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Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's trade minister, and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick met on Sunday and Monday for lunch.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 29, 2025

No projects finalized under Japan's $550 billion investment pledge

Fact sheets issued during the recent Japan-U.S. summit offered little insight into any progress made.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi shake hands at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 29, 2025

Hegseth says U.S. never demanded Japan defense spending hike

In his first meeting with Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, U.S. defense chief Pete Hegseth called Japan's current defense spending plans “wonderful.”
Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 29, 2025

U.S. treasury chief Bessent signals support for Bank of Japan independence

The U.S. treasury secretary’s comments come as Abenomics is back in fashion with Japan’s leaders.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi reportedly turned down a request from the U.S. to cease imports of liquefied natural gas from Russia.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 30, 2025

Takaichi pushed back on U.S. request to ban Russian gas imports, sources say

Russian LNG accounts for nearly 9% of Japan's total LNG imports, with companies Mitsui and Mitsubishi holding stakes in the Sakhalin-2 project in Russia's Far East.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping greet each other as they arrive for talks at the Gimhae Air Base, next to the Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 30, 2025

Trump trims fentanyl-linked China tariffs after 'amazing' Xi meeting

The U.S. leader's face-to-face talks with Xi in the South Korean city of Busan, their first since 2019, marked the finale of his whirlwind Asia trip.
Indonesian students at Hiroshima University hold posters of the 17+8 Demands, demanding transparency and action from their homeland’s government.
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Nov 1, 2025

Young Indonesians in Japan find their political voice

From Hiroshima to Tokyo, Indonesian diasporic communities in Japan are expressing their support for compatriots back home and building solidarity online and offline.
Genmai has made great progress in his recovery after being taken in off the streets with an untreated hernia.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Oct 30, 2025

Genmai the dachshund has a spring in his step

Since being taken off the streets in poor physical condition, 11-year-old Genmai has regained considerable vitality.
Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump riot in front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 30, 2025

U.S. prosecutors suspended after calling Jan. 6 defendants 'mob of rioters,' sources say

The decision marks the latest in a string of personnel actions targeting Justice Department employees who worked on criminal or civil cases that Trump and his supporters disfavor.
Screens display stock market information while news breaks about Japan's new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, at foreign exchange brokerage Gaitame.Com Co. in Tokyo on Oct. 21.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Oct 30, 2025

Trick or trade: Talking about the stock market's 'Halloween effect' in Japanese

Japanese investors say Halloween is the best time to buy stocks — a seasonal trend known as the “Halloween effect.”
A meeting of officials from the Liberal Democratic Party, Japan Innovation Party and Komeito is held at the Diet building in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 30, 2025

Japan parties agree to make high school education free in fiscal 2026

The Liberal Democratic Party, the Japan Innovation Party and Komeito also agreed to raise the upper limit for existing subsidies for private high school students.
OpenAI is considering filing with securities regulators as soon as the second half of 2026, some people familiar with the matter said.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 30, 2025

OpenAI lays groundwork for juggernaut IPO at up to $1 trillion valuation

The company appears eager to tap public markets now that a complex restructuring that reduces its reliance on Microsoft is complete.
Satoru Tezuka, chair of the Personal Information Protection Commission, advocates revising the personal information protection law as part of an effort to balance stronger enforcement with greater flexibility for data utilization.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Oct 30, 2025

Japan weighs fines to strengthen personal data protection

Under the current framework, there is no mechanism to claw back profits obtained through illegal data practices, allowing malicious operators to retain their illicit gains.
Federal employees line up before collecting food from a Capital Area Food Bank distribution center as the U.S. government shutdown continues in Hyattsville, Maryland, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 30, 2025

Millions set to lose food aid amid U.S. government shutdown standoff

There has been no sign of movement in the weekslong stalemate, with funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, set to lapse Saturday.
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda said on Thursday that the central bank has no timeline in mind for the next rate increase.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 30, 2025

BOJ keeps policy rate at 0.5% as lack of U.S. data makes forecasting difficult

The central bank stuck to a wait-and-see approach owing to continued uncertainty.
The USS Annapolis nuclear-powered submarine is anchored at a naval base on Jeju Island, South Korea, in July 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Oct 30, 2025

South Korea to build nuclear-powered subs in U.S., Trump says

Washington’s decision to share the closely held nuclear technology with Seoul could have implications for Tokyo’s own defense policies.
Myanmar’s retired General Tin Aung San, left, a candidate for the army-backed ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party, attends a campaign kick-off event in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 30, 2025

Myanmar arrests three artists for ‘disrupting election’

Rights monitors say the new speech laws oppress dissent ahead of the junta-organized election.
A sign hangs above desks used by the Burmese-language service in the offices of Radio Free Asia, following the termination of funding for the station, which broadcast in nine Asian languages, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order gutting the government-funded media outlet's parent and six other federal agencies, in Washington on March 15.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 30, 2025

Radio Free Asia suspends operations after Trump cuts and U.S. shutdown

Long a thorn in Beijing's side, RFA's closure comes just as the U.S. president meets his Chinese counterpart on an Asia trip seeking better relations.
A man wades through a flooded street following heavy rain in Hoi An, Vietnam, on Thursday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 30, 2025

Climate change and poor planning drive Vietnam flooding

The country is naturally vulnerable to frequent typhoons and some flooding, but the situation is being made worse by climate change, experts say.
Visitors line up outside the Lin Zexu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou, China, on Oct. 23. Chinese President Xi Jinping draws on lessons from Lin Zexu, a 19th-century official whose defiance of Britain in a confrontation over trade led to China’s humiliating defeat but made him a national hero.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 30, 2025

How the 19th-century opium war shapes Xi’s trade clash with Trump

The showdown between China and the West then began, much as today’s did, with mounting Western anger over a huge Chinese trade surplus.
London-based Ukranian photographer Varvara Uhlik shows a juxtaposition of childlike innocence and uncertainty in “Sunshine, How Are You?” exhibited at “Seeeu.”
CULTURE / Art
Oct 31, 2025

First European Photography Month in Tokyo

With over two decades of photo festivals in Europe under its belt, the European Photography Month’s Tokyo excursion brings timely topics and aesthetic innovation in the art form.
Located in the redeveloped Takanawa Gateway neighborhood, the JW Marriott Tokyo is the first of the luxury brand’s outposts in the Japanese capital.  
LIFE / Travel
Oct 31, 2025

Tokyo’s first JW Marriott brings a whole floor of mindfulness

The redeveloped Takanawa Gateway neighborhood gets the newest outpost of the hotel chain’s luxury brand.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping talk after a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 31, 2025

Trump-Xi truce buys time as both seek leverage in broader fight

For markets eager to escape the tit-for-tat escalations and broad uncertainty that has defined recent months, it was hard to read the result as more than a temporary pause.
The Baker test on July 25, 1946, the U.S.' second atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll.
WORLD / EXPLAINER
Oct 31, 2025

Nuclear testing: Why did it stop, why test and who has nuclear weapons?

No nuclear power — other than North Korea most recently in 2017 — has carried out explosive nuclear testing in over 25 years.
Consumer prices excluding fresh food gained 2.8% in October from a year earlier in the Tokyo area, with subsidies for water having run their course.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 31, 2025

Faster Tokyo inflation supports BOJ rate hike case and boosts yen

Consumer prices excluding fresh food gained 2.8% in October from a year earlier in the capital.
A print by Utagawa Kuniyasu (1794-1832) depicts a bustling scene at a fish market in Nihonbashi.
JAPAN / History / The Living Past
Oct 18, 2025

Of sound and silence in old Japan

While haiku poets like Basho extolled the virtues of tranquility, premodern Japan was likely a noisier affair than most people imagine.
Australia's Harry Grant in action with England's Jez Litten and Alex Walmsley at Wembley Stadium in London on Saturday
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Oct 31, 2025

Absence of key players no problem for Wallabies coach

The test falls outside World Rugby's window for the release of players, and Australia therefore must do without several European-based players.
Many analysts said that U.S. President Donald Trump, who often tries to project strength as a negotiation tactic, likely was seeking to send a message to Moscow and Beijing with his remarks about resuming nuclear testing.
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Oct 31, 2025

Nuclear curveball: Trump's testing plan raises fears and confusion in Washington

Such a move, if implemented, could end up benefiting adversaries.
Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 31, 2025

Russia says peace talks with Japan only possible if Tokyo abandons ‘anti-Russian course’

Soviet troops took control of four islands off Hokkaido at the end of World War II.
Alternative for Germany's Jan Wenzel Schmidt (right), a member of Germany's lower house of parliament, sings a tabooed verse of the German national anthem, together with Stefano Forte (third from right), president of the New York Young Republican Club, at a club in New York City, on Oct. 2.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 31, 2025

On the rise in Germany, far-right AfD deepens ties to Trump administration

The party has held meetings with senior U.S. State Department officials in recent months.
Chinese leaders are signaling a sharper shift toward supporting consumption over the next five years.
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Oct 31, 2025

China signals sharper pivot to consumption as imbalances worsen

As limited investment room and slowing exports have exposed vulnerabilities, Chinese leaders are signaling a sharper shift toward supporting consumption over the next five years.
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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