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McLaren's Oscar Piastri (right) and Lando Norris drive during the Formula One British Grand Prix at Silverstone, England, on July 6.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Jul 25, 2025

Formula 1's renewable energy shift drives 26% drop in carbon footprint

F1 said in a statement on Wednesday that it’s halfway toward achieving its minimum 50% reduction target, as set out in its "net zero by 2030” commitment. 
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters on Thursday at the Prime Minister's Office.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 25, 2025

Various tactics to force Ishiba out of power emerge within the LDP

The LDP has been thrown into a political power game between those who want Ishiba ousted immediately and those supporting him staying on.
Manhattan Beach on the California coast
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jul 25, 2025

‘Unprecedented’ ocean heat waves in 2023 suggest climate tipping point

The world’s oceans experienced a staggering amount of warming in 2023, as vast marine heat waves affected 96% of their surface.
U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he plays golf at the Trump Turnberry Golf Courses, in Turnberry, on the southwestern coast of Scotland, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 27, 2025

Trump golfs in Scotland as Epstein questions persist

After visits to his golf properties, the U.S. president will meet with British PM Keir Starmer, Scottish leader John Swinney and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
An electronic board shows the broad Topix index hitting a record high on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 27, 2025

Japan investors brace for BOJ and earnings results after Trump-fueled rally

As the dust settles following the U.S.-Japan trade deal that sent markets on a wild ride, investors are questioning whether the rally was a sign of things to come.
Climate action is uneven worldwide, with capacity gaps and rising challenges in climate-risk disclosure underscoring the need for inclusive minimum standards that all companies and countries — especially smaller firms and developing nations — can realistically meet to ensure an effective global response.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 27, 2025

Climate disclosure is advancing — but who’s being left behind?

Global momentum for standardized climate-related disclosure remains strong, reflecting a desire to balance regulatory ambition with economic competitiveness.
Supporters of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba take part in a rally across the street from the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 29, 2025

Why Ishiba refuses to quit even amid intense pressure for him to go

With the U.S. tariff deal not yet implemented, a leadership change now would create a political vacuum and may put the agreement at risk.
Rural, a three-day techno festival, was held July 18 to 21 at Nowhere Camp in Fukushima Prefecture.
CULTURE / Music
Jul 30, 2025

How Japan made techno its own

Once inspired by Berlin and Detroit, Japanese techno now moves on its own wavelength — deep, immersive, and unmistakably local.
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong in Washington in January.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 30, 2025

As China advances and the U.S. retreats, Japan-India ties grow stronger

Located on two ends of the Indo-Pacific region, India and Japan anchor a stable counterweight to China and a mercurial Trump.
U.S., Japanese and Australian staff work in the JJOC Cooperation Team office at the U.S. Army’s Hardy Barracks in central Tokyo in this image posted to the Australian Embassy's X account on July 25.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Jul 31, 2025

Coordination office marks first step in U.S. Forces Japan’s shift to ‘warfighting’ command

The launch of the new joint command team is the fruit of a multiyear effort to reshape and streamline U.S.-Japan operations.
Mika Horii (left) and Jane Su record an episode of “Over the Sun” at TBS Broadcasting Center in Tokyo’s Akasaka area. The show draws 1.5 million monthly plays.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jul 31, 2025

'Over the Sun': A podcast for Japanese women who’ve lived a little

In their hit podcast “Over the Sun,” hosts Jane Su and Mika Horii turn everyday chats into a cultural phenomenon.
Leon Marchand celebrates after breaking the men's 200-meter individual medley world record at the world championships in Singapore on Wednesday.
MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Jul 31, 2025

Leon Marchand shatters 200-meter individual medley world record

The Frenchman wiped more than a second off the previous record of 1:54.00 set by Ryan Lochte in 2011.
China's Yu Zidi reacts after a women's 200-meter butterfly semifinal at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore on Wednesday.
MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Jul 31, 2025

World Aquatics to review rules as 12-year-old makes waves at world championships

American silver medalist Alex Walsh said Yu was "phenomenally talented at such a young age."
A pair of Japanese soldiers (Shinichi Tsutsumi, left, and Yuki Yamada, right) stay up a tree rather than standing down after the end of World War II in “Army on the Tree.”
CULTURE / Film
Jul 31, 2025

'Army on the Tree': World War II film leans into absurdist theater

Among the films that commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II this year, Kazuhiro Taira’s film adapted from a play stands out for its lack of iffy politics.
Hun Sen speaks at a press conference at the National Assembly after a vote to confirm his son, Hun Manet, as Cambodia's prime minister in Phnom Penh on August 22, 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 31, 2025

Cambodia's Hun Sen at the helm in border conflict with Thailand

The former leader played an outsized role in events leading up to the deadliest fighting between Thailand and Cambodia in over a decade.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba meets with Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok in Tokyo on May 22.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 31, 2025

Japan’s strategic blind spot in the heart of Europe

Central Europe may hold the key to increased strategic autonomy without the geopolitical baggage of the superpowers.
Workers stitch shirts at a textile factory in Noida, India, on Thursday. The U.S. is India’s largest trading partner, with the two-way trade between them at an estimated $129.2 billion in 2024.
BUSINESS
Aug 2, 2025

India aghast at Donald Trump’s ‘dead' economy dig and 25% tariffs

While Indian government officials weighed a response and business groups tallied the cost of the trade barrier, social media flared up with users protesting Trump.
This year, Fuji Rock Festival's ticket sales were the strongest they have been since the COVID-19 pandemic, with overseas ticket buyers accounting for roughly 10% of all sales.
CULTURE / Music
Aug 4, 2025

From far and wide, overseas visitors flock to Fuji Rock

From Singapore to Greece to Michigan, fans came to Japan not just for the music, but for the nature, the relaxed atmosphere and the freedom to dance into the early hours.
Canada's Summer McIntosh (left) and France's Leon Marchand celebrate after winning best female and male swimmer at the World Aquatics Championships.
MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Aug 4, 2025

Leon Marchand and Summer McIntosh underline dominance on final day of worlds

Marchand and McIntosh won golds on the final day of competition.
People cool off under water jets in Madrid on Monday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 5, 2025

'Silent killer': the science of tracing climate deaths in heat waves

Heat can claim tens of thousands of lives during European summers but it usually takes months to count the cost. Scientists are aiming to change that with faster studies.
A surviving streetcar from the World War II atomic bombing of the city of Hiroshima runs near the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima on July 27.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2025

Hiroshima streetcars continue to serve and educate 80 years after atomic bombing

Streetcar service in Hiroshima resumed in some sections just three days after the bombing thanks to intense repair work, becoming a symbol of the city's reconstruction.
The ESPN logo at the Super Bowl LIX media center at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans on Feb. 5.
SPORTS / Football
Aug 6, 2025

ESPN, leaping to streaming, holds hands with the NFL

ESPN will receive the NFL Network and other assets in exchange for a 10% equity stake.
Italy skip Stefania Constantini in action during a match against South Korea at the Women's Curling Championship in Sandviken, Sweden on March 19, 2023
OLYMPICS / Curling
Aug 6, 2025

Curling champion Constantini set to throw rocks at 'special' hometown Games

Constantini will be a defending champion at next year's Games after teaming up with Amos Mosaner to secure Italy's first curling medal in Beijing.
A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.
JAPAN / History / Longform
Aug 6, 2025

80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped

As a 7-year-old boy in Hiroshima, Howard Kakita was hoping to catch the vapor trail of a B-29 bomber. A sudden blast knocked him out.
Francisco Villarreal moved to Japan in 2014 to attend a teacher training program and has forged deep ties to the kindergarten in Tokyo's Asakusa district where he has worked since 2018.
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Aug 11, 2025

Kindred spirits, kindergarten connections: From Buenos Aires to east Tokyo

An Argentinian teacher finds echoes of his hometown in the working-class neighborhoods of eastern Tokyo.
Trees burn during a wildfire near in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse in southern France on Wednesday.
WORLD
Aug 7, 2025

Deadly wildfires in southwest France burn area larger than Paris

The fire, which has killed one, has cut power to thousands of homes and is being tackled by around 2,100 firefighters assisted by aircraft.
Venus Williams hits a return against Jessica Bouzas Maneiro during the first round of the Cincinnati Open on Thursday.
TENNIS
Aug 8, 2025

Venus Williams falls in first round in Cincinnati

Williams, 45, was competing for the second time in three weeks after returning to the WTA tour in Washington in her first tournament in 16 months.
Recent heat waves and little rain may impact the rice harvest in Japan that typically starts in late summer, at a time when rice supplies have already been strained by adverse weather in recent years.
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2025

Japan’s rice crop at risk as farms face record-breaking heat

Weather extremes may impact the harvest that typically starts in late summer, at a time when rice supplies have already been strained by adverse weather in recent years.
Former astronaut Jim Lovell talks about his historic space flights in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in April 2010
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 9, 2025

Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97

The mission nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival and endurance and led to the hit Hollywood movie starring Tom Hanks.
Justin Rose looks over his putt on the 18th green during the first playoff hole during the final round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, Tennessee, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 11, 2025

Rose tops Spaun in playoff to win PGA St. Jude as Fleetwood falters again

Rose, the 2013 U.S. Open champion, had six birdies over his last eight holes.
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.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
What would a ‘backup capital’ look like for Japan?
The Japan Innovation Party has long sought to get Osaka designated as Japan's backup capital.
Chinese national sentenced for hit-and-run that injured four children in Saitama
A Saitama district court sentenced Deng Hongpeng, a Chinese national and demolition worker, to two years and six months in prison, suspended for four years, for hitting a group of elementary school children with his car and fleeing the scene while driving under the influence.
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
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.
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.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.

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Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
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