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TikTok has discovered that their TikTok Live feature has facilitated money laundering, allowed users to sell drugs and fund terrorism, according to a new lawsuit, which also accuses the social media company's livestream feature of exploiting and "grooming” minors to perform sexual content.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 6, 2025

TikTok’s live video feature ‘groomed’ minors, Utah AG claims

Tiktok has emphasized its commitment to enforcing its policies and said it shut down more than 45 million streams last year.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at the federal Liberal caucus holiday party in Ottawa on Dec. 17.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 6, 2025

Canada's Trudeau expected to announce resignation in coming days: report

Justin Trudeau has been under pressure from elected lawmakers in his party to quit for months.
Dai-ichi Life Insurance sold about ¥500 billion of Japanese government notes, mainly 20- to 40-year bonds, in the fiscal first half that ended in September.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 6, 2025

Dai-ichi Life takes ¥140 billion loss selling off long bonds

The insurer sold about ¥500 billion of Japanese government notes, mainly 20- to 40-year bonds, in the fiscal first half ended September.
Kei Nishikori hits a return against France's Alexandre Muller during the Hong Kong Open final on Sunday. Muller won the match to earn his first ATP Tour title.
TENNIS
Jan 6, 2025

Kei Nishikori comes up short against Alexandre Muller in Hong Kong Open final

Nishikori, 35, who reached the U.S. Open final in 2014, raced through the first set at Victoria Park in just 33 minutes but ran out of steam.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk watch a fight during UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden in New York on Nov. 16, 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 6, 2025

MAGA's infighting sparks fears of a chaotic Trump White House

The furor over whether to welcome skilled foreign workers has exposed deep fault lines between Trump's supporters.
TDK CEO Noboru Saito said the Tokyo-based company plans to start mass production of its third-generation silicon-anode cells from late summer.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 6, 2025

iPhone supplier TDK rolls out new batteries to keep pace with AI

From late summer, the Tokyo-based company plans to start mass production of its silicon-anode cells, which carry more energy than conventional ones.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives at King Khalid International airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Dec. 9.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 6, 2025

Starmer’s travels outstrip past U.K. leaders, posing ratings risk

The premier has spent 31 days on working trips since he took office following his Labour Party’s landslide win in the July 4 general election.
A maintenance worker inspects solar panels at a power plant in southern India.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jan 6, 2025

Where the smart climate tech venture money is going in 2025

The prospect of more trade wars is scrambling the economy in ways that will determine which climate tech sectors to bet on.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida
BUSINESS / Tech
Jan 6, 2025

Italy plans $1.6 billion SpaceX telecom security services deal

In 2024 alone, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has added more than 20 nations to its Starlink satellite internet service.
The Bristol Bears' Ilona Maher takes a selfie with fans after her team's match against Gloucester-Hartpury in Bristol, England, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Jan 6, 2025

U.S. rugby star Ilona Maher draws record crowd in debut for Bristol

She came off the bench for the final 20 minutes at Ashton Gate to huge cheers but was unable to make a major impact.
Jera has reportedly created a think tank to research domestic and international energy trends.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 6, 2025

Japan’s top LNG buyer creates think tank to watch market trends

Jera Global Institute will aim to follow the example of Shell’s scenarios team, which produces long-term forecasts.
JR Central President Shunsuke Niwa speaks during a group interview in Nagoya on Dec. 18.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 6, 2025

JR Central to let pet dogs ride on shinkansen

Shinkansen cars will be chartered to allow passengers to release their dogs from cages and move around inside the cars with the pets.
"Shogun" actors (from left) Cosmo Jarvis, Anna Sawai, Hiroyuki Sanada and Tadanobu Asano pose in the press room with the award for best drama television series during the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jan 6, 2025

'Shogun,' 'Hacks' win top TV honors at Golden Globes

FX's historical epic won four awards in total, including best actor and actress for Hiroyuki Sanada and Anna Sawai, respectively, and best supporting male actor for Tadanobu Asano.
The Lions celebrate after a touchdown during their game against the Vikings in Detroit on Sunday night.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Jan 6, 2025

Lions pull away from Vikings in second half to secure top seed in NFC

The heavyweight clash capped the final day of the NFL regular season, which also saw the Denver Broncos and Tampa Bay Buccaneers claim the final two playoff spots available.
The headquarters of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China in Beijing in 2018
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 6, 2025

After year of big corruption crackdown, China promises more probes

Even the lowly "flies" and "ants" in China's vast bureaucracy will not be spared in the corruption fight, a state broadcaster television program showed Sunday.
Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel sued the U.S. government Monday for blocking the merger of the two companies.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 7, 2025

Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel sue U.S. government for blocking deal

The suit argues that the two companies were denied due process and that the $14.9 billion transaction was blocked for political reasons.
Sunset in Taipei. China’s efforts to promote residence permits for Taiwanese people have recently intensified, especially when it comes to targeting those who’ve never traveled to the mainland.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 6, 2025

China enticing Taiwanese to live there stirs concern in Taipei

Taiwanese officials are concerned holders of this permit will be easier to convince to swap their passports for those issued by Beijing.
The cast of "The Brutalist" celebrate the show's best movie drama win at the Golden Globes in Beverly Hills, California.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jan 6, 2025

'The Brutalist,' 'Emilia Perez' take home Golden Globes' top film honors

The two films received the first major movie prizes of Hollywood's awards season on Sunday.
A pedestrian walks past air conditioning units in Tokyo in July. The year 2024 was the hottest for Japan since records began, the Meteorological Agency said.
JAPAN
Jan 6, 2025

Japan says 2024 hottest year on record

The average temperatures from January through December were 1.48 degrees Celsius higher than the 1991-2020 average, according to the Meteorological Agency.
A monuments of a plastic model of an armor worn by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, is seen in the city of Shizuoka on Dec. 6.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Jan 6, 2025

In Shizuoka, plastic models are not just child's play

Monuments of plastic models are found throughout the city to showcase its model-making industry, which traces its roots to skilled craftsmen of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference at Rideau Cottage in Ottawa on Monday to announce his resignation.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 7, 2025

Canada's Trudeau resigns after nine years in power as Liberals force him out

Trudeau, 53, currently the longest-serving leader of any Group of Seven country, bowed to sagging approval numbers and a rebellion within his political party.
Coco Gauff of the U.S. in action against Poland's Iga Swiatek during the United Cup in Sydney on Saturday
TENNIS
Jan 7, 2025

Gauff in superb form for latest Australian Open campaign

The 20-year-old has seen a remarkable turnaround, after appearing to be in a tailspin only a few months ago.
Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys, lights a protective face mask on fire during a rally in support of President Donald Trump in Atlanta, in 2020.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 7, 2025

On anniversary of U.S. Capitol attack, Proud Boys ex-leader asks Trump for pardon

1,583 people have been charged with a crime connected to the siege of the Capitol, with about 1,100 of those cases fully adjudicated, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
Russian soldiers at an artillery position in the Kursk region of western Russia on Dec. 2.
WORLD
Jan 7, 2025

Battle rages in western Russia as Moscow reports gains in Ukraine

Russia and Ukraine are fighting to improve their battlefield positions before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
Nottingham Forest's Chris Wood (center) celebrates scoring his team's second goal against Wolverhampton Wanderers with teammates Morgan Gibbs-White (left) and Neco Williams in Wolverhampton, England, on Monday.
SOCCER
Jan 7, 2025

Forest tame Wolves to maintain unlikely Premier League title challenge

Forest rose to within six points of leader Liverpool, who they host in their next Premier League game.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump meets with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 7, 2025

Meloni’s closeness to Musk and Trump is a win-win — and a big risk

By pivoting away from China toward the administration of the incoming U.S. president, the Italian prime minister creates a different kind of dependency.
Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda talks about the firm's Woven City smart town during the 2025 CES event in Las Vegas on Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 7, 2025

Toyota aims to open its futuristic city near Mount Fuji this year

The initial residents of Woven City will be composed mostly of the carmaker’s own employees and their families.
A Mitsubishi Electric Lighting LED product, which shortens installation time, in the city of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, November
JAPAN
Jan 7, 2025

Shift from fluorescent lamps to LEDs to accelerate in Japan

Manufacturers and industry groups are calling for the early replacement of fluorescent lamps with LEDs in offices and stores ahead of a 2027 ban.
Solaris secured about €100 million ($103 million) from SBI Holdings for the stake.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 7, 2025

Japan’s SBI said to agree to take majority stake in Solaris

Germany’s economic struggles have placed a greater burden on the country’s larger fintech companies.
A Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism official explains a new system for detecting vacant houses, on Dec. 23.
JAPAN
Jan 12, 2025

Government developing AI-based system to detect vacant houses

The aim of the system is to spot such properties at an early stage and make them available for sale or rent, or demolish them before they collapse.
40 years after Plaza Accord, Japan still at mercy of forex swings
The Plaza Hotel in New York, where finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of Five countries met and struck the Plaza Accord on Sept. 22, 1985.
As Japan keeps buying gas, Aboriginal Australians pay the price
Paulina “Jedda” Puruntatameri with Antonia Burke and Tiwi fisher Clinton offshore of Melville Island, one of the Tiwi Islands, in Australia's Northern Territory. Together with other Tiwi, Jedda has been campaigning for years to stop Australian company Santos and its backers, including Japanese investors, from drilling for natural gas at the Barossa gas field.
Abuse of 'zombie cigarettes' among Okinawa youths raises alarm
A street in Naha in August. In entertainment districts in southern Okinawa, a drug known as "laughing gas vape" is being abused at nightclubs and bar. Now, some establishments have put up warning notices.
More German companies choosing Japan as Asia manufacturing hub: survey
Japan has many positive qualities for German companies, but the market does face some challenges, such as talent acquisition and retention, particularly as demand for skilled workers grows, a survey by the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan showed.
Boom in business class travel from Japan fuels airlines profits
A business class suite of an Airbus SE A350-1000 aircraft operated by Japan Airlines is seen during a media preview at the company's hangar at Tokyo's Haneda Airport in January last year.
Who’s who in the LDP presidential race?
(From left) Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi; former foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi; Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Shinjiro Koizumi; former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi; and former minister of state for economic security Sanae Takaichi, speaking at events in Tokyo.
Twice-a-year injection could make HIV prevention easier, developer argues
Jared Baeten, Gilead Sciences' senior vice president and virology therapeutic area head, hopes regulatory approval elsewhere for lenacapavir as a preexposure prophylaxis — for reducing the risk of contracting HIV — could lead to real discussions toward ending HIV in Japan.
Behold the glory of Japan’s fruit boxes
Otherwise common sights in Japan's supermarkets, the country's fruit and veggie boxes can hide surprising symbols of local pride.
YouTuber Gigguk shifts from talking anime to making anime
The process of making “Baan” was personal and enlightening for Maneetapho, who spent years talking about anime on his YouTube channel and podcast before making the jump to becoming an anime creator himself.
How Yuki Joseph Nakajima turned failures into breakout success at Tokyo worlds
Yuki Joseph Nakajima after finishing sixth in the men's 400-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Thursday.

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"Shake hands with Lima-chan," a statue that shares the name of the Peruvian capital looks in the direction of Peru, where a sister statue, "Sakura-chan," is located. Erected in Yokohama's Rinko Park in 1999, it commemorates Peruvian-Japanese friendship.
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