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The Liberal Democratic Party is planning to add ¥20,000 to child allowances as part of an economic package, LDP policy chief Takayuki Kobayashi has said.
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2025

LDP eyes adding ¥20,000 to child allowances

The addition is expected to require funds totaling ¥400 billion, according to Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Takayuki Kobayashi.
Maki Yamada (center) after winning the men's 400-meter race during the Tokyo Deaflympics on Wednesday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Nov 19, 2025

Sprinter Yamada wins Japan's first gold at Tokyo Deaflympics

Maki Yamada finished the race in 47.61 seconds, rewriting his own deaf Japan record.
Flames and smoke errupt from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in the southern Lebanese village of Tair Filsay on Thursday.
WORLD
Nov 20, 2025

Israeli military steps up strikes in Lebanon, saying it is targeting Hezbollah

Israel has accused Hezbollah of trying to rearm since a U.S.-backed ceasefire last year while the group says it has abided by requirements to end its military presence near Israel.
People stand outside the Russian consulate in Gdansk, Poland, which is being closed by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 20, 2025

Poland to close Russian consulate, deploy soldiers after railway sabotage

Poland says two Ukrainians collaborating with Moscow perpetrated the weekend blast on a train line that connects Warsaw to the Ukrainian border.
Indigenous people attend a protest to call for climate justice and territorial protection during the U.N. Climate Change Conference, in Belem, Brazil, on Monday.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Nov 20, 2025

As COP30 discusses end of fossil fuels, are renewables ready?

Although renewable power is expanding fast, the world is not on track to triple clean energy by 2030, a target set at COP28 in Dubai two years ago.
Toshihiro Nikai, then secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party (left), meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit to Beijing in December 2017.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 20, 2025

Tensions highlight lack of Japan lawmakers with China connections

"There's no one in the LDP-JIP coalition who can serve as a brake," a young Komeito lawmaker said.
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 20, 2025

First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change

Diana Khor, who was an international student herself, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's crown prince, during the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center in Washington on Wednesday
WORLD / Politics
Nov 20, 2025

Behind Trump defense of Saudi crown prince, a deeper U.S. shift on human rights

Trump's remarks threw into stark relief just how far his administration has shifted away from the traditional U.S. support for human rights globally.
U.S. representatives, including Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene and Democrat Ro Khanna, take part in a news conference to discuss the Epstein Files Transparency Bill on Sept. 3 on Capitol Hill.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 19, 2025

The U.S. Congress draws the line at Jeffrey Epstein

Tuesday’s votes and Trump's signing of the bill mark a new chapter in this MAGA-manufactured conspiracy theory.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass as he walks from Marine One to board Air Force One to depart Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Oct. 29.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2025

The U.S. has Japan’s back in any dispute with China, Glass says

The U.S. ambassador has taken to social media several times since the dispute erupted to criticize China and Chinese officials.
Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Cloudflare has been ordered to pay ¥500 million after four major publishing firms accused the firm of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Beware of China’s strategic distortion of reality
China holds a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing on Sept. 3. 
Yen rout brings talk of ¥160 to the dollar and possible intervention
The yen has been weak against the U.S. dollar in recent weeks, with some analysts expecting the retreat to continue.
China to reimpose ban on Japanese seafood imports amid row over Taiwan, reports say
A sign reading, "Suspend the sales of all fish products imported from Japan" is displayed in an area home to Japanese restaurants in Beijing in August 2023. China will reimpose a ban on imports of Japanese seafood, media reports in Tokyo said Wednesday, as a diplomatic spat between the two countries deepens.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Japanese companies advised to change mindset about investment in Africa
Bernard Laurendeau, chief of Enkopa Lab Japan, in Tokyo last month
Munetaka Murakami headlines quartet looking to move to MLB via posting system
The Swallows' Munetaka Murakami has 246 career home runs in eight NPB seasons.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Why we can’t get enough of the sham of the rental family
“Rental Family,” directed and co-written by the single-named Hikari, follows out-of-work actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser), who is hired as the “token white guy” at a Tokyo agency called Rental Family.

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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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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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