charlotte with Smoked Cream, Edible FlowersGarden Style
Fish
Setouchi Acqua Pazza of Japanese Rockfish and Mussels from Hiroshima, with Lemon and Shodoshima Olives, in Light Soup
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This behind-the-scenes reporting from the voting site (a hotel in Tokyo) by the Tokyo Shimbun is so riveting.
One guy who was taking a walk at the hotel mistakenly thought all the camera crews were there to cover a news conference of an Arashi member getting married 😂
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Grateful to be part of an amazing group of interns @nytimes this summer. Happy #NationalInternDay🎉🎉🎉!
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I was craving for American Chinese food for a while and then I stumbled upon Panda Express in Shibuya today. Imagine the joy I had when I saw its logo 🐼
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Hi Twitter world! I officially joined The @japantimes domestic news division today. Will soon start reporting. Got a tip/story ideas about Japanese affairs? Send them on my way at: satoshi.sugiyama@japantimes.co.jp.
I'll also accept cute golden retriever photos.
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PM Suga just now in the Lower House budget committee: "I am not aware of the specifics of Mori's comments. Women's participation in sports is important."
Opposition lawmakers yelled "what!?"
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He skipped a section on Japan's commitment to achieving a world without nuclear weapons as the only country to have suffered from atomic bombs.
Yikes. Look like Suga skipped a section of his speech in Hiroshima (on atomic bombing anniversary). This isn’t going to go down well. jiji.com/jc/article?k=202108…
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TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER SAYS ABOUT 2 MLN HOUSEHOLDS WITHOUT POWER AFTER EARTHQUAKE - Reuters News
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Around this time last year, nothing was working out — and I was burned out. With help from my family, friends, co-workers, and professionals, my life is back on track.
Thank you to those who believe in me and lend a helping hand.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays 🎄
Hey folks:
So this year turned out to be a little bit more challenging than I thought, so I am going to take some time off — including from this platform.
Happy Holidays and see you soon.
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Some of them:
"I will go home as a sign of defeating the coronavirus"
"I'd like to show the world that you can go home even during a state of emergency"
"We'll do our best to go home safely"
Replace "go home" w/ "hosting the Olympics"; they are actually said by organizers, PM
Tokyo governor has urged people from forgoing going home/taking a summer vacation for the Obon holidays due to the delta variant.
Someone shared a list of excuses to go home for the holidays by sarcastically citing remarks used to justify hosting the Olympics.
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Fuji TV reports at least 8 people infected with COVID and quarantined at home have died in Tokyo in August alone. All of them were men and the age was between their 30s and 50s.
Between last December and July, 11 people have died.
fnn.jp/articles/-/219792
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A govt. source: Power outages are not due to disruption in electricity supply networks. Rather, the source says, it is to even out the supply and demand of electricity as they investigate any damage in those thermal power generation facilities.
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JAPAN GOVT SPOKESMAN: TO RAISE UPPER LIMIT OF ENTRANTS INTO JAPAN TO ABOUT 10,000 A DAY FROM APRIL 10 FROM 7,000 NOW - Reuters News
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Tokyo Gov. Koike says there’s a possibility of a lockdown in Tokyo if the coronavirus situation deteriorates.
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The Hokuriku Shinkansen train got extended to Fukui’s Tsuruga today and this is how people welcomed passengers at Fukui Station ... Absolutely amazing.
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A quite stunning above-the-fold layout in today’s Sankei newspaper front page with a headline: Hong Kong is dead.
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Once again, greetings from @fccjapan where ex Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn’s lawyer would be releasing a prerecorded video of Ghosn. Lots of reporters already here. I will tweet as much as possible to give you update for @japantimes.
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