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Myaku-Myaku, the mascot of the 2025 Osaka Expo. Some people in the Japanese government are hoping that U.S. President Donald Trump will visit Japan to see the expo.
JAPAN
May 3, 2025

Trump visit to Osaka Expo likely to depend on tariff talks

A visit could provide a tailwind to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's ruling coalition ahead of this summer's Upper House election, observers said.
Tetsuo Sato, a 105-year-old former soldier, talks about the Imphal Operation, in Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture, on March 30.
JAPAN
May 3, 2025

'War must never happen again': Former Japanese soldier recalls battle of Imphal

The Imphal operation during World War II is known as one of the most reckless battles waged by the Imperial Japanese Army.
Firefighters want more funding and better incentives for the millions of volunteers who prop up the system.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
May 3, 2025

'Not sustainable': Europe's firefighters want more funds and staff

Wildfires fueled by hotter, drier weather and household fires are straining fire services across the bloc.
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks onstage after winning the general election, at the Labor Party's election night event in Sydney on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 3, 2025

Australia's Albanese, riding anti-Trump wave, claims election victory for Labor

Cost-of-living pressures and concerns about U.S. President Donald Trump's volatile policies had been among the top issues on voters minds.
Princess Aiko speaks at the opening ceremony of the 23rd meeting of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN
May 3, 2025

Princess Aiko delivers first official address

The princess spoke at the opening ceremony of the 23rd meeting of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine in Tokyo.
A seamstress at Kineya Tabi sews together split-toe "tabi" socks, once a major industry for the town of Gyoda, Saitama Prefecture.
LIFE / Style & Design
May 3, 2025

Japan’s ‘tabi’ sock mecca runs on thread and memories

At their peak in the early-20th century, Gyoda’s artisans churned out more than 84 million pairs of socks each year.
Nuggets guard Russell Westbrook reacts after a 3-pointer in the second quarter of his team's Game 7 win over the Clippers on Saturday.
BASKETBALL / NBA
May 4, 2025

Nuggets throttle Clippers in Game 7

With the win, Denver advances to face the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder in the conference semifinals.
A voting site owned by SpaceX in Brownsville, Texas, on April 22. Members of a South Texas community that has served as the hub of Elon Musk's rocket company voted on Saturday to formally establish a new city called Starbase, fulfilling one of Musk's long-held dreams.
WORLD / Politics
May 4, 2025

Easy vote turns Musk's dreams for Starbase city in Texas into reality

Voters overwhelmingly backed turning Elon Musk's Starbase into a new municipality.
Stars right wing Mikko Rantanen celebrates after his goal against the Avalanche during the third period of Game 7 on Saturday in Dallas.
MORE SPORTS / Ice Hockey
May 4, 2025

Mikko Rantanen's third-period hat trick propels Stars past Avs in Game 7

Rantanen, who began the season with the Avalanche, added in assist as part of the Stars' rally from 2-0 down.
Then-U.S. President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Freedom to investor Warren Buffett at the White House in February 2011. His nickname, the "Oracle of Omaha," was something of a misnomer, as he credited his success to patience and a strict focus on businesses he understood.
COMMENTARY / World
May 4, 2025

The Oracle of Omaha caps a career built on humility

Nicknamed the Oracle of Omaha (a misnomer perhaps), he credited his success to patience and insisting on only buying the businesses he understood.
Since the 1990s, Parkinson's disease researchers have aimed to use stem cells to replace lost neurons, and they're now finding the right cues to turn them into dopamine-producing cells.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 30, 2025

Finally, a source of hope for Parkinson’s disease sufferers

The treatments were originally developed by a team at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and the other by researchers in Kyoto.
Ahead of Children’s Day, a survey of kids entering elementary school in Japan found their top dream job was cake shop and bakery worker, followed by police officer and athlete.
JAPAN / Society
May 4, 2025

Cake shop workers and police officers high on dream job list in Japan

Cake shop and bakery worker topped the overall rankings covering both boys and girls, chosen by 11.7% of the respondents.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with his partner Jodie Haydon (right) and his son Nathan Albanese (left) at the Labor Party election night event in Sydney on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 5, 2025

Albanese landslide offers rare chance to fix Australia’s economy

Albanese’s center-left government has the best chance in years to take the hard steps economists have called for to ignite growth.
Naomi Osaka pumps her fist during a match at the Australian Open in January. On Sunday, the former world No. 1 earned her first title since becoming a mother.
TENNIS
May 5, 2025

Osaka wins first WTA title since becoming a mother

The win at a smaller WTA 125 event was also the Japanese star's first-ever title on clay.
An Israeli police officer investigates a crater at the site of a missile attack, launched from Yemen, near Ben Gurion Airport, in Tel Aviv on Sunday.
WORLD
May 5, 2025

Israel vows response after Houthi missile evades air defense

"We will hit back sevenfold at anyone who hurts us,” Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz said Sunday after the attacks near the country's main airport.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks to reporters about Japan-U.S. tariff negotiations at his official residence on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
May 5, 2025

Tariff talks with U.S. seen influencing Japan's Upper House election

The outcome of the ongoing bilateral negotiations will have a major impact on this summer's election in the Upper House.
An Israeli soldier walks near tanks deployed at a position near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
May 5, 2025

Israel prepares to scale up pressure on Gaza ahead of Trump visit

The new ground operations will likely involve taking control of additional territory while stopping short of a full siege.
Nataliia Zelenina, 52, poses for a portrait in the office of the Svitanok charitable foundation, where she works as a social worker after having spent five years in Russian custody, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, on April 22.
WORLD
May 5, 2025

'Accept me': Organization offers haven for outcasts near Ukraine front

People living with HIV, those recovering from drug addiction, sex workers — all are welcome to seek medical guidance and respite from stigma.
Warriors guard Stephen Curry (right) celebrates with forward Draymond Green during Game 7 of Golden State's series-clinching win over the Rockets on Sunday.
BASKETBALL / NBA
May 5, 2025

Buddy Hield leads Warriors past Rockets in Game 7

The seventh-seeded Warriors advanced to play the sixth-seeded Minnesota Timberwolves, with Game 1 set for Tuesday in Minneapolis.
George Simion, presidential candidate and leader of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians, speaks during a press conference outside of the Palace of the Parliament government building in Bucharest on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
May 5, 2025

Romanian hard-right leader clear winner in first-round presidential vote

Ballots from nearly 99.6% of voting stations showed Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan, 55, was in second place at around 21%.
The health ministry and some municipalities are turning to spot workers to solve the labor shortage in the nursing care industry.
JAPAN / Society
May 5, 2025

More nursing care facilities in Japan embrace 'spot work' amid labor shortage

The demand for care providers is expected to rise to around 2.4 million by fiscal 2026 and about 2.72 million by fiscal 2040.
Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato (right) speaks during a news conference in Milan on Sunday.
BUSINESS
May 5, 2025

Finance chief Kato walks back idea of U.S. Treasury sales as trade chip

Japan held roughly $1.13 trillion in Treasury Securities at the end of February — making it the biggest overseas holder of U.S. debt.
Emperor Emeritus Akihito with Empress Emerita Michiko during a public appearance at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Jan. 2
JAPAN
May 5, 2025

Emperor emeritus to be hospitalized for heart tests

The former emperor has been diagnosed with a high probability of myocardial ischemia, which occurs when blood flow to the heart is insufficient.
People wait for dinner at a shelter run by Sant'Egidio, a Catholic association dedicated to social outreach, across the street from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome on April 24.
WORLD / Society
May 5, 2025

Homeless sheltered by Pope Francis wonder who will follow

Pope Francis shunned much of the pomp and privilege of the papacy and sought to make the Roman Catholic Church more inclusive and less judgmental.
China's Bayan Obo rare earth mine in Inner Mongolia. As U.S.-China tensions strain critical mineral supply chains, Tokyo’s multipronged approach based on sovereignty, resilience and sustainability is gaining quiet relevance.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 5, 2025

Japan's resource security path may hold answers to trade turmoil

Critical mineral supply chains are made vulnerable by China's dominance and U.S. protectionism. Japan's strategy may provide clues as to how to secure these vital resources.
The United Nations General Assembly Building in New York in 2015. An internal U.N. document shows the U.S. is opposing draft reforms of the world's financial system intended to help developing countries.
WORLD / Politics
May 6, 2025

U.N. document shows U.S. seeks to weaken global development finance efforts

It opposes draft reforms of the world's financial system intended to help developing countries, including around taxation, credit ratings and fossil fuel subsidies.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth awaits the arrival of Peruvian Foreign Affairs Minister Elmer Schialer and Peruvian Defense Minister Walter Astudillo at the Pentagon in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
May 6, 2025

U.S. defense chief to slash top ranks of military

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday ordered a 20% reduction in the number of four-star officers at the Pentagon.
U.S. citizen Chrishan Wright from New York after an interview in Lisbon on April 9
WORLD / Politics
May 6, 2025

Fearing Trump's policies, some Americans start new lives in Europe

Relocation firms said there has been a spike in interest since Trump returned to the White House, with clients expressing concern over policy and social issues.
Power lines connecting pylons of high-tension electricity are seen during sunset at an electricity substation on the outskirts of Ronda, Spain, during a blackout in the city on April 28.
WORLD
May 6, 2025

EU power grid needs trillion-dollar upgrade to avert Spain-style blackouts

Authorities in Spain and Portugal are investigating the cause of last week's blackout, but whatever the findings, analysts say infrastructure investment is essential.
A new U.S. FDA policy requiring full placebo-controlled trials for updated vaccines, pushed by Commissioner Marty Makary (right) and U.S. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (center), is seen as a backdoor effort to sideline COVID-19 boosters and undermine broader vaccine development.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 2, 2025

RFK Jr.’s new vaccine scrutiny is alarming

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who oversees the FDA, intends to set new regulatory standards vaccine manufacturers couldn’t possibly meet.
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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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
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