Kyodo News Digest: Sept. 17, 2024
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Men carrying a portable shrine participate in a water purification ceremony to pray for an abundant catch and maritime safety at Katsuura Hachiman shrine in Nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 15, 2024. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo
The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.
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Takaichi tops Kyodo poll of LDP supporters as most fit to be Japan PM
TOKYO – Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi is viewed by 27.7 percent of Liberal Democratic Party supporters as most suitable to be Japan’s next prime minister, a Kyodo News poll showed Monday, two weeks ahead of the party’s presidential election.
Takaichi is running in the Sept. 27 LDP race to choose the successor of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who announced in August that he will not seek reelection as leader of the ruling party in the wake of a slush funds scandal that has shaken support for the party since late last year.
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Only 13 female CEOs among Japan’s 1,600 top-listed companies: survey
TOKYO – There are only 13 female chief executive officers across the approximately 1,600 top-listed companies in Japan, a survey by Kyodo News showed Monday, demonstrating that the Asian country is still slow to increase diversity among its corporate decision-makers.
The results revealed that female leaders head just 0.8 percent of the 1,643 listed firms on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s top-tier Prime Market, based on investigations of fiscal 2023 financial statements released by the end of August.
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Japan halts gene research of athletes amid privacy concerns
TOKYO – A Japanese national sports institution has halted its investigation into the relationship between the genes of top athletes and their performance as well as injury risk, a source familiar with the matter said Monday.
The Japan Institute of Sports Sciences launched the study in fiscal 2017, but concerns grew internally that the information could be misused, the source said, adding the research was suspended in fiscal 2022.
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Japan’s Watanabe among 7 candidates running to be next IOC president
GENEVA – The International Olympic Committee on Monday said Japan’s Morinari Watanabe is among the seven candidates bidding to succeed Thomas Bach as president.
The 65-year-old Watanabe, currently in his second term as the president of the International Gymnastics Federation, has been an IOC member since 2018. He would be the first Asian president if elected at the 143rd IOC Session in March in Greece.
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Yamaha Motor president injured allegedly by knife-wielding daughter
SHIZUOKA, Japan – The president of Yamaha Motor Co. sustained an arm injury Monday after his adult daughter allegedly attacked him with a kitchen knife at their house in central Japan, local police said.
The police arrested Hana Hidaka on suspicion of attempted murder of her father Yoshihiro, 61, by assaulting him with the weapon at around 3 a.m. Monday at the house in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, they said.
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Japan pledges 3 mil. doses of mpox vaccine to WHO
GENEVA – Japan has pledged some 3 million doses of an mpox vaccine as part of a global effort to combat the recent surge of the infectious disease across Africa, according to the World Health Organization.
Japan’s offer is “the largest donation to date” alongside contributions from the European Union, the United States and other countries in a promised total of more than 3.6 million doses, the Geneva-based body said Friday.
Video: Water purification ceremony to pray for abundant catch at Wakayama shrine
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