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An elderly inmate (voiced by Kaoru Kobayashi in the present and Junki Tozuka in flashback) confides in a potted balsam flower (voiced by Pierre Taki) about the decisions that led him to prison in "The Last Blossom."
CULTURE / Film
Oct 2, 2025

Pieces fall perfectly into place in the reflective ‘The Last Blossom’

Reflective and heartfelt, Baku Kinoshita’s animated feature tells a story of second chances without being overly sentimental.
A supporter of the far-right Freedom and Direct Democracy party reacts during a demonstration against the Czech government in Prague on Sept. 27. Across Europe, far-right parties have made gains in recent years as the war in Ukraine and economic downturn worries voters.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 1, 2025

From Prague to Budapest, frustrated voters dwell on migration and Ukraine war

Ahead of the Czech election, voters in European Union member states Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia voiced their opinions.
The U.S. Supreme Court said it’s deferring action on President Donald Trump’s bid to remove Fed Gov. Lisa Cook while the Justice Department appeals a lower court ruling that said she was likely to win her lawsuit over the firing.
BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2025

U.S. Supreme Court allows Lisa Cook to stay on at Fed, for now

The high court said it’s deferring action on U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to remove Cook while the Justice Department appeals a lower court ruling.
Among Keidanren member firms traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's top-tier section, the proportion of female executives rose by 2.2 points to 19.0%, reaching the government's 2025 interim target.
BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2025

Share of female execs at major Japan firms rises to 18.4%

The figure remained below the government's target of increasing the share of female executives at companies on the Prime section to at least 19% by 2025.
August’s unemployment figures showed a slight tempering of Japan's job market, but the data still points to overall firmness amid an ongoing labor shortage.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 3, 2025

Japan’s jobless rate edges up to highest in over a year

August’s figures showed a slight tempering of the job market, but the data still points to overall firmness amid an ongoing labor shortage.
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.
Yotaro Sato and Tomoka Sato perform during the artistic swimming mixed duet competition at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka on July 16, 2023.
MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Oct 3, 2025

Artistic swimming welcoming more men into pool ahead of LA Olympics

Yotaro Sato used to hide the fact that he’s an artistic swimmer. Now, he’s part of a growing number of men taking up a sport that was long exclusive to women.
Myanmar's military chief Min Aung Hlaing meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of a meeting in Tianjin, China, on Aug. 31.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 3, 2025

Myanmar's reclusive general turns jet-setter in quest for election backing

Min Aung Hlaing's travels are part of a diplomatic push to win support for a controversial December election.
A Swedish snowboard instructor works at the Niseko ski resort area on Hokkaido, in Kutchan, in December 2022
JAPAN / Society
Oct 4, 2025

A Japanese ski resort town is roiled by a debate over immigration

Residents are protesting a planned housing facility for foreign workers, exposing the conflict between labor needs and worries over immigration.
JB Pritzker
WORLD / Politics
Oct 5, 2025

Illinois governor says Trump to send National Guard to state over his objection

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said President Donald Trump plans to call up 300 members of the state’s national guard, defying local political opposition.
German Patriot air-defense systems are seen at Vilnius Airport in Lithuania in July 2023.
WORLD
Oct 5, 2025

Lithuania's Vilnius Airport reopens after suspension over balloons in airspace

European aviation has been thrown into chaos in recent weeks by drone sightings and air incursions, including at airports in Copenhagen and Munich.
Residents leave their apartment building, which was damaged by a Russian drone strike, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Sunday.
WORLD
Oct 5, 2025

Russia rains drones and missiles on Ukraine as Poland scrambles aircraft

The move by the NATO member came as Ukrainian officials reported missiles and drones raining down on the Lviv region near the Polish border early Sunday.
Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party chief Sanae Takaichi greets her fellow LDP members on Saturday at party headquarters.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 5, 2025

Takaichi, the LDP’s first female president, is far from an ‘overnight success’

It took Takaichi three attempts and countless calls to her fellow lawmakers to defy expectations and attain a post she has dreamed of for decades.
Fire engulfs Nepal's main administrative building in Kathmandu on Sept. 9, following a police crackdown on protests over government corruption and social media restrictions. This violent unrest is part of a larger pattern of instability in South Asia that threatens regional security and India’s strategic interests.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 5, 2025

India’s reckoning with its dangerous neighborhood

All these stories point to a larger worrying trend: Democracy in India’s neighborhood is in retreat.
A Xiaomi SU7 model electric car is displayed at the Beijing Auto Show in Beijing in April last year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 6, 2025

Porsche and Xiaomi face off over custom-model buyers in China

Xiaomi is competing for consumers who may otherwise opt for an individualized Porsche or another premium European brand.
Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi (center) speaks to reporters on Sunday after meeting Taro Aso, the party's supreme advisor, at the party's headquarters.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 6, 2025

Suzuki eyed for LDP secretary-general, reflecting Aso’s growing influence

Former Prime Minister Taro Aso's influence in the Liberal Democratic Party under the newly elected Sanae Takaichi is becoming increasingly more evident.
Etsuro Honda, who advises the ruling party's head Sanae Takaichi on economic policies, says a rate hike by the Bank of Japan this month would be difficult.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 7, 2025

Takaichi adviser and Abenomics architect says October too soon for BOJ rate hike

Remarks by Etsuro Honda, who advises the new ruling-party leader on economic policies, suggest the BOJ may wait, despite earlier speculation of an October move.
Only a country with absolute indispensability in critical goods — like China — can withstand Donald Trump and America’s tariff onslaught.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Oct 7, 2025

Trump weaponizes American trade policy

The U.S. may have an indispensable domestic market for some trading partners, but China has indispensable goods and America cannot easily substitute for them.
Sanae Takaichi celebrates in Tokyo on Saturday with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba after winning the Liberal Democratic Party leadership election.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 7, 2025

From radical to Rihanna: Myths about the new LDP leader

When Shinzo Abe returned as LDP leader in 2012, there was a similar flood of coverage attempting to cast him as a radical conservative.
The oil tanker Eagle S sails alongside a Finnish border guard ship and tugboat in the Gulf of Finland on Dec. 28. The vessel was seized by Finland on suspicion of damaging underwater cables in the area at the time.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 7, 2025

Russia’s hybrid war looks increasingly like the real thing

European officials are warning that Moscow appears to be “at war” with countries it hasn’t invaded yet.
The LDP's newly-appointed election chief Keiji Furuya (far left), general affairs council chair Haruko Arimura (second from left), vice president Taro Aso (center left), president Sanae Takaichi (center right), secretary-general Shunichi Suzuki (second from right) and policy chief Takayuki Kobayashi in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 7, 2025

Takaichi's leadership lineup favors Aso and his allies while shutting out rivals

The new lineup also reflects her desire to reward allies of the party’s former Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi and former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi.
U.S. President Donald Trump has dismissed climate change as "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world" and his administration has reportedly moved to quash debate on the issue.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 8, 2025

Trump calls climate change a con; science braces for more

The Department of Energy is reportedly telling staff to avoid using language that runs counter to the president's views on climate science.
A Toyota plant in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture. The management-led offer to take a Toyota supplier private at ¥2,050 per share is too low and highlights shortfalls in Japan’s MBO regulations, said a portfolio manager and head of Japan equity at investment firm GMO.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 8, 2025

Toyota supplier’s management buyout plan stokes investor rebuke of Japan rules

The tension around Pacific Industrial’s MBO proposal highlights the debate over the TSE’s rules requiring companies to provide more disclosures on price fairness and procedures.
Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito (left) and LDP counterpart Sanae Takaichi meet in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 8, 2025

After 26 years, Komeito may be showing signs it will break with LDP

Komeito not immediately endorsing Takaichi reflects deep concerns among Soka Gakkai members, the party’s main supporters in the lay Buddhist group, about her ideology and policies.
3D printed Telegram and WhatsApp logos are placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken January 21, 2021.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 8, 2025

Child protection versus privacy: decision time for EU

Does protecting children justify snooping on private messages?
Susumu Kitagawa speaks to reporters at Kyoto University on Wednesday after receiving the news that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry the same day.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 9, 2025

Chemistry Nobel winner Kitagawa says downtime helped him think up new material

Waiting on a supercomputer to analyze the structure of a new crystal gave him time to come up with the idea for a kind of material that could, for example, capture carbon dioxide.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth addresses senior military officers in Quantico, Virginia, on Sept. 30.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 9, 2025

Press groups condemn U.S. Defense Department rules governing media access

The new policy would constrain the media's ability to cover the world's most powerful military.
Komeito head Tetsuo Saito and the party's executives (left) meet with the LDP's Sanae Takaichi and counterparts in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 9, 2025

LDP and Komeito's shaky ties throw doubt on Takaichi becoming prime minister

The inability of the LDP and Komeito to forge a quick agreement and vote for Takaichi to become prime minister has created uncertainty at a busy time on the political calendar.
Damage to vehicles at the site of a military strike on a protest in central Myanmar's Chaung U township is seen on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 10, 2025

Myanmar junta says it targeted rebels in deadly attack on protest

A military strike on a festival and anti-junta protest in central Myanmar on Monday evening killed at least 25 people, and possibly as many as 43.
New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks in New York on Oct. 1.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 10, 2025

Letitia James, New York's attorney general and Trump foe, indicted over mortgage fraud

The Trump administration has sought to use government power against those who have pursued investigations into Trump or resisted his agenda.
New ‘immigration minister’ post signals Takaichi Cabinet’s priorities
Kimi Onoda, economic security minister and minister for harmonious coexistence with foreign nationals, arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Rare female yakuza walks path to redemption in Japan
Retired yakuza Mako Nishimura sorts fallen leaves during a clean-up activity at the Gifu Gokoku shrine in Gifu Prefecture on Sept. 28.
Takaichi to put defense push in spotlight in bid to satiate Trump demands
Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force personnel march during the joint multinational exercise Garuda Shield 2025 at the Baturaja combat training center in Lampung, Indonesia, last month.
Takaichi focuses on economic and security concerns in first policy speech
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivers her first policy speech in the Lower House in Tokyo on Friday.
Driving in Japan isn’t hard. Getting the license is.
The byzantine process for converting a foreign driver’s license into a Japanese one entails mountains of paperwork and significant stamina — unless you're a lucky license holder from a country or region where these requirements are waived.
The newly formed LDP-JIP coalition may not be as solid as it seems
Ruling Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi and Japan Innovation Party leader Hirofumi Yoshimura sign a policy agreement between the two parties at the Diet in Tokyo on Monday.
AI-optimized cybercrime increasingly targeting Japan
A recent cyberattack on brewer Asahi Group Holdings resulted in the company suspending shipments.
K-pop idol Chanyeol does J-pop his own way on ‘Hibi’
South Korean singer Chanyeol made his Japanese-language solo debut with the EP “Hibi,” which features six tracks inspired by his love of Japanese music.
In pictures: The day Japan’s glass ceiling finally cracked
Takaichi, surrounded by LDP influencers
London exhibition perhaps sumo's most successful trip abroad
With the recent sumo jaunt to London being essentially a goodwill exercise, <i>rikishi</i> were far more outgoing and relaxed than normal.

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The byzantine process for converting a foreign driver’s license into a Japanese one entails mountains of paperwork and significant stamina — unless you're a lucky license holder from a country or region where these requirements are waived.
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