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Government Pension Investment Fund President Kazuto Uchida has said that an investment approach targeting environmental and social goals ultimately leads to economic and capital markets growth.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 6, 2025

World’s biggest pension fund puts impact investing on the agenda

In Japan, impact investing strategies are likely to center around climate, health care, wellbeing and inclusivity.
Newly elected Liberal Democratic Party leader Sanae Takaichi celebrates in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 6, 2025

Takaichi kicks off LDP presidency with polls showing strong support

Sanae Takaichi, who was elected party leader Saturday, also gave the ruling LDP a much-needed boost, one of the polls showed.
Cuba Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 27.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 6, 2025

Citing Cuban fighters in Ukraine, U.S. urges allies to shun Havana at U.N.

U.S. diplomats will tell countries that the Cuban government is actively supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine with up to 5,000 Cubans fighting alongside Moscow's forces.
Sanae Takaichi (left), newly elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party, and Yuichiro Tamaki, head of the Democratic Party for the People
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2025

DPP emerges as most likely candidate to help LDP's ruling coalition

With personal ties between their executives and policy proximity, the Democratic Party for the People seems the likeliest to help the Liberal Democratic Party-Komeito coalition.
A not-in-service train is seen derailed early Monday morning after colliding with a passenger train late Sunday at Kajigaya Station on Tokyu Railways' Den-en-toshi Line in Kawasaki.
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2025

Den-en-toshi Line trains collide, halting service

No one was injured in the collision, which saw one train derail and disrupted train services on two lines Monday.
Hanshin pitcher Hiroto Saiki (left) and infielder Teruaki Sato were among the Central League title winners this season.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Oct 6, 2025

Hanshin star Teruaki Sato leads list of NPB title winners

Sato finishing with 40 homers and over 100 RBIs should make him the Central League MVP frontrunner.
Remittance inflows to low-income countries have boosted welfare, reduced poverty and strengthened economic resilience, but the Trump administration’s 1% tax on the transactions threatens to undermine these critical benefits.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2025

Trump’s beggar-the-poor remittance tax

America is now the world’s top remittance-sending country, with at least 134 recipient countries in 2021, the most recent year with reliable bilateral data.
Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi (center) speaks to reporters on Sunday after meeting Taro Aso, the party's supreme advisor, at the party's headquarters.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 6, 2025

Suzuki eyed for LDP secretary-general, reflecting Aso’s growing influence

Former Prime Minister Taro Aso's influence in the Liberal Democratic Party under the newly elected Sanae Takaichi is becoming increasingly more evident.
Shimon Sakaguchi, an immunologist and distinguished professor at Osaka University, attends a news conference after winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in medicine, in Osaka Prefecture on Monday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 7, 2025

Japanese immunologist among three Nobel medicine prize winners

Japanese immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi was awarded the prize along with two other scientists for their discovery concerning peripheral immune tolerance.
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, gives a news conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 7, 2025

Trump hails 'wisdom and strength' of Japan's incoming prime minister

Media reports have said that Trump is expected to visit its key Asian ally in late October.
French President Emmanuel Macron attends and event in Saarbruecken, Germany, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 7, 2025

Macron wanders alone by the Seine as grip on his future slips away

The resignation of his fifth prime minister in two years has raised the chances that he will not make it to the end of his term.
Air traffic controllers work in the control tower at Los Angeles International Airport in 2016. Air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration officers must still turn up for work during the government shutdown, but they are not being paid.
WORLD
Oct 7, 2025

Slight rise in U.S. air traffic controllers calling in sick seen since shutdown began

Air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration officers must still turn up for work during the shutdown, but they are not being paid.
U.S. President Donald Trump attends an event at the White House on Monday.
WORLD
Oct 7, 2025

White House says no shutdown-related layoffs yet, but warns they could come

Previous shutdowns have not forced the government to fire any workers, though hundreds of thousands are typically told not to work.
Law enforcement officers stand guard outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters, after U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut on Sunday temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from sending any National Guard troops to police Portland, in south Portland, Oregon, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 7, 2025

Trump says may invoke Insurrection Act to deploy more troops in U.S.

The U.S. president openly mulled use of the Insurrection Act after a federal judge in Oregon temporarily halted a National Guard deployment in Portland.
A plume of smoke rises in the background as Palestinians return from a food distribution point run by the U.S. and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation group, near the Netsarim corridor in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 7, 2025

Gaza talks turn to key sticking points between Israel and Hamas

Israel and Hamas both endorse the overall principles behind Trump's plan, under which fighting would cease, hostages would go free and aid would pour into Gaza.
Tiger Woods participates in a ribbon-cutting event in Philadelphia on Sept. 8. The 49-year-old golfer last competed at the British Open in July 2024.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Oct 7, 2025

Woods to make TGL Season 2 debut in mid-January

Woods will lead Jupiter Links Golf Club in a Jan. 13 match against Season 1 runner-up New York Golf Club.
Takumi Yamaguchi (right), head of startup AirKamuy, and a colleague retrieve a drone made of cardboard after a test flight in a field near Nagoya.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 7, 2025

Startups lead charge as Japan warms to defense and dual-use technologies

Opinion polls show public support growing for a stronger defense, and the new leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Sanae Takaichi, has called for more military spending.
Children play with the AED-themed Toy Cocoro.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 7, 2025

Hokkaido company president develops defibrillator toy to promote awareness

The toy sold out soon after going on sale last autumn, but it will be available for purchase again next March.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (left) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (right) attend a European Union leaders' summit in Brussels in June 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 7, 2025

Ukraine's obstacles to EU membership extend beyond Hungarian resistance

Senior European Union officials who recently visited Ukraine have delivered a stern message that Kyiv still has a lot more to do.
The government's revised action plan for preventing human rights violations linked to corporate activities is likely to focus on small companies as a "priority area."
JAPAN / Society
Oct 7, 2025

Japan's revised corporate action plan on human rights to prioritize small firms

The government aims to accelerate efforts across entire supply chains by encouraging small businesses, which have been slower to adopt human rights measures, to make improvements.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te visits the Taipei Aerospace and Defense Technology Exhibition in Taipei on Sept. 19.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 7, 2025

China takeover of Taiwan would threaten U.S. too, Taiwan president says

China's increasing military activities further and further from its own shores are a challenge not only for Taiwan, Lai said.
A protester holds a sign with an image depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and the words "Nobel" written on it, as supporters and family members of hostages who were kidnapped during the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, demonstrate to demand the immediate end of the war and the release of all hostages, outside the U.S. Consulate in Tel Aviv, on Sept. 2.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 7, 2025

Trump has his eyes on the prize — but a Nobel win looks unlikely

While this year’s prize is expected to be out of reach, the U.S. president could gain momentum for next year’s award if his Gaza plan and North Korea outreach prove fruitful.
Ana and Maria, (not their real names), victims of sex trafficking from Latin America, clean dishes in Tirane on Aug. 1.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 7, 2025

'I found hell': the women ensnared in Albania's global sex trade

Empowered by the global reach of cybercrime, criminal networks are using Albania as a transit point to exploit women from other nations around the world.
The oil tanker Eagle S sails alongside a Finnish border guard ship and tugboat in the Gulf of Finland on Dec. 28. The vessel was seized by Finland on suspicion of damaging underwater cables in the area at the time.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 7, 2025

Russia’s hybrid war looks increasingly like the real thing

European officials are warning that Moscow appears to be “at war” with countries it hasn’t invaded yet.
Thales is 10 years old, but has the vigor and good cheer of a much younger dog.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Oct 7, 2025

Chipper Yorkie-Maltese mix still young at heart

Ten-year-old Thales, named after a Greek philosopher, is decidedly unserious and will make an energetic companion for the right household.
Tokyo stocks staged a powerful rally on Monday. On Tuesday, they rallied again, then retreated.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 7, 2025

‘Takaichi trade’ stalls as political reality calls for wait-and-see approach

Tokyo stocks zoomed to a new record and then quickly retreated.
The LDP's newly-appointed election chief Keiji Furuya (far left), general affairs council chair Haruko Arimura (second from left), vice president Taro Aso (center left), president Sanae Takaichi (center right), secretary-general Shunichi Suzuki (second from right) and policy chief Takayuki Kobayashi in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 7, 2025

Takaichi's leadership lineup favors Aso and his allies while shutting out rivals

The new lineup also reflects her desire to reward allies of the party’s former Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi and former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi.
A not-in-service train is seen derailed early Monday morning after colliding with a passenger train late Sunday at Kajigaya Station on Tokyu Railways' Den-en-toshi Line in Kawasaki.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2025

Tokyu says train collision caused by signal setting error

Due to the setting error, the automatic train control system gave a green light to a train entering Kajigaya Station, resulting in the train crashing into a parked train.
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to the press in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Oct. 2.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 8, 2025

Macron urged to quit to end France political crisis

Macron is facing pressure even from allies to find a rapid solution to France's political deadlock.
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 8, 2025

Trump says U.S. and Canada working on formula for tariff deal

The U.S. president described the two North American nations as being in "natural conflict” because they’re competing for the same business.
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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