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In the dystopian society of Sayaka Murata's latest book to come out in English, sex between married couples is considered incest and therefore taboo.
CULTURE / Books
Apr 14, 2025

'Vanishing World': Sayaka Murata’s vision of a sex-hating society

In Sayaka Murata’s latest book to come out in English, sex between married couples is considered taboo, and humans reproduce predominantly via IVF.  
U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he steps off Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 12, 2025

Trump defends policy as White House says he's 'optimistic' on China deal

President Donald Trump has insisted that his tariff policy is "doing really well," with the White House saying that 15 countries have offers "on the table."
Japanese Ambassador to NATO Osamu Izawa (left) meets with the alliance's secretary-general, Mark Rutte, at NATO headquarters in Brussels recently.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 13, 2025

Japan’s NATO envoy targets industrial tie-ups to boost defense supply chains

Tokyo's first dedicated ambassador to the alliance says this will also boost interoperability with partners amid the tense regional security environment.
U.S. President Donald Trump leaves after speaking to the media on board Air Force One on the way to Miami on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 13, 2025

On Ukraine talks, Trump says there is a time 'to put up or shut up'

The U.S. president made the comments a day after he showed frustration with Russia and told it to "get moving" on reaching a deal.
The U.K. government rushed urgent legislation through Parliament on Saturday to stop the Scunthorpe plant's blast furnaces from turning off.
WORLD
Apr 13, 2025

'Naive' to trust Chinese firm with British Steel, U.K. minister says

The government rushed urgent legislation through parliament on Saturday to stop the Scunthorpe plant's blast furnaces from turning off.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a Lower House Budget Committee session on Monday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 14, 2025

Japan avoids tariff confrontation ahead of crucial U.S. trade talks

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba again ruled out imposing retaliatory measures, arguing that escalation would not serve the country’s national interest.
U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday
WORLD / Politics
Apr 15, 2025

El Salvador's Bukele won't return man the U.S. mistakenly deported

The Trump administration has deported hundreds of people to El Salvador, which is receiving $6 million to house the migrants in a high-security mega-prison.
Journalists Sergei Karelin, Antonina Favorskaya and Artem Kriger, accused of taking part in the activities of an "extremist" organization founded by late opposition politician Alexei Navalny, attend a court hearing in Moscow on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 16, 2025

Russian journalists jailed for 5½ years for alleged extremist ties to Navalny

Moscow has intensified pressure on domestic and foreign reporters since the start of its war in Ukraine.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) speaks to Communist Party of Vietnam chief To Lam in Hanoi on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 16, 2025

Xi’s visit shows Vietnam’s balancing act amid looming U.S. tariffs

Hanoi’s initial silence on the Chinese president's request to jointly oppose "unilateral bullying” shows its attempt to walk a tightrope between the two powers.
The start of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in Jeddah on March 9 last year.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Apr 16, 2025

Team ownership could be next F1 step for Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia first hosted Formula One in 2021, while energy giant Aramco is a global partner of the sport and also the title sponsor of the Aston Martin team.
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg departs after attending a Federal Trade Commission trial at a U.S. District Court in Washington on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 16, 2025

Zuckerberg defends strategy behind Instagram, WhatsApp deals

The Federal Trade Commission alleges the acquisitions of the two apps give Meta Platforms a social media monopoly, and is fighting to break up the company.
Mean Loeuy (center), a survivor of a Khmer Rouge labor camp, tells his story to a group of children during an outreach program at a school in Phnom Srok district in Banteay Meanchey province.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Apr 16, 2025

Lessons in horror with Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal

A team led by a lawyer is traveling around Cambodia teaching schoolchildren about Pol Pot's brutal regime, sharing 20 years' worth of evidence and testimony from victims.
American rapper Post Malone performs at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 13.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Apr 17, 2025

Music, revolution and Y2K: Coachella 2025 takeaways

Highlights from the California music festival included an appearance from U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and an increase in leather pants.
One 36-year-old man, a company employee who had used Rakuten Securities for over a decade, lost about ¥2.1 million ($14,700) in the scheme.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 17, 2025

Japanese online brokerage accounts hacked in growing scandal

Rakuten Securities has disclosed a series of account takeovers, with Nomura Securities, SBI Securities and other firms also confirming similar incidents.
An anti-U.S. mural on a building in Tehran earlier this month
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 18, 2025

With his promises of peace unmet in Gaza and Ukraine, Trump may find Iran just as tough

Adding to regional tensions is Trump's repeated threat to bomb Iran's nuclear sites if a deal cannot be reached.
Young girls practice taekwondo as they prepare for an event at Kalobeyei Sports Complex at the Kalobeyei refugee settlement in Kenya on March 28.
MORE SPORTS / Taekwondo
Apr 18, 2025

Refugee girls in Kenya find strength in taekwondo

Kakuma is Kenya's second-largest refugee camp and home to over 300,000 people.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the French Foreign Ministry in Paris on Thursday.
WORLD
Apr 18, 2025

U.S. will abandon Ukraine peace push if no immediate progress, Rubio says

"We need to figure out here now, within a matter of days, whether this is doable in the short term, because if it's not, then I think we're just going to move on," he said.
Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani and his wife, Mamiko, last May in Los Angeles
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 19, 2025

Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani placed on paternity list

The Japanese slugger's wife, Mamiko, is slated to give birth to the couple's first child.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on April 7.
WORLD
Apr 19, 2025

Israel still eyeing a limited attack on Iran's nuclear facilities

Israel has not ruled out an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities in the coming months despite a lack of U.S. support for now.
Celtics forward Jayson Tatum during a game against the Hornets on April 11. Despite being the defending champions, Tatum insists the Celtics are starting from a clean slate in this year's playoffs.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Apr 19, 2025

Celtics chase second straight NBA title in playoff field led by Thunder and Cavs

The Celtics, virtually unchanged from the team that won last season, completed the best regular-season by a defending champions since the 2015-16 Golden State Warriors.
The Bluebonnet Detention Facility is seen after the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday temporarily barred U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from deporting Venezuelan men in immigration custody, in Anson, Texas, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 20, 2025

U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocks deportations of Venezuelan migrants under wartime law

Many of the migrants' lawyers and family members say they were not gang members and had no chance to dispute the government's assertion that they were.
Takaaki Nezu, executive director of Maruto Group Holdings, says it is the company’s social responsibility to help tackle the falling birth rate.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
May 5, 2025

Fukushima firms seek ways to encourage marriages

One supermarket chain has said such moves reflect a corporate responsibility to tackle the nation’s chronically low birth rate.
Hiroshima is full of memorials to the 1945 atomic bombing. Among them, the peace museum promotes an ambiguous message: One against nuclear weapons without acknowledging the role of nuclear deterrence in preserving the postwar peace.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 21, 2025

The ambiguity of Japan’s message on nuclear weapons

It is common in Japan to be both anti-atomic weapons and anti-war. But are these positions not contradictory if nuclear deterrence actually works to preserve the peace?
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks at a parliamentary committee session in Tokyo on Monday, during which U.S. tariffs were discussed.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 21, 2025

Tokyo insists defense issues and tariff talks must remain separate

Mixing the two risks distorting the essence of each issue, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says.
Plaintiff Satoshi Egura, 67, stands near the former site of the now-defunct Sumida Maternity Hospital in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on April 16. A mix-up at the hospital in 1958 led to Egura being raised by a couple who are not his biological parents.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 21, 2025

Tokyo government ordered to find man's birth parents 67 years after mix-up

The mix-up in 1958 at the now-defunct Sumida Maternity Hospital led to plaintiff Satoshi Egura being raised by another couple.
Australian sprinter Gout Gout reacts after competing in an event in Stawell, Australia, on Monday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Apr 23, 2025

Australia's Gout Gout on track for World Championships debut at 17

The Queenslander's rapid rise has raised comparisons with Jamaican great Usain Bolt.
Nomura Holdings is seeking to build scale in the U.S. asset management market despite recent volatility caused by escalating trade tensions.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 23, 2025

Nomura bets big on U.S. market rebound with $1.8 billion deal

Nomura's executive officer said the latest disruptions don’t change the fact the U.S. remains the largest asset management market in the world.
Henriette Jaeger crosses the finish line win a women's 400-meter heat at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, on March 7.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Apr 24, 2025

Norwegian athletes advised to avoid meat in China over doping fears

The 2025 World Athletics Relays will take place in early May at the Guangdong Olympic Stadium in Guangzhou, while the Diamond League event in Shanghai is scheduled for May 3.
Sport climber Miho Nonaka competes during the Tokyo Games in Aomi Urban Sports Park in August 2021.
MORE SPORTS
Apr 25, 2025

Beauty expert encourages female athletes to embrace game day glam

Beauty expert Miha Fukuoka believes sportswomen do not need to downplay their femininity to be taken seriously.
U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, stops to speak to reporters as he leaves the White House on Friday morning.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 26, 2025

Conflicting U.S.-China talks statements add to global trade confusion

U.S. President Donald Trump has asserted that tariff negotiations were underway with China, but Beijing has denied this is the case.
Global militaries to study India-Pakistan fighter jet battle
The Indian Air Force's Rafale fighter jets. India and Pakistan aircraft engaged in a dogfight on Wednesday.
Trump says India and Pakistan have agreed to 'immediate ceasefire'
A man stands amid debris on the roof of a damaged house, following Pakistan's military operation against India, in Rehari, Jammu, on Saturday.
Who could become Japan's next prime minister?
Clockwise from top left: Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi
Suspect in Tokyo Metro stabbing chose station to highlight ‘educational abuse’
Yoshitaka Toda is escorted out of a police station in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Friday to be sent to prosecutors.
Japan stuck at starting line in tariff talks with U.S. as U.K. inks deals
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s top tariff negotiator, speaks to the press on Friday. Japan and the United States are still discussing what to negotiate.
Who could become Japan's next prime minister?
Clockwise from top left: Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi
With a new Shibuya studio, Apple Music bets big on Japan
Apple Music personalities (from left) Ebro Darden, Kentaro Ochiai, Zane Lowe and Mino came together for a special recording in late April to discuss music and celebrate the newly opened Apple Music studio in Tokyo.
Kazuki Nagasawa's sustainable designs are rooted in tradition
For centuries, artisans have unraveled strands of the fibrous bark of "shuro" trees to create a medley of everyday objects. Designer Kazuki Nagasawa is now transforming the traditional material into ethereal contemporary pieces.
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025 expands to become one of Asia's largest startup events
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025 was bustling with participants of various nationalities Thursday, and multiple languages could be heard around the room as many engaged in conversations throughout the day.
Celebrating Japan’s defeat at Shimoda’s Black Ships Festival
Tatsumi Onose (right), who plays the part of Commodore Matthew Perry in Shimoda's Black Ship Festival, says the historical episode the event is based on should be remembered for its positives more than its negatives.

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