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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.
An artist's rendition of events immediately preceding a powerful collision between two black holes. It depicts the view from one of the black holes as it spirals toward its cosmic partner.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 11, 2025

Astronomers get best view yet of two merging black holes

The merger of the black holes unleashed a tremendous amount of energy that radiated outward as gravitational waves, which were detected on Jan. 14 at research sites in the U.S.
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.
Japan Coast Guard officials take part in joint antipiracy exercises with the Indonesia Coast Guard, held off the coast of Jakarta in January.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Sep 12, 2025

Staffing difficulties leave Japan Coast Guard stretched

Applications for officer posts have fallen, while turnover has increased, especially among younger members.
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
LIFE / Travel
Sep 13, 2025

An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills

Well known for its views of Mount Fuji, the mountainous community also holds a growing collection of world-class art.
Sensing a bleak future for the local "awamori" liquor, Mizuho Distillery ventured into rum production, releasing a collection of eight rums made from "kokutō" (partially refined or unrefined sugar) sourced from various islands in Okinawa Prefecture.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 12, 2025

The sweet rise of Okinawan rum

The spirit is emerging out of the shadow of the local “awamori” liquor, thanks to a growing band of producers who are keen to tell the tale of the islands' traditional agriculture.
Canada's Evan Dunfee celebrates after winning the the gold in the men's 35k race walk at the 2025 World Athletics Championships on Saturday morning at Tokyo’s National Stadium.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 13, 2025

Evan Dunfee captures first gold of world championships as Japan earns first medal

Japan's Hayato Katsuki took bronze in the men’s 35-kilometer race walk at the 2025 World Athletics Championships.
"Real Japanese Cooking: The Only Japanese Cookbook You Will Ever Need" pays homage to home-cooking favorites, such as classic tempura dishes.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 16, 2025

From tofu to teriyaki: Japanese essentials for the home cook

Packed with more than 600 recipes, Makiko Itoh's “Real Japanese Cooking: The Only Japanese Cookbook You Will Ever Need" is an encyclopedic effort that lives up to its name.
A volunteer recruit listens to an instructor as she learns how to dig trenches during military training in Braniewo, Poland, on June 24.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 14, 2025

Fearful of Russia, Poles flock to receive military training

More than 20,000 Poles signed up for voluntary military training in the first seven months of 2025.
Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
JAPAN / Science & Health / Longform
Sep 15, 2025

Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’

Young Japanese are saying no to booze — and yes to mocktails, gaming and sober nights out. Breweries are pivoting to meet them.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with head of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) autonomous non-profit organization at the Kremlin in Moscow on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 15, 2025

Russia targets billionaire’s empire over alleged Ukraine links

The case shows how asset seizures in Russia are surging since the invasion of Ukraine, as the Kremlin cracks down on perceived enemies of the state.
Chinese migrants intent on reaching the United States walking in the jungle of Panama’s Darien Gap on March 3, 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 16, 2025

He risked everything to leave China for the U.S. Then he was sent back.

Tao was not a Chinese dissident, just an ordinary worker who wanted freedom. Deportation did not stop him from trying again.
Gold medalist Faith Kipyegon celebrates after winning the women's 1,500 meters at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Tuesday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 17, 2025

Faith Kipyegon cements place as supreme champion and role model for mothers

Kipyegon, a three-time Olympic champion, took her fourth world title at 1,500 meters on Tuesday in dominating fashion.
Rice farmer Toru Wakui in his rice paddies in Ogata, Akita Prefecture, in August
JAPAN / FOCUS
Sep 17, 2025

For Japan's rice growers, postwar policy shifts yet to deliver stable future

Amid renewed tightness in supply and a spike in prices, officials have been urging farmers to plant more, marking yet another reversal in Japan's 80 years of agricultural policy.
A woman walks past the poster of Lee Sang-il’s kabuki drama "Kokuho" outside a cinema in Tokyo's Roppongi district.
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Sep 18, 2025

From high risk to record-breaker, ‘Kokuho’ defied expectations to become a megahit

Lee Sang-il's three-hour kabuki drama overcame doubts over subject matter to find its audience.
Attendees hold their smartphones as the new Xiaomi electric SUV YU7 is unveiled onstage, at the Chinese smartphone maker's launch event in Beijing on May 22.
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Sep 18, 2025

China is sending its world-beating auto industry into a tailspin

The sector is showing symptoms of a vastly oversupplied market — and point to a potential shakeout mirroring turmoil in country's property and solar industries.
Hokkaido is reconsidering the possibility of hosting a casino resort, several years after Gov. Naomichi Suzuki halted plans for one.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Sep 29, 2025

Hokkaido cities consider fresh bet on casino resort

Citing concerns over gambling addiction and possible environmental impacts, Hokkaido's governor said it will be challenging to gain public acceptance for a casino bid.
James Reynolds, a video producer and professional stormchaser, sets up his equipment to document Typhoon Jebi in 2018.
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Sep 22, 2025

When a typhoon isn’t really a typhoon, I’ll be there to tell you about it

The nomenclature and strict definition of what constitutes a typhoon are not as straightforward as most people might think.
One of Singapore Design’s Week’s lighter exhibitions is the “Unnatural History Museum of Singapore,” where levity and engineering combat anxieties over ecological crises.
LIFE / Style & Design
Sep 20, 2025

‘Pluriversal’ Singapore Design Week brings solution-oriented works

Running through Sept. 21, the design fair in the island city-state grapples with issues especially common in Japan.
A business class suite of an Airbus SE A350-1000 aircraft operated by Japan Airlines is seen during a media preview at the company's hangar at Tokyo's Haneda Airport in January last year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 20, 2025

Boom in business class travel from Japan fuels airlines profits

As tariffs change trade patterns and roil global supply chains, corporate Japan is dealing with it by getting executives in the air.
Paris Saint-Germain forward Ousmane Dembele (right) during a match against Toulouse on Aug. 30.
SOCCER
Sep 21, 2025

PSG star Dembele tipped to beat Yamal to win Ballon d'Or

Nine members of the PSG team that won the Champions League, demolishing Inter Milan 5-0 in the final, feature among the 30 nominees.
Bartender and raconteur Shingo Gokan wants his new Tokyo bar, Sangai, to tell the story of Japan's terroir.
LIFE / Food & Drink / Kanpai Culture
Sep 23, 2025

With new Tokyo bar, Shingo Gokan's bartending journey comes full circle

After a nomadic career, a charismatic bartender now finds home to be a vibrant source of tippling inspiration.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a meeting of the Supreme People's Assembly at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang in this photo released Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 22, 2025

North Korea’s Kim open to talks with Trump, as South’s Lee backs nuke freeze

Kim said talks could reopen if the U.S. drops its denuclearization demand, remarks that came as South Korea's leader said he'd back a deal to freeze Pyongyang's nuke program.
Aces center A'ja Wilson (left) is fouled by Sparks forward Alissa Pili in Los Angeles on Sept. 11.
BASKETBALL
Sep 22, 2025

Aces center Wilson claims record fourth WNBA MVP award

The two-way player's achievements this season include becoming the fastest player to reach 5,000 career WNBA points in just 238 games.
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.
Police officers stand guard Tuesday after all traffic was closed at Copenhagen Airport following reports of two or three large drones seen flying in the airport's immediate vicinity.
WORLD
Sep 23, 2025

Drone sightings disrupt flights at Copenhagen and Oslo airports

Danish police said that the drones that shut the country's main airport on Monday appeared to have been flown by "a capable operator," adding that no suspects had been identified.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office on Aug. 22, where he showed off a photo from his meeting earlier that month with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2025

Donald Trump and Russia's 'useful idiot'

Putin is employing two Soviet-era tactics: enlisting “useful idiots” in the cause and employing “salami tactics” to achieve his ends.
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech to the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 24, 2025

'You're going to hell': Trump attacks U.N. and Europe in scathing speech

U.S. President Donald Trump warned that migration is sending Western nations "to hell" and dismissed climate change as a "con job" in wide-ranging speech.
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.
Nodoka Okisawa conducts the Saito Kinen Orchestra to perform Benjamin Britten's opera "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Matsumoto Performing Arts Center in August for the 33rd edition of the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival.
CULTURE / Music
Sep 28, 2025

Nodoka Okisawa is carrying the baton for Seiji Ozawa in Matsumoto

Japanese conductor Nodoka Okisawa embraces both tradition and renewal at a festival that still embodies Ozawa’s spirit.
How China waged an infowar against U.S. interests in the Philippines
Association for Philippines-China Understanding (APCU) Chairman Raul Lambino shakes hands with guests during a ceremony for the Award for Promoting Philippines-China Understanding at The Manila Hotel in Manila in June.
‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.
Typhoon Halong to cause windstorms, heavy rain and high waves on the Izu islands
Typhoon Halong is moving north near the Izu Islands, with strong winds, high waves and heavy rain expected as it passes early on Thursday, prompting warnings from the weather agency.
Japan's Susumu Kitagawa among three chemistry Nobel winners
Susumu Kitagawa speaks to reporters at Kyoto University on Wednesday after receiving the news that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry the same day.
Takaichi's leadership lineup favors Aso and his allies while shutting out rivals
The LDP's newly-appointed election chief Keiji Furuya (far left), general affairs council chair Haruko Arimura (second from left), vice president Taro Aso (center left), president Sanae Takaichi (center right), secretary-general Shunichi Suzuki (second from right) and policy chief Takayuki Kobayashi in Tokyo on Tuesday.
With nuclear sub proposal, Japan faces array of political and tech challenges
The Jingei, the third of the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Taigei-class submarines, was commissioned in March last year. It is equipped with lithium-ion batteries, enabling it to have a longer diving time and cruising distance than older models with lead-acid batteries.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 is drowning in Japanese 'AI slop'
OpenAI has rolled out a social app powered by Sora 2, its artificial intelligence video generator, which was quickly flooded with videos featuring iconic Japanese intellectual property.
Trump has his eyes on the prize — but a Nobel win looks unlikely
A protester holds a sign with an image depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and the words "Nobel" written on it, as supporters and family members of hostages who were kidnapped during the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, demonstrate to demand the immediate end of the war and the release of all hostages, outside the U.S. Consulate in Tel Aviv, on Sept. 2.
‘Takaichi trade’ stalls as political reality calls for wait-and-see approach
Tokyo stocks staged a powerful rally on Monday. On Tuesday, they rallied again, then retreated.
‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.

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