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Miyu Yamashita poses with the trophy after winning the Women's British Open in Porthcawl, Wales, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Aug 4, 2025

Miyu Yamashita shows nerves of steel to win Women's British Open

Yamashita's previous best performance in a major was a tie for second place at last year's Women's PGA Championship.
Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Koichi Hagiuda
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 4, 2025

Summary indictment eyed for secretary of LDP's Koichi Hagiuda

A panel of citizens ruled that the secretary of Hagiuda, a member of the House of Representatives, should be prosecuted.
Supporters of former Braziilian President Jair Bolsonaro take part in a rally on Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 4, 2025

Bolsonaro backers rally to praise Trump for pressure on Brazil

Rallies were organized in several cities on Sunday ahead of the conclusion of the former Brazilian president's trial over a coup plot in the coming weeks.
Experts warn the world is drifting dangerously close to disaster as North Korea, Russia and China expand their nuclear arsenals and old arms-control frameworks crumble.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2025

Even nuclear experts are at a loss right now

Who would have thought strategists would be almost nostalgic for the Cold War?
Ong Beng Seng arrives at the State Courts in Singapore on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 4, 2025

Billionaire Ong pleads guilty in Singapore gifting scandal

Ong Beng Seng could be sentenced by a Singapore court as soon as Monday or at a later date. He faces up to seven years in jail and a possible fine.
China is not merely moving more goods; it is exporting a new, ruthlessly efficient production model powered by automation, AI and state-guided industrial optimization.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2025

China’s unbeatable new production model export

The more pressing concern, however, is not what China exports, but how. Global cost structures are indeed being reshaped.
The home of Chizuo Matsumoto's second son in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, in July. The place was recognized by the Public Security Intelligence Agency as a facility of Aleph, Aum Shinrikyo's successor organization.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 4, 2025

Matsumoto's second son officially recognized as Aleph leader

The name of the 31-year-old son was included in an agency request for administrative action against Aleph.
A person visits the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 26.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 4, 2025

AI search pushing an already weakened media ecosystem to the brink

A recent study has revealed that AI-generated summaries now appearing in Google searches discourage users from clicking through to source articles.
Sha'Carri Richardson competes in a women's 100-meter heat at the U.S. Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on July 31.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 4, 2025

Christian Coleman defends Sha'Carri Richardson after reported arrest

Reigning 100-meter world champion Richardson was arrested for domestic violence at a Seattle airport ahead of the U.S. Track & Field Championships
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (left) and Economic Revitalization Minister and chief tariff negotiator Ryosei Akazawa attend a budget committee session on the U.S. tariff issue in the Lower House in Tokyo on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 4, 2025

Opposition parties fume over U.S. trade deal not being put in writing

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said issuing a joint document with the U.S. will not serve the nation’s interests and may instead jeopardize the agreement.
The Memorial Cenotaph at the Peace Memorial Park in the city of Hiroshima
JAPAN
Aug 4, 2025

U.S. envoy to attend peace ceremonies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The United States didn't send its ambassador to Japan to the annual ceremony in Nagasaki last year, over the city's decision not to invite Israel.
U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) hold a bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka in 2019.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 5, 2025

Kremlin plays down Trump submarine order and urges caution on nuclear rhetoric

The exchange takes place as Trump threatens new sanctions on Russia and buyers of its oil unless Moscow agrees to end the war in Ukraine by Friday.
U.S. President Donald Trump (left) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands at the conclusion of a joint news conference in the White House in Washington on Feb. 13.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 5, 2025

Trump again threatens India with harsh tariffs over Russian oil purchases

A spokesperson for the Indian foreign ministry said in response that India will "take all necessary measures to safeguard its national interests and economic security."
Twelve months on from Aug. 5, 2024, when Japan’s stock benchmarks plummeted 12%, the broader Topix index is once again hovering near record highs.
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Aug 5, 2025

A year after Japan's stock meltdown, markets show resilience and promise

Clearer BOJ messaging, corporate reforms and a better-than-feared U.S. tariff deal has traders in Japan's markets betting against a repeat of last year's crash.
Hironori Kamezawa, chief executive officer of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, speaks during an interview at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on Friday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 5, 2025

BOJ rate hike in September or October is 'desirable,' MUFG chief says

Such a hike is ideal in the face of strong inflation in the country.
Reflecting CEO Masayoshi Son's artificial intelligence-focused strategy, SoftBank Group has boosted its stakes in Nvidia and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 5, 2025

SoftBank builds Nvidia and TSMC stakes under Son’s focus on AI gear

SoftBank Group raised its stake in Nvidia to about $3 billion by the end of March and bought around $330 million worth of TSMC shares.
A surviving streetcar from the World War II atomic bombing of the city of Hiroshima runs near the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima on July 27.
JAPAN
Aug 5, 2025

Hiroshima streetcars continue to serve and educate 80 years after atomic bombing

Streetcar service in Hiroshima resumed in some sections just three days after the bombing thanks to intense repair work, becoming a symbol of the city's reconstruction.
South Korea's former first lady Kim Keon Hee, wife of impeached former president Yoon Suk Yeol, arrives at the special prosecutor's office in Seoul on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 6, 2025

South Korea's former first lady questioned in probe over bribe allegations

Investigators are looking into issues ranging from allegations Kim Keon Hee received a luxury handbag to suspicions she was involved in a stock manipulation scheme.
A Polish security officer stands guard in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 6, 2025

Poland’s next political battle starts as president takes office

Instead of securing a long-awaited ally, Poland's government is now preparing for an opponent in the presidential palace again.
LDP lawmaker Ken Saito
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 6, 2025

Japan ruling party heavyweight warns against BOJ rate hike

The remark highlights the political pressure the BOJ could face in resuming rate hikes as higher U.S. levies hurt corporate profits.
Three teenage student nurses (from left: Karin Ono, Asuka Kawatoko and Hinako Kikuchi) face the aftermath of the atomic bombing of their hometown in “Nagasaki: In the Shadow of the Flash.”
CULTURE / Film
Aug 7, 2025

‘Nagasaki: In the Shadow of the Flash’ honors young nurses thrust into hellish nightmare

Searing and based on true accounts, Jumpei Matsumoto’s drama follows teenage girls turned wartime caregivers as they navigate the unthinkable.
A port in the western state of Gujarat, India
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 7, 2025

India-U.S. spat over trade and oil threatens wider fallout

The tension could derail other areas of cooperation as domestic political pressures drive both sides to harden their stances, analysts say.
Son Heung-min holds an LAFC jersey during his introductory news conference with the club in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
SOCCER
Aug 7, 2025

Son Heung-min 'here to win' after joining LAFC for record transfer fee

The 33-year-old will reportedly cost an MLS-record $26 million transfer fee.
Heavy traffic on the nation's highways is just as much a part of the Bon holiday period as visiting ancestral graves.
LIFE / Bilingual
Aug 7, 2025

Brave the Bon holiday traffic to discover tourism gems off the beaten path

Learn how to ask about secret spots, regional dishes and specialty gifts using natural Japanese structures on your summer travels.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump meet at the G20 summit in Osaka in 2019.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 7, 2025

Trump could meet Putin over Ukraine as soon as next week, official says

Such a face-to-face meeting would be the first between a sitting U.S. and Russian president since Joe Biden met Vladimir Putin in Geneva in June 2021.
A chicken stands in a garbage dump filled with plastic in Rodriguez, Rizal province, the Philippines, on Nov. 28, 2024.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Aug 7, 2025

Trump administration memo urges countries to reject plastic production caps

The U.S. stance broadly aligns with the positions laid out by the global petrochemicals industry.
Trees burn during a wildfire near in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse in southern France on Wednesday.
WORLD
Aug 7, 2025

Deadly wildfires in southwest France burn area larger than Paris

The fire, which has killed one, has cut power to thousands of homes and is being tackled by around 2,100 firefighters assisted by aircraft.
Tokyo Electron is one of the largest suppliers of semiconductor fabrication tools and gear to TSMC.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 7, 2025

Tokyo Electron fires worker suspected of stealing TSMC tech

Taiwan prosecutors arrested six at TSMC on suspicion of intellectual property theft this week, including an individual who was identified as a former Tokyo Electron staffer.
Former Myanmar leader Myint Swe in 2013
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 7, 2025

Myanmar’s U.S.-sanctioned figurehead leader Myint Swe dies at 74

Myint Swe, a former lieutenant general, became the acting president after the military ousted the civilian government led by Aung San Suu Kyi during a February 2021 coup.
Giants quarterback Russell Wilson looks to pass during training camp in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Monday.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Aug 7, 2025

New Giants QB Russell Wilson praises coach Brian Daboll’s 'beautiful mind'

Wilson has also expressed his eagerness to play alongside talented second-year receiver Malik Nabers.
U.S. backtracks on Japan tariff calculation, taking effective rate lower
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, said the U.S. made a clerical error in not including a “reciprocal” tariff rate ceiling for Japan in the trade deal.
Japan's inheritance tax is high, unforgiving and sometimes avoidable
The National Tax Agency at the Ministry of Finance, Kasumigaseki, Tokyo. Japanese tax authorities can bill foreign residents in Japan for assets inherited globally.
Japan starts survey on foreign nationals' unpaid resident taxes
In the most recent regular session of parliament, problems were highlighted regarding some foreign workers leaving Japan without paying outstanding taxes after completing their stay periods.
How Pakistan shot down India's cutting-edge fighter using Chinese gear
An Indian Air Force pilot gets out of a Rafale fighter jet during its induction ceremony at an air force station in Ambala, India, September 2020.
The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person
Koichi Tagawa’s diary entry from Aug. 9, 1945, describes the day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Cheer with caution: Expert advises sports fans have game plan for extreme heat
A Cardinals fan fans himself during the seventh inning of a game against the Pirates in St. Louis, Missouri, in June 2022.
Australia's warship selection signals Japanese defense industry's arrival
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate. Australia's selection of an upgraded version of the Mogami-class warship for its next frigate class could prove to be a watershed moment for Japan’s defense industry.
Japan's inheritance tax is high, unforgiving and sometimes avoidable
The National Tax Agency at the Ministry of Finance, Kasumigaseki, Tokyo. Japanese tax authorities can bill foreign residents in Japan for assets inherited globally.
Will the movement seeking Ishiba’s resignation succeed?
Liberal Democratic Party youth division head Yasutaka Nakasone (center) and other members speak to reporters in Tokyo on July 25.
Photographer Bleg Bayraktar is winning social media with politeness
A video on Bayraktar's Instagram account of the Belgian photographer approaching an elderly worker in Tokyo's Shibuya has gone viral, garnering almost 9 million views.

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