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Meliana Bruguera, 41, poses with her children Victoria, 9, and Rurik, outside Madrid, on Aug. 8.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 25, 2025

Fleeing Maduro then Trump, Venezuelans seek refuge in Spain

For the first time, Venezuelans were the largest group applying for asylum in the EU.
Members of the national guard patrol near diners in Washington on Aug. 23.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 26, 2025

Trump and JD Vance attack 2028 rivals in national guard push

Trump has pushed the boundaries of his powers in trying to rid Democratic-run cities of what he says is rampant crime, drawing accusations he is politicizing the military.
Suyun Ham, an engineering professor at UTA, reviews data from a recent inspection with two other researchers. Ham likens his technology to a “portable MRI,” which can detect cracks and other hidden dangers in a bridge.
ENVIRONMENT
Aug 26, 2025

Are bridges near you safe? This MRI-like scan may prevent disaster

An engineering professor from the University of Texas at Arlington is experimenting with a novel approach to inspecting bridges for heat damage.
Japan's 2024 Olympic bronze medalists in team eventing pose for a photo at the memorial to Olympic medalist Takeichi Nishi on Iwo Jima in January.
OLYMPICS / Equestrian
Aug 27, 2025

Japan's equestrian team honors Olympic predecessor on Iwo Jima

Takeichi Nishi, known as Baron Nishi, was killed on Iwo Jima during World War II after capturing gold in show jumping at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.
First Lady Yoshiko Ishiba (center, in white and blue dress) hosts an event on Japanese culture with the first ladies of African leaders on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Aug. 21.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Aug 27, 2025

Confusion over Japan’s ‘hometown’ plan overshadows African development event

Social media and news have focused more on the misinformation that Japan is accepting a large number of immigrants from Africa.
Vehicles move along a flooded road following monsoon rains and rising water levels in Sialkot, Punjab province, Pakistan, on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 28, 2025

Deadly rains force mass evacuations in India and Pakistan

Flash floods and landslides have left more than 2,000 people dead across both countries this season, with about five weeks left in the monsoon and more heavy rain forecast.
The system launched this month by Japanese toilet giant Toto links consumers up with existing internet-connected facility management systems.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 28, 2025

Need to pee? Japan has QR code for that.

Users can scan a QR code with their phones to access a website showing restroom locations and live congestion levels.
The special investigation squad of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office searches the office of Upper House lawmaker Akira Ishii in the city of Toride, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 29, 2025

Nippon Ishin lawmaker's alleged fraud likely totals ¥8 million

Akira Ishii is suspected of receiving salaries for a state-paid public secretary who actually did not work for him.
Oscar Piastri waves from the podium after finishing secondat the Hungarian Grand Prix in Mogyorod, Hungary, on Aug. 3.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Aug 29, 2025

F1 leader Oscar Piastri backs McLaren over moves at Hungarian Grand Prix

McLaren defended the race effectively being decided on strategy and its drivers’ right to adopt different approaches.
China’s demographic spiral is now resembling that of ancient Rome, where changing social norms and drastic population-control measures led to falling birth rates and irreversible decline.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2025

What ancient Rome can teach China about demographic collapse

China’s situation, however, is particularly perilous. Unless it is reversed, a demographic decline of this magnitude could recall the collapse of the Roman Empire.
The Betsukai Pilot Spirits welcomed new players (left to right) Yuta Yamanaka, Roman Guthrie, Scott Bellina and Leo Jiminian this year, pictured here with Yassir Lachkar of the Ishikari Red Phoenix.
COMMUNITY / Issues / The Foreign Element
Sep 1, 2025

Overseas sluggers step up to bat in small-town Hokkaido

The residents of Betsukai, Hokkaido — where cows outnumber people 7-to-1 — have extended a warm welcome to five players from overseas who joined the Pilot Spirits.
A protester carries an Indonesian flag past a police headquarters that was set on fire and looted during demonstrations in Surabaya, Indonesia, on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 1, 2025

Deadly Indonesia protests force U-turn on lawmakers' perks

More protests are planned for Monday, and student groups did not call them off after President Prabowo Subianto's announcement to cut lawmakers' benefits.
Armed Indonesian military troops at the National Monument complex prepare for deployment amid widespread anti-government protests and rioting in Jakarta on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 1, 2025

Indonesia protests put spotlight on paramilitary police force

The heavily armed force, which is typically used to combat insurgencies, has increasingly been deployed against protesters.
A portable gas stove in flames after using an old gas canister
JAPAN / Society
Sep 1, 2025

Be careful with gas canisters and portable generators, safety watchdog warns

While they are useful especially in times of disasters, their misuse or mishandling have led to many accidents, some even causing deaths, between 2020 and 2024.
A boy mourns his father, who was killed in a strike in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, on May 15. Israel's military action in Gaza has killed about 63,000 people.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 2, 2025

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says

Israel's Foreign Ministry called the statement disgraceful and "entirely based on Hamas' campaign of lies."
A street in Naha in August. In entertainment districts in southern Okinawa, a drug known as "laughing gas vape" is being abused at nightclubs and bar. Now, some establishments have put up warning notices.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Sep 22, 2025

Abuse of 'zombie cigarettes' among Okinawa youths raises alarm

"Laughing gas vape," inhaled using devices resembling e-cigarettes, can cause its users to lose control.
An Israeli Apache helicopter flies over Gaza on Tuesday. Israeli Army Radio said 40,000 reservists would report for duty.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 3, 2025

Thousands of Israeli reservists report for duty as military chief clashes with ministers

Israel's armed forces chief Eyal Zamir said a military thrust into Gaza City would endanger hostages and further strain the already overstretched army.
Foreign tourists visit a park near the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in August.
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2025

Anger in Japan after Instagrammer drinks burial site offering

On Tuesday, the Australian Embassy warned on Facebook that travelers must ensure "appropriate behavior" while visiting Japan, without explicitly referring to the incident.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba meets with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, in Tokyo on Friday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 3, 2025

Can India and Japan deliver on their energy agenda?

As geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific shifts, energy has become central to how India and Japan define their partnership.
"Animator Skill Test Textbook” was written in concert with a test created and administered by the Nippon Anime & Film Culture Association since 2024. The test was designed to help set a baseline for those studying animation, and so that animation studios can get a better idea of applicants' current skill level.
CULTURE / Books
Sep 4, 2025

English textbook targets a skills gap in Japan’s growing anime industry

From "dōga" to “lip flap,” the Nippon Anime & Film Culture Association’s "Animator Skill Test Textbook" teaches aspiring animators how to talk like the pros.
The remains of a barrack at the former Minidoka camp in southern Idaho where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Sep 4, 2025

Have the lessons of WWII internment gone unheeded in U.S.?

Eighty years after the end of World War II, many see troubling echoes of when the U.S. forcibly sent approximately 120,000 people of Japanese descent to internment camps.
Emma Aalto (left) and Millie Colling train in Helsinki on Sept. 1.
MORE SPORTS / Figure skating
Sep 5, 2025

Same-sex duo to compete in ice dance in Finland following rule change

The Finnish federation's rules now refer to ice dancers as "Skater A" and "Skater B" instead of "man" and "woman." 
The Pentagon, near Washington. U.S. President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order to rename the Department of Defense the "Department of War."
WORLD / Politics
Sep 5, 2025

Trump to rename Department of Defense the 'Department of War,' official says

The name change will be costly and require updating signs and letterheads used around the world.
Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles (left) and Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong (second from left) pose with Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya (second from right) and Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 5, 2025

After China’s military parade, Japan and Australia agree to elevate defense ties

The countries’ top diplomats and defense chiefs committed to deepening collective deterrence amid shared concerns over the security environment in the Indo-Pacific region.
U.s. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore in June 2018. Trump approved a 2019 Navy SEAL operation to plant a listening device in North Korea, a mission that unraveled amid a series of mistakes and resulted in the SEALs killing North Korean civilians.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 6, 2025

How a top secret SEAL Team 6 mission into North Korea fell apart

The 2019 operation, greenlit by President Donald Trump, sought a strategic edge. It left unarmed North Koreans dead.
U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a warning via social media after the EU announced it was fining Google almost €3 billion ($3.5 billion) and ordering the search giant to stop favoring its own advertising technology services.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 6, 2025

Trump threatens trade actions after EU fines Google over ads

The EU announced that it was fining Google almost €3 billion ($3.5 billion) and ordering it stop favoring its own advertising technology services.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio in June.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 7, 2025

U.S. strike on alleged cartel boat shows Rubio’s influence growing

The attack was the culmination of Trump’s yearslong interest in using unprecedented — and legally questionable — force against drug cartels.
A pedestrian bridge that crosses the Mississippi River in Minneapolis
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Sep 7, 2025

Polluted and poor: Blighted U.S. cities tackle 'toxic soup'

The worst effect could be seen in poor, minority areas, where heavy industry, manufacturing and transport tend to concentrate.
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability / OUR PLANET
Sep 7, 2025

Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition

The chagusaba method is sustainable, makes tea taste better and helps with biodiversity. But it’s also labor-intensive and the number of practitioners is dwindling.
NASA says its satellite imagery shows the Earth is becoming drier — at least the parts where most people live.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 7, 2025

The Earth is drying out and we need to act urgently

Measurements from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites suggest the continents have been losing fresh water at an alarming rate since 2002.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo
The unstoppable rise of konbini tourism
Guests typically follow Ryo Ito’s lead as he weaves through the narrow, colorful aisles of convenience stores.
A narrow Pacific waterway at heart of U.S. plans to choke China’s vast navy
Philippine and Australian troops fire an M777 howitzer during live fire exercises as part of joint military drills in Laur, Nueva Ecija, the Philippines, in August.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Takaichi’s balancing act: Supporting Taiwan and stabilizing China ties
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan’s presidential adviser, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday in this image posted to Takaichi's official X account.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo
Young Indonesians in Japan find their political voice
Indonesian students at Hiroshima University hold posters of the 17+8 Demands, demanding transparency and action from their homeland’s government.
The unstoppable rise of konbini tourism
Guests typically follow Ryo Ito’s lead as he weaves through the narrow, colorful aisles of convenience stores.
Kenshi Yonezu, 'Chainsaw Man' and the art of pop ubiquity
Kenshi Yonezu's “Iris Out” was an instant hit when it dropped in September. Its association with smash anime "Chainsaw Man — The Movie: Reze Arc" has spread it to even more people.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
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