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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.
The CCGS Naalak Nappaaluk, an oceanographic science vessel and summer-rated icebreaker, under construction at Seaspan Shipyards
WORLD
Sep 17, 2025

Nations aiming for Arctic power can’t get enough of these ships

Thawing of the top of the world from climate change has stirred a global competition to forge new, previously unnavigable shipping routes.
A person lays flowers at the grave of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny while marking the first anniversary of his death, at a cemetery in Moscow on Feb. 16.
WORLD
Sep 17, 2025

Yulia Navalnaya says foreign tests show her husband was poisoned

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny died suddenly at the age of 47 on Feb. 16, 2024, in a Russian prison in the Arctic Circle.
Katie Moon competes in the women's pole vault final during the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Wednesday. The American won the gold medal.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 17, 2025

Katie Moon beats fellow American Sandi Morris for gold in pole vault final in Tokyo

Moon cleared 4.90 meters to claim gold.
A woman walks past the poster of Lee Sang-il’s kabuki drama "Kokuho" outside a cinema in Tokyo's Roppongi district.
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Sep 18, 2025

From high risk to record-breaker, ‘Kokuho’ defied expectations to become a megahit

Lee Sang-il's three-hour kabuki drama overcame doubts over subject matter to find its audience.
U.S. military personnel board the USS Wasp aircraft carrier at the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in 2019.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 2025

U.S. State Department sees Japanese role in AUKUS defense pact

Japan "expressed interest in a range" of projects underway as part of the second leg of the pact, an assessment said.
The government is considering raising the upper limit on the industry ministry's subsidies for video productions costing ¥300 million or more from the current ¥200 million.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 2025

Japan to boost support for its anime and film industry

The government is aiming to triple overseas revenue from Japanese content to ¥20 trillion in 2033.
A badge hangs over the uniform of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. Rights activists warn that deporting Russian dissidents puts them at risk of prison and persecution back home.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 18, 2025

'I don't cry anymore': In U.S. jail, Russian dissidents fear deportation

With the U.S. stepping up its sweeping anti-immigration crackdown, rights activists warn deporting Russian dissidents puts them at risk of prison and persecution back home.
Nagoya City Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium, which is scheduled to open in March next year, will be one of the main venues for the 2026 Asian Games.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 18, 2025

Japan seeks to ramp up Asian Games buzz with one year to go

Host Japan hopes next year's event will make a splash similar to that of the pandemic-delayed 2023 edition in Hangzhou, China.
Signage in Nagoya counting down to the start of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games earlier this month.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 18, 2025

Japan considering North Korea's participation at 2026 Asian Games

The neighboring countries have no diplomatic ties and North Korea was a no-show when Japan last hosted the Asian Games in 1994.
Polls suggest a head-to-head contest in the Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential race, but powerbrokers may sideline veteran contenders to engineer a youth-versus-youth showdown that could reshape both the party and Japan’s political landscape.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 18, 2025

Whiteboarding the LDP election

As I whiteboard the election scenarios, Koizumi vs. Takaichi is the most obvious race.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday about his candidacy in the Liberal Democratic Party leadership race.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 18, 2025

Hayashi pledges to carry on Ishiba and Kishida’s work if elected LDP president

The chief cabinet secretary, who served under both prime ministers, says he will follow their lead as well as add initiatives of his own.
Botswana's Busang Collen Kebinatshipi (left) crosses the finish line ahead of Trinidad and Tobago's Jereem Richards in the men's 400-meter final at the world championships at National Stadium on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 18, 2025

Busang Collen Kebinatshipi wins men's 400 final; Yuki Joseph Nakajima finishes sixth

Jereem Richards of Trinidad and Tobago finished in second place with a national record of 43.72, while Kebinatshipi’s compatriot Bayapo Ndori was third with a season best of 44.20.
A sign is seen outside of the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show outside the El Capitan Entertainment Centre on Hollywood Boulevard, from where the show is broadcast in Hollywood, California, on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 19, 2025

Trump threatens licenses of TV stations that criticize him

Trump’s remarks represent a startling break with the nation’s long-standing traditions of freedom of speech and of the press enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
In “Ranshima Bound,” Yoshio (Tomoki Kimura, right) returns to his Hokkaido hometown with his supposed wife (Yuko Kii) when his estranged brother tells him their mother is in a coma.
CULTURE
Sep 19, 2025

‘Ranshima Bound’: Family fractures and buried truths collide in Hokkaido chill

Tomoki Kimura’s turn as a one-time punk rocker drifting through life grounds Kamada’s drama in rage, regret and reluctant tenderness.
A new type of Mizuho Bank outlet in Yokohama in March
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 19, 2025

Major Japanese banks are opening new types of outlets

There is a hope to increase direct contact with customers again amid rising interest rates and the growing appetite for asset management services.
Staff of United Nations agencies gather to denounce the killing of their colleagues in the Gaza Strip since October 2023, outside the global organization's European headquarters in Geneva on Thursday.
WORLD
Sep 19, 2025

U.S. and Israel criticize U.N. staff over Gaza war stance amid protests

Hundreds of U.N. staff protested outside the global organization's European headquarters on Thursday.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is unlikely to spend more than a fraction of his 27-year sentence behind bars, legal experts say.
WORLD / Crime & Legal / ANALYSIS
Sep 19, 2025

Brazil's Bolsonaro is going to prison, but he might not stay long

The former president was sentenced to 27 years behind bars after the Brazilian Supreme Court found him guilty of plotting a coup to overturn the 2022 election he lost.
BOJ Gov. Kazuo Ueda said it would take a century for the bank to sell all its ETFs at the pace proposed.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 19, 2025

Bank of Japan to start unloading ETFs in surprise move that rattles market

After the announcement, the Nikkei 225 fell from a record high and the yen strengthened.
U.S. deputy Middle East envoy Morgan Ortagus raises her hand to veto a draft resolution during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Gaza Strip, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 19, 2025

U.S. vetoes U.N. demand for ceasefire and aid access in Gaza

The U.N. resolution would also have demanded the immediate, dignified and unconditional release of all hostages held by Hamas and other groups.
South Korea's LG Energy Solution was using workarounds to U.S. visa restrictions well before Donald Trump returned as U.S. president.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 19, 2025

LG Energy was using U.S. visa workarounds before Trump, documents show

South Korean companies say they face long-running problems in getting short-term visas for specialists they need for their high-tech plants in the U.S.
Prosecutors have sought a 12-year prison sentence for a former MUFG Bank employee charged with stealing cash and gold from customers' safe deposit boxes.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 19, 2025

Prosecutors seek 12-year sentence for former MUFG bank worker over thefts

Authorities said the defendant caused some ¥1.4 billion in financial damage to 70 customers since 2020.
Phishing emails posing as major securities firms spiked in Japan between March and May, topping 70,000 in May alone.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 19, 2025

Police look to crack down harder on phishing scams amid record surge

Online banking fraud surged to about ¥4.22 billion in the first half of this year, a roughly 73% jump from last year.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Israeli soldiers carrying out operations in Rafah, in the southern Gaza, in July 2024.
EDITORIALS
Sep 19, 2025

Netanyahu’s impunity threatens Israel

In an especially damning survey, the Pew Research Center earlier this year found that there was no majority positive view of Israel in any of the 24 countries it surveyed.
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group is considering increasing its stake in Jefferies Financial Group as the Japanese lender deepens ties with the U.S. investment bank.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 19, 2025

Sumitomo Mitsui mulls raising stake in Jefferies to 20%

The two firms are also in discussions to merge parts of their equities businesses in Japan, potentially through the establishment of a joint venture.
Wealthy foreign nationals picking up ultimate souvenir — a condo in Tokyo
A high-end property in the fashionable Daikanyama district in Tokyo
Bank of Japan to start unloading ETFs in surprise move that rattles market
BOJ Gov. Kazuo Ueda said it would take a century for the bank to sell all its ETFs at the pace proposed.
Over 90% of low-income families in Japan struggling to feed children
Save the Children Japan domestic program chief Sonoko Kawakami speaks at a news conference in Tokyo in July. A survey conducted by the group in June has found that over 90% of low-income households with children face food insecurity.
JAL to punish president and 36 others over pilot drinking scandal
Japan Airlines Managing Executive Officer Yukio Nakagawa (center) and others apologize after one of the airline's pilots was found to have been drinking alcohol, during a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 4.
After seven decades, is it finally time for the LDP to split up?
Signage atop the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo. Japan’s ruling party faces a tough decision over its future as it searches for a new leader to replace outgoing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, reverse its waning popularity and reassure investors
World Athletics stars relish Tokyo atmosphere after COVID-hit Olympics
Organizers of the World Athletics Championships said over 500,000 tickets had been sold and that they are expecting to end the event in front of large crowds this weekend.
Japan’s front-line researchers see bright path ahead for dementia treatment
A scientist looks at scans of grains at the Memory Centre at the Department of Readaptation and Geriatrics of the University Hospital (HUG) in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 6, 2023.
Still plenty to fight for, says Japan’s team leader at worlds
Race walker Hayato Katsuki earned bronze for Japan on the opening day of the World Athletics Championships on Saturday.
Wealthy foreign nationals picking up ultimate souvenir — a condo in Tokyo
A high-end property in the fashionable Daikanyama district in Tokyo
Japanese athletes inspired by raucous home fans at World Athletics Championships
Fans cheer on the home favorites during the women's marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sunday.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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