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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 26, 2020

Seoul suggests joint probe with Pyongyang over shooting of South Korean official

South Korea urged North Korea on Saturday to further investigate the fatal shooting of a South Korean fisheries official and suggested it could be an unprecedented joint probe by the two sides, as public and political outrage over the killing grew.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 26, 2020

Airports deploy rapid virus tests and sniffer dogs to unlock travel

Europe turns to new measures to help the travel industry get back off the ground.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2020

How COVID-19 is killing good manners

With social distancing now part of everyday life, simple actions like shaking hands may be consigned to history.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2020

Tokyo confirms 270 new cases of COVID-19

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Saturday it had confirmed 270 new cases of the coronavirus in the capital.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 26, 2020

Taiwan's armed forces strain in undeclared war of attrition with China

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen visited a low-key but critical maintenance base for fighter jet engines on Saturday, offering encouragement as the Chinese-claimed island's armed forces strain in the face of repeated Chinese air force incursions.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 26, 2020

‘I feel sorry for Americans’: A baffled world watches the U.S.

Myanmar is a poor country struggling with open ethnic warfare and a coronavirus outbreak that could overload its broken hospitals. That hasn’t stopped its politicians from commiserating with a country they think has lost its way.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 26, 2020

Study shows why children fight off COVID-19 better than adults

Why the coronavirus affects children much less severely than adults has become an enduring mystery of the pandemic. The vast majority of children do not get sick; when they do, they usually recover.
Tigers manager Kyuji Fujikawa is tossed in the air as the team celebrates winning the Central League pennant at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Sunday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Sep 8, 2025

Roaring Tigers had no equal in CL on way to winning pennant in record time

The club took a step toward becoming the best team in Japan by clinching the Central League pennant in record time with a 2-0 victory over the Hiroshima Carp on Sunday.
Hei Seki
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2025

Beijing sanctions China-born Upper House lawmaker over remarks

The sanctions order cited Hei Seki’s remarks and actions such as on Taiwan, the Senkaku Islands and Hong Kong, saying he "gravely interfered in China’s internal affairs.”
Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (left) and South Korean defense chief Ahn Gyu-back inspect an honor guard before their meeting in Seoul on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 8, 2025

Japan and South Korea defense chiefs agree to regular visits and tech cooperation

The agreement emerged during a visit by Defense Minister Gen Nakatani to South Korea, the first by a Japanese defense chief in a decade.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick argues that U.S. President Donald Trump has sole authority to invest Japan's promised $550 billion.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 8, 2025

Search is on for loopholes in Japan’s $550 billion investment pledge

The pledge was described over the weekend by U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick as essentially a blank checkbook for U.S. President Donald Trump.
A Yodobashi Camera store in Tokyo's Shinjuku district
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2025

Yodobashi Camera warned for cutting payments to subcontractors

The antimonopoly watchdog issued a recommendation urging Yodobashi Camera to prevent future violations of the subcontract law.
Kyoto University in the city of Kyoto. A research group at the university has developed a new type of protein that binds to unwanted cells to make it easier for immune cells to remove them.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 8, 2025

Kyoto University develops protein to help remove cancer cells

The protein binds to unwanted cells to make it easier for immune cells to pick out their target for removal.
U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks after a news conference on the Epstein Files Transparency Act near the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Sept. 3
WORLD / Politics
Sep 9, 2025

Epstein letter allegedly from Trump released by House Democrats

Recently released papers also include Epstein’s will as well as entries from his contact books and information about his known bank accounts.
The Nikkei Stock Average's opening, high and low prices on Tuesday are seen on a stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 9, 2025

Nikkei 225 hits record on Ishiba resignation news, then falls back in afternoon

The benchmark reached a new all-time high in the morning of 44,185.73
People watch as leaflets dropped by the Israeli military, urging evacuation south to Al-Mawasi, land in Gaza City on Tuesday.
WORLD
Sep 9, 2025

Israeli military evacuation order triggers panic in Gaza City

Residents of the city, home to a million Palestinians before the war, have been expecting an onslaught for weeks.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle is parked outside the Cook County Courthouse after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered an increased federal law enforcement presence and immigration enforcement actions by the Department of Homeland Security in Chicago on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 9, 2025

Trump administration says it launched 'Operation Midway Blitz' in Chicago

The operation appeared to resemble more typical immigration enforcement rather than troop deployments the U.S. president had authorized in other Democratic-held cities.
Demonstrators gather outside Nepal's Parliament during a protest condemning social media prohibitions and corruption by the government in Kathmandu on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 9, 2025

Nepal's ban on major social media sites lifted after protesters killed

All major social media apps were said to be working as the government ordered a probe into the violence that saw police launch a deadly crackdown.
Akira Ishii, a former Nippon Ishin no Kai Upper House lawmaker, is under investigation for alleged fraud involving secretarial pay.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 9, 2025

Prosecutors question former Nippon Ishin lawmaker over alleged fraud

Akira Ishii is suspected of having fraudulently reported a relative as being his public secretary and cheating the government of ¥8 million.
Elon Musk takes part in a news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on May 30. Musk continues to dominate Tesla’s narrative, linking the company’s future to his vision of AI, robotics and autonomous technology.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 7, 2025

Tesla is offering Musk a trillion-dollar ransom

Elon Musk continues to dominate Tesla’s narrative, linking the company’s future to his vision of AI, robotics and autonomous technology.
Hindu brides participate in a mass wedding ceremony in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, in December 2009. Despite being outlawed more than 60 years ago, dowry remains deeply entrenched in India’s patriarchal society, fueling violence that kills around 20 women every day.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 7, 2025

Dowry-related violence continues to claim the lives of India's daughters

An average of 20 women die every day from dowry-related violence in the country, according to official statistics.
Sexual abuse survivor Anouska de Georgiou speaks at a news conference on Wednesday on Capitol Hill in Washington, where she called where she called for the release of remaining files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigations under the Epstein Files Transparency Bill.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 5, 2025

Jeffrey Epstein’s victims aren’t a hoax

Why was Jeffrey Epstein so protected? Who is still being protected? And who protected them all?
Autumn to be cut short as harsh winter arrives suddenly
A short-lived autumn is expected this year, with temperatures staying unseasonably high through October before plunging in late November, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Woman in Japan arrested for keeping daughter's body in freezer for 20 years
Police have arrested a 75-year-old woman after she allegedly confessed to keeping her adult daughter's body in a freezer for 20 years.
JICA scraps Africa ‘hometown’ agreement after migration mixup
The “Africa Hometown Initiative,” announced by the Japan International Cooperation Agency at an African development conference in Yokohama in August, sought to foster exchanges that would help bridge four municipalities in Japan with four countries in Africa.
India aims to challenge global shipbuilding giants
Cargo ships are docked in Navi Mumbai, India, in February. Only 5% of India's exports and imports are carried on Indian-flagged ships.
Japan might be spared Trump's 100% tariffs on pharmaceuticals
U.S. President Donald Trump is rolling out a number of new tariffs on Oct. 1.
LDP presidential hopefuls take hard-line stance on immigration
Sensoji Temple in the Asakusa district of Tokyo on Sept. 16. All five candidates in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential race demonstrated a tougher stance on foreign tourists and nationals.
Japanese corporate boards have changed dramatically in recent years
Most Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Section companies have independent directors now.
As Japan keeps buying gas, Aboriginal Australians pay the price
Paulina “Jedda” Puruntatameri with Antonia Burke and Tiwi fisher Clinton offshore of Melville Island, one of the Tiwi Islands, in Australia's Northern Territory. Together with other Tiwi, Jedda has been campaigning for years to stop Australian company Santos and its backers, including Japanese investors, from drilling for natural gas at the Barossa gas field.
Tax-advantaged investments no lost cause for U.S. residents of Japan
While some American taxpayers assume they are ineligible to participate in Japan’s tax-deferred savings schemes, certified public accountant Rick Gundlach says that this is no longer the case.
Aichi Triennale’s message from the world: Free Palestine
“Between Currents and Bloom,” an eye-popping crocheted seascape by Indonesian artist Mulyana, dazzles with Instagram-ready cuteness while recalling a vibrant ocean now threatened by warming seas.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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"Shake hands with Lima-chan," a statue that shares the name of the Peruvian capital looks in the direction of Peru, where a sister statue, "Sakura-chan," is located. Erected in Yokohama's Rinko Park in 1999, it commemorates Peruvian-Japanese friendship.
The journey of Peru’s Nikkei: Finding identity in Japan
By Christoph Sponsel

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