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The government is preparing to set Japan’s new Nationally Determined Contribution, an emissions reduction commitment made by members of the United Nations climate framework's Paris Agreement.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / OUR PLANET
Dec 10, 2024

As Japan nears new climate goal, criticism of policy process ramps up

Critics say the process is not intended to facilitate genuine debate, and that those who support the energy status quo are overrepresented on policy panels.
A sanitary serviceman stands by body bags at the morgue of a hospital in Damascus on Tuesday.
WORLD
Dec 10, 2024

Syria rebels say found dozens of tortured bodies in hospital near Damascus

One rebel shared dozens of photographs showing corpses with evident signs of torture.
A poster advertising a reward for information is posted near the site where Brian Thompson, chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally gunned down in New York on Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 10, 2024

CEO killing and rage over insurance plunges UnitedHealth into crisis

Instead of eliciting sympathy from the public, the death of UnitedHealth’s CEO has spawned a hate machine against the insurance industry.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp speaks on a panel at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 10, 2024

Trump's Musk-led efficiency drive may spur defense-tech partnerships

Smaller tech firms to play a bigger role given that Musk, one of their own, is entering a position of enormous influence.
Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho and Sumitomo Mitsui are enjoying record earnings and they are determined to fund overseas expansion.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 10, 2024

Japan's megabanks are flush with cash and hunting overseas deals

The primary focus is on the U.S. and India, respectively the world’s largest economy and the fastest-growing.
A person holds a sign while standing on the roadside near the McDonald's restaurant where a suspect in the killing of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested, in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 10, 2024

Killing of UnitedHealthcare exec ignites patient anger over insurance

The attack called fresh attention to deepening frustrations faced by Americans in their struggle to receive and pay for medical care.
Police escort Luigi Mangione to his arraignment at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, on Monday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 10, 2024

Murder charges filed against suspect in UnitedHealthcare shooting

The suspect, identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, was captured in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in a McDonald's after a customer and an employee believed he resembled the gunman.
Kosuzu Harada has spent over a decade sharing the harrowing atomic bomb experiences of her late grandfather, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a double hibakusha.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2024

Descendant of double A-bomb survivor hopes for nuclear-free future

Kosuzu Harada's late grandfather, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, is one of the few individuals officially recognized as having survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
Sumiteru Taniguchi, a former co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo (right), explains about hibakusha to then U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in August 2010 in front of a photo of himself suffering from severe burns as a child in Nagasaki.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2024

Hidankyo carries on hopes of late hibakusha in Nobel win

Now-deceased hibakusha spearheaded antinuclear activities while grappling with severe injuries, illnesses and the loss of their families.
Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with Syrian President Bashar Assad in eastern Hangzhou city in September 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 10, 2024

Assad's fall in Syria exposes limits of China's Middle East diplomacy

Chinese experts and diplomats say Beijing will now bide its time before recognizing a new government in Damascus.
The aftermath of an overnight strike attributed to Israel is seen on the Barzeh scientific research center affiliated with the Syrian defense ministry in northern Damascus on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 11, 2024

Israel steps up airstrikes and sends troops deeper into Syria

The Israel Defense Forces said it struck most of the strategic weapons stockpiles in Syria to prevent them from falling into the hands of terrorists.
“Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron" provides an in-depth look into the octogenarian auteur’s creative process and personal reflections.
CULTURE / Film
Dec 11, 2024

‘Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron’ documentary meditates on auteur's creativity and legacy

Filmed with unparalleled access to Studio Ghibli, director Kaku Arakawa captures the vulnerability and genius behind master animator Hayao Miyazaki’s latest feature.
Ferrari's Charles Leclerc in Abu Dhabi on Saturday. The Formula One season wrapped up with a final test in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, with Leclerc top of the timesheets.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Dec 11, 2024

Leclerc on top as F1 test wraps up 2024 season

Leclerc tested Pirelli's 2025 tire compounds, doing 134 laps and setting a best time of 1:23.510.
French President Emmanuel Macron will aim to avoid a new legislative election for more than two years, according to an official close to him.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 11, 2024

Macron aims to deter French far right with bid to avoid vote

The French president is piecing together a coalition of moderates that he hopes will last until 2027, when his term ends.
A firefighter sprays water as the Franklin Fire burns in Malibu, California, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Dec 11, 2024

Malibu fire explodes in size and forces thousands to evacuate

The Franklin fire has swelled to more than 2,700 acres and remained completely out of control as of Tuesday afternoon.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a signing ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on Nov. 28.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 11, 2024

Lula faces Biden parallels as surgery raises questions over age

The operation raises difficult questions about whether the 79-year-old leftist leader is fit to meet the challenges that are piling up in front of him.
While Ferrari provide engines to its own works team and U.S.-owned Haas, it will also supply engines and gearboxes to a new Cadillac Formula One team from 2026.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Dec 11, 2024

Ferrari to supply Cadillac F1 team with engines in 2026

Ferrari also provide engines to its own works team and U.S.-owned Haas.
Izumi Nakamitsu, U.N. under-secretary-general and high representative for disarmament affairs, speaks during an interview on Nov. 19 in New York.
JAPAN
Dec 11, 2024

Nihon Hidankyo continues to inspire push toward nuclear disarmament

The group of atomic bomb survivors has always sent its members to convey the voices of hibakusha during U.N. conferences on nuclear disarmament.
Signage at the Tencent headquarters in Shenzhen, China
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 11, 2024

Scrappy studio boss feeds Tencent’s lofty global game ambitions

"Arena Breakout: Infinite" is Tencent’s newest "Call of Duty"-style PC shooter, targeting a genre that typically tops spending charts.
The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 11, 2024

BOJ signals before meeting leave traders guessing

The confusion has caused sharp swings in market bets on rate hikes, with overnight indexed swaps pricing in a 22% chance of a December rate increase.
The silhouettes of Mount Fuji, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building and Shinjuku skyscrapers are seen during sunset in Tokyo in November.
JAPAN / Society
Dec 11, 2024

Tokyo remains third in global city index for ninth consecutive year

While Tokyo notched improvements in research and development, cultural interaction, livability, and accessibility, its score declined in the economy category.
A restaurant owner waits for customers at her empty restaurant in Seoul on Oct. 31.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Dec 11, 2024

South Korea's fading nightlife signals shift in hard-drinking culture

The change has been driven by corporate Korea's slowdown on after-work drinking sessions, younger female workers' refusal to partake and inflation.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and then-Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visit a defense exhibition in July last year.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 11, 2024

Russia tie-up sparks fears of modernized North Korean defense industry

Experts say the real issue is how deepened North Korean-Russian ties could help revitalize and modernize Pyongyang’s defense industrial base.
Japan’s national sport made its second foray into Western Europe, and first to the U.K., with a five-day tournament at London’s historic Royal Albert Hall in October 1991.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Dec 11, 2024

London calling: Sumo's U.K. trip brings back memories of 1991

Such was sumo’s popularity in the U.K. in the late '80s and early '90s that all five days at the 5,000-seat Royal Albert Hall sold out quickly.
Akihiro Kaneko, president of the Japan Council of Metalworkers’ Unions, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Dec. 3.
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2024

Japan union head calls for government to work more on raising pay

The call comes as Japan prepares for annual wage negotiations that culminate in the spring.
An SM-3 interceptor is launched by the Aegis Guam System during a test at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 12, 2024

Can a U.S. missile defense system shield Guam from Chinese threat?

Building the island's missile defenses as envisioned will cost about $10 billion over the next decade.
FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks during a meeting in Washington in September.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 12, 2024

FBI chief Christopher Wray to resign before Trump takes office

Donald Trump has announced the nomination of staunch loyalist Kash Patel to head the top U.S. law enforcement agency.
A liquefied natural gas plant operated by Sakhalin Energy in Sakhalin, Russia. Japan, the world's second biggest LNG buyer, depends on Russia for 9% of its LNG.
BUSINESS / Companies / ANALYSIS
Dec 12, 2024

Rival supplies and depleting fields give Japan an exit from Russian gas

Japan, the world's second-biggest liquefied natural gas buyer, depends on Russia for 9% of its LNG.
The leader of Syria's rebel group, Abu Mohammed al-Golani, addresses a crowd in Damascus on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 12, 2024

Militant leader's endgame is big unknown in post-Assad Syria

Abu Mohammed al-Golani has sought to project a moderate image so far, but there is distrust in the air.
Luigi Mangione, 26, a suspect in the New York City killing of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson, is escorted after an extradition hearing at Blair County Court House in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 12, 2024

Luigi Mangione was charged with murder — then donations started pouring in

The photogenic, Ivy League-educated 26-year-old's support has seemingly only intensified since his arrest on Monday.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Dollar’s decline is fueling dislocations across Asian currencies
A worker counts U.S. dollar banknotes at a currency exchange office in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2022.
Tariff talks with U.S. seen influencing Japan's Upper House election
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters about Japan-U.S. tariff negotiations at his official residence on Saturday.
Japan, India to set up new consultation defense cooperation framework
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (right) stands alongside his Indian counterpart, Rajnath Singh, during a ceremonial reception in New Delhi on Monday.
About 30% of those in de facto marriages refuse to marry over surname change
A survey by a private group found that 30% of people in de facto marriages in Japan have not filed for marriage registration because they or their partners do not want to change their surnames.
Why are rice prices still high in Japan?
Amid shortages, the price of a 5-kilogram bag of rice during the week of April 14 was ¥4,220.
Plug and Play wants to help Japanese startups go global
Phillip Vincent (right), Japan CEO of Plug and Play, and Ma Jingqian, head of ventures, at Plug and Play's Tokyo office, last month
Kotomi Li: 'I refuse to choose death'
Since 2017, Kotomi Li has won some of Japan’s top literary awards and built a formidable career in the face of persistent online harassment. “Authors are tenacious creatures to begin with,” she says.
Want to see the future at the Osaka Expo? Get in line.
“‘Future of life,’ by Ishiguro,” the World Expo pavilion by roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, displays humanlike androids.
Despite shifts in Japan's political landscape, constitutional revision still far off
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been a staunch advocate for constitutional reform.

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