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Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 9, 2020

Taiwan reports multiple Chinese fighter jets to its southwest

Multiple Chinese fighter jets entered airspace to Taiwan's southwest on Wednesday, the island's Defense Ministry said, describing it as a destabilizing action that threatened regional peace.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 9, 2020

What to watch for in the LDP leadership race

With Yoshihide Suga's assured victory, we now have a clearer outlook of Japan's political landscape for the next twelve months.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 9, 2020

Triple typhoons wash out Kim Jong Un’s plans to showcase success

The extreme weather hit before the country's harvest was complete, and food insecurity is being predicted.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2020

Bankers hit the limits on working from home

While it was possible to trade securities from home during the pandemic, regulators will want to keep a tight grip on trader compliance in a post-virus era.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2020

Tokyo reports 149 new cases of COVID-19

The figure represents a drop of 21 from the previous day.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2020

A bubble scarier than big tech is brewing in China

Much as Beijing has advocated investing in young hard-tech stocks, professionals are still apprehensive.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2020

Vaccine politics demand more from big pharma

The FDA usually wants high standards while drugmakers push boundaries. But political pressure and public unease over a rushed process has forced a role reversal.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Sep 9, 2020

South Korea's defiant churches face backlash for hampering COVID-19 response

South Korea's latest COVID-19 outbreak has triggered a public backlash against conservative Christian churches for defying government orders aimed at preventing the disease's spread.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2020

Brave new words hint at a less democratic future

As China tightens its grip on Hong Kong, its vocabulary of hurt national feelings and threat is turning up in the territory.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 9, 2020

Why calls to boycott 'Mulan' over concerns about China are growing

Disney’s live-action remake of "Mulan” has drawn a fresh wave of criticism for being filmed partly in Xinjiang, the region in China where Uighur Muslims have been detained in mass internment camps.
People line up to purchase the iPhone 17 at a store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Friday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 19, 2025

Apple iPhone 17 launches in Japan

About 30 people lined up at an Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward to get their reserved new phones as soon as possible.
An Air Self-Defense Force aircraft went off the runway at Niigata Airport on Friday.
JAPAN
Sep 19, 2025

ASDF plane strays off runway at Niigata Airport

None of the five crew members aboard the U-125A search and rescue aircraft was in a life-threatening condition, ASDF officials said.
Hard-line conservative lawmaker Sanae Takaichi has consistently been a public favorite in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s leadership election scheduled for Oct. 4.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 20, 2025

Japan may see its first female PM despite limited progress on gender gap

For a country that has seen limited progress on gender equality, a win by Takaichi could represent a watershed moment.
Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw throws during a game against the Giants on Sept. 13.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 19, 2025

Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw to retire at season’s end

The left-handed ace won three National League Cy Young awards and the 2014 NL MVP in a stellar 18-year career spent entirely with the Dodgers.
Haruka Kitaguchi competes in the women's javelin throw during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium on Friday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 19, 2025

Reigning world champion Haruka Kitaguchi fails to qualify for women's javelin final

Momone Ueda finished one spot ahead of Kitaguchi and narrowly missed out on a spot in the final.
U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles holds up four fingers after winning his fourth straight men's 200-meter title at the world championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Friday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 19, 2025

Noah Lyles and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden win 200-meter titles on golden night for U.S.

Lyles finished with a time of 19.52 seconds and joined Jamaican great Usain Bolt as the only men to win four straight world titles at the distance.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a Group of 20 summit in the city of Osaka in June 2019.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 20, 2025

Trump and Xi make progress on TikTok deal and plan to meet in South Korea

The two leaders are now scheduled to meet on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea in six weeks.
A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet flies above the Baltic Sea after violating Estonian airspace.
WORLD
Sep 20, 2025

Estonia and allies denounce 'reckless' Russian air incursion

Estonia immediately called for urgent talks with NATO allies, less than two weeks after Poland did the same after claiming an incursion by a wave of Russian drones.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 20, 2025

Trump predicts U.S. government could ‘very well’ shut down on Oct. 1

The prospect of a shutdown increased after Senate Republicans and Democrats earlier Friday each blocked rival plans to provide temporary funding.
Then-Taiwanese Vice Foreign Minister Alexander Yui — who is currently the island's de facto ambassador to the U.S. — speaks during a news conference in Taipei in July 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 20, 2025

Trump intelligence advisers met with Taiwanese official

The meeting with Alexander Yui, Taiwan's de facto U.S. ambassador, amounted to one of the higher-level Taiwan-U.S. contacts to date during Trump's second term.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (right) and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif meet in Riyadh on Wednesday.
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Sep 20, 2025

Saudi pact puts Pakistan's nuclear umbrella into Middle East security picture

The pact signed between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia effectively marries Riyadh's money with Pakistan's giant nuclear-armed military, analysts said.
A demo of Taiwan's “Beyond 5G LEO Satellite,” the island's first communication experimental satellite program made by the Taiwan Space Agency, is displayed during an event in Taipei in July.
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Sep 20, 2025

Taiwan running out of time for satellite communications, space chief says

Wu Jong-shinn says the "clock is ticking" for Taiwan to launch its own satellites to secure communications during a potential conflict with China.
A screen grab from video posted to U.S. President Donald Trump's Truth Social account shows what he said is a U.S. military strike on a boat carrying alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 20, 2025

Trump says U.S. struck alleged drug vessel in latest operation

The latest strike — at least the third against alleged drug vessels — comes amid a large U.S. military buildup in the southern Caribbean.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about trade at the Granite City Works steel coil warehouse in Granite City, Illinois, in July 2018.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 20, 2025

Trump officials used 'golden share' to block U.S. Steel from stopping work at plant

The move highlighed the federal government’s continued influence over an iconic American firm after approving its takeover by Nippon Steel.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 20, 2025

Trump to impose $100,000 fee per year for H-1B visas, in likely blow to tech

Trump's threat to crack down on H-1B visas has become a major flash point with the tech industry, which contributed millions of dollars to his presidential campaign.
‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.
Japanese immunologist among three Nobel medicine prize winners
Shimon Sakaguchi, an immunologist and distinguished professor at Osaka University, attends a news conference after winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in medicine, in Osaka Prefecture on Monday.
Spanish tourist injured in latest bear attack
Shirakawago, a U.N. World Heritage site in Gifu Prefecture
Americans and Canadians unite in battling 'eating machine' carp
A Fisheries and Oceans Canada team patrols the Grand River in Dunnville, Ontario, in search of invasive grass carp specimens on Sept. 25.
Trump hails 'wisdom and strength' of Japan's incoming prime minister
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, gives a news conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Saturday.
Trump has his eyes on the prize — but a Nobel win looks unlikely
A protester holds a sign with an image depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and the words "Nobel" written on it, as supporters and family members of hostages who were kidnapped during the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, demonstrate to demand the immediate end of the war and the release of all hostages, outside the U.S. Consulate in Tel Aviv, on Sept. 2.
‘Takaichi trade’ stalls as political reality calls for wait-and-see approach
Tokyo stocks staged a powerful rally on Monday. On Tuesday, they rallied again, then retreated.
‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.
How a family-run landscaper turned the Osaka Expo green
The team at Ryokukou Garden consists primarily of a single family, including Toshiki Tanisaki (second from right), who led the company's efforts at the Osaka Expo, Chikako Tanisaki (fifth from right), who performs daily maintanence at the expo, and Takeshi Tanisaki (fourth from right), who added a nursery to the family farm more than 50 years ago.
Eat your balloons: The culinary theater of Grant Achatz comes to Tokyo
Avant-garde chef Grant Achatz and his team from Alinea are in Tokyo for a three-week residency.

Podcast

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

Longform

Growing families are being priced out of Tokyo’s condo market, forced to choose between downtown convenience and suburban space.
Is living in central Tokyo still affordable?
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