As Ukraine pushes southern offensive, it also hits Russia in the northeast
Updated 0041 GMT (0841 HKT) September 9, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has hailed "good news" from the northeastern Kharkiv region, after an apparent surprise counter-offensive forced Russian troops onto the back foot and prompted a pro-Kremlin official to call for evacuations.
‘A new way of life’: the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan
Kohei Saito’s book Capital in the Anthropocene has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into English
Justin McCurry in Tokyo
The climate crisis will spiral out of control unless the world applies “emergency brakes” to capitalism and devises a “new way of living”, according to a Japanese academic whose book on Marxism and the environment has become a surprise bestseller.
The message from Kohei Saito, an associate professor at Tokyo University, is simple: capitalism’s demand for unlimited profits is destroying the planet and only “degrowth” can repair the damage by slowing down social production and sharing wealth.
In practical terms, that means an end to mass production and the mass consumption of wasteful goods such as fast fashion. In Capital in the Anthropocene, Saito also advocates decarbonisation through shorter working hours and prioritising essential “labour-intensive” work such as caregiving.
Irish football club condemns ‘sick’ chant mocking death of Queen Elizabeth
Shamrock Rovers fans were on Thursday criticised for a ‘sick’ chant mocking the death of Queen Elizabeth II just hours after Buckingham Palace confirmed her passing
An Irish football club has condemned what they called “callous” chanting by a section of their supporters during last night’s Europa Conference League tie at home to Swedish side Djurgardens.
Shamrock Rovers fans were on Thursday criticised for a ‘sick’ chant mocking the death of Queen Elizabeth II at a match just hours after Buckingham Palace confirmed her passing.
During Rovers’ game against Djurgardens in the Europa Conference League on Thursday night, supporters joined in a chorus of ‘Lizzy’s in a box’ and could be heard belting out the chant to the tune of KC and the Sunshine Band’s hit, Give It Up.
N. Korea threatens nuclear strikes if 'provoked'
North Korea's parliament has passed a new law enshrining the right to a preemptive nuclear strike. Leader Kim Jong Un said Pyongyang would never "bargain" over its nuclear weapons.
North Korea officially enshrined the right to use preemptive nuclear strikes as a method of self-defense, state media reported on Friday.
In a speech to North Korea's parliament in Pyongyang, leader Kim Jong Un said the new law made the
country's nuclear status "irreversible."
No 'bargaining' over nuclear weapons
"The utmost significance of legislating nuclear weapons policy is to draw an irretrievable line so that there can be no bargaining over our nuclear weapons," Kim said in a speech to North Korea's parliament.
Jailed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi competes in Venice
The Venice Film Festival left a symbolic empty place for Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi on Friday as his latest movie got its world premiere while he languishes behind bars in Tehran.
The director, who has won multiple international awards, was imprisoned along with two other filmmakers in July in the latest crackdown on civil society.
But his new film, "No Bears", competing for the top prize Golden Lion in Venice, shows that the many years of trying to silence Panahi have done nothing to curb his searing political critique and wry sense of humour.
Kanazawa cafe puts you into the world of a black-and-white manga
By SHINKAI KAWABE/ Staff Writer
September 9, 2022
A newly opened cafe here has created a buzz on social media as entering the cafe feels like stepping into the world of manga, with everything in black and white.
Mono.Chro Chaya stands amid an old townscape about 500 meters from Kanazawa Station.
The walls and the floor are painted white and outlined in black along the wood grains.
A black-and-white rendering of the raging waves from “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” by Katsushika Hokusai, a renowned ukiyo-e woodblock artist in the late Edo Period (1603-1867), adorns one wall.
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