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Nomura Holdings shuffles its leadership in its currencies and emerging markets trading business following the departure of the unit’s co-head Nagaraj Pangal.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 11, 2025

Nomura shuffles leadership in trading units after second exit in nine months

The business has been suffering from a series of high-profile exits, and on one team as of January at least eight traders had left or gone on leave in the prior 12 months.
Nippon Steel Vice Chairman Takahiro Mori at U.S. Steel's Irvin Works facility in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, on May 30
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 11, 2025

3D urges shareholders to reject new term for Nippon Steel heads

Nippon Steel’s large-scale capital investment plan "significantly” exceeds the company’s market value, 3D said in a statement.
Thai fisherman Chaweng Yothaud (right) collects water samples to test for alleged arsenic poisoning along the Kok River in the Golden Triangle region in northern Thailand's Chiang Rai province.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 11, 2025

Toxic Thailand rivers pinned on Myanmar mines

Around a dozen extraction operations have sprung up in Myanmar's Shan state since around 2022, in territory controlled by the United Wa State Army.
June is Pride Month, which means it’s the perfect time to get acquainted with how sexual minorities have been represented in Japanese fiction if you’re not familiar with these narratives already.
CULTURE / Books
Jun 11, 2025

Pride and prose: Novels that illuminate queer lives in Japan

From Yukio Mishima and Haruki Murakami to Li Kotomi and Akira Otani, dive into Japanese fiction’s LGBTQ+ narratives in honor of Pride Month.
A law on teachers' salaries was revised to gradually raise their pay and also help resolve the problem of long working hours, though some lawmakers say it's not enough.
JAPAN
Jun 11, 2025

Japan enacts law to gradually boost teachers' pay

The revision also requires all prefectural and municipal boards of education to draw up and publish plans to manage teachers' workloads.
Rory McIlroy hits his tee shot on the eighth hole during the second round of the RBC Canadian Open golf tournament in Caledon, Ontario on Friday.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Jun 11, 2025

Rory McIlroy eyes U.S. Open form after Masters triumph

Since claiming his first Masters title in dramatic fashion in April, McIlroy's form has fallen off precipitously.
Seeking access to pricier and more demanding foreign markets for its beef, Brazil's Amazonian state of Para has seized on the global spotlight of the U.N. COP 30 summit to burnish its environmental credentials.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Jun 11, 2025

Why Brazil’s ‘King of Cattle’ is embracing a plan to save the Amazon

The rancher has his eyes on exporting to pricier and more demanding markets in the United States, Europe and Asia.
South Korean soldiers work on a loudspeaker that is set up for propaganda broadcasts during a military drill near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea, in this image released on June 9, 2024.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 11, 2025

South Korea halts loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts against North Korea

The loudspeakers were turned on in the demilitarized zone in June last year in response to trash-filled balloons flown southward by Pyongyang.
Serious labor shortages in the bus and taxi industries have prompted the government to consider easing language requirements for non-Japanese drivers.
JAPAN
Jun 11, 2025

Eased language requirement proposed for non-Japanese bus and taxi drivers

Currently, foreign nationals wanting to work as bus or taxi drivers are required to have the N3 level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test.
A Chinese J-15 fighter jet flies just to the side of a Maritime Self-Defense Force P-3C surveillance plane over the high seas in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday.
JAPAN
Jun 12, 2025

Chinese fighter jets in close encounters with MSDF patrol planes over Pacific

Chinese fighters made “abnormal approaches” to MSDF patrol aircraft over the Pacific Ocean in recent days that risked collisions, the Defense Ministry said.
A man stands on a balcony damaged by a Russian drone strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Jun 12, 2025

Russia hits Ukraine's Kharkiv with deadly nighttime barrage of drones

The overnight attack followed Russia's two biggest air assaults of the war on Ukraine this week.
Treacle is a spry 14-year-old who’s been called “big, bold and beautiful” by the staff at ARK.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Jun 12, 2025

Cool cat Treacle is a master of relaxation

A “big, bold and beautiful” cat, Treacle loves food and naps and is still keeping spry at age 14.
U.S. President Donald Trump talks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting where Trump announced nuclear talks with Iran, in Washington on April 7.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 12, 2025

Israel appears ready to attack Iran, officials in U.S. and Europe say

The step could further inflame the Middle East and derail or delay U.S. efforts to broker a deal to cut off Iran’s path to building a nuclear bomb.
A military vehicle as seen from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border on Tuesday
WORLD / Politics
Jun 12, 2025

U.S. slams U.N. conference on Israel-Palestinian issue and warns of consequences

The diplomatic demarche says countries that take "anti-Israel actions" following the conference could face diplomatic consequences from Washington.
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before a Senate Committee on Appropriations hearing on the Department of Health and Human Services budget in Washington on May 20.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 12, 2025

Kennedy replaces fired U.S. CDC vaccine panel members

His appointments include several who have advocated against vaccines.
Red Bull driver Max Verstappen is one penalty point away from a suspension.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Jun 12, 2025

Max Verstappen heads into Canadian GP hoping to win and stay out of trouble

If Verstappen collects one more penalty point on his racing license he will automatically miss the Austrian Grand Prix later this month.
Members of the media report from Los Angeles Street where Waymo cars were burned yesterday, after the California National Guard was deployed by U.S. President Donald Trump as a response to protests against federal immigration sweeps, in downtown Los Angeles on Monday.
WORLD
Jun 12, 2025

Journalists among the injured in LA as ICE protests grow violent

The Los Angeles Press Club said it was aware of 20 injuries to journalists during the protests, including at least five that required medical attention.
Seven & I Holdings, the operator of 7-Eleven storesm has pushed back against Alimentation Couche-Tard’s unsolicited ¥7.39 trillion ($51.3 billion) takeover proposal and is overhauling its business under a new CEO.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 12, 2025

Couche-Tard sees ‘clear path’ to Seven & I deal with U.S. stores divestment

The Canadian retailer says several potential buyers have made proposals to acquire its convenience stores in the U.S. that overlap with Seven & I's.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth meets with Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles at the Pentagon in Washington in February.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 12, 2025

U.S. to review AUKUS as part of Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda

The decision to review the partnership is likely to raise eyebrows among U.S. allies and partners, but was downplayed by Canberra.
For Japan residents, an unrelenting upward trend in the cost of living is changing the calculus for how to manage daily expenses — and long-term financial goals.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / Age Wise
Jun 16, 2025

Planning for the future in a time of inflation

A retirement expert says that income, investments and interest rates are all long-term factors to consider for Japan residents facing soaring prices.
Mitsubishi Estate is one of Japan’s largest property companies and the firm has been growing its investment management business.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 13, 2025

Mitsubishi buys stake in private equity real estate firm Patron

The deal will see Mitsubishi commit about €600 million of equity to Patron’s funds to help it build out new strategies including its nascent credit business.
Sauber's Nico Hulkenberg rides a bike before the Monaco Grand Prix on May 25.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Jun 12, 2025

Nico Hulkenberg says Le Mans-F1 double too much for drivers to handle now

Nico Hulkenberg raced in the 24 Hours of Le Mans a decade ago when the Formula One calendar allowed it, and he came away a winner with Porsche.
The Club World Cup trophy is displayed before a Bundesliga match in Dortmund, Germany, on April 30.
SOCCER
Jun 12, 2025

Expanded Club World Cup set to have far-reaching impact on global soccer

The 32-team tournament, with $1 billion dollars in prize money on offer, has been crammed into an already overloaded schedule
University of Tokyo President Teruo Fujii (left) and Y.J. Mii, a TSMC executive vice president, at a news conference Thursday. The school and the company have been working together since 2019.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 12, 2025

TSMC and Tokyo University team up to establish a chip lab

The chip giant and university will work together on chip-related technologies and supporting educational and research and development opportunities.
Stephen Miller, deputy White House chief of staff for policy, speaks to members of the media outside the White House in Washington on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 12, 2025

Stephen Miller: 'Trump's brain' who is behind migration crackdown

Stephen Miller's fingerprints have been all over the White House's unprecedented assertion of its right to use presidential power to pursue its agenda.
Displaced people ride a an animal-drawn cart, following Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks on Zamzam displacement camp, in the town of Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, on April 15.
WORLD / Society
Jun 12, 2025

U.N. says 122 million forcibly displaced worldwide 'untenably high'

The U.N. refugee agency warned that how major conflicts worldwide played out would determine whether the figure would rise once again.
Relatives of victims who died in the Air India plane crash mourn as they wait outside the postmortem room at a hospital, in Ahmedabad, India, on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 12, 2025

Search for answers hastens in Air India crash that killed over 240

Questions are growing over how and why the 787-8 Dreamliner, bound for London, exploded into a huge fireball just minutes after takeoff.
Get those umbrellas out, rainy season has arrived in much of Japan.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jun 12, 2025

In the forecast for June — a lot of talk about the weather

From "tsuyu" to "amayadori," the current season has no shortage of vocabulary for downpours, floods and wet weather.
Smoke billows from a site targeted in an Israeli strike in Tehran on Friday.
WORLD
Jun 13, 2025

Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear program in major escalation

Explosions were heard across Tehran, Natanz — home to one of Iran’s key nuclear sites — and other cities, according to local and social media.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter Ju Ae attend the launching ceremony of a warship that had been damaged upon its first attempt to launch, in Rajin, North Korea on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 13, 2025

North Korea restores damaged warship and plans to build more next year

Analysts said the relatively fast restoration of the damaged warship signals North Korea’s capability to pursue a quick naval build-up.
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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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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We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.
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