Many face an education gap that is difficult to overcome. For example, Ryuichi Komura left the Yamaguchi-gumi at age 38. His formal education ended at middle school, and he had served four prison sentences.he decided to take the test to become a judicial scrivener, a job similar to being a paralegal that has a 3 percent acceptance rate. It took him eight years of study, and on his seventh try, he passed. He was 46.
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A wildfire raging through southern California coastal mountains threatened ranches and rural homes and kept a major highway shut down on Wednesday, as the fire-scarred state faced a new round of dry winds that raise the risk of infernos.
China’s decision to build more coal plants is a setback for climate action, but analysts say it could still meet its long-term emission reduction targets and may even have scope to raise its ambition at Cop26 in Glasgow.
“These plastics are very difficult to recycle… Starting today, we should stop consuming single-use plastic because it will pollute our ocean, which is also our source of food.”
В Кремле поздравили Муратова. Пресс-секретарь президента Дмитрий Песков отметил, что журналист последовательно работает по своим идеалам, привержен им, талантлив и смел.
Greta Thunberg has excoriated global leaders over their promises to address the climate emergency, dismissing them as “blah, blah, blah”.
She quoted statements by Boris Johnson: “This is not some expensive, politically correct, green act of bunny hugging”, and Narendra Modi: “Fighting climate change calls for innovation, cooperation and willpower” but said the science did not lie.
Thunberg said: “They invite cherry-picked young people to meetings like this to pretend that they listen to us. But they clearly don’t listen to us. Our emissions are still rising. The science doesn’t lie.
“We can no longer let the people in power decide what is politically possible. We can no longer let the people in power decide what hope is. Hope is not passive. Hope is not blah, blah, blah. Hope is telling the truth. Hope is taking action. And hope always comes from the people.”
Bond, like Norma Desmond, is once again ready for his closeup – and Daniel Craig once again shows us his handsome-Shrek face and the lovable bat ears, flecked with the scars of yesterday’s punch-up, the lips as ever pursed in determination or disgust.
The government made clear they were “entering the country as persons of special merit, not as refugees” and were given short-term visas. Should they wish to stay, they will be given the option to switch to long-term F2 residence visas, which allow employment, through a legal revision to grant F2 visas to persons of special merit.
National MP Simeon Brown, who represents the Pakuranga electorate, says “enough is enough” and is continuing his call to bring back Armed Response Teams, which were trialled by police last year but discontinued.
“Delta has been a game-changer, we’re responding to that,” Ardern said. “The best thing we can do to get out of this as quickly as we can is to go hard.”
An unvaccinated 58-year-old man in the country’s largest city Auckland tested positive for the virus. The man had traveled to other parts of the country, and had no obvious link to the border, Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said Tuesday.
Officials are expecting up to 120 cases of delta-strain Covid-19 infections in New Zealand.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield gave today’s Covid update at the Beehive.
“We are absolutely anticipating more cases,” Ardern said.
Most of the current cases are of people in their 20s and “we could expect already between 50 to 120 cases”, Bloomfield said. The key is to find them as soon as possible.
Laurel Hubbard made history in Tokyo on Monday night, becoming the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics, but failed to make a successful lift in the women’s +87kg weightlifting event.
“Thank you so very much for your interest in my humble sporting performance tonight,” Hubbard said to the media. “I know from a sporting perspective I did not live up to the standards I put upon myself.”
That was illustrated at the Tokyo International Forum, as few of Hubbard’s fellow lifters wanted to venture an opinion on the subject du jour. However, the Austrian Sarah Fischer did speak up to say: “I honestly felt sorry for her. I was actually hoping she would win a medal – that way, everybody would shut up.” The last sentiment was sincere, at least, but utterly fanciful.
Photographe, sculpteur et cinéaste, il a été rendu célèbre par ses installations où se mêlent angoisses, émotions et souvenirs. Reconnu comme l’un des principaux artistes contemporains français, il est mort mercredi 14 juillet à l’âge de 76 ans.
Former South Korean “comfort woman” Lee Yong-soo sits next to a statue symbolizing former South Korean “comfort woman” during the funeral of a former South Korean “comfort woman” Kim Bok-dong in Seoul, South Korea, February 1, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji – RC17366B54C0
The Arc de Triomphe in Paris will be swathed in silvery blue fabric and red rope as a posthumous project planned by the artist Christo since the early 1960s finally becomes reality.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yuka Saso battled back from a horrid start to best Japan’s Nasa Hataoka in the third hole of a sudden death playoff to win the 76th U.S. Women’s Open golf championship at the Olympic Club in San Francisco on Sunday.
With the victory, the 19-year-old Saso became the first Filipino player to win a golf major and announced herself as a new force in the game.
Je pense que la meilleure chose à faire pour Roland-Garros, les autres joueurs et mon bien-être est de déclarer forfait afin que tout le monde puisse à nouveau se concentrer sur le tournoi, a déclaré la n°2 mondiale sur Twitter ce lundi. Je n’ai jamais voulu être une distraction et je reconnais que le timing n’était pas idéal.
The real problem here, it strikes me, is not Osaka or even the impressive self-importance of the written media. Rather, it’s the press conference itself, which when you think about it is quite a weird idea, and one that essentially fails at its central function. The great conceit of the press conference is that it is basically a direct line from the athlete to the public at large, that we humble scribes are but the people’s faithful eyes and ears in the land of the gods.
Japan is the only G7 nation not to fully recognise same-sex partnerships, but a recent court ruling raised hopes for a change in the law after it stated that not allowing gay couples to marry was unconstitutional.
CHOFU, JAPAN – OCTOBER 19: Kieran Read of the All Blacks leads the haka with TJ Perenara ahead of the Rugby World Cup 2019 Quarter Final match between New Zealand and Ireland at the Tokyo Stadium on October 19, 2019 in Chofu, Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images)
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen outlined the case for a harmonized corporate tax rate across the world’s major economies, part of an effort to restore global leadership and credibility with U.S. allies following the unilateralist approach of the Trump era.
WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 13: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks during her last news conference in office December 13, 2017 in Washington, DC. Yellen announced that the Federal Reserve is raising the interest rates by a quarter point to 1.5%. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Düsseldorf, Frankfurt Das Münchener Flugtaxiunternehmen Lilium wagt den Gang an die Börse. Lilium wird dabei mit 3,3 Milliarden Dollar (2,8 Milliarden Euro) bewertet – und 830 Millionen Dollar einnehmen. Lilium will 2024 die Zulassung für den Geschäftsbetrieb erhalten, wie Mitgründer und CEO Daniel Wiegand im Gespräch mit dem Handelsblatt sagte. Dafür arbeitet das Unternehmen an einer neuen Technologie für einen elektrischen Senkrechtstarter, der sieben statt der bislang geplanten fünf Sitze haben, 282 Stundenkilometer schnell sein und 250 Kilometer weit fliegen können soll.
The Taiwan-run, Panama-flagged vessel is blocking at least 100 ships in the narrow channel that divided continental Africa from the Sinai Peninsula in Northern Egypt.
Ranjith Raja, head of MENA oil & shipping at Refinitiv, said “we’ve never seen anything like this before”.
“It’s likely that resulting congestion will take several days to weeks to clear as it is expected to have a ripple effect on the other convoys, schedules and global markets.”
Hundreds of workers, students and residents are fleeing to higher ground after a third, massive Pacific earthquake this morning – and a tsunami threat that affects much of the Northland, Bay of Plenty and East Coast coastlines.
Residents have been told to move immediately to higher ground after the magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck off the Kermadec Islands, 1000km northeast of New Zealand, at 8.28am (NZT). There is gridlock in cities such as Whangarei and on other roads around the affected regions.
Yet Mahuta is cut out for the job in two respects: in her experience as one of New Zealand’s longest-serving members of parliament; and in her person as a visible, impossible to miss, Māori.
The boss of the Tokyo 2020 Games risked sparking a sexism row after it was reported on Wednesday he said women made meetings drag on because they “have difficulty” speaking concisely.
Brazil’s first Covid-19 vaccine has been administered after more than 209,000 deaths, sparking an outpouring of emotion and a ferocious political skirmish that saw one of President Jair Bolsonaro’s key rivals accuse him of revelling in the “stench of death”.
That a few days off in the middle of a heatwave would trigger such a domino effect highlights Japan’s obsession with gambaru, a virtually non-translatable concept that means doing one’s best and persevering through the hardest of times. Striding into his official residence after his latest hospital visit, Abe said: “I will return to work and try to gambaru.” The do-or-die mentality gambaru permeates Japanese society, where the pursuit of a goal can carry more significance than the outcome.
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND – OCTOBER 18: Sam Cane of the All Blacks makes a run during the Bledisloe Cup match between the New Zealand All Blacks and the Australian Wallabies at Eden Park on October 18, 2020 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Anthony Au-Yeung/Getty Images)
That gave me a glimpse, so to speak, of the desirability of the home itself beyond its visual aesthetics.Kayabuki is definitely an architectural style that needs to be preserved for posterity.
