Etienne Balmer

Chef de la rédaction AFP Lille - ex AFP Tokyo, Paris, Metz, Francfort... Les propos publiés ici n'engagent que moi

[Etienne Balmer @EtienneAFP]

@nkastelijn Hi Niki, I'm a journalist from the French press agency AFP. At what time did you eventually arrive in Brussels? Or Amsterdam? please get in touch, thanks

[Katie Forster @katieforster]

'Fashion power': Zarny, the Myanmar refugee turned Tokyo designer

Interview by @EtienneAFP https://t.co/jju0MFuk1h

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

INTERVIEW: Takeshi Kitano makes his comeback at Cannes next week with a new samurai epic, but the cult Japanese filmmaker tells @AFP that he strives to remain "indifferent" to success

https://t.co/Z2QG30R87o

[Natsuko Fukue @natfukue]

Japan, land of the hybrid car, takes slowly to EVs
https://t.co/AeSIYGVNVq ✍️@EtienneAFP @AFP

[Katie Forster @katieforster]

Fossil fuel pledges divide G7 in 'critical decade' for climate.

Story ahead of this weekend's talks in Sapporo, by myself and @EtienneAFP
https://t.co/6I2hQySCqe

[Sara Hussein @sarahussein]

Japan's has the world's third largest geothermal resources, but also one powerful industry opposed to developing them: hot springs, or onsen. Interesting @AFP story from @EtienneAFP: https://t.co/UcNUEeT6BO

[Katie Forster @katieforster]

Sakhalin exception: the Russian energy Japan can't quit. By @EtienneAFP https://t.co/xCMUkImqwS

[Agence France-Presse @afpfr]

"Nous devons être motivés" : jeunes professionnels du nucléaire au Japon, un profil à contre-courant #AFP
➡️ https://t.co/kX12CAMA81
✍️ @EtienneAFP

[Katie Forster @katieforster]

Japanese food is famously paired with sake, but winemakers near Mount Fuji are on a mission to prove their bottles go just as well with crispy tempura and delicately sliced raw fish.

Lovely feature by @EtienneAFP https://t.co/GnXQHn3Ddm

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

Life after sumo.

Athletes in many sports can struggle to reinvent themselves after retirement, but the challenge is acute for sumo wrestlers.

Wrestlers are often recruited young and their formal education ends when they move into the training stables

https://t.co/4DrMZzvUFS

[Katie Forster @katieforster]

Solar farms along tsunami-ravaged coastlines, green energy 'micro-grids' and the experimental production of non-polluting hydrogen: 11 years after its nuclear nightmare, Japan's Fukushima region is investing in a renewable future https://t.co/aTzhHyoxKG

[Katie Forster @katieforster]

Renewables accounted for 43 percent of Fukushima's energy consumption in 2020, up from just 24 percent in 2011.

But obstacles remain, from the higher cost for consumers to lingering concern over contamination.

Feature by @EtienneAFP and Harumi Ozawa:
https://t.co/aTzhHyoxKG

[Katie Forster @katieforster]

'If I cancel my plans to work in Japan, then my six years of studies there will have been for nothing. So I'm waiting and waiting.'

Story by @EtienneAFP and myself with help from @TomohiroOsaki: https://t.co/XHhExuSeXz

[Atefeh Fathi @Atithevet]

Thanks for the article 🙏🏼
@EtienneAFP
@katieforster
#japantravelban

[Etienne Balmer @EtienneAFP]

@Musa40665611 Hello Musa, could we talk this weekend? I'm a journalist in Tokyo looking for the testimony of one worker like you who cannot enter Japan because of the #japantravelban. Please send me a private message thx

[vincent Fichot @FichotVincent]

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[AFP News Agency @AFP]

Paralympian, nurse, musician: Manami Ito, Japan's show-stealing violinist

https://t.co/gjNX722JTe
#Paralympics

[Etienne Balmer @EtienneAFP]

'Far from fragile': the battering rams of wheelchair rugby #AFP #Tokyo2020 #Paralympics https://t.co/kMou07ATb5

[vincent Fichot @FichotVincent]

https://t.co/W6dZPB89xo

[vincent Fichot @FichotVincent]

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