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13-05-2025
- Entertainment
Japan's Yuzuki Wins British Book Award
News from Japan Society Culture May 13, 2025 22:23 (JST) Tokyo, May 13 (Jiji Press)---The English version of "Butter," a novel by Japanese author Asako Yuzuki, won the debut fiction category of the 2025 British Book Awards, Japanese publisher Shinchosha Publishing Co. said Tuesday. Yuzuki is the first Japanese author to win the award, according to the publisher. The work is a long novel inspired by a series of suspicious deaths that actually occurred in the greater Tokyo area. The English version was published in February last year in a translation by Polly Barton. Since then, the work has become a bestseller, selling more than 400,000 copies in Britain and more than 100,000 copies in the United States. "I feel greatly honored. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Polly Barton, who translated my novel beautifully, and to the publisher, bookstore staff and readers," Yuzuki said. [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] Jiji Press
Kyodo News
13-05-2025
- Automotive
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Kyodo News Digest: May 13, 2025
KYODO NEWS - 1 hour ago - 20:30 | All, World, Japan The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. ---------- Nissan logs 670.9 bil. yen loss in FY 2024, lifts job cuts to 20,000 TOKYO - Nissan Motor Co. logged a net loss of 670.90 billion yen ($4.5 billion) Tuesday for fiscal 2024 as it continues to grapple with poor sales in the United States and China, and increased the number of planned job cuts to 20,000 globally as part of its restructuring. The reduction in the workforce, representing around 15 percent of the company's total, comes as Nissan is set to reduce the number of its vehicle production plants from 17 to 10, including some possibly in Japan, by fiscal 2027. It also plans to reduce global output capacity excluding China by 30 percent to 2.5 million units also by that target year. ---------- SoftBank Group returns to black for 1st time in 4 yrs on stock rally TOKYO - SoftBank Group Corp. said Tuesday it swung back to profitability in fiscal 2024 for the first time in four years with a net profit of 1.15 trillion yen ($7.8 billion) due to a rise in the value of its investment portfolio. The turnaround by the Japanese tech investment firm, on the back of a global stock rally, comes after it had marked a loss of 227.65 billion yen the previous year. ---------- Japanese novelist Yuzuki's "Butter" wins British book award TOKYO - Japanese novel "Butter" by Asako Yuzuki has won the debut fiction section at the 2025 British Book Awards, its Japanese publisher said Tuesday, as translations of the work enjoy a boom in critical and commercial recognition abroad. Yuzuki's novel, her first to be published in Britain, received the award on Monday local time, Shinchosha said. ---------- Honda expects 70% drop in FY 2025 profit amid U.S. tariff woes TOKYO - Honda Motor Co. said Tuesday it expects its net profit for the current fiscal year starting April to plunge 70.1 percent from a year earlier to 250 billion yen ($1.7 billion), amid economic uncertainty caused by U.S. President Donald Trump's higher tariffs. Japan's second-largest carmaker by volume also said its sales are projected at 20.3 trillion yen, down 6.4 percent from the previous year, with concern mounting that the tariffs could weigh on corporate performance and deal a heavy blow to the global economy. ---------- Japan ground force to train with S. Korea marines for 1st time TOKYO - The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force said Tuesday it will conduct training with South Korean marines for the first time in early June on the occasion of a multinational defense exercise in the Philippines. The move comes as the two countries are enhancing their defense cooperation bilaterally as well as trilaterally with the United States amid North Korea's nuclear and missile development and China's maritime assertiveness. Last year, Japanese and South Korea defense ministers agreed to boost exchanges, including between their troops. ---------- Replica of Nobel Prize medal on display at museum in Hiroshima HIROSHIMA - Replicas of the Nobel Peace Prize medal and certificate awarded last year to Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors went on display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on Tuesday. Toshiyuki Mimaki, a representative of Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, visited the museum, viewing the display while recalling the moment the group was honored with the award. The showing runs until Aug. 31. ---------- Albanese of Australia's Labor Party sworn in for 2nd term as PM SYDNEY - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Cabinet were sworn in Tuesday following his ruling Labor Party's landslide victory in the country's May 3 election. Albanese took office for his second term as the country's election commission continues the vote counting. The commission said the center-left Labor Party is so far on track to win 94 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives, up from 78 in the last parliament, and the opposition Liberal-National coalition 43. ---------- Suspected unexploded wartime bomb found on Hiroshima Univ. campus HIROSHIMA - An object believed to be an unexploded wartime bomb was discovered Tuesday on a Hiroshima University campus in western Japan, police said. The object around 90 centimeters long and 25 cm in diameter was found at about 10:20 a.m. at a construction site on the university's Kasumi campus in Hiroshima's Minami Ward. Video: Trade fair in Pyongyang
