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The U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works facility in Pennsylvania
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 9, 2025

U.S. Steel says activist investor now in favor of Nippon Steel deal

Ancora Holdings owns less than a 1% stake in the company.
The Japan Coast Guard has introduced Starlink, a high-speed satellite internet service, on some of its patrol vessels.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 2025

Starlink brings internet to Japan Coast Guard ships in bid for new blood

The JCG hopes the upgrade will help appeal to younger generations amid growing concerns over rising retirement numbers and declining recruitment.
Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin is seen on a screen in celebration of his 895th career National Hockey League goal, which he scored during a game against the New York Islanders to break the all-time record of Wayne Gretzky, in Moscow, Russia on Monday.
MORE SPORTS / Ice Hockey
Apr 9, 2025

Ukraine support groups call on NHL to reject Russia collaboration

The Kremlin said that Trump supported Putin's idea of hosting hockey games between American and Russian players after Russia was frozen out of international events.
Hon Hai Precision Industry's chief strategy officer for electric vehicles, Jun Seki, speaks during an interview.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 9, 2025

Hon Hai makes case to build EVs for Japan’s automobile industry

Electrified cars and buses made by Foxconn, as the Taiwanese company is known, will appear on roads in Japan over the next few years, its EV strategy chief says.
Lakers guard Luka Doncic (right) has a technical called against him during the second half of a game against the Oklahoma City Thunder at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on Tuesday.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Apr 9, 2025

Shai scores 42, Doncic ejected as Thunder down Lakers

The contest pivoted on the fourth-quarter incident that led to the Lakers' Slovenian star Doncic picking up a second technical foul and being tossed from the game.
Yumi Watanabe (right), head of the residents' association of the Tsubamesawa public housing complex in Sendai, delivers a meal to a resident.
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Tohoku
Apr 21, 2025

Disaster public housing complexes in Sendai work to boost interactions

Residents are working with volunteers to organize a children’s cafeteria and other events.
A myocardial cell sheet using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells
JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 9, 2025

Japanese startup seeks approval for world’s first iPS regenerative treatment

The Osaka University startup is targeting patients suffering from severe heart failure for whom current treatment options are limited.
A large statue of Osaka Expo mascot Myaku Myaku sits near the east entrance of the event's venue in Yumeshima island, Osaka, on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 2025

After a tumultuous buildup, a first look at the Osaka Expo

Members of the media and other invited guests got a glimpse of the event's shiny pavilions spread over 155 hectares, and the signature Grand Ring overlooking them.
Seven & I Holdings released forecasts for this year's operating profit and revenue that are lower than analysts' estimates.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 9, 2025

Seven & I’s guidance miss adds to pressure amid takeover bid

Seven & I said it expects domestic convenience store sales to rise 9.4% this fiscal year, while seeing revenue from overseas convenience stores falling 3.6%.
Shipping containers at a port in Nanjing, in eastern China's Jiangsu province, on Tuesday
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 9, 2025

China raises tariffs on U.S. goods to 84% as trade war escalates

China’s move came hours after Trump's sweeping measures went into force, taking the cumulative rate announced this year to 104%.
The Nikkei stock index jumped on Thursday morning following U.S. President Donald Trump's pause on reciprocal tariffs.
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 10, 2025

Japan stocks rebound more than 9% after Trump's tariff reversal

The Nikkei 225 index closed up 9.12% on Thursday after the U.S. president announced a 90-day pause on the most onerous new tariffs on imports.
Nadeshiko Japan's Yui Hasegawa vies for the ball against the U.S. during the women's soccer quarterfinals at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 3, 2024.
OLYMPICS
Apr 10, 2025

IOC adds more women's teams to Olympic soccer tournament; men's teams cut

The IOC discussed the issue with both LA Games organizers and world soccer's governing body FIFA before going through with the changes.
Charlotte is a Kai ken, a native Japanese breed traditionally used for hunting wild boar.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Apr 10, 2025

This Kai ken’s a perfect 10

Energetic but also gentle, 3-year-old Charlotte has an endearing personality and a bright future ahead.
Liverpool's Wataru Endo controls the ball during a match against Newcastle in Liverpool on Feb. 26.
SOCCER
Apr 10, 2025

Liverpool to face Marinos as part of preseason tour of Asia

Liverpool is embarking on a Asian tour in July that will also take the club to Hong Kong.
Caddie Carl Jackson carries the bag of former champion Ben Crenshaw during the first round of the 2011 Masters at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Apr 10, 2025

Augusta National celebrates legacy of Black caddies at Masters

Until 1982, every golfer playing in the Masters had to use an Augusta National caddie.
The skyline during sunset in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Japan's new underground criminal groups operate under a highly organized and brutal system.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 10, 2025

How police are cracking down on 'scout' sex broker groups

Major scout groups are under scrutiny, as authorities uncover a far more systematized and sinister network than previously imagined.
The operator of 7-Eleven convenience stores is taking a series of steps to boost its value, including share buybacks, selling the under-performing superstore business and divesting its banking unit.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 10, 2025

Seven & I jumps most in a month on buyback plan and broader buying

The operator of 7-Eleven convenience stores is taking a series of steps to try to boost shareholder value amid a takeover bid by Canadian retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard.
Kazuyuki Masu, former executive vice president of Mitsubishi Corp., has been nominated as a new policy board member of the Bank of Japan.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 10, 2025

Ishiba picks ex-Mitsubishi executive Masu for BOJ board

Masu would replace Toyoaki Nakamura, a former Hitachi executive, whose five-year term ends on June 30.
Lee Jae-myung releases a statement to the public at the National Assembly in Seoul in December.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 10, 2025

South Korean presidential front-runner Lee Jae-myung enters leadership race

The presidential election will be held on June 3, after the impeachment of former president Yoon Suk Yeol for his December martial law declaration.
Guests play the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 console at an event in Paris on April 2.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 10, 2025

Nintendo gets breathing room on tariffs — just in time for Switch 2 launch

Nintendo dodges a 46% tariff on Vietnam-assembled consoles, buying time to flood the U.S. with Switch 2 units before the launch window closes.
Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles speaks in Sheffield, U.K. in July 2024.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 10, 2025

Australia turns down China's offer to 'join hands' to fight U.S. tariffs

Australia has rejected China’s proposal for a trade alliance against U.S. tariffs, opting instead to diversify its economic ties.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a bag as he visits the Louis Vuitton Rochambeau Ranch leather workshop in Keene, Texas, in 2019.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 10, 2025

LVMH finds making Louis Vuitton bags messy in Texas

Former staff say Louis Vuitton’s Texas plant wastes up to 40% of leather and encouraged defect coverups to hit targets.
The Virginia-class fast attack submarine USS Minnesota off the coast of Western Australia in March
WORLD / Politics
Apr 10, 2025

AUKUS nuclear submarine sale under scrutiny as U.S. tariffs shake Australia

Disappointment that defense ties didn't win Australia exemptions from the U.S. tariffs has put the program under unprecedented public scrutiny.
Hon Hai Precision Industry, which does business as Foxconn, wants to make electric vehicles for Japanese carmakers.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Apr 10, 2025

It makes iPhones. Now Hon Hai wants to make cars for Japanese automakers.

The Taiwanese company's seemingly unlikely proposition — given the structure and history of Japan's auto industry — just might work.
Margot Magniere and Theo Poyer returned to Japan after pandemic-era restrictions were lifted and decided to stay for a while.
CULTURE / Music
Apr 11, 2025

The band that turned a pandemic lockdown into a Tokyo dream

On “Grand Voyage,” French pop act Tapeworms tap into Japanese cultural nostalgia and picopop.
Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
JAPAN / Society / Longform
Apr 11, 2025

Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.

On a man-made island in Osaka Bay, Japan stages a grand vision of the future — and a quiet test of relevance.
A trader works during the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 11, 2025

Trump trade war with China revives recession and bear market fears

While announcing a 90-day tariff pause on dozens of countries, Trump ratcheted up tariffs on Chinese imports, raising them effectively to 145%.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks outside the White House in Washington on Wednesday. Bessent appears to have taken a larger role in articulating U.S. President Donald Trump's trade policies to financial markets.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 11, 2025

Amid turmoil over tariffs, Bessent rises in Trump trade world

Multiple sources close to the White House said the former hedge fund manager was giving the U.S. president the best counsel among a team of advisers on trade.
A rescue worker stands in front of a damaged building following a strong earthquake, in Mandalay, Myanmar, on April 3.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 11, 2025

Making money out of a disaster: Fake news and the Myanmar quake

Online schemes prey on the heightened fears and appetite for news that follow any disaster or outbreak of war.
Classmates and others planted cherry trees on Thursday in the city of Niigata, praying for the swift return of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korea.
JAPAN
Apr 11, 2025

Abductee Megumi Yokota's classmates donate cherry trees to school

Megumi's father, Shigeru, photographed her standing in front of cherry trees at Yorii junior high school seven months before she was kidnapped.
Tokyo ranked world’s richest city by GDP, with Osaka-Kobe also rated highly
Tokyo has a gross domestic product of $2.55 trillion, just ahead of New York’s $2.49 trillion and Greater Los Angeles’ $1.62 trillion, according to CEOWorld’s global wealth index.
Takaichi stands firm on controversial Taiwan contingency remarks
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a session of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee in parliament in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Tokyo looks to keep ‘monster parents’ at bay with new protocols
New guidelines are addressing struggles by teachers to deal with the burden of parents who make irrational complaints that go beyond what is considered socially acceptable, often referred to as "monster parents," which is overwhelming their workload.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
Jenson Button brings end to an illustrious racing career intertwined with Japan
Jenson Button races for Honda during the Singapore Grand Prix in September 2008.
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo’s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.
Jon Homewood: ‘There’s beauty in what we throw away’
After a peripatetic childhood around the world, teacher and artist Jon Homewood ended up coming to Japan in 2012 for a professional opportunity.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
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