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The CCGS Naalak Nappaaluk, an oceanographic science vessel and summer-rated icebreaker, under construction at Seaspan Shipyards
WORLD
Sep 17, 2025

Nations aiming for Arctic power can’t get enough of these ships

Thawing of the top of the world from climate change has stirred a global competition to forge new, previously unnavigable shipping routes.
A person lays flowers at the grave of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny while marking the first anniversary of his death, at a cemetery in Moscow on Feb. 16.
WORLD
Sep 17, 2025

Yulia Navalnaya says foreign tests show her husband was poisoned

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny died suddenly at the age of 47 on Feb. 16, 2024, in a Russian prison in the Arctic Circle.
U.S. military personnel board the USS Wasp aircraft carrier at the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in 2019.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 2025

U.S. State Department sees Japanese role in AUKUS defense pact

Japan "expressed interest in a range" of projects underway as part of the second leg of the pact, an assessment said.
A resident navigates a flooded road in Masiphumelele, Cape Town, South Africa, on May 20. Climate change impacts Africa the most of any continent despite it contributing less than 10% to global carbon emissions, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
WORLD
Sep 18, 2025

Military spending eats into Africa's climate finance

Climate change impacts Africa the most of any continent despite it contributing less than 10% to global carbon emissions, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
Attendees hold their smartphones as the new Xiaomi electric SUV YU7 is unveiled onstage, at the Chinese smartphone maker's launch event in Beijing on May 22.
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Sep 18, 2025

China is sending its world-beating auto industry into a tailspin

The sector is showing symptoms of a vastly oversupplied market — and point to a potential shakeout mirroring turmoil in country's property and solar industries.
Nagoya City Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium, which is scheduled to open in March next year, will be one of the main venues for the 2026 Asian Games.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 18, 2025

Japan seeks to ramp up Asian Games buzz with one year to go

Host Japan hopes next year's event will make a splash similar to that of the pandemic-delayed 2023 edition in Hangzhou, China.
KDDI has launched a new service that allows direct linkups between smartphones and the Starlink satellite communication network.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 18, 2025

In shift from price-cutting trend, Japan's telecom firms hike rates as costs rise

Desperate to ensure price hikes are accepted by subscribers, telecom carriers have improved their networks and service quality, and offered extra services.
In July, the government ordered Hanoi to phase out gas-powered motorbikes in central districts within a year.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 18, 2025

Vietnam startup seeks slice of third-largest EV motorbike market

Vietnam is behind only China and India in terms of its market size for electric two-wheelers, according to an August report from MotorCycles Data.
Hokkaido is reconsidering the possibility of hosting a casino resort, several years after Gov. Naomichi Suzuki halted plans for one.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Sep 29, 2025

Hokkaido cities consider fresh bet on casino resort

Citing concerns over gambling addiction and possible environmental impacts, Hokkaido's governor said it will be challenging to gain public acceptance for a casino bid.
The Izumo destroyer docks at a port in Singapore after completing a mission to escort a U.S. vessel under Japan's security laws, in May 2017.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 19, 2025

10 years on, security laws continue to boost Japan-U.S. defense ties

The laws, enacted in 2015, allow Japan to exercise its right to collective self-defense and have helped the SDF expand its activities with like-minded countries.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is unlikely to spend more than a fraction of his 27-year sentence behind bars, legal experts say.
WORLD / Crime & Legal / ANALYSIS
Sep 19, 2025

Brazil's Bolsonaro is going to prison, but he might not stay long

The former president was sentenced to 27 years behind bars after the Brazilian Supreme Court found him guilty of plotting a coup to overturn the 2022 election he lost.
Veteran lawmaker Sanae Takaichi outlines her policy platform at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday as she makes another bid for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party presidency.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 19, 2025

Takaichi works to soften her image in LDP presidential bid

A long-time conservative champion, the former economic security minister had long worked to present herself as the poster child of the more hawkish wing of the LDP.
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group is considering increasing its stake in Jefferies Financial Group as the Japanese lender deepens ties with the U.S. investment bank.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 19, 2025

Sumitomo Mitsui mulls raising stake in Jefferies to 20%

The two firms are also in discussions to merge parts of their equities businesses in Japan, potentially through the establishment of a joint venture.
Nanako Fujii celebrates as she crosses the line to take bronze in the women's 35-kilometer race walk on Saturday at National Stadium in Tokyo.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 20, 2025

Nanako Fujii takes bronze in 20 km race walk for Japan's second medal at worlds

The 26-year-old became the first Japanese woman to capture a medal in a race walk event at the World Athletics Championships or the Olympics.
A security officer stands guard at the Security Council Chamber at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City on Thursday.
WORLD
Sep 20, 2025

Trump to return to the U.N. as Gaza and Ukraine conflicts rage

The U.S. leader will speak on Tuesday, eight months into a second term marked by U.S. foreign aid cuts that have raised questions about the U.N.'s future.
Paulina “Jedda” Puruntatameri with Antonia Burke and Tiwi fisher Clinton offshore of Melville Island, one of the Tiwi Islands, in Australia's Northern Territory. Together with other Tiwi, Jedda has been campaigning for years to stop Australian company Santos and its backers, including Japanese investors, from drilling for natural gas at the Barossa gas field.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy / OUR PLANET
Sep 21, 2025

As Japan keeps buying gas, Aboriginal Australians pay the price

Japan is Australia’s second-largest export market for energy and natural resources, giving Tokyo a certain political weight when it comes to Australian energy matters.
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden celebrates with fans after winning the women's 200-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Friday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 21, 2025

How the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo delivered on the fan experience

After the Olympics, the fan experience at World Athletics Championships was arguably more important than any other event. So how did National Stadium fare with its big do-over?
A woman holds a sign during a protest outside Disneyland after Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talk show was suspended for remarks he made regarding Charlie Kirk's assassination, in Anaheim, California, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 22, 2025

Disney’s Kimmel suspension shows Trump’s increasing grip over media

The suspension has intensified free-speech fears in the U.S. as FCC chair Brendan Carr threatened to revoke broadcast licenses from stations that carry what he called "garbage."
Red Bull's Max Verstappen in action during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Sunday
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Sep 22, 2025

Max Verstappen dominates in win at Azerbaijan Grand Prix

It was the second consecutive win for Verstappen, following his victory two weeks ago at the Italian Grand Prix, and his fourth of the season.
James Baker speaks at the funeral service for former U.S. President George Bush in Houston in December 2018. As Treasury secretary in 1985, he was the key U.S. negotiator of the Plaza Accord, the landmark deal to weaken the dollar and realign global currencies.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 22, 2025

Why the Plaza Accord is still the gold standard

Rather than grieve Plaza, salute it. The deal reflected a confluence of national interest, diplomatic nous and a sense that common interests dictated collaboration.
A family of displaced Sudanese at a displacement camp in Al Dabba, Sudan, on Sept. 6
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2025

In Sudan, 'never again' has proved untrue, UNHCR chief says

After the bloody civil war in Sudan's Darfur region 20 years ago, the world said "never again." And yet it is happening again, U.N. refugees chief Filippo Grandi says.
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the country's Security Council at the Kremlin in Moscow on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2025

Putin offers Trump one-year extension of nuclear weapons treaty

Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday offered to voluntarily maintain the treaty limits if U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to do the same.
Gantry cranes and container ships at the Yangshan Deepwater Port in Shanghai on May 14. China is hurtling toward a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 23, 2025

China floods the world with cheap exports after Trump's tariffs

The export surge is causing governments to weigh the potential damage to their domestic industries against the risk of antagonizing Beijing.
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda announces the central bank's plan to start offloading its massive exchange-traded fund holdings, at a news conference in Tokyo last week.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 23, 2025

BOJ seeks to remove stocks overhang with slow sell-down of ETFs

The century-long plan to offload its massive holdings of ETFs, through which it indirectly owns about 7% of Japanese stocks, could begin in early 2026.
Smoke billows from the Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl, which had been burning for eleven consecutive days, while vessels try to extinguish the fire in the sea off Sri Lanka's Colombo Harbor on May 30, 2021.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 23, 2025

Singapore shipper rejects $1B damages over Sri Lanka's worst pollution incident

The company operated the MV X-Press Pearl that sank off Colombo Port in 2021 while carrying 81 containers of hazardous goods and hundreds of metric tons of plastic pellets.
Protesters wave a Hong Kong flag and a sign during a demonstration against the city’s deteriorating freedoms outside the Chinese Embassy in London in July 2020.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2025

Britain must keep its promise to Hong Kongers

The U.K. has a moral obligation and an economic interest in safeguarding the path to citizenship for migrants from the territory it formerly ruled.
Red Bull's Yuki Tsunoda arrives at the circuit ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Sep 24, 2025

Red Bull in no rush to make 2026 driver decisions after strong weekend in Baku

Only Max Verstappen can be completely sure of who he will be racing for next year and Red Bull is in no rush to decide his teammate after a record of failure with previous moves.
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 24, 2025

Trump switches gears on Ukraine war, but fears of disengagement rise

Ukraine and its supporters are concerned the U.S. president could be pivoting to distance himself from the war that he had vowed to end in days.
Filmmakers Chloe Zhao and Lee Sang-il will receive the Kurosawa Akira Award, given to filmmakers who have “left their marks in cinema and will be entrusted with the film industry's future,” at this year's edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival.
CULTURE / Film
Sep 24, 2025

Tokyo film festival to open with Everest and close with some Shakespeare

Japan’s main movie event kicks off Oct. 27 with the true story of the first woman to summit Mount Everest. It closes Nov. 5 with Chloe Zhao’s "Hamnet."
American saxophonist Patrick Bartley is the leader of J-Music Ensemble, a jazz-fusion band specializing in instrumental covers of Japanese music.
CULTURE / Music
Sep 25, 2025

Finding jazz in J-pop: Patrick Bartley’s musical second language

The J-Music Ensemble leader translates Japanese culture into a classic American musical tradition.
Why Koizumi is toning down his calls for reform
In his second bid for the presidency, farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi has toned down his rhetoric, avoiding controversial proposals for social and labor reform and pledging instead to carry on the work of previous administrations.
Prices to rise for 3,024 food products in Japan in October
A wide range of products will see higher prices due to rising material and labor costs.
Bank of Japan rate increase looking more likely
Signs of recovery in consumer spending have some analysts looking for a rate increase as soon as October.
Skilled worker visa holders hit record high ahead of new visa program
The Justice Ministry's figures show the number of specified skilled worker visa holders hit a record high as of the end of June.
Is living in central Tokyo still affordable?
Growing families are being priced out of Tokyo’s condo market, forced to choose between downtown convenience and suburban space.
How Ohtani has boosted Japan's soft power and made LA even more baseball-obsessed
Fans at Dodger Stadium pose in front of a mural highlighting the Dodgers' Japanese stars from past and present during a game earlier this year.
Japan faces fresh energy challenge as it seeks to expand power-hungry data centers
Data storage tapes at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center facility in Berkeley, California. Data centers consume massive amounts of electricity and water, and that will only rise as generative artificial intelligence takes off in earnest.
Architecture art exhibition highlights unsung industry artists
Yuanhui Li's illustration is one of the awardees in the student category of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators' annual award for artists.
On defense and foreign policy, LDP candidates largely align — except where they don’t
The Liberal Democratic Party presidential election candidates in Nagoya on Friday
Can Japan crack the China code in table tennis?
Tomokazu Harimoto waits for China's Wang Chuqin to serve during the men's singles final at the WTT Champions Yokohama 2025 tournament on Aug. 11.

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Growing families are being priced out of Tokyo’s condo market, forced to choose between downtown convenience and suburban space.
Is living in central Tokyo still affordable?
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We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.

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