Search - world

 
Menu
Search
 
May 05, 2025
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access
116,190 results
Sort by: Relevance Newest Oldest
After adjusting your search parameters, press Enter on your keyboard or click on the red magnifying glass to run your query again.
Magokoro Yoshihira (center) is the managing director of Yui Associates, which operates the neighborhood fixtures of Sanya Cafe and Juyoh Hotel. Yusuke Takahashi (left) met Yoshihira during a difficult period in his life and now works as the cafe’s chef. Nancy Anne (right) has worked for over 10 years at Juyoh Hotel and enjoys the multicultural environment.
COMMUNITY / Issues / The Foreign Element
Apr 28, 2025

Reclaiming Sanya, one meal at a time

Since 2018, Sanya Cafe has been building community in one of Tokyo’s most colorful — and infamous — neighborhoods.
Emergency workers search for victims under the rubble of an apartment building that was destroyed by a Russian missile strike early Thursday in Kyiv. The attack, which killed at least 12 people, was the deadliest on Ukraine’s capital in nearly a year.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 25, 2025

Trump tells Putin to 'STOP' after Russian attack kills 12 in Kyiv

The rare rebuke from the U.S. president came after Moscow launched its biggest attack this year on the Ukrainian capital.
Consumer prices excluding fresh food in Tokyo gained 3.4% in April from a year earlier, as a mixture of impacts from last year’s school fee cuts and higher food and energy costs accelerated inflation, according to the internal affairs ministry.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 25, 2025

Tokyo prices rise most in two years, backing central bank's hike path

Consumer prices excluding fresh food gained 3.4% in April from a year earlier. Tokyo's figures are a leading indicator for national price gains.
Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura (second from right) attends a groundbreaking ceremony held in Osaka Thursday for an integrated resort including a casino, along with Osaka Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama (right) and Osaka IR representatives Toyonori Takahashi (left) and Edward Bowers.
JAPAN
Apr 25, 2025

Osaka casino project breaks ground, aiming for 2030 opening

The 490,000-square-meter resort will have a casino and other facilities with a total floor space of 770,000 square meters.
Shipping containers at a port in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, on April 15
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 25, 2025

South Korea and U.S. aim for package of deals before tariff pause ends in July

The U.S. and South Korea had a "very successful" meeting on Thursday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said afterwards.
Hokkaido's famous lamb is turned into a ragout or French-style stew and used as a pizza topping at Savoy Ezo.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Apr 26, 2025

Savoy, Tokyo’s top pizzeria, fires up in Sapporo

The chain of pizza restaurants has opened its first branch in Hokkaido, offering locals a taste of its famous crisp and airy pizzas.
Travis Hunter smiles on stage after being selected as the No. 2 pick in the NFL draft by the Jaguars in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS
Apr 25, 2025

Two-way star Travis Hunter heads to Jaguars as No. 2 pick in NFL draft

The Jaguars traded up to get the No. 2 pick from the Browns.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with heads of municipal entities in Moscow on Monday. Moscow has insisted that Ukraine largely demilitarize as a condition to end the war.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 25, 2025

U.S. to demand Putin accept Ukraine’s right to military force

U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Russia to raise the issue with Russian President Vladimir Putin, sources say.
U.S. President Donald Trump has touted the $44 billion Alaska liquefied natural gas project, which would deliver gas from the state's North Slope fields via a 1,300 kilometer pipeline for domestic use and send it to customers in Asia as LNG, bypassing the Panama Canal.
WORLD
Apr 25, 2025

U.S. expected to press Japan and South Korea for support of Alaska LNG project

The $44 billion Alaska liquefied natural gas project would send gas to customers in Asia as LNG, bypassing the Panama Canal.
Katia Beeden, life coach and campaigner for white South Africans who want to apply for U.S. refugee status, speaks at her residence in Fish Hoek, Cape Town, South Africa, on Thursday.
WORLD / Society
Apr 25, 2025

U.S. eyes persecution claims as white South Africans seek resettlement

U.S. President Donald Trump issued a Feb. 7 executive order that called for the U.S. to resettle Afrikaner refugees.
Kobe Bryant's first game-worn jersey is displayed during a media preview ahead Sotheby's sale of sports memorabilia in New York on March 21.
BASKETBALL
Apr 25, 2025

Jersey from Kobe Bryant's Lakers debut sells for $7 million

The jersey was photo-matched to seven games from his 1996-97 rookie season.
On the surface, "Wildcat Dome" tells a personal story of damaged children — now adults — bound together by tragedy. Underneath, there’s a constant undercurrent of political consequence, invisible and pervasive like radioactive particles.
CULTURE / Books
Apr 26, 2025

‘Wildcat Dome’ challenges Japan's historical narratives

Prolific writer Yuko Tsushima explores themes of militarization, colonialism and occupation through the identities of mixed-race orphans in postwar Japan.
A Maruti Suzuki concept electric SUV at a trade show in Gandhinagar, India, last January
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 25, 2025

Maruti Suzuki profit misses estimate on higher input costs

The disappointing earnings for the sector leader come amid a broader consumption slack in the world’s most populous country.
The Maersk Launcher, chartered by a seabed-mining company to explore the practices viability, returns from an expedition to the Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean in June 2021.
WORLD
Apr 26, 2025

Trump moves to ramp up deep-sea mining for critical minerals

The move comes amid increasing concern over new Chinese curbs on the export of rare-earth materials.
Russian President Vladimir Putin greets U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff prior to their talks in Moscow on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 26, 2025

Trump says Russia-Ukraine deal 'very close' after new Kremlin talks

But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy again rejected suggestions that his country give up on Russian-held Crimea.
Indian soldiers trek back after a search operation around Baisaran meadow in the aftermath of an attack in Pahalgam, in Indian-held Kashmir, on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 26, 2025

Pakistan official calls for international inquiry into Kashmir terror attack

The defense minister’s remarks appeared to be aimed at defusing tensions with India, after armed militants attacked a tourist group in the disputed territory.
Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato listens to a question during an interview at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on April 17.
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Apr 26, 2025

Yen and BOJ's rate policy may remain focus in Japan-U.S. trade talks

A look at finance officials' descriptions of a recent meeting suggests currencies and the BOJ's interest rate policy may remain key factors in broader trade negotiations.
A federal courthouse in Boston where a judge is presiding over a challenge by one of the many international students suing the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
WORLD / Society
Apr 26, 2025

Trump administration to restore foreign students' legal status, for now

One international student said they felt relief but were "still very much anxious about next steps."
The launchpad is seen after a Russian Soyuz 2.1A rocket carrying satellites took off at the new Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Uglegorsk, in Russia's far eastern Amur region in April 2016.
WORLD
Apr 26, 2025

Russian satellite tied to nuke program appears out of control, analysts say

The Cosmos 2553 satellite has had various bouts of what appears to be errant spinning over the past year.
The badge of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent is seen during an operation with migrants being transferred to a plane to be expelled from the United States to their country at the airport in El Paso, Texas, in May 2023.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 26, 2025

2-year-old U.S. citizen appears to have been deported 'with no meaningful process'

U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty said the girl, who was referred to as "V.M.L." in court documents, was deported with her mother.
Virginia Giuffre speaks to reporters in New York in August 2019. Giuffre, a former victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring, died on Friday at her farm in Western Australia. She was 41.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 26, 2025

Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre takes own life in Australia, family says

"It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia," the family said in a statement.
Brazil's Urupadi National Forest Park, in the Amazon rainforest, in June 2023
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Apr 26, 2025

Countries could use forests to 'mask' needed emission cuts, report says

The report said overly optimistic assumptions about how much CO2 forests might draw down was "masking the scale and pace of the fossil fuel emissions cuts needed."
A thick plume of smoke is visible as motorists drive along a highway near the source of an explosion in the southern Iranian city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday.
WORLD
Apr 26, 2025

Hundreds injured after explosion at port in Iran's Bandar Abbas

Efforts were ongoing to extinguish a significant fire, with the port's customs saying that trucks were being evacuated from the area.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks at Rengo's May Day event alongside the union's chief, Tomoko Yoshino, on Saturday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Apr 26, 2025

Ishiba vows wage hikes that keep up with inflation at May Day event

Ishiba's participation marks the third year in a row for a Japanese prime minister to attend Rengo's May Day event.
Thick, black smoke billows behind rescuers near the source of an explosion at the Shahid Rajaee port dock southwest of Bandar Abbas in the Iranian province of Hormozgan on Saturday.
WORLD
Apr 27, 2025

Suspected chemical blast at Iran port kills at least 18, injures hundreds

The explosion occurred as Iran began a third round of nuclear talks with the United States in Oman, but there was no indication of a link between the two events.
Chris Eubank Jr. (right) fights Conor Benn during their middleweight bout at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Boxing
Apr 27, 2025

Chris Eubank Jr. beats Conor Benn on points in thrilling middleweight bout

All three judges scored the non-title fight 116-112 after a pulsating 12-round slugfest, with both fighters setting a ferocious pace.
An Iranian woman walks past an anti-U.S. mural on a street in Tehran on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 27, 2025

U.S. and Iran say progress made in 'positive' nuclear talks

Iran currently enriches uranium to 60%, far above the 3.67% limit imposed by the 2015 deal but still below the 90% threshold required for weapons-grade material.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, leader of the Liberal Party, attends a campaign rally in Mississauga, Ontario, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 27, 2025

Canadian leaders make closing pitches in campaign upended by Trump

A victory for Mark Carney's Liberal Party, which looked like a long shot earlier this year, would mark one of the most dramatic turnarounds in Canadian political history.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (center) leads prayers next to Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Hussein al-Sheikh (third from left) during a meeting of the organization's executive committee in Ramallah, in the West Bank, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 27, 2025

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appoints aide as potential successor

Hussein al-Sheikh was appointed by Abbas, 89, after the vice presidency position was created during a convention held in Ramallah this week.
An ambulance is parked at the site of the Lapu Lapu day festival, where a vehicle drove into a crowd killing several people in Vancouver on Saturday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 27, 2025

As many as nine dead after driver plows into Vancouver festival crowd

The driver was a "lone suspect" known to police, a police spokesperson told journalists at the scene.
Japan unveils new overtourism countermeasures
The majority of tourists in Japan tend to stay in Tokyo, Osaka or Kyoto, resulting in overcrowding in popular tourist spots and a strain on transportation systems.
South Korea couple beat same-sex barriers to parenthood
South Korean lesbian couple Kim Kyu-jin (left) and her wife, Kim Sae-yeon, pose with a "pregnant woman" badge during an interview in Seoul last month.
Toyoko Kids: The lonely street children of Tokyo
Many young people who feel neglected at home flock to the Toyoko area to find a community where they can fit in.
Opportunities await the bold in the Year of the Wood Dragon
2024 marks the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, with the year predicted to be a good time for fresh starts.
Don’t worry about global population collapse
Most projections show the world will hit peak humanity in the 21st century as people choose to have smaller families and women gain power over their own reproduction.
Japan’s ‘tabi’ sock mecca runs on thread and memories
A seamstress at Kineya Tabi sews together split-toe "tabi" socks, once a major industry for the town of Gyoda, Saitama Prefecture.
Despite shifts in Japan's political landscape, constitutional revision still far off
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has been a staunch advocate for constitutional reform.
'Ukiyo-e in Play' showcases traditional art carved anew
The Adachi Institute has been working on creating brand new ukiyo-e prints in collaboration with contemporary artists such as Yayoi Kusama, whose “Mt. Fuji in Seven Colours: When life boundlessly flares up to the universe” (2014) can be seen on display at “Ukiyo-e in Play.”
Ishiba hears advice from across the aisle on how Japan should handle Trump
Prime Minister Shigaru Ishiba and CDP head Yoshihiko Noda at a parliamentary session in Tokyo on April 23.
Don't send in the clones: AI event nixed as Alt accounts get reality check
A screenshot from the website for Alt's AI conference, which was canceled after the company disclosed an investigation into its sales figures.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami
By Alex K.T. Martin

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Fujitsu crafts sustainable innovation for itself, society
Fujitsu crafts sustainable innovation for itself, society

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER