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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.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington before boarding Marine One on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 25, 2025

Trump aims to clinch deal with China's Xi during Asia trip

Trump, who left Washington on Friday, is set for a five-day trip to Malaysia, Japan and South Korea, his first to the region and longest journey abroad since taking office.
A person takes a video of the ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House on Friday.
WORLD
Oct 25, 2025

Tourists gawk and recoil at Trump's destruction of the White House East Wing

The U.S. leader says they aren't missing much and no one should mourn its demise. "It was a very small building," Trump told reporters this week.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivers her policy speech at a Lower House plenary session on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 26, 2025

Concern raised over proposed cut in Lower House seats

JIP is calling for a cut of about 50 proportional representation seats in the all-important lower chamber of parliament.
Destroyed buildings and razed land in Gaza City on Oct. 19
WORLD / Politics
Oct 27, 2025

Trump’s push for Gulf to pay for rebuilding Gaza faces hurdles

Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have specific reservations about providing financing for reconstruction.
Komeito Secretary-General Makoto Nishida speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 14. He recently said that his party may give its backing to candidates of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan in future parliamentary elections.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 27, 2025

Komeito executive says party may support CDP candidates

The comments follow Komeito's departure from the ruling coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party earlier this month, partly due to discord over regulating political donations.
Police officers in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Monday. As many as 18,000 police officers are being mobilized to secure central Tokyo for U.S. President Donald Trump’s three-day visit to Japan.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2025

Tokyo police deploy 18,000 officers for Trump’s visit

The Metropolitan Police Department is prioritizing countermeasures against lone offenders and drawing on recent cases in Japan, including those against former prime ministers.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, meet at the Kremlin in Moscow in July 2017. Since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the West — especially Europe — has come to see China not just as an economic competitor but as a hard security challenge.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2025

China and Russia do not pose the same hard security threat to Europe

Prior to 2022, China was primarily considered an economic threat, or at most a “soft” security issue.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi raises her fist as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech in front of U.S. Navy personnel on board the U.S. Navy's USS George Washington aircraft carrier at the American naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 28, 2025

At first summit with Trump, Takaichi pledges 'new golden age' for alliance

The meeting was a crucial test of Takaichi’s diplomatic chops as she seeks to elevate the Japan-U.S. alliance while staving off pressure from the U.S. on defense spending.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim as he walks from Air Force One upon arrival at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 28, 2025

Anwar turns Malaysia into stage for dealmaking with Trump’s help

Local media largely portrayed Anwar’s hosting of the ASEAN summit as a showcase of Malaysia’s diplomatic resurgence, calling it a moment of renewed regional leadership.
The Port of Nansha in Guangzhou, China
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2025

Latest U.S.-China trade truce leaves fundamental issues unresolved

U.S. President Donald Trump, on a weeklong trip to Asia, said on Monday that he felt good about reaching a deal with China.
Team Japan performs during the group 5 Ribbons Final at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 24.
MORE SPORTS / Gymnastics
Oct 28, 2025

Tough love or too far? Inside Japan’s rhythmic gymnastics coaching scandal

Reports of harsh tactics behind the scenes of Fairy Japan have prompted urgent questions about the boundaries of coaching and the price of winning in sports.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders at the White House in Washington in August. A new study found that national security officials often overestimate their knowledge, with statements they rated as 90% likely to be true actually true only 57% of the time.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2025

Feeling confident? Think again — you’re probably wrong.

A study finds that overconfidence by many national security experts “was so extreme that it essentially canceled out the knowledge that these individuals possessed.”
Annealed neodymium iron boron magnets in a barrel at a factory in China
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2025

Rare-earth producers look to U.S.-led boom to blunt China’s power

U.S. companies are working to expand supplies of the tiny but vital industrial components at the heart of a global trade showdown.
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on next to people waving Malaysian national flags before he departs from Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Monday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 28, 2025

Trump’s new trade deals give U.S. an edge over Southeast Asia

The pacts give Trump some clear wins, such as the removal of many tariff and nontariff barriers on U.S. exports into those countries.
A Palestinian man reacts next to the body of a man, who according to medics was killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 29, 2025

Israel strikes Gaza after accusing Hamas of violating U.S.-brokered ceasefire

The development is the latest test of the fragile deal brokered earlier this month.
Indonesian students at Hiroshima University hold posters of the 17+8 Demands, demanding transparency and action from their homeland’s government.
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Nov 1, 2025

Young Indonesians in Japan find their political voice

From Hiroshima to Tokyo, Indonesian diasporic communities in Japan are expressing their support for compatriots back home and building solidarity online and offline.
Visitors line up outside the Lin Zexu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou, China, on Oct. 23. Chinese President Xi Jinping draws on lessons from Lin Zexu, a 19th-century official whose defiance of Britain in a confrontation over trade led to China’s humiliating defeat but made him a national hero.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 30, 2025

How the 19th-century opium war shapes Xi’s trade clash with Trump

The showdown between China and the West then began, much as today’s did, with mounting Western anger over a huge Chinese trade surplus.
Nvidia's Blackwell GPU chip. The Blackwell family of chips is Nvidia’s top offering, with capabilities that far exceed those of processors the U.S. effectively banned from sale to China in 2022.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 31, 2025

Trump says Nvidia chip talks with Xi didn’t cover Blackwell

The U.S. president said chips were indeed discussed but that Beijing will have separate conversations with chipmakers directly.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi meets with Malaysian leader Anwar Ibrahim at the opening of the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 31, 2025

Takaichi shines on the diplomatic stage

Takaichi got especially high marks for her masterful handling of U.S. President Donald Trump. Channeling her mentor, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes questions during a briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington on Oct. 23.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 1, 2025

White House restricts access for journalists to press secretary's office

The new memorandum from the National Security Council bans journalists from accessing Room 140, also known as "Upper Press," without a prior appointment.
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 3, 2025

Trump’s global tariffs to face challenge before Supreme Court

The court will hear arguments Wednesday on the legality of the U.S. president’s unprecedented use of powers.
Students of the Arctic basic-training program carry out a fire drill in Sisimiut, Greenland.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 3, 2025

For Danish army, the threat to Greenland isn’t Trump. It’s Russia.

With NATO’s Arctic footprint expanding, Denmark is raising its military commitment to a territory seen as crucial to security.
Buildings said to be a scam hub in southeast Myanmar as seen from across the border, in Tak, Thailand, on Feb. 21. Cybercrime hubs in Myanmar, Cambodia and elsewhere in Southeast Asia are part of a sprawling criminal enterprise that has stolen tens of billions of dollars from victims worldwide.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 3, 2025

How an accused kingpin built an empire from Cambodia to London

Chen Zhi had cultivated for himself an image of legitimacy. That's now unraveling, after the U.S. and U.K. accused him of running a transnational criminal ring.
The commercial hub of Lagos Island, in Lagos on Monday. Nigeria has faded from U.S. focus in recent years, and it was unclear what prompted U.S. President Donald Trump's Saturday announcement.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 4, 2025

Whiplash: How Trump's threat to strike Nigeria further reshuffles Pentagon priorities

Trump's announcements in the past week on everything from nuclear testing to Nigeria have caught many off guard.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan’s presidential adviser, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday in this image posted to Takaichi's official X account.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 4, 2025

Takaichi’s balancing act: Supporting Taiwan and stabilizing China ties

Sanae Takaichi has appeared to allay fears of a more hawkish approach to Beijing, but her open support for deepening ties with Taiwan could complicate the relationships.
Venezuelan Ambassador to the United Nations Samuel Moncada holds a printout of The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian newspaper at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Oct. 16. U.S. President Donald Trump uses false narratives to justify aggressive policies, including military strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 4, 2025

The big lie behind Trump’s Venezuela strikes

This display of military power is intended to serve as political spectacle. The danger is that that it could escalate into an unwinnable, open-ended conflict.
Zohran Mamdani (center right) with Letitia James, New York's attorney general (second left) and Brad Lander, New York City comptroller (left), campaign across the Brooklyn Bridge on Nov. 3.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 5, 2025

NYC to decide if a socialist will run the capital of capitalism

Who New Yorkers pick to be their mayor could shape Democrats’ 2026 midterm strategy to retake the U.S. House of Representatives.
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.
The Toyota buyout is a major test for Japan’s reforms
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
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.
Takaichi plans pay cuts for herself and her ministers
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi chats with her Cabinet members in parliament in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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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