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Toshimitsu Motegi, secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 2, 2024

Motegi shows readiness to run in LDP presidential race, but hurdles remain

He faces three leadership hurdles: the disbandment of factions, low public popularity and even his current position as the secretary-general.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro visit the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia on July 13.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 3, 2024

Harris secures Democratic presidential nomination as hunt for VP pick heats up

The vice president, 59, was the sole candidate on the ballot for a five-day electronic vote of nearly 4,000 party convention delegates.
U.S. President Joe Biden hugs Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, as he and other prisoners freed from Russia arrive at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland late Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 3, 2024

Prisoner deals stoke fears of perverse ‘incentive’ to grab Americans

Hostile governments like Russia and Iran are often involved, and practical alternatives are hard to come by, experts say.
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2024

U.S. military helicopter makes emergency landing in Kanagawa rice paddy

No one was injured in the landing, the local fire department said, and the cause was not immediately clear.
Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, during an event at the Buergenstock Resort in Stansstad near Lucerne, Switzerland, on June 15.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 3, 2024

Ukraine’s allies are worried about the power of Zelenskyy’s top aide

Some of Ukraine’s international backers are growing concerned about just how much decision making power Andriy Yermak has.
David Keith believes that by intentionally releasing sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, it would be possible to lower temperatures worldwide, blunting global warming.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 3, 2024

This scientist has a risky plan to cool Earth. There’s growing interest.

David Keith believes that intentionally releasing sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere may lower temperatures worldwide, blunting global warming.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech as he visits a helicopter unit of the North Korean military that rescued people in flood-hit areas in the northwestern part of North Pyongan Province in this image released Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 4, 2024

North Korea says Russia's Putin offered humanitarian aid over flood damage

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un thanked Putin for the offer but said his government has already taken measures to conduct recovery work.
Rockets fired from southern Lebanon are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air-defense system over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel, on Sunday, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 4, 2024

Fears of Middle East war grow after Hamas leader's killing

The killing this week of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran has triggered vows of vengeance from Iran and the so-called "axis of resistance."
The judge and last year's winner, Lettie Shiels, sits in the dressing room during the World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya on Saturday.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Aug 4, 2024

Transformative hobby: Going for gold at Japan's World Cosplay Summit

The three-day event in Nagoya drew thousands of fans — many keen to show off their own costumes.
From left: Gymnastics men's team gold medalists Takaaki Sugino, Kazuma Kaya, Wataru Tanigawa, Shinnosuke Oka (who also won gold in men's all-around) and Daiki Hashimoto at Champions Park in Paris on Thursday. The gymnastics team was one of the highlights of a successful first half of the 2024 Games for Team Japan.
OLYMPICS
Aug 4, 2024

Gymnastics and skateboarding highlight a solid first half of the Paris Olympics for Japan

Japan ended Saturday with eight gold, five silver and nine bronze medals and sat seventh on the medal table.
Noah Lyles celebrates after winning gold in the men's 100-meter final at the Paris Olympics on Sunday.
OLYMPICS / Athletics
Aug 5, 2024

Showman Noah Lyles wins 100-meter gold by five thousandths of a second

Lyles had believed he had left it too late to catch the powerful Kishane Thompson, but he was soon confirmed as the winner in a personal best of 9.79 seconds.
Palestinians work to extinguish a fire at the site of an Israeli strike on a tent camp for displaced people in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD
Aug 5, 2024

Israeli strikes Gaza schools and hospital compound after talks fail

Israel says Hamas regularly embeds in civilian institutions, using Gaza's population as human shields, which Hamas denies.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan during an interview in Lahore, Pakistan, on March 17, 2023
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 5, 2024

Pakistan former Prime Minister Khan calls for good relations with army

No Pakistani prime minister has completed a full five-year term in office, and most have served time in jail.
Israel's Iron Dome air defense system intercepts rockets over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel that were fired from southern Lebanon on Sunday, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters.
WORLD
Aug 5, 2024

Foreign nationals told to leave Lebanon as war fears surge

The nearly 10-month-old war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas has led to a violent fallout that has become routine around the region.
Hundreds gathered near Beirut's port on Sunday to mark four years since a catastrophic blast (pictured), one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions, killed more than 220 people, injured at least 6,500 and devastated swaths of Lebanon's capital.
WORLD
Aug 5, 2024

Four years and no justice: Lebanon marks port blast anniversary

Nobody has been held responsible for the August 4, 2020 blast — one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reviews an honor guard during her visit to Thailand, in Bangkok on April 26.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 5, 2024

Sheikh Hasina's record under fresh scrutiny as Bangladesh unrest deepens

Mass protests that began as student-led rallies against civil service job quotas have morphed into some of the worst unrest under the prime minister's 15-year tenure.
Japan's Koki Kano (right) battles Yannick Borel of France in the gold-medal bout of the men's individual epee at the Paris Olympics on July 28.
OLYMPICS / Fencing
Aug 5, 2024

How a grassroots push helped Japan's fencers become world-beaters

Japan bagged five fencing medals in Paris to put it atop the medal table in the sport, the first time a non-European nation has done so.
Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu
WORLD
Aug 6, 2024

Iranian president, in talks with Putin ally, calls for expanded ties with Russia

Russia's Sergei Shoigu met Iran's president and top security officials as Tehran weighs its response to the killing of a Hamas leader.
Ngun Nei Par, the general manager at Ginshotei Awashima in Numata, Gunma Prefecture, graduated from a university in Myanmar with a degree in geography.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 6, 2024

Japan needs foreign workers, but it might not want them to stay long

Japanese politicians remain reluctant to create pathways for foreign workers, especially those in low-skill jobs, to stay indefinitely.
The International Boxing Association holds a news conference in Paris on Monday, with the association's president, Umar Kremlev, appearing on a video feed from Moscow.
OLYMPICS
Aug 6, 2024

A chaotic news conference offers little clarity on an Olympic boxing dispute

The International Boxing Association’s Russian president delivered wild accusations, personal attacks and used questionable language when detailing the two women's cases.
Many market followers believe the pillars that had underpinned gains for years — a series of key assumptions that investors across the world were banking on — have been shaken.
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2024

$6.4 trillion stock wipeout has traders fearing ‘great unwind’ is just starting

Many market followers believe the pillars that had underpinned gains for years have been shaken.
Commuters take a subway home at Sungsu station in Seoul on July 15.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 6, 2024

Declaring ‘crisis,’ South Korean firms tell managers to work more

In South Korea, the five-day workweek is only a generation old, introduced by labor laws in 2004.
Kohei Saito, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tokyo, in a "common forest" in Hachioji, Tokyo, in July
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2024

Slow down to save the planet, says Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito

Capitalism is the root cause of climate change, and we need to stop chasing growth, Saito argues.
Kagoshima District Court has given a former Kagoshima Prefectural Police officer a suspended sentence for leaking investigative information.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 6, 2024

Former Kagoshima police officer found guilty of leaking investigation details

The judge said that the magnitude of the privacy violation was large as the officer shared information on personal criminal records and details of more than 100 cases.
Kauli Vaast of France competes in the Olympic men's gold-medal match in Teahupo'o, Tahiti, on Monday.
OLYMPICS / Surfing
Aug 6, 2024

Vaast takes men's surfing gold for France and Tahiti

Caroline Marks of the United States added Olympic gold to her 2023 world title with a tight victory over Brazil's Tatiana Weston-Webb in the women's final.
Defense Minister Minoru Kihara speaks on July 30 during a parliamentary inquiry into a series of scandals involving the ministry and the Self-Defense Forces.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 6, 2024

The wider international and domestic implications of the SDF scandals

The problems have put the spotlight on Japan’s ability to convince its partners that it’s ready to shoulder a larger security role.
U.S. President Joe Biden escorts Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to their trilateral summit at the White House in Washington in April.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 6, 2024

As U.S. ‘minilateral’ diplomacy grows, Japan emerges as key actor

As geopolitical tensions in the region rise, the breakout of any conflict would put Tokyo on the front lines alongside Washington.
Japan's Yuki Ishikawa cheers during the match on Monday.
OLYMPICS / Volleyball
Aug 6, 2024

Heartbreak for Japan's volleyball team after narrow loss to Italy

Japan started off strong, winning the first two sets thanks to rock solid defense, but couldn't close out the Italians.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz at the White House in Washington on July 3.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 6, 2024

Harris picks Minnesota's Tim Walz for vice president, sources say

Walz is a progressive policy champion and a plain speaker from America's heartland who may help Harris win over rural, white voters.
Kenichiro Fumita celebrates after his win over China's Cao Liguo in their men's Greco-roman 60 kg wrestling final match at the Champ-de-Mars Arena in Paris on Tuesday.
OLYMPICS
Aug 7, 2024

Japan's Kenichiro Fumita wins Greco-Roman gold in 60 kg

Fumita claimed the first wrestling gold of the Paris Olympics by beating Cao Liguo of China, who settled for silver.
Japan won’t wait for G7 summit for possible U.S. trade deal
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top negotiator in tariff talks with the U.S. speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Friday.
Japanese universities step up to help international students after Harvard ban
The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University. U.S. President Donald Trump has barred Harvard from accepting international students, prompting Japanese universities to offer support.
Japan eyes tougher rules for foreign residents and tax hike for tourists
A tax-free shop in Kyoto in April 2024. Last week, members of a Liberal Democratic Party study group drafted a proposal seeking to scrap the country's tax-free shopping system altogether.
Foreign tourists with unpaid medical bills in Japan to be denied entry
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during ministerial meeting meeting on foreign residents in Japan on Friday at the Prime Minister's Office.
Victims mourned 17 years after Akihabara indiscriminate attack
A mourner prays for the victims of an indiscriminate fatal attack on a street of Tokyo's Akihabara area on the 17th anniversary of the incident on Sunday.
What can Kenji Yanobe’s cosmic cats teach us about humanity?
Kenji Yanobe’s spacesuited cats are the main characters of “Ship’s Cat Island,” the inaugural exhibition at Hyper Museum Hanno in Saitama Prefecture.
From ridicule to redemption: Rice crisis returns Koizumi to the spotlight
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to the media as he inspects a warehouse storing stockpiled rice in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 30.
New Naoshima museum bets on Asia, not the West
Detail of Takashi Murakami, “Rakuchu-Rakugai-zu Byobu: Iwasa Matabei RIP” (2023-25)
Japan’s prison reform focuses on rehabilitation
Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Friday. Suzuki said preparations for the changes that will focus more on rehabilitation are being actively made at each correctional facility.
Accidents raise concern over how Japan vets foreign drivers
Keita Ueno (right), the owner of Kiki Driving School and an instructor who supports both foreign nationals and Japanese citizens returning from abroad in getting their foreign driver’s licenses converted, is worried about the current lax system for the process.

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