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Melissa Jefferson-Wooden celebrates with fans after winning the women's 200-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Friday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 21, 2025

How the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo delivered on the fan experience

After the Olympics, the fan experience at World Athletics Championships was arguably more important than any other event. So how did National Stadium fare with its big do-over?
A thermometer displays 42 degrees Celsius in the city of Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, on Aug. 5.
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2025

Government to step up heatstroke prevention for elderly

While elderly people are at higher risk of heatstroke due to their declining thermoregulation and ability to sweat, some refrain from using air conditioners even on very hot days.
An offshore wind turbine off the coast of Goto in Nagasaki Prefecture
JAPAN
Sep 21, 2025

Floating wind power sets sail in Japan's energy shift

Still heavily reliant on imported fossil fuels, Japan has declared offshore wind energy a "trump card" in its drive to make renewables.
Kazuya Okuda shows photos he took of damage from last September's heavy rain disaster in the Okunoto region of Ishikawa Prefecture as he talks about revitalizing the region one year on.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 2025

Under-40 population plummets in disaster-hit area in Ishikawa Prefecture

The Okunoto region in the Noto Peninsula marked on Sunday one year since it was battered by torrential rains as the area's population outflow continues.
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.
Keegan Bradley, captain of Team USA in the 2025 Ryder Cup, attends a news conference in Farmingdale, New York, on Monday.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Sep 23, 2025

Team captain Bradley defends U.S. player pay at Ryder Cup

U.S. players will each get $500,000 — with $300,000 of that going to charity and the remaining $200,000 serving as a stipend.
Smoke billows from the Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl, which had been burning for eleven consecutive days, while vessels try to extinguish the fire in the sea off Sri Lanka's Colombo Harbor on May 30, 2021.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 23, 2025

Singapore shipper rejects $1B damages over Sri Lanka's worst pollution incident

The company operated the MV X-Press Pearl that sank off Colombo Port in 2021 while carrying 81 containers of hazardous goods and hundreds of metric tons of plastic pellets.
Demonstrators protest at the port of Mutsu-Ogawara in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, in March 1997, as a British freighter arrives with processed nuclear waste, whose fissile elements can be fabricated into new nuclear mixed-oxide fuel.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 23, 2025

Could pacifist Japan ever arm itself with nuclear weapons?

It has always been a question of having the will to act and the belief that the U.S. nuclear deterrence commitment to Japan was beyond question.
In an hourlong speech before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump attacked his predecessor, his European allies and renewable energy.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 24, 2025

In bid to upend global energy policy, Trump denies climate change in U.N. speech

The U.S. president made a series of misleading claims in a rambling speech that went on for nearly an hour.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung delivers a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 24, 2025

At U.N., South Korean leader vows to reduce tensions with North Korea

In a speech, President Lee Jae Myung emphasized his vision is "based on a cool-headed perception that denuclearization cannot be achieved in the short term."
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.
Kellyann Ball competes at the Venus Sumo Festival in Tachikawa, western Tokyo, on Saturday.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Sep 24, 2025

Rising U.S. women's sumo team hopes to spread the word about Japan’s national sport

American sumo star Kellyann Ball was impressed by a major Japanese tournament for women held this past weekend. Now she's working on creating a similar future in the United States.
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya meets with his counterparts from India, Australia and the United States during talks of “the Quad” grouping in Washington in July. The meeting reflected Japan’s strategy of building flexible minilateral partnerships to navigate growing tensions with China and shifting U.S. priorities.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2025

Japan’s foreign policy faces uncharted waters

Japan's challenge lies in maintaining strategic alignment while accommodating American transactionalism.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 24, 2025

Ishiba highlights Japan's postwar quest for peace at U.N.

The prime minister emphasized the need to confront history, apparently reflecting his intention to issue a statement on the 80th anniversary of the end of the war.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (left), former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi (right) and agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi arrive to attend the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election candidates joint press conference at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 25, 2025

Newcomer or veteran? LDP faces two choices for new party chief

Whoever wins the Oct. 4 leadership race must be able to work with senior members while also showing the public that the LDP is serious about reform.
Industry minister Yoji Muto takes part in a news conference in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 25, 2025

Japan and ASEAN nations to cooperate on bolstering supply chains

Japan and ASEAN are slated to set up a task force to select areas in which they will cooperate.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover takes a selfie on July 23, with the rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls visible to the left. The feature is of interest to scientists studying signs of ancient microscopic life on the Red Planet.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 21, 2025

Crucial evidence about life on Mars is stuck — on Mars

To actually see what’s inside potential Martian life, scientists would need to bring samples back to Earth to study — a project NASA launched but has struggled to complete.
Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz speaks after signing a contract for the delivery of mobile communication centers in Zegrze, Poland, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 25, 2025

Poland becomes top importer of Taiwanese drones, skirting China

From almost nothing in the previous years, Poland is now absorbing almost 60% of Taiwan’s drone exports, which expanded this year to about $32 million through August.
KKR Co-CEO Joe Bae says that if Japan doesn’t invest in areas such as automation, robotics and artificial intelligence, "the aging population and decline will become a bigger and bigger challenge for its success as a nation.”
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 26, 2025

KKR chiefs bet aging Japan will fuel AI and technology investment

Japan has become a key growth area for New York-based KKR.
China is reshaping the global energy landscape by pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into clean energy investments across the Global South, creating jobs and long-term influence on a scale comparable to the Marshall Plan.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2025

China is winning its power play for the Global South

Beijing’s green energy projects are bringing jobs, growth and cheap electricity to the developing world.
Concern about prices in Japan is at or near record highs.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 26, 2025

Inflation and ‘food situation’ concerns top key Japan survey

Rising prices have not been this much of a worry since just after the 1973 oil shock.
Rory McIlroy celebrates with the trophy after Europe's win over the United States in the Ryder Cup in Farmingdale, New York, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Sep 29, 2025

Europe holds off surging U.S. on final day to capture Ryder Cup

It marks Team Europe's 11th win in the last 15 Ryder Cups and its second in a row under captain Luke Donald of England.
Demonstrators gather in Boston in July to support Harvard University’s fight against the Trump administration’s attempt to cut federal research funding.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Sep 29, 2025

Trump vs. universities: Can the innovation ecosystem be rebuilt?

There’s no question that U.S. President Donald Trump’s growing campaign against American colleges and universities represents a direct intervention into academic governance.
An aerial view of Tuvalu in 2024. Rising sea levels caused by climate change have prompted the Tuvalu government to strike a climate migration pact with Australia.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 30, 2025

Developing countries accuse rich of broken climate promises at U.N.

Leaders of developing countries say rich nations must provide resources to cope with climate change, a crisis they created, but such nations have not met their commitments.
Kashata will most likely settle in well in a home with another cat companion.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Sep 30, 2025

Scaredy-cat Kashata is searching for a friend

Believed to be around 3 years old, Kashata is a shy fellow in need of some love and attention.
A U.S. Marine and a member of the National Guard patrol outside a federal building in Los Angeles in June.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 30, 2025

Resisting Trump’s show of force

In Trump’s paradigm, this is all a reality show and we are merely inconsequential extras without lines forever in the background.
The ruling and opposition parties hold talks at the parliament building on Sept. 5 over a proposal to scrap the provisional gasoline tax surcharge.
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Oct 1, 2025

Ruling-opposition talks on gasoline tax cut stall ahead of LDP election

The slowdown is widely attributed to the political lull caused by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's leadership election slated for Saturday.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends a private dinner for technology and business leaders hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Sept. 4.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Oct 1, 2025

Trump and America’s tech giants: Coexistence or collaboration?

The impact of Trump’s policies on online platforms is also significant. During his first term, Big Tech faced intense antitrust pressure.
In 2019, the Japan Fair Trade Commission issued a warning to what was then Johnny & Associates for allegedly pressuring broadcasters to not offer work to three former members of now-disbanded boy band SMAP after they left the agency to pursue independent careers.
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2025

Japan’s antitrust watchdog issues new rules urging agencies to treat talent fairly

The Japan Fair Trade Commission’s new guidelines come after a survey last year found that some agencies were mistreating their performers.
A drone view shows the Turtmann glacier on a warm summer day, amid climate change, in Turtmann, Switzerland, on Sept. 3.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 2, 2025

Swiss glaciers hit by light snowfall and heat wave, scientists say

Swiss glaciers below 3,000 meters above sea level suffered in particular this year.
Typhoon Halong to cause windstorms, heavy rain and high waves on the Izu islands
Typhoon Halong is moving north near the Izu Islands, with strong winds, high waves and heavy rain expected as it passes early on Thursday, prompting warnings from the weather agency.
Japan to move toward five-year integrated bachelor's-master’s programs
Japan plans to introduce nationwide five-year bachelor's-master's programs to raise graduate school enrollment and train more highly skilled professionals amid a shrinking workforce.
Chemistry Nobel winner Kitagawa says downtime helped him think up new material
Susumu Kitagawa speaks to reporters at Kyoto University on Wednesday after receiving the news that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry the same day.
After 26 years, Komeito may be showing signs it will break with LDP
Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito (left) and LDP counterpart Sanae Takaichi meet in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Bear injures two in Japan supermarket; man killed in separate attack
A bear seen in security camera footage taken Tuesday inside a supermarket in Numata, Gunma Prefecture
Tokyo named world’s best big city for second straight year
Tokyo was ranked the world's best large city for the second year in a row in the Conde Nast Traveler's 2025 Readers' Choice Awards.
With nuclear sub proposal, Japan faces array of political and tech challenges
The Jingei, the third of the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Taigei-class submarines, was commissioned in March last year. It is equipped with lithium-ion batteries, enabling it to have a longer diving time and cruising distance than older models with lead-acid batteries.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 is drowning in Japanese 'AI slop'
OpenAI has rolled out a social app powered by Sora 2, its artificial intelligence video generator, which was quickly flooded with videos featuring iconic Japanese intellectual property.
Trump has his eyes on the prize — but a Nobel win looks unlikely
A protester holds a sign with an image depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and the words "Nobel" written on it, as supporters and family members of hostages who were kidnapped during the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, demonstrate to demand the immediate end of the war and the release of all hostages, outside the U.S. Consulate in Tel Aviv, on Sept. 2.
‘Takaichi trade’ stalls as political reality calls for wait-and-see approach
Tokyo stocks staged a powerful rally on Monday. On Tuesday, they rallied again, then retreated.

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