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Listen to this episode of The Times: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Google Podcasts Today, a crossover episode with our L.A. Times cousin podcast “ Asian Enough.” Hosts Tracy Brown and Jen Yamato interview novelist Min Jin Lee about leaving her legal career to write books, expressing Asian pride at a time of hate crimes, dealing with people whose stances you dislike and working to change the world, five minutes at a time. The author also blows the hosts’ minds with her perspective on dealing wi

PETALING JAYA: Despite the cancellation of the Yokohama integrated resort( IR), in which Genting Singapore Ltd had put in a bid, the Genting group remains a recovery play. PublicInvest Research, in a report, said it had left its forecasts and recommendation for parent company, Genting Bhd, unchanged as it has yet to factor in any expectations for the bid for the Yokohama IR project. Genting Singapore, which is 52.7%-owned by Genting, announced last week that Yokohama City published its decision

Its narrator is a dead construction worker whose spirit loiters around these camps, where he and others who had fallen down the socioeconomic ladder spent their final living years.“ Japan is so clean and there is also this clean image, ” Yu said.... But some private researchers suggest the current numbers are higher.... “ But the novel is also quite personal and intimate, about a family and this man.” Yu’s own connection to Fukushima, where she moved in 2015, runs deep....

TOKYO( AP)--The Tokyo Olympics have ended, but it's still vacation season in Japan, and many people are ignoring government pleas to avoid travel and stay away from bars and restaurants even as the coronavirus spikes at record levels.... Suga seems optimistic vaccines will win, but with only about 36% of the population fully vaccinated, experts say the virus's highly infectious delta variant is pulling ahead.... They are urging the government to put more teeth in its weak state of emergency...

This combination of images released by Netflix shows Son Ye-jin, left, and Hyun Bin in scenes from the South Korean drama series" Crash Landing on You."( Netflix via AP) NEW YORK( AP)--Most nights around 10 p.m. when her family heads off to bed, Carol Holaday signs onto her computer.... She's not falling down Internet rabbit holes of random information or combing through social media at her San Diego home.... Viki has both original and licensed content from Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan and s

She had been carrying the manuscript around for three years and had just turned it in to her publisher.“ It feels good, ” her letter said.... Farther away from the land that is not your own.” Language, and the deconstruction of it, are essential to the book.... Little is made explicit, and the structure is enigmatic: In places, sentences are reduced to fragments; sections in French and Korean go untranslated; pictures and diagrams are presented without captions....