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Japanese fashion retail billionaire Yusaku Maezawa rockets to International Space Station
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa set off towards the International Space Station (ISS) on a Russian Soyuz rocket on Wednesday, December 8, 2021. The fashion tycoon, his video producer and a Russian cosmonaut began their six-hour journey from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which is leased to Russia. The trio plans to spend 12 days aboard the…
Japanese lawmakers visit controversial Yasukuni Shrine for first time in 2 years
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube A group of nearly 100 Japanese lawmakers visited the Yasukuni Shrine – a controversial symbol of Japanese imperialism and a reminder of its wartime atrocities – on December 7, 2021. It was the first visit by Japanese politicians in two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The shrine honours 2.5 million Japanese soldiers killed in World…
‘Miracle’ rescue of Japanese man lost at sea for 22 hours in stormy waters
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube A 69-year-old man has been rescued in rough seas off Japan after spending 22 hours adrift in open water. “It’s a miracle he survived,” a coastguard official told Japan’s Asahi newspaper. The man had been alone on a boat off southwestern Kagoshima prefecture on his way to the resort island of Yakushima on November 27, 2021,…