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Sakuraco Japanese Snack Box Review: Should You Try It?
The Art of Healthy Living
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August 14, 2025
Let’s talk subscription boxes. I absolutely love them. There’s something slightly magical about receiving a box of surprises through the post. It kinda brings out an inner child excitement when you open up the box and discover what treasures await...
New details emerge about Japan's notorious WWII germ warfare program
WSHU Public Radio - Connecticut
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August 14, 2025
TOKYO — As Japan's defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, still-simmering disputes, freshly unearthed discoveries,...
Yamaha YZF Fans, Here’s Some Heartbreaking News For You
TopSpeed
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August 15, 2025
If you’re planning to take home a new Yamaha YZF sports bike, you might want to reconsider things. That’s because the ongoing tariff laws have caught up to the Japanese bikemaker. As a result, all of your favorite YZF bikes–R3, R7, R9, and R1–now...
Nuveen Raises $1.3bn for Energy Infrastructure Credit Fund
Markets Media
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August 14, 2025
Nuveen, a global investment manager, has completed its first close with $1.3 billion of initial capital commitments to the Energy & Power Infrastructure Credit Fund II (EPIC II), a $2.5 billion target private credit strategy providing private...
This Country Has The Largest Air Force In The World (And It's Not Even Close)
SlashGear
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August 15, 2025
It's well known that the United States spends a lot of money on defense — it's more than China, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Ukraine, France, and Japan combined. With all that cash, it shouldn't surprise anyone that...
Marcos directs agencies to bolster PH banana industry
Inquirer
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August 15, 2025
MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has directed government agencies to take immediate action to protect the country’s banana industry and fortify the Philippines’ export position. At a briefing, Palace Press Officer Claire Castro...
Industry First: ATEN Digikvmtm Sets The Pace With FIPS 140-3 Compliance For Mission-Critical Security
MENAFN
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August 13, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) By embedding the latest FIPS 140-3 encryption module, ATEN DigiKVMTM aligns with the most advanced cryptographic standards issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This integration strengthens...
Trade minister meets Japanese envoy, US legislators over economic cooperation
Korea Herald
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August 14, 2025
Korea's trade minister met with the Japanese ambassador to South Korea on Thursday and discussed ways to strengthen the countries' economic partnership amid growing uncertainties in the global trade environment, officials said. Trade Minister Yeo...
Odisha Students To Participate In Japan’s SAKURA Science High School Programme
Ommcom News
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August 14, 2025
Bhubaneswar: Six meritorious students from different districts of Odisha, along with a guide teacher, will represent the state in the prestigious SAKURA Science High School Programme (SSHP) in Japan from August 16 to 23, 2025. The selected...
Indian miner IREL seeks Japan, South Korea partnerships for rare earth magnet production
Channel News Asia
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August 14, 2025
IREL has also approached Toyotsu Rare Earths India, a unit of Japanese trading house Toyota Tsusho, to seek help in reaching out to companies in Japan for processing of rare earth materials, the source said. The source said IREL had an initial...
(LEAD) Trade minister meets Japanese envoy, U.S. legislators over economic cooperation
Yonhap News Agency
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August 14, 2025
(ATTN: CHANGES headline; ADDS Yeo's meeting with U.S. lawmakers in last 6 paras) SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Yonhap) -- The trade minister met with the Japanese ambassador to South Korea on Thursday and discussed ways to strengthen the countries' economic...
UK’s Stirling Dynamics and Japan’s SkyDrive partner on advanced air mobility
Electrical Engineering
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August 14, 2025
Stirling Dynamics, part of global engineering, technology and consultancy service provider Expleo, is partnering with leading Japanese eVTOL specialist, SkyDrive Inc, on its zero-emission air-taxi, the SKYDRIVE SD-05 Stirling Dynamics’ UK-based...
India’s land acquisition disputes have a way out. Both Japan and Gujarat have used it
The Print
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August 14, 2025
In India, stories of bridges and factories promised but never delivered often trace back to one culprit: the land deal. Consider the 669 km Delhi-Amritsar–Katra expressway. The Haryana segment opened on schedule, but in Punjab, construction still...
Minister confirms Japan trip last month, says China's backlash won't hurt ties with Tokyo
Taipei Times
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August 13, 2025
Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍) today confirmed that he visited Japan last month, adding that China's "backlash" over the trip would not affect the cordial relations between Taipei and Tokyo. It was the first time Lin had publicly...
Scott Bessent’s got a Japanese blind spot
Asia Times
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August 14, 2025
TOKYO – Fresh off getting outmaneuvered by Tokyo on a “trade deal,” President Donald Trump’s team is going even further to demonstrate its ignorance of the state of play in Japan. Case in point: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complaining that...
Shivalik Small Finance Bank raises Rs 100 cr from investors led by SMBC Asia Rising Fund-Japan
The Economic Times
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August 14, 2025
Shivalik Small Finance Bank (SSFB) on Thursday said it has raised Rs 100 crore in equity capital from a clutch of investors led by SMBC Asia Rising Fund- Japan, the corporate venture capital arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)....
Hot spring in a bottle? Japan’s ‘craft onsen’ venture seeks to export the essence of onsen to the world
Malay Mail
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August 14, 2025
TOKYO, Aug 14 — Japan’s famous “onsen” hot springs were long considered unexportable, until an idea struck Naoki Mita one day: what if he could condense them like espresso coffee? Mita’s Tokyo-based venture firm, Le Furo, has invented a technology...
Japan to Begin Antidumping Probe on S. Korea, China Galvanized Steel
Nippon
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August 13, 2025
Newsfrom Japan Society Aug 13, 2025 16:45 (JST) Tokyo, Aug. 13 (Jiji Press)--Japan will launch an investigation into whether it needs to impose antidumping duties on hot-dip galvanized steel coil, sheet and strip exported from South Korea and...
Who Is Kentaro Sakaguchi? Japanese Actor, Blackpink Lisa's Dream Co-Star, BTS J-Hope's BFF - Everything To Know
Times Now
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August 14, 2025
Who Is Kentaro Sakaguchi? Japanese Actor, Blackpink Lisa's Dream Co-Star, BTS J-Hope's BFF - Everything To Know Blackpink member Lisa had recently grabbed attention of the internet for her cryptic social media posts that ignited dating rumours...
Yen Rises Against Bitcoin, Dollar as Scott Bessent Predicts Bank of Japan Rate Hike
CoinDesk
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The yen (JPY) strengthened against the dollar (USD) and bitcoin after U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Bank of Japan is behind the curve on inflation and will probably have to raise interest rates.“The Japanese have an inflation...