Key words : israeli military intensify executive
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The Israeli military is intensifying attacks on Rafah ahead of its planned ground offensive in the city in southern Gaza. Israel says an airstrike on Rafah on Saturday killed a Hamas executive. The AP news agency reports that Israeli airstrikes on homes in Rafah overnight and into Saturday killed at least 44 people, including more than a dozen children.
Israel is threatening to start a ground operation in Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had evacuated. Some governments are warning that the operation could lead to a large number of casualties.
Qatar's Foreign Ministry released a statement on Saturday, saying it condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli threats to storm the city of Rafah. Qatar has been mediating peace negotiations between Israel and Hamas.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces announced on Saturday that they found a tunnel that passed under the building that serves as UNRWA's headquarters. UNRWA stands for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Israeli forces say the tunnel is 700 meters long and 18 meters deep. They also claim that electrical infrastructure connected to the organization's headquarters suggests UNRWA was supplying power to the tunnel.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini, however, said that UNRWA did not know what was under its headquarters in Gaza and that UNRWA staff left the facility last October.
Key words : zelenskyy drone attack
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of killing seven people including three children in a drone attack in the eastern city of Kharkiv.
The attack on Ukraine's second-largest city took place Friday through Saturday, hitting an oil storage facility. The victims, including the children's parents, died in a fire caused by leaked fuel.
Police released footage showing police officers entering burning residential buildings and rescuing people.
Zelenskyy remembered the dead in his social media post on Saturday, citing the names of the three children.
He said "Russian terror" cannot remain unpunished. He demanded Russia take responsibility for every life it destroyed.
International human rights organization Human Rights Watch said in its report on Thursday that at least 8,000 people in Mariupol have likely died in Russia's invasion. Russia took control of the city in Ukraine's east region of Donetsk in May 2022 after fierce fighting.
The estimation is based on the group's analysis of satellite imagery of major cemeteries. It said the full extent of those who died during the battle may never be known as these figures are likely a significant underestimation of the total number of dead.
Ukraine says more than 20,000 of Mariupol's population of about 400,000 have been killed in Russia's invasion. Casualty details have not been reported as the city is under Russia's control.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov was asked about the Human Rights Watch report Friday. He said he cannot tell how reliable it is before he reads it. He said Ukrainian forces used civilians as human shields and shot them from behind.
Key words : shuttle bus
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A shuttle bus service to a bathing facility has begun for Wajima City's citizens who remain without water after the New Year's day earthquake.
In the city in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, about 10,000 households and businesses remain without water more than one month after the quake.
The Self-Defense Forces are providing bath services in the city, but there is a limited opportunity to soak in a hot tub.
The prefecture began the day trip operation on Sunday to carry Wajima residents to a facility in Hakui City, where they can soak in a large bath tub.
Four people who had applied in advance got on the bus in the morning at a junior high school in Wajima. They were carrying clean clothes to change into after a good soak.
A resident in his 80s said he will use a bath tub for the first time in four days. He added that he was looking forward to the opportunity and that he was happy about the good weather.
A woman in her 50s said she has been told that it will take some more time for her home water supply to be turned back on. She said she took a bath every day before the quake, and that she felt the importance of water.
The prefecture says the shuttle bus will run once a day on every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday through February 22.
Key words : crab
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A red snow crab fisher in central Japan has landed his first haul since the New Year's day earthquake left his equipment devastated.
Shiotani Hisao has worked as a crab fisher for 45 years and operates out of a port in Imizu City, Toyama Prefecture. Three boats that catch the local winter delicacy are based at the port.
The quake caused heavy damage to crab traps on the seabed, with many of them buried or swept away.
Shiotani lost all of his traps. But he worked hard to resume fishing and placed new ones in the sea in late January.
On Saturday, he checked and found that he had a good catch.
The more than 450 crabs that he put up for auction at the fishing port were sold briskly.
Shiotani said the 40-day break from fishing passed quickly, because he and his crew were busy preparing to resume operations, while trying to forget about the lost traps. He added that he can only move forward step by step.
Key words : nhk sumo
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An NHK charity sumo event has raised funds to purchase six vehicles to be used by welfare organizations in the areas devastated by the New Year's Day earthquake.
The event, organized by NHK and an NHK-affiliated organization, was held on Saturday at Tokyo's Ryougoku Kokugikan arena. About 4,300 people attended.
At the event, sumo wrestler Endo handed the keys to the six vehicles to a representative of welfare organizations in Ishikawa Prefecture. The wrestler is from one of the towns in the prefecture that was hit hardest by the earthquake.
Among those on stage was sumo wrestler Kotonowaka, who was promoted to the second highest rank of Ozeki after his 13-2 result in the previous tourney.
Kotonowaka said his aspiration as an Ozeki is to win another tournament and build a foothold to strive for the highest rank of Yokozuna. He received a big round of applause from the spectators.
Later, sumo wrestlers and their stable masters showed off their singing voices. Veteran wrestler Takayasu and up-and-coming 21-year-old wrestler Atamifuji particularly excited fans.
Key words : baseball bridge
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A baseball historian is hoping to increase awareness of how people of Japanese descent who were interned in the United States during World War Two opened up a bridge between the two countries.
Kerry Yo Nakagawa gave a lecture on this topic in Fresno, California, on Saturday.
The event came nine days before the 82nd anniversary of the issuance of an executive order by then-US President Franklin Roosevelt. The directive led to the internment of about 120,000 individuals deemed "alien enemies," including people of Japanese ancestry.
Nakagawa has documented how detainees of Japanese origin played baseball at their internment camps.
He explained that there was a time when people of Japanese descent were not allowed to play for Major League teams. He said some of them were talented enough to play in the MLB.
Nakagawa asked the audience to imagine how much of a tragedy it would be if great Japanese players like Nomo Hideo, Suzuki Ichiro and Ohtani Shohei were only allowed to play behind barbed wire.
Nakagawa said first- and second-generation internees of Japanese descent opened up a "bridge across the Pacific" between Japan and the US.
He said he hopes legacy Japanese players, such as Ohtani and Yamamoto Yoshinobu, will realize that they are standing on the shoulders of the early ballplayers.
Key words : museum
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The world's first exhibition of a Japanese ukiyo-e artist active in the late 18th century is underway at a museum near Tokyo.
The show featuring works by Chobunsai Eishi, a samurai who became an artist in the late Edo Period, is being held at the Chiba City Museum of Art.
Chobunsai has been so popular among overseas art lovers that most of his works had fallen into the hands of people outside Japan during the Meiji Period from the late 19th century to the early 20th century.
The Japanese museum put together about 160 pieces for the show. Those includes works on loan from the British Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the United States.
One piece borrowed from the museum in Boston depicts a woman in Yoshiwara, a well-known red-light district area at that time, decked out in a splendid kimono of vivid colors.
Another one is a work on a folded screen, which was discovered while looking for pieces to show at the exhibition. He colorfully depicted kimonos as well as women known as great beauties in Japan and China, such as Ono no Komachi and Yang Guifei.
Deputy Director of the museum Tanabe Masako says she thinks many visitors are seeing Chobunsai's work for the first time and can still immediately appreciate the beauty of most of them.
The exhibition will run through March 3.
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