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The Eiffel Tower is illuminated in the colors of the French national flag to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2015 Paris terror attacks, in Paris, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Nov 13, 2025

Ten years after Paris attacks, jihadi threat has evolved

The groups themselves are now most active in Africa as well as parts of Asia rather than Europe.
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
SPORTS
Nov 13, 2025

Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas

Japan, where viewing habits have been slow to change, is now fully in the streaming era, though not everyone is ready to come along for the ride.
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season on Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 14, 2025

Shohei Ohtani collects fourth MVP Award with 2025 NL honor

Ohtani joined Barry Bonds as the only players to win at least four MVP awards.
Smoke rises from the Unecha oil pumping station during a fire, in Unechsky district, Bryansk region, Russia, on Aug. 21.
WORLD
Nov 14, 2025

Spare Russian oil refining capacity offsetting drone damage, sources say

Ukraine has ramped up drone attacks deep inside Russia, aiming to knock out oil refineries, depots and pipelines.
"I sincerely apologize from the bottom of my heart for the terrible crime committed by my second son, Tetsuya," the mother of Tetsuya Yamagami, who is charged with the 2022 murder of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said at the start of her testimony Thursday at the seventh hearing of his lay-judge trial at Nara District Court.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 14, 2025

Mother of Abe shooter Yamagami apologizes in court

"I sincerely apologize from the bottom of my heart for the terrible crime committed by my second son, Tetsuya," said the mother, a follower of the Unification Church.
Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson attends the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil, on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2025

Ocean activist wanted by Japan vows to continue fight at COP30

Paul Watson, known for environmental activism and activities that disrupted whaling, has been wanted by Japanese authorities for 14 years.
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 14, 2025

Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan

They are designed not to fluctuate in value, and that's precisely what makes them attractive.
CONCACAF President Victor Montagliani (left), and Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber pose before a Gold Cup match in Las Vegas on June 22.
SOCCER
Nov 14, 2025

MLS to change calendar to align with world's top leagues

The North American circuit currently runs from late February through early December, including the regular season and the MLS Cup playoffs.
This year's "Kohaku Uta Gassen" will be broadcast on NHK from 7:20 p.m. on Dec. 31.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Nov 14, 2025

Chanmina and aespa among 10 acts to debut on NHK’s ‘Kohaku Uta Gassen’

The New Year’s Eve music spectacle on NHK will feature first-time acts such as idol group Fruits Zipper and long-awaited returns from bands like Okinawa’s Orange Range.
Representatives from the Japan Innovation Party hand over a proposal to designate Xue Jian, the Chinese consul-general in Osaka, as persona no grata, to a staff of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 14, 2025

China warns of military response if Japan intervenes in Taiwan contingency

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong hauled in Japan’s top envoy to China, lodging an angry protest and issuing a direct threat.
A Ukrainian soldier runs past the site where a Russian glide bomb exploded minutes earlier near the embattled city of Pokrovsk, in Ukraine's Donetsk region, in August.
WORLD
Nov 15, 2025

Russia plans to make up to 120,000 glide bombs this year, Kyiv says

The bombs, whose range was previously estimated to be up to 90 km, can breach Ukrainian defenses without sending planes across front lines.
Iranian women pray for rain following a drought crisis at Imamzadeh Saleh shrine in Tehran on Friday.
WORLD / Society / ANALYSIS
Nov 15, 2025

Iran's dual reality: As veil restrictions ease, political crackdown deepens

The strategy is calculated: relax visible restrictions to soothe public opinion, while quietly intensifying a crackdown on political dissent.
The opening ceremony for the Tokyo 2025 Deaflympics was held Saturday in the capital, with Japan hosting the quadrennial international sporting event for people with hearing difficulties for the first time.
MORE SPORTS
Nov 16, 2025

Tokyo Deaflympics kick off as Japan hosts games for first time

A record 3,081 athletes from 81 countries and regions were registered, including Russias and Belarusians competing as neutral athletes.
Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara finished in first place in the pairs free skate during Skate America at Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York, on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Figure skating
Nov 16, 2025

Japan's Miura and Kihara capture Skate America pairs gold

The pair's victory sends them to the Grand Prix Final in Nagoya next month and maintains their status as the pair to watch for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics in February.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping's global ambitions require internal unity, yet internal repression constrains the creativity that global leadership demands.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Nov 16, 2025

Xi’s balancing act: Competition abroad and discipline at home

China’s global ambitions require internal unity, yet internal repression constrains the creativity that global leadership demands.
Members of religious group Iglesia ni Cristo attend an anti-corruption protest at a park in Manila on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 16, 2025

Megachurch gathers in Manila to protest Philippine corruption

There is mounting pressure on Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s government to act on a corruption scandal related to flood infrastructure funds worth billions of pesos.
Chen Tianshi
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 17, 2025

U.S. sanctions propel Chinese AI prodigy to $23 billion fortune

As Washington’s export bans choked China’s access to advanced chips, firms like Chen Tianshi’s Cambricon have emerged as national champions.
Two Iranian girls compete during an all-female karate competition in Tehran on Nov. 6. The event featured around 230 participants, including 5-year-old girls.
MORE SPORTS / Karate
Nov 17, 2025

Iranian girls use karate to kick down social barriers

All martial arts were temporarily banned for women after the 1979 Islamic Revolution but were later reinstated under stricter dress code regulations.
The financial district in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Kenya is classified by the IMF as being at high risk of debt distress.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 17, 2025

Why Africa pays the highest costs to borrow money

Some see a “prejudice premium,” while others say default risk and a lack of data play a bigger role.
Police inspect the site of a blast on railways on the Warsaw-Lublin line in Mika, Poland, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 18, 2025

Poland suspects 'foreign intelligence services' involved in rail sabotage

Poland has become the main hub for transporting military and humanitarian support to neighboring Ukraine since Russia's full-scale military invasion in February 2022.
Auction house Christie's in New York. DIC is selling some of its holdings of valuable artworks at the auction house.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 18, 2025

Japanese ink maker sells off Monet and Renoir paintings as activists circle

Oasis Management, DIC’s second-largest shareholder, has called on the company to sell off its holdings, saying that paintings aren’t part of the firm’s core business.
U.S. private equity firm General Atlantic has taken a minority stake in Japan's human resources software platform SmartHR.
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2025

General Atlantic enters Japan with investment in unicorn SmartHR

The New York-based private equity firm said it purchased a $96 million minority stake in human resources software platform SmartHR.
Germany midfielder Assan Ouedraogo (center) celebrates with teammates after scoring his team's sixth goal against Slovakia in Leipzig, Germany, on Monday.
SOCCER
Nov 18, 2025

Germany and Netherlands lock up World Cup spots in style

Both European giants needed only to draw to be sure of reaching the global footballing showpiece. Instead, both went on the attack.
Child care space at the Yuarito Day private postnatal care facility, on Oct. 20 in Tokyo's Chuo Ward
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2025

Postnatal care shortages emerge in Japan as demand grows

Provided by midwives and trained caregivers, such services offer hands-on child care assistance or short-term newborn care so families can rest and recover.
A worker checks the printed book cover of Taiwan's civil defense handbook at a printing house in Taoyuan, Taiwan, November 14, 2025.
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2025

Taiwan to further tighten export controls for dual-use technology

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Taiwan has updated its export control regime to prevent Taiwanese high-tech goods from being illicitly used for military purposes.
Members of the religious sect Iglesia ni Cristo listen to speeches during an anti-corruption protest at a park in Manila on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 18, 2025

Pressure builds on Marcos as Philippine graft mess forces revamp

The revamp of the president's Cabinet underscores his determination to press ahead with his corruption crackdown, even as allegations touch his own allies.
Members of Band-Maid combine heavy riffs and maid-inspired visuals in their latest project, "Rock Is a Lady’s Modesty."
CULTURE / Music
Nov 18, 2025

How Band-Maid brought anime energy into the hard-rock sound of ‘Scooooop’

The hard-rock quintet push their creativity to new extremes on latest EP, “Scooooop.”
China holds a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing on Sept. 3. 
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 18, 2025

Beware of China’s strategic distortion of reality

The ancient strategy resurfaced after Prime Minister Takaichi said Japan might need to respond militarily if China forced Taiwan’s unification.
Japan's Keisuke Honda after a match against Belgium in the round of 16 at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, in July 2018.
SOCCER
Nov 18, 2025

Japan has potential to win 2026 World Cup, says veteran Honda

"They have the potential (to) become at least the best four in the World Cup next year, maybe champion," Honda said.
U.K. Minister of State in the Home Office Dan Jarvis makes a statement to members of Parliament on an "espionage alert" issued by Britain's domestic intelligence agency MI5, in the House of Commons in London on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 19, 2025

MI5 warns U.K. lawmakers of new Chinese espionage threat

The security service said spies used cover stories to approach U.K. officials on sites like LinkedIn, often offering jobs as freelance consultants.
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.
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.
Yen and Japanese bonds continue to retreat as verbal intervention lacking
The yen has deepened recent lows against the dollar as the 'sell Japan' trade gains steam ahead of big fiscal stimulus.
A dictionary revision illustrates how Japanese keeps on evolving
The reference text A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar recently underwent a revision for the first time in nearly four decades.
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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