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Nov. 9, 2018: Unfair trade, knives out, blood money, the mummy and Japan Yesterday.
Japan This Week
English - November 09, 2018 09:27 - 17 minutes - 8.19 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this week's news from Japan Today: U.S. President Donald Trump makes the news in Japan again for his treatment of a Japanese reporter; passengers will be banned from carrying knives aboard all trains in Japan starting next year; the CEO of SoftBank — one of Japan’s richest men — defends his company accepting Saudi money in the wake of the Kashoggi killing; a man who hasn’t left his house in 40 years has been arrested for abandoning the corpse of his mother plus we look at the 1934 visit to Japan by baseball legend Babe Ruth — the sultan of swat, the Great Bambino — in 1934 in our latest Japan Yesterday segment.
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This weeks stories:
Unfair Trade — https://japantoday.com/category/politics/Trump-says-Japan-treats-U.S.-unfairly-on-trade-by-not-taking-more-American-cars
Knives Out — https://japantoday.com/category/national/passengers-to-be-banned-from-carrying-knives-onto-all-trains-in-april
Blood Money — https://japantoday.com/category/tech/SoftBank-CEO-Son-says-Saudi-fund-to-continue-despite-Khashoggi-murder
The Mummy — https://japantoday.com/category/crime/49-year-old-man-socially-withdrawn-for-40-years-arrested-for-abandoning-mother%E2%80%99s-corpse
Japan Yesterday — https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/babe-ruth-the-sultan-of-swat-visits-japan