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Agricultural workers harvest jasmine flowers at sunrise at a field in the village of Shubra Balula in Egypt's northern Nile delta province of Gharbiya on July 7.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 25, 2025

Egyptian farmers behind world's perfumes face climate fight alone

Jasmine has sustained thousands of Egyptian farmers for generations, but rising temperatures, prolonged dry spells and climate-driven pests are putting that legacy at risk.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba meets with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, in Tokyo on Friday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 3, 2025

Can India and Japan deliver on their energy agenda?

As geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific shifts, energy has become central to how India and Japan define their partnership.
"Animator Skill Test Textbook” was written in concert with a test created and administered by the Nippon Anime & Film Culture Association since 2024. The test was designed to help set a baseline for those studying animation, and so that animation studios can get a better idea of applicants' current skill level.
CULTURE / Books
Sep 4, 2025

English textbook targets a skills gap in Japan’s growing anime industry

From "dōga" to “lip flap,” the Nippon Anime & Film Culture Association’s "Animator Skill Test Textbook" teaches aspiring animators how to talk like the pros.
Kaoru Wada, chief of Kanagawa Prefectural Police, bows in apology during a news conference in Yokohama on Thursday. In a review report, police said the initial response to a stalking-murder case in Kawasaki was inadequate and the response system had been ineffective.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 4, 2025

Kanagawa police say they improperly handled Kawasaki stalking-murder case

Since June last year, the victim and her family had repeatedly consulted with police about violence and stalking by the suspect, who has been indicted on murder and other charges.
Nationals manager Davey Johnson during a game against the Tigers in Detroit in July 2013.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 7, 2025

Three-time World Series champion Davey Johnson dies at 82

Johnson was a four-time MLB All-Star second baseman and also played for the Yomiuri Giants in the 1970s.
Japanese activist investor Yasuto Monden, who became president of one of his target companies, has launched Axium Capital, an equity fund targeting U.S. investors, including family offices.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 11, 2025

Activist-turned-executive seeks rich investors for Japanese fund

Yasuto Monden, who took over as president of one of his target companies, aims to increase assets of his Axium Capital fund to ¥100 billion in two years.
Actor and World Athletics special ambassador for the local organizing committee Yuji Oda (front, fifth from right) poses with athletes at Tokyo's National Stadium during an open practice on Sept. 4.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 11, 2025

Broadcaster TBS taps Hello Kitty and Yuji Oda in bid to sell World Athletics

TBS has provided televised coverage of the World Athletics Championships since the 1997 event in Athens.
Hoshoryu shoves down Hakuoho to move to 3-0 on Day 3 of the Autumn Basho at Kokugikan in Tokyo.
SUMO
Sep 17, 2025

Onosato and Hoshoryu off to hot starts as other contenders fall

Onosato has been dominant while Hoshoryu, who is returning from injury, has had to work harder for his wins.
The full official records of Empress Kojun, the wife of former Emperor Hirohito, posthumously called Emperor Showa. The Imperial Household Agency plans to release all of the content of the records on Oct. 9.
JAPAN
Sep 19, 2025

Japan completes full records of Empress Kojun

The Imperial Household Agency took 17 years to complete the full records for Empress Kojun, the paternal grandmother of Emperor Naruhito.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 20, 2025

Trump to impose $100,000 fee per year for H-1B visas, in likely blow to tech

Trump's threat to crack down on H-1B visas has become a major flash point with the tech industry, which contributed millions of dollars to his presidential campaign.
Bill Gates, chairman of the Gates Foundation, visits Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Aug. 19.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 21, 2025

The world needs Japan’s leadership in life sciences

For decades now, Japan has understood the value of global health investment better than almost any other country on the planet.
Hisao Ito, a former resident of Tinian in the Mariana Islands, points to himself in a family photo taken when he was a child.
JAPAN / History
Sep 24, 2025

World War II survivor bears witness to family tragedy in Tinian mass suicide

Eighty-one years after the mass suicide, the memory of his father killing two of his sisters remains lodged in the survivor's mind, yet he holds no grudge against his father.
Cargo ships are docked in Navi Mumbai, India, in February. Only 5% of India's exports and imports are carried on Indian-flagged ships.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 25, 2025

India aims to challenge global shipbuilding giants

The South Asian nation seeks to boost its resilience and strategic self-reliance as China speeds ahead to become a global maritime power.
Parents of Shiori Ino, who was murdered by a stalker in 1999, talk about their feelings over a similar recent case, during an interview at their home in Ageo, Saitama Prefecture, on Sept. 12.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 30, 2025

Father of 1999 stalking murder victim saddened by recent fatal case

The father continues to lecture on stalking and its harmful effects at prefectural police departments and police academies throughout the nation.
Marubeni Ennex tanks in Chiba Prefecture
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 1, 2025

Marubeni to lift Japan power business with new trading firm

The company’s power retail arm and its U.K.-based energy trading unit SmartestEnergy will each hold a 50% stake in the newly-formed venture.
Although Ryan Bader is stepping into somewhat unfamiliar territory at Rizin, where he will be fighting in a boxing-style ring as opposed to the cage typically used in Western promotions, his New Year’s Eve bout won’t be his first time competing in Japan.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 1, 2025

From Hollywood to Japan, MMA star Ryan Bader has his sights on Rizin glory

After starring alongside Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Emily Blunt in "The Smashing Machine," Ryan Bader has a new mission: become a champion with Rizin.
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.
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.
Boxes of single-use e-cigarettes are displayed for sale on shelves in a shop in Gardanne, France
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 7, 2025

Surging numbers of children using e-cigarettes, WHO says

In countries that have the data, children are on average nine times more likely than adults to vape, the organization said.
Empress Nagako, posthumously known as Empress Kojun, fixes the hair of Emperor Hirohito, known posthumously as Emperor Showa, at the Nasu Imperial Villa in Tochigi Prefecture in August 1947.
JAPAN / History
Oct 9, 2025

Official records of late Empress Kojun's life include her experiences in World War II

The empress spent Aug. 15, 1945, when Emperor Showa declared Japan's surrender in World War II, inside a bunker facility that had served as her home, the records state.
Employees assemble a Gazon Next truck at Gorkovsky Automobile Plant in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 10, 2025

Russia's industrial titans furlough workers as its war economy stalls

The push to reduce wage bills shows the toll the conflict in Ukraine and the Western sanctions are taking on corporate Russia and on the workers of its heavy industry plants.
Aces center A'ja Wilson celebrates with teammates after Las Vegas won the WNBA championship on Friday in Phoenix.
BASKETBALL
Oct 11, 2025

A'ja Wilson pours in 31 as Aces complete WNBA Finals sweep of Mercury

Wilson went 7-of-21 from the floor but 17-of-19 from the free throw line and added nine rebounds, four assists, three blocked shots in the win.
U.S. gross domestic product grew in the second quarter at the fastest pace in nearly two years.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 13, 2025

World economy faces triple risk of tariffs, AI bubble and soaring debt

Such concerns will dominate the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington this week.
Inna Ilina, vice president of the Ukraine Pavilion, says she is grateful her country was able to participate and send out a clear message: Ukraine and its democratic values are not for sale.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2025

At Osaka Expo pavilions, staff recount ‘life-changing’ experiences

Nearly 160 countries and regions participated in the Osaka Expo, with each bringing staff from overseas to help run their respective pavilions during the six-month event.
Mariners second baseman Jorge Polanco hits a three-run home run against the Blue Jays in Toronto on Monday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 14, 2025

Mariners rout Blue Jays to seize 2-0 lead in MLB playoffs

The Mariners are halfway to winning the best-of-seven American League Championship Series and reaching their first World Series.
Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto throws a pitch against the Milwaukee Brewers during Game 2 of the NLCS round of the 2025 MLB playoffs at American Family Field in Milwaukee on Tuesday.
BASEBALL
Oct 15, 2025

Yamamoto pitches Dodgers to MLB playoff win over Brewers

Yamamoto struck out six while allowing only one run on three hits and a walk for the first MLB playoff complete game by a Japan-born pitcher.
Chloe Zhao’s "Hamnet"
CULTURE / Film
Oct 16, 2025

What you need to see at this year's Tokyo film festival

From slow cinema and satire to moving biopics and restorations of classics, the TIFF lineup has something for every cinephile.
Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama speaks during an interview in Tokyo in March 2007.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 17, 2025

Former PM Tomiichi Murayama dies at age 101

Murayama, who delivered a key statement apologizing for Japan’s World War II aggression, died on Friday in his native Oita.
Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani rounds the bases on a triple in the first inning of Game 3 of the NLCS during the 2025 MLB playoffs against the Brewers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 17, 2025

Dodgers ask Shohei Ohtani to pitch them to World Series return

The Los Angeles Dodgers will turn to a unicorn with the chance for a series sweep.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a plenum session of the Knesset in June.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 17, 2025

Has Japan’s Diet finally begun its ‘Knessetization’?

My focus is entirely on whether Japan's parliament will finally begin to “Knessetize” (referring to Israel's parliament, and by extension, unstable coalition politics.)

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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