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Researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo and other institutions have developed an AI model that detects high diabetes risk using only electrocardiogram data.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 11, 2025

Japan team builds AI model to identify diabetes risk from electrocardiogram data

The method, which does not require blood tests, could lead to early detection of the disease.
Elliott Investment Management has shared its views with Toyota Industries management that the ¥16,300 per share buyout offer is too low and suggested other options for the deal, people familiar with the matter say.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 12, 2025

Elliott takes Toyota Industries stake and sees buyout price as too low

Toyota Industries disclosed in a filing that Elliott Investment Management had a 3.26% stake as of Sept. 30, making it one of the manufacturer’s biggest shareholders.
The government adopted a bill on Tuesday extending volunteer probation officers' terms from two to three years.
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2025

Japan to extend volunteer probation officers' terms to three years

The draft revision is aimed at helping secure people who will take on the role of watching over the rehabilitation of individuals who committed crimes or delinquent acts.
Keir Starmer, leader of Britain's Labour Party and now prime minister, speaks to supporters at a reception celebrating his election win in London in July 2024.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 4, 2025

Britain’s political system is undergoing a risky revolution

The British have traditionally prided themselves on the uniqueness of their political system; an aristocratic arrangement that evolved peacefully into a democratic one.
Venus Williams loses a point during a women’s singles match at the Mubadala Citi DC Open at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center in Washington on July 24.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2025

Venus Williams exposed all that's wrong with U.S. health insurance

U.S. policymakers have made clear that rather than rock this boat, they’d prefer to wait for health care to tip over on its own.
Six firms are suspected of rigging bids for construction work ordered by Tokyo’s transportation bureau to maintain railroad tracks.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 11, 2025

Tokyo transportation bureau and six firms inspected over alleged bid-rigging

The firms are suspected of rigging bids for construction work ordered by the bureau to maintain railroad tracks.
Taiwan's Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim at a foreign media briefing in Taipei
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 11, 2025

Taiwan appeals to Europe in bid to secure friends beyond Trump

Taiwan's vice president became the since 2002 to visit a European country Taipei doesn’t have diplomatic ties with, excluding brief transits.
Security officials at the site of an explosion in New Delhi on Monday
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 12, 2025

Blasts rock capitals of India and Pakistan, raising tensions

Suspicions have been running deep between the neighbors following a four-day military clash earlier this year in which both countries conducted strikes on each other.
U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House in Washington on Monday. He is the first Syrian leader to visit the White House since the country's 1946 independence.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 12, 2025

For many Syrians, al-Sharaa's U.S. visit marks new beginning

U.S. President Donald Trump received Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a first for a Syrian head of state since independence in 1946.
Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow. The 30 Japanese individuals Russia's Foreign Ministry targeted for the ban include Japan's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Toshihiro Kitamura as well as researchers and members of the press.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 12, 2025

Russia bans entry of 30 more Japanese nationals

It was Moscow's first decision to ban Japanese nationals from entering Russia since the inauguration of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi last month.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at a Lower House Budget Committee meeting on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 12, 2025

Japan lawmakers eye firm response to Chinese envoy's threat to behead PM

The LDP adopted a resolution calling for a decisive response to Xue Jian's post on X, including the possibility of expelling the diplomat from Japan.
Volker Turk, United Nations high commissioner for human rights, attends the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Sept. 8.
BUSINESS
Nov 12, 2025

Concentration of corporate power a 'huge' concern: U.N. rights chief

In an interview, Volker Turk pointed out how seven or eight big tech companies now boast more wealth than the entire economies of even industrialized nations.
The world’s largest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, seen here in the North Sea on Sept. 24, arrived in Latin America on Tuesday, 2025, escalating a military buildup that Venezuela has warned could trigger a full-blown conflict as it announced its own deployment.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 12, 2025

Arrival of U.S. aircraft carrier fuels Venezuelan fears of attack

The vessel’s deployment was ordered nearly three weeks ago, with the stated goal of helping to counter drug trafficking in the region.
Iraqi polling officials count ballots at a polling station during the country's parliamentary election in Al-Muhandiseen district in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 12, 2025

Iraqi voters turn out in large numbers as region watches

Iraq, which has long been vulnerable to proxy wars and is closely watched by Iran and the United States, has recently regained a sense of stability.
Firefighters douse a car at the suicide blast site in Islamabad on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 12, 2025

Pakistan ‘in a state of war’ after explosion kills 12 in capital

The attack has raised alarm that insurgent violence, confined in recent years to Pakistan’s western regions, has reached its urban centers.
Iman Sharif, 18, a survivor from a boat carrying members of Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya community, which sank in waters near the Thailand-Malaysia border, is brought to a rescue operations center six days after the incident, at Langkawi, Malaysia, on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 12, 2025

Rohingya survivor recalls deadly boat sinking; more bodies found   

For years, many Rohingya have embarked on rickety wooden boats to try to reach neighboring countries to flee persecution in Myanmar or overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh.
A Congolese Red Cross worker receives an mpox vaccination at a hospital in Goma in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in October 2024.
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2025

Third of donated Japanese mpox vaccines wasted in Congo amid storage issues

Japan has donated 3 million doses of its LC16 vaccine to Congo to help fight a new form of mpox known as clade Ib, which sparked a global health emergency last year.
Early evidence suggests that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, when given shortly before cancer immunotherapy, may significantly boost survival rates by activating the immune system.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 12, 2025

What if the COVID-19 vaccine could save cancer patients too?

That something as simple as a COVID-19 vaccine might improve survival in cancer patients receiving standard immunotherapy has taken oncologists by surprise — in a good way.
China's "wolf warrior" diplomacy is like a relentless chess match, putting democracies like Japan on the defensive, forcing them to counter Beijing's aggressive moves and deceptive feints while executing a strong, coordinated defense.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 13, 2025

How Takaichi should navigate Beijing’s diplomatic threats

These incidents reveal a consistent pattern in Beijing’s diplomatic arsenal, the weaponization of progressive language, the inversion of victim and aggressor narratives.
Protesters in Makati City, Metro Manila, hold a rally over the Philippines' territorial disputes with China outside the Chinese Consulate in June 2015. ASEAN, despite five of its members claiming parts of the South China Sea, doesn’t back Manila in its standoff with Beijing.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 13, 2025

ASEAN hedges as the South China Sea bubbles over

One would think ASEAN, with five of its members claiming parts of the South China Sea, would support the Philippines’ quest for a peaceful, legal resolution. You’d be wrong.
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.
Tigers starter Tarik Skubal pitches against the Guardians at Comerica Park in Detroit on Sept. 18.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 13, 2025

Tarik Skubal wins second straight AL Cy Young as Paul Skenes takes NL honor

Skubal is the 12th pitcher — and fifth in the American League — to win in back- to-back years.
A member of the Thailand Mine Action Center holds a PMN-2 mine during an inspection by diplomats from 33 countries following a ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand, in Sisaket province, Thailand, on Aug. 16.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 13, 2025

Cambodia and Thailand trade accusations of fresh border clashes

The apparent fresh landmine blast and renewed clashes have thrown the future of a truce that began on July 29 after intervention from U.S. President Donald Trump into doubt.
SBI Shinsei Bank plans to raise up to ¥400 billion in its initial public offering, set to be one of Japan's largest listings this year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 13, 2025

SBI Shinsei Bank targets ¥400 billion Tokyo IPO for valuation around ¥1 trillion

The lender was taken private in 2023 to repay Shinsei’s government bailout, which parent SBI Holdings completed this year.
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.
The report pointed in part to the detention by President Donald Trump's administration of a number of non-U.S. citizens over their online expression.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 13, 2025

Internet freedom declines in U.S. and Germany, study says

The report pointed in part to the detention by President Donald Trump's administration of a number of non-U.S. citizens over their online expression.
Moriumius Marine & Food, in the Ogatsucho district in the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 19
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2025

New winery aims to revitalize tsunami-hit district in Miyagi

With the district's population continuing to decline since the disaster, an official said, "We want the winery to become a new engine (for local revitalization)."
Taiwanese flags are on a street in Kinmen, Taiwan. Beijing has accused dozens of people in democratically governed Taiwan of "separatism," including elected lawmakers.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 13, 2025

China issues wanted notice for two Taiwanese influencers for 'separatism'

Beijing has accused dozens of people in democratically governed Taiwan, which it views as Chinese territory, of "separatism," including elected lawmakers.
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
JAPAN / Explainer
Nov 13, 2025

As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?

In Japan, few people typically own guns, and the process to qualify for a license to hunt the animals takes time and effort.
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
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.
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.
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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