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Taylor Townsend hits a shot against Jelena Ostapenko during their match at the U.S. Open on Wednesday.
TENNIS
Aug 29, 2025

Naomi Osaka criticizes Jelena Ostapenko for comments to Taylor Townsend

Townsend and Ostapenko were involved in a confrontation after their second-round match at the U.S. Open.
The number of children on nursery waiting lists decreased to a record low as of April 1, reflecting a decrease in births.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 29, 2025

Kids on nursery waiting lists down for eighth year amid falling births

As of April this year, there were 2,254 children on waiting lists, down from a high of 26,081 in 2017.
A McDonald’s Japan Pokemon card promotion triggered scalper frenzy, upset children and forced the company to rethink its Happy Set campaigns.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 28, 2025

McDonald’s 'Pokemon' frenzy shows the collecting boom’s dark side

After a "Pokemon" trading card promotion went disastrously wrong, it’s been rebuked by the Consumer Affairs Agency and is rethinking future campaigns.
At Kuro Mame, baristas customize the coffee according to the guest's preferences.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 29, 2025

Sip a bespoke coffee for ¥4,000 at Kuro Mame

Always wanted to have a barista customize your brew? Make a beeline for this premium cafe.
Then-U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to board Air Force Two as she departs LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York, in September last year.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 30, 2025

Trump withdraws Kamala Harris' Secret Service protection

The move comes just weeks before Harris is set to go on a tour to promote a new book about her failed presidential campaign against Trump last year.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (center) in action alongside Rani Rosius of Belgium (right) and Gladymar Torres of Puerto Rico during the 100m heats at the 2024 Olympic games in Paris on Aug 2, 2024.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 1, 2025

Jamaican sprint great Fraser-Pryce to retire after Tokyo worlds

Fraser-Pryce shattered negative notions around pregnancy in sport by winning the 100m at the 2019 worlds and retaining the title in 2022.
Brazil's Yago Dora in action during the World Surf League Tahiti Pro on May 30, 2024
MORE SPORTS / Surfing
Sep 2, 2025

Brazil's Dora wins first surfing world title in Fiji

The 29-year-old from Florianopolis had his best ever year on surfing's world tour.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping attend the BRICS Summit plenary session in Kazan, Russia, on Oct. 23.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2025

Realism and realpolitik rule Indian foreign policy

A decade from now, there is likely to be heated debate in the United States over “who lost India,” an accounting that may rival the “who lost China?”
Then-Nestle CEO Laurent Freixe speaks during a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22. Freixe was fired this week over an undisclosed romantic relationship with a subordinate.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 3, 2025

From Coldplay kiss cam to Nestle, office romances are costing CEOs their jobs

The firing of Nestle CEO Laurent Freixe this week puts the spotlight on office relationships, and their ubiquity.
Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen leave after a meeting with the French prime minister at the Hotel Matignon in Paris on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 4, 2025

French far-right accelerates recruitment drive with Macron government on brink

The far-right party is betting Emmanuel Macron's only path out of France's latest budget crisis will be to dissolve its deeply divided parliament.
Mizuho's bid to acquire a majority stake in India's Avendus Capital faces hurdles over valuation and the right exit option for KKR portfolio company, sources say.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 4, 2025

Mizuho’s India deal with Avendus said to stall on valuation

Mizuho was on the verge of buying a majority stake in Avendus in what would be the latest acquisition by a Japanese bank in India.
At Syn, chef Naoto Ohno's playfulness is evident in the "Apple," a replica fruit filled with applejack-flavored foie gras and served on a plate decorated with a familiar logo.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 5, 2025

With a global approach, Syn gives French cuisine plenty of latitude

Up-and-coming chef Naoto Ohno draws from his rich travel experiences to redefine cooking traditions at his restaurant in Fukuoka.
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.
Montreal Canadiens legend Ken Dryden speaks at the funeral for former teammate Jean Beliveau in Montreal in December 2014.
MORE SPORTS / Ice Hockey
Sep 6, 2025

Legendary Canadiens goaltender Ken Dryden, a six-time Cup winner, dies at 78

Known for his intellectual pursuits off the ice, Dryden played only eight seasons in the NHL, but won the Stanley Cup in six of those seasons.
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike (right) and Takayuki Morimura, head of Tomin First no Kai, during the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election campaign in Tokyo in June
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 8, 2025

Tokyo Gov. Koike seen keeping three-party alliance involving LDP

Attention is also turning to whether the Tokyo governor will seek cooperation with the Democratic Party for the People, which won its first seats in the metropolitan assembly.
49ers quarterback Brock Purdy after the game against the Seahawks at Lumen Field in Seattle on Sunday
MORE SPORTS / Football
Sep 9, 2025

Banged-up Brock Purdy uncertain for Week 2 as 49ers' injuries pile up

Purdy toughed out Sunday's game despite suffering injuries to his left (non- throwing) shoulder and toe.
Sebastien Lecornu, France's then-Minister of Armed Forces, leaves the Elysee presidential palace in Paris after a weekly Cabinet meeting on March 5. French President Emmanuel Macron has named Lecornu France’s new prime minister.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 10, 2025

Macron appoints ally Lecornu as France’s new prime minister

Lecornu, who previously served as defense minister, will become the country’s fifth prime minister in two years.
The Saga Prefectural Police sent papers on a worker at its crime laboratory to prosecutors for allegedly falsifying DNA analyses to make his job performances look better.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 10, 2025

Crime lab worker accused of 130 improper DNA analyses

The employee allegedly sought to make his job performance look better so as to get a good reputation and avoid criticism from his boss.
Police officers in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, in 2021. A 2022 U.N. report cited possible "crimes against humanity" in the region.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 10, 2025

Rights advocates demand U.N. press China on abuses in Xinjiang

Members of China's Uyghur minority appeared at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to urge officials to step up pressure on Beijing.
David Ha, the head of AI tech company Sakana AI, points at his laptop during an interview at the company's office in Tokyo on Aug. 28.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 10, 2025

Top Japan startup Sakana AI touts nature-inspired tech

Sakana aims to merge existing and new systems, large and small, to develop what it calls "collective intelligence."
France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu arrives for a meeting at a hotel in Paris on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 11, 2025

France's new prime minister vows 'profound break' with past as protests flare

The prime minister's first day on the job coincided with street protests across France in a show of grassroots opposition to President Emmanuel Macron.
Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA founder, puts on a MAGA hat during an event in Phoenix, Arizona, in December 2024.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 11, 2025

Death of Charlie Kirk lays bare deep U.S. political divisions

His death left many of his fellow conservatives seething and blaming liberals for the assault, while Democrats largely kept to a more reserved tone.
Noah Lyles celebrates after winning the 100-meter final at the world championships in Budapest on Aug. 20, 2023.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 11, 2025

Usain Bolt backs Jamaicans to knock Noah Lyles off 100-meter throne

Bolt is also confident that his 100-meter world record of 9.58 seconds, set at the 2009 Berlin worlds, is not going to be challenged any time soon.
Singer-songwriter Mei Ehara confronted the pressure of creating her third album by taking inspiration from a literary device that merely serves as a trigger for a plot. The resulting album is “All About McGuffin.”
CULTURE / Music
Sep 12, 2025

Mei Ehara’s third album finds clarity in the noise

The Japanese singer-songwriter turns the concept of a McGuffin into her most direct work yet, sharpened by a U.S. tour with Faye Webster.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stands at his home while under house arrest in Brasília, Brazil, on Aug. 14. Brazil's Supreme Court has convicted Bolsonaro of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 12, 2025

Brazil's Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years after landmark coup plot conviction

The conviction made the 70-year-old Bolsonaro the first former president in the country's history to be convicted for attacking democracy.
A single flag is planted in memory of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, according to organizers at the Young America's Foundation, alongside a field of flags marking the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks outside the U.S. Capitol.
EDITORIALS
Sep 12, 2025

America’s politics turn bloody

Charlie Kirk’s killing was tragic and horrific, but not unexpected. Violence has become an all-too common component of life in the U.S.
Nepalese President Ram Chandra Paudel (left) gestures after administering the oath of office to the country's newly appointed prime minister, Sushila Karki, during her swearing-in-ceremony at the President House in Kathmandu on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 13, 2025

Former chief justice named Nepal's first female prime minister after violent unrest

Deadly anti-graft protests forced Sushila Karki's predecessor, K.P. Sharma Oli, to resign earlier this week.
Migrants gather outside an office of Mexico's Refugee Aid Commission to obtain a humanitarian visa that allows them safe passage to continue their journey to Mexico's northern border to seek asylum in the U.S., in Tapachula, Mexico, in September 2023.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 13, 2025

Trump administration plans push at U.N. to restrict global asylum rights

Under the proposed framework, asylum seekers would be required to claim protection in the first country they enter, not a nation of their choosing.
Gold medalist Melissa Jefferson-Wooden of the U.S. celebrates after winning the women's 100-meter final at the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 14, 2025

Melissa Jefferson-Wooden takes 100-meter title and sets championships record in Tokyo

Jamaica’s Tia Clayton was second with a new personal best of 10.76, while Paris Olympic gold medalist Julien Alfred took third place in 10.84.
Displaced Palestinians move with their belongings southwards as smoke billows from Israeli strikes in Gaza City on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 15, 2025

Israel intensifies Gaza City bombing as Rubio arrives

Aid agencies say an Israeli takeover of Gaza City would be catastrophic for a population already facing widespread malnutrition.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
China warns citizens not to visit Japan as row over Taiwan heats up
Chinese tourists wear kimonos as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
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.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
Fears rise of rupture in Japan-China ties in wake of Taiwan remarks
Two Chinese tourists wearing kimonos take a selfie as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
Shohei Ohtani collects fourth MVP Award with 2025 NL honor
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season on Thursday.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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