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Japan on Friday announced that it will deploy for the first time its domestically made, extended-range Type-12 surface-to-ship missiles in March next year.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2025

With eye on China, Japan to deploy longer-range missiles for first time

Japan will send its extended-range Type-12 missiles to a GSDF base in Kumamoto Prefecture from next March and to another base in Shizuoka Prefecture in fiscal 2027.
China’s demographic spiral is now resembling that of ancient Rome, where changing social norms and drastic population-control measures led to falling birth rates and irreversible decline.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2025

What ancient Rome can teach China about demographic collapse

China’s situation, however, is particularly perilous. Unless it is reversed, a demographic decline of this magnitude could recall the collapse of the Roman Empire.
A McDonald’s Japan Pokemon card promotion triggered scalper frenzy, upset children and forced the company to rethink its Happy Set campaigns.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 28, 2025

McDonald’s 'Pokemon' frenzy shows the collecting boom’s dark side

After a "Pokemon" trading card promotion went disastrously wrong, it’s been rebuked by the Consumer Affairs Agency and is rethinking future campaigns.
Hawaii kicker Kansei Matsuzawa celebrates after making the game-winning field goal against Stanford in Honolulu on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Aug 29, 2025

Hawaii kicker Kansei Matsuzawa walks unique path in college football

The Chiba native picked up the sport just over five years ago as a 20-year-old, learning to kick through YouTube.
Foreign tourists at Narita Airport in June. A report released Friday stresses that Japan is at a turning point and that current ad-hoc measures on immigration are no longer sufficient.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 29, 2025

Japan to launch broad review of immigration policies amid rise in foreign nationals

The government is set to create a task force to review its immigration plans and prevent social division between foreign nationals and citizens.
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who was ousted as Thai prime minister on Friday, arrives at Government House in Bangkok ahead of the Constitutional Court's verdict.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 29, 2025

Thai court ousts PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra for ethics violation 

The decision marks another crushing blow to the Shinawatra political dynasty and could usher in a new period of turmoil.
The annual number of babies in Japan has been on a downward trend since around 1975, falling below 1 million in 2016, 900,000 in 2019 and 800,000 in 2022.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 29, 2025

Japan births hit fresh low in first half of 2025

The January-June figure, including babies born to foreign nationals living in Japan and Japanese nationals living overseas, stood below 400,000 for the fourth consecutive year.
A Citibank branch in Tokyo. Amid a talent war, the New York-based lender tried to convince a senior executive of equity distribution in Tokyo and his junior colleague to stay after they tendered resignations.
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2025

Citigroup asks two Japan bankers to rethink leaving in talent war

The negotiations highlight the challenges facing global and local financial firms in Japan to retain top staff and attract newcomers.
Workers hang a large poster of U.S. President Donald Trump on the facade of the Department of Labor headquarters building in Washington on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 30, 2025

Most Trump tariffs are not legal, U.S. appeals court rules

The court allowed the tariffs to remain in place through Oct. 14 to give the Trump administration a chance to file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court.
Under a notice published Friday, the U.S. Commerce Department said it was revoking waivers for Samsung and SK Hynix to use U.S. technologies in their Chinese operations.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 30, 2025

Samsung and SK Hynix lose U.S. waiver on chip gear for China use

The semiconductor companies had been operating in China under regulations that allow them to import chipmaking equipment without applying for a new license each time.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a news conference in Kyiv on Friday.
WORLD
Aug 30, 2025

Zelenskyy wants higher-level talks on security guarantees

The call came as European Union defense ministers pledged to train Kyiv's troops on Ukrainian soil in the event of a truce.
U.S. President Donald Trump wears a "Trump Was Right About Everything!" hat, as he visits The People’s House: A White House Experience museum in Washington on Aug. 22.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 30, 2025

Seeking more power, Trump uses firings to test presidential limits

The actions underscored Trump's desire for influence in sectors normally seen as independent from overt political control.
Pedestrians walk past a flag that reads “Free DC” hanging on an overpass near the U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Aug. 15
WORLD / Politics
Aug 30, 2025

Trump notifies Congress of plan to rescind billions in foreign aid

The maneuver challenges Congress’ spending powers and intensifies an already contentious battle over government funding, which is due to lapse Sept. 30.
A sleepy Tokyo-listed operator of nail salons is aiming to reinvent itself as one of the world’s largest corporate holders of Bitcoin.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 30, 2025

Japanese nails salon attempts reinvention as major bitcoin holder

The shift is the latest in a wave of radical financial reinventions pulling the likes of biotech firms and regional banks into crypto’s orbit.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting in Ramallah, in the West Bank, in April.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 30, 2025

U.S. bars Palestinian leader Abbas from U.N. as allies pledge statehood

The U.S. justified its decision by restating that the Palestinian Authority had failed to repudiate extremism while pushing for a Palestinian state.
Then-U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to board Air Force Two as she departs LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York, in September last year.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 30, 2025

Trump withdraws Kamala Harris' Secret Service protection

The move comes just weeks before Harris is set to go on a tour to promote a new book about her failed presidential campaign against Trump last year.
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attend a joint news conference in Toulon, France, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 30, 2025

German and French leaders push for secondary sanctions on Russian backers

The two European leaders are increasing pressure on Moscow as U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace efforts sputter.
A Y-20 tanker aircraft and Chengdu J-20 jet fighters fly in a formation during a flyover rehearsal ahead of a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing on Aug. 24.
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Aug 30, 2025

Beyond the 'bling,' China aims for deterrence in military show

Questions remain about how effectively China's armed forces — untested since a bloody border conflict with Vietnam in 1979 — could knit its gear together in a future conflict.
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (third from right), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, poses for pictures alongside U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer (third from left) and others upon arriving at the Songshan Airport in Taipei on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 30, 2025

Senior U.S. senator expects joint weapons production with Taiwan

A Taiwan official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters that co-production of weapons was "very important."
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba meet in Sendai on Saturday during a trip in which they toured a chip factory belonging to Tokyo Electron.
BUSINESS
Aug 30, 2025

Indian PM Modi tours Miyagi chip plant with Ishiba

"We hope to work together to strengthen the semiconductor supply chain and enhance economic security,” Ishiba told reporters after the visit.
Anutin Charnvirakul speaks during an interview in Bangkok in 2023. Anutin, whose father briefly served as Thailand’s caretaker leader in 2008, said late Friday that he had the support of enough lawmakers to become prime minister.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 30, 2025

Anutin leads race to become Thai PM with pledge to hold poll

Anutin, whose father briefly served as Thailand’s caretaker leader in 2008, said late Friday he had support of enough lawmakers to become prime minister.
Members of a trade association hold posters of U.S. President Donald Trump and shout slogans during a protest against the recent tariff hikes imposed by the U.S. on India in New Delhi on Saturday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 31, 2025

U.S. trading partners ‘dazed and confused’ after tariff court loss

Japan, which made an oral deal with little in writing, may choose to slow walk current efforts until there is more U.S. legal clarity, experts said.
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.
COMMUNITY / Issues / The Foreign Element
Sep 1, 2025

Overseas sluggers step up to bat in small-town Hokkaido

The residents of Betsukai, Hokkaido — where cows outnumber people 7-to-1 — have extended a warm welcome to five players from overseas who joined the Pilot Spirits.
Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations unit at a traffic checkpoint in the Ivy City neighborhood in Washington on Thursday
WORLD / Politics
Aug 31, 2025

Trump’s ‘startling’ rapid deportation policy paused by U.S. judge

The decision puts on hold a rule enacted in January that has become a key element of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort.
Boxing gloves on the wall of a gym in Tokyo ahead of a training session by American star Floyd Mayweather in September 2022. Intense sparring, drastic weight loss and lax regulation have created a dangerous environment in Japanese boxing, officials say, as the sport in the country reels from the deaths of two fighters.
MORE SPORTS / Boxing
Aug 31, 2025

Attack and never give up: Inside Japan's deadly boxing scene

The twin tragedies sent shockwaves through Japanese boxing, with authorities scrambling to investigate and facing pressure to tighten safety.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greet one another at the start of a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington in February.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 31, 2025

The Nobel Prize and a testy phone call: How the Trump-Modi relationship unraveled

The fallout of a disputed between the two leaders risks pushing India closer to American adversaries in Beijing and Moscow.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Tianjin, China, on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 31, 2025

Putin and Modi in China for summit hosted by Xi

The summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization — sometimes touted as an alternative to NATO — is being held in the port city until Monday.
The U.S. Navy warship USS Sampson docks at the Amador International Cruise Terminal in Panama City on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 31, 2025

Trump taunting Maduro on Venezuela coast spurs questions on goal

The U.S. president has labeled Nicolas Maduro a terrorist and on Aug. 7 Trump's administration put a $50 million bounty on the Venezuelan leader's head.
Russia's Daniil Medvedev breaks his racket after his first-round match against France's Benjamin Bonzi at the U.S. Open in New York on Aug. 25.
TENNIS
Aug 31, 2025

'Lots of drama' becomes the norm at tense U.S. Open

Spats at the net and tears on the bench have appeared more frequent in New York this year, where players are grasping at their last chance to claim a major title in 2025.
Sukiya plans to cut prices for its beef bowls for the first time since 2014 starting on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 31, 2025

Sukiya to slash beef bowl prices for first time in 11 years

The move, which comes after a hike in March, will effectively bring prices back down to levels below its major rivals Yoshinoya and Matsuya.
Haneda Airport security staff arrested over theft
Tokyo police have arrested a 21-year-old security inspector at Haneda Airport after he allegedly stole cash from a passenger during a baggage inspection.
Japan's elderly population down at around 36.2 million
The estimated number of people age 65 or older in Japan stands at 36.19 million as of Monday, accounting for record 29.4% of the country's total population, according to the internal affairs ministry.
SDF spots China’s biggest aircraft carrier for first time
The Fujian aircraft carrier is seen in Shanghai in May 2024 as it leaves for its first sea trial.
White House threatens broad crackdown on liberal groups
FBI Director Kash Patel (right) listens to senior White House adviser Stephen Miller speak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Pole vault rivals in awe after Duplantis has another historic night in Tokyo
Sweden's Armand Duplantis competes in the men's pole fault final during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
Tara Davis-Woodhall leaps to gold and finds redemption at world championships
Tara Davis-Woodhall celebrates after winning the women's long jump final at the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday night.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.

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