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The “Oh! Ed! Collaboration Campaign,” launched on Tokyo's Keio Line to celebrate the Friday release of Ed Sheeran’s latest album, “Play,” includes a eight-car train dedicated to the pop star's music and trivia related to his career
JAPAN / Society
Sep 8, 2025

Ed Sheeran teams up with Tokyo’s Oedo Line

The campaign title, “Oh! Ed!,” plays on the train line’s name and the katakana pronunciation of the global pop star’s first name.
U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks after a news conference on the Epstein Files Transparency Act near the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Sept. 3
WORLD / Politics
Sep 9, 2025

Epstein letter allegedly from Trump released by House Democrats

Recently released papers also include Epstein’s will as well as entries from his contact books and information about his known bank accounts.
The Nikkei Stock Average's opening, high and low prices on Tuesday are seen on a stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 9, 2025

Nikkei 225 hits record on Ishiba resignation news, then falls back in afternoon

The benchmark reached a new all-time high in the morning of 44,185.73
Hindu brides participate in a mass wedding ceremony in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, in December 2009. Despite being outlawed more than 60 years ago, dowry remains deeply entrenched in India’s patriarchal society, fueling violence that kills around 20 women every day.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 7, 2025

Dowry-related violence continues to claim the lives of India's daughters

An average of 20 women die every day from dowry-related violence in the country, according to official statistics.
A customer shops at a Takeya store in Tokyo in July.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 9, 2025

Hidden inflation drives Japanese consumers to price-tracking sites

Consumer prices excluding fresh food rose 3.1% in July from the previous year.
ASEAN leaders take a group photo at the bloc's summit in Kuala Lumpur on May 26. The association, set to expand to 11 members, aims to protect its autonomy and unity through deeper integration, sustainable growth and broader partnerships.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 5, 2025

ASEAN balances autonomy and unity in a shifting geopolitical landscape

ASEAN, set to expand to 11 members, aims to protect its autonomy and unity through deeper integration, sustainable growth and broader partnerships.
As French President Emmanuel Macron seeks a fifth prime minister in less than two years to tackle the country’s debt problems, there are no obvious candidates with a decent chance of success.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 9, 2025

Macron is running out of viable prime ministers for France

Prime Minister Francois Bayrou will resign nine months into the job after failing to win support for his deficit-cutting plans.
Takeda Pharmaceutical’s experimental narcolepsy drug shows significant improvement in late-stage trials, potentially targeting the root cause of the disorder.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 9, 2025

Takeda nears first therapy for root cause of narcolepsy

Patients who took the drug, called oveporexton, for 12 weeks experienced increased daytime alertness and an overall improvement in quality of life.
Doris Aguirre, an immigrant from Honduras, participates virtually in a Sunday service by the immigrant-focused Lincoln United Methodist Church, held online due to the threat of immigration sweeps, in Chicago on Aug. 31.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 9, 2025

Immigrant faithful turn to online sermons and home communion amid Trump crackdown

On Trump's first day in office, his administration scrapped earlier policy of designating places of worship as sensitive locations off limits to immigration enforcement.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch (left) and his son, Lachlan. The Murdoch family has reached a deal that will see Lachlan Murdoch cement control of the family media empire.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 9, 2025

Real-life 'Succession' ends: Lachlan Murdoch takes control, siblings take cash

A deal announced on Monday that will see Rupert Murdoch's politically conservative eldest son cement control of the family media empire.
U.S. Rep. John Moolenaar, a Republican from Michigan, during a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in Washington in 2023
WORLD / Politics
Sep 9, 2025

Suspected China-linked hackers tried to pose as Republican lawmaker, panel says

The hackers sent multiple emails in recent weeks to U.S. government agencies, business organizations, law firms and at least one foreign government, according to the panel.
A worker sprays Holstein-Friesian cows from Australia with water at a dairy farm managed by Laras Ati milk cooperative in Kuningan, West Java province, Indonesia, on June 25.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 9, 2025

Indonesia presses businesses, their licenses at stake, to import a million cows

Program aims to provide free meals to 83 million children and expectant mothers, calling for the dairy cows to be imported over five years at a cost of nearly $3 billion.
Italy's players celebrate scoring against Israel during the 2026 World Cup qualifier in Debrecen, Hungary on Monday.
SOCCER
Sep 9, 2025

Italy keeps World Cup hopes ticking over with 'crazy' 5-4 win over Israel

Italy had won its first game under new manager Gennaro Gattuso in a 5-0 home win over Estonia on Friday.
Japan has hired energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie to assess a proposed $44 billion Alaska gas pipeline and LNG project backed by U.S. President Donald Trump, sources say.
BUSINESS
Sep 9, 2025

Japan hires Wood Mackenzie to assess Trump-backed Alaska LNG project: sources

The scope and cost of the deal with Wood Mackenzie is unclear, as is whether any resulting report will be made public.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has called for reviewing the circumstances that led to World War II to prevent its recurrence.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 9, 2025

Ishiba could release World War II message at U.N.

The prime minister has strongly called for reviewing the circumstances that led to World War II to prevent a recurrence of its horrors.
Residents stand on an embankment as they wait to be rescued from a flooded area, following monsoon rains and rising water levels of the Chenab River, in Jalalpur Pirwala, Punjab province, Pakistan, on Monday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 9, 2025

Flood-hit India and Pakistan face rising prices for rice amid crop losses

India and Pakistan exclusively grow aromatic basmati rice, which sells for nearly twice the price of regular varieties and is imported by Britain, the Middle East, and the U.S.
Forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo looks dejected after the match against West Ham at the City Ground in Nottingham, England on Aug. 30.
SOCCER
Sep 9, 2025

Nottingham Forest fires head coach Nuno after rift with owner

The Portuguese coach had been in charge for 21 months at the City Ground, but two weeks ago said his relationship with the club's owner had deteriorated.
Haruka Kitaguchi in action during the women's javelin final at the Diamond League meet in Zurich, Switzerland on Aug. 28
MORE SPORTS
Sep 9, 2025

Back from injury, home favorite Kitaguchi won't give up title without a fight

The 27-year-old shot to fame in 2023 when her final throw of 66.73 meters in Budapest made her the first Japanese woman to win a world title in a field event.
Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrives with his daughter Thailand's recently removed prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra (right) at the Supreme Court in Bangkok on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 9, 2025

Thai top court orders ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to jail for a year

Shinawatra's political clan has for two decades been the key foe of Thailand's pro-military, pro-royalty elite, who view their populism as a threat to traditional social order.
Google has said that its AI Mode will soon be available in Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Indonesian and Brazilian Portuguese globally.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 9, 2025

Google’s AI Mode to offer Japanese language support

Along with Japanese, Google said it will also gradually be offered in Korean, Hindi, Indonesian and Brazilian Portuguese globally starting Tuesday.
Shigeru Ishiba’s brief, tumultuous prime ministership weakened Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, alienated conservatives and left the party scrambling to find a new leader capable of restoring credibility.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 9, 2025

Japan deserves far better leadership than this

While the country is mostly back where it was a year ago, the LDP is in a much weaker position.
49ers quarterback Brock Purdy after the game against the Seahawks at Lumen Field in Seattle on Sunday
MORE SPORTS / Football
Sep 9, 2025

Banged-up Brock Purdy uncertain for Week 2 as 49ers' injuries pile up

Purdy toughed out Sunday's game despite suffering injuries to his left (non- throwing) shoulder and toe.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba holds a news conference on Sunday in Tokyo where he announced his resignation.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 10, 2025

The Liberal Democratic Party’s internal coup is complete

Ishiba came into the prime ministership last year with the odds already stacked against him. The LDP was a fractured party with waning public support.
Activists holding signs that reads "No one is illegal!" protest against a huge immigration raid last week in the U.S. state of Georgia, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Sep 9, 2025

Workers say corporate South Korea was warned about questionable U.S. visas before Hyundai raid

For years, South Korean companies have said they struggle to obtain short-term work visas for specialists needed in their high-tech plants in the United States.
Medics treat an injured Ukrainian serviceman, whose call sign is "Surovyi," at a joint stabilization point near a front line in Donetsk region, Ukraine.
WORLD
Sep 9, 2025

'Five days to get out': a Ukrainian soldier's remarkable escape

His experience underlines the difficulty both armies face when operating along and near the point of contact, with drones posing a terrifying new battlefield threat.
Shipping containers are parked at Thar Dry Port in Sanand in the western part of Gujarat, India, on Aug. 27.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 10, 2025

Trump floats massive tariffs on China and India to pressure Russia

Other potential measures include further sanctions on Russia’s oil tankers and finance sector.
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on April 2.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 10, 2025

U.S. Supreme Court to review Trump tariffs on fast-track schedule

The justices said they will hear arguments in the first week of November, an unusually aggressive schedule that suggests the court will try to resolve the case quickly.
Kansas City Chiefs' Travis Kelce kisses partner — now finacee — Taylor Swift as they celebrate after his team won Super Bowl LVIII in 2024.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Sep 10, 2025

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s announcement hits all the right notes in Japan

Japanese culture is in the depths of a nostalgia wave, and the engagement announcement for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce fits in with it nicely.
Heliostat mirrors at the site of Dunhuang Shouhang 100MW Tower Solar Thermal Power Generation Project in Gansu province, China, on Oct. 16, 2024
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 10, 2025

China’s green tech firms pour billions into overseas factories

Chinese companies are expanding their supply chains abroad to capture new markets, avoid tariffs and get closer to sources of raw materials, according to new research.
Elliott Investment Management has acquired a stake in Japanese regional utility Kansai Electric Power, according to a person familiar with the matter.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 10, 2025

Activist fund Elliott reported to take stake in Kansai Electric, eyeing assets

Activist hedge funds have been honing in on property held by Japanese companies valued at its original cost on their balance sheets as part of their investment strategy.
Tsunami threat passes following magnitude 6.9 quake off Iwate
A tsunami advisory was issued for Iwate Prefecture on Sunday evening following a strong earthquake. The advisory was later called off, after waves measuring 20 centimeters were recorded in some areas.
Japan to subsidize demolition of abandoned inns
Abandoned Japanese-style inns in the Kinugawa hot springs resort in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, in March 2023
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.
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.
Mother of Thai girl forced into sex work in Tokyo detained in Taiwan
The Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward
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.
Yokozuna duo Onosato and Hoshoryu poised for another clash of titans
Yokozuna duo Onosato (right) and Hoshoryu clash for the title on the final day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Sept. 28 at Ryogoku Kokugikan.
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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