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Smoke rises from a fire at a commercial building near Tsutenkaku Tower, in Osaka, on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2025
Large fire breaks out near Osaka's Tsutenkaku Tower
The fire broke out in a game center on the first floor of a five-story building, and part of a two-story wooden building nearby was destroyed.
Tetsuji Ohashi, chairman of the Special Committee on Management and Labor Policy, holds a news conference after announcing the guidelines for 2025 spring wage negotiations.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 21, 2025
Keidanren urges member companies to consider pay scale hikes
Keidanren vowed to make every effort for the continuation of wage increases to cope with rising prices.
A V-22 Osprey
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2025
U.S. Osprey accidentally drops cargo into sea in Okinawa
The Defense Ministry's Okinawa Defense Bureau informed the Okinawa government that the cargo pallet fell into the sea due to an unexpected change in wind direction during training.
U.S. President Donald Trump reviews troops during his inauguration ceremony at the Capitol in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jan 21, 2025
'America first' returns as Trump ditches focus on allies and rules-based order
The U.S. under his new administration will be a dominating force that will take whatever steps necessary to advance American interests, the newly inaugurated president said.
A trailer transports Nissan’s NV200 Venette minivans in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 21, 2025
Nissan to end production of compact van as Honda rescue looms
Manufacturing unit Nissan Shatai hasn’t made any decisions on job cuts, a Nissan spokesperson said.
Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attends a hearing at the Constitutional Court of Korea in Seoul on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 21, 2025
South Korea's Yoon attends impeachment trial over martial law bid
His decision to attend the impeachment hearing contrasts with his resistance to criminal proceedings against him.
Liverpool striker Darwin Nunez celebrates at the end of the English Premier League football match between Brentford and Liverpool in London on Saturday.
SOCCER
Jan 21, 2025
Slot challenges Liverpool striker Nunez to prove he is elite
Nunez has struggled to win over both Slot and his predecessor Jurgen Klopp since signing from Benfica in 2022.
A reproduction experiment was conducted by placing two gas stoves side by side and heating large iron plates (top photo). The canister on the left stove overheated and ruptured (bottom photo).
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2025
Warnings issued for portable stoves as winter usage increases
The most common issue was improper canister placement leading to overheating and rupture, resulting in fatalities, burns and property damage.
Germany's Alexander Zverev celebrates winning his Australian Open quarterfinal match against Tommy Paul of the U.S. in Melbourne on Tuesday.
TENNIS
Jan 21, 2025
Zverev raises his game to down Paul and reach Melbourne semis again
Zverev has reached his ninth Grand Slam semifinal, the most among active players who have not won a major.
U.S. President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2025
Trump pledges to save U.S. from 'decline,' vowing new 'golden age'
Trump quickly signed a series of executive actions to curb immigration and roll back environmental regulations, but did not take immediate action to raise tariffs.
U.S. President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2025
Trump seizes control: his executive actions, from tariffs to immigration
Actions so far include pardoning nearly all charged over the 2021 Capitol riot, rescinding 78 orders by the previous administration, and again exiting the Paris Agreement.
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda is still signaling caution ahead of the central bank's January meeting.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 21, 2025
BOJ likely to raise rates this week in absence of immediate Trump tariffs
The possibility is "quite high" if markets remain calm following Trump's inauguration on Monday as the 47th president of the United States.
Tsutomu Ide speaks to reporters after the ruling in the city of Osaka on Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 21, 2025
In first, Osaka increases compensation to family of disabled girl
It is the first ruling to calculate the potential future income of a disabled child in the same way as able-bodied people.
Donald Trump has vowed to slash U.S. energy costs by bolstering fossil fuels while potentially hobbling domestic wind power generation.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2025
Trump starts reshaping U.S. energy with deep focus on oil and gas
Trump initiated the shift in a series of orders and memoranda directing action by the federal government, with implications that reach across the entire energy landscape.
Car dealer Toyota Mobility Tokyo and used car dealer Goodspeed are believed to have committed illegal practices, such as discounting vehicles in exchange for buying specific insurance products.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 21, 2025
Japan's FSA to issue business improvement order to Toyota dealer
The Toyota subsidiary and Goodspeed are suspected of illegal practices such as discounting vehicles in exchange for buying specific insurance products.
The Nasdaq MarketSite is seen on the day that shares of Trump Media & Technology Group start trading under the ticker "DJT" in New York on March 26, 2024.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 21, 2025
Trump's crypto and Truth Social believers bet on his presidency
Hundreds of thousands of U.S. retail investors have linked their fortunes with those of the president they support.
U.S. President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2025
Trump declares U.S. exempt from previously agreed global corporate tax pact
The landmark 2021 agreement with nearly 140 countries set a global corporate minimum tax rate of 15%.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a letter to the United Nations stating the U.S.'s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2025
The global treaties that live on without the U.S.
Many international agreements continue to exert strong influence on global policy without the world's most powerful nation.
Homes destroyed by the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, on Monday
WORLD
Jan 21, 2025
'Extremely critical' risk as winds whip fire-weary Los Angeles
The hurricane-force winds could combine with exceedingly dry conditions to create the potential for a fast-spreading fire.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during a news conference in Mexico City on Jan. 13.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2025
How Mexico is readying for Trump’s promised mass deportations
The country has launched a panic app for those detained and lined up more than 2,600 lawyers and nearly 2,200 consulate workers.
Currently, companies with 51 or more employees must have their part-time workers join the kosei nenkin program. The government plans to lower that threshold to 21 employees in October 2027 and scrap it two years later.
JAPAN
Jan 21, 2025
Japan to have more part-timers join employee pension program
The government plans to lower the corporate size threshold for part-timers joining the pension program from 51 or more employees to 21 in October 2027.
Susumu Hyodo, director of the University of Tokyo's Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (right), and others announce a project to analyze seawater temperatures during an event in Tokyo on Monday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jan 21, 2025
Japan to study sea changes using fishers' data
Japanese catches of major fish species such as salmon and saury have been slumping since around 2010, according to a national fishing industry group.
An offshore wind farm near Nysted, Denmark. Orsted constructed the world’s first offshore wind farm in Denmark in the early 1990s and has since built up a portfolio of projects around the world.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 21, 2025
Orsted takes $1.7 billion hit as Trump slams offshore wind
The setback is the latest in a long series of issues for Denmark’s Orsted, one of the world’s biggest developers of wind farms at sea.
Trump pledges to save U.S. from 'decline,' vowing new 'golden age'
U.S. President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday.
Cedar pollen is already in the air in Tokyo
Climate change and urbanization are believed to have contributed to the earliest ever observation of cedar pollen in Tokyo, on Jan. 8, an expert says.
What went wrong at Fuji TV's news conference on allegations against Nakai?
Fuji TV President Koichi Minato speaks at a news conference on Friday in Tokyo.
Survey finds 80% of people want to take leftover restaurant food home
52.0% of people questioned in a survey said they want to use containers to take leftovers home if they are provided free of charge, and 28.8% showed willingness to use takeout containers whether they are free or not.
Chinese buyer of Okinawa island to make visit in summer
Yanaha Island in Okinawa Prefecture as seen from a ferry.
Japan looks to learn from the past with bid to build Australian warships
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami frigate, of the class of the same name, is anchored at the MSDF's naval base in the city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in September 2022.
Amid rising world hunger, a Japan-inspired group in Kenya is making a big impact
Wawira Njiru, the founder of Food4Education, serves food during the opening of a new kitchen in Mombasa County, Kenya, in 2022. The organization started in 2012 by feeding 25 children out of a single kitchen. Now it feeds nearly half a million every day.
From Tokyo to Manhattan, Takuma Watanabe stirs up a stiff drink
It's taken Takuma Watanabe little time to establish himself as one of New York's hottest bartenders.
For tourists in search of seasonal sights, Yamagata makes its case
For some time away from Tokyo's suffocating urban sameness, Yamagata Prefecture is home to a soothing array of natural abundance.
A slow dive into ‘a moment and an eternity’ with Ryuichi Sakamoto
From the mid-2000s onward, Ryuichi Sakamoto created a number of installation works, often in collaboration with Shiro Takatani, of multimedia art collective Dumb Type.

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