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New Zealand's Ardie Savea wins the lineout against Italy at Allianz Stadium in Turin on Nov. 23.
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Aug 22, 2025

All Blacks' 'big bodies' look to outmuscle Pumas in Buenos Aires

The bulked-up back row has been seen as a longer-term plan to muscle up to world champions South Africa in the collisions.
Reigen, Germany's first sake brewery, makes a diverse, nontraditional range of sake that includes fruit-flavored sips and wine barrel-aged renditions.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Aug 22, 2025

Germany's first sakemaker offers a bold brew of ideas

Yellowish and high in acidity, German sake won't please the purists, but open-minded consumers, especially wine drinkers, may find something appealing.
The Toyoake Municipal Government in Aichi Prefecture is planning to enact an ordinance to urge all smartphone users in the city to limit screen time to two hours a day outside work or school.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 22, 2025

Japanese city proposes two-hour daily limit for smartphone use

Toyoake's cap will not be binding and there will be no penalties incurred for higher usage, according to a draft ordinance.
A computer-generated image of the new HTV-X space station supply vehicle immediately after rocket separation
JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 23, 2025

Japan to launch new ISS resupply vehicle in October

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has said that it will launch the first HTV-X new resupply vehicle to the International Space Station on Oct. 21.
Director of the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency Lt. Jeffrey Kruse (left) testifies during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington in March 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 23, 2025

In latest purge, Hegseth removes head of Pentagon intel agency and others

The move appeared to be the latest attempt to penalize current and former military, intelligence and law enforcement officials whose views have been seen as at odds with Trump.
Former White House national security adviser John Bolton arrives at his house following its search by the FBI in Bethesda, Maryland, on Friday.
WORLD
Aug 23, 2025

FBI raids home of outspoken Trump critic John Bolton

U.S. President Donald Trump, asked about the FBI searches, said he was "not a fan" of his former aide but did not know about the law enforcement operation ahead of time.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney walks after speaking, as Canada announced that it is removing many retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods as a goodwill gesture designed to restart stalled trade talks, during a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Aug 23, 2025

Carney’s tariff shift helps business and creates a political headache

On Friday, Carney announced the end of 25% retaliatory tariffs imposed by his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, on a wide range of food and other consumer goods.
Mercedes-Benz Japan opens its first 150-kilowatt fast-charging station in a park in Chiba in July.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Aug 25, 2025

Foreign EVs hit Japan alongside fast-charging network push

As Japanese automakers remain reluctant to shift away from popular hybrids, foreign rivals are challenging the status quo.
Senior police and prosecutor officials bow Monday in Yokohama before the grave of Shizuo Aishima, a former adviser to Ohkawara Kakohki, who died in detention while being wrongfully indicted.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 26, 2025

Authorities apologize to family of former Ohkawara Kakohki adviser

Shizuo Aishima was found to have stomach cancer during his detention and later died while being wrongfully indicted in a case involving the machinery-maker.
Agricultural workers harvest jasmine flowers at sunrise at a field in the village of Shubra Balula in Egypt's northern Nile delta province of Gharbiya on July 7.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 25, 2025

Egyptian farmers behind world's perfumes face climate fight alone

Jasmine has sustained thousands of Egyptian farmers for generations, but rising temperatures, prolonged dry spells and climate-driven pests are putting that legacy at risk.
A measles alert sign is posted outside the entrance to the Cohen Children's Medical Center in New York in March.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2025

‘Alternative facts’ aren't a reason to skip vaccines

Donald Trump’s health officials have been endorsing alternative facts in science to impose policies that contradict modern medical knowledge.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 26, 2025

Trump suggests many Americans 'like a dictator'

Democrats have repeatedly accused Trump of pushing presidential power way past its constitutional limits.
Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas (front) celebrates after winning the Turkish Grand Prix with third-placed Red Bull's Sergio Perez in Istanbul on Oct. 10, 2021.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Aug 26, 2025

Cadillac set to name Perez and Bottas as F1 drivers

Perez was dropped by Red Bull Racing at the end of the 2024 season, but the 35-year-old is not far removed from finishing second in the 2023 F1 championship and third in 2022.
Nomura Holdings will require employees in Japan to spend two days a week in the office, double the current requirement.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 26, 2025

Nomura doubles minimum work-from-office requirement in Japan

The change is scheduled to take effect in spring next year, putting staff in Japan on par with Nomura’s global employees.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a family photo ceremony prior to the BRICS Summit plenary session in Kazan, Russia, in October 2024.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 26, 2025

China's Xi to welcome Putin and Modi in grand display of Global South solidarity

This year's summit will be the largest since 2001, China has said, calling the bloc an "important force in building a new type of international relations."
Iran's national flag flies over the Iranian embassy in Canberra on Tuesday, the day Australia's government said it is expelling Iran's ambassador, accusing the country of being behind antisemitic attacks in Melbourne and Sydney.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 26, 2025

Australia expels Iranian ambassador over antisemitic attacks

Australian intelligence services reached the "deeply disturbing conclusion" that Iran directed at least two arsons, in Melbourne and Sydney.
For Suzunobu, a small rice specialty shop in Tokyo's Meguro Ward, distribution delays have resulted in it struggling to sell stockpiled rice secured from the government, owner Toyozo Nishijima said.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 26, 2025

Rice woes weigh down Koizumi's first three months as farm minister

Early forecasts have also indicated that the relatively poor rice harvest this year will drive the price of the staple back up.
A worker operates machinery at a sawmill in Sundsvall, Sweden
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 26, 2025

Tariff uncertainty leaves European companies with tough decisions

There are difficult conversations with American customers about pricing and hard choices to be made about where to invest in.
Containers at a dock at the Port of Cape Town in Cape Town in 2024. China’s exports to Africa so far in 2025 are more than in the whole of 2020 and on track to exceed $200 billion for the first time.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 27, 2025

China is pouring exports into Africa faster than anywhere else

China’s exports to Africa so far in 2025 are more than in the whole of 2020 and on track to exceed $200 billion for the first time.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the presidential palace in New Delhi on Aug. 5
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 27, 2025

U.S. slams India with 50% tariffs, among highest in the world

The move upends a decadeslong push by Washington to forge closer ties with New Delhi and court India as a counterweight to China.
A resident removes sludge from his damaged house a day after flash floods in the Buner district of mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Aug. 16.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 27, 2025

Pakistan's monsoon misery is nature's fury, but also man's mistake

Unless construction and sewer maintenance are better regulated, annual downpours that have left hundreds dead in recent months will continue to kill.
Naomi Osaka advanced to the second round of the U.S. Open on Tuesday.
TENNIS
Aug 28, 2025

Naomi Osaka hoping to recapture old magic at U.S. Open

Osaka, a former world No. 1, has not gone beyond the last 32 of a Grand Slam since capturing the last of her four major titles at the 2021 Australian Open.
A father carries his daughter after a shooting at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday. Two children were killed and 17 others were injured in the attack.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 28, 2025

Shooter kills two children in Minneapolis church and injures 17 others

The heavily armed shooter opened fire on schoolchildren attending a church service marking their first week back at school.
A correctional services van holding media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrives at the West Kowloon court for his national security trial in Hong Kong on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 28, 2025

Hong Kong wraps up pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai's security trial

The 156-day trial has become the most high-profile example of China's crackdown on rights and freedoms in the Asian financial hub.
Wind turbines in the town of Happo in Akita prefecture. Wind power is a key part of Japan's alternative energy drive.
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Aug 28, 2025

Mitsubishi’s wind-power retreat a blow to Japan's alternative-energy goals

Dramatic withdrawal by trading house from three projects comes amid similar moves globally.
Taylor Townsend hits a shot against Jelena Ostapenko during their match at the U.S. Open on Wednesday.
TENNIS
Aug 29, 2025

Naomi Osaka criticizes Jelena Ostapenko for comments to Taylor Townsend

Townsend and Ostapenko were involved in a confrontation after their second-round match at the U.S. Open.
Jesse Kirkwood is part of a vibrant field of translators who have nurtured what might be called a “post-Murakami era of Japanese literature and translation,” one book at a time.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Aug 29, 2025

Jesse Kirkwood: ‘Languages are entire cultural universes with all sorts of baggage’

The Japanese-English literary translator reflects on catching the recent wave of “post-Murakami” fiction and how he balances reading for work versus pleasure.
Headlining the second day of YouTube Music Weekend is Vocaloid artist Kikuo, who, with 1.46 million YouTube subscribers, is one of the most popular artists in the genre.
CULTURE / Music
Aug 29, 2025

YouTube Music Weekend is where Japan’s internet-born performers go global

YouTube's three-day weekend of online performances features a medley of Vocaloid, hyperpop, rock and pop artists in a supportive, cultural festival atmosphere.
The Lhasa River, a major tributary of the Yarlung Zangbo River, flows near the southern part of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. China’s new megadam project could become a geopolitical and ecological time bomb. Getty Images
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 29, 2025

The global perils of China’s new ‘superdam’ project

One might have expected the revelation of China's huge dam project to set off alarm bells worldwide. Instead, the reaction has been muted.
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.
Takaichi and Xi reaffirm pledge in first meet to pursue ‘mutually beneficial’ ties
A screenshot from Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's X account shows Takaichi exchanging greetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Friday.　
Anime isn’t competing with Hollywood — it’s beating it
After its July release, “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Infinity Castle,” an animated feature adapted directly from a TV arc, became the highest-grossing Japanese film ever.
Japan to introduce joint child custody system in April 2026
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (center) and other ministers prior to a Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office on Friday
Woman, 69, arrested over 1999 Nagoya housewife's murder
A police sketch released in 2020 of a woman spotted near the scene of the 1999 murder of a housewife in Nagoya's Nishi Ward
Asia-Pacific leaders call for shared trade benefits as APEC summit wraps up
A South Korean protester holds a placard showing a caricature of U.S. President Donald Trump depicted as a thief during a rally ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Wednesday.
Anime isn’t competing with Hollywood — it’s beating it
After its July release, “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Infinity Castle,” an animated feature adapted directly from a TV arc, became the highest-grossing Japanese film ever.
Oasis returns to Japan after 16 years — and fans can still sing every word
Liam Gallagher commanded the stage with effortless charisma during Oasis' Tokyo Dome set on Saturday.
At Japan Mobility Show, BYD gears up to conquer Japan's EV market
BYD Auto Japan President Atsuki Tofukuji unveils the Racco at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Oasis returns to Tokyo: Rain, rapture and rock
Fans wait to get into the Oasis show at Tokyo Dome on Saturday. While lining up in the rain, some broke into impromptu versions of the British rock group's hits.
Kyushu banzuke sets the stage to cement 2025’s sumo narratives
Onosato ahead of his bout against Aonishiki at The Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Oct. 18

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Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
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