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Shinjiro Koizumi — son of a former prime minister and rival to the current one — was appointed defense chief after falling short in his bid for the Liberal Democratic Party presidency earlier this month.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 22, 2025

For three key Cabinet posts, Takaichi turns to an eclectic trio

The prime minister’s picks for Japan’s new defense, foreign and economic security ministers are not your typical stodgy line-up.
Sanae Takaichi meets with Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te at the Presidential Office in Taipei in April.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 22, 2025

The secret to Takaichi’s success in the Indo-Pacific

In her favor, Takaichi, a former economic security minister, seems to understand that this developing security structure centers around Japan.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (center) during a photo session with her new Cabinet ministers including Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (right) at the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday
BUSINESS
Oct 22, 2025

Japan’s new leader to woo Trump with promises on pickups and soybeans

The two leaders will sit down in Tokyo during Trump's first visit to Japan since his re-election.
An Israeli flag flutters near apartments in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank on Aug. 16, 2020.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2025

Israel's parliament gives initial nod to occupied West Bank annexation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party did not support the bill put forth by lawmakers outside his ruling coalition.
Transportation Security Administration agents at a security checkpoint at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Dallas, Texas, on Monday
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2025

U.S. air safety workers tighten belts as shutdown drags on

The 60,000 men and women responsible for keeping American skies safe have gone unpaid throughout the government shutdown.
Artworks depicting former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during Thatcher Fest in the town of Grantham, England, earlier this month. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has described Thatcher as a role model.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 23, 2025

Japan joins over 80 nations to have been led by women since WWII

While Takaichi's rise to power is a milestone for the nation, some caution it does not necessarily signal a broader advance in women's political standing in Japan.
Hitoshi Inoue, head of Bank of Yokohama’s markets business
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 23, 2025

Top Japan local bank ready to boost JGB buying when BOJ pivots

Bank of Yokohama is prepared to pile back into the domestic debt market when the central bank’s peak interest rate is in sight.
Federal agents deployed tear gas after demonstrators gathered at an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon, on Oct. 18.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2025

Flush with cash, U.S. immigration agency expands weaponry and surveillance

Spending on the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown is vastly higher than during his first presidency.
Nomura Holdings CEO Kentaro Okuda
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 23, 2025

Nomura CEO seeks to tap Japan investors’ private market bets

Kentaro Okuda is looking to Japanese investors who are seeking private markets as a way to diversify their assets.
Rock band kurayamisaka’s debut album has listeners debating over its “shoegaze” classification.
CULTURE / Music
Oct 24, 2025

Japanese rock fans can't agree on kurayamisaka

The September release of the band's debut album has dominated Japan’s indie-rock conversation for weeks, with listeners debating over its “shoegaze” classification.
Hamas conducts a public hostage handover ceremony in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, in February.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2025

The Gaza peace plan will fail without American troops

Trump has been clear that he is not enthusiastic about overseas troop deployments in general — and the use of U.S. boots on the ground in Gaza may be a bridge too far.
Photographs dry on clotheslines after a cleaning process as University of Fine Arts' students restore family pictures that have been damaged by mud during a flood.
WORLD / Society
Oct 23, 2025

After deadly floods, Spaniards fight to save photos

Thanks to a university-led initiative, many memories have been rescued from ruin.
An oil refinery in Russia. Oil prices jumped around 5% to a two-week high after the U.S. imposed sanctions on major Russian suppliers Rosneft and Lukoil.
BUSINESS
Oct 24, 2025

Oil surges 5% after U.S. sanctions Russian firms Rosneft and Lukoil

The U.S. said it was prepared to take further action as it called on Moscow to agree immediately to a ceasefire in Ukraine.
After an escalation in trade tensions had called into question the meeting, the White House confirmed on Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping next week.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 24, 2025

Trump to meet Xi in South Korea as part of Asia swing

Trump will also meet Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo on Tuesday and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Busan on Wednesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly suggested he could order the U.S. military to escalate attacks by hitting cartel infrastructure on land in Venezuela.
WORLD
Oct 24, 2025

Trump says U.S. eyeing land strikes next after drug boat attacks

Trump's statement was the clearest indication yet that he’s preparing to broaden strikes in his campaign to stop the flow of drugs into the U.S. from Venezuela.
Palestinians seek aid supplies from the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the central Gaza Strip in August. U.N. and aid groups have questioned the neutrality of the foundation.
WORLD
Oct 24, 2025

U.S. mulls Gaza aid plan that would replace controversial GHF aid operation

Washington is seeking to facilitate having more deliveries of assistance in the Palestinian enclave under a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and Princess Aiko meet with a family member of a victim of the Tokyo air raids on Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 24, 2025

Japan’s imperial family mourns 1945 Tokyo air raid victims

Tokyo’s Sumida Ward memorial preserves the remains of some 105,000 people, including those who died in the massive air raid.
Florian Wiltschko’s interest in Shintoism began with a trip to Japan in his teens. He now serves as the supplicant priest at the 355-year-old Hisai Hachiman Shrine in Mie Prefecture.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Oct 24, 2025

Florian Wiltschko: ‘Shinto helps me understand and live within Japanese culture’

A Shinto priest from Austria talks about the origins of his spiritual journey and how he spends his days at a 355-year-old shrine.
New industry minister Ryosei Akazawa speaks during an interview at the ministry on Thursday.
BUSINESS
Oct 24, 2025

Minister eyes stricter regulations on large-scale solar farms

Ryosei Akazawa has pointed out that improperly installed mega solar power plants pose challenges for local communities.
Leaders from EU countries at a European Council meeting in Brussels on Thursday
WORLD
Oct 24, 2025

EU leaders defer decision on Russian assets as Belgium balks

Ukraine’s European allies increasingly see using frozen Russian central bank assets as the only viable way to keep financing Kyiv in its fight against Moscow’s full-scale invasion.
Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton in Mexico City on Thursday
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Oct 24, 2025

Hamilton hopes Ferrari can recapture Mexico magic

Carlos Sainz, who is now driving for Williams, delivered Ferrari's last victory 12 months ago in Mexico, with the team now on a 23-race winless streak.
At Nepalico, the "dal bhat" — a Nepali dish consisting of rice and lentils stewed with spices — with chicken curry is the most popular item on the menu.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 24, 2025

Lentil by lentil, Nepali food takes shape in Tokyo

The cuisine is emerging out of the shadow of Indian fare, thanks to a new breed of passionate chefs keen to introduce locals to South Asian dishes beyond butter chicken and naan.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Oct. 7.
BUSINESS
Oct 24, 2025

Trump says all trade talks with Canada are terminated

The U.S. and Canada had been in talks for weeks on a potential deal for the steel and aluminum sectors.
"Menheim” is a dark fantasy manga with a story that centers on a girl’s quest to find a cure for her ill brother.
CULTURE / Books
Oct 25, 2025

Spanish artist and Japanese writer duos diversify the manga talent pool in Japan

As manga and anime’s global popularity grows, international artists are getting new opportunities to enter the booming industry.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivers her first policy speech in the Lower House in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 24, 2025

Takaichi focuses on economic and security concerns in first policy speech

Over half of the new prime minister's speech was dedicated to economic policies, and she described the fight against inflation as the top priority for her administration.
Emperor Naruhito officially swears in Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi during a ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 24, 2025

Sanae Takaichi stands tall and heads into the breach

Her Cabinet includes several rivals from the presidential campaign. It is an attempt to smooth over ill and a smart move.
Former Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke speaks after he was named among three U.S. economists awarded the Nobel Economics Prize, during a news conference at the Brookings Institution in Washington in October 2022.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 25, 2025

Trump tariffs panned by slate of top economists at Supreme Court

"This is Economics 101, but the implications are profound,” a group of nearly 50 economists wrote in a brief filed Friday.
Security lines at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, in May
WORLD
Oct 25, 2025

U.S. to photograph all noncitizens entering and exiting country

The rule comes amid broader efforts by the Trump administration to expand collection of data on immigrants and foreign nationals in the United States.
Paul Ingrassia, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, at a social event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington in June.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 25, 2025

Violence, racism and Nazi praise: The dark side of U.S. political group chats

Three separate controversies involving leaked text messages from private online group chats have rocked U.S. political circles this month.
The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, seen in the North Sea during NATO Neptune Strike 2025 exercise on Sept. 24. Washington is deploying an aircraft carrier and accompanying ships to counter drug-trafficking organizations in Latin America, the Pentagon said Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 25, 2025

Trump sending U.S. carrier to Latin America as war fears rise

The Pentagon has ordered the deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group to counter drug-trafficking organizations in Latin America.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
China warns of military response if Japan intervenes in Taiwan contingency
Representatives from the Japan Innovation Party hand over a proposal to designate Xue Jian, the Chinese consul-general in Osaka, as persona no grata, to a staff of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.

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