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Commuters walk past a fruit store at a shopping arcade in Kyoto earlier this year.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 12, 2025

Survey forecasts 12% rise in inflation in Japan over coming year

Of those surveyed, 86.7% said that prices are likely to be higher in a year's time, up from 85.7%.
The Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito are increasingly divided over economic measures to deal with inflation and U.S. tariffs.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 12, 2025

Ruling coalition divided over consumption tax cut

While some are leaning toward a tax cut, LDP Secretary-General Hiroshi Moriyama and others are seeking a cash handout instead.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (left) meets with Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi in Muscat, Oman, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 13, 2025

U.S. and Iran hold 'positive' talks in Oman, with more to come this week

The talks were indirect, though Iran's foreign minister said his delegation had a brief encounter with its U.S. counterpart after they exited the talks.
Temporary housing for Noto Peninsula earthquake evacuees in Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Thursday
JAPAN / Society
Apr 13, 2025

Over 70% of Noto evacuees concerned about housing

One woman in her 60s in the city of Nanao complained about soaring construction costs as her house is being rebuilt.
Palestinians wait to receive their portion of a hot meal at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday.
WORLD
Apr 13, 2025

Israel expands Gaza offensive and seizes key corridor

Officials said that the ongoing assault aims to pressure Hamas into freeing its remaining 58 hostages.
George Glass, then-nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Japan, speaks during a confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 13.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 13, 2025

New U.S. ambassador to Japan 'optimistic' about tariff negotiations

Tariffs on vehicles and auto parts are expected to be a key focus of the talks this week, Japanese officials have said.
Overcrowded trains and a lack of legal consequences for groping in Japan have led to a rise in "chikan," or groping, which has been linked to a mental condition and compounded by cultural stigmas.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 13, 2025

'Chikan' incidents rise as Japan grapples with mental health and cultural challenges

The governments of the U.K. and Canada have warned their citizens traveling to Japan that they could experience inappropriate physical contact — or "chikan" — on crowded trains
Russian leader Vladimir Putin meets with U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, in St. Petersburg on Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 13, 2025

The U.S. and Russia are negotiating in bad faith

For now, Trump says he is “pissed off” at Putin for not being more amenable to his administration’s ceasefire proposals and he is threatening to impose yet more sanctions.
Ukrainian law enforcement officers work at the site of a deadly missile attack in Sumy, northeastern Ukraine, on Sunday.
WORLD
Apr 14, 2025

Russian missile strike on Ukraine city kills 34 on Palm Sunday

European and U.S. leaders condemned the strike — one of the deadliest attacks in months — that also wounded 117, including 15 children.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a chart next to Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick as Trump delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on April 2.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 14, 2025

Trump warns tariffs are coming for electronics after reprieve

The American president downplayed a weekend exemption as a procedural step in his overall push to remake U.S. trade.
McLaren drivers Oscar Piastri (left) and Lando Norris (right) celebrate with team principal Andrea Stella after the Bahrain Grand Prix in Sakhir, Bahrain, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Apr 14, 2025

Oscar Piastri's victory in Bahrain GP puts McLaren in F1 driver's seat

McLaren faces a welcome but nonetheless potentially complex question of how to deal with two talented teammates battling for the same prize.
While U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed new tariffs on nearly every country in the world, China is clearly his primary target.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 14, 2025

How should Beijing respond to Trump’s tariffs?

Many are already comparing it to President Herbert Hoover’s 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which slashed global trade by 66% in five years and deepened the Great Depression.
The yen rose 2.3% against the dollar last week and hit its strongest level since September on Friday.
BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2025

Hedge funds and asset managers boost bullish yen bets amid tariffs

The yen has been one of the best performers against the dollar this month as investors anticipate that the trade war may hurt global economic growth.
Giants fans cheer during an exhibition game against the Dodgers at Tokyo Dome on March 15.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Apr 14, 2025

NPB can learn from MLB amid backlash to its new social media policy

Arguing that the rights of NPB and its broadcasters are in peril because fans upload short videos from games is a hard sell.
Shuhei Kishimoto
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2025

Wakayama governor taken to hospital after collapse

Kishimoto is unconscious and in critical condition, and is being treated in an intensive care unit, sources said.
Whooping cough is believed to be spreading in Japan mainly among children.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 14, 2025

Whooping cough is spreading in Japan

Cases reported so far this year have already exceeded the total number from 2024.
Students raise their hands in class in front of fans at an elementary school in Manila on March 21. Last year, heat waves forced millions of children in the Philippines out of school. It was the first time that soaring temperatures had caused widespread class suspensions, prompting a series of changes.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Apr 14, 2025

Early holiday, more fans: Philippines' schools adapt to climate change

Heat waves forced millions of children in the Philippines out of school in 2024, the first time that soaring temperatures had caused widespread class suspensions.
A rendering of East Japan Railway's E10 series of bullet trains
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 15, 2025

Japan to give India E5 and E3 shinkansen for free

The E10 trains are expected to be put into service in the South Asian country in the early 2030s.
Yankees center fielder Aaron Judge in action against the Diamondbacks in New York on April 3
BASEBALL
Apr 15, 2025

Aaron Judge to captain United States in World Baseball Classic

Judge will be playing in the international team event for the first time.
Damaged Buddha statues are surrounded by debris from collapsed buildings in Mandalay, Myanmar, on Saturday following the devastating March 28 earthquake.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 15, 2025

'125,000 truckloads' of debris need removal in quake-hit Myanmar: U.N.

The central cities of Mandalay and Sagaing lie devastated, while more than 60,000 people have crowded into temporary displacement sites
Vehicles wait in line to cross into the United States at the Canada-U.S. border in St-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, Canada.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 15, 2025

Avoid U.S. travel or take burner devices, Canadian organizations tell staff

Employees have also been given advice on how to minimize information that can be accessed by border agents.
The head of a child dummy hits the ground after falling from a balance bike on a slope during a simulation conducted by the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan.
JAPAN
Apr 15, 2025

Consumer watchdog warns about the dangers of balance bikes for children

Between April 2019 and December 2024, there were 101 reported accidents involving such bikes.
Red Bull Racing's Max Verstappen races during the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix in Sakhir, Bahrain, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Apr 15, 2025

Marko concerned over Verstappen's Red Bull future

Verstappen struggled to sixth place in Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix and at one point was last on track.
Shuhei Kishimoto, in April 2023 in Wakayama Prefectural Government
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 15, 2025

Wakayama Gov. Kishimoto dies at 68

The governor died on Tuesday morning of septic shock at a hospital where he was receiving treatment after being found collapsed at home a day earlier.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings' headquarters in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward in March. Tepco began a second experimental operation to remove nuclear fuel debris from a damaged reactor at its Fukushima No. 1 power plant on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Apr 15, 2025

Tepco begins second nuclear debris removal operation

Tepco aims to remove 3 grams of debris at maximum from the meltdown-stricken No. 2 reactor within about two weeks.
The Trump administration, in a desperate bid to cushion trade war inflation, is pushing for cheap oil, but $50-a-barrel will ultimately widen the very trade deficit the U.S. president wants to reduce.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 13, 2025

$50-a-barrel oil is a problem for the U.S. trade deficit

If oil prices fall to $50, under that scenario, total petroleum production in America will probably decline by 1 million barrels a day by the end of 2025.
Sachiko Ishizuka, who was born via artificial insemination by donor (AID), tells her story to lawmakers from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan on April 9.
JAPAN / Science & Health / FOCUS
Apr 15, 2025

Privacy and transparency clash in debate over bill on artificial insemination

At stake is the thorny question of when children conceived through artificial insemination by donor can access information on their biological parents, and to what extent.
Japan Head Coach Eddie Jones
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Apr 15, 2025

Jones' under-23 Japan team beaten by his old club Randwick

The Japan team's defeat came after it was hammered 54-27 by Australia's under-20 side in Coffs Harbour last week.
The Google logo is seen at the company's Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. Japanese authorities on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order to Google over an alleged violation of the country's anti-monopoly law.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 16, 2025

In a first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google

The Japan Fair Trade Commission has accused the U.S. tech giant of violating the country's anti-monopoly law by forcing manufacturers to preinstall its apps in smartphones.
A concept image of the Hayabusa2 unmanned probe, which utilizes Earth's gravity for acceleration as part of its asteroid exploration mission
JAPAN
Apr 15, 2025

Hayabusa2 target asteroid may be smaller than expected

Direct exploration Hayabusa2 is expected to provide important insight into planetary defense to help prevent disasters caused by asteroid collision.
Bangladesh is a South Asian time bomb
Many Bangladeshis hoped that the overthrow of long-time leader Sheikh Hasina last year would revitalize the country’s democracy after an authoritarian lurch under the “iron lady.” Instead it has led to proliferating human-rights abuses, intensifying repression and widespread Islamist violence.
Tropical Storm Peipah brings heavy rain to parts of western Japan
Tropical Storm Peipah made landfall in western Japan on Friday, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue warnings of landslides and other disasters due to heavy rainfall in several areas.
Trump signs order reducing tariffs on Japanese autos
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, shake hands.
Tamagotchi hatches 100 million shipments worldwide thanks to ’90s nostalgia
The latest version of Tamagotchi, called Tamagotchi Paradise, is awarded the best digital toy at Tokyo Toy Show on Aug. 28.
Japan alerting consumers to cash-on-delivery problems
In fiscal 2024 through March this year, the National Consumers Affairs Center received inquiries and gave advice on problems associated with cash-on-delivery services.
London’s calling and sumo’s top division — along with Hello Kitty — are ready to answer
Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Hello Kitty, an ambassador for sumo's upcoming tour to London, at Tokyo's Kokugikan on Tuesday
Resonac creates 27-member consortium to pursue advanced chip developments
Representatives from member companies of JOINT3, a consortium working together on semiconductor-related developments announced by Resonac, pose for a photo in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Haru Nemuri’s radical new album refuses easy listening
Musician Haruna Kimishima, better known as Haru Nemuri, confronts Japan’s politics, nationalism and censorship on her recent output.
Overseas sluggers step up to bat in small-town Hokkaido
The Betsukai Pilot Spirits welcomed new players (left to right) Yuta Yamanaka, Roman Guthrie, Scott Bellina and Leo Jiminian this year, pictured here with Yassir Lachkar of the Ishikari Red Phoenix.
Xi — joined by Kim and Putin — delivers stark warning at military parade
Chinese leader Xi Jinping walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing on Wednesday.

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