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Asia Pacific | Japan Hotel Chain Under Fire Over Denial of Rape of Nanking
Philippines Should Investigate Rodrigo Duterte for Murder, U.N. Official Urges President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, center, during a visit to Singapore this month. Mr. Duterte has said that he killed people when he was mayor of the city of Davao.Credit...Wong Maye-E/Associated Press GENEVA — President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines should be formally investigated by judicial authoriti
A scene from Makoto Shinkai’s anime feature “Your Name,” about a teenage boy and girl who switch bodies and fall in love.Credit...2016 Kimi no Na wa Production Committee TOKYO — Wherever the Japanese animated filmmaker Makoto Shinkai goes these days, he gets some variation on the question of what it’s like to be the Next Big Thing. Specifically, Mr. Shinkai, whose “Your Name” is the top-grossing m
Every three years, half a million 15-year-olds in 69 countries take a two-hour test designed to gauge their ability to think. Unlike other exams, the PISA, as it is known, does not assess what teenagers have memorized. Instead, it asks them to solve problems they haven’t seen before, to identify patterns that are not obvious and to make compelling written arguments. It tests the skills, in other w
transcript Japanese Rink Closed After Fish DisplayA Japanese amusement park shut down a skating rink that included 5,000 dead fish and sea creatures frozen into the ice. Space World was inundated with complaints after the rink opened two weeks ago. A Japanese amusement park shut down a skating rink that included 5,000 dead fish and sea creatures frozen into the ice. Space World was inundated with
A fake news article posted by Beqa Latsabidze, a Georgian. “My audience likes Trump,” he said. “I don’t want to write bad things about Trump. If I write fake stories about Trump, I lose my audience.” TBILISI, Georgia — Jobless and with graduation looming, a computer science student at the premier university in the nation of Georgia decided early this year that money could be made from America’s vo
Images posted on Twitter by a marketer in Austin, Tex., the day after the presidential election.Credit... Eric Tucker, a 35-year-old co-founder of a marketing company in Austin, Tex., had just about 40 Twitter followers. But his recent tweet about paid protesters being bused to demonstrations against President-elect Donald J. Trump fueled a nationwide conspiracy theory — one that Mr. Trump joined
Who would have thought that the final leg of this election cycle would be dominated by crowing about violating vaginas and by probes into penis pictures? But even that frame is problematic because it creates an equivalency that doesn’t exist. One scandal is about a man boasting of predation and the other is about a woman weary of people’s prying. These are fundamentally different flaws, one being
The original set of 176 emoji, which has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art.Credit...Shigetaka Kurita, gift of NTT DoCoMo Your phone has just become home to a tiny little collection of modern art. On Wednesday, the Museum of Modern Art announced that it had acquired the original set of 176 emoji for its permanent collection. These glyphs, designed for pagers made by the Japanese mobile prov
Donald Trump on Wednesday, during the final presidential debate.Credit...Josh Haner/The New York Times Donald Trump turned, in the third and final presidential debate, from insulting the intelligence of the American voter to insulting American democracy itself. He falsely insisted there were “millions of people” registered to participate in the election who did not have the right to vote and decla
A streetcar on Dundas Street West in Toronto. One criticism of the city’s streetcar system is that the trolleys sometimes share the road with cars, which can lead to delays.Credit...J. Adam Huggins for The New York Times TORONTO — As the streetcar crept along Queen Street West in clogged traffic through the heart of downtown, anxiety started to rise among those inside. Commuters checked the time,
PRAGUE — In the age of Amazon and the internet, the idea of going to a public library to borrow a book may seem ever more quaint and old-fashioned in many parts of the world, but one country, at least, is clinging to it tenaciously: the Czech Republic. There are libraries everywhere you look in the country — it has the densest library network in the world, according to a survey conducted for the B
transcript A View That Costs $81 MillionThe residential building 432 Park Avenue reaches 1,396 feet, and the penthouse views, in all directions, are spectacular. VOICEOVER ONLY SCRIPT OF VOICEOVER: Get used to this view. You’re going to be seeing it a lot in superhero movies once Hollywood finds out about it. Or you can buy a penthouse in this new apartment block for 80 million dollars plus - that
A view of Central Park from an apartment on the 45th floor of 157 West 57th Street. The developer, Extell Development Company, spent about $1 million redecorating the apartment, which is on the market for about $20 million.Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York Times It’s not just the volatility of financial markets that has big spenders sitting on their wallets. Other global trends that have put
transcript Constitutional Concerns in Japan VoteAs people in Japan voted in a national election on Sunday, many voters expressed concern about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s desire to change the country’s Constitution. As people in Japan voted in a national election on Sunday, many voters expressed concern about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s desire to change the country’s Constitution.CreditCredit...Ki
Last November, Meg Muñoz went to Los Angeles to speak at the annual West Coast conference of Amnesty International. She was nervous. Three months earlier, at a meeting attended by about 500 delegates from 80 countries, Amnesty voted to adopt a proposal in favor of the “full decriminalization of consensual sex work,” sparking a storm of controversy. Members of the human rights group in Norway and S
Prince, performing in 1985, exuded carnality. His sexual orientation, though, was all his own, and it was oriented toward you.Credit...Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images At work, propped against a wall, near piles of stuff, stands an Elvis Presley cutout. It’s made of cardboard, pretty beat up, taller than I am and not the greatest photo. (He looks drunk. So does his lamé suit.) But I pass that cu
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