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Demonstrators march to show support for immigrant families in New York on Nov. 9. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump confirmed on Monday that he intended to declare a national emergency and use the U.S. military in some form to assist in his plans for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 19, 2024

Trump confirms plans to use the military to assist in mass deportations

The president-elect's team believes use of vast holding facilities could enable accelerated deportations of immigrants who fight their expulsion from the country.
U.S. special envoy Amos Hochstein talks to reporters following a meeting in Beirut on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 21, 2024

U.S. envoy en route to Israel in bid toward ceasefire with Hezbollah

U.S. diplomatic efforts, led by envoy Amos Hochstein, are focused on brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to prevent further regional destabilization.
A Palestinian man points at a damaged building in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
WORLD
Nov 21, 2024

Israeli strikes kill 48 people in Gaza as hospital in north makes distress call

Operations have focused for weeks on the northern edge of Gaza, where Israel has laid siege to three major towns and ordered residents to flee.
There have been confirmed cases across the country of fraudsters using credit card information stolen through phishing to obtain digital currencies managed by local governments.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 21, 2024

Japan's local digital currencies increasingly exploited by fraudsters

The fraudsters are believed to be targeting such currencies for the rewards that come with purchasing or making payments in the currencies.
Gautam Adani has been charged in the U.S. with paying hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes and hiding the payments from investors.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 21, 2024

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani charged in U.S. with bribery

The billionaire chair of Indian conglomerate Adani Group has been indicted in New York over his role in a $265 million bribery scheme.
Messages from so-called Active Clubs surged on Telegram over the past month.
WORLD / Society
Nov 22, 2024

Extremists on Telegram pose as fight clubs, raising alarms in U.S.

The loosely organized network in the U.S. and Canada consist of men who say in online forums they’re working to stop the elimination of the white race.
Brazilian police on Thursday called for the indictment of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro over a 2022 coup plot to prevent current leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking office.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 22, 2024

Brazil police accuse Bolsonaro and ex-ministers of 2022 coup plot

The final police report caps a nearly two-year investigation into Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's role in the election-denying movement.
Civil defense members and rescuers work at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut's Basta neighborhood on Saturday.
WORLD
Nov 23, 2024

Powerful Israeli airstrike in central Beirut kills 11, Lebanese health ministry says

An eight-story building was struck with four missiles, including bunker-penetrating types designed to hit underground targets, said a Lebanese security source.
The New Delhi skyline engulfed in heavy smog on Nov. 17
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Nov 24, 2024

Mounting economic costs of India's killer smog

Smog in New Delhi this month contains more than 50 times the World Health Organization's recommended limit of fine particulate matter.
Boys approach a spot where a projectile fell in Petah Tikva, Israel, on Sunday.
WORLD
Nov 25, 2024

Hezbollah rockets land near Tel Aviv after Israeli strike on Beirut

Intensified bombardment over the last two weeks in Beirut's Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs has coincided with signs of progress in U.S.-led cease-fire talks.
A view of the city skyline and Huangpu river in Shanghai on Feb. 24, 2022
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 25, 2024

China's startups suffer as investors exercise redemption rights

The situation conflicts with the government's resolve to foster innovation and achieve technological self-reliance in systemically important industries.
Sacks of untreated and shredded plastic waste, left unattended, collect at an inoperative recycling site in Asan, South Korea, on Nov. 19.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Nov 25, 2024

South Korea's mountain of plastic waste shows limits of recycling

Seoul says that it recycles 73% of its plastic waste, but environmentalists say the real number is about 27%.
Japan's players watch from the dugout after their loss against Taiwan in the Premier12 final at Tokyo Dome on Sunday.
BASEBALL / Sac Bunts
Nov 25, 2024

Japan exits Premier12 with no need to panic but with adjustments to make

Japan lost in an international tournament for the first time since the 2019 Premier12.
Vegetable intake by Japanese adults has sunk to the lowest level on record, a government survey shows.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 26, 2024

Average vegetable intake among adults in Japan sinks to record low

By age group, the average vegetable intake was lowest among respondents in their 20s. The older the respondents, the more vegetables they consumed.
Members of the Maori community and their supporters take part in a protest about indigenous rights outside of New Zealand's parliament in Wellington on Nov. 19.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 26, 2024

Shadow of the British Empire hangs over New Zealand's treaty debate

The controversy over one of the nation’s founding documents touches a raw nerve. The agreement has two versions, one in English and the other in Maori.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin at a ceremony in Pyongyang in June. If North Korean troops sent to the war in Ukraine under an agreement between the two nations are used for anything other than cannon fodder, they may gain experience that could improve the communist nation's military.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 27, 2024

Autocrats challenge traditional geopolitics and strategic boundaries

Emerging "common market of autocracies" are enabling regimes like Russia and North Korea to evade Western sanctions through unconventional networks and barter systems.
A man stands near a damaged house in Avivim, a community in northern Israel, on Wednesday, after a ceasefire was agreed to by Israel and Hezbollah.
WORLD
Nov 28, 2024

Northern Israel residents fume at ceasefire, still feel vulnerable to attack

Many residents of northern Israel fear Hezbollah may try to launch a ground assault, similar to the Hamas attack on Israel's south on Oct. 7, 2023.
Elliott Investment Management's stake in Tokyo Gas is centered around getting the utility to sell off its real estate holdings, including Shinjuku Park Tower, which houses the Park Hyatt Hotel Tokyo.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 28, 2024

Real estate worth ¥25 trillion puts Japan companies in spotlight

The hidden value of property on corporate balance sheets is a theme behind some of the biggest activist campaigns and mergers and acquisitions in Japan.
SoftBank is unhappy that Moody's continues to issue ratings on the company.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 28, 2024

SoftBank blasts Moody’s for unsolicited ratings

It says it is considering legal action against the agency, which has continued to publish unsolicited ratings of the company over the past several years.
A damaged vehicle sits near Roman ruins in the eastern city of Baalbek, Lebanon, on Thursday, the second day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
WORLD
Nov 29, 2024

Israel and Hezbollah trade accusations of ceasefire violations

The Israeli military said its air force struck a facility used by Hezbollah to store midrange rockets in southern Lebanon.
The Moscow skyline. Heavy recruitment by the armed forces and defense industries has drawn workers away from civilian enterprises, as has emigration, pushing unemployment to a record low of 2.3%, data showed Wednesday.
WORLD / Society / ANALYSIS
Nov 29, 2024

Russia's labor shortage spreads as defense sector poaches staff

A growing labor shortage is affecting all areas of life since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022.
Students look at their phones in Melbourne on Thursday as Australia looks to ban children under 16 from social media.
WORLD
Nov 29, 2024

What countries do to regulate children's social media access

Here is what Australia, European countries, and tech companies have been doing to regulate children's access to social media.
Plastic production is on track to triple by 2050, and microplastics have been found in air, fresh produce and even human breast milk.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Dec 1, 2024

Battle over curbing plastic output jeopardizes U.N. treaty hopes

The hoped-for treaty could be the most significant environmental protection deal since the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum delivers a speech during the inauguration of a family medicine unit in San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo Leon State, Mexico, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Dec 1, 2024

Trump’s demand that Mexico stop migrants and drugs may never be met

Mexico's new leader must find ways to appease Trump while avoiding the perception that she easily bends to U.S. demands.
Political funds reports have shown that Japanese political parties and other lawmakers were keen to utilize social media and the internet for their political activities last year.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 1, 2024

Social media use rising among politicians: funds reports

Political parties see smartphones and online messaging as a vital way of reaching voters and affecting their voting behavior.
The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo is a popular place to foster curiosity in the natural sciences.
JAPAN / Science & Health / Longform
Dec 2, 2024

Can Japan's scientific community rebound from a Nobel nosedive?

Shrinking funding and limited support spark fears for the country's scientific prowess moving forward.
INC-5 Chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso (on screen) speaks during an open plenary session during the fifth session of the U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution (INC-5) in Busan, South Korea, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 2, 2024

Countries fail to reach agreement in U.N. plastic talks

Countries remained far apart on the basic scope of a treaty and could agree only to postpone key decisions and resume talks at a later date.
The logo of the Adani Group on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, on Nov. 21
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 2, 2024

Bangladesh wants to renegotiate Adani power deal unless court cancels

Adani Group founder Gautam Adani is already facing allegations by U.S. authorities that he was part of a $265 million bribery scheme in India.
A displaced woman packs up her family's belongings at a school turned into a shelter in Beirut on Nov. 27.
WORLD / Society
Dec 2, 2024

'We have a lost generation': Lebanon's education crisis

At least 500 public schools in Lebanon, roughly one in two in what is a badly underfunded sector, were converted into shelters in recent months to house people.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announces measures to counter the spread of "forever chemicals" in drinking water in the Upper House of parliament in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Society
Dec 3, 2024

Japan eyes new PFAS regulations for drinking water by spring

Water suppliers nationwide must upgrade their safety standards to counter the spread of "forever chemicals."
Nissan clinches $4.5 billion bond deal after orders soar
Nissan Motor has raised $4.5 billion through a junk bond sale in U.S. dollars and euros, part of which carries a record-high coupon rate.
U.S. urges clarity on Japan’s role in potential war over Taiwan, report says
A Ground Self-Defense Force member conducts a military drill with an anti-ship missiles unit, at the GSDF's base on Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture in April 2022.
Tokyo hit by torrential rainfall at rush hour
People line up at Shibuya Station in Tokyo as they try to avoid the heavy rain on Thursday.
Osaka police crack down on crime ring over underage prostitution
Osaka Prefectural Police headquarters
Foreign drivers in Japan to face tougher license conversion rules from October
According to the National Police Agency, there were 75,905 people who converted their foreign driver’s license to a Japanese one in 2024, up from 48,885 in 2019.
Is Japanese skin really ‘too smooth’ for Hideo Kojima’s games?
Hideo Kojima, the leading auteur in Japanese video games, has skirted controversy in the wake of the release of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
An emoji used to say it all. Now it might say too much.
Apple’s Craig Federighi shows off a set of emoji at a conference on June 13, 2016. While the small pictures have proved helpful in conveying nuance in our texts, younger people are using them less often.
‘Our ultimate goal is to save every single Japanese video game’
After nearly shuttering earlier this year, the Tokyo-based Game Preservation Society continues its work to save the early history of Japanese gaming.
Rare vintage shots and first-time shows at TOP’s 30th anniversary
The museum's curators selected a wide array of works from the archives for the milestone exhibitions. Among other photos, Nobuyoshi Araki's work from the series "Winter Journey" (1990) was included in the "Continuity and Change" exhibition that concluded in June.
New IG Arena set to dial down temperature at Nagoya Basho, in a good way
With IG Arena getting glowing early reviews as the Nagoya Basho’s replacement venue, it may be a while before fans wax nostalgic about the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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