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People take cover near the scene of a shelling in Kherson, Ukraine, on June 8, 2023.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 28, 2025

U.N. probe finds new Russian crimes against humanity in Ukraine

Russia's continual use of drone attacks targeting civilians to force people to flee Ukrainian-held territory is tantamount to a crime against humanity, probe says.
Beirut's skyline as seen from Mansourieh, Lebanon. The Israeli army still occupies five positions in southern Lebanon and continues to carry out strikes on Lebanese territory, claiming to target Hezbollah.
WORLD
Oct 28, 2025

U.N. and France slam Israel after attack on U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon

The incident "shows disregard for safety and security of the peacekeepers implementing Security Council mandated tasks in southern Lebanon," the U.N. peacekeeping force said.
The Port of Nansha in Guangzhou, China
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2025

Latest U.S.-China trade truce leaves fundamental issues unresolved

U.S. President Donald Trump, on a weeklong trip to Asia, said on Monday that he felt good about reaching a deal with China.
Former Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba calls for the swift restoration of a deleted section of a 1940 parliamentary record containing an anti-military speech criticizing Japan's war with China, on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 28, 2025

Ishiba wants 1940 anti-military speech record restored

Lawmaker Takao Saito denounced Japan's military campaign in China, and was subsequently expelled from the lower chamber of the Diet.
An FAA air traffic control tower at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia on Oct. 24
WORLD / Society
Oct 28, 2025

Thousands of U.S. flights delayed as government shutdown halts paychecks

Roughly 13,000 air traffic controllers and 50,000 Transportation Security Administration officers must work without pay amid a government shutdown.
Mosquitoes have been discovered in Iceland in a first for the island nation, which has long been one of the world's mosquito-free places.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 28, 2025

Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for first time

Along with Antarctica, Iceland has long been one of the few places on earth without a mosquito population.
Katsuhiko Ushikubo, chief investment officer of Norinchukin Bank, ahead of an interview at the Bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Monday
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 28, 2025

Norinchukin still ready to invest in credit despite losses

Chief Investment Officer Katsuhiko Ushikubo is in charge of the bank’s efforts to repair its ¥40.7 trillion portfolio after losses on foreign bonds last fiscal year.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 28, 2025

Lawyers for Brazil ex-President Bolsonaro request shorter sentence in coup plot

Last month, four of the five judges on a Supreme Court panel voted to convict Bolsonaro of five crimes.
Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 12. Potentially as many as 10,000 Palestinians are unaccounted for and presumed dead, but in the devastation left by two years of war, with entire districts bombed or bulldozed into rubble, no one knows for sure.
WORLD
Oct 28, 2025

For Gazans buried in rubble or unmarked graves, a last indignity

There are potentially as many as 10,000 Palestinians unaccounted for and presumed dead, though in the devastation left by two years of war, no one knows for sure.
Members of the media gather outside the Nara District Court in the city of Nara on Tuesday hours before the start of the trial of Tetsuya Yamagami, the man accused of fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 28, 2025

Abe shooting suspect Yamagami pleads guilty to murder

On the first day of his trial, Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, admitted to the 2022 killing of the former prime minister.
Internally displaced women wait to collect aid at a displacement camp in Gadaref, Sudan.
WORLD
Oct 28, 2025

Sudan paramilitary unit overruns major Darfur city as war rages on

The fighting in El-Fasher is the latest twist in a civil war that’s raged for more than 30 months despite repeated international attempts to broker a ceasefire.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government issued a €300 million (¥53 billion) bond on Tuesday to fund flood defenses and other climate-related measures.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2025

Tokyo Metropolitan Government issues climate resilience bond

The money will be used to upgrade coastal protection facilities for the Port of Tokyo, develop sediment prevention facilities and enhance river flood resilience.
Scientists use a raft inside the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector located about 1 kilometer under Mount Ikeno near the city of Hida, Gifu Prefecture, in this undated image obtained on Wednesday
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 28, 2025

Researchers in U.S. and Japan offer insight into ghostly neutrinos

The new study is providing insight into the difference in mass between neutrino types, a key unanswered question.
People watch a TV news report on North Korean missile launches at the main railway station in Seoul on Oct. 22.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 29, 2025

North Korea answers Trump entreaties with nuclear-capable missile test

U.S. President Donald Trump appeared resigned that a grand summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un was probably not in the cards during his trip to Asia this week.
A Palestinian man reacts next to the body of a man, who according to medics was killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 29, 2025

Israel strikes Gaza after accusing Hamas of violating U.S.-brokered ceasefire

The development is the latest test of the fragile deal brokered earlier this month.
Brazilian police launched their biggest ever raids on Rio de Janeiro's drug traffickers on Tuesday, with as many as 2,500 officers taking part.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 29, 2025

At least 64 killed in war-like Rio drug raids

As many as 2,500 heavily armed officers took part in the operation targeting Brazil's main drug-trafficking gang in two poor neighborhoods.
A study has found that Chinese-based scientists filled 45% of leadership roles in U.S.-China joint studies in 2023, up from 30% in 2010.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 29, 2025

China closing in on U.S. as leader in global science, study shows

An analysis of almost 6 million research papers shows that Chinese scientists are taking the helm in almost half of all collaborations with U.S. counterparts.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi gifts U.S. President Donald Trump a putter owned by late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a golf bag signed by Hideki Matsuyama and a gold leaf golf ball in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 29, 2025

With gifts and hospitality, Takaichi taps Abe's legacy to forge bond with Trump

Talk turned to Abe as soon as the U.S. leader stepped into the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo to exchange pleasantries with Japan's recently appointed prime minister.
The Tokyo headquarters of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, also known as the Unification Church
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 29, 2025

Hearings on Unification Church dissolution order to end in November

The church had allegedly inspired the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe three years ago.
Participants march through Tokyo for the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade in April last year.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Oct 29, 2025

Gender identity law reform stalls despite court rulings

Strong opposition from conservatives in parliament have dimmed prospects for reform.
England defender Lucy Bronze (right) celebrates scoring the team's second goal during the match against Australia at Pride Park Stadium in Derby, England on Tuesday.
SOCCER
Oct 29, 2025

England bounces back from Brazil defeat with 3-0 win over Australia

The friendly was overshadowed by what appeared to be a serious knee injury to Michelle Agyemang, who was carried off on a stretcher.
2026 Milano-Cortina President Giovanni Malago (back right), Italy Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini (right), President of Lombardy Attilio Fontana (center right), President of Veneto Luca Zaia (center left) and former Italy swimmer Federica Pellegrini (back center) during the unveiling of the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics medals in Venice on July 15.
OLYMPICS / Winter Sports
Oct 29, 2025

With 100 days to go, Milan Winter Olympics chiefs 'can see finish line'

Time is ticking down to the start of an unusually intricate and spread-out Winter Olympics.
Koto Nagata’s “Baka’s Identity” follows three men (from left: Yuta Hayashi, Takumi Kitamura and Go Ayano) in Japan’s fake ID trade, bound by crime and brotherhood.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 29, 2025

‘Baka's Identity’ exposes an underworld of stolen names and lost souls

In Koto Nagata’s thriller, Japan’s vulnerable youth on society’s margins risk everything — even who they are.
U.S. President Donald Trump walks with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi aboard the USS George Washington aircraft carrier during a visit to the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 29, 2025

Takaichi buys time and builds trust with ‘near-perfect’ Trump summit

Experts called the PM’s meeting with the U.S. president an “overwhelming success,” especially considering the tumult and uncertainty in bilateral relations over the past year.
A boy sits amid the rubble of a house destroyed in an Israeli strike in Nuseirat, in the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Oct 30, 2025

Israeli army says ceasefire in Gaza resumed after strikes

The flare-up in hostilities on Tuesday was one of the worst since Israel and Hamas signed a truce in mid-October.
Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump riot in front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 30, 2025

U.S. prosecutors suspended after calling Jan. 6 defendants 'mob of rioters,' sources say

The decision marks the latest in a string of personnel actions targeting Justice Department employees who worked on criminal or civil cases that Trump and his supporters disfavor.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during an event in Washington on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 30, 2025

Nvidia becomes first $5 trillion firm as AI rally picks up steam

Nvidia has become the most-important stock in a bull market that’s been driven by optimism for AI to revolutionize the global economy.
Satoru Tezuka, chair of the Personal Information Protection Commission, advocates revising the personal information protection law as part of an effort to balance stronger enforcement with greater flexibility for data utilization.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Oct 30, 2025

Japan weighs fines to strengthen personal data protection

Under the current framework, there is no mechanism to claw back profits obtained through illegal data practices, allowing malicious operators to retain their illicit gains.
Toyota Motor CEO Koji Sato speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 30, 2025

Toyota doesn’t plan better offer in privatization deal, CEO says

CEO Koji Sato said Toyota Motor has no plans to sweeten a deal involving a proposed ¥4.7 trillion buyout of Toyota Industries.
Rob Jetten, leader of the progressive Democrats 66 party, addresses supporters in Leiden, Netherlands, on Wednesday. His party is on track to win this week's parliamentary election.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 30, 2025

Dutch far-right party falls in election as centrists set to win

The result would put D66 leader Rob Jetten in a position to form a coalition government and potentially become the country’s next prime minister.
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.
Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
Shohei Ohtani collects fourth MVP Award with 2025 NL honor
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season on Thursday.
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.
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.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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