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A new study is offering fresh insight into where consciousness resides in the brain.
WORLD / Science & Health
May 2, 2025

Scientists explore where consciousness arises in the brain

There are practical applications in gaining a deeper understanding of the mechanics of consciousness in the brain.
The economic fallout from the U.S.-China confrontation may be giving new momentum to efforts to bring both sides to the negotiating table.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 2, 2025

China says it’s assessing U.S. talks, hinting at possible thaw

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said Chinese President Xi Jinping needs to contact him in order to begin tariff talks.
A carbon removal plant. Direct air capture and other technologies delivered less than 320,000 tons of carbon removal credits last year.
BUSINESS / Tech
May 2, 2025

Why investors are souring on this once red-hot climate tech

Venture capital funding of U.S.-based startups developing direct air capture (DAC) was down more than 60% in the first three months of 2025.
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) relies on federal funds for about 16% of its overall budget, the broadcaster’s president and CEO, Paula Kerger, told U.S. House lawmakers in March.
WORLD
May 2, 2025

Trump signs executive order to end federal funding of NPR and PBS

The order requires the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to cease direct funding for NPR and PBS to the maximum extent allowed by law.
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.”
CULTURE / Art
May 2, 2025

'Ukiyo-e in Play' showcases traditional art carved anew

The Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints keeps age-old methods alive by creating ukiyo-e prints in collaboration with artisans and contemporary artists.
Coming in handy: The "temaki-zushi" (hand-rolled sushi) was first created by Tama Sushi to solve the problem of eating sushi on the go.
LIFE / Food & Drink
May 3, 2025

The sushi cone that changed everything

Inspired by ice cream cones, Tokyo’s “temaki-zushi” made sushi handheld, affordable — and a quietly radical moment in Japanese dining.
A local resident takes his belongings out of a damaged residential building after a drone attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
May 3, 2025

Trump team has prepped options to pressure Russia to end war

People familiar with the matter cautioned that Trump has made no decision yet as diplomatic efforts were ongoing.
Tetsuo Sato, a 105-year-old former soldier, talks about the Imphal Operation, in Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture, on March 30.
JAPAN
May 3, 2025

'War must never happen again': Former Japanese soldier recalls battle of Imphal

The Imphal operation during World War II is known as one of the most reckless battles waged by the Imperial Japanese Army.
Travelers in front of a flight information panel in a departure hall at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on April 26
BUSINESS
May 3, 2025

Inflation and high hotel prices curtail Golden Week travels

This year consumers in the world's fourth-largest economy are feeling the pain of rising prices for everything from cabbage and rice to electricity bills.
U.S. President Donald Trump talks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in which Trump announced nuclear talks with Iran, in Washington on April 7.
WORLD
May 3, 2025

How Trump blindsided Netanyahu with his Iran nuclear gamble

In just three weeks, the U.S. and Iran have held three rounds of talks aimed at preventing Tehran from building a nuclear weapon in return for sanctions relief.
Princess Aiko speaks at the opening ceremony of the 23rd meeting of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN
May 3, 2025

Princess Aiko delivers first official address

The princess spoke at the opening ceremony of the 23rd meeting of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine in Tokyo.
People walk on the Grand Ring on the opening day of the Osaka Expo on April 13.
JAPAN
May 3, 2025

Organizers broadly agree to preserve part of Osaka Expo ring

A concrete plan to determine which section will be conserved is due to be finalized at a meeting next month.
A China Coast Guard helicopter is seen near the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Saturday.
JAPAN
May 3, 2025

China Coast Guard helicopter enters Japanese airspace near Senkakus

The incursion near the Japanese-controlled, Chinese-claimed islands on Saturday was just the fourth such flight by Chinese aircraft since the end of World War II.
A Shein pop-up store in New York. Many goods imported from China now face a 145% tariff.
BUSINESS
May 3, 2025

Young Americans sour on Trump’s China tariffs despite election-year bump

For Republicans, the trade war is poised to reverse gains with a demographic that could be key to maintaining control of Congress.
Sovereignty, with jockey Junior Alvarado aboard, wins the 151st Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Horse Racing
May 4, 2025

Sovereignty rules in 151st Kentucky Derby

Sovereignty powered through the final turn and out-dueled favorite Journalism in the final straight to win the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.
A seamstress at Kineya Tabi sews together split-toe "tabi" socks, once a major industry for the town of Gyoda, Saitama Prefecture.
LIFE / Style & Design
May 3, 2025

Japan’s ‘tabi’ sock mecca runs on thread and memories

At their peak in the early-20th century, Gyoda’s artisans churned out more than 84 million pairs of socks each year.
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump attend the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peters Square in Vatican City on April 26.
WORLD / Politics
May 4, 2025

Trump posts AI-generated photo of himself as pope, drawing internet outrage

The U.S. president, who is not a Catholic, posted the image less than a week after attending the funeral of Pope Francis, who died at 88 last month.
Israeli tanks operate in the Gaza Strip, by the Israel-Gaza border, on Saturday.
WORLD
May 4, 2025

Israel calls up tens of thousands of reservists for Gaza offensive

All aid deliveries to Gaza have been blocked since March 2, prompting warnings from U.N. agencies of impending humanitarian disaster.
Red Bull driver Max Verstappen competes during qualifying for the Miami Grand Prix on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
May 4, 2025

New dad Verstappen beats Norris to Miami pole

Days after the Red Bull driver and his partner welcomed his first child, the four-time champion set a blistering lap around Hard Rock Stadium.
A voting site owned by SpaceX in Brownsville, Texas, on April 22. Members of a South Texas community that has served as the hub of Elon Musk's rocket company voted on Saturday to formally establish a new city called Starbase, fulfilling one of Musk's long-held dreams.
WORLD / Politics
May 4, 2025

Easy vote turns Musk's dreams for Starbase city in Texas into reality

Voters overwhelmingly backed turning Elon Musk's Starbase into a new municipality.
Saul "Canelo" Alvarez celebrates and poses with his championship belts after beating William Scull in Riyadh on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Boxing
May 4, 2025

Alvarez outpoints Scull to reclaim undisputed super middleweight championship

Scull, who had an advantage in height and reach over Alvarez, was unable to find an answer to the Mexican's methodical stalking and effective body blows.
An Israeli police officer investigates a crater on Sunday at the site of a missile attack, launched from Yemen, near Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport.
WORLD
May 4, 2025

Israel fails to intercept Houthi missile and vows harsh response

Weeks of U.S. airstrikes against the Houthis, an Iran-backed militant group that holds areas in Yemen, have so far failed to halt the group’s attacks on Israel.
Palestinians receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on April 29.
WORLD
May 5, 2025

Hamas executes looters in Gaza as food crisis worsens under Israeli blockade

Hamas officials have accused some of the looters of working in collaboration with Israel, which has sealed off aid from entering Gaza.
Naomi Osaka pumps her fist during a match at the Australian Open in January. On Sunday, the former world No. 1 earned her first title since becoming a mother.
TENNIS
May 5, 2025

Osaka wins first WTA title since becoming a mother

The win at a smaller WTA 125 event was also the Japanese star's first-ever title on clay.
Norway's Casper Ruud holds the trophy after winning the Madrid Open on Sunday.
TENNIS
May 5, 2025

'Lucky number seven' for Ruud after beating Draper to clinch Madrid Open

After coming up short repeatedly in big finals, Ruud earned his first Masters 1000 triumph with a 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 victory over Draper in a 2½ hour tussle.
Harry Kane hugs teammate Joshua Kimmich after Bayern Munich's match against RB Leipzig on Saturday. Bayern Munich clinched the league title a day later after Leverkusen drew with Freiburg.
SOCCER
May 5, 2025

Kane's Bayern Munich claims Bundesliga title following Bayer Leverkusen draw

The championship is the first major title for English forward Harry Kane, the league's top scorer this season.
An Israeli police officer investigates a crater at the site of a missile attack, launched from Yemen, near Ben Gurion Airport, in Tel Aviv on Sunday.
WORLD
May 5, 2025

Israel vows response after Houthi missile evades air defense

"We will hit back sevenfold at anyone who hurts us,” Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz said Sunday after the attacks near the country's main airport.
People watch as Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett is seen on a screen speaking at the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders' meeting, in Omaha, Nebraska, on Saturday.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 5, 2025

Warren Buffett successor inherits giant cash pile and many questions

Buffett, the 94-year-old architect and face of Berkshire Hathaway, built the firm from humble beginnings into one of the world’s most valuable enterprises.
An Israeli soldier walks near tanks deployed at a position near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
May 5, 2025

Israel prepares to scale up pressure on Gaza ahead of Trump visit

The new ground operations will likely involve taking control of additional territory while stopping short of a full siege.
The Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles in 2024. U.S. President Donald Trump says the U.S. movie industry is dying a "very fast death" due to the incentives that other countries are offering to draw American filmmakers.
BUSINESS
May 5, 2025

Saying Hollywood is dying, Trump orders 100% tariff on non-U.S. movies to save it

No details were provided on how the tariffs would be implemented.
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.
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.
Tokyobike founder believes in taking in sights of dynamic cities slowly
Ichiro Kanai, founder and president of Tokyobike, is developing a niche but a new customer base who want to cycle as part of a lifestyle.

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