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A Japan day ceremony at the Osaka Expo featuring Myaku-myaku on Thursday in the city of Osaka
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2025

Best-selling singer Misia and Hello Kitty celebrate Japanese culture at Osaka Expo

The expo’s national day celebrating its host country spanned culture from contemporary to ancient, in a ceremony featuring calligraphy and gagaku and more.
Liu Jianchao, head of the Communist Party's international department, speaks during an event in Beijing on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 4, 2025

Top Chinese official says war with U.S. unimaginable in tone tweak

China is adopting a less confrontational tone with the U.S. days after confirming details of a trade framework with Washington.
Search and rescue members scour a flood-damaged area in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene along the Swannanoa River in October 2024 in Asheville, North Carolina.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 4, 2025

A majority of companies are already feeling the climate heat

Its growing financial impacts are a key reason some companies are continuing to pursue emissions cuts even amid political turbulence.
Karuizawa Distillers, which runs Komoro Distillery in Nagano Prefecture, has teamed up with the city of Furano and real estate developer Seibu Group to open a whisky distillery in Furano.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jul 4, 2025

Beyond the lavender fields in Furano, a whisky distillery emerges

The region has teamed up with Karuizawa Distillers and property developer Seibu Group to build a state-of-the-art facility to make single malts.
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. enters the ring before his fight against Jake Paul in Anaheim, California, on June 28.
MORE SPORTS / Boxing
Jul 4, 2025

Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. arrested by U.S. immigration officers

U.S. authorities informed Mexico that they have begun the procedure to send him home.
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya explains his campaign promises in Tokyo on June 30 for the Upper House election.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 4, 2025

Japan’s Do It Yourself Party: Who we are and where we are headed

Our core philosophy is “to protect Japan’s national interests and bring about harmony in the world.”
The Government Pension Investment Fund suffered a loss in the January-March quarter as a global trade war due to higher U.S. tariffs hurt equities and the outlook for interest-rate cuts dragged down the dollar against the yen.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 4, 2025

GPIF logs $61 billion loss as weak dollar hits overseas assets

The pension fund incurred losses on all four of its asset classes in the January-March period, the first time this has occurred since July-September 2022.
The exhibition of Fujimoto’s architecture surveys his career to date, as well as looks ahead as shown in his proposal of a future floating city designed in collaboration with data scientist Hiroaki Miyata.
CULTURE / Art
Jul 4, 2025

The future is bright inside the visionary mind of architect Sou Fujimoto

From a model of the Grand Ring you can walk through to a futuristic city design, the architect’s exhibition at Mori Art Museum is an invitation to engage with architecture.
Naomi Osaka after losing her third round match against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova at Wimbledon on Friday.
TENNIS
Jul 4, 2025

Osaka out of Wimbledon as Pavlyuchenkova battles back

Osaka was in a strong position after taking the first set, but her bid to finally make the last 16 imploded as Pavlyuchenkova mounted a comeback.
Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, has repeatedly declined to say whether he will step down when his four-year term as chair expires in May.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 5, 2025

Powell's silence on his future complicates Trump Fed chair search

The Fed chief has repeatedly declined to say whether he will step down when his four-year term as chair expires in May, or remain on the Fed board.
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2025

Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype

Authorities on Friday evacuated some residents from remote islands close to the epicenter of the 5.5 magnitude quake.
Naomi Osaka serves to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova during their third round match at Wimbledon on Friday.
TENNIS
Jul 5, 2025

Osaka still dreams of glory despite latest Wimbledon disappointment

Osaka blew a golden opportunity to reach the fourth round of Wimbledon for the first time as she was beaten by Russian world No. 50 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama attends a long-life prayer offering ceremony at the Main Tibetan Temple in McLeod Ganj, near Dharamsala on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 5, 2025

Dalai Lama hopes to live beyond 130 years, much longer than predicted

The Nobel Peace Prize winner was speaking during a ceremony to offer prayers for his long life, ahead of his 90th birthday on Sunday.
Children play video games on their mobile phones at an internet cafe in Demoso township in Myanmar's eastern Karenni state.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jul 5, 2025

Making connections in Myanmar's fractured state

Four years of civil war between Myanmar's military and its myriad opponents have shattered communications networks.
Brave Blossoms players celebrate after Japan beat Wales on Saturday in Kitakyushu.
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Jul 5, 2025

Brave Blossoms extend Wales losing streak to 18 with 24-19 win

Japan fought its way back into the game after a slow start to earn the win in Kitakyushu.
Alpecin-Deceuninck rider Jasper Philipsen crosses the line to take the first stage of the Tour de France in Lille, France, on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Cycling
Jul 6, 2025

Philipsen wins windy Tour de France opener as Evenepoel trapped in split

Philipsen took the yellow jersey in a frantic sprint finish in the northern city of Lille, his 10th Tour de France stage win.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Chinese Premier Li Qiang pose for a picture after a bilateral meeting Saturday ahead of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro on July 5.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 6, 2025

BRICS nations voice 'serious concerns' over Trump tariffs

The summit's impact will be depleted by the absence of Vladimir Putin as well as Xi Jinping, who is skipping the meeting for the first time in his 12 years as president.
A street in Suttsu, Hokkaido, with a sign put up by an anti-nuclear organization. The small community is considering hosting a facility that would hold nuclear waste.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy / OUR PLANET
Jul 6, 2025

Ainu land rights in crosshairs as Hokkaido communities debate nuclear waste

Some scholars and activists are raising concerns that Indigenous voices are not being heard amid the debate over whether to host nuclear waste storage facilities.
Former soldier Shuzo Yamada recounts his experience of being detained in Mongolia after World War II, in Nanto, Toyama Prefecture, in May.
JAPAN / History
Jul 6, 2025

Memory of detention in Mongolia still fresh for 107-year-old Japanese man

As they make a state visit to Mongolia, the imperial couple will offer flowers at a memorial for Japanese who were captured and detained in Mongolia after World War II.
Clothes displayed at Shein’s headquarters in Singapore
BUSINESS
Jul 21, 2023

Fast fashion report cards show what’s really in your clothes

Consumers’ drive for quantity over quality is transforming the world’s textile industry, sparking an almost doubling in global fiber production over the past two decades.
A local resident stands next to a car in front of a residential building heavily damaged in the course of the Russia-Ukraine war, in the settlement of Toshkivka, in the Luhansk province of Russian-controlled Ukraine on March 24.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Aug 1, 2023

Mission impossible: How to get Kyiv and Moscow to talk

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's 10-point plan for peace has found some backers, but parts of it have failed to land with everyone.
Brian Harman poses with the Claret Jug after winning the British Open in Hoylake, England, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Jul 24, 2023

Unflappable Brian Harman wins British Open

Brian Harman, an avid hunter back home in Georgia, simply refused to allow himself to fall prey to the world's leading golfers as he showed nerves of steel to win the British Open on Sunday.
Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring in his debut for Inter Miami during a Leagues Cup match against Cruz Azul in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 25, 2023

Will Messi’s MLS gambit be good for Latin American soccer?

The superstar’s arrival in Miami will spur investment in the sport throughout the Americas and may finally help slow the exodus of young players to Europe.
The ASEAN Post Ministerial Conference with Japan at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations foreign ministers' meeting in Jakarta on July 13
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 26, 2023

Is ASEAN part of the 'Global South'?

Despite the effort put into its formation, the Group of 20’s failure to function as hoped may well have brought about the Global South narrative.
Veteran Japanese investors are split over whether to put their money into Chinese bonds.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 27, 2023

Friends who help manage $640 billion clash on China bonds

While they’ve been friends for at least a decade, their take on trading China bonds couldn’t be more diametrically opposed.
Contrary to some news reports, the movie "Oppenheimer," starring (left to right) Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh, has not been banned in Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 27, 2023

'Oppenheimer' spurs debate on the atomic bombings

Christopher Nolan’s biopic has triggered a debate on the rights and wrongs of dropping the bomb. It could lead to a more useful discussion in Japan — assuming it’s ever released here.
Cameron Lew, the 27-year-old behind the California-based music project Ginger Root, crafted a detailed city-pop-inspired universe with a 1980s idol storyline for last year’s “Nisemono” album.
CULTURE / Music
Jul 28, 2023

Ginger Root's modern spin on Showa nostalgia

The California-based project is set to bring its distinct interpretation of city pop to Fuji Rock Festival this weekend.
Olga Kharlan (left) and Anna Smirnova compete during the Fencing World Championships in Milan on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS
Jul 28, 2023

Ukrainian fencer disqualified for refusing to shake hands with Russian

Olga Kharlan, a four-time Olympic medalist and world champion, won the individual sabre bout 15-7 and then refused to shake hands with her opponent.
Pan Gongsheng
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Jul 29, 2023

China’s central bank chief is taskmaster Xi couldn’t let retire

Pan Gongsheng is expected to turn around growth slowdown for the world's second largest economy and safeguard the $60 trillion domestic financial system.
New Zealand head coach Ian Foster (left) celebrates with Damian McKenzie (center) and Rieko Ioane after clinching the Rugby Championship with a win over Australia in Melbourne on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS
Jul 30, 2023

Ian Foster: Ominous All Blacks still not the finished product

New Zealand crushed a disjointed Wallabies 38-7 in Melbourne on Saturday in another statement performance.

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