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National Guard troops keep watch outside Washington's Union Station on Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump has deployed the National Guard and ordered an increased federal law enforcement presence in the capital, which he has characterized as overrun with violence and homelessness.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 20, 2025

More Republican governors send National Guard to Washington, backing Trump

The U.S. president has characterized Washington as overrun with violence and homelessness, accusing the city of using fake data to "create a false illusion of safety."
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani takes part in a welcome ceremony with his Turkish counterpart, Yasar Guler, at Turkey's Defense Ministry in Ankara on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 20, 2025

Japan and Turkey defense chiefs pledge industry tie-ups as Tokyo eyes drones

While drones were not explicitly mentioned by either side in readouts of the meeting, they were believed to have featured prominently in discussions.
A common house mosquito in the eastern suburbs of Paris on Aug. 12. A record number of outbreaks of mosquito-borne illnesses have been reported in Europe.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 21, 2025

Record number of mosquito-borne disease outbreaks in Europe: health agency

Climate change is causing longer and more intense transmission seasons for mosquito-borne diseases in Europe.
Sho Tsuboi said the opportunity to drive a Formula One car at Fuji Speedway was a dream come true.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Aug 21, 2025

Sho Tsuboi realizes ‘dream’ with Haas F1 test at Fuji Speedway

An impressive performance, which also coincides with Toyota’s modest return to F1, could signal the start of something more substantial.
A commuter uses a portable fan on an underground train at rush hour during a heat wave in the City of London financial district.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 21, 2025

As temperatures soar in London, regulations, not costs, put cooling beyond reach

The British capital has seen a surge in demand for air-conditioning units in high-end homes as climate change raises summer temperatures.
Musical act Petalhead, comprised of Jaime Alise (left) and Riku Ogura, performs at More Than Music’s beachside event in Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture.
COMMUNITY / Issues / The Foreign Element
Aug 25, 2025

More Than Music makes space for creative communion

Since 2018, Tokyo-based duo Justin Sachs and Atsuko Sunaga have been organizing live shows and curating a community with shared passions.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a speech at the closing ceremony of the Japan-led Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development, or TICAD 9, on Friday in Yokohama.
JAPAN
Aug 22, 2025

TICAD adopts Yokohama Declaration to strengthen multilateral trade

The communique emphasized proposals to solve problems facing African states, apparently reflecting Japan's wish to highlight a different approach to that of China.
Kardinia Park, home stadium of Australian Rules football team Geelong Cats, on Oct. 23, 2020
MORE SPORTS
Aug 22, 2025

AFL under fire as another player banned for homophobic slur

Adelaide Crows forward Izak Rankine became the sixth AFL player since April 2024 to be suspended for directing a homophobic slur at an opponent.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba shake hands at joint press announcement after summit talks in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 24, 2025

At meeting rich in symbolism, Ishiba and South Korea's Lee agree to steadily build ties

In the two countries' first joint document in 17 years, the leaders agreed to work together "to advance future-oriented and mutually beneficial common interests."
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to military personnel based at Osan Air Base in South Korea in June 2019.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 23, 2025

Troop costs and China in focus when South Korea's Lee meets Trump

A U.S. official said a key area of focus of the summit would be so-called burden-sharing, with President Donald Trump expected to push the South Koreans for more.
Tourists from abroad get water mist sprayed on them to cool down on the street at Tsukiji Outer Market, a popular sightseeing spot, as the Japanese government issued a heatstroke alert in Tokyo and other prefectures due to a heat wave on Friday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 23, 2025

World’s climate change crisis has tourists seeking ‘coolcations’

Record heat waves are transforming the world’s tourism industry as holidaymakers struggle to deal with the havoc wrought by climate change.
Statues of bulls in Pudong's Lujiazui Financial District in Shanghai on Aug. 18
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 24, 2025

Bubble risks grow as China’s stock bull run defies economy angst

A deflationary spiral that’s eroded corporate pricing power in the world’s second-largest economy is one of the biggest reasons to doubt the sustainability of the current rally.
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (right) and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (second from right) inspect the Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier Kaga and receive an explanation about the SH-60K patrol helicopter in the hangar at the MSDF's Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 24, 2025

Ishiba inspects MSDF de facto aircraft carrier and British vessel

The Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier Kaga is undergoing refitting and training to make it a de facto aircraft carrier.
A survey by Teikoku Databank found that the share of women in managerial positions at Japanese companies rose 0.2 percentage point from the previous year to 11.1% on average, growing for the 11th straight year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 24, 2025

Share of female managers in Japan still short of government target

The survey found that the share of such women rose 0.2 percentage point from the previous year to 11.1% on average, growing for the 11th straight year.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) inspects an interim storage facility where soil from decontamination work is temporarily stored, at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture on Aug. 10.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2025

Government to use more soil from Fukushima decontamination work

The moves are aimed at gaining public understanding of the safety of the soil and encouraging wider use.
Hiroyuki Adachi, managing director of Shelter, a wooden architecture construction firm in Yamagata, speaks during a seminar in Sendai in July.
BUSINESS / Regional Voices: Tohoku
Sep 1, 2025

Wooden high-rise buildings increasing in Tohoku amid decarbonization trend

Major real estate developers and construction companies are focusing on wood, pushed by legislation and systems encouraging the use of domestically produced lumber.
Traffic along a highway in New Delhi. India, the world's third largest emitter of carbon dioxide, will be able to access Japanese decarbonization technologies at low cost under a joint crediting mechanism.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Aug 25, 2025

Japan and India to use joint crediting mechanism in emission-cutting plan

The yet-to-be-announced plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in India using Japanese technologies will allow Japan to count part of the reductions as its own.
A wildfire burns near the village of Esposende, in the northwestern Spanish municipality of Cenlle, on Aug. 17.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 25, 2025

Spain's 16-day heat wave is 'most intense on record'

Forest fires are still burning across northern and western Spain, as well as in neighboring Portugal.
A man walks past a drilling machine damaged by protesters opposing the proposed 11,500 MW Siang Upper Multipurpose Dam Project, in Parong, Siang district, Arunachal Pradesh, India, on Aug. 1.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 25, 2025

China's new mega-dam triggers fears of water war in India

Delhi estimates the Chinese dam will allow Beijing to divert as much as 40 billion cubic meters of water, or just over a third of what is received annually at a key border point.
Japanese companies showcase products and services at a business event held on the sidelines of the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Friday.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Aug 25, 2025

Risk reduction key to boosting Japanese investment in Africa

At TICAD 9, Japan promised to help African states develop 300,000 workers in cooperation with Japanese firms.
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.
The Burj Khalifa skyscraper (center left) and the Dubai skyline on Aug. 7
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2025

Less tax, more luxury: millionaires flock to Dubai

The tightly-policed UAE has molded itself into a magnet for the wealthy, offering economic and political stability with an easygoing business environment.
A July 24 U.N. report warns that the Islamic State group's ISKP affiliate, al-Qaida and related groups remain active in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, posing serious threats to regional and international security.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2025

Is the Taliban's Afghanistan a safe haven for terrorist organizations?

“The de facto authorities in Afghanistan continued to maintain a permissive environment for a range of terrorist groups," a U.N. report says
An employee at a wholesaler puts a price tag on a package of sea urchins from Hokkaido at Tsukiji Outer Market in Tokyo on Friday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 26, 2025

Warming seas add to food inflation woes as urchin rice bowls hit ¥18,000

Policymakers have mostly blamed rising food prices on the weak yen's upward pressure on import costs, but the effects of global warming now also loom as a risk.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks next to U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Terry Cole, Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), during the signing of executive orders by U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Monday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 26, 2025

U.S. weighing sanctions on EU officials implementing Digital Services Act

The law aims to make the online environment safer, in part by compelling tech giants to tackle illegal content such as hate speech and child sexual abuse material.
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2025

Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam

A decision is expected in the “coming months,” a senior government official in Manila said, following an inspection of the Abukuma-class destroyer escorts.
Suyun Ham, an engineering professor at UTA, reviews data from a recent inspection with two other researchers. Ham likens his technology to a “portable MRI,” which can detect cracks and other hidden dangers in a bridge.
ENVIRONMENT
Aug 26, 2025

Are bridges near you safe? This MRI-like scan may prevent disaster

An engineering professor from the University of Texas at Arlington is experimenting with a novel approach to inspecting bridges for heat damage.
A wildfire burns in Garano, northwestern Spain, on Monday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 27, 2025

Record wildfires burn more than 1 million hectares of EU land this year

Spain and Portugal have been worst hit and together accounted for around two-thirds of the EU's burnt area.
Mitsubishi Corporation withdrew from three offshore wind projects in Japan, dealing a setback to the emerging industry as it faces slow development and escalating costs.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 27, 2025

Mitsubishi withdraws from three offshore wind projects in Japan

The dent to Japan’s nascent sector threatens to further derail the fossil fuel-dependent nation’s energy transition and climate goals.
People shield themselves from the sun with umbrellas in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2025

Tokyo logs record 10 days of 35 C or hotter, weather agency says

Japan sweltered through its hottest ever June and July this year.
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
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.

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