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Industry professionals gathered in Kyoto to discuss sake at the Sake Samurai Summit.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 11, 2025

Industry experts weigh sake’s global future at Kyoto summit

Participants at the Sake Samurai Summit in Kyoto discussed how global enthusiasm and domestic headwinds are reshaping Japan’s sake trade.
A view of the U.S. Capitol building. The deal demonstrates how difficult it is for Democrats to use what little leverage they have in a Republican-controlled Washington.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 11, 2025

U.S. shutdown nears end as Senate passes deal and House readies vote

The Senate’s 60-40 vote comes amid flight disruptions, food aid delays and frustrations in a federal workforce that has mostly gone without pay for more than a month.
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.
SUMO
Nov 11, 2025

As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?

Professional sumo’s ring remains off-limits to women and girls — not by law, but by centuries of belief and tradition.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 11, 2025

Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely

The prime minister’s remarks illustrate the gradual evolution of Japan’s relationship with Taiwan and its growing concern over China.
Elliott Investment Management has shared its views with Toyota Industries management that the ¥16,300 per share buyout offer is too low and suggested other options for the deal, people familiar with the matter say.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 12, 2025

Elliott takes Toyota Industries stake and sees buyout price as too low

Toyota Industries disclosed in a filing that Elliott Investment Management had a 3.26% stake as of Sept. 30, making it one of the manufacturer’s biggest shareholders.
Among the long list of Japanese video game innovators, Tetsuya Mizuguchi stands alone for his unique approach to music, rhythm and puzzle-solving gameplay.
LIFE / Digital
Nov 11, 2025

Hearing colors and seeing sounds with Tetsuya Mizuguchi

The creator of Japan’s answer to Tetris has long been obsessed with the concept of synesthesia in games.
SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son is aggressively seeking to capitalize on booming investment in AI and chips, even as he scales back other investments.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 12, 2025

SoftBank sells Nvidia stake for $5.8 billion to fund AI bets

The Tokyo-based company now boasts a portfolio that includes some of the world’s most sought-after names in artificial intelligence: OpenAI and Oracle.
Keir Starmer, leader of Britain's Labour Party and now prime minister, speaks to supporters at a reception celebrating his election win in London in July 2024.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 4, 2025

Britain’s political system is undergoing a risky revolution

The British have traditionally prided themselves on the uniqueness of their political system; an aristocratic arrangement that evolved peacefully into a democratic one.
Rising bear attacks in Japan, driven by climate change, population decline and a shortage of hunters, have prompted intervention by the Self-Defense Forces as urban areas face growing threats from wildlife.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 7, 2025

Along with Japan’s urban bears comes fur and loathing

What’s unusual is that the majority of these incidents are happening not to unlucky hikers or mountain foragers, but to people in residential areas going about their daily lives.
Venus Williams loses a point during a women’s singles match at the Mubadala Citi DC Open at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center in Washington on July 24.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2025

Venus Williams exposed all that's wrong with U.S. health insurance

U.S. policymakers have made clear that rather than rock this boat, they’d prefer to wait for health care to tip over on its own.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the media in Kyiv on Nov. 7.
WORLD
Nov 12, 2025

Close Zelenskyy ally accused of orchestrating major graft scheme

The accusations against Timur Mindich are the latest episode in a sweeping corruption scandal involving claims of massive embezzlement from the energy sector.
Smoke rises from a residential area of Pokrovsk, the Donetsk region in Ukraine, on Nov. 3.
WORLD
Nov 12, 2025

Russian forces roll 'Mad Max'-style into Ukraine's Pokrovsk, video shows

Moscow says taking Pokrovsk would give it a platform to drive north toward the two biggest remaining Ukrainian-controlled cities in the Donetsk region.
Japan has been a tough market for the PlayStation platform over the past few generations, as Nintendo continues to dominate there.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 12, 2025

Sony emulates Nintendo with new, cheaper console only for Japan

A region-locked PlayStation 5 Digital Edition will cost ¥55,000, Sony announced via a live stream, significantly lower than the previous price of ¥72,980.
A Hamas militant stands guard during a search operation for the bodies of Israeli hostages in eastern Gaza on Nov. 2.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 12, 2025

U.S. military considers building a base for 10,000 people near Gaza

The move is being weighed as part of its push for a stabilization force of troops from other countries to monitor a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Palestinians carry aid supplies in Gaza. UNICEF said it faces serious challenges getting 1.6 million syringes and solar-powered fridges to store vaccine vials into Gaza.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 12, 2025

UNICEF says Israel blocking 1 million syringes needed to vaccinate Gaza children

The blockage comes amid Israeli concerns that items such as syringes and refrigerators could be repurposed for military use.
Diana Loginova, an 18-year-old music student and musician known by the stage name Naoko, speaks with her mother Irina as she appears in court over new public order charges in St. Petersburg on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 12, 2025

Russian teenager who sang anti-Kremlin songs in street gets more jail time

Diana Loginova, 18, was arrested in St. Petersburg last month after giving a series of impromptu street concerts where she sang covers of songs penned by Kremlin critics.
Carlos Alcaraz plays a backhand return to Taylor Fritz during the ATP Finals tennis tournament in Turin on Tuesday.
TENNIS
Nov 12, 2025

Alcaraz fights back to beat Fritz at ATP Finals

The five-time Grand Slam champion moved to within one win of securing the year-end No. 1 ranking for the second time.
The Munich court found that OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, was not entitled to use song lyrics to train its artificial intelligence without licenses, and that the artists who wrote them are entitled to compensation.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 12, 2025

German court rules against OpenAI in copyright case

OpenAI has faced court cases in the U.S. regarding their ChatGPT, but the challenge in Germany is the first major case of its kind in Europe, a German music rights group said.
Iraqi polling officials count ballots at a polling station during the country's parliamentary election in Al-Muhandiseen district in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 12, 2025

Iraqi voters turn out in large numbers as region watches

Iraq, which has long been vulnerable to proxy wars and is closely watched by Iran and the United States, has recently regained a sense of stability.
A Palestinian man uses a mobile phone to record a burning truck after an attack by Israeli settlers in the village of Beit Lid, east of Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
WORLD
Nov 12, 2025

Israeli police say settlers arrested after West Bank clashes

The military said it dispatched troops after "masked Israeli civilians ... attacked Palestinians and set fire to property in the area."
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during a session of the House of Councilors Budget Committee in parliament on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 12, 2025

Japan to use extra budget to address bear attacks

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Wednesday that a proposed supplementary budget would include spending to help local governments address attacks by bears.
Volunteers pack snack bags and meals for after-school programs in the Central Texas Food Bank warehouse kitchen in Austin, Texas, on Oct. 30.
WORLD / Society
Nov 12, 2025

Communities donate meals and funds as U.S. food aid remains in limbo

This month has seen an uptick in charitable donations and activities from businesses and individuals as a historic lapse in SNAP has strained low-income households.
A Congolese Red Cross worker receives an mpox vaccination at a hospital in Goma in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in October 2024.
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2025

Third of donated Japanese mpox vaccines wasted in Congo amid storage issues

Japan has donated 3 million doses of its LC16 vaccine to Congo to help fight a new form of mpox known as clade Ib, which sparked a global health emergency last year.
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2025

Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship

Family courts ruled that the four were not recognized by their Japanese fathers, and therefore rejected their claims.
Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand (center) leads a G7-plus session on maritime security during the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting at the White Oaks Resort in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 13, 2025

G7 diplomats mull how to get Russia to engage in Ukraine peace talks

Efforts to organize a summit between the presidents of Russia and the U.S. were put on ice last month after Moscow's rejection of an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.
Israeli soldiers walk out from a tunnel underneath the European Hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on June 8.
WORLD
Nov 13, 2025

U.S. had intel on Israeli forces using human shields in Gaza, sources say

The U.S. intelligence gathered in the final months of 2024 raised questions inside the White House and the intelligence community about how widely the tactic was being used.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks at the 2023 U.S. Business Day and Taiwan-U.S. Supply Chain Partnership Forum in Taipei. Taiwan's leadership is advocating for a supply chain initiative among democratic nations that reduces reliance on China.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2025

How Taiwan’s ‘nonred’ supply chain might work

Proposed as an alternative to China-dominated supply chains, the initiative urges democracies to cooperate in securing advanced manufacturing supply chains.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks prior to signing funding legislation to reopen the U.S. government, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 13, 2025

Trump signs deal to end longest U.S. government shutdown in history

The legislation will restart disrupted food assistance, pay hundreds of thousands of federal workers and revive a hobbled air-traffic control system.
China's "wolf warrior" diplomacy is like a relentless chess match, putting democracies like Japan on the defensive, forcing them to counter Beijing's aggressive moves and deceptive feints while executing a strong, coordinated defense.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 13, 2025

How Takaichi should navigate Beijing’s diplomatic threats

These incidents reveal a consistent pattern in Beijing’s diplomatic arsenal, the weaponization of progressive language, the inversion of victim and aggressor narratives.
Protesters in Makati City, Metro Manila, hold a rally over the Philippines' territorial disputes with China outside the Chinese Consulate in June 2015. ASEAN, despite five of its members claiming parts of the South China Sea, doesn’t back Manila in its standoff with Beijing.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 13, 2025

ASEAN hedges as the South China Sea bubbles over

One would think ASEAN, with five of its members claiming parts of the South China Sea, would support the Philippines’ quest for a peaceful, legal resolution. You’d be wrong.
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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