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Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of the Democratic Party for the People, holds a news conference at the Diet on Oct. 7. The collapse of the LDP-Komeito coalition highlights the risks of an opposition more focused on obstruction than solutions. 
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 14, 2025

Japan’s opposition coalition is a recipe for paralysis, not progress

The collapse of the LDP-Komeito coalition highlights the risks of an opposition more focused on obstruction than solutions.
Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary To Lam (right) and Chinese President Xi Jinping
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 14, 2025

From menacing to 'cool': How views on China have shifted in Vietnam

Social media appears to be playing a crucial role in the changing mood in Vietnam — and in particular TikTok, which is popular among the young.
A tram carriage displays a recruitment advertisement for the German armed forces in Berlin on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 16, 2025

Conscription row mars Germany's push to beef up deterrence

Disagreements have emerged within Germany's ruling coalition over whether to use a draft lottery or a purely voluntary approach in an effort to boost military recruitment.
Greenpeace activists hold signs reading "COP30 act for forests,” during the ministerial preparatory meeting, ahead of the COP30 climate summit, in Brasilia, Brazil on Monday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 16, 2025

Trump’s team weighs COP attendance, but influence looms either way

Experts say whatever decision the U.S. makes, its action or inaction will have a major impact.
Screen captures from a video posted on the White House's X account on Sept. 15 depict what U.S. President Donald Trump said was a military strike on a Venezuelan drug cartel vessel that had been on its way to the United States.
WORLD
Oct 17, 2025

In a first, U.S. strike in Caribbean leaves survivors, U.S. official says

Tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela have escalated amid U.S. strikes on alleged drug vessels off the South American country's coast.
U.S. Navy Adm. Alvin Holsey, the leader of U.S. military forces in Latin America, said he will step down at the end of this year, two years ahead of schedule.
WORLD
Oct 17, 2025

In surprise move, head of U.S. military for Latin America to step down

Adm. Alvin Holsey said on social media platform X he would retire on Dec. 12, but did not give a reason.
Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura, who leads Nippon Ishin no Kai, says a "definite condition" for forming a coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party is to reduce the number of parliamentary members.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 17, 2025

Coalition with LDP could give Nippon Ishin chance to advocate its pet projects

Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura, who leads Nippon Ishin, said a "definite condition" for forming a coalition with the LDP was reducing the number of parliamentary members.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a plenum session of the Knesset in June.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 17, 2025

Has Japan’s Diet finally begun its ‘Knessetization’?

My focus is entirely on whether Japan's parliament will finally begin to “Knessetize” (referring to Israel's parliament, and by extension, unstable coalition politics.)
Komeito chief representative Tetsuo Saito speaks during a debate with leaders of other political parties at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo in July. His party exited the ruling coalition with the ruling-LDP after 26 years, citing concerns over political donations and transparency.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 17, 2025

Is Komeito’s split with the LDP really about political funding?

Was Komeito negotiating in good faith or looking to undermine the Takaichi administration before it even commenced?
The precarious work of training AI, which generally pays just a few dollars, has sparked a movement for better wages and conditions globally.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 18, 2025

Grueling, low-paid human work behind generative AI curtain

The precarious work of training AI has sparked a movement for better wages and conditions stretching from Kenya to Colombia.
Yukinori Takada, president of Sumitomo Life Insurance, is interviewed on Wednesday in Bellevue in Washington.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 19, 2025

Sumitomo Life to mull using AI tech to support sales agents

The comments followed a series of scandals in the industry that called into question the relationships between life insurance companies and their sales agents.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 20, 2025

Trump urged Zelenskyy to make concessions to Russia in tense meeting

Trump also mused about giving security guarantees to both Kyiv and Moscow, comments that the Ukrainian delegation found confusing, sources said.
AI’s potential to resolve advanced economies’ debt and growth issues is uncertain as it faces significant obstacles and may exacerbate political unrest, inequality and global conflicts.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 20, 2025

Will AI pay off the West’s debts?

To be sure, a wildly upbeat assessment of AI’s potential impact on economic growth has propelled asset markets higher over the last few years.
Magnetic slices made from rare earth metals. Beijing last week announced a sweeping set of rules that are set to restrict the flow of rare earths worldwide.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 20, 2025

China’s rare earth restrictions aim to beat U.S. at its own game

The impacts of the Chinese licensing system would be much broader than U.S. technology controls, which have targeted only more advanced computer chips.
Scammers are using AI-generated content of baseball stars like Shohei Ohtani to pull in users.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 20, 2025

Scammers drawing in fans with fake AI content of MLB stars during playoffs

Experts warn that this strategy of pulling in users can be used to grow accounts that are later sold or rented to more nefarious disinformation campaigns.
Chinese President Xi Jinping walks to the Monument to the People’s Heroes during a wreath-laying ceremony to honor deceased national heroes on Martyrs’ Day in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on Sept. 30.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 20, 2025

In China, a forbidden question looms: Who leads after Xi?

The 72-year-old president has neither an heir apparent nor a clear timetable for designating one.
Students watch a video featuring Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Military Museum in Beijing on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 21, 2025

China’s lopsided growth puts spotlight on Xi’s five-year plan

Data about China's economy arrived as top officials gather in Beijing for what is known as the Communist Party’s fourth plenum to hash out development plans through 2030.
Emergency vehicles arrive at the JR Otsuka Station in Tokyo Monday following a report that a woman had allegedly injured passengers with pepper spray inside a train on the Yamanote Line.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 21, 2025

Woman arrested for pepper spray assault on Yamanote Line

The alleged assault injured two men and resulted in train delays of up to 15 minutes.
Barcelona coach Hansi Flick before a match against Girona in Barcelona on Saturday.
SOCCER
Oct 21, 2025

'I probably have to change my behavior,' Flick says after red card

The Barcelona coach collected a second yellow card for gesturing with a raised finger after Ronald Araujo scored in added time to give Barcelona a 2-1 win on Saturday.
Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi and other lawmakers prepare to cast their votes for Japan's new prime minister in the Lower House of parliament on Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 21, 2025

Takaichi’s choice: revolution, reform or regression

Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stands at a crossroads. Her choices will define not only her legacy but the nation’s trajectory.
WNBA players have been lobbying for a larger cut of league revenues amid surging interest in women's basketball.
BASKETBALL
Oct 22, 2025

WNBA players to receive 'big increase' in salaries, says NBA commissioner

WNBA players receive 9.3% of league revenues, while NBA players get roughly 50%.
Rodrigo Paz, Bolivia's president-elect, holds a Bolivian flag during an election night rally following the presidential runoff election in La Paz, Bolivia, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 22, 2025

Bolivia's new president rekindles cautious hope for stalled lithium dreams

The country holds the world's largest resources of the ultralight metal used in electric vehicle batteries.
Hokkaido Gov. Naomichi Suzuki attends a meeting to tackle bird flu held in Sapporo on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 22, 2025

Bird flu season begins in Japan with infection confirmed at Hokkaido farm

The Hokkaido government has started to cull some 459,000 laying hens at the farm and imposed a ban on the transportation of hens within a 10-kilometer radius.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent takes a picture during the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 23 in New York.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 22, 2025

Supply-chain economics beat tariff politics

Twenty years ago, China learned the hard way that once supply chains reorganize, they never return to their previous form.
The Blue Jays celebrate after defeating the Mariners in Game 7 of the ALCS round for the 2025 MLB playoffs in Toronto on Monday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 22, 2025

Blue Jays carry hopes of a nation into World Series amid tension

Canadian support for the Blue Jays goes beyond the fact that they will be facing the Dodgers. There is also national pride at stake.
The appointment of seven scandal-hit lawmakers to government posts, approved after the launch of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Cabinet, may draw criticism.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 23, 2025

Seven LDP slush fund lawmakers given government posts

The move may draw criticism, as public sentiment on the scandal remains strong.
North Korean IT workers have been identified working in Japan, the U.S., the United Arab Emirates and Ukraine, using a strategy to secure employment and remit earnings back to North Korea.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 23, 2025

North Korean agents in Japan’s anime industry part of sophisticated sanctions evasion

A cross-border sanctions monitoring effort between Japan and 10 other countries has sounded the alarm on North Korea’s sanctions evasion tactics in a detailed report.
U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping next week as part of a trip to Asia.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 24, 2025

Trump seeks elusive trade deal with Xi in high-stakes meeting

Analysts expect any agreement reached at the South Korea summit would simply dial down tensions.
Kunio Komesu, a member of the Sea Turtle Association of Japan, at a beach in Ogimi, Okinawa Prefecture, in October
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Nov 10, 2025

Sea turtle eggs in Okinawa being damaged by waves due to coastal erosion

If the erosion persists, the three types of turtles — which are listed on the Environment Ministry’s Red List of endangered species — might stop laying eggs there.
Former Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke speaks after he was named among three U.S. economists awarded the Nobel Economics Prize, during a news conference at the Brookings Institution in Washington in October 2022.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 25, 2025

Trump tariffs panned by slate of top economists at Supreme Court

"This is Economics 101, but the implications are profound,” a group of nearly 50 economists wrote in a brief filed Friday.
Tsunami threat passes following magnitude 6.9 quake off Iwate
A tsunami advisory was issued for Iwate Prefecture on Sunday evening following a strong earthquake. The advisory was later called off, after waves measuring 20 centimeters were recorded in some areas.
Japan to subsidize demolition of abandoned inns
Abandoned Japanese-style inns in the Kinugawa hot springs resort in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, in March 2023
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
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.
Mother of Thai girl forced into sex work in Tokyo detained in Taiwan
The Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward
Jenson Button brings end to an illustrious racing career intertwined with Japan
Jenson Button races for Honda during the Singapore Grand Prix in September 2008.
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo’s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.
Jon Homewood: ‘There’s beauty in what we throw away’
After a peripatetic childhood around the world, teacher and artist Jon Homewood ended up coming to Japan in 2012 for a professional opportunity.
Yokozuna duo Onosato and Hoshoryu poised for another clash of titans
Yokozuna duo Onosato (right) and Hoshoryu clash for the title on the final day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Sept. 28 at Ryogoku Kokugikan.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.

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