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U.S. President Donald Trump displays a photo of himself with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office on Aug. 22.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 5, 2025

Putin sees only U.S. weakness in Ukraine

Few Ukrainians swallow the enthusiastic talk in the West about security zones and U.S. guarantees.
Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful from the popemobile after a Mass for the canonization of Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, on Sunday.
WORLD
Sep 7, 2025

Huge crowds at the Vatican as teen becomes first millennial saint

Tens of thousands of people gathered at the Vatican Sunday as Pope Leo XIV proclaimed the Catholic Church's first millennial saint, an Italian teenager dubbed "God's Influencer."
The iPhone Air may be what Apple fans have wanted for years: a device distinct from competitors and packed with feats of hardware engineering.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 11, 2025

Slim iPhone Air may be a design win for Apple, despite analysts' AI doubts

The new handset is the company's slimmest yet, and the biggest change to its lineup in eight years.
Two 100-meter sprinters face the pressures of their sport, sometimes as friends, sometimes as rivals, from childhood to the pros in "100 Meters."
CULTURE / Film
Sep 11, 2025

‘100 Meters’ brings kinetic energy to rivalry drama

In his latest film, Kenji Iwaisawa turns a 10-second dash into cinema with rotoscoping and a bigger production than his indie masterpiece "On-Gaku: Our Sound."
Julien Alfred celebrates after winning the women's 100-meter final at the Diamond League Final in Zurich on Aug. 28.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 12, 2025

Saint Lucia's Julien Alfred looking to add world title to Olympic gold in 100

Alfred convincingly beat reigning world champion Sha'Carri Richardson in the women's 100-meter sprint at the Paris Olympics last year.
Tyler Robinson, the suspect in the fatal shooting of U.S. conservative commentator Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University, is seen in a mugshot photo released Friday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 13, 2025

Suspect in murder of activist Charlie Kirk in custody after 33-hour manhunt

A motive for the shooting was not immediately clear, but authorities noted that anti-fascist slogans were inscribed on unused bullet casings that were found.
Germany's Jonathan Hilbert (right) competes during the men's 35K race walk at the world championships on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 13, 2025

Olympic medal-winning German race walker blazes on after battle with depression

German Jonathan Hilbert earned a silver medal in the 50K race walk at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, but battled depression following his triumph.
Sweden's Armand Duplantis competes in the men's pole fault final during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Monday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 16, 2025

Pole vault rivals in awe after Duplantis has another historic night in Tokyo

With fans and his fellow competitors looking on, ​Duplantis once again proved he has no equal — past or present — on Monday at Tokyo's National Stadium.
A university student delivers a speech during protests in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sept. 4. Gig workers joined students and laborers in protests that forced lawmakers to scale back official perks and oust some politicians from parliament.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 16, 2025

More protests planned as anger sweeps Indonesia’s gig drivers

Poorly paid and largely uninsured, gig workers are increasingly angry at the government over its failure to create enough jobs for the country’s workforce.
Gold medalist Faith Kipyegon celebrates after winning the women's 1,500 meters at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Tuesday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 17, 2025

Faith Kipyegon cements place as supreme champion and role model for mothers

Kipyegon, a three-time Olympic champion, took her fourth world title at 1,500 meters on Tuesday in dominating fashion.
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.
JAPAN / Science & Health / FOCUS
Sep 17, 2025

Japan’s front-line researchers see bright path ahead for dementia treatment

Four scientists at the forefront of dementia research speak about what kind of future they envision for people with the condition.
Itsumi Tanaka smiles as she is complimented during lunchtime at Grandma’s Cafe in the city of Fukuoka.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Sep 29, 2025

‘Grandma’s Cafe’ offers purpose and income for elderly

A company in Fukuoka Prefecture is operating unique eateries where elderly women, some with dementia, welcome guests with homestyle cooking.
The process of making “Baan” was personal and enlightening for Maneetapho, who spent years talking about anime on his YouTube channel and podcast before making the jump to becoming an anime creator himself.
CULTURE / Film
Sep 19, 2025

YouTuber Gigguk shifts from talking anime to making anime

Garnt Maneetapho, who runs the YouTube channel Gigguk, makes the jump from critic to creator with his short film “Baan — The Boundary of Adulthood.”
Filmmakers Chloe Zhao and Lee Sang-il will receive the Kurosawa Akira Award, given to filmmakers who have “left their marks in cinema and will be entrusted with the film industry's future,” at this year's edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival.
CULTURE / Film
Sep 24, 2025

Tokyo film festival to open with Everest and close with some Shakespeare

Japan’s main movie event kicks off Oct. 27 with the true story of the first woman to summit Mount Everest. It closes Nov. 5 with Chloe Zhao’s "Hamnet."
A boy from Douar Imzerri in the rural commune of Tilougguite, in Morocco's Beni Mellal-Khenifra region, communicates using a whistled language, an intricate ancient practice connecting Amazigh communities across distances in the High Atlas mountains, on Aug. 19.
WORLD / Society
Sep 25, 2025

Morocco High Atlas whistle language strives for survival

The Assinsg language replaces spoken words with sharp whistles that can carry for nearly three kilometers in the mountains, researchers say.
Fans at Dodger Stadium pose in front of a mural highlighting the Dodgers' Japanese stars from past and present during a game earlier this year.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 30, 2025

How Ohtani has boosted Japan's soft power and made LA even more baseball-obsessed

From concessions filled with Japanese ballpark staples to murals on Los Angeles buildings, Ohtani's success is creating new baseball fans and Japanophiles in LA.
Victor Wembanyama poses for promotional photos during the San Antonio Spurs' media day in San Antonio, Texas, on Monday.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Sep 30, 2025

'Better, stronger' Wembanyama can't wait for NBA return

"I can assure you nobody has trained like I did this summer. And this is my best summer so far," Wembanyama said.
Ari Bayuaji's artwork of the benevolent Bali god Barong is on display in a glass case on the ground floor of Hollywood Beauty Plaza.
CULTURE / Art
Oct 2, 2025

Artist Ari Bayuaji materializes monsters from ocean plastic

From his series “Weaving the Ocean,” the demon Rangda is on display at Go for Kogei 2025, while the more benevolent Barong sits in a glass case in Roppongi.
Anshul Chauhan’s Japanese film “Tiger” won the Hylife Vision Award for independent films at this year’s Busan International Film Festival.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 4, 2025

Japanese films win crowds but few prizes at Busan festival

From art house cinema to commercial hits, 24 films showcased Japan’s range at the 30th edition of the Busan International Film Festival.
Young people from Okinawa in the Kansai region dance during the first Eisa festival in Osaka’s Taisho Ward in September 1975.
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Oct 20, 2025

Taking pride in its Okinawan roots, Osaka’s Eisa festival marks 50th year

The festival celebrating the traditional Okinawan summer dance was created for young workers to resist discrimination and reclaim pride in their roots.
Asahi's troubles carry outsized weight given Super Dry’s dominant market share and the cutthroat competition among Japan’s major brewers.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 3, 2025

Asahi blames ransomware for crippling Japanese beer plants

The maker of Japan’s most popular beer warned that the perpetrators may have made off with data, though it’s investigating the extent of the infiltration.
Relatives of the victims watch the search operation on a TV screen on Friday after the collapse of an Islamic boarding school building in Sidoarjo, Indonesia.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 5, 2025

Indonesian school collapse toll rises to 36 as search for bodies continues

Efforts continued for a seventh day to search for the bodies of 27 students still declared missing — mostly teenage boys from the ages of 13 to 19 — trapped under the rubble.
A crime scene technician prepares to document evidence at the site of a shooting in West Baltimore in May 2015. U.S. cities are seeing murder rates fall sharply from post-2020 highs thanks to local violence-reduction efforts and pandemic-era investments.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2025

What’s behind the great American murder decline?

Homicides are plummeting in many places. The explanation may be the sheer volume of different efforts to reduce violence.
A monitor shows AI-generated images found on the computer of a man who has been arrested on charges he intentionally ignited the Pacific Palisades Fire, during a press conference with Acting United States Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli and Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives of the Los Angeles Field Division Kenny Cooper, in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 9, 2025

Man charged with ‘maliciously’ starting massive LA fire

The Palisades Fire burned more than 23,000 acres and destroyed more than 6,800 structures before it was fully contained on Jan. 31.
Legal scholar Shigeto Hozumi conducted some 250 lecture sessions for Empress Nagako, posthumously known as Empress Kojun, between 1924 and 1950.
JAPAN / History
Oct 9, 2025

Late Empress Kojun received lectures on World War II from experts, records show

In a lecture in February 1942, after Japan went to war with the United States, one scholar explained to Empress Kojun speeches delivered to parliament by the then prime minister.
After earning her stripes in the Japanese indie wrestling circuit, Iyo Sky made the decision to move to the United States in pursuit of new challenges — a risk that paid off for her career.
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 10, 2025

Iyo Sky takes flight: How the ‘Genius of the Sky’ turned risk into art and fear into fun

After three memorable shows in 2024, WWE returns to Japan for back-to-back nights at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan this month.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 10, 2025

Red Sox legend Mike Greenwell dies at 62

Greenwell, a two-time All-Star, revealed he was battling medullary thyroid cancer in August. His wife, Tracy, said he died in Boston.
Actress Diane Keaton speaks during the handprints and footprints ceremony to celebrate "Mack & Rita" at TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, in August 2022. Keaton, known for her Oscar-winning performance in 1977's "Annie Hall" and her role in "The Godfather" films, has died at age 79.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Oct 12, 2025

Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton dead at 79

Keaton was a frequent collaborator of director Woody Allen, portraying the titular character in "Annie Hall," the charming girlfriend of Allen's comic Alvy Singer.
U.S. gross domestic product grew in the second quarter at the fastest pace in nearly two years.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 13, 2025

World economy faces triple risk of tariffs, AI bubble and soaring debt

Such concerns will dominate the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington this week.
Amid the election of Sanae Takaichi as Liberal Democratic Party president, and possibly the next prime minister, Japan's economy shows signs of recovery, but weak wages, a conservative corporate culture and currency issues raise doubts about a true economic thaw.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 13, 2025

Hypothermia in the land of the rising Sanae

Of late, the country has suddenly given every impression of heat. There are good reasons to believe hypothermia is over.
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.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Government and bad actors are at the root of the foreign national issue
A maiko walks down a street crowded with tourists in Kyoto. Challenges that come with a massive influx of overseas visitors and foreign nationals buying up real estate are just some of the immigration problems that have become hot-button political issues in Japan.
Japan lawmakers eye firm response to Chinese envoy's threat to behead PM
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at a Lower House Budget Committee meeting on Friday.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
China delivers warning to U.S. and Japan with third aircraft carrier
The Fujian, China's third aircraft carrier, carries out sea trials at an unknown location in May last year.

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