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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during the APEC conference in Gyeongju, South Korea.
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2025

Carney says Canada can’t get China tariffs lifted right away

The sit-down Friday on the sidelines of the APEC summit in South Korea was the first official bilateral meeting between leaders of Canada and China since 2017.
Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist and New College of Florida trustee, walks through protesters on his way out of a bill signing event in May 2023.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 3, 2025

Trump’s college czar has a ‘secret weapon’ to transform campuses

President Donald Trump has called the accreditation system a "secret weapon” for forcing changes in academia, and Nicholas Kent is uniquely well-positioned to wield it.
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 3, 2025

Trump’s global tariffs to face challenge before Supreme Court

The court will hear arguments Wednesday on the legality of the U.S. president’s unprecedented use of powers.
The Trump administration’s unprecedented changes to federal websites have put essential climate research at risk, environmentalists say.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 3, 2025

Volunteers race to save U.S. climate data from Trump’s purge

The administration’s changes to federal websites — including a halt on data collection and hiding existing data — have put climate research at risk, environmentalists say.
Pressed on his claims that Russia and China have been testing their nuclear weapons, U.S. President Donald Trump said that a global monitoring system that employs state-of-the-art technology had somehow failed to detect the tests.
WORLD / FOCUS
Nov 3, 2025

Trump claims that China and Russia secretly conduct nuke tests

The U.S. leader alleged that the nation's rivals "test way underground, where people don't know exactly what's happening."
Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. and Canadian defense chief David McGuinty hold a signed visiting forces agreement after their bilateral meeting in Manila on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 3, 2025

Philippines inks military pact with Canada in bid to deter China

The pact is the latest struck by Manila as it builds a coalition of allies to deter what it sees as Chinese aggression in the South China Sea.
Students of the Arctic basic-training program carry out a fire drill in Sisimiut, Greenland.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 3, 2025

For Danish army, the threat to Greenland isn’t Trump. It’s Russia.

With NATO’s Arctic footprint expanding, Denmark is raising its military commitment to a territory seen as crucial to security.
Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama reacts after not getting a call during the second half against the Suns at Mortgage Matchup Center in Phoenix on Sunday.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Nov 3, 2025

Suns contain Victor Wembanyama to deal Spurs first loss of season

The Suns built a 31-point lead in the third quarter while throttling Spurs center Victor Wembanyama, who finished with nine points.
Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
BUSINESS / Companies / Longform
Nov 3, 2025

The second life of Japan's net cafes

Once symbols of urban solitude, these spaces are finding new purpose as coworking hubs for a changing, wired generation.
Newly developed high-efficiency, low-pollution experimental hydrogen boilers supplying the Suntory Minami Alps Hakushu Water Plant
ESG CONSORTIUM
Nov 4, 2025

H₂O giant Suntory explores advancing with hydrogen

The beverage giant Suntory Holdings Ltd., together with nine other companies and Yamanashi Prefecture, held a ceremony on Oct. 11 to mark the start of a demonstration experiment at a large-scale power-to-gas (P2G) system for using renewable electricity to produce hydrogen fuel at Green Hydrogen Park...
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and minister in charge of growth strategy Minoru Kiuchi (center right) attend a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 4, 2025

Takaichi eyes economic growth plan by next summer

A newly established government panel has been tasked with mapping out a growth plan for 17 key sectors, including AI, chips and defense.
The Arch of Independence in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Central Asia’s Turkic nations, united by shared history and culture, are emerging as a strategic counterbalance to Russia and China, offering Japan opportunities for investment and influence.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 4, 2025

Why Japan — like the U.S. — needs Central Asia

The C5 — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan — concerns Japan more directly than seems immediately obvious.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping leave after a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday.
COMMENTARY
Nov 4, 2025

The U.S. had the spotlight. China stole the show.

Xi’s diplomacy rests on the idea that China represents a "non-Western form of modernization.”
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during a press conference to members of the international media, ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), Val de Caes Naval Base, Belem, Brazil, on Tuesday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 5, 2025

Brazil's Lula promises 'COP of Truth' as U.N. warns of dangerously high emissions

Despite three decades of global negotiations, countries will not prevent warming from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius — the main goal of the Paris Agreement brokered a decade ago.
Global firms are racing to carve out space in Japan’s lending market, betting that demand for private credit will surge, albeit slowly.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 5, 2025

Private credit dealmakers face years of heavy lifting in Japan

Building deal flow will require time — and education — as Japanese borrowers grow familiar with how private debt works and what it can offer.
Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun introduces the Chinese smartphone maker's new electric SUV YU7 at a launch event in Beijing on May 22.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 5, 2025

The human cost of Xiaomi’s rapid pivot from smartphones to EVs

Staff across China’s tech sector complain they spend all their time at the office, with several saying that overwork is prevalent in many top firms.
The United States Steel Edgar Thomson Works steel mill in Braddock, Pennsylvania
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 5, 2025

U.S. Steel says Japanese ownership to unlock $3 billion in value

Nippon Steel had acquired U.S. Steel for $14.1 billion in June, and agreed to invest $11 billion in the Pittsburgh-based company by 2028.

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Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes