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Broncos head coach Sean Payton calls plays during his team's game against the Bengals in Denver on Monday.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 3, 2025

Broncos coach Sean Payton set for duel with Eagles defensive mastermind Vic Fangio

The Broncos will face the unbeaten Eagles on Sunday.
Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party chief Sanae Takaichi greets her fellow LDP members on Saturday at party headquarters.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 5, 2025

Takaichi, the LDP’s first female president, is far from an ‘overnight success’

It took Takaichi three attempts and countless calls to her fellow lawmakers to defy expectations and attain a post she has dreamed of for decades.
A Fisheries and Oceans Canada team patrols the Grand River in Dunnville, Ontario, in search of invasive grass carp specimens on Sept. 25.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 6, 2025

Americans and Canadians unite in battling 'eating machine' carp

If the battle against invasive carp were to fail, the consequences could be both dire and unpredictable.
Sanae Takaichi celebrates in Tokyo on Saturday with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba after winning the Liberal Democratic Party leadership election.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 7, 2025

From radical to Rihanna: Myths about the new LDP leader

When Shinzo Abe returned as LDP leader in 2012, there was a similar flood of coverage attempting to cast him as a radical conservative.
A demonstrator wrapped in a U.S. flag stands amid smoke during a protest at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 8, 2025

Trump's Insurrection Act threat escalates showdown with Democratic cities

President Donald Trump again left open the possibility of using the Insurrection Act to sidestep any court rulings blocking the dispatch of guard troops into Democratic-led cities.
Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito (left) and LDP counterpart Sanae Takaichi meet in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 8, 2025

After 26 years, Komeito may be showing signs it will break with LDP

Komeito not immediately endorsing Takaichi reflects deep concerns among Soka Gakkai members, the party’s main supporters in the lay Buddhist group, about her ideology and policies.
Against the yen, the dollar was last up 0.53% at ¥152.7. It earlier reached ¥152.99, the highest since Feb. 14, and has risen from ¥147.44 on Friday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 9, 2025

Yen weakest since mid-February on fiscal fears

The dollar has likely benefited from a lack of U.S. government economic data as the federal government remains shut.
Takashi “Waka” Wakasugi stopped by the Tokyo Comedy Bar in Shibuya Ward last month following his stint at Edinburgh Festival Fringe performing his show “Comedy Samurai.”
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 9, 2025

A Japanese comedian walks into an Aussie bar … and stays there

Melbourne-based comedian Takashi “Waka” Wakasugi, who has only ever done stand-up in his second language, is fast becoming Australia’s favorite Japanese comedian.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings plans to decommission some reactors at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, excluding the No. 6 and No. 7 units.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025

Tepco mulls decommissioning some Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reactors

It would mark the first reactor decommissioning at the plant, which straddles the city of Kashiwazaki and the village of Kariwa in Niigata Prefecture.
Newly elected Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi is often compared to Margaret Thatcher, but the analogy fails because Japan today is not 1980s Britain and her success depends on pragmatism, not ideology.
EDITORIALS
Oct 10, 2025

Pragmatism, not ideology, must guide Takaichi

The key difference from Thatcher lies in economic policy, as the LDP has never been a truly neoliberal party.
Ichiro Ozawa (left), leader of the Liberal Party, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (center) and Takenori Kanzaki, leader of Komeito, hold hands ahead of a three-party summit toward forming a coalition government, at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo in October 1999.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 11, 2025

LDP-Komeito coalition marked by twists and turns over 26 years

The two parties have been in a mutually dependent relationship centered on electoral cooperation.
A China Coast Guard ship fires a water cannon at a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries vessel during an incident in disputed waters of the South China Sea on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 12, 2025

China and Philippines trade blame over boat collision in disputed sea

Confrontations between Philippine and Chinese vessels occur frequently in the contested South China Sea.
A drone view of the mass grave site in the desert near the eastern Syrian town of Dhumair on Feb. 27
WORLD
Oct 15, 2025

Assad government secretly moved bodies from mass grave to cover up killings

The bodies were moved to cover up the Assad government’s crimes and help restore its image, witnesses with direct knowledge of the two-year effort said.
A hitman (Ryuhei Matsuda, left) and a spiritual ascetic (Yosuke Kubozuka, right) go to infinity and beyond in “Transcending Dimensions.”
CULTURE / Film
Oct 16, 2025

‘Transcending Dimensions’: A wild trip to enlightenment

Toshiaki Toyoda’s latest feature is a spiritual odyssey with punk energy and cosmic chaos.
Steel products are the target of two anti-dumping probes Japan has begun so far this year.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 15, 2025

Japan turns to anti-dumping measures as international trade gets complicated

An uptick in number of probes this year indicates an evolving strategy.
Large self-deprecating advertisements for Fuji Baking’s Snack Sand products at JR Sendai Station
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Oct 27, 2025

After 50 years, Snack Sand sandwiches embrace their roots

The idea for crustless, sealed sandwiches came to the creator after his brother returned from the U.S. and mentioned the hot sandwiches he had seen there.
Princess Aiko will make a six-day official visit to Laos from Nov. 17, following Cabinet approval on Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2025

Princess Aiko to visit Laos from Nov. 17

Marking the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Laos this year, the princess will attend a banquet hosted by the Laotian government.
A man arrested in Fukuoka for allegedly using a forged teaching license changed his surname repeatedly over the years.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 17, 2025

Teacher in Fukuoka avoided identification on child sex registry by changing name

The board of education said that it did not find the suspect's name on the national register when it hired him this spring.
Nicolas Sarkozy arrives for the verdict in his appeal trial in the so-called Bygmalion case at a courthouse in Paris in February 2024. The former French president will serve jail time at a Paris prison after a court last month sentenced him to five years behind bars for criminal conspiracy.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 19, 2025

Ex-French President Sarkozy says 'not afraid' ahead of jail term

Sarkozy, who led France from 2007 to 2012, was found guilty of criminal conspiracy over efforts by close aides to procure funds for his successful 2007 presidential bid from Libya.
Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi reacts to applauding lawmakers after being elected prime minister at the Lower House on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 21, 2025

Takaichi makes history as Japan’s first female prime minister

Monday’s coalition agreement between the Liberal Democratic Party and Japan Innovation Party made her ascent to the nation's top post all but certain.
Ryu Hayabusa, the iconic ninja at the center of the Ninja Gaiden franchise, shares the spotlight with a newcomer in the latest entry to the series.
LIFE / Digital
Oct 21, 2025

Ninja Gaiden 4 revives series with kinetic carnage, clumsy platforming

Known for high-speed and occasionally punishingly difficult combat, the Ninja Gaiden series gets an update in mechanics thanks to a new developer.
Minoru Kihara (second from left) attends a Lower House plenary session on Tuesday in Tokyo.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 21, 2025

Who is Minoru Kihara, Takaichi’s new 'cool-headed' spokesman?

The former defense minister has many things in common with Japan’s first female prime minister.
Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi and other lawmakers prepare to cast their votes for Japan's new prime minister in the Lower House of parliament on Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 21, 2025

Takaichi’s choice: revolution, reform or regression

Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stands at a crossroads. Her choices will define not only her legacy but the nation’s trajectory.
A Georgian anti-government demonstrator protests outside parliament in central Tbilisi on Oct. 15.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 22, 2025

After a year of rallies and no revolution, Georgia's protesters still defiant

Mass rallies have gripped Georgia since a disputed parliamentary election last October plunged Tbilisi into turmoil and prompted the EU to effectively freeze its accession bid.
Thailand's Queen Sirikit waves to people during her arrival in Chinatown for Lunar New Year celebrations in Bangkok, in January 2012
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 25, 2025

Thailand's Queen Mother Sirikit, influential style icon, dies at 93

The palace said she had been hospitalized since 2019 due to several illnesses before passing away late on Friday.
Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer speaks to the media prior to Game 2 of the 2025 MLB World Series against the Dodgers at Rogers Centre in Toronto.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 27, 2025

Blue Jays' Scherzer eyes World Series history ahead of Game 3

All even at one game each, the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers will duel to get the upper hand in the best-of-seven matchup.
Members of the media gather outside the Nara District Court in the city of Nara on Tuesday hours before the start of the trial of Tetsuya Yamagami, the man accused of fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 28, 2025

Abe shooting suspect Yamagami pleads guilty to murder

On the first day of his trial, Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, admitted to the 2022 killing of the former prime minister.
Inspired by "oyakodon," a chicken and omelet rice bowl, the "oyako" sandwich is perfect for a quick breakfast.
LIFE / Food & Drink / The Recipe Box
Oct 28, 2025

Turn a Japanese comfort food into a fuss-free sandwich

The secret to a two-minute “oyako” chicken omelet filling for your bread roll is mayonnaise.
A study has found that Chinese-based scientists filled 45% of leadership roles in U.S.-China joint studies in 2023, up from 30% in 2010.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 29, 2025

China closing in on U.S. as leader in global science, study shows

An analysis of almost 6 million research papers shows that Chinese scientists are taking the helm in almost half of all collaborations with U.S. counterparts.
The Toyota buyout is a major test for Japan’s reforms
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
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.
New satellite images suggest 'mass graves' in Sudan's El-Fasher
A general view of a berm construction in Kinin Village near El-Fasher.
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.
SoftBank is said to have explored potential takeover of Marvell
SoftBank explored a potential takeover of U.S. chipmaker Marvell Technology earlier this year, in what would have been the semiconductor industry's largest-ever deal.
These are the hottest lower-division rikishi to watch right now
Fukazaki (right) grapples with Enho at the IG Arena in Nagoya on July 13.
Across borders and screens, Tokyo film festival finds humanity in migration
“Mother Bhumi” takes place in a multiethnic rice-farming community where Chinese, Thai and Malay lineages intertwine.
Takaichi’s balancing act: Supporting Taiwan and stabilizing China ties
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan’s presidential adviser, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday in this image posted to Takaichi's official X account.
From 1973 to 2025: A Japanese American skater’s long ride to recognition
Judi Oyama at Winchester Skatepark in San Jose, California, in January 1979. The Skateboarding Hall of Fame inductee and Guinness World Record holder still skates and hopes to inspire older women.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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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
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