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Bartering has returned to Russian foreign trade as companies trying to avoid Western sanctions swap wheat for Chinese cars and flax seeds for building materials.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 15, 2025

Wheat for Chinese cars? Russia turns to barter to skirt sanctions.

The return of the old-fashioned practice shows just how far the war in Ukraine has distorted trading ties for the world's biggest producer of natural resources.
CVC Capital Partners has joined the race for KKR's stake in Avendus Capital.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 16, 2025

CVC in talks to buy KKR’s Avendus stake after Mizuho deal falters

Mizuho had been close to finalizing a deal to buy out Avendus in a transaction that valued the business at about $800 million.
Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook attends a Federal Reserve Board open meeting discussing proposed revisions to the board's supplementary leverage ratio standards, in Washington in June.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 16, 2025

U.S. appeals court rejects Trump bid to oust Fed's Lisa Cook

The attempt to fire the Federal Reserve governor was the first by a president since the central bank's founding in 1913.
Alibaba Group co-founder Jack Ma attends the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in 2018. The billionaire entrepreneur recently returned to a hands-on role at Alibaba after spending years out of the public eye.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 16, 2025

Jack Ma returns with a vengeance to ‘Make Alibaba Great Again’

Ma resigned as chairman of Alibaba in 2019 and largely disappeared from the public eye in 2020 amid the Chinese government's crackdown on the tech sector.
Bedouins, many of whom were displaced by fighting in the Sweida region, receive donated bread in the village of Umm Walad, Syria, on July 28.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 16, 2025

Sectarian violence risks dividing Syria despite al-Sharaa's diplomacy

The country's Alawite, Christian and Druze minorities have voiced anger at the president's Islamist administration following outbreaks of sectarian violence.
Children stand near a nursery in Belgorod, Russia, on Aug. 26.
WORLD
Sep 16, 2025

Russia expanding forced re-education of deported Ukrainian children

U.S.-funded research has identified more than 210 sites where Ukrainian children have been taken for military training, drone manufacturing and other forced re-education.
Chinese migrants intent on reaching the United States walking in the jungle of Panama’s Darien Gap on March 3, 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 16, 2025

He risked everything to leave China for the U.S. Then he was sent back.

Tao was not a Chinese dissident, just an ordinary worker who wanted freedom. Deportation did not stop him from trying again.
Abandoning quarterly reporting would see the U.S. market join a global shift away from the practice and could help investors pushing boards to do more on issues such as climate change that are set to increasingly impact corporate value.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 17, 2025

Climate-conscious investors back Trump's call to end quarterly reports

Trump's call to end quarterly reporting has received support from an unlikely source: international investors pushing business to do more on longer-term sustainability issues.
A scientist looks at scans of grains at the Memory Centre at the Department of Readaptation and Geriatrics of the University Hospital (HUG) in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 6, 2023.
JAPAN / Science & Health / FOCUS
Sep 17, 2025

Japan’s front-line researchers see bright path ahead for dementia treatment

Four scientists at the forefront of dementia research speak about what kind of future they envision for people with the condition.
Han Hak-ja, the leader of the Unification Church, arrives at the special prosecutors' office for questioning over allegations, which she has denied, that she instructed the church to bribe the wife of ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol and a politician close to him, in Seoul on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 17, 2025

Unification Church head questioned in probe on South Korea's ex-first lady

Han Hak-ja was quizzed over her alleged involvement in bribing Kim Keon Hee, wife of ousted South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.
The CCGS Naalak Nappaaluk, an oceanographic science vessel and summer-rated icebreaker, under construction at Seaspan Shipyards
WORLD
Sep 17, 2025

Nations aiming for Arctic power can’t get enough of these ships

Thawing of the top of the world from climate change has stirred a global competition to forge new, previously unnavigable shipping routes.
A person lays flowers at the grave of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny while marking the first anniversary of his death, at a cemetery in Moscow on Feb. 16.
WORLD
Sep 17, 2025

Yulia Navalnaya says foreign tests show her husband was poisoned

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny died suddenly at the age of 47 on Feb. 16, 2024, in a Russian prison in the Arctic Circle.
Hokkaido is reconsidering the possibility of hosting a casino resort, several years after Gov. Naomichi Suzuki halted plans for one.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Sep 29, 2025

Hokkaido cities consider fresh bet on casino resort

Citing concerns over gambling addiction and possible environmental impacts, Hokkaido's governor said it will be challenging to gain public acceptance for a casino bid.
One notable section of the “Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989-2010” exhibition is a predominantly pink room featuring works that explore the lives of Asian women, such as Minako Nishiyama’s “The Pinku House”and footage of Lee Bul’s performance “Sorry for suffering — You think I’m a puppy on a picnic?”
CULTURE / Art
Sep 19, 2025

‘Prism of the Real’ makes two turbulent decades tangible with art

Born of a partnership between The National Art Center, Tokyo and M+, the show reveals how artists across borders grappled with a changing world.
Shuji Nakagawa created a teahouse using the same technique for making traditional wooden buckets.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 19, 2025

A bucket becomes a house in the hands of craftsman Shuji Nakagawa

At Go for Kogei 2025, a third-generation woodworker envisions new forms for a humble vessel.
The process of making “Baan” was personal and enlightening for Maneetapho, who spent years talking about anime on his YouTube channel and podcast before making the jump to becoming an anime creator himself.
CULTURE / Film
Sep 19, 2025

YouTuber Gigguk shifts from talking anime to making anime

Garnt Maneetapho, who runs the YouTube channel Gigguk, makes the jump from critic to creator with his short film “Baan — The Boundary of Adulthood.”
While not specifying what percentage of foreign residents should make up the total population, “we conveyed the message that the ratio should be kept as low as possible and that the current rapid pace of increase must be properly curbed,” said Nippon Ishin no Kai co-leader Fumitake Fujita.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 19, 2025

Nippon Ishin urges cap on foreign residents in Japan

In its proposal to the government, it warns that Japanese society is at risk of being fundamentally altered if the proportion of foreign nationals exceeds 10%.
The full official records of Empress Kojun, the wife of former Emperor Hirohito, posthumously called Emperor Showa. The Imperial Household Agency plans to release all of the content of the records on Oct. 9.
JAPAN
Sep 19, 2025

Japan completes full records of Empress Kojun

The Imperial Household Agency took 17 years to complete the full records for Empress Kojun, the paternal grandmother of Emperor Naruhito.
Then-Taiwanese Vice Foreign Minister Alexander Yui — who is currently the island's de facto ambassador to the U.S. — speaks during a news conference in Taipei in July 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 20, 2025

Trump intelligence advisers met with Taiwanese official

The meeting with Alexander Yui, Taiwan's de facto U.S. ambassador, amounted to one of the higher-level Taiwan-U.S. contacts to date during Trump's second term.
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks during a news conference announcing his formal entry into the Liberal Democratic Party leadership race in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 20, 2025

Koizumi makes economic growth top priority in bid for LDP presidency

Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi used a news conference Saturday in Tokyo to unveil a raft of policies as he sought to appeal to his party’s conservative wing.
A wheat harvest in Ukraine
ENVIRONMENT
Sep 20, 2025

NASA scientist starts food crisis hotline with tech giant funding

The aim is to use images from space that are then sifted and interpreted by AI models to predict potential crises early.
Workers in protective suits stand outside Leishenshan Hospital, a makeshift medical facility for treating patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in April 2020
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 21, 2025

Chinese COVID-19 whistleblower handed four more years in jail, group says

Zhang Zhan, 42, was sentenced on a charge of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" in China.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung speaks during an interview at the Presidential Office in Seoul on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 22, 2025

South Korea's President Lee says U.S. investment demands would spark financial crisis

In an interview on Friday, Lee also spoke about Seoul's neighbors, its relations with the U.S. and the immigration raid that detained hundreds of Koreans.
A group of U.S. foreign policy veterans has warned Congress that Donald Trump’s erratic and hostile approach to allies is eroding America’s global credibility.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2025

America’s friends will never trust the U.S. again

A group of U.S. foreign policy veterans has warned Congress that Donald Trump’s erratic and hostile approach to allies is eroding America’s global credibility.
A recruiter speaks with an MBA student at a college recruitment event at GL Bajaj Institute of Technology & Management in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India in 2023.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 22, 2025

Trump’s $100,000 visa targets a $280 billion India success story

The move to curtail H-1B visas threatens to rewrite the rules for a decades-old model that underpins much of the technology behind the world’s largest corporations.
“Between Currents and Bloom,” an eye-popping crocheted seascape by Indonesian artist Mulyana, dazzles with Instagram-ready cuteness while recalling a vibrant ocean now threatened by warming seas.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 22, 2025

Aichi Triennale’s message to the art world: Free Palestine

At Aichi Triennale 2025, Hoor Al Qasimi, the festival’s first foreign artistic director, takes a stand in support of Palestine.
Gantry cranes and container ships at the Yangshan Deepwater Port in Shanghai on May 14. China is hurtling toward a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 23, 2025

China floods the world with cheap exports after Trump's tariffs

The export surge is causing governments to weigh the potential damage to their domestic industries against the risk of antagonizing Beijing.
The TikTok app page in the Apple App store is displayed on a smartphone on Jan. 15. A potential tie-in with the popular TikTok service will help Fox reach young audiences in new ways, exposing them to everything from broadcast TV shows to streaming businesses like the ad-supported Tubi and Fox One, a paid online platform.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 23, 2025

After MySpace losses, Murdochs mull social media return with TikTok tie-up

A Fox investment in TikTok would give the media empire a platform with 170 million U.S. users to promote a broad range of TV programming — from the NFL to The Simpson.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (left) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speak in Kyiv on Aug. 24.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 24, 2025

Carney and Zelenskyy put stolen Ukraine children in focus at U.N.

Russia faces accusations of abducting Ukrainian children since 2014 and ramping up the practice after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Bronte is no featherweight at 16 kilograms, but his personality and energy are buoyant indeed.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Sep 24, 2025

A friendly Kai ken dog with a big heart

Three-year-old Bronte has remained a happy-go-lucky fellow despite the adverse conditions of his upbringing.
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.
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.
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.
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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