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Women in the U.K. still tend to handle the weekly shop, meaning they’re the first to feel the pinch from higher grocery, water and transport bills — the main drivers pushing inflation to its highest since early 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2025

Women turn away from Labour as they lose faith in economy

Already, Britain's government has lost nearly half of the female voters who helped it win power just a year ago, according a political strategy and communications consultancy.
Nissan’s ProPilot navigates traffic while under human supervision during a test drive in Tokyo last week.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 22, 2025

Nissan revamps ProPilot to rival Tesla's driver-assist technology

The next version will be able to take on complex city streets using fewer cameras and monitors thanks to artificial intelligence software.
Jared Baeten, Gilead Sciences' senior vice president and virology therapeutic area head, hopes regulatory approval elsewhere for lenacapavir as a preexposure prophylaxis — for reducing the risk of contracting HIV — could lead to real discussions toward ending HIV in Japan.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 22, 2025

Twice-a-year injection could make HIV prevention easier, developer argues

Without the need to take a daily pill, adherence could improve, says an executive from Gilead Sciences, which developed such an injection.
Nvidia's $100 billion investment is meant to help OpenAI build data centers with a capacity of at least 10 gigawatts of power — equipped with Nvidia’s advanced chips to train and deploy AI models.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 23, 2025

Nvidia and OpenAI make $100 billion deal to build data centers

The investment is meant to help OpenAI build data centers with a capacity of at least 10 gigawatts of power — equipped with Nvidia’s advanced chips to train and deploy AI models.
Keegan Bradley, captain of Team USA in the 2025 Ryder Cup, attends a news conference in Farmingdale, New York, on Monday.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Sep 23, 2025

Team captain Bradley defends U.S. player pay at Ryder Cup

U.S. players will each get $500,000 — with $300,000 of that going to charity and the remaining $200,000 serving as a stipend.
Red Bull's Yuki Tsunoda arrives at the circuit ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Sep 24, 2025

Red Bull in no rush to make 2026 driver decisions after strong weekend in Baku

Only Max Verstappen can be completely sure of who he will be racing for next year and Red Bull is in no rush to decide his teammate after a record of failure with previous moves.
“Archipelago of the Sun” by Yoko Tawada is part of a trilogy billed as a dystopian future under threat of climate crisis.
CULTURE / Books
Sep 24, 2025

Yoko Tawada’s wandering trilogy concludes search for the 'land of sushi'

In “Archipelago of the Sun,” the merry band of polyglot friends board a boat crossing the Baltic Sea, still vaguely in search of a disappeared Japan.
Suzu Hirose (left), Satoshi Tsumabuki (center) and Masataka Kubota (right) play childhood friends caught up in the simmering tensions of postwar Okinawa in Keisuke Otomo’s “Hero’s Island.”
CULTURE / Film
Sep 25, 2025

‘Hero’s Island’: Okinawa-set epic is lavishly realized but lacks bite

Keisuke Otomo recreates postwar turmoil in rich detail that is sometimes more vivid than the characters themselves.
An anthropomorphic frog (voiced by Non) and a banker turned parking lot attendant (Koichi Sato) team up on a mission in "After the Quake."
CULTURE / Film
Sep 25, 2025

The familiar is made surreal in ‘After the Quake’

Tsuyoshi Inoue’s feature reworks NHK’s four-part Haruki Murakami drama adaptation, evoking the dreamlike atmosphere of the author’s works.
Apple is reopening its redesigned store in Ginza, Tokyo, on Friday. The location holds special importance for the company — it was its first overseas store, which originally opened in 2003.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 24, 2025

Tim Cook arrives in Tokyo as Apple prepares to reopen Ginza store

The Ginza location holds special importance for Apple — it’s the company’s first overseas store, originally opening in 2003.
Bronte is no featherweight at 16 kilograms, but his personality and energy are buoyant indeed.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Sep 24, 2025

A friendly Kai ken dog with a big heart

Three-year-old Bronte has remained a happy-go-lucky fellow despite the adverse conditions of his upbringing.
Kellyann Ball competes at the Venus Sumo Festival in Tachikawa, western Tokyo, on Saturday.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Sep 24, 2025

Rising U.S. women's sumo team hopes to spread the word about Japan’s national sport

American sumo star Kellyann Ball was impressed by a major Japanese tournament for women held this past weekend. Now she's working on creating a similar future in the United States.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping, along with his Russian and North Korean counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, attends a military parade in Beijing on Sept. 3 to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 24, 2025

An Orwellian lesson from Xi and Putin

The World War II anniversary parade in Beijing was not about history — it was about what comes next.
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi addresses a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday, alongside candidates vying to become the Liberal Democratic Party's next president. The ruling party’s leadership race officially kicked off on Monday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 24, 2025

An identity crisis is haunting Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party

Dismal performances have the LDP clinging to power as a minority in both houses of parliament, and in search of its fifth leader in as many years
Hisao Ito, a former resident of Tinian in the Mariana Islands, points to himself in a family photo taken when he was a child.
JAPAN / History
Sep 24, 2025

World War II survivor bears witness to family tragedy in Tinian mass suicide

Eighty-one years after the mass suicide, the memory of his father killing two of his sisters remains lodged in the survivor's mind, yet he holds no grudge against his father.
A silicon wafer. Taipei for the first time has unilaterally imposed semiconductor export controls on a country.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 25, 2025

Taiwan weaponizes chip sector to deter China on world stage

Taipei’s chip curbs reflect its strategy to increasingly use economic and trade policy for diplomatic goals, according to a Taiwanese official.
Law enforcement personnel respond at the scene of a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 25, 2025

Gunman wrote 'ANTI-ICE' on unused bullet in fatal attack on Dallas immigration office

U.S. President Donald Trump quickly politicized the incident on his Truth Social platform, accusing "Radical Left Democrats" of stoking anti-ICE violence.
Cargo ships are docked in Navi Mumbai, India, in February. Only 5% of India's exports and imports are carried on Indian-flagged ships.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 25, 2025

India aims to challenge global shipbuilding giants

The South Asian nation seeks to boost its resilience and strategic self-reliance as China speeds ahead to become a global maritime power.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses members of the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday. At a climate summit hosted by Guterres on Wednesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping said his country would cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 7%-10% from its peak by 2035.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 25, 2025

Beijing takes the lead with new climate plans amid Washington’s denial

China's reduction target marked the first time the world's biggest emitter pledged a cut in emissions, rather than just limiting their growth.
U.S. President Donald Trump will visit Japan in October, according to media reports.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 25, 2025

Trump may visit Japan during upcoming Asia trip

With Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba stepping down, the U.S. president’s visit to Japan would come at a politically shaky time for the nation.
The Liberal Democratic Party presidential election candidates in Tokyo on Wednesday
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 25, 2025

Will a Lower House election follow LDP’s leadership vote? Maybe not this time

Dissolving the Lower House to call a snap general election soon after the appointment of a new party leader is convention, but the current situation seems more complicated.
A boy from Douar Imzerri in the rural commune of Tilougguite, in Morocco's Beni Mellal-Khenifra region, communicates using a whistled language, an intricate ancient practice connecting Amazigh communities across distances in the High Atlas mountains, on Aug. 19.
WORLD / Society
Sep 25, 2025

Morocco High Atlas whistle language strives for survival

The Assinsg language replaces spoken words with sharp whistles that can carry for nearly three kilometers in the mountains, researchers say.
A bipartisan group of economic experts urged the Supreme Court not to let U.S. President Donald Trump fire Fed Gov. Lisa Cook.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 26, 2025

Economic luminaries enter legal battle over Fed independence

The Supreme Court this year has largely sided with Trump in his firing decisions, but the justices have previously said the Fed is a "uniquely structured, quasi-private entity.”
A Russian drone in Kyiv in October 2022
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 26, 2025

Chinese drone experts worked with sanctioned Russian arms maker, sources say

Two European security officials said the collaboration suggested a deepening relationship between arms maker IEMZ Kupol and Chinese companies in developing drones.
Toyota's autonomous e-Palette electric vehicle in Woven City in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Thursday
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 26, 2025

Toyota opens Woven City as doubts swirl over cost and purpose

Demonstrations included electric scooters, and automated robots that deliver groceries or park cars.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos once said he wanted to make Prime so compelling that consumers would feel they are "being irresponsible" if they are not members.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 26, 2025

Amazon to pay $2.5 billion for allegedly duping millions to sign up for Prime

Around 35 million Prime customers will be eligible for payout from a $1.5 billion fund, the Federal Trade Commission said.
A delegation of Japanese war orphans in China arrive at an airport in Harbin, China, on Sept. 10.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2025

Japanese war orphans make what is likely their final trip to China

This is expected to be their last large-scale visit to China as the war orphans have grown older 80 years after the end of the war.
A robotic vehicle assembly line in Hefei, China. China is making and installing factory robots at a far greater pace than any other country.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 26, 2025

China has more robots working for it than the rest of the world combined

Chinese manufacturers have also gotten better at making factory robots, thanks to a government push.
Ed Sheeran's marketing team has taken over a shop in Tokyo's Ichigaya Station.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Sep 26, 2025

Oh, Ed(o)! Where have all the vowels gone?

Japan’s playful “Magica spellings” drop vowels and swap consonants, blending Japanese and English into crafty puns.
Sensoji Temple in the Asakusa district of Tokyo on Sept. 16. All five candidates in the Liberal Democratic Party presidential race demonstrated a tougher stance on foreign tourists and nationals.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 26, 2025

LDP presidential hopefuls take hard-line stance on immigration

Unruly tourists, visa overstayers and increasing land purchases by foreign nationals were some of the issues spotlighted during debates.

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