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Dodgers to pay record $169 million luxury tax after winning 2nd straight World Series
21 December 2025 @ 7:37 am
The Los Angeles Dodgers will pay a record $169.4 million luxury tax after winning their second straight World Series title, raising their two-year tax bill to $272.4 million.…
Actor Ken Watanabe to close cafe in quake-hit area, seeks new local role
21 December 2025 @ 7:35 am
A cafe set up by Japanese actor Ken Watanabe dedicated to the reconstruction efforts of an area hit by the massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 will close…
15-year-old girl hit and killed by truck in Chiba; driver arrested
21 December 2025 @ 7:35 am
Police in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, have arrested a 50-year-old man on suspicion of dangerous driving resulting in death after the truck he was driving hit and killed…
Man found dead near wild boar trap with bear in it in Miyagi Prefecture
21 December 2025 @ 7:33 am
An 89-year-old man was found collapsed in a mountain forest in Taiwa town, Miyagi Prefecture, on Saturday. Nearby was a wild boar trap with a bear inside it.…
Young Japanese opting for 50-year loans amid soaring housing prices
21 December 2025 @ 7:32 am
The use of housing loans with terms of up to 50 years, far longer than the standard 35-year term, is spreading among younger generations in Japan amid a…
Ex-defense minister stresses need to debate Japan's non-nuclear principles
21 December 2025 @ 7:32 am
Former Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Sunday that Japan needs to debate the future of its non-nuclear principles, after a security official recently suggested the country should possess…
Australia retains Ashes with 2 tests to spare after tense victory over England in Adelaide
21 December 2025 @ 7:06 am
Australia retained the Ashes with two matches to spare after paceman Mitchell Starc took three of the last four wickets to blunt England's defiant comeback Sunday in a…
Thai border clashes displace over half a million in Cambodia
21 December 2025 @ 7:05 am
More than half a million people in Cambodia have been displaced from their homes by two weeks of deadly border clashes with neighboring Thailand, Phnom Penh's interior ministry…
Australia honors Bondi beach attack victims as PM orders safety review
21 December 2025 @ 5:00 am
Australia on Sunday was honoring victims of a gun attack on a seaside Hanukkah celebration a week earlier, as the prime minister announced a review of the country's…
Epstein files offer scant new insight into his crimes or how he avoided serious prosecution
21 December 2025 @ 4:13 am
The Justice Department’s much-anticipated release of records tied to Jeffrey Epstein arrived in a flood of documents that did little to quell the long-simmering intrigue, largely because some…