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Oxfam activists wearing big head masks depicting world leaders protest to criticize the inadequacy of decisions made by the world’s largest economies in combating the climate crisis, ahead of the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP30 in Belem, Brazil, on Wednesday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 7, 2025

30 years of climate talks: Progress, pitfalls and a planet in peril

As leaders gather for the U.N. climate summit in Brazil this week, the data charting progress in the fight against global warming tells a sobering story.
A photo of Typhoon Hinnamnor, captured aboard the International Space Station as the typhoon approached islands in Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 31, 2022.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 7, 2025

French study says climate change-driven storms endanger flight safety

Storms have become more intense, producing stronger winds and often resulting in greater in-flight turbulence, the study found.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the General Plenary of Leaders in the framework of the COP30 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil, on Thursday.
ENVIRONMENT
Nov 7, 2025

World leaders punch back at U.S. climate denial ahead of COP30 negotiations

Some said the absence of the United States from COP30 may free countries to discuss action without any one player dominating the outcome.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi answers questions from lawmakers at the Diet in Tokyo on Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Nov 7, 2025

Domestic issues dominate prime minister's strong Diet debut

It was a solid performance that was, not surprisingly given her minority government and the new coalition that she heads, short on details.
Brazil’s president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and European Union President Ursula von der Leyen meet in Belem, Para State, Brazil, on Wednesday. Belem will host the COP30 U.N. climate summit from Monday through Nov. 21.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 7, 2025

Make COP30 about human welfare

In poor countries, parents are not kept awake by concern about achieving a 0.1 degrees Celsius temperature reduction in a century.
Modern farming and government support have dramatically increased crop productivity, especially in rice, helping the world avoid food shortages despite climate challenge and opposition to technology like GMOs.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 6, 2025

Rice can feed the world — even with fewer farmers

The world’s most important crop for food security recently reached its lowest price in 18 years.
Abandoned Japanese-style inns in the Kinugawa hot springs resort in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, in March 2023
JAPAN / Society
Nov 9, 2025

Japan to subsidize demolition of abandoned inns

Many large hotels running since the end of World War II were left to rot in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The Olympus Ishikawa research development facility in Tokyo
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 9, 2025

Olympus cuts jobs, streamlines operations under new leadership

The company is moving to a leaner, divisional model, with a planned target of 3% annual sales growth by fiscal 2027.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman shake hands at the Royal Court in Riyadh on May 13.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 9, 2025

Before talks with Trump, Saudi Arabia doubles down on terms for Israel ties

Normalized relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia could shake up the Middle East, and possibly strengthen U.S. influence there.
BBC Director-General Tim Davie in London on April 28, 2022.
WORLD
Nov 10, 2025

BBC boss and head of news resign amid accusations of bias

BBC leaders Tim Davie and Deborah Turness step down after claims the broadcaster distorted Trump's Jan. 6 speech and exhibited bias in its coverage of Gaza and gender issues.
Olympus plans to cut about 2,000 jobs, or roughly 7% of the firm’s global workforce, and overhaul its region-centric structure to improve productivity.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 10, 2025

Olympus soars most in six years on job cuts and shakeups

CEO Bob White said he plans to cut about 2,000 jobs, or roughly 7% of the firm’s global workforce.
A sign-language lesson is held for staff involved in the upcoming Deaflympics events in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2025

Tokyo government conducts sign language lessons ahead of Deaflympics

Some 3,000 athletes from over 70 countries and regions are slated to compete in the first Japan-held Deaflympics.
A U.S. Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarine arrives at port in Rockingham, Australia, in February.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2025

Japan likely to discuss possessing nuclear subs

The Maritime Self-Defense Force currently possesses submarines powered by diesel engines and lithium-ion batteries.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and other members of a government panel on economic growth strategy gather for their first meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on Monday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 11, 2025

Takaichi eyes stimulus package to jump-start growth plan

Takaichi has signaled a shift toward more expansionary fiscal policy and said that Japan remains only halfway toward achieving stable inflation supported by wage growth.
A damaged home in Treasure Beach, Jamaica, following Hurricane Melissa. Its solar panels survived.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Nov 11, 2025

Jamaicans have been turning to solar power. It paid off after the storm.

Solar power is seen as a way for Jamaica and other nations in one of the world’s most hurricane-prone regions to become more resilient to ever-intensifying storms.
A Malian refugee woman at a refugee camp in Bassikounou, Mauritania, on Nov. 4. UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, has said that within 15 years the places currently hosting nearly half the world's refugees could be facing extreme exposure to climate-related shocks.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 11, 2025

Nearly half of all refugees to face extreme climate hazards by 2040, says UNHCR

By the middle of the century, the hottest 15 refugee camps in the world are also forecast to experience nearly 200 days of hazardous heat stress per year.
A maiko walks down a street crowded with tourists in Kyoto. Challenges that come with a massive influx of overseas visitors and foreign nationals buying up real estate are just some of the immigration problems that have become hot-button political issues in Japan.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 11, 2025

Government and bad actors are at the root of the foreign national issue

Japan has experienced an explosive increase in overseas tourists since the COVID-19 travel restrictions were lifted, and its global appeal as a travel destination has grown.
The government adopted a bill on Tuesday extending volunteer probation officers' terms from two to three years.
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2025

Japan to extend volunteer probation officers' terms to three years

The draft revision is aimed at helping secure people who will take on the role of watching over the rehabilitation of individuals who committed crimes or delinquent acts.
The U.S.' recent approval of South Korea’s nuclear submarine program may set a precedent for Japan, which could consider similar nuclear capabilities amid growing regional security threats.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 11, 2025

Japan should resist the temptation to go nuclear

Japan moving ahead on any nuclear options would be a mistake no matter what the United States, Russia or South Korea might do.
U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House in Washington on Monday. He is the first Syrian leader to visit the White House since the country's 1946 independence.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 12, 2025

For many Syrians, al-Sharaa's U.S. visit marks new beginning

U.S. President Donald Trump received Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a first for a Syrian head of state since independence in 1946.
An Indigenous demonstrator is held by security staff after protesters forced their way into the venue hosting the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 12, 2025

Protesters force their way into COP30 summit venue and clash with security

Shouting angrily, protesters demanded access to the U.N. compound where thousands of delegates from countries around the world are attending this year's U.N. climate summit.
A box trap is set up in Kazuno, Akita Prefecture, on Nov. 5 to capture bears.
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2025

LDP proposes measures against bear attacks

The measures include employing those with hunting licenses as “government hunters” and procuring electric fences and traps.
Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management, a unit of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, aims to launch a new fund in January with a size of several billion yen.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 13, 2025

MUFG’s asset manager targets Japan buyers for its first CLO fund

The securities, which are bundled leveraged debt, will mainly hold dollar-denominated floating-rate loans made to U.S. companies.
Fumes are seen rising from the cooling towers of a lignite-fired power station operated by German energy giant RWE near a field Neurath, western Germany, on Wednesday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 13, 2025

World's fossil fuel emissions to hit new record in 2025, study says

Curbing warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius from preindustrial levels — the goal outlined in the Paris Agreement — would now be essentially “impossible.”
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
JAPAN / Explainer
Nov 13, 2025

As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?

In Japan, few people typically own guns, and the process to qualify for a license to hunt the animals takes time and effort.
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2025

Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism

The specific size of the increase will be discussed during fiscal 2026 tax system reform talks at the end of the year.
People shelter from the sun as they visit the Brandenburg Gate during a heat wave in Berlin in July. An October report in The Lancet scientific journal estimates the yearly number of deaths from heat-related causes worsened by climate change at nearly 550,000.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 14, 2025

Deadly heat worldwide prompts $300 million for climate health research at COP30

U.N. agencies in August estimated about half the world’s population, or more than 3.3 billion people, are already struggling with the rising heat.
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 14, 2025

Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan

They are designed not to fluctuate in value, and that's precisely what makes them attractive.
China’s "wolf warrior" diplomats use aggressive, insulting rhetoric that undermines their claimed goodwill — and Tokyo must reject intimidation while holding Beijing to higher diplomatic standards.
EDITORIALS
Nov 14, 2025

Chinese diplomat crosses the line

The depiction of the duly elected leader of Japan as “a stupid politician” is rude; the call for violence is unacceptable.
Berkshire Hathaway sold ¥210.1 billion ($1.4 billion) in yen-denominated bonds on Friday at a narrower spread than its previous deal, as global investors flock to Japan.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 14, 2025

Berkshire Hathaway raises more than ¥210 billion from bond sale

The Omaha, Nebraska-based firm has been a regular issuer of yen bonds since its debut six years ago, making it the largest foreign issuer of yen notes in that period.
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.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
China warns of military response if Japan intervenes in Taiwan contingency
Representatives from the Japan Innovation Party hand over a proposal to designate Xue Jian, the Chinese consul-general in Osaka, as persona no grata, to a staff of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.

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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
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