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Haitian children walk past piles of garbage at the School Argentine Bellegarde, converted into a shelter for displaced people, in downtown Port-au-Prince on Oct. 3. More than 16,000 people have been killed in armed violence in Haiti since the start of 2022, the United Nations said on October 3, warning that "the worst may be yet to come."
WORLD / Society
Oct 9, 2025

'Daily struggle for survival' for Haiti children, U.N. report says

An estimated 680,000 children have been displaced by gang violence in crisis-wracked Haiti, nearly double the number from a year ago.
At Cofunia, an inn themed after Japan's "kofun," the often keyhole-shaped burial mounds form the inspiration for design of much of the property.
LIFE / Travel
Oct 11, 2025

Nara inn offers room, board and an ancient burial mound

More than 160,000 "kofun" burial mounds dot the Japanese archipelago, but Cofunia allows guests to lay their heads directly adjacent to one.
Komeito head Tetsuo Saito and the party's executives (left) meet with the LDP's Sanae Takaichi and counterparts in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 9, 2025

LDP and Komeito's shaky ties throw doubt on Takaichi becoming prime minister

The inability of the LDP and Komeito to forge a quick agreement and vote for Takaichi to become prime minister has created uncertainty at a busy time on the political calendar.
A worker feeds shrimp in Pandeglang, Banten province, Indonesia, on July 29.
ENVIRONMENT
Oct 9, 2025

Indonesia says no to scrap metal after shrimp radiation scare

Environment Minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq said the pause aims to ensure that the local steel-recycling industry meets radiation safety standards.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 10, 2025

Trump exerted leverage for Gaza deal but tough questions remain

Despite its potentially historic nature, the rushed deal leaves a host of unresolved issues that could still trip up implementation.
New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks in New York on Oct. 1.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 10, 2025

Letitia James, New York's attorney general and Trump foe, indicted over mortgage fraud

The Trump administration has sought to use government power against those who have pursued investigations into Trump or resisted his agenda.
Japan’s government set a target of 60 million annual foreign visitors by 2030, but many businesses involved with tourism are already struggling with skilled worker shortages.
BUSINESS
Oct 10, 2025

Japan set to be most impacted by tourism labor shortages globally, report shows

The country will see a 29% shortfall in necessary labor in 2035, according to the Future of the Travel & Tourism Workforce report.
A mine for heavy rare earth metals outside of Longnan in south-central China's Jiangxi province
BUSINESS
Oct 10, 2025

China expands rare earths restrictions, targeting defense and chips users

The new curbs come ahead of a scheduled face-to-face meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea at the end of October.
A protester displays a poster featuring U.S. President Donald Trump at Incheon Airport on Sept. 12 after South Korean workers detained in a U.S. immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia returned home.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 9, 2025

South Korea should turn the U.S. ICE raid into trade leverage

U.S. officials sought to justify the operation by saying the 300 South Koreans arrested were working illegally. But that logic now appears to be on shaky ground.
Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge reacts after the Sydney Marathon on Aug. 31.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Oct 10, 2025

Eliud Kipchoge hoping to cement legacy at New York City Marathon

The 40-year-old, widely considered the greatest marathon runner of all time, is the only man to have run the distance in under two hours.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 10, 2025

Red Sox legend Mike Greenwell dies at 62

Greenwell, a two-time All-Star, revealed he was battling medullary thyroid cancer in August. His wife, Tracy, said he died in Boston.
Japan's top financial leaders are working to ease fears that AI will cost jobs, emphasizing its role in boosting efficiency and transforming work.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 10, 2025

Japan’s top bank CEOs push for AI, soothing worry over human work

In Japan, where the financial sector employs hundreds of thousands of people, the conversation over AI and its impact on work is picking up pace.
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is escalating its efforts to target domestic opponents, raising alarm among civil rights groups and Democratic leaders about the use of executive power.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 10, 2025

Trump’s war on the left: Inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

Potential tools to defund or shut down groups include IRS investigations to strip them of tax-exempt status and criminal probes by the Justice Department and FBI.
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has appointed Itsunori Onodera as chairman of its Research Commission on the Tax System.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 10, 2025

Onodera to head LDP's tax panel

Onodera will succeed Yoichi Miyazawa, who has served as chairman of the tax panel for a total of eight years since 2015.
John Clarke, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, is interviewed on campus on Tuesday after being named one of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in physics.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 10, 2025

Nobel Prizes this year offer three cheers for slow science

In an age when government efficiency has been used to justify sharp cuts to scientific funding, the science Nobels offer a case for plodding curiosity.
In the reporting year that ended in March, per-capita consumption of rice — which is 99% self-sufficient — and domestic production of sugar beets and sugarcane grew from the previous year.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025

Japan's food self-sufficiency rate remains at 38%

The calorie-based food self-sufficiency rate stood at 38% for fiscal 2024, unchanged for the fourth year in a row, the agriculture ministry said Friday.
Over half of financially struggling pregnant women and new mothers in Japan have no savings, a survey by Save the Children Japan found.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025

Over half of needy pregnant women in Japan have no savings

An official from Save the Children Japan urged the central and local governments to strengthen their support measures.
In "Weathering," 10 performers create a sculpture composed of bodies, sounds, scents, liquids and objects.
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 10, 2025

Autumn Meteorite stages a month of inventive theater in Tokyo

The inaugural performing arts festival brings a variety of shows, from monodramas to 20-people, multivenue ensemble productions.
LDP leader Sanae Takaichi and Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito attend a party leaders' meeting on Friday in Tokyo.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 10, 2025

Takaichi's PM bid faces further headwinds with coalition split

Komeito’s decision to end the 26-year partnership with the LDP means the ruling party will need to court opposition parties to vote Takaichi in as prime minister.
A bear seen in security camera footage taken at a supermarket in Numata, Gunma Prefecture, on Tuesday. More and more wild bears have been spotted in Japan in recent years, even in residential areas.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025

Man killed in apparent bear attack as deaths mount in Japan

The official death toll due to bear attacks has risen to six for the fiscal year starting in April, matching a record high seen in 2023.
People celebrate on Thursday in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas agreed on the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 10, 2025

A deal that might heal — or haunt — the Middle East

A recent American intelligence assessment warned that Tehran views the ceasefire as a “strategic timeout,” a chance to rearm its proxies while Washington celebrates diplomacy.
Military and national security leaders across major Western countries and the world show dangerous overconfidence and cognitive biases, risking global conflict.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 9, 2025

Global war and the cognitive traps leaders don’t see

Even a cursory scan of today’s major military powers suggests that their leaders and policy elites are dangerously overconfident.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado addresses supporters at a protest in Caracas in January.
WORLD
Oct 10, 2025

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado

The committee hailed her as "one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times."
North Korea's new Hwasong-20 intercontinental ballistic missile is displayed during a military parade to celebrate the 80th founding anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang in this image released Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 11, 2025

North Korea unveils new long-range missile during military parade

The North has called its Hwasong-20 ICBM "the most powerful nuclear strategic weapon" — though the missile is still under development.
The U.S. Capitol in Washington on Friday. The White House is making good on threats to fire thousands of federal workers amid a government shutdown now in its 10th day, with job cuts across federal agencies.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 11, 2025

Trump fires federal workers amid shutdown fight with Democrats

The firings mark the first large-scale layoffs of federal employees during a funding lapse in modern history.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during the Federal Reserve Board Community Bank Conference in Washington on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 11, 2025

Bessent’s big gamble on Argentina has a narrow road to pay off

For the Treasury secretary's $20 billion bet to pay off, a lot of things have to go right — things that in the past, in Argentina, have tended to go wrong.
U.S. President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House upon returning from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after a medical checkup on Friday, in Washington.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 11, 2025

Trump, 79, has 'cardiac age' of 65-year-old, doctor says

The U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."
A teacher hands out a "defend your rights" flyer to a parent outside Nash Elementary School, amid U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's increased presence in the Chicago area on Sept. 4.
WORLD
Oct 11, 2025

Chicago ICE raids and national guard troops prompt new school leaflets: ‘Know your rights’

U.S. President Donald Trump's deportation drive has induced fear in immigrant communities and protectiveness from educators.
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda speaks to reporters at the Diet in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 11, 2025

After ruling bloc breakup, CDP and Komeito eye unified PM candidate

The move comes as the Democratic Party for the People appears no longer willing to hold coalition talks with the LDP, putting new ruling party chief Sanae Takaichi in a tough spot.
Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado greets supporters during a rally in Guanare, Venezuela, in July 2024.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 11, 2025

Nobel winner vilified by Maduro regime vows to keep up her fight in Venezuela

Supporters of Maria Corina Machado have thinned under Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's brutal crackdown that's sent many to jail or into exile.
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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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Rock group The Yellow Monkey played K-Arena Yokohama in June as part of a nationwide tour. Concerts are increasingly popular in the age of social media as users value in-person experiences.
Inside Japan’s arena boom: Sports, sound and city-building
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