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A protester holds a sign related to the release of case files of disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 13, 2025

Epstein emails say Trump ‘knew about the girls’

The swearing-in of a new Democrat after a long delay should pave the way to compel a House vote to release all unclassified records related to the disgraced financier.
Ukraine's then-energy minister, German Galushchenko (left), and Chief State Inspector for Nuclear and Radiation Safety of Ukraine Oleh Korikov speak during the IAEA’s Board of Governors meeting at the agency’s headquarters in Vienna on Dec. 12, 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 13, 2025

Ukraine moves to quell $100 million energy corruption scandal

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for the dismissal of two cabinet ministers amid a probe into an alleged $100 million corruption scheme.
Ernesto Katsunori Suzuki holds a cacao fruit at his farm in Tome-Acu in northern Brazil last month.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Nov 13, 2025

Japanese immigrants gain attention with farming method in the Amazon

Anticipation is rising that the agricultural method, involving nurturing a forest to grow crops there, can help the rainforest bounce back.
Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management, a unit of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, aims to launch a new fund in January with a size of several billion yen.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 13, 2025

MUFG’s asset manager targets Japan buyers for its first CLO fund

The securities, which are bundled leveraged debt, will mainly hold dollar-denominated floating-rate loans made to U.S. companies.
Chinese businessman She Zhijiang (second from right) is escorted by Royal Thai Police out of the Suvarnabhumi Airport Police Station in Bangkok on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Nov 13, 2025

Thailand extradites alleged Chinese racketeer linked to Myanmar scam hub

She Zhijiang, 43, had been in Thai custody since 2022 after spending more than a decade on the run from Chinese authorities.
Yoshinoya CEO Tetsuya Naruse says the firm's China business is now on track to report a record profit this year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 13, 2025

Yoshinoya predicts record China profit on new recipes

The beef bowl chain redesigned menus, offering items with vegetable toppings and expanding combo sets, to enhance value without sacrificing margins.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange building, operated by Japan Exchange Group
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 14, 2025

Japan Exchange looks at ways to curb crypto hoarding firms

The Tokyo Stock Exchange operator is exploring options including a stricter application of its backdoor listing rules and requiring firms to undergo a fresh audit.
A U.S. Capitol Police officer in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday
WORLD / Politics
Nov 13, 2025

U.S. government readies for massive reboot after ending record shutdown

Officials warn some operations may take a week or more to fully resume after the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders campaigns with then-New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in the borough of Queens on Oct. 26.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2025

Zohran Mamdani’s win redefines U.S. politics

Mamdani won because he did for the left what Trump did for the right. He clearly articulated his radical position without worrying about losing the center.
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Nov 15, 2025

At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure

With “onsen” baths in every room, Fufu Tokyo brings its modernized take on the traditional Japanese inn to the capital.
An email released on Wednesday from disgraced late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein references his former companion Ghislaine Maxwell and U.S. President Donald Trump.
WORLD
Nov 14, 2025

Conservative influencers defend Trump as House aims to vote on Epstein files

The emails, which House Democrats released on Wednesday, again thrust the relationship between Epstein and Trump into the spotlight.
Ukrainian emergency personnel work at the scene of a drone attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Nov 14, 2025

Intel shows Putin not ready for Ukraine deal, Britain's ex-MI6 chief says

Richard Moore, who stepped down as head of MI6 in September, also said there could be consequences in terms of Chinese activity if the West didn’t help Ukraine prevail.
Students wait for the start of the annual college entrance examinations at an exam hall in Seoul on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 14, 2025

South Korea bans flights as 500,000 take crucial university admission test

The number of those taking the test, essential to secure a place at the country’s top universities, was the highest in seven years.
People shelter from the sun as they visit the Brandenburg Gate during a heat wave in Berlin in July. An October report in The Lancet scientific journal estimates the yearly number of deaths from heat-related causes worsened by climate change at nearly 550,000.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 14, 2025

Deadly heat worldwide prompts $300 million for climate health research at COP30

U.N. agencies in August estimated about half the world’s population, or more than 3.3 billion people, are already struggling with the rising heat.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a new military operation to remove "narco-terrorists" and secure the U.S. "from the drugs that are killing our people."
WORLD
Nov 14, 2025

U.S. announces new military operation in Latin America

U.S. forces have carried out strikes on about 20 vessels in international waters in the region since early September, killing at least 76 people.
A meteorite store in Midelt. Morocco has reported more falls than anywhere else in the last 20 years.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 14, 2025

Meteorite hunters scour the Sahara for riches from outer space

Prices for meteorites range from hundreds of dollars for pieces traded on internet sites like eBay to millions for larger chunks sold through auction houses like Christies.
The skull of a Pleistocene wolf from Alaska, used for photogrammetric reconstruction of 3D models in a study on the emergence and diversification of dog morphology, pictured at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 14, 2025

Doggie diversity in size and shape began at least 11,000 years ago

New research contradicts the notion that such diversity was mainly a relatively new phenomenon driven by selective breeding in recent centuries.
The Asahi, along with the Nikkei and the Yomiuri Shimbun, filed a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court against Perplexity in August.
JAPAN / Media
Nov 14, 2025

AI poses threat to journalism in Japan, news association chair says

Japan’s publishers are concerned about the impact generative artificial intelligence is having on the news business, Shiro Nakamura said.
An extreme heat warning in Death Valley, California, on July 15
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 21, 2023

Our civilization was built for a climate that’s vanishing

Weather disasters linked to climate change like those unfolding across the northern hemisphere will affect more and more of us.
Scientists handle a multiple-core sampling device for extracting sediments and sludge, in Beppu Bay, off Oita Prefecture, in June 2021. Beneath the seawater lie layers of seemingly unremarkable sediment and sludge that tell the story of how humans have fundamentally altered the world around them.
JAPAN
Jul 20, 2023

Japanese sea sludge tells story of human impact on Earth

Beppu Bay is among areas being considered for designation as a "golden spike," a location that offers evidence of a new geological epoch defined by our species: the Anthropocene.
Tony Bennett at the Apollo Theater in the Harlem neighborhood of New York in 1997
CULTURE / Music
Jul 21, 2023

Tony Bennett, masterful stylist of American musical standards, dies at 96

Bennett vaulted to fame in the early 1950s with a string of emotional hits, including "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams," "Because of You" and "Blue Velvet."
Beyond Meat plant-based burger patties for sale at a plant-based grocery store in Hong Kong in June 2019.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 21, 2023

The coming disruption of animal production

It will be easier to persuade people to avoid meat from animals if they can eat meat and other animal products that taste like those they know, but do not require raising animals.
Demonstrators protest against Japan's plan to discharge treated radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant into the ocean, in Seoul on July 7.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 20, 2023

Fukushima water opposition is steeped in anti-science

Skepticism over Japan’s plan to discharge treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant must not give way to scaremongering.
Medics help a woman who had passed out from the heat in Athens, Greece, on Thursday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jul 21, 2023

Extreme heat and weather conditions attributed to stagnant jet stream

It’s no coincidence that extreme heat is engulfing huge swaths of Asia, Europe and North America all at the same time.
Icons of Google's Artificial Intelligence app BardAI (or ChatBot), OpenAI's app ChatGPT and other AI apps are displayed on a smartphone screen.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 20, 2023

Google tests AI tool that is able to write news articles

Some executives who saw Google’s pitch described it as unsettling, and two people said it seemed to take for granted the effort that went into producing accurate and artful news stories.
An overwhelming majority of Japanese firms are negative about achieving a goal of having women in 30% of executive positions by 2030, a survey shows.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 20, 2023

Firms pessimistic about hitting 30% goal for female execs by 2030, poll shows

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida set the target in June for leading companies, aiming to boost womens' management participation from 2.2% as of July 2022.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language
Jul 18, 2023

ChatGPT, Bing, Bard and DeepL: Which one offers the best Japanese-to-English translation?

AI is revolutionizing the world of translation, but which tool reigns supreme? We staged a head-to-head battle between ChatGPT-4, Bing, Bard and DeepL … and the results are in.
Max Verstappen leaves the podium with his broken trophy after the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix in Mogyorod, Hungary, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Jul 24, 2023

Max Verstappen dominates field to win Hungarian Grand Prix by wide margin

Verstappen's 44th career win was the ninth in 11 races so far this season for the Dutchman and his seventh in a row.
Jonas Vingegaard celebrates with his bike after winning the Tour de France in Paris on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Cycling
Jul 24, 2023

Jonas Vingegaard secures second straight Tour de France title

Runner-up Tadej Pogacar, the 2020 and 2021 Tour champion, won the white jersey as the best under-25 rider for the fourth year in a row.
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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