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Suzuki Motor plans to invest more than 700 billion rupees ($8 billion) in India, highlighting the country's growing strategic importance as the Japanese automaker expands into electric vehicle production.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 27, 2025

Suzuki Motor to invest $8 billion in India amid EV push

The South Asian nation is the company’s largest market by revenue and is now also evolving as a key export hub for its EV business.
Sakurazaka46, the idol pop outfit formerly known as Keyakizaka46, wrapped up an an 11-night nationwide tour this month.
CULTURE / Music
Aug 29, 2025

Sakurazaka46 wants the world to dance along

The 33-member idol group takes its spectacle-heavy performances on the road — and abroad.
U.S. military personnel stand guard in front of the New Grand Hotel where Gen. Douglas MacArthur stayed circa September 1945 in Yokohama.
JAPAN / History / Perspectives
Sep 1, 2025

How the Allied Occupation changed Japan: A love story

A wartime GI and a Japanese civilian fell in love during the Occupation, embodying the peace built after Japan’s surrender.
Members of the national guard patrol the Washington's Union Station on Aug. 20. U.S. President Donald Trump has said that the U.S. military might deploy to Chicago.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 29, 2025

In Chicago, locals prepare for Trump's possible deployment of national guard

The state attorney general says he is developing a legal strategy to execute if troops arrived and immigrant advocates are stepping up legal training.
Workers hang a large poster of U.S. President Donald Trump on the facade of the Department of Labor headquarters building in Washington on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 30, 2025

Most Trump tariffs are not legal, U.S. appeals court rules

The court allowed the tariffs to remain in place through Oct. 14 to give the Trump administration a chance to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court.
New Zealand's No. 8 Layla Sae (top) and Japan's lock Yuna Sato reach for the ball from a line out during their Women's Rugby World Cup match at Sandy Park in Exeter, England, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 1, 2025

New Zealand sees off Japan to reach Women's Rugby World Cup quarterfinal

Japan produced one of the shocks of the tournament by opening the scoring against the six-time world champions in just the fourth minute.
The FNB Stadium, which hosted both the opening match and the final of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, with the cityscape of Johannesburg seen in the background, in South Africa on July 11
SOCCER
Sep 2, 2025

FIFA silence on sanction for errant South Africa a mystery

South Africa erroneously fielded midfielder Tebeho Mokoena in a 2-0 home win over neighbors Lesotho but insists it should not face a points deduction.
Then-Nestle CEO Laurent Freixe speaks during a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22. Freixe was fired this week over an undisclosed romantic relationship with a subordinate.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 3, 2025

From Coldplay kiss cam to Nestle, office romances are costing CEOs their jobs

The firing of Nestle CEO Laurent Freixe this week puts the spotlight on office relationships, and their ubiquity.
The Pentagon, near Washington. U.S. President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order to rename the Department of Defense the "Department of War."
WORLD / Politics
Sep 5, 2025

Trump to rename Department of Defense the 'Department of War,' official says

The name change will be costly and require updating signs and letterheads used around the world.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) building in Washington
WORLD / Politics
Sep 6, 2025

U.S. appeals court says Trump cannot continue foreign aid cuts

A U.S. appeals court declined to block a lower court ruling that said the administration could not unilaterally cut billions of dollars of foreign aid.
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits an interactive exhibition in Vladivostok, Russia, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 6, 2025

Putin says foreign troops in Ukraine would be legitimate targets

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said thousands of foreign troops could be deployed to his country under postwar security guarantees.
A pedestrian bridge that crosses the Mississippi River in Minneapolis
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Sep 7, 2025

Polluted and poor: Blighted U.S. cities tackle 'toxic soup'

The worst effect could be seen in poor, minority areas, where heavy industry, manufacturing and transport tend to concentrate.
Japan flanker Iroha Nagata attempts to score a try against Spain during the Women's Rugby World Cup in York, England, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Sep 8, 2025

Japan bows out of Women's Rugby World Cup with comeback victory over Spain

Both sides were bidding for their first win of the tournament after defeats against world champion New Zealand and Ireland had ended their hopes of reaching the quarterfinals.
Polish pianist Hania Rani took the audience on a synth odyssey at the first Japan edition of Unsound Osaka over the weekend.
CULTURE / Music
Sep 11, 2025

Unsound turns Osaka into a laboratory of avant-garde music

Long-running Polish music festival Unsound channels Expo ’70 at its first Japan edition.
Chinese DF-61 intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles are displayed during a military parade in Beijing, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II on Sept. 3. 
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 10, 2025

The global nuclear picture grows darker and darker

It’s hard, if not impossible, to escape the conclusion that the world is in a grim place when measured by nuclear metrics.
Australian defence chief Richard Marles (second from left), Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy (left), and navy chief Vice Adm. Mark Hammond inspect a "Ghost Shark"-class autonomous undersea vehicle at a naval base in Sydney on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 10, 2025

Australia to field 'Ghost Shark' underwater strike drones

The $1.1 billion fleet will be designed to conduct intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and strike operations, both stealthily and at long range.
Toshikazu Yamanishi competes in the men's 20K race walk final during the world championships in Eugene, Oregon, on July 15, 2022.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 11, 2025

World Athletics Championships road events to start earlier due to heat in Tokyo

Last month, more than 3,300 people were taken to hospital for heat stroke in the Japanese capital, according to the metropolitan fire department.
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 13, 2025

Japan's major art events converge this fall

Dozens of biennials, triennials, art festivals and fairs are taking place between September and December.
Police and first responders work at a cordoned-off area after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a man as officers attempted to detain him, according to the Department of Homeland Security, in Franklin Park village, northwest of Chicago, on Friday.
WORLD
Sep 13, 2025

ICE officer kills man in Chicago suburb during arrest attempt

ICE officers were conducting a vehicle stop to arrest Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez when he drove his car at the officers, DHS said in a statement.
A Tennessee State Trooper vehicle drives in Memphis, Tennessee, on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he will deploy the National Guard to the city.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 13, 2025

U.S. to deploy National Guard to Memphis, Trump says

The move follows his administration's unprecedented police takeover in Washington, D.C., last month.
Erosion is seen on Australia's Gold Coast on March 9 after sand was washed away during Tropical Cyclone Alfred.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 15, 2025

Rising oceans to threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050, report says

Sea level rises pose a significant threat to homes, livelihoods, and cultural connections — particularly in locations such as the Torres Strait Islands.
A sign displays a temperature of 45 degrees Celsius in Thionville, northeastern France, on July 2.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 17, 2025

Climate change led to at least 16,500 heat deaths in Europe this summer

Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent and the Mediterranean is a hot spot for climate change.
A flowering canola crop grows in the Canadian prairies, with smoky air from forest fires to the north obscuring the morning sun, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / FOCUS
Sep 23, 2025

The unexpected upside of Canada's wildfires 

Canada is the world's largest producer of canola, growing 21 million acres in a band along the country's vast northern forests.
Nodoka Okisawa conducts the Saito Kinen Orchestra to perform Benjamin Britten's opera "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Matsumoto Performing Arts Center in August for the 33rd edition of the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival.
CULTURE / Music
Sep 28, 2025

Nodoka Okisawa is carrying the baton for Seiji Ozawa in Matsumoto

Japanese conductor Nodoka Okisawa embraces both tradition and renewal at a festival that still embodies Ozawa’s spirit.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a ceremony at the Pentagon in Washington on Sept. 19.
WORLD
Sep 26, 2025

Hegseth orders U.S. military officials from around world to Virginia next week

It was unclear how many officials will actually attend the event, but it is rare to have so many senior officials in the same room at the same time.
Ed Sheeran's marketing team has taken over a shop in Tokyo's Ichigaya Station.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Sep 26, 2025

Oh, Ed(o)! Where have all the vowels gone?

Japan’s playful “Magica spellings” drop vowels and swap consonants, blending Japanese and English into crafty puns.
A DJI drone at a technology and industry trade fair in Berlin
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 27, 2025

Drone maker DJI loses lawsuit to exit Pentagon's list of firms with Chinese military ties

The world's largest drone maker said it was disappointed that the judge upheld the listing and was evaluating its legal options.
Passengers wait for Uber rideshare cars in Los Angeles. A California jury says Uber is not liable in the first U.S. trial over driver sexual assault claims.
BUSINESS
Oct 1, 2025

Uber found not liable in first U.S. trial over driver sexual assault claims

The case was the first to go to trial out of more than 500 lawsuits consolidated in California state court.
Smartphones help passengers pass the time on a train near Toyoake, an industrial suburb of Nagoya.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2025

Can this city make residents put down their smartphones?

The ordinance, which was approved in a 12-7 vote by the city assembly last week, is largely symbolic, but there is heavy social pressure in Japan to follow official guidelines.
Law enforcement officers detain a demonstrator during a protest at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday.
WORLD
Oct 5, 2025

Judge blocks Trump on Portland troops as national guard ordered to Illinois

A Trump-appointed judge said in an order that the national guard deployment to the Oregon city did not appear to be justified due to the limited nature of the protests.
Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Cloudflare has been ordered to pay ¥500 million after four major publishing firms accused the firm of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
¥21.3 trillion stimulus package approved by Cabinet
The Cabinet is expected to submit an extra budget bill to finance the package to parliament, which is in session until Dec. 17.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Japan plans higher visa fees for foreign residents
Along with planned higher fees for foreign residents to stay, Japan is looking to raise the ¥3,000 single-entry visa fee for inbound tourists to Western standards in the next fiscal year.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Japanese companies advised to change mindset about investment in Africa
Bernard Laurendeau, chief of Enkopa Lab Japan, in Tokyo last month
Munetaka Murakami headlines quartet looking to move to MLB via posting system
The Swallows' Munetaka Murakami has 246 career home runs in eight NPB seasons.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Why we can’t get enough of the sham of the rental family
“Rental Family,” directed and co-written by the single-named Hikari, follows out-of-work actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser), who is hired as the “token white guy” at a Tokyo agency called Rental Family.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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