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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings plans to discharge 7,800 tons of treated water after diluting it with large amounts of seawater in the ongoing operation, set to run until Nov. 17.
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2025

Nuclear plant in Fukushima starts fifth round of treated water discharge

This is the 16th time that water containing small amounts of radioactive tritium has been released since the discharge began in August 2023.
Despite the advance of synthetic alternatives and declines in the available workforce, some textile workers still see the potential of traditional persimmon dyeing.
LIFE / Style & Design
Nov 1, 2025

Sun-dried and sustainable, Japan’s persimmon dye lives on

Thanks to Japan's largest freshwater lake, Shiga Prefecture has long thrived as a production center of persimmon tannin dyeing.
The Baker test on July 25, 1946, the U.S.' second atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll.
WORLD / EXPLAINER
Oct 31, 2025

Nuclear testing: Why did it stop, why test and who has nuclear weapons?

No nuclear power — other than North Korea most recently in 2017 — has carried out explosive nuclear testing in over 25 years.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (right) and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at a news conference at the Presidential Palace in Ankara on Thursday. Erdogan criticized Germany over what he said was its ignorance of Israel’s “genocide” and attacks in the Gaza Strip at the news conference.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 31, 2025

Turkey's Erdogan to Merz: Does Germany not see Israeli ‘genocide’ in Gaza?

The Turkish president criticized Germany over what he said was its ignorance at a joint news conference with the German chancellor.
Alternative for Germany's Jan Wenzel Schmidt (right), a member of Germany's lower house of parliament, sings a tabooed verse of the German national anthem, together with Stefano Forte (third from right), president of the New York Young Republican Club, at a club in New York City, on Oct. 2.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 31, 2025

On the rise in Germany, far-right AfD deepens ties to Trump administration

The party has held meetings with senior U.S. State Department officials in recent months.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes after a game against the Commanders in Kansas City, Missouri, on Monday
MORE SPORTS / Football
Oct 31, 2025

Latest NFL Chiefs-Bills duel has both chasing division leaders

The Chiefs know they will face one of the NFL's loudest and most passionate fan bases in Buffalo on Sunday.
Hawks players celebrate winning the Japan Series at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Thursday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 31, 2025

Hawks lay demons to rest with Japan Series win

Loss in the series last year has haunted the team and its fans, but the hardship has paid off.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivers her first policy speech in parliament, on Oct. 24, 2025.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 31, 2025

Takaichi might be more of a supply-sider than a Keynesian

It's not all about Abenomics, one economist argues.
The current exhibition at 21_21 Design Site is A-POC Able’s first venture outside fashion, though it follows in the footsteps of its founder Issey Miyake, who launched a lighting collection in 2011 with Italian company Artemide.
LIFE / Style & Design
Nov 2, 2025

New generations of designers carry Issey Miyake's legacy

From pleated garments to glowing lamps, the designer’s philosophy continues to evolve through new brands, collaborations and generations.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks on the day he meets with Caribbean parliamentarians from 14 countries to sign a peace agreement in the region, amid rising tensions with the United States, at Miraflores Palace in Caracas on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 2, 2025

Trump’s move on Venezuela splinters region over possible strike

As U.S. President Donald Trump steps up his targeting of Venezuela, the region’s fragmented governments are failing to agree on any joint response to rein him in.
Executives of six ruling and opposition parties discuss scrapping the add-on levy for gasoline during their meeting in the parliament building on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 2, 2025

Japan sees no stable funding for costly policy plans

Six ruling and opposition parties broadly agreed Friday to scrap the add-on levy for gasoline on Dec. 31 and for gas oil on April 1 next year.
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi looks on during an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) defense ministers' meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 2, 2025

Koizumi builds ties with partners and airs concerns with China defense chief

The defense minister also said that Tokyo had "identified a concrete demand" for Japanese defense gear from a number of countries.
Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto celebrates with manager Dave Roberts after defeating the Blue Jays in Game 7 of the MLB World Series.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 2, 2025

'Unheard of': Dodgers in awe of iron man Yoshinobu Yamamoto

Manager Dave Roberts hailed Yamamoto's resilience after the ace delivered one of the most remarkable pitching performances in World Series history.
Members of Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah mourn over the coffins of comrades killed in recent Israeli attacks during their funeral in the southern city of Nabatiyeh on Sunday.
WORLD
Nov 3, 2025

Israel warns of intensifying attacks against Hezbollah

The Iran-backed militant group, which opposes Israel, has been badly weakened by the war but remains armed and financially resilient.
A forensic officer takes pictures of the London North Eastern Railway train where a series of stabbings took place, at a platform at Huntingdon Station, near Cambridge, Britain, on Sunday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 3, 2025

U.K. police say train stabbings carried out by lone attacker, not terrorism

Work was now ongoing to establish the events leading up to the attack and the suspect's background, police said, and a knife had been recovered from the scene.
Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist and New College of Florida trustee, walks through protesters on his way out of a bill signing event in May 2023.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 3, 2025

Trump’s college czar has a ‘secret weapon’ to transform campuses

President Donald Trump has called the accreditation system a "secret weapon” for forcing changes in academia, and Nicholas Kent is uniquely well-positioned to wield it.
Wopke Hoekstra, climate commissioner of the European Union, during a news conference on the "EU's New Strategy To Shape A Global Clean And Resilient Transition" in Brussels on Oct. 16.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 3, 2025

Trump pivot is a ‘watershed moment’ for climate, says EU’s Hoekstra

While calling the U.S. absence from COP30 as a "watershed moment," the EU’s climate chief pointed to the continuing engagement of many U.S. governors and mayors on climate issues.
An Afghan man stands near the remains of damaged houses in the aftermath of the September earthquake in Kunar province, Afghanistan. A new, 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif early on Monday, killing at least nine people.
WORLD
Nov 3, 2025

Powerful 6.3 quake in northern Afghanistan kills at nine

The 6.3 magnitude quake struck overnight at a depth of 28 kilometers, with the epicenter near the city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
Bill Gates speaks at a summit on climate and growth at the Bercy Finance Ministry in Paris in December 2023. Gates has recently shifted his stance on climate change, advocating for a focus on adapting to a warmer world rather than pursuing emissions reductions.
COMMENTARY
Nov 2, 2025

Bill Gates is wrong to quiet-quit the climate fight

He says he’s still in it. But his heart no longer appears to be. Worse, he’s giving ammunition to those fighting against further progress.
Believing that human-like AI can think or feel is a growing danger, and we must stop designing systems that encourage that illusion.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2025

Seemingly conscious artificial intelligence is coming soon

The more that AI is built explicitly to resemble people, the farther it will have strayed from its true potential as a source of human empowerment.
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.
Right-leaning Israelis demonstrate next to the Sde Teman military base near Beersheba, against the detention for questioning of military reservists who were suspected of abusing a detainee following the Oct. 7, 2023, attack in Israel, on July 29, 2024.
WORLD
Nov 4, 2025

Israel arrests former top army lawyer over leaked abuse video

The case began in August 2024 when Israel's Channel 12 broadcast footage from a military base that appeared to show soldiers doing "acts of violence" against a detainee.
A member of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society reads a story to children as part of mental support activities at the organization’s center, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on Oct. 30.
WORLD / Society
Nov 4, 2025

Gaza's psychological trauma brings large numbers to seek help

Two years of intense Israeli bombardment and repeated military incursions, along with widespread homelessness and hunger, have affected all 2.3 million inhabitants.
Japanese companies have raised $132 billion in foreign-currency bond and loan deals arranged by banks so far in 2025, up 56% from a year earlier.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 4, 2025

Japan’s $132 billion borrowing binge reshapes global credit

Underscoring the unprecedented shift onto the global stage, annual overseas note issuance is on course to exceed debt sales in yen for the first time ever.
Takeo Fukuda, head of Shimonagatsuka district, stands in front of his home in the town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 4, 2025

Fukushima town eases entry restrictions in contaminated areas

Following the easing of the restrictions, residents can enter their homes without permission, though they are not permitted to stay overnight.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo
The unstoppable rise of konbini tourism
Guests typically follow Ryo Ito’s lead as he weaves through the narrow, colorful aisles of convenience stores.
A narrow Pacific waterway at heart of U.S. plans to choke China’s vast navy
Philippine and Australian troops fire an M777 howitzer during live fire exercises as part of joint military drills in Laur, Nueva Ecija, the Philippines, in August.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
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.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo
Young Indonesians in Japan find their political voice
Indonesian students at Hiroshima University hold posters of the 17+8 Demands, demanding transparency and action from their homeland’s government.
The unstoppable rise of konbini tourism
Guests typically follow Ryo Ito’s lead as he weaves through the narrow, colorful aisles of convenience stores.
Kenshi Yonezu, 'Chainsaw Man' and the art of pop ubiquity
Kenshi Yonezu's “Iris Out” was an instant hit when it dropped in September. Its association with smash anime "Chainsaw Man — The Movie: Reze Arc" has spread it to even more people.
How airlines are refining their in-flight food in Japan's tourism boom
All Nippon Airways' gourmet program, The Connoisseurs, showcases the Japanese concept of "shun" (peak season for ingredients), giving passengers a preview of the refined cuisine that awaits them in Japan.

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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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Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
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