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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung salutes the national flag during a ceremony to mark Armed Forces Day in Gyeryong, South Korea, on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 1, 2025

South Korea to increase defense budget by 8.2% next year, President Lee says

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said that momentum for cooperation and shared prosperity is weakening across the world, calling the situation "every man for himself."
The main street of Naha in September
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2025

September was hottest on record in Okinawa, weather agency says

Japan's average temperature during the summer was 2.36 degrees Celsius above "the standard value," the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
A teacher at a public elementary school in Yokohama, who has been indicted for voyeurism and indecent assault, admitted to the charges during a trial on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 1, 2025

Elementary school teacher pleads guilty to sharing child sex abuse images

The charges are "correct, and I'm very sorry," said Fumiya Kosemura, a teacher at a public elementary school in Yokohama.
Destruction in Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip, on Monday. Israel has been seeking to destroy Hamas for almost two years, devastating Gaza in the process.
WORLD
Oct 2, 2025

Hamas pressed by Arab and Muslim states to accept Trump’s Gaza plan

The leaders apparently see Israel’s campaign in Gaza and the assertion of military hegemony over the Middle East as a threat to their own national security.
Jane Goodall spun her love of wildlife into a lifelong campaign that took her from a seaside English village to Africa and then across the globe in a quest to better understand chimpanzees.
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife
Oct 2, 2025

Wildlife advocate and primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91

The scientist and global activist was a pioneer in her field, both as a female scientist in the 1960s and for her work studying the behavior of primates.
Director Park Chan-wook and the cast of his latest film “No Other Choice” attended the Busan International Film Festival’s glittering opening ceremony where the film’s lead actor, Lee Byung-hun, served as host.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 2, 2025

Revamped Busan film festival turns 30 with expanded cinematic showcase

Since its inception, BIFF has been a launchpad for Asian cinema. This year, it grew bigger and brighter with a new Competition section, 90 world premieres and high-profile guests.
Plotter's signature customizable leather binder is just one of many products contributing to the ongoing boom in the popularity of Japanese stationery.
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 2, 2025

Tokyo's newest stationery store sells 'a slower, more human rhythm'

After years of selling its products in third-party stores, Japanese brand Plotter has officially opened a dedicated storefront in Tokyo.
Fumitake Fujita, co-leader of Nippon Ishin no Kai, speaks during a news conference at the Diet on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 2, 2025

Nippon Ishin to submit anti-espionage bill to extra Diet session

The bill will call for establishing a foreign intelligence agency based on existing government bodies.
Komeito head Tetsuo Saito says his party cannot form a coalition government with any party that doesn’t align itself with its moderate conservative policies.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 2, 2025

LDP presidential election could be turning point for Komeito

After Saturday’s vote, the junior coalition partner will have to adjust to a new LDP, one whose values might differ from its own.
A group of ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza are shown moored at the small island of Koufonisi, south of the island of Crete, on Sept. 26
WORLD / Society
Oct 2, 2025

Israeli military intercepts several Gaza-bound aid boats in international waters

The Global Sumud Flotilla, transporting medicine and food to Gaza, consists of more than 40 civilian boats with about 500 parliamentarians, lawyers and activists.
Isuzu Chairman Masanori Katayama (third from left) and South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (center) attend a groundbreaking ceremony for the firm's vehicle plant in South Carolina on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 2, 2025

Isuzu to build first independent U.S. plant

The Japanese commercial vehicle maker aims to ease the impact of high U.S. tariffs by expanding local production.
India's Tilak Varma celebrates after winning the Asia Cup in Dubai on Sept. 28.
MORE SPORTS / Cricket
Oct 2, 2025

Asian cricket chief says India 'welcome' to collect trophy from his office

India defended the Asia Cup title by defeating Pakistan on Sunday, but refused to take the winning prize from Naqvi, who is also Pakistan's interior minister.
Pedestrians pass through a cooling mist in Tokyo's Ginza district in August.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 2, 2025

Japan saw record number treated for heatstroke in hottest-ever summer

Patients with suspected heatstroke over the period rose almost 3% to 100,143 from a year earlier as Japan saw its temperature record broken twice in a matter of days.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (left), former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi (center) and agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi arrive at a news conference for the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 23. The three are the front-runners ahead of Saturday's vote.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 2, 2025

No matter who wins the LDP presidential race, prospects for change are dismal

The key for the LDP is whether the once-proud party can win back its traditional supporters who have abandoned it in recent elections and shifted to opposition parties.
"My children cried all night from hunger. I boiled grass and gave it to them just to keep them quiet," said Ajib Bahar, 38, from a refugee camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 2, 2025

Myanmar's war-torn Rakhine state grappling with hunger crisis, aid groups say

More than 100,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition, with less than 2% able to access treatment, according to data provided by aid workers.
Timber from the Grand Ring, a symbol of the 2025 Osaka expo, will be reused in public housing to support recovery efforts in Ishikawa Prefecture, which was hit by disasters last year.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2025

Osaka Expo's Grand Ring timber to be reused for housing in Ishikawa

Suzu, an Ishikawa city heavily damaged in the disasters, will receive the dismantled timber from the world's largest wooden architectural structure free of charge.
Lawyers representing three former followers of the Unification Church speak during a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday after the followers reached settlements with the group to refund the donations they made.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 3, 2025

Unification Church reaches first settlements on donation refunds

Three women in Hokkaido are believed to have lost about ¥70 million in total through purchases of seals and pots in addition to donations.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino speaks during the 74th FIFA Congress in Bangkok in May 2024.
SOCCER
Oct 3, 2025

Gianni Infantino says FIFA must promote peace amid calls to ban Israel

Infantino "stressed the importance of promoting peace and unity, particularly in the context of the ongoing situation in Gaza."
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is strengthening its focus on business catering to the rich, as a bullish Japanese stock market and recovering real estate prices have pushed up the number of such clients in recent years.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 3, 2025

MUFG is hiring more bankers in Japan wealth management push

MUFG is targeting clients with at least ¥300 million in total assets. The bank estimates that about 300,000 of its account holders fit that description.
AI chip giant Nvidia announced last week that it would invest $100 billion to help OpenAI, the front-runner in generative AI, build data centers.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 3, 2025

Boom or bubble: How long can the AI investment craze last?

AI-related spending is soaring worldwide, expected to reach approximately $1.5 trillion by 2025, research has shown.
Fatimata Madou shows a photo of Mohamat, her 9-month-old child who died of malaria.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 3, 2025

Babies' deaths in Cameroon show how U.S. aid cuts curtail malaria fight

Upon taking office in January, U.S. President Donald Trump paused all foreign aid, including the President's Malaria Initiative, launched in 2005 by George W. Bush.
Kabuki has been trying for years to attract a new generation of fans. One way to do this has been to adapt manga and anime franchises, such as “Naruto,” for the stage. 
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 3, 2025

The summer kabuki came roaring back

A hit film and shifting demographics are drawing new audiences to kabuki, sparking hopes for a revitalized future.
Relatives of missing students mourn on Thursday as they wait for rescuers to search for survivors at the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo, East Java province, Indonesia, which collapsed on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 3, 2025

Hopes dim for parents after Indonesia school collapse

About 60 people, mostly students, remain trapped under the remains of the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in East Java that collapsed on Monday.
Costumed revelers stand next to police officers controlling crowds at the scramble crossing in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Oct. 31, 2022.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 3, 2025

Tokyo's Shibuya calls on foreign visitors not to have a ‘disruptive Halloween’

The ward, a hot spot for Halloween revelers, is taking a step back from its “don’t come” messaging of the recent past.
The aunt of Lady Jane Ytang, 17, who died during the magnitude 6.9 quake, mourns over her coffin at a wake for victims in Bogo, Cebu, Philippines, on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 3, 2025

'It was love' — Philippine family mourns daughter who died saving kin in quake

Lady Jane, 17, died saving her family, one of at least 72 people killed in the quake that struck off the island of Cebu.
A Lower House plenary session in November 2024. The next leader of the Liberal Democratic Party will need to make tough political compromises given the party needs opposition support to pass bills.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 3, 2025

Host of tough compromises on policy issues await next LDP president

Just how much the ruling party needs to compromise will depend on which opposition party it intends to work closer with for any given issue, and the level of that cooperation.
European star Rory McIlroy and his teammates were subjected to verbal abuse from fans during the Ryder Cup in Farmingdale, New York.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Oct 3, 2025

PGA CEO to apologize to Rory McIlroy and European team over Ryder Cup abuse

The apology follows Europe's 15-13 victory over the United States at Bethpage Black, where the players were subjected to taunts and personal abuse by fans
Yoshitami Kameoka, elected to the Lower House for the first time in 2005, served in posts including state minister for post-disaster reconstruction.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 3, 2025

Ex-LDP lawmaker Kameoka pleads not guilty over cash distribution

Kameoka, elected to the Lower House for the first time in 2005, served in posts including state minister for post-disaster reconstruction.
Yotaro Sato and Tomoka Sato perform during the artistic swimming mixed duet competition at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka on July 16, 2023.
MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Oct 3, 2025

Artistic swimming welcoming more men into pool ahead of LA Olympics

Yotaro Sato used to hide the fact that he’s an artistic swimmer. Now, he’s part of a growing number of men taking up a sport that was long exclusive to women.
Flu season began earlier than usual this year, with Okinawa Prefecture reporting the largest number of cases per hospital in the week up to Sunday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 3, 2025

Japan enters its second-earliest flu season in 20 years

Okinawa had the most cases on average by prefecture, at 8.98 patients per medical institution, followed by 1.96 for Tokyo, 1.68 for Kagoshima, and Fukuoka with 1.55.
As the Osaka Expo comes to a close, what will its legacy be?
After a run-up marked by apathy, organizers soon found they had the opposite problem as crowd control became a concern.
Ghost of Yotei’s bloodstained fun sidesteps Ainu identity
Ghost of Yotei, the follow-up to 2020's smash hit Ghost of Tsushima, is a violent, vengeful and engaging romp through 17th-century Hokkaido that fails to stick the landing on its most sensitive cultural material.
After ruling bloc collapses, LDP and opposition scramble to find needed votes for PM
Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday after leaving the ruling coalition earlier in the day.
After plenty of ups and downs, Osaka Expo concludes with message of unity
The sun sets on the Grand Ring on the final day of the Osaka Expo on Monday.
Hamas hands over surviving Israeli hostages as Trump visits region
Released Israeli hostages, twins Gali and Ziv Berman, held in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, speak to each other after being released, as part of a prisoner-hostage swap and a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Reim, Israel, on Monday.
Ghost of Yotei’s bloodstained fun sidesteps Ainu identity
Ghost of Yotei, the follow-up to 2020's smash hit Ghost of Tsushima, is a violent, vengeful and engaging romp through 17th-century Hokkaido that fails to stick the landing on its most sensitive cultural material.
At Osaka Expo, gas giants promote a greener future. But is it a lot of hot air?
The Gas Pavilion had welcomed around 500,000 visitors by the end of August, making it one of the most popular exhibits at the Osaka Expo.
‘Takaichi trade’ starts unwinding as political calculus upended by Komeito exit
Less than a week ago, Sanae Takaichi seemed set to become Japan's first female prime minister.
‘Save the Ring’ calls intensify as Osaka Expo’s end nears
Visitors lounge on the grassy hill on the top of the Grand Ring during the 2025 Osaka Expo in the city of Osaka in May.
A Japanese comedian walks into an Aussie bar … and stays there
Takashi “Waka” Wakasugi stopped by the Tokyo Comedy Bar in Shibuya Ward last month following his stint at Edinburgh Festival Fringe performing his show “Comedy Samurai.”

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