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Some anticipate Sanae Takaichi becoming the prime minister will do little to shift the male-dominated world of politics.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 24, 2025

'Get married': The reality of Japanese politics for women

Some female politicians anticipate Sanae Takaichi becoming the prime minister will do little to shift the male-dominated world of politics.
Former Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao arrives at federal court in Seattle, Washington, in April 2024.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 24, 2025

Crypto billionaire gets pardon after firm supports Trump family venture

U.S. President Donald Trump said 'a lot of people' had told him convicted Binance co-founder Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao wasn't guilty.
Paul Ingrassia, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, at a social event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington in June.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 25, 2025

Violence, racism and Nazi praise: The dark side of U.S. political group chats

Three separate controversies involving leaked text messages from private online group chats have rocked U.S. political circles this month.
Serial child sexual abuse cases in Australian day care centers have spurred a rush to close security gaps that let predators through the door.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 26, 2025

Predators 'slip through the cracks' in Australian child care

Analysts say regulations have failed to keep up with the expansion of the sector.
Former Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers before the Champions League play-off match against Kairat in Almaty, Kazakhstan on Aug. 26
SOCCER
Oct 28, 2025

'Divisive' Brendan Rodgers quits as Celtic manager

Rodgers' second spell at Celtic ended after Sunday's 3-1 Scottish Premiership defeat at Hearts left it eight points adrift of the Edinburgh side in second.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on Tuesday. The encounter capped a strong first week for the new prime minister.
COMMENTARY
Oct 29, 2025

With Trump, flattery will get Takaichi everything

Whereas Takaichi’s predecessor, Shigeru Ishiba, played for a draw at his White House meeting in February, this encounter was redolent of Abe’s best moments.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman announces a zero-carbon city called “The Line” to be built at NEOM, a futuristic city in the desert by the Red Sea, in northwestern Saudi Arabia, in 2021.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 30, 2025

Saudi Arabia plans to refocus $925B fund after gigaproject delays, source says

Analysts have said many of the gigaprojects have not yet yielded sufficient returns to justify their lofty price tags, as several remain far from completion.
Many analysts said that U.S. President Donald Trump, who often tries to project strength as a negotiation tactic, likely was seeking to send a message to Moscow and Beijing with his remarks about resuming nuclear testing.
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Oct 31, 2025

Nuclear curveball: Trump's testing plan raises fears and confusion in Washington

Such a move, if implemented, could end up benefiting adversaries.
Former Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Edano speaks at a meeting in Saitama on Oct. 25.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 31, 2025

CDP signals change of position on security legislation

Former leader Edano's remarks surprised some party members and supporters because they affect the party's foundation.
U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington earlier this month.
WORLD
Oct 31, 2025

'Non-interventionist' Trump flexes muscles in Latin America

Trump has been meddling in ways harkening back to an earlier era in U.S. history.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is greeted by South Korean President Lee Jae Myung during their meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 2, 2025

South Korea hosts Xi as Chinese leader rekindles fraught ties

The visit was the Chinese leader's first since 2014 and comes after years of strained ties over everything from trade to cultural disputes.
U.S. President Donald Trump raises his fist as he boards Air Force One before traveling to South Korea, from Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 2, 2025

Trump plays nice with Asian allies stung by repeated threats

While allies in Asia have ample reason to be wary of U.S. President Donald Trump, the message from his regional tour appeared to be that America isn't going anywhere.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during the APEC conference in Gyeongju, South Korea.
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2025

Carney says Canada can’t get China tariffs lifted right away

The sit-down Friday on the sidelines of the APEC summit in South Korea was the first official bilateral meeting between leaders of Canada and China since 2017.
Fumitake Fujita, co-leader of the Japan Innovation Party
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 3, 2025

JIP co-leader Fumitake Fujita to stop using secretary’s firm

Fumitake Fujita, co-leader of the Japan Innovation Party, said he would stop placing orders with his secretary’s company following a report of dubious spending.
Buildings said to be a scam hub in southeast Myanmar as seen from across the border, in Tak, Thailand, on Feb. 21. Cybercrime hubs in Myanmar, Cambodia and elsewhere in Southeast Asia are part of a sprawling criminal enterprise that has stolen tens of billions of dollars from victims worldwide.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 3, 2025

How an accused kingpin built an empire from Cambodia to London

Chen Zhi had cultivated for himself an image of legitimacy. That's now unraveling, after the U.S. and U.K. accused him of running a transnational criminal ring.
Takeda's dengue vaccine shows seven years of strong protection against infection and hospitalization, marking the longest efficacy reported to date.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 4, 2025

Takeda’s dengue vaccine shows long-lasting protection

The results bolster confidence in Takeda’s two-dose regimen, especially as countries grapple with record dengue outbreaks fueled by climate change.
Newly developed high-efficiency, low-pollution experimental hydrogen boilers supplying the Suntory Minami Alps Hakushu Water Plant
ESG CONSORTIUM
Nov 4, 2025

H₂O giant Suntory explores advancing with hydrogen

The beverage giant Suntory Holdings Ltd., together with nine other companies and Yamanashi Prefecture, held a ceremony on Oct. 11 to mark the start of a demonstration experiment at a large-scale power-to-gas (P2G) system for using renewable electricity to produce hydrogen fuel at Green Hydrogen Park...
Japan Innovation Party co-leader Fumitake Fujita speaks during a news conference in parliament on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 4, 2025

JIP co-leader refuses to resign over ¥21 million payment to secretary’s firm

Fumitake Fujita defended his payment to his secretary’s firm, saying there was nothing illegal about placing orders for printing services.
“Mother Bhumi” takes place in a multiethnic rice-farming community where Chinese, Thai and Malay lineages intertwine.
CULTURE / Film
Nov 6, 2025

Across borders and screens, Tokyo film festival finds humanity in migration

Five films screened at this year’s TIFF put migration and its human impact front and center.
New Jersey's new governor-elect, Mikie Sherrill, meets with supporters in the borough of Chatham on Tuesday. Democratic candidates this week not only won the mayoral race in New York with Zohran Mamdani's win, but their candidates and propositions were also successful in Virginia, New Jersey, and California.
COMMENTARY
Nov 6, 2025

Democrat election wins send an unmistakable warning to Republicans

Not only did Zohran Mamdani win in New York, but Democrats posted significant wins in Virginia and New Jersey, too.
Shiori Ito at the National Board of Review Awards Gala in New York in January
JAPAN / Society
Nov 7, 2025

Shiori Ito’s documentary to be finally screened in Japan next month

The Japanese release of “Black Box Diaries” includes revisions, although it’s not clear precisely what edits have been made.
Aya Fujioka, who hails from Hiroshima Prefecture, takes a less somber approach to the city and its history.
CULTURE / Art
Nov 8, 2025

What we see when Japanese women photographers shoot back

Women in photography have been less visible than their male counterparts. An anthology of 25 photographers and three exhibitions this autumn are turning the tides.
U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Thursday
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Nov 8, 2025

Did Trump’s Supreme Court tariffs brief include a strategic blunder?

The justices are generally reluctant to take account of a president’s public statements. But extensive quotes from Trump in a key filing may change the legal calculus.
Nomura Holdings decided to fold its fledgling proprietary trading desk in London into other parts of the markets business, ditching an effort to restart the contentious practice.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 9, 2025

Nomura abandons effort to restart prop trading desk in London

The short-lived effort shows how Japan’s biggest brokerage continued high-risk bets even as executives say they’ve overhauled to focused on serving customers.
A member of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) searches for survivors after a boat carrying migrants from Myanmar capsized near the Malaysia-Thailand border on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 10, 2025

Eleven found dead in Thai-Malaysia search after Rohingya migrant boat sinks

About 70 people are believed to have been on board the capsized vessel, and the status of another boat carrying 230 passengers remained unclear.
Former Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison looks on before the game against the Oklahoma City Thunder at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas on Oct. 6
BASKETBALL / NBA
Nov 12, 2025

Mavericks fire unpopular GM Nico Harrison after 3-8 start

The move came nine months after Harrison's trade of Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers sent the organization into a tailspin.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi during an Upper House Budget Committee session on Wednesday in Tokyo
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 12, 2025

Takaichi sidesteps commitment to decades-old nonnuclear principles

The prime minister refrained from saying her government would maintain Japan’s Three Non-Nuclear Principles, leaving the door open for a revision.
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
CULTURE / Film
Nov 13, 2025

Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon

Tatsuya Nakadai worked with nearly every major Japanese director of the postwar era, but it was his collaborations with Akira Kurosawa that cemented his legacy.
Toyota’s new battery manufacturing plant in Liberty, North Carolina, officially opened on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 13, 2025

Toyota pledges up to $10 billion in U.S. operations investment

The announcement comes less than a month after U.S. President Donald Trump flagged that the Japanese carmaker planned such an investment.
An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
SPORTS / Longform
Nov 15, 2025

A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo

As Tokyo hosts the Deaflympics, organizers hope to further gains made in the realm of greater inclusivity throughout Japan.
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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