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King Bubaraye Dakolo of the Ekpetiama Kingdom in Bayelsa State, southern Nigeria, poses for a photograph in Lagos on Oct. 13.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Oct 22, 2025

'What is the value of a human life?' In Nigeria, oil giant Shell may find out.

Bubaraye Dakolo, the monarch of Ekpetiama in Nigeria, is suing a global oil giant over one of the largest corporate environmental liabilities in history.
SoftBank has raised at least $24 billion in loans and bonds so far in 2025 and is seeking to raise more in the overseas bond market.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 22, 2025

SoftBank seeks $2 billion in bond sales as it chases AI bets

The Japanese technology investment giant has raised at least $24 billion in loans and bonds so far in 2025.
With the recent sumo jaunt to London being essentially a goodwill exercise, <i>rikishi</i> were far more outgoing and relaxed than normal.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Oct 22, 2025

London exhibition perhaps sumo's most successful trip abroad

Over the course of the tournament, sumo received wall-to-wall coverage in mainstream British media.
Transportation Security Administration agents at a security checkpoint at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Dallas, Texas, on Monday
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2025

U.S. air safety workers tighten belts as shutdown drags on

The 60,000 men and women responsible for keeping American skies safe have gone unpaid throughout the government shutdown.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 23, 2025

Taiwan is courting MAGA influencers to get Trump’s attention

Officials have grown worried that Trump could undermine the self-ruled democracy’s interests during talks with China.
Since medical and nursing care services are offered at fixed prices set by the state, many service providers are struggling to cope with rapid inflation and are operating at a loss.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 23, 2025

Balancing medical services and costs will be major challenge for Takaichi

With services offered at fixed prices set by the state, many service providers are struggling to cope with rapid inflation and are operating at a loss.
Police investigators enter the head office of Albatross in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 23, 2025

Tokyo police raid resignation assistance firm for violating attorney law

The operator is suspected of introducing clients to lawyers and charging a commission fee even though the company has no legal qualifications to do so.
Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers passes against the Bengals during the first quarter in Cincinnati on Monday.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Oct 23, 2025

Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers not viewing showdown with Packers as 'revenge game'

Rodgers didn't leave Green Bay on good terms, but the quarterback said Wednesday that the hard feelings are a thing of the past.
The Taiwanese flag waves on a hilltop facing China's Xiamen city, on Dadan Island, in Kinmen, Taiwan, on Oct. 18.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 23, 2025

Taiwan wary China's new economic plan could include front-line islands

Taiwanese officials fear China could seek to gain de facto jurisdiction over Kinmen islands if it includes them in its economic development plan.
Federal agents deployed tear gas after demonstrators gathered at an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon, on Oct. 18.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2025

Flush with cash, U.S. immigration agency expands weaponry and surveillance

Spending on the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown is vastly higher than during his first presidency.
The appointment of seven scandal-hit lawmakers to government posts, approved after the launch of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Cabinet, may draw criticism.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 23, 2025

Seven LDP slush fund lawmakers given government posts

The move may draw criticism, as public sentiment on the scandal remains strong.
Rock band kurayamisaka’s debut album has listeners debating over its “shoegaze” classification.
CULTURE / Music
Oct 24, 2025

Japanese rock fans can't agree on kurayamisaka

The September release of the band's debut album has dominated Japan’s indie-rock conversation for weeks, with listeners debating over its “shoegaze” classification.
Despite enduring nearly four years of war, the Ukrainian people continue to live their lives with resilience, showing strength, endurance and the ability to maintain humanity in the face of ongoing hardship.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2025

In Ukraine, we’re learning to live with the war within

We live with the symptoms of collective post-traumatic stress: a nation holding its breath, waking from nightmares.
Pilgrims carry a sedan chair holding a statue of the sea goddess Mazu out of a temple during a pilgrimage on Meizhou island, Fujian province, China on Oct. 11, 2024.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 23, 2025

China courts Taiwanese worshippers in religious charm offensive

Security officials in Taiwan are wary of what they see as a Beijing influence campaign using religions that are important to Taiwanese life but tightly controlled by the CCP.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2019.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2025

Hopes for Xi-Trump summit dampened by tough Beijing moves and rising tension

Even if the talks get back on track, experts say a narrow deal on a few issues is the most likely outcome.
Construction at the KK Park complex in Myanmar's eastern Myawaddy township on Sept. 17, seen from across the Thai border
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 23, 2025

Hundreds flee to Thailand after latest raid on Myanmar scam center

A recent investigation revealed construction at several compounds, while Starlink receivers had been installed apparently connecting the hubs to the satellite internet network.
Workers at a coca plantation in Colombia. Experts say the U.S. strikes on narcotics traffickers are having no real impact on Latin America's drug trade.
WORLD / Crime & Legal / EXPLAINER
Oct 24, 2025

Are U.S. strikes hurting Latin America's drug trade?

In short, no.
Palestinians seek aid supplies from the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the central Gaza Strip in August. U.N. and aid groups have questioned the neutrality of the foundation.
WORLD
Oct 24, 2025

U.S. mulls Gaza aid plan that would replace controversial GHF aid operation

Washington is seeking to facilitate having more deliveries of assistance in the Palestinian enclave under a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and Princess Aiko meet with a family member of a victim of the Tokyo air raids on Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 24, 2025

Japan’s imperial family mourns 1945 Tokyo air raid victims

Tokyo’s Sumida Ward memorial preserves the remains of some 105,000 people, including those who died in the massive air raid.
Former Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao arrives at federal court in Seattle, Washington, in April 2024.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 24, 2025

Crypto billionaire gets pardon after firm supports Trump family venture

U.S. President Donald Trump said 'a lot of people' had told him convicted Binance co-founder Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao wasn't guilty.
Medical workers treat a patient in a COVID-19 ward at Chiba University Hospital in Chiba in August 2021.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 24, 2025

Japanese researchers link COVID-19 ‘brain fog’ to neural receptors

A study found that people who reported difficulty returning to daily life after contracting COVID-19 had a higher-than-usual density of a certain receptor.
At Nepalico, the "dal bhat" — a Nepali dish consisting of rice and lentils stewed with spices — with chicken curry is the most popular item on the menu.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 24, 2025

Lentil by lentil, Nepali food takes shape in Tokyo

The cuisine is emerging out of the shadow of Indian fare, thanks to a new breed of passionate chefs keen to introduce locals to South Asian dishes beyond butter chicken and naan.
The traditional naginata is a long wooden pole with a curved blade at the end. Though the naginata used in the dojo were entirely bamboo, they nonetheless made for striking displays of power and agility.
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Oct 27, 2025

Wielding a weapon of yore at a community dojo

An American in Tokyo embarks on a thrilling course in Japanese weaponry after noticing an advertisement in her ward newspaper.
Police investigate the scene of a bear attack that killed one person and injured three others on Friday in the village of Higashinaruse in Akita Prefecture.
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2025

Bear kills another person in Japan in record year for fatal attacks

Separate bear attacks in Japan killed one and injured four on Friday, officials said, days after the government vowed to toughen measures against the animals.
The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, seen in the North Sea during NATO Neptune Strike 2025 exercise on Sept. 24. Washington is deploying an aircraft carrier and accompanying ships to counter drug-trafficking organizations in Latin America, the Pentagon said Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 25, 2025

Trump sending U.S. carrier to Latin America as war fears rise

The Pentagon has ordered the deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group to counter drug-trafficking organizations in Latin America.
A person takes a video of the ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House on Friday.
WORLD
Oct 25, 2025

Tourists gawk and recoil at Trump's destruction of the White House East Wing

The U.S. leader says they aren't missing much and no one should mourn its demise. "It was a very small building," Trump told reporters this week.
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet (center) and Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul hold up signed documents during a ceremonial signing of a ceasefire agreement on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 26, 2025

Trump headlines ASEAN summit as Thailand-Cambodia sign ceasefire deal

The U.S. president also oversaw a series of pivotal trade talks on the sidelines of the summit.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivers her policy speech at a Lower House plenary session on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 26, 2025

Concern raised over proposed cut in Lower House seats

JIP is calling for a cut of about 50 proportional representation seats in the all-important lower chamber of parliament.
Wang Huning, China's No. 4 official, attends a high-level meeting on industrialization and agricultural modernization, on the sidelines of the China Africa Forum in Beijing in September last year.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 26, 2025

No. 4 China official says peaceful 'reunification' with Taiwan is best path forward

The comments were made at an event in Beijing to mark the 80th anniversary of the island's "restoration" to Chinese rule.
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Chief of the General Staff of Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov at an unidentified location in this still image taken from video and released on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 26, 2025

Putin says Russia tested new nuclear-powered cruise missile

Putin called the new weapon "unique,” and said the missile’s class needed to be determined and infrastructure prepared so that it can be deployed.
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
What would a ‘backup capital’ look like for Japan?
The Japan Innovation Party has long sought to get Osaka designated as Japan's backup capital.
Chinese national sentenced for hit-and-run that injured four children in Saitama
A Saitama district court sentenced Deng Hongpeng, a Chinese national and demolition worker, to two years and six months in prison, suspended for four years, for hitting a group of elementary school children with his car and fleeing the scene while driving under the influence.
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 fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
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.
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.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.

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