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Makoto Miyamori (second from the right) receives commemorative gifts with his family as the 1 millionth visitor to the expo on Wednesday in the city of Osaka.
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2025

Osaka Expo reaches 1 million visitors

The event's official association is aiming for 28.2 million visitors to the expo, which will close on Oct. 13.
Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura says he hopes the prefecture's new rule prohibiting older people from using ATMs while talking on phones becomes widely known and eventually accepted as common sense.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Apr 24, 2025

Osaka to ban older people from using ATMs while on the phone to help stop scams

While the ban does not include penalties, the Osaka prefectural government hopes to build public consensus to help prevent scams.
Henriette Jaeger crosses the finish line win a women's 400-meter heat at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, on March 7.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Apr 24, 2025

Norwegian athletes advised to avoid meat in China over doping fears

The 2025 World Athletics Relays will take place in early May at the Guangdong Olympic Stadium in Guangzhou, while the Diamond League event in Shanghai is scheduled for May 3.
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 24, 2025

Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?

The tariffs add another layer of uncertainty for consumers already hesitating due to the yen's weakness and inflation.
Trafficking experts have raised concerns over how satellite internet technology may hamper efforts to crack down on scam centers in Asia.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Apr 25, 2025

Portable internet helps Asia scam centers bypass blackouts

Trafficking experts have raised concerns over how satellite internet technology may hamper efforts to crack down on scam centers.
Pope Francis, a reformer known for his humility, inclusivity and focus on social justice, passed away at 88, leaving behind a divided church and a legacy of advocating for humanity's most vulnerable.
EDITORIALS
Apr 25, 2025

The Catholic church loses a lion

Francis’ spirit of inclusion should define who we are as human beings and his compassion should be the lodestar for action, both personal and political.
Sport climber Miho Nonaka competes during the Tokyo Games in Aomi Urban Sports Park in August 2021.
MORE SPORTS
Apr 25, 2025

Beauty expert encourages female athletes to embrace game day glam

Beauty expert Miha Fukuoka believes sportswomen do not need to downplay their femininity to be taken seriously.
Russian President Vladimir Putin greets U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff prior to their talks in Moscow on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 26, 2025

Trump says Russia-Ukraine deal 'very close' after new Kremlin talks

But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy again rejected suggestions that his country give up on Russian-held Crimea.
U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, stops to speak to reporters as he leaves the White House on Friday morning.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 26, 2025

Conflicting U.S.-China talks statements add to global trade confusion

U.S. President Donald Trump has asserted that tariff negotiations were underway with China, but Beijing has denied this is the case.
U.S President Donald Trump meets with Japan's Ryosei Akazawa, who is in charge of trade negotiations with Washington, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on April 16.
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Apr 26, 2025

Japan is a test case for Trump's tariff deals. But talks may be tortuous.

While some expect an agreement at the June G7 summit in Canada in June, others say it will be risky for Tokyo to cede ground before Upper House elections expected in July.
Colorado Buffaloes quarterback Shedeur Sanders prepares to throw during a game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys in Boulder, Colorado, last November.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Apr 26, 2025

Focus shifts to defense in NFL draft as Shedeur Sanders continues to wait

Sanders, the son of NFL Hall of Famer and current Colorado coach Deion Sanders, passed for 14,347 yards with 134 touchdowns in his college career.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addresses the media in Palm Beach, Florida, on April 1.
MORE SPORTS
Apr 26, 2025

NFL may open 2026 season in Australia

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, speaking about the league's international strategy on Friday, revealed the league's plans for its first trip to Melbourne next year.
Al-Nassr players celebrate after scoring the first goal of the club's Asian Champions League quarterfinal against Marinos on Saturday.
SOCCER
Apr 27, 2025

Duran double and Ronaldo goal sink Marinos in Asian Champions League semis

The win sees Al-Nassr join compatriots Al-Ahli and Al-Hilal in the last four in what's been a dominate showing by Saudi clubs.
An Iranian woman walks past an anti-U.S. mural on a street in Tehran on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 27, 2025

U.S. and Iran say progress made in 'positive' nuclear talks

Iran currently enriches uranium to 60%, far above the 3.67% limit imposed by the 2015 deal but still below the 90% threshold required for weapons-grade material.
Takuya Yokota, the leader of a group of families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago (left), asks people for signatures to seek their return during a campaign held in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN
Apr 27, 2025

Family members of North Korea abductees hold Tokyo campaign to seek their return

Meanwhile, in Washington, 17 members of U.S. Congress sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to "prioritize" the return of the Japanese abductees.
A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
ENVIRONMENT / Earth science / Longform
Apr 28, 2025

If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami

Last year the government issued its first "megaquake" advisory. Ever since, those living in the areas it's expected to hit have been preparing for the worst.
Liverpool's Wataru Endo (left) and Harvey Elliott celebrate after the club beat Tottenham to clinch the Premier League title in Liverpool, England, on Sunday.
SOCCER
Apr 28, 2025

Liverpool roars past Tottenham to clinch Premier League crown

The win leaves Liverpool with 82 points, 15 ahead of Arsenal with just four games remaining.
Keiichi Uchida, a member of a team of Japanese doctors who performed a colostomy reversal surgery on the younger of a pair of Vietnamese conjoined twins 30 years ago, shows a postcard he received from his former patient, Nguyen Duc, in February in the city of Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture.
JAPAN
Apr 28, 2025

Japanese pediatrician recalls Vietnamese twin he operated on 30 years ago

The younger of a pair of conjoined twins — believed to have been affected by chemicals used by the U.S. during the Vietnam War — underwent colostomy reversal surgery in Japan.
Kawasaki Frontale players celebrate after defeating Qatar's Al-Sadd in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday.
SOCCER
Apr 29, 2025

Hasebe determined to fly East Asian flag in face of Saudi dominance

Progress to the semifinals after three quarterfinal appearances marks a significant result for Kawasaki Frontale's coach.
Fireworks explode over the Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony of the London Games in July 2012.
OLYMPICS
Apr 29, 2025

London mayor Sadiq Khan targets Olympic history for city

Khan wants the city to become the "sporting capital of the world," and is backing a bid for 2040 Games.
Liverpool fans celebrate the team winning the Premier League outside Anfield stadium in Liverpool, England, on Sunday.
SOCCER
Apr 29, 2025

Klopp congratulates Liverpool on Premier League triumph

The squad that won a record-equaling 20th league title on Sunday was almost entirely assembled by the German before he left last year.
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta applauds as he leads a training session in Colney, England, on Monday.
SOCCER
Apr 29, 2025

Arsenal ambitions go beyond semifinals, says Arteta

The team is facing its third Champions League semifinal appearance and its first since it faced Manchester United in 2009.
Farmer Moises Schmidt shows a cocoa bean at the Schmidt Agricola plantation in Riachao das Neves, Bahia state, Brazil, on Nov. 19, 2024.
BUSINESS
Apr 29, 2025

Brazil's would-be cocoa king aims to revolutionize industry with giant farm

The farmer's $300 million plan is the largest and the most innovative in the Brazilian state of Bahia, but not the only one.
Sunset at Dudley Page Reserve, in Dover Heights, Sydney, on April 21
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 29, 2025

Australia’s economic ‘miracle’ is ending no matter who wins vote

Polls suggest the May 3 election will be tight, with many pundits predicting the winner will lead a minority government.
Demonstrators hold a rally against U.S. President Donald Trump's attacks on Harvard University at its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 17.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 29, 2025

Stop scaring future world leaders off U.S. campuses

To the extent that a U.S. education gets others to think as Americans think, it is the ideal tool of soft power
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick listens to U.S. President Donald Trump speak during an event to sign executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on April 23.
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 30, 2025

Trump eases auto tariff burden as Lutnick touts foreign trade deal

A group representing Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai and nine other foreign automakers said Trump's order provided some relief but that "more must be done."
U.S. President Donald Trump at his 100th day rally in Michigan on Tuesday
WORLD / Politics
Apr 30, 2025

Trump bashes Powell and touts tariffs at rally marking 100 days

The president’s denunciation came even though earlier this month he said he did not plan to fire the central bank chief.
Police officers cordon off the scene after several people were killed in a shooting at Vaksala Square in central Uppsala, Sweden on Tuesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 30, 2025

Sweden stunned by new deadly gun attack

A shootout at a Swedish hair salon left at least three people dead, police and media said.
Kabuki actor Onoe Kikunosuke V, now Onoe Kikugoro VIII (front center), gives a greeting during the classical hand-clapping ceremony called "koshiki kaoyose teuchishiki" in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Apr 30, 2025

Kabuki actor Kikunosuke assumes the name Onoe Kikugoro VIII

Onoe Kikugoro is a prestigious stage name in the world of the traditional Japanese performing art.
Spurs guard Stephon Castle drives to the basket against Raptors forward Ochai Agbaji during a game on April 13.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Apr 30, 2025

Stephon Castle named Rookie of the Year in second straight for Spurs

Castle is the second straight San Antonio player to win top rookie honors — French sensation Victor Wembanyama was the unanimous winner last season.
Japan's jobs-to-applicant ratio falls to 1.22 in June
Japan's seasonally adjusted effective job-to-applicant ratio dipped to 1.22 in June, down 0.02 point from the previous month, according to the labor ministry.
Why did such a powerful earthquake produce such a weak tsunami?
A person records images of waves following a tsunami advisory generated by local authorities after an earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, prompting warnings and evacuations stretching across at the South Pacific, in Vina del Mar, Chile, on Wednesday.
Japanese students struggle with description-type tests
The average correct answer rate for description-type questions in the Japanese-language section of the fiscal 2025 national achievement test for third-year junior high school students was as low as 25.6%, according to the education ministry.
Junglia brought dinos back to Okinawa. But will it bring tourists?
At Panorama Dining, one of Junglia’s two proper restaurants that also doubles as the rooftop Inifinity Terrace overlook, guests can pay extra to sit in balcony tables made to look like birds’ nests overlooking the park grounds.
Last soldiers of Imperial Japanese Army have a warning for younger generations
Kunshiro Kiyozumi, 97, who was the youngest crew member of the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-58 in World War II, on his way to a restaurant to have lunch in Matsuyama, Japan, on April 29.
How Trump is gaslighting the climate — with Japan’s help
The Bishu Maru LNG tanker, owned by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, next to the Freeport LNG terminal in Texas
Junglia brought dinos back to Okinawa. But will it bring tourists?
At Panorama Dining, one of Junglia’s two proper restaurants that also doubles as the rooftop Inifinity Terrace overlook, guests can pay extra to sit in balcony tables made to look like birds’ nests overlooking the park grounds.
From Osaka to the NHL: Jordan Spence hopes to inspire young Japanese hockey players
Ottawa Senators defenseman Jordan Spence helps lead the Dreamskate Japan hockey camp in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, on July 5.
Coordination office marks first step in U.S. Forces Japan’s shift to ‘warfighting’ command
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.
GTN takes a chance on newcomers to Japan
Hiroyuki Goto, president of GTN. The company started after Goto personally co-signed leases for around 20 non-Japanese people, including some friends and friends of friends.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
With Hall of Fame induction, Ichiro makes himself heard loud and clear
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