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Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Wednesday that the government will continue to provide assistance in addressing humanitarian needs in the Gaza Strip.
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2025

Japan takes in Palestinian woman injured in Gaza war for treatment

Tokyo plans to accept another injured Palestinian woman in the coming days, marking its first acceptance of patients from Gaza since the conflict broke out in October 2023.
Racing Bulls' Yuki Tsunoda in action during the Chinese Grand Prix at Shanghai International Circuit on Sunday
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Mar 26, 2025

Red Bull set to swap Lawson for Tsunoda: reports

Lawson was promoted from Racing Bulls to replace Sergio Perez this season but has struggled in his first two race weekends.
Denver Nuggets' Serbian center Nikola Jokic (left) looks to pass the ball away from Milwaukee Bucks' Greek forward Giannis Antetokounmpo in the third quarter at Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee on Feb 27.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Mar 26, 2025

NBA to review European league proposal this week

Sports business news website Sportico said league owners will consider a plan that includes eight to 10 franchises, including up to four teams who already play in the EuroLeague.
Gen. Timothy Haugh of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency; FBI Director Kash Patel; Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard; CIA Director John Ratcliffe; and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse depart after testifying at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats, at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday. The hearing came a day after news of a major security breach roiled the Trump administration.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 26, 2025

Trump team scrambles to handle fallout from Signal chat assailed as 'sloppy, careless'

The administration sought to contain the fallout after a journalist said he had inadvertently been added to a discussion on highly sensitive war plans.
An illustration shows avatars that will be created at the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion of the Osaka Expo.
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2025

Errors found in Osaka Expo pavilion's privacy policy

The operator of the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion and a sponsor company are considering whether to correct a discrepancy relating to the handling of visitors' personal information.
Danish, Greenlandic and U.S. flags fly at the Danish armed forces' Arctic Command in Nuuk, Greenland, on March 14.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 26, 2025

U.S. visit puts 'unacceptable pressure' on Greenland: Denmark

The visit comes at a time of flux, with Greenland's political parties still negotiating a new coalition government after a March 11 general election.
Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre, seen behind orange construction fencing, speaks at an election campaign event Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 26, 2025

India said to have meddled in Canadian party election

A yearlong inquiry identified New Delhi as one of the main actors saying that it supported candidates believed to be pro-India.
Students in South Korea sit the annual College Scholastic Ability Test. There is huge pressure on this exam, which determines young people's university choices and, in turn, their job and even marital prospects, leading to a heavy mental health burden.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 26, 2025

Entrance exam wars: A pressure cooker for South Korean youth

South Korea comes to a standstill on the day of the national university entrance exam. But so does students' possibility to determine their future paths beyond a mere test score.
Nissan is set to roll out a number of new and refreshed models in fiscal 2025 and 2026 as it seeks to halt its financial free fall.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 26, 2025

Nissan’s next CEO says it needs partners and he’s open to Honda

Ivan Espinosa, who currently serves as Nissan’s chief planning officer, takes the helm at a critical time for the company.
A train station building (front) is assembled from parts printed using 3D printer technology, in Arida, Wakayama Prefecture, on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2025

3D printer used to construct train station building in Japan

The station building in Wakayama Prefecture is the world's first to be built with 3D printer technology, West Japan Railway said.
A wildfire burns on a hillside in Andong, South Korea, on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 27, 2025

South Korea wildfires 'largest on record,' disaster chief says

More than a dozen fires broke out over the weekend, scorching wide swathes of the southeast, as the death toll rose to 26.
Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip protest against Hamas and call for an end to the war with Israel on Wednesday.
WORLD
Mar 27, 2025

Hundreds stage Gaza protest against Hamas after conflict resumes

"It was a spontaneous rally against the war because people are tired and they have no place to go," said one witness.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and others attend a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday at the Prime Minister's Office.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 27, 2025

Opposition urges LDP to reinvestigate ties with Unification Church

The move comes following a court order to strip the group of its religious corporation status.
Sixteen-year-old Jun’s (Katsuya Kobayashi) life spirals downward after his refusal to stand and sing the national anthem is misconstrued as a political statement in “Boy.”
CULTURE / Film
Mar 27, 2025

‘Boy’: An ambitious portrait of alienated youth

Director Yuji Dan brings a decades-old project to a close with his portrayal of a young man coming of age amid turmoil in the late 1990s.
Volunteers and locals help to clean the mud off a street following heavy rains in Paiporta, near Valencia, Spain, on Nov. 5, 2024.
WORLD / Society
Mar 27, 2025

EU tells public to hold 72 hours of emergency supplies

A new strategy unveiled by the bloc calls for preparing for risks including natural disasters, cyber attacks and geopolitical crises.
Tadanobu Asano plays real-life photographer Masahisa Fukase in “Ravens,” which follows the artist’s life from his professional beginnings to the accident that ended his career.
CULTURE / Film
Mar 27, 2025

‘Ravens’: Tadanobu Asano plays troubled photographer with scapegrace charm

Mark Gill’s visually lush film subverts the realism of Masahisa Fukase’s life story by introducing a human-sized raven as an imagined antagonist.
Alexandra Eala celebrates after her match against Iga Swiatek at the Miami Open at Hard Rock Stadium on Wednesday.
TENNIS
Mar 27, 2025

Philippine wildcard Eala stuns Swiatek to reach Miami semis

The big-hitting 19-year-old showed no signs of being intimidated playing against one of her idols and dismantled Swiatek's serve early on to grab control of the match.
OpenAI is close to finalizing a $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank Group, sources say.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 27, 2025

OpenAI close to finalizing $40 billion SoftBank-led funding

The artificial intelligence developer’s funding round would be the largest of all time, according to data compiled by research firm PitchBook.
Elon Musk listens to U.S. President Donald Trump speak in the White House in Washington on Feb. 11.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 27, 2025

Member of Elon Musk's DOGE team provided tech service to cybercrime ring

Edward Coristine, 19, is among the most visible members of the DOGE effort that has been given sweeping access to U.S. government networks.
Osamu Murata (left), the acting chairman of nonprofit Ashinaga, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Wednesday. Ashinaga, which provides financial aid to children, conducted a survey among parents and guardians of recipients to determine the challenges they face.
JAPAN / Society
Mar 27, 2025

Japan’s single parents struggle to raise children, survey finds

Such households grapple with economic hardship, "time poverty" and social isolation, according to a nonprofit that provides financial aid to children.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plans to set up an expert panel as early as April to reflect on lessons learned from Japan's defeat in World War II.
JAPAN / History
Mar 27, 2025

Ishiba eyes expert panel to reflect on lessons learned from WWII

The prime minister is unlikely to release a government-adopted statement to mark the 80th anniversary this year of Japan's surrender in the war.
Demonstrators take part in a rally to support Rumeysa Ozturk — a Tufts doctoral student taken into custody by federal agents — in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 27, 2025

U.S. authorities detain Turkish doctoral student at Tufts, revoking F-1 visa

U.S. authorities have also targeted students at Columbia University, Cornell University, Georgetown University, Brown University and the University of Alabama.
Hisashi Hieda, a 41-year veteran of Fuji TV’s board of directors and dubbed the broadcaster’s “emperor,” has stepped down.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 27, 2025

In the wake of several scandals, Fuji TV ‘emperor’ Hieda steps down

Hieda, a 41-year veteran of Fuji TV’s board of directors, also plans to step down as chairman of the Fujisankei Communications Group, of which the broadcaster's parent is a part.
The interior of a Sindbad submarine vessel at sea off Hurghada, Egypt, in August 2024, in this still image obtained from video.
WORLD
Mar 28, 2025

Tourist submarine sinks in Red Sea off Egypt, leaving six people dead

The Red Sea Governorate said the submarine, named Sindbad, had 50 people onboard.
Palestinians protest against the Hamas militant group in northern Gaza on Wednesday.
WORLD
Mar 28, 2025

Militants warn against helping Israel with Gaza protests

Hundreds of Palestinians have rallied in recent days in north and central Gaza, some chanting "Hamas out," in a rare show of opposition to the group.
European leaders pose for a family photo during a meeting on Ukraine at Elysee Palace in Paris on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 28, 2025

Europeans back strong Ukraine army but differ on future 'reassurance force'

Progress on what role Europe might play in providing peacetime security guarantees is proving difficult with the prospect of a ceasefire distant.
Myanmar's junta chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 28, 2025

Myanmar junta chief to make rare trip abroad to Bangkok

Since seizing power in a February 2021 coup, Min Aung Hlaing has mostly only traveled to close allies Russia and China.
While car production helped transform Germany, Italy and France after World War II, its influence in East Asia has been even more profound.
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Mar 28, 2025

U.S. auto tariffs take aim at pillar of East Asian economies

Automakers form the nucleus of vast networks of group companies that impact almost every facet of working life in Japan and South Korea.
U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Jack Reed (left) and co-chair Roger Wicker at Capitol Hill in Washington in April 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 28, 2025

U.S. senators from both parties urge formal probe of Signal chat attack plan

The Pentagon was asked to investigate the Trump administration's use of the Signal messaging app to discuss sensitive attack plans.
Shogo Yamaguchi shares his love of traditional Japanese culture with an audience of nearly 2 million YouTube subscribers.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Mar 29, 2025

Shogo Yamaguchi: ‘Traditional culture thrives in a peaceful society’

The Kyoto-based content creator shares travel tips and reminisces on the path that led him to where he is today.
Tokyo emerges as a top market for global tech talent
Tokyo ranks among the world's top tech talent hubs alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to Colliers' newly released global tech markets report.
JSA’s 100th anniversary event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for sumo fans
Egyptian wrestler Osunaarashi has some fun with children during a special Japan Sumo Association event in 2017.
Tens of millions of yen found at home of Aum Shinrikyo founder's wife
The house of the wife of the late Chizuo Matsumoto, the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult's founder, in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, in July
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.
Tokyo stocks hit by a perfect storm of tariffs, politics and budget worries
Tokyo stocks are underperforming shares in other large markets globally.
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.

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