It might have taken the Walt Disney company less than three years to overtake Netflix in streaming subscribers, but its road to domination started more than 15 years ago with a carefully planned $100bn (£81bn) strategy to reinvigorate its empire for 21st century viewers.
Soon after Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot during a campaign speech in western Japan on Friday, Chinese nationalists began to celebrate his assassination bid on Weibo, sending him death wishes and terming the attacker a ‘hero’.
Yamagami’s mother, a longtime member of the church, reportedly gave it ¥100m [£618,000] in donations two decades ago, plunging their family into poverty.
He said his mother had made a “huge donation” to the church more than 20 years ago that had crippled the family’s finances.彼は、母親が 20 年以上前に教会に「多額の寄付」をしたため、家族の財政が破綻したと語った。
Dentsu, an advertising giant hard-wired into major Japanese institutions, stood to be Japan’s biggest winner of this year’s Games. But the pandemic has played havoc with those plans.
The Unification Church, originally known as the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, was founded by Moon Sun-myung in 1954. It rose to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s, an era of upheaval in South Korea, which at the time was transforming from a poor country torn apart by civil war to one of the world’s most modern economies.
Премьер-министр Японии Фумио Кисида, отвечая в понедельник в парламенте страны на вопрос депутата о том, намерены ли власти ввести новые санкций против России, заявил, что рассмотрение возможности этих мер произойдет на основе изучения дальнейшей ситуации.
(서울=연합뉴스) 오명언 기자 = 매회 자체 최고 시청률을 경신하고 있는 ENA 수목드라마 ‘이상한 변호사 우영우'(이하 ‘우영우’)가 시청률 10％를 돌파했다.21일 시청률 조사회사 닐슨코리아에 따르면 전날 오후 9시 방송된 ‘우영우’ 7회 시청률은 11.7％(비지상파 유료가구)로 집계됐다.7회에서는 우영우가 고속도로 건설을 반대하며 집단 소송을 걸고 나선 소덕동 주민들을 변호하는 과정이 그려졌다.
‘Hasta la vista, baby’: Boris Johnson’s last words at PMQs – video
Boris Johnson has signed off from the dispatch box in the House of Commons after taking part in his last PMQs with the words ‘Hasta la vista, baby’ – a reference to an Arnold Schwarzenegger line in Terminator 2. Johnson listed advice to his successor before receiving a standing ovation as he left the chamber
The argument for sacking Ian Foster was given a major boost on Saturday night when a collective groan across the country punctuated the All Blacks’ defeat at the hands of resilient Irish.
But in recent years, the country has signaled a move towards greater military spending, and last December Prime Minister Kishida announced the government was exploring options to give it the capability to strike enemy bases.China is considered a major threat, but the combined strength of Russia and China has put Japan under considerable pressure.
Snake catcher Nick Evans—who runs a snake removal and rescue service in the Greater Durban area—arrived to a property in Westville North, where a gardener had spotted two black mambas lurking in the bush.Black mambas are the longest venomous snakes in Africa. They can grow up to 14 feet in some cases, and their bite has a fatality rate of 100 percent if left untreated.
Alexey Navalny, an imprisoned Russian opposition leader, says he’s reviving his Russian Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) after finding a way to sidestep Moscow’s ban on the organization.
Soon after Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot during a campaign speech in western Japan on Friday, Chinese nationalists began to celebrate his assassination bid on Weibo, sending him death wishes and terming the attacker a ‘hero’.
James Caan, the American actor renowned for his role as Sonny Corleone in the mafia epic The Godfather, as well as a string of key films in the 1970s, has died aged 82
Ippudo, which operates 50 ramen shops across the country, is offering endless free noodle refills for a fortnight from election day on Sunday until 24 June, the Mainichi Shimbun said, provided they can show proof that they have voted.全国に50店のラーメン店を営む一風堂は、日曜日の選挙日から6月24日までの2週間、無期限の無料ラーメンを提供していると、一風堂は投票した証拠を提示できればと述べた。
Enter the phenomenon of akiya, or ghost houses.A 2014 government report sounded the alarm, saying that, should things continue at the present rate, about 900 villages and towns throughout Japan will be “extinct.
The abandoned house crisis is so great that some areas are even giving homes away for free.But even free houses aren’t necessarily the cure for Japan’s akiya situation. While other countries with aging populations, like Italy, have given away or sold very cheap houses to foreigners, they often come with a visa or residency permit attached. Japan’s houses, though, do not.As a result, it can be hard to find people willing to live in the homes and fix them up, especially if they don’t speak Japanese or have access to a car.
General Alexander Dvornikov, who was reportedly previously in charge of the Russian offensive, has not been seen in public for weeks.“It appears to confirm that Colonel-General Gennady Zhidko is the commander of Russian forces in Ukraine,” tweeted military analyst Rob Lee of the Defense Ministry footage.
Earlier at Thursday’s hearing, Hutchinson told the House of Representatives select committee that Trump was told people at the January 6 rally had guns, knives and other weapons and was disappointed at them being turned away.She said: “I overheard the president say something to the effect of, ‘I don’t effing care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me. Take the effing mags [magnetometers] away. Let my people in, they can march to the Capitol from here.
Ukrainian high school seniors recently posed for a series of poignant graduation photos, juxtaposing their youth and tentative optimism with the horrifying devastation of war in their homeland.
Photographer Stanislav Senyk has used the destruction in the eastern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv as a sobering backdrop for an album of graduating high school students, amid the ongoing conflict with Russia pic.twitter.com/e2GVytwjwC
Jean-Louis Trintignant s’en est allé. Ce vendredi 17 juin 2022, c’est sa famille qui a annoncé la triste nouvelle à l’AFP. Il avait 91 ans. Tout au long de sa vie, le comédien aura vibré au rythme d’une passion dévorante pour la scène, sur petit et grand écran comme sur les planches.
После начала войны в Украине Поклонская подверглась публичной критике из-за того, что назвала букву Z символом трагедии и горя.ウクライナでの戦争の勃発後、ポクロンスカヤは、文字Zを悲劇と悲しみの象徴と呼んだことで公に批判されました。
Красочный забег в Москве состоится 5 июня 2022 года. Первый прошел в 2013-м году. Это один из самых веселых и ярких любительских беговых стартов столицы. В этот день все желающие смогут пробежать (а если захотят, и пройти) пять километров вокруг Олимпийского комплекса «Лужники», измазаться в краске и сделать яркие фотографии.
(CNN)Actor Matthew McConaughey delivered impassioned and at-times emotional remarks at the White House press briefing on Tuesday, telling the stories of those who died in the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and urging more action on gun control.
Après des semaines d’un procès ultra-médiatisé, le jury a rendu son verdict dans l’affaire Depp-Heard. L’actrice américaine a été déclarée coupable de diffamation à l’encontre de son ancien époux.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday said the pain was “palpable” when he met with grieving families in Uvalde, Texas, this weekend following a mass shooting at an elementary school that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers.
“Your leadership has taken on a critical role in this global stage,” Biden said. “It really has – galvanising action on climate change; the global effort to curb violence, extremism, and online, like happened in Christchurch.”
The founder of one of the most feared terrorist organisations of the 1970s has walked free from a Japanese prison after completing a 20-year sentence for the siege of the French embassy in the Netherlands.Once described as “the empress of terror”, Fusako Shigenobu founded the Japanese Red Army, a radical leftist group that carried out armed attacks worldwide in support of the Palestinian cause.On Saturday, 76-year-old Shigenobu left the prison in Tokyo with her daughter as several supporters held a banner saying “We love Fusako”1970年代に最も恐れられていたテロ組織の1つである創設者は、オランダのフランス大使館の包囲で20年の刑を言い渡された後、日本の刑務所から解放されました。かつて「恐怖の皇后」と呼ばれた重信房子は、パレスチナの大義を支持して世界中で武力攻撃を行った過激な左翼グループである日本赤軍を設立しました。土曜日、76歳の重信は娘と一緒に東京の刑務所を去りました。何人かの支持者が「私たちはフサコが大好きです」というバナーを掲げていました。
Южная Корея в ответ на новые испытания КНДР выпустила две баллистические ракеты в сторону Японского моря. Об этом сообщает агентство Yonhap со ссылкой на информацию южнокорейских военных, передает портал «Известия».
Tensions in the Taiwan Strait loom over the Quad summit in Tokyo today.Relations between Beijing and Taipei are at the lowest point in decades, with the Chinese military in recent months sending record numbers of warplanes near the self-governing democratic island.
“The Indo-Pacific strategy cooked up by the United States, in the name of ‘freedom and openness,’ is actually keen on forming cliques,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Sunday as US President Joe Biden wrapped up his trip to Seoul and headed to Tokyo.”It claims that it intends to ‘change China’s surrounding environment,’ but its purpose is to contain China and make Asia-Pacific countries serve as ‘pawns’ of US hegemony.
“The Russian brutal and unprovoked war against Ukraine has triggered a humanitarian catastrophe. And the innocent civilians have been killed in the streets and millions of refugees are internally displaced, as well as exiled. And this is more than just a European issue, it’s a global issue,” he said.
Oleksandr Zinchenko, who replaced Fernandinho at half-time, praised the club for supporting him after Russia’s invasion of his homeland, Ukraine.“It’s unforgettable emotions for me, for all Ukrainians,” the defender said. “They are starving, they are trying to survive in my country because of Russian aggression. I’m so proud to be Ukrainian. It means everything for me, honestly.”
NZ On Air was labelled out of touch and wasteful yesterday for awarding $200,000 of taxpayer money on a documentary about Swarbrick.Act Party leader David Seymour said Swarbrick should reject any role in the publicly funded documentary.
NZ On Airは昨日、スワーブリックに関するドキュメンタリーで20万ドルの納税者のお金を授与したことで、手が届かず無駄なラベルが付けられました。法党のリーダーであるデビッド・シーモアは、スワーブリックは公的資金によるドキュメンタリーでのいかなる役割も拒否すべきだと述べた。
Nach mehr als 200 Jahren Bündnisfreiheit fühlt sich Schweden durch die russische Aggression bedroht. Nun will das Land dem Verteidigungsbündnis Nato beitreten.
Seoul (CNN)－North Korea has announced an “explosive” Covid-19 outbreak that has likely killed six people and infected more than 350,000, according to state media, prompting fears of an impending and deadly crisis in the isolated and impoverished nation.北朝鮮は、国営メディアによると、6人が死亡し、35万人以上が感染した可能性が高い「爆発的な」Covid-19の発生を発表し、孤立した貧しい国で差し迫った致命的な危機の恐れを引き起こしました。
The fate of the vast quantities of oil and gas lodged under the shale, mud and sandstone of American drilling fields will in large part determine whether the world retains a liveable climate. And the US, the world’s largest extractor of oil, is poised to unleash these fossil fuels in spectacular volumes.
“We have an oil-based system, so to change that we need to reduce the demand for oil. Europe is moving forward with targets on clean energy, and hopefully this crisis will give a big push to that in the US too.”
Das strahlend schöne Porträt „Shot Sage Blue Marilyn“ von Andy Warhol hat Kunstmarktgeschichte geschrieben. Christie’s konnte das Bild aus dem Jahr 1964 am Montagabend für 195 Millionen Dollar versteigern. Damit ist das Bildnis das teuerste Werk des 20. Jahrhunderts, das je versteigert wurde.
It is also close to certain – 93% – that by 2026 one year will be the hottest ever recorded, beating 2016, when a natural El Niño climate event supercharged temperatures. It is also near certain that the average temperature of the next five years will be higher than the past five years, as the climate crisis intensifies.
“The probability of one of the next five years surpassing the limit is now 50%/…/ As recently as 2015, there was zero chance of this happening in the following five years. But this surged to 20% in 2020 and 40% in 2021.”https://t.co/wnqGIyNK0W
New White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre once urged Democrats to skip a meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, claiming it was “severely racist.”
MINAMATA WAS a sleepy little town on Japan’s western island of Kyushu. But in the early 1950s eerie things began happening there. Birds flew in circles and plopped into the sea. Cats “danced”, as locals put it, as if in agony. Soon people, too, were losing their senses; some ended up paralysed and bedridden.
