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Japan's moon lander wasn't built to survive a weekslong lunar night; it's still going after 3
Japan’s first moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, Japan’s space agency said Wednesday after receiving an image from the device three months… Read
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NationalTokyo Tsukiji fish market site to be redeveloped with 50,000-seat stadium, hotel, shopping center
In 2018, Tokyo’s aging Tsukiji Fish Market closed down and its wholesale operations relocated to the Toyosu district of the city. This wasn’t because Tsukiji was a bad location, however.… Read
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump is meeting with another senior foreign government official while he's in New York for his criminal hush money trial. The presumptive GOP nominee… Read
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Asian shares rose on Wednesday, led by an 2% gain in Japan’s Nikkei 225 after U.S. stocks rallied for a second straight day Tuesday, blunting… Read
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U.S. aid could buy Kyiv time, but Ukraine needs many more troops
For the exhausted Ukrainian artillery gunners holding off Russian forces near the eastern town of Kupiansk, the U.S. aid package expected to finally pass this… Read
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How the weak yen is affecting ordinary households
We like to think, in the teeth of much evidence to the contrary, that we’re masters of our fate, that as we sow so we… Read
