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☆ Japan's Daisaku Ikeda, longtime Soka Gakkai lay Buddhist leader, dies at 95
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Anton Bridge | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Ikeda died on Wednesday evening from natural causes at age 95, Soka Gakkai said in a statement on its website. Soka Gakkai, founded in 1930, says it has 12 million members in 192 countries and territories worldwide. He also founded Soka Gakkai's umbrella organisation, Soka Gakkai International, in 1975, where he served as honorary president from 1979 until his death. But those dropped off in recent years leading to some speculation about his health and role in Soka Gakkai International. In 1947 he met Josei Toda, then leader of the Soka Gakkai organisation, who was to become his mentor.

Persons: Daisaku Ikeda, Ikeda, Zhou Enlai, Mikhail Gorbachev, Arnold Toynbee, Polly Toynbee, Ichi, Josei Toda, Succeeding Toda, Kaneko, Hiromasa, Takahiro, Anton Bridge, David Dolan, William Mallard aand Kim Coghill Organizations: Soka Gakkai, Kyodo, Rights, Soviet, government's, Soka, Soka Gakkai International, SGI, Thomson Locations: Tokyo, Japan, British

☆ Choreographers Make Their Own Kind of Administrative Dance
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Margaret Fuhrer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The Creative Administration Research program pairs choreographers with what it calls thought partners, collaborators who might be business-minded arts administrators, funders or presenters, but who are also often working artists. The program has also hosted two summits, bringing several dozen artists and leaders to the center’s University of Akron home to share their insights into creative administration. (And to dance together — or to “physicalize their administrative thinking and dreaming,” as a news release said.) Banning Bouldin, who uses they/them pronouns, formerly ran their Nashville organization, New Dialect, as a conventional dance company, though their goal was to create a dance hub for the city. “We’re serving more artists and more of the community in a way that’s financially sustainable.”Rosie Herrera, the director of Rosie Herrera Dance Theater, found that Creative Administration Research affirmed many of her existing ways of working.

Persons: Byron Au Yong, Raja Feather Kelly, Takahiro Yamamoto, Au Yong, Banning Bouldin, John Michael Schert, ” Bouldin, “ We’re, Rosie Herrera, ” Organizations: Creative Administration, center’s University of Akron, Rosie Herrera Dance, Creative Administration Research, Latina Locations: United States, Nashville, Miami

☆ Champions Urawa advance to Asian Champions League group phase
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Michael Church | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Soccer Football - AFC Champions League - Final - Second Leg - Urawa Red Diamonds v Al-Hilal - Saitama Stadium, Saitama, Japan - May 6, 2023 Urawa Red Diamonds' Hiroki Sakai and Shusaku Nishikawa and teammates celebrate with trophy on the podium after winning the AFC Champions League REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsTOKYO, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Holders Urawa Red Diamonds booked their berth in the group stages of the Asian Champions League on Tuesday as Maciej Skorza's side defeated Hong Kong outfit Lee Man 3-0, but China's Shanghai Port were knocked out by BG Pathum United of Thailand. Yoshio Koizumi gave Urawa the perfect start at Saitama Stadium with a second minute strike and Shinzo Koroki doubled the lead when he headed in Hiroki Sakai's cross from the right four minutes later. Reds, who have won the title three times, will now feature in Thursday's group phase draw in Kuala Lumpur alongside BG Pathum United, Chinese Super League side Zhejiang FC and Incheon United of South Korea. BG Pathum United advanced after a hat-trick by Igor Sergeyev saw the Thai side hand 2018 Chinese champions Shanghai Port a Igor Sergeyev 3-2 defeat. The Uzbekistan international struck again in the 61st minute and, while Markus Pink netted with four minutes remaining to ensure a nervous finish for the visitors, BG Pathum United held on to advance.

Persons: Hiroki Sakai, Shusaku Nishikawa, Issei Kato, Maciej Skorza's, Lee, Yoshio Koizumi, Shinzo Koroki, Hiroki Sakai's, Takahiro Sekine, Igor Sergeyev, Sergeyev, Mirahmetjan Muzepper, Markus Pink, Cheon Seong, Gerso, Franko Andrijasevic's, Michael Church Organizations: Soccer Football, AFC, League, Diamonds, Urawa, AFC Champions League REUTERS, Rights, Urawa Red Diamonds, Asian Champions League, Shanghai Port, BG Pathum United, Saitama, Reds, Super League, Zhejiang FC, Incheon United, Port, Uzbekistan, Pathum United, Vietnam's, Port FC, Michael, Michael Church Our, Thomson Locations: Hilal, Saitama, Japan, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Thailand, Urawa, Kuala Lumpur, South Korea, Thai, Vietnam's Haiphong, Zhejiang

☆ NASA’s new telescope could spot thousands of exoplanets and hundreds of Earth-size rogue planets
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —When NASA’s next-generation space observatory launches in a few years, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will expand the search for exoplanets as well as rogue planets, or worlds that travel through space without orbiting stars. Understanding these rogue planets could shed more light on the formation, evolution and disruption of planetary systems. This illustration shows what the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will look like in orbit. But rogue planets are likely much smaller. Telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope have enabled astronomers to observe large, glowing gas giant exoplanets called hot Jupiters.

Persons: NASA’s, Nancy Grace, Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's, —, ”, David Bennett, Microlensing, Takahiro Sumi, “, Naoki Koshimoto, ” Sumi, Hubble, Vanessa Bailey, Roman’s, James Webb, Bailey, coronagraph, “ It’s, ” Bailey Organizations: CNN, Hubble, NASA's Goddard Space, Mount John University Observatory, Goddard Space Flight, Osaka University, Engineers, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Locations: New, Greenbelt , Maryland, Pasadena , California, Webb

☆ Japan's Prime 150 index will have a different price movement from the Topix, Japan Exchange says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailJapan's Prime 150 index will have a different price movement from the Topix, Japan Exchange saysJapan's newly launched JPX Prime 150 Index is a curated list of the 150 constituent listings on the Tokyo Exchange. Takahiro Miura, Japan Exchange Group's market innovation and research director of index business, talks about the index's main features.

Persons: Takahiro Miura Organizations: Japan Exchange, Tokyo Locations: Japan

☆ Japan launches Prime 150 stocks benchmark to help investors identify value
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Clement Tan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Japan launched a new stock index on Monday, making it easier for investors to identify corporate value in the equity markets, in a move to strengthen corporate governance reforms in the world's third-largest economy. The new JPX Prime 150 Index is a curated list of the 150 constituent listings on the Tokyo Exchange, which includes the likes of tech giants like Sony Group , Hitachi , Nintendo and Warren Buffet-backed trading houses Marubeni , Itochu and Mitsui & Co . The index excludes automakers such as Toyota Motor and Nissan Motor . "Increasing the value of listed companies is essential for the expansion and revitalization of the market," Takahiro Miura, Japan Exchange Group's market innovation and research director of index business, told CNBC Monday. The Prime 150 index constitutes about half of the Japan stock market and are of similar quality to the S&P 500, Miura said.

Persons: Warren Buffet, Takahiro Miura, Miura Organizations: Tokyo, Sony Group, Hitachi, Nintendo, Mitsui & Co, Toyota Motor, Nissan, Japan Exchange, CNBC Locations: Japan, Itochu

☆ Americans aren't mixing with people in different income brackets or leaving their neighborhoods as much as they did before the pandemic
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Americans are mixing with each other and exploring the cities they live in less frequently, a new study found. They found that Americans' behavior has significantly shifted since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study tracked visits to 433,000 "point of interest" locations, including museums, parks, coffee shops, and grocery stores. And the researchers used Census data to categorize people in four income brackets based on the average income of the census block they lived in. Los Angeles saw the largest drop in diverse interactions, while Dallas, where pandemic restrictions were the least severe, saw the smallest change.

☆ Back Then, Baby Galaxies. Next, a Super-Mega Galactic Cluster?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Dennis Overbye | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Like basketball scouts discovering a nimble, super-tall teenager, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope reported recently that they had identified a small, captivating group of baby galaxies near the dawn of time. These galaxies, the scientists say, could well grow into one of the biggest conglomerations of mass in the universe, a vast cluster of thousands of galaxies and trillions of stars. The seven galaxies they identified date to a moment 13 billion years ago, just 650 million years after the Big Bang. He described the proto-cluster as the most distant and thus earliest such entity yet observed. Dr. Morishita was the lead author of a report on the discovery, which was published on Monday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

☆ Ex-BOJ chief Kuroda tapped for job at university in Tokyo
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

TOKYO, April 12 (Reuters) - Former Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda has received a job offer from a prestigious university in Tokyo, days after retiring from the helm of the central bank, a university official told Reuters on Wednesday. Kuroda will become a senior academic fellow at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), a job aimed at making use of his rich experience for teaching students, many of whom are from Asia, the official said. "We have commissioned the post of senior fellow to Kuroda as of yesterday. His job is based on basic research, but he will also give lectures from autumn, as per his intention," Takahiro Okamoto, a GRIPS official told Reuters, adding that details have not yet been decided. Kuroda served as BOJ governor from March 2013 to April 8, after having been the Asian Development Bank president and Japanese vice finance minister for international affairs.

☆ Uniqlo’s Parent Company Bets Big on Tiny RFID Chips
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Belle Lin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Uniqlo’s store on Fifth Avenue in New York. The retailer said RFID has resulted in ‘significant reduction in out-of-stock’ items on the sales floor. At Uniqlo’s Fifth Avenue store in New York, shoppers can checkout simply by placing their goods in gleaming bins of automated stations. This next-generation process is powered by radio frequency identification readers inside the checkout machines, which automatically read hidden RFID chips embedded in price tags. It is the strategy of Takahiro Tambara , chief information officer of Japan-based Uniqlo’s parent company, Fast Retailing Co., Asia’s top clothing retailer.

☆ Safe-haven yen regains footing as caution builds over bank contagion
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( Kevin Buckland | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

New Zealand's kiwi was 0.3% lower at $0.6250, giving up an earlier gain of as much as 0.7%. Over the weekend, the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of England, Swiss National Bank, Bank of Canada and Bank of Japan announced joint action to enhance market liquidity. "I'm not so pessimistic, but still we have to wait and see how much we will see risk contagion from Europe," he said. The yen last traded at 131.79 per dollar , keeping intact a 2.5% gain from last week. The euro was about flat at $1.0671 and sterling was little changed at $1.2189, both erasing earlier small gains.

☆ Safe haven yen, dollar regain footing as caution builds over bank contagion
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( Kevin Buckland | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

New Zealand's kiwi was 0.3% lower at $0.6250, giving up an earlier gain of as much as 0.7%. Over the weekend, the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of England, Swiss National Bank, Bank of Canada and Bank of Japan announced joint action to enhance market liquidity. The yen last traded at 131.79 per dollar , keeping intact a 2.5% gain from last week. The euro was also about flat at $1.0668 and sterling was little changed at $1.21775, both erasing earlier small gains. In cryptocurrencies, bitcoin took a breather after its surge to a nine-month high of $28,474 on Sunday, last trading 1.8% weaker at around $27,552.

☆ Toyota says quarterly output up 30%, but parts shortages continue
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Satoshi Sugiyama | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

TOKYO, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp on Friday said global production climbed 30% in the quarter ended in September, but warned the shortages of semiconductors and other parts that have roiled the auto industry would still constrain output in coming months. In the July to September quarter, global sales were up 4%, according to a Reuters calculation based on the company's disclosures. The announcement came a week after Toyota said it was unlikely to meet its 9.7 million vehicle production goal for this financial year due to a scarcity of chips. The spokesperson declined to comment on a new production target. Shortages of semiconductors have hit Toyota's production in Japan harder than its overseas factories, Toyota said.

El menționează, de asemenea, că „Fena: Pirate Princess” are aventură și acțiune „... dar practic este o poveste de dragoste”. „Fena: Pirate Princess”, un produs original Crunchyroll și Adult Swim, urmărește aventurile lui Fena Houtman, în timp ce se află la fugă de pirați și de marina britanică și trebuie să se bazeze pe un echipaj de samurai japonezi pentru a-și descoperi secretele familiale ... și o comoară de neimaginat! Crunchyroll și Adult Swim au anunțat personajele principale și actorii japonezi:Fena Houtman va fi narată de Asami Seto: Un orfan pozitiv, vesel, în ciuda trecutului ei traumatic. Amândoi folosesc o suliță și wakizashi în luptă, sunt și prietenoși și răutăcioși, dar Enju simte că este mai de încredere decât fratele său mai mic. Amândoi folosesc o suliță și wakizashi în luptă, sunt și prietenoși și răutăcioși, dar Kaede simte că este mai bărbătesc decât fratele său mai mare.

Persons: Nakazawa, Fena, Kazuto, Suzuki, Houtman, Shitan, Karin, Enju, Kaede . Amândoi, Kaede, Amândoi, Tsubaki, Jun, Makaba, Salman, Otto Organizations: Progress, Production, Crunchyroll, Adult Locations: britanică, Osaka

Takahiro Shiraishi, supranumit „criminalul de pe Twitter”, a fost arestat în 2017 după ce în apartamentul său au fost găsite bucăți de cadavre. Tânărul de 30 de ani a recunoscut că și-a ucis și dezmembrat victimele - aproape toate femei tinere pe care le-a abordat pe rețeaua socială. Totuși, Shiraishi a contestat versiunea propriei sale echipe de apărare și a spus că și-a ucis victimele fără consimțământul lor. Marți, judecătorul care a pronunțat verdictul a spus că „niciuna dintre victime nu a fost de acord să fie ucisă”. „Inculpatul a fost găsit pe deplin responsabil”, a spus judecătorul Naokuni Yano, a citat de ziarul The Straits Times.

Persons: Takahiro Shiraishi, Shiraishi, El Organizations: Times Locations: Japonia

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