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Tin badges distributed by Chikan Yokushi Katsudo Center, with messages such as "I won't suffer in silence"
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2025

Japan still struggling with problem of groping

The number of molestation cases detected by Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department reached 606 between January and June.
Anutin Charnvirakul speaks during an interview in Bangkok in 2023. Anutin, whose father briefly served as Thailand’s caretaker leader in 2008, said late Friday that he had the support of enough lawmakers to become prime minister.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 30, 2025

Anutin leads race to become Thai PM with pledge to hold poll

Anutin, whose father briefly served as Thailand’s caretaker leader in 2008, said late Friday he had support of enough lawmakers to become prime minister.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greet one another at the start of a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington in February.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 31, 2025

The Nobel Prize and a testy phone call: How the Trump-Modi relationship unraveled

The fallout of a disputed between the two leaders risks pushing India closer to American adversaries in Beijing and Moscow.
A couple poses for a wedding photo in front of a Lawson in the town of Kawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Aug. 25.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Aug 31, 2025

‘Mount Fuji Lawson’ becomes a symbol of Japan’s overtourism problem

Officials in a Yamanashi town have been struggling to balance welcoming visitors and preserving the quality of life for locals. A new mesh barrier is an attempt at compromise.
Flood-affected victims rest under a shelter at a makeshift relief camp in the Kasur district of Pakistan's Punjab province on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 1, 2025

Floods leave women struggling in Pakistan's relief camps

Pregnant women are vulnerable to infectious diseases, according to doctors in a medical camp set up by a local NGO.
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who was dismissed as Thailand's prime minister by the Constitutional Court last Friday, leaves the court in Bangkok following a news conference after her removal.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 1, 2025

Persecuted Thai pro-democracy party now poised to play kingmaker

The People’s Party, which has been in opposition since a 2023 election despite winning the most seats, is being courted by rival groups seeking to form a government.
Afghan volunteers and Taliban security personnel work to move injured people near a military helicopter following earthquakes in the village of Nurgal, in Afghanistan's Kunar province, on Monday.
WORLD
Sep 2, 2025

Afghanistan earthquake death toll crosses 1,400, authorities say

The magnitude 6 earthquake struck around midnight local time on Monday, with the eastern provinces of Kunar and Nangarhar being the worst hit.
Protesters carry items to be burned outside the regional parliament building during a protest against the government's spending priorities, in Bandung, West Java province, Indonesia, on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 2, 2025

Government gestures leave roots of Indonesia protests intact

Experts say little has been done to address the economic inequality fueling the unrest, leaving deep resentment to linger and flare up again.
A massive landslide in Sudan's western Darfur region has flattened an entire mountain village and killed more than 1,000 people, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army group said, leaving only one survivor.
WORLD
Sep 3, 2025

Landslide wipes out Sudan village, killing hundreds

Heavy rain triggered the disaster, flattening the village of Tarasin in the remote Jebel Marra range, with the death toll estimated at anywhere from 300 to over 1,000.
Tokyo's Shin-Okubo district filled with Korean restaurants and shops. South Korean culture has increasingly been embraced as cutting-edge, especially among younger Japanese people.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 3, 2025

Mutual cultural acceptance underpins Japan-South Korea ties

Among those between the ages of 18 and 29, 66% in South Korea and 72.5% in Japan expressed favorable views of one another.
Israeli tanks are positioned on the border with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
WORLD
Sep 4, 2025

Israel says expecting 1 million Gazans to flee new offensive

In Jerusalem, hundreds of Israeli protestors took to the streets to call for a truce and hostage release deal after nearly two years of war.
First responders work at the site of an accident involving Lisbon's Gloria funicular, a popular tourist attraction, which derailed and crashed, resulting in fatalities and injuries, according to authorities, in Lisbon on Wednesday.
WORLD
Sep 4, 2025

At least 15 killed in crash on Lisbon's historic cable car railway

"It's a tragic day for our city. ... Lisbon is in mourning, it is a tragic, tragic incident," said Carlos Moedas, mayor of the Portuguese capital.
AI can amplify the long-known ability to implant false memories, with new MIT and University of California, Irvine, research showing that chatbots, misleading summaries and altered images or videos can distort what people recall.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2025

AI doesn’t just lie — it can make you believe it

Memory manipulation, notes Pat Pataranutaporn, a researcher with the MIT Media Lab, is a very different process from fooling people with deep-fakes.
People walk along a hillside, in the aftermath of an earthquake, in the Nurgal district of Kunar province, Afghanistan, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Sep 4, 2025

Days after quake, survivors in Afghanistan still await aid

Fearful of near-constant aftershocks, people have huddled in the open or struggled to unearth those trapped under the heaps of flattened buildings.
The remains of a barrack at the former Minidoka camp in southern Idaho where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Sep 4, 2025

Have the lessons of WWII internment gone unheeded in U.S.?

Eighty years after the end of World War II, many see troubling echoes of when the U.S. forcibly sent approximately 120,000 people of Japanese descent to internment camps.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, "It won’t stop with just this strike,” after the U.S. targeted a boat in the Caribbean Sea allegedly full of drugs from Venezuela.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 4, 2025

U.S. threatens more strikes on purported drug boats after attack in Caribbean

The move marked a major escalation in U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on narcotics traffickers following deployment of U.S. Navy vessels off the Venezuelan coast.
Smoke billows from a makeshift displacement camp at the Yarmuk Sports Stadium during Israeli strikes on Gaza City on Thursday.
WORLD
Sep 5, 2025

Israeli military says it controls 40% of Gaza City, with plans to expand operation

Gaza health authorities said Israeli fire across the enclave had killed at least 53 people, mostly in Gaza City, where Israeli forces are now a few kilometers from the city center.
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli military offensive shelter in a UNRWA school, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Aug. 19.
WORLD
Sep 5, 2025

Coffee and cash: How Hamas pays its civil servants in secret

The Hamas-run government in Gaza is still paying some salaries to employees, at least in part and with delays.
U.s. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore in June 2018. Trump approved a 2019 Navy SEAL operation to plant a listening device in North Korea, a mission that unraveled amid a series of mistakes and resulted in the SEALs killing North Korean civilians.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 6, 2025

How a top secret SEAL Team 6 mission into North Korea fell apart

The 2019 operation, greenlit by President Donald Trump, sought a strategic edge. It left unarmed North Koreans dead.
People buy groceries from a mobile supermarket in a rural area of Nagomi, Kumamoto Prefecture. The government is considering a new "hometown resident" registration system to help strengthen regional revitalization measures.
JAPAN
Sep 7, 2025

Japan eyes two types of 'hometown resident' registration

The system is included in the government's basic vision for regional revitalization, adopted in June.
Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful from the popemobile after a Mass for the canonization of Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, on Sunday.
WORLD
Sep 7, 2025

Huge crowds at the Vatican as teen becomes first millennial saint

Tens of thousands of people gathered at the Vatican Sunday as Pope Leo XIV proclaimed the Catholic Church's first millennial saint, an Italian teenager dubbed "God's Influencer."
Smoke rises over Kyiv after a Russian missile strike on Sunday, reportedly the largest mass strike of the war.
WORLD
Sep 7, 2025

Russia hits Ukraine with biggest air attack of war

Russia launches drones, missiles on Ukraine, Zelenskyy appeals for stronger air defenses.
Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
SPORTS / Longform
Sep 8, 2025

The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight

Two Japanese athletes reveal how their pursuit of excellence in sports led to eating disorders, and how recovery is reshaping their lives.
The city of Obihiro, Hokkaido, under the scorching sun on July 23
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2025

Heatstroke patient numbers jumped in cooler Hokkaido and Tohoku this summer

In Hokkaido, the number of heatstroke patients rose 1.7-fold from the previous year, while Aomori Prefecture saw a 1.53-fold rise and Akita Prefecture saw a 1.42-fold rise.
Lakers forward LeBron James brings the ball up court against the Minnesota Timberwolves during Game 5 of the first round of the NBA Playoffs at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on April 30.
BASKETBALL
Sep 9, 2025

LeBron James pens essay in Chinese state newspaper in sign of NBA revival

The People's Daily publication of James' essay highlights how the NBA's relationship with its most important market outside North America is close to being fully repaired.
Activists holding signs that reads "No one is illegal!" protest against a huge immigration raid last week in the U.S. state of Georgia, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Sep 9, 2025

Workers say corporate South Korea was warned about questionable U.S. visas before Hyundai raid

For years, South Korean companies have said they struggle to obtain short-term work visas for specialists needed in their high-tech plants in the United States.
A damaged building, following an Israeli attack on Hamas leaders, in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Sep 11, 2025

Israel vows to kill Hamas leaders next time if they survived Qatar attack

Israel's widely condemned Doha operation was especially sensitive as Qatar has been hosting and mediating in negotiations aimed at securing a ceasefire in the Gaza war.
Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA founder, puts on a MAGA hat during an event in Phoenix, Arizona, in December 2024.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 11, 2025

Death of Charlie Kirk lays bare deep U.S. political divisions

His death left many of his fellow conservatives seething and blaming liberals for the assault, while Democrats largely kept to a more reserved tone.
Detainees at a joint facility of Hyundai Motor and LG Energy Solution stand against a bus during a raid by federal agents in Ellabell, Georgia, last week.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 11, 2025

LG's other U.S. sites see exodus of South Korean workers after raid: sources

Visa concerns following last week's immigration raid on LG Energy Solution's joint facility with Hyundai Motor have led South Korean workers to head home.
Evan Dunfee competes during the 35-kilometer race walk during the world championships in Budapest on Aug. 24, 2023.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 11, 2025

Canada's Evan Dunfee hopes to create race walk to remember at world championships

Having won bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Dunfee will be vying for gold when the 2025 World Athletics Championships begin on Sunday.
Tsunami threat passes following magnitude 6.9 quake off Iwate
A tsunami advisory was issued for Iwate Prefecture on Sunday evening following a strong earthquake. The advisory was later called off, after waves measuring 20 centimeters were recorded in some areas.
Japan to subsidize demolition of abandoned inns
Abandoned Japanese-style inns in the Kinugawa hot springs resort in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, in March 2023
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Takaichi stands firm on controversial Taiwan contingency remarks
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a session of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee in parliament in Tokyo on Monday.
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.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
Jenson Button brings end to an illustrious racing career intertwined with Japan
Jenson Button races for Honda during the Singapore Grand Prix in September 2008.
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo’s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.
Jon Homewood: ‘There’s beauty in what we throw away’
After a peripatetic childhood around the world, teacher and artist Jon Homewood ended up coming to Japan in 2012 for a professional opportunity.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.

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