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Drug rehab patients walk in formation to have lunch at the Mega Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation Center, north of Manila, in 2019.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 10, 2025

Abuse and coercion rife in Philippines drugs rehab, rights groups say

Rights groups say some facilities fail standards and have called for more health and social support.
Construction workers in Pasadena, California, on Tuesday. The U.S. could lose millions of workers in the construction industry if President Donald Trump carries through on his campaign of mass deportations, with workers in agriculture, bars and restaurants also at risk.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 12, 2025

Trump deportations send construction workers 'back to the shadows'

Such a response could worsen a labor shortage that already threatens to delay homebuilding and exacerbate a housing affordability crisis.
Students from Hiroshima Global Academy chat over gyōza dumplings with "island guardian" Koshi Omori at his home in Osakikamijima, Hiroshima Prefecture.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Mar 3, 2025

Model school for global education rooted on small Hiroshima island

The school hopes its well-equipped students will help inspire and bring new energy to the aging island community.
Jewish settlers pray in the Evyatar settler outpost in the northern West Bank last July
WORLD / Politics
Mar 10, 2025

Christians press Trump to clear path for Israel to annex West Bank

Some 80% of white, evangelical Christians voted for President Trump. Now, some want a policy change that could undermine a future Palestinian state.
Hong Kong's real estate sector is slumping, putting the government's development plans at risk and signaling a wider economic malaise that may become a spanner in the works of Beijing's plans to transform the territory's economy.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Apr 7, 2025

Will China succeed in remaking Hong Kong in its own image?

Beijing can control Hong Kong politically, but to impose its economic vision on the territory it needs businesses to get on board as these face an economic and real estate plunge.
A woman walks past campaign posters depicting Watson candidates Dr. Ziad Basyouny, an independent, and Tony Bourke, of Labor, in Lakemba, Australia, on March 12.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 8, 2025

Bringing the war home: Gaza threatens to reshape an Australian election

The ruling Labor party, which has a razor-thin majority, is vulnerable in several seats where pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel voters make up a large proportion of the electorate.
Yumi Watanabe (right), head of the residents' association of the Tsubamesawa public housing complex in Sendai, delivers a meal to a resident.
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Tohoku
Apr 21, 2025

Disaster public housing complexes in Sendai work to boost interactions

Residents are working with volunteers to organize a children’s cafeteria and other events.
Students practice dance during a project activity at Hotei Junior High School in Konan, Aichi Prefecture.
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Apr 28, 2025

'Voluntary' school clubs face reform amid excessive burdens

Club activities have long been a standard part of junior high and high school life in Japan, but some schools now struggle to form teams.
St. James' Park, home of Newcastle United, stands in the center of Newcastle, England — neither hidden away on a retail park nor tucked into a neighborhood, fenced in by neat rows of red brick terraced houses.
SOCCER
Apr 22, 2025

A soccer field can be sacred

For many, the pitch is anticipation and thrill and hope, but it is also familiarity, and comfort, and belonging.
Keen to end its reliance on rice imports, Indonesia wants to plant vast tracts of the crop, along with sugar cane for biofuel, in the restive eastern region of Papua. But environmentalists warn it could become the world's largest deforestation project, threatening endangered species and Jakarta's climate commitments.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Apr 22, 2025

Indonesia food plan risks 'world's largest' deforestation

Deforestation linked to the plan is already underway.
An aerial photo taken on March 20, 2025, shows part of the original site of Lang Nu village in Vietnam's Lao Cai province, after it was wiped away in a landslide triggered by Typhoon Yagi's devastating heavy rains last year.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 23, 2025

Vietnam village starts over with climate defenses after landslide

She and dozens of survivors have been relocated to a site that authorities hope will withstand future climate change-linked disasters.
An ambulance is parked at the site of the Lapu Lapu day festival, where a vehicle drove into a crowd killing several people in Vancouver on Saturday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 27, 2025

As many as nine dead after driver plows into Vancouver festival crowd

The driver was a "lone suspect" known to police, a police spokesperson told journalists at the scene.
A man places a lit candle at a vigil at 41st and Fraser street in Vancouver on Sunday, a day after a car drove into a crowd during the Lapu Lapu Festival, killing at least 11. The suspect in the attack has been charged with murder.
WORLD
Apr 29, 2025

Filipino 'caring culture' hit hard by Canada truck-ramming that killed 11

Many have carved out their place in Canada by raising other people's children while others tend to the elderly or have found careers as medical technicians.
U.S. citizen Chrishan Wright from New York after an interview in Lisbon on April 9
WORLD / Politics
May 6, 2025

Fearing Trump's policies, some Americans start new lives in Europe

Relocation firms said there has been a spike in interest since Trump returned to the White House, with clients expressing concern over policy and social issues.
Staff members from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Community Guidance Division call for cooperation with officers conducting door to door visits, on April 15 in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. Officers make a point of clearly identifying themselves and their assigned police box during each visit.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 6, 2025

Tokyo police promote home-visit program amid growing security challenges

Some residents, wary of scam artists pretending to be police officers, refuse to engage at all when one visits their home.
Resident Fahed Abu Haidar speaks to Mwaffaq Abu Shash, a Druze cleric, following deadly clashes between Sunni fighters against armed Druze residents in Jaramana, Syria, on Monday.
WORLD
May 7, 2025

Druze near Damascus resist demand to turn in arms as tensions boil

Druze residents near Syria's capital are resisting a demand by the Islamist-led government to hand in their light weapons, saying authorities have yet to address fears of new attacks by Sunni Muslim militants after days of sectarian violence.
Palestinians queue for a portion of hot food distributed by a charity kitchen at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Monday.
WORLD
May 9, 2025

U.S. says solution for Gaza aid is 'steps away' as aid groups raise alarm

Anticipation has built up about a new aid plan for Gaza, laid waste by 19 months of an Israeli military campaign against Hamas.
A man draped in the Israeli flag gestures as Metropolitan Police officers secure the area outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead in Washington early Thursday morning.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 22, 2025

Two Israeli embassy staffers shot and killed outside Jewish museum in Washington

The gunman shouted "free Palestine," authorities said, with U.S. and Israeli leaders expressing shock and outrage over the killings.
A candlelight vigil is held in Lafayette Square in Washington on Thursday following the fatal shooting of two employees of the Israeli Embassy.
WORLD
May 23, 2025

Israeli embassy staffers killed in U.S. aspired to Middle East bridge-building

The staffers were shot as they left an annual event for young Jewish diplomats, this year focusing on resolving humanitarian crises in the Middle East.
Mervat Hijazi washes clothes inside the tent they took shelter in after being displaced in Gaza City.
WORLD / Society
May 24, 2025

Diary of a Gazan family's descent toward starvation

The family's plight is a snapshot of the misery plaguing the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.
The LGBTQ  community in the U.S. has expressed shock and dismay regarding government plans to slash the Health and Human Services Department's budget, which includes the elimination of specialised mental health services for LGBTQ  youth.
WORLD / Society
Jun 3, 2025

LGBTQ+ suicide risk rises as Trump cuts mental health services

Since returning to office in January, Trump has signed executive orders to curb LGBTQ+ rights, many of which directly impact young people.
Demonstrators gather as members of the California National Guard and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers stand guard in response to protests against immigration sweeps in Los Angeles, California, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 11, 2025

Korean Americans criticize Donald Trump Jr. for 'reckless' social media post

They accused the U.S. president's son of mocking the current Los Angeles unrest by referencing 1992 riots in which members of the community reportedly opened fire on looters.
Canes & Tales' Art Deco-inspired interior is designed by renowned architect Andre Fu.
LIFE / Food & Drink / Kanpai Culture
Jun 15, 2025

Osaka’s Canes & Tales raises a glass to bygone charms

With its creative cocktails and classy air of a gentlemen’s club, Canes & Tales is a sophisticated addition to the city’s thriving drinks scene.
"In My Closet" by the artist Noumra is on display at Tokyu Plaza Harajuku's Harakado space until June 18.
CULTURE / Art
Jun 14, 2025

At Tokyo Pride’s first queer art exhibition, intimacy and resistance share the wall

A vibrant, community-sourced exhibition in Harajuku showcases queer art that spans the political, absurd and deeply personal.
The Dodgers, coming off a World Series championship in 2024, are a cultural icon in Los Angeles and have a large Latino fan base.
BASEBALL
Jun 21, 2025

Dodgers pledge $1 million to support families impacted by U.S. immigration raids

The Dodgers will partner with the city to get the money to those in "critical need," the team said.
Author Minae Mizumura strolls through the garden of her cottage in Oiwake, Karuizawa, in a photograph taken by her friend and collaborator Toyota Horiguchi.
CULTURE / Books / Perspectives
Jul 8, 2025

Between reality and fiction: A summer’s day in Karuizawa with Minae Mizumura

The author speaks on the Nagano Prefecture town's unique positioning between Japan and the West, literary tradition and artificial intelligence.
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 15, 2025

With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’

The annual defense white paper says that U.S. actions under Trump will “significantly impact” the Indo-Pacific region and “will require continued attention.”
Members of Syria's security forces drive through the predominantly Druze city of Sweida on Tuesday.
WORLD
Jul 16, 2025

Israel carries out several airstrikes in Syria and Lebanon

Israel’s government said it was acting in defense of the Druze community, a minority group the Jewish state has pledged to protect.
A man holds Nazi-related material after crates containing them were rediscovered at the Supreme Court in Buenos Aires in this picture released on May 11.
WORLD
Jul 16, 2025

A Nazi document trove raises questions for Argentina

A dozen boxes of Nazi documents were recently discovered in a basement archive of Argentina's Supreme Court.
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
CULTURE / Film
Jul 20, 2025

‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change

As rural towns in Japan decline, Yukio Iokibe’s documentary offers a hopeful reminder that democracy endures through advocacy, persistence and human connection.

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Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell