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Donald Trump has vowed to slash U.S. energy costs by bolstering fossil fuels while potentially hobbling domestic wind power generation.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2025

Trump starts reshaping U.S. energy with deep focus on oil and gas

Trump initiated the shift in a series of orders and memoranda directing action by the federal government, with implications that reach across the entire energy landscape.
An Israeli military vehicle uses a laser, on the day of an Israeli raid in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
WORLD
Jan 22, 2025

Israel launches 'significant' military operation in West Bank

The move into Jenin, where the Israeli army has carried out multiple raids and large-scale incursions in recent years, comes two days after the start of a ceasefire in Gaza.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Republican from New York and U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 22, 2025

Trump sees 'great promise' in U.N., his pick for ambassador says

Rep. Elise Stefanik pledges to ensure that the U.S. mission to the world body represents Trump's "America First peace-through-strength foreign policy."
Israeli tanks near the border with Gaza, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, as seen from Israel, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jan 22, 2025

Hamas' tight grip on Gaza complicates plan for lasting peace

Hamas remains deeply entrenched in Gaza and its hold on power represents a challenge to implementing a permanent ceasefire.
A charred chimney is all that remains at a fire-ravaged ocean front home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on Jan. 16.
WORLD
Jan 22, 2025

After the fire, should some parts of Los Angeles never rebuild?

Researchers warn that wildfires pose very different risks from more predictable events like sea-level rise and riverbank flooding.
In the survey, 36.7% of respondents said that they have not taken measures to prevent customer harassment.
JAPAN
Jan 23, 2025

Customer harassment pushes part-timers to quit

The proportion of companies whose part-time workers faced customer harassment, such as yelling, within the past year was 45.7%.
Teruko Nakazawa, a retired unpaid parole officer (back), talks with her former parolee in the smoking room of a cafe in Tokyo. Around 47,000 citizen volunteers far outnumber the 1,000 salaried probation officers working in Japan.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Jan 23, 2025

Japan's unpaid parole officers are driven by a 'love for humanity'

The around 47,000 citizen volunteers far outnumber the 1,000 salaried probation officers in Japan.
Steps against diversity form part of U.S. President Donald Trump's broader campaign targeting the federal bureaucracy, which he has sometimes disparaged as the "deep state" secretly working against his agenda.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 24, 2025

Trump accelerates campaign to remake federal bureaucracy

The U.S. president says his orders ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs would make America a "merit-based country" once again.
Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato holds a news conference at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo in October last year.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 24, 2025

Finance chief vows to balance economic revival and fiscal consolidation

Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato highlighted the need to improve Japan's fiscal health, which is the worst among major countries.
Palestinian fighters from the armed wing of Hamas take part in a military parade in the central Gaza Strip in July 2023.
WORLD
Jan 25, 2025

Hamas has added up to 15,000 fighters since start of war, U.S. figures show

The intelligence suggests the Iran-backed fighters could remain a persistent threat to Israel.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks after being sworn in during a ceremony in Washington on Saturday.
WORLD
Jan 26, 2025

Pete Hegseth vote portends glide path for other Trump nominees

Trump's success in pushing through his Pentagon chief nomination despite private doubts among lawmakers amounted to a fresh testament to his hold over the GOP.
Former Bank of Canada and Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney speaks on the day he announces that he is running to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader of the ruling Liberal Party, in Edmonton, Alberta, on Jan. 16.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jan 26, 2025

Trudeau’s Cabinet lines up behind Carney as ex-banker brushes up on French

The support shows that many believe the former central banker is the best bet to counter Donald Trump’s trade threats and boost the Liberal Party’s electoral fortunes.
Released Israeli hostage Liri Albag, a soldier who was seized from her army base in southern Israel during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, gestures to make a heart shape in an Israeli military helicopter transporting her and other hostages, released as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, to the Beilinson Schneider medical complex in Petah Tikva, Israel, on Saturday.
WORLD
Jan 26, 2025

Fragile Gaza truce enters second week

A last-minute dispute blocked the expected return of hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians to the Gaza Strip's devastated north.
Displaced Palestinians who left the southern Gaza Strip run for cover from Israeli fire Friday northwest of Nuseirat in the central part of the strip at the nearest point possible to the Israeli-controlled Netzarim corridor, where they set up tents hoping to return to the north.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 26, 2025

Trump floats plan to 'clean out' Gaza and move Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan

U.S. President Donald Trump has floated a plan where Egypt and Jordan would take Palestinians from the territory in a bid to create Middle East peace.
Smoke rises as the Border 2 Fire burns in Chula Vista, California, on Friday in this screen grab obtained from a social media video.
WORLD
Jan 27, 2025

Fire-ravaged Los Angeles braces for toxic rain runoff

The rain will also bring cleaner air and improve fire-fighting conditions, but overall, it will make things worse.
Demonstrators raise placards bearing the names of hostages held captive in Gaza since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Palestinian militants, during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure their release, in front of the Israeli Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 27, 2025

Israel’s ceasefire deals face test with Gaza refugee impasse

Israel’s agreements in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip came under strain from deadly violence and a dispute with Hamas over the fate of an Israeli hostage.
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda explains the central bank's decision on its interest rate hike during a news conference after a policy meeting on Friday.
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Jan 27, 2025

BOJ may revert to fuzzy communication after Fed-style rates clarity

The BOJ fumbled its communication in December, surprising investors, but then telegraphed Friday's increase so unambiguously that the rate hike was 90% priced in.
People pray for the victims of a deadly stabbing attack outside Nagano Station, on Sunday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 27, 2025

Nagano stabbing suspect sent to prosecutors after deadly attack

The apparently random stabbing follows two other similar attacks, including the high-profile killing of a teenage girl at a Kitakyushu McDonald's last month.
Fuji TV President Koichi Minato (left) and Chairman Shuji Kanoh, also chairman of the broadcaster's parent company Fuji Media Holdings, bow during a news conference in Tokyo on Monday. The two have announced their resignations.
JAPAN / Society
Jan 28, 2025

Fuji TV president resigns over handling of Masahiro Nakai scandal

Koichi Minato has been the target of criticism following the revelation that he became aware of the incident involving Nakai right after it occurred in June 2023.
U.S. President Donald Trump signs executive orders including a flurry of actions on immigration in the hours after taking office.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 27, 2025

America’s mass deportation clash is unprecedented

So when ICE moves from selective targets aimed at serious criminals to the mass roundups Trump promised, that is when the public may recoil.
Displaced Gazans walk toward Gaza City on Saturday after crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip.
WORLD
Jan 28, 2025

Gaza residents stream home to the north after hostage breakthrough

Gaza's Hamas authorities said Monday that more than 300,000 people had crossed into Gaza City and the north edge of the enclave.
The findings on the alarming acceleration of warming have enormous ramifications for ocean health, as rising temperatures impact everything from coral reefs to fisheries.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jan 28, 2025

Oceans are warming faster and faster as the Earth traps more energy

The alarming acceleration helps explain why 2023 and 2024 saw unprecedented ocean temperatures — and more extreme storms.
Displaced Palestinians make their way back to their homes in northern Gaza on Tuesday.
WORLD
Jan 28, 2025

Palestinians return to Gaza City as mediators look ahead to next stage

Gaza City, in the north of the enclave, is a shell of the bustling, rough-edged urban center it was before the war.
Former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (left) and Robert Socolow, a professor emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, reveal the location of the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock at a Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists news conference in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD / Society
Jan 29, 2025

'Doomsday Clock' moves closer than ever to midnight

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said the United States, China and Russia have the prime responsibility to pull the world back from the brink.
Kobayashi Pharmaceutical executives bow their heads at a news conference in Osaka in March following a health hazard scandal involving the firm's supplements containing red fermented rice.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 29, 2025

Hong Kong fund to sue former Kobayashi Pharma execs

The fund will seek a total of roughly ¥11 billion in damages from former Chairman Kazumasa Kobayashi and six then-board directors.
Members of the popular Japanese pop group SMAP, including scandal-plagued Masahiro Nakai (right), perform in Beijing in September 2011.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 29, 2025

A pop-star sex scandal shows the death throes of old Japan

As the leader of a now-defunct boy band SMAP, the 52-year-old Nakai has been a ubiquitous mainstay in Japanese life for decades.
U.S. surfer John John Florence rides a wave during a practice session earlier this month off the north shore of Maui, Hawaii.
MORE SPORTS / Surfing
Jan 29, 2025

Absent champions, fresh venues in focus as surfing's world tour begins

Hawaii's John John Florence, who won his third world title last year, is taking the year off tour but will compete as a wildcard at the season opener in Hawaii.
At 29 kilograms, Fanta’s size may be intimidating, but he’s easygoing and full of tenderness.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Jan 31, 2025

Fanta-stic cuddler seeks new home

This gentle giant loves squeaky toys and will make a wonderful companion.
Palestinian militants hand over hostage Arbel Yehoud to members of the International Committee of the Red Cross as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday.
WORLD
Jan 31, 2025

Israel releases 110 Palestinian prisoners and Hamas frees 8 hostages

Buses arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah carrying some of the 110 Palestinian prisoners to be freed as part of the phased agreement that halted more than 15 months of war.
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a briefing on Thursday about the midair crash in Washington.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 31, 2025

From anguish to aggression: Trump goes on offense after midair collision

In the wake of this week’s midair collision near Washington, Trump was more than happy to jump to conclusions and pull the United States apart rather than together.
Japan eyes two types of 'hometown resident' registration
People buy groceries from a mobile supermarket in a rural area of Nagomi, Kumamoto Prefecture. The government is considering a new "hometown resident" registration system to help strengthen regional revitalization measures.
Ed Sheeran teams up with Tokyo’s Oedo Line
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
Workers say corporate South Korea was warned about questionable U.S. visas before Hyundai raid
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.
Three Japanese nationals among those detained by ICE at Hyundai plant in Georgia
Investigators from the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations at a factory being built by South Korea's Hyundai Motor in Georgia on Friday
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.
Search is on for loopholes in Japan’s $550 billion investment pledge
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick argues that U.S. President Donald Trump has sole authority to invest Japan's promised $550 billion.
In rural Hokkaido, the stops and starts of tourism revival on full display
Redevelopment plans for Kawayu Onsen have hit some snags — an example of how bringing tourists back to declining rural communities is far from easy work.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
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