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Restaurant of Mistaken Orders staff serve lunch to participants at an event at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government cafeteria.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jan 31, 2025

Addressing dementia through a human-centered approach in Tokyo and beyond

A recent symposium on dementia featured Dr. Katarina Nagga, who discussed a Swedish program that emphasizes the importance of early detection and a people-centered approach.
The day care room for younger children at a multipurpose facility on Tonaki Island, Okinawa Prefecture, has never been used since its establishment in 2019.
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Feb 3, 2025

The harsh reality of migration outflow on Okinawa’s least populated island

Since Tonaki Island established its only day care center in 2019, not a single child has set foot inside.
This year's Oscar nominations were unveiled on Thursday, with transgender cartel musical "Emilia Perez" earning 13 Oscar nods and breaking the record for most Academy Award nominations for a non-English-language movie.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jan 23, 2025

'Emilia Perez' tops Oscar nominations in fire-hit Hollywood

Jacques Audiard's Mexico-set musical shattered the record for the most Academy Award nominations for a non-English-language movie.
Afghan citizens, who are in the process for resettlement in the U.S., attend an English class on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Society
Jan 24, 2025

Afghans awaiting U.S. resettlement feel betrayal after Trump order

Some feel betrayed, with many — including those who fled Taliban rule in Afghanistan — having already spent years in limbo.
Katsumi Shinagawa prepares to shred cabbage to serve with pork cutlet dishes at the restaurant Katsukichi in Tokyo on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 24, 2025

Climate change cooks up Japanese 'cabbage shock'

It is the latest pain point for shoppers and eateries in Japan already squeezed by inflation.
Upon the release of Dragon Quest VII in 2000, hundreds of customers lined up outside stores in Tokyo to secure a copy of the new game. With a remake of a 1988 title, the rest of the world is understanding why Japanese gamers love the series so much.
LIFE / Digital
Jan 25, 2025

Japan’s love affair with Dragon Quest spreads worldwide

The remake of a 1988 game serves as the latest chance for the rest of the world to learn why Japan loves Dragon Quest so much.
Ben Wikler, the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, in Milwaukee, last March
WORLD / Politics
Jan 25, 2025

Contenders to lead the Democratic Party scramble to show momentum

As two Midwesterners battle for control of the Democratic National Committee, they are making loud yet unverifiable claims about their levels of support.
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda speaks during a news conference after a two-day monetary policy meeting at BOJ headquarters in Tokyo on Friday.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Jan 25, 2025

BOJ’s clear guidance on rate hike calms markets but may backfire

For some economists, the latest move was too completely priced in, begging the question of how explicitly the BOJ intends to signal its plans in the future.
Celtic's Kyogo Furuhashi prior to a Champions League match against Young Boys in Glasgow, Scotland, on Wednesday
SOCCER
Jan 25, 2025

Celtic boss braces for life without Japan star Kyogo Furuhashi

Furuhashi, 30, has been strongly tipped to join French club Rennes as he seeks new challenges.
The P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, in April 2020
WORLD
Jan 26, 2025

CIA now favors China lab leak theory to explain COVID’s origins

A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate.
Giant salt blocks posted on Mercari by the town of Higashiura, Aichi Prefecture
JAPAN
Jan 26, 2025

Giant rock salt posted on Mercari by Aichi town finally sold at ¥420,000

The blocks attracted a lot of media attention when the town first posted them on the app in April of last year.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko visits a polling station during the presidential election in Minsk on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 26, 2025

Belarusians vote in election to extend Lukashenko's 30-year rule

Lukashenko — a 70-year-old former collective farm boss — has been in power in reclusive, Moscow-allied Belarus since 1994.
Demonstrators raise placards bearing the names of hostages held captive in Gaza since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Palestinian militants, during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure their release, in front of the Israeli Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 27, 2025

Israel’s ceasefire deals face test with Gaza refugee impasse

Israel’s agreements in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip came under strain from deadly violence and a dispute with Hamas over the fate of an Israeli hostage.
U.S. President Donald Trump signs executive orders including a flurry of actions on immigration in the hours after taking office.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 27, 2025

America’s mass deportation clash is unprecedented

So when ICE moves from selective targets aimed at serious criminals to the mass roundups Trump promised, that is when the public may recoil.
The third patient to receive a genetically engineered pig kidney is thriving post-transplant, providing valuable insights into animal-to-human organ replacement and bringing the field closer to clinical trials. 
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 27, 2025

Why a recent pig kidney transplant is a major advance

The 53-year-old woman who received the genetically modified animal organ is the ideal recipient to push science forward.
Chinese startup DeepSeek launched a free AI assistant last week that it says uses less data at a fraction of the cost of incumbent services.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 28, 2025

DeepSeek sparks global AI selloff, with Nvidia losing around $593 billion

Chinese startup DeepSeek launched a free AI assistant that it says uses less data at a fraction of the cost of incumbent services.
Residents run away after seeing members of the M23 armed group walking through a street of the besieged Congolese city of Goma on Monday.
WORLD
Jan 28, 2025

Rwandan-backed M23 militia enters eastern Congo's largest city

The U.N. said the rebels were supported by at least some regular Rwandan troops, in the worst escalation of a long-running conflict for more than a decade.
Webcam model Tania Rios looks at a computer screen in Soacha, near Bogota, Colombia, on Dec. 17. Unhealthy rooms, shared sex toys, excessive shifts, clients with degrading requests and harassment — for years silenced, webcam models are denouncing the abuses they have suffered in Colombia, a mecca of this multimillion dollar business.
WORLD / Society
Jan 28, 2025

Colombian 'webcam models' denounce abuse in online sex industry

Despite their clients being thousands of kilometers away, many webcam sex workers say they have suffered physical and emotional mistreatment.
Harris English plays his shot from the fairway on the 15th hole during the final round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament in San Diego, California, on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Jan 28, 2025

PGA Tour's slow pace rears head after pedestrian start to season

The PGA Tour has said it expects slow play to improve from next year due to smaller fields being introduced for many events.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attends an ordinary session of parliament along with his Cabinet ministers on Friday. Ishiba has toned down his stance on legally allowing married couples to have separate surnames.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jan 28, 2025

Ishiba tones down stance on dual-surname debate

While previously being all in favor of a dual-surname system, the prime minister has recently suggested considering a "compromise" of legally expanding the use of maiden names.
Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni celebrates in the closing minutes of a victory over the Commanders in the NFC Championship game on Sunday in Philadelphia.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 29, 2025

Sirianni revisits painful defeat as he fine-tunes Super Bowl strategy

The Eagles let a 10-point halftime lead slip through their fingers two years ago as the Chiefs triumphed 38-35 at Super Bowl 57.
Hiroki Totoki had taken up more of the leadership burden at Tokyo-based Sony two years prior, when he added the titles of president and chief operating officer to his role as chief financial officer.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 29, 2025

Sony names finance chief Hiroki Totoki as its next CEO

Kenichiro Yoshida, the outgoing CEO, will remain as chairperson of the board.
Firefighters and others work to rescue a truck driver who fell into a sinkhole at a Saitama prefectural road intersection in Yashio on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jan 29, 2025

Massive sinkhole engulfs truck in Saitama, trapping driver inside

The sinkhole is believed to have been caused by an underground sewage pipe rupturing.
Hindu devotees sit after a deadly stampede before the second Shahi Snan (royal bath) at the Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, in Prayagraj, India, on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jan 29, 2025

Over a dozen dead in stampede at Hindu mega-festival in India

The six-week Kumbh Mela festival is the single biggest milestone on the Hindu religious calendar.
Economic coercion has become a prominent tool in global geopolitics, with both China and the U.S. relying on it to pursue their policy goals, and more so with Donald Trump now in office.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 28, 2025

When big countries wave their big economic sticks

There is no agreed definition of economic coercion under international law; like pornography, we know it when we see it.
Frustrated by policy uncertainty and modest stimulus, investors are shifting from long-term bets to short-term trades in China.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 29, 2025

Growth engine or casino? Global investors rethink China playbook

Investor uncertainty and policy shifts have fundamentally changed how analysts and money managers view China’s markets.
Many workers at small companies continue to fall behind as wages fail to keep up with inflation.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 29, 2025

Smaller Japanese companies unlikely to meet wage-increase target for 2025

For this year’s spring negotiations, the Japanese Trade Union Confederation set hike targets of more than 6% for smaller firms.
A little-used section of the JR Geibi Line, which runs through the Chugoku Mountains in Okayama and Hiroshima prefectures, faces a threat of closure.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Feb 10, 2025

Underutilized Hiroshima-Okayama rail route struggles to survive

While the number of passengers has continued to decline, the Geibi Line has served as a lifeline for some residents.
Debris at the site of a deadly plane crash in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Thursday.
WORLD
Jan 31, 2025

Investigators seek to salvage aircraft after deadly Washington crash

Authorities have recovered black boxes but have not yet pinpointed a reason for the collision between the regional jet and a U.S. Army helicopter.
The rush to curry Trump’s favor makes clear just how much global leaders learned their lesson from his first term.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 30, 2025

Trump’s transactional foreign policy leads to flurry of pledges

The rush to curry Trump’s favor makes clear just how much global leaders learned their lesson from his first term.

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