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An Apollo Go vehicle in Dubai
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 27, 2025

Chinese robotaxis race Waymo to take driverless cars global

The dominant EV industry China has built for decades gives its autonomous-vehicle companies a potential advantage over U.S. hopefuls.
A player uses eye movement to play a game during the Tokyo Game Show held in the city of Chiba in September.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 27, 2025

Japan's gaming industry moves to improve accessibility

Many in the industry are developing equipment and systems that allow people with disabilities affecting their hands to still play such as by using their feet and eyes.
Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 12. Potentially as many as 10,000 Palestinians are unaccounted for and presumed dead, but in the devastation left by two years of war, with entire districts bombed or bulldozed into rubble, no one knows for sure.
WORLD
Oct 28, 2025

For Gazans buried in rubble or unmarked graves, a last indignity

There are potentially as many as 10,000 Palestinians unaccounted for and presumed dead, though in the devastation left by two years of war, no one knows for sure.
Richard Attias has credited the Future Investment Initiative with playing a crucial role in driving investment, generating as much as $190 billion in deals since its 2017 launch.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 28, 2025

Saudi power broker pitches kingdom’s AI pivot to Wall Street

Richard Attias, who spent the past decade courting investors to back Saudi Arabia, credited the Future Investment Initiative with playing a crucial role in driving investment.
The recent China spy scandal in the U.K. highlights a chaotic, disorienting political and intelligence environment, resembling something more likely found in spy fiction rather than real-world espionage.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2025

U.K.’s China spying scandal is a ‘Slow Horses’ plot

The China spy scandal currently gripping U.K. politics and media is again redolent of a fictional milieu.
Ikken Yamamoto plays a shell-shocked Self-Defense Force veteran whose past comes back to haunt him in “Flames of a Flower.”
CULTURE / Film
Oct 29, 2025

‘Flames of a Flower’: A bold interrogation of Japan’s pacifist identity

Oudai Kojima’s PTSD drama turned politically charged thriller takes aim at Japan’s postwar contradictions.
Great Wines World features more than 260 top-rated wines curated by influential American wine critic James Suckling.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 31, 2025

Renowned wine critic James Suckling brings Great Wines World back to Tokyo

The event showcases more than 260 top-rated bottles from 150 producers, with a focus on Bordeaux.
The current exhibition at 21_21 Design Site is A-POC Able’s first venture outside fashion, though it follows in the footsteps of its founder Issey Miyake, who launched a lighting collection in 2011 with Italian company Artemide.
LIFE / Style & Design
Nov 2, 2025

New generations of designers carry Issey Miyake's legacy

From pleated garments to glowing lamps, the designer’s philosophy continues to evolve through new brands, collaborations and generations.
Fireworks light up the sky during the opening ceremony of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, on the southwestern outskirts of the capital Cairo, on Saturday.
WORLD
Nov 2, 2025

Egypt officially opens grand museum near pyramids

Spanning half a million square meters, the museum houses around 100,000 artifacts — half of them on display — dating back more than six millennia.
U.S. President Donald Trump raises his fist as he boards Air Force One before traveling to South Korea, from Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 2, 2025

Trump plays nice with Asian allies stung by repeated threats

While allies in Asia have ample reason to be wary of U.S. President Donald Trump, the message from his regional tour appeared to be that America isn't going anywhere.
Believing that human-like AI can think or feel is a growing danger, and we must stop designing systems that encourage that illusion.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2025

Seemingly conscious artificial intelligence is coming soon

The more that AI is built explicitly to resemble people, the farther it will have strayed from its true potential as a source of human empowerment.
Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
BUSINESS / Companies / Longform
Nov 3, 2025

The second life of Japan's net cafes

Once symbols of urban solitude, these spaces are finding new purpose as coworking hubs for a changing, wired generation.
Workers from Heisei Chikuho Railway replace an old railroad tie with a new one, securing it with heavy-duty nails.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Nov 17, 2025

Railway in rural Fukuoka stands at crossroads as passenger numbers dwindle

If Heisei Chikuho Railway maintains its current train line operations, it is projected to incur an annual deficit of around ¥1 billion over the next 30 years for maintenance.
A happy-go-lucky guy with many obsessions (voiced by Masaya Sano) becomes intensely interested in a young woman named Pechka (Moka Kamishiraishi) in “The Obsessed.”
CULTURE / Film
Nov 6, 2025

‘The Obsessed’: Charming anime dances to its own tune

"Crayon Shin-chan" director turns a 2001 novel into a quirky, rough-edged musical anime.
A Bedouin man who left Sweida governorate as part of an agreement between the Syrian government and Druze militants sleeps in a school that is used as a shelter on July 22.
WORLD
Nov 10, 2025

In Syria’s south, Bedouins uprooted by sectarian clashes see little hope of return

Fear, hostility and grievances on both sides leave little hope of displaced Bedouins returning soon to Sweida, a Druze-majority province.
Mobile Suica is being improved so that it is more useful in an increasingly cashless society.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 12, 2025

Penguin-less Suica to take on PayPay in payments with QR codes and higher limits

Balance limits will go from ¥20,000 on the current e-money system to ¥300,000.
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.
CULTURE / Film
Nov 13, 2025

Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon

Tatsuya Nakadai worked with nearly every major Japanese director of the postwar era, but it was his collaborations with Akira Kurosawa that cemented his legacy.
Risa Matsuda, 27, a staffer at Muscle Girls, flexes while doing a pole dance for customers.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Nov 14, 2025

Tokyo's viral Muscle Girls bar flexes a brawny sort of beauty

Staff at the viral nightlife spot say embracing a new beauty standard helps them shed societal expectations on femininity.
Digital shelf displays recommend complementary products in real time at a Lawson pilot store in Tokyo’s Minato Ward.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Nov 17, 2025

Lawson taps AI and Asia growth as convenience store sector undergoes shift

Changes come as store expansion is slowing at home and inbound tourism is increasingly driving consumption.
Japan's Ryuhei Sotani pitches against South Korea at Tokyo Dome on Saturday night.
BASEBALL
Nov 17, 2025

Japan uses series against South Korea to prep for World Baseball Classic title defense

The chance to play with the pitch clock and PitchCom — neither of which is used in NPB — was the main takeaway for Japan.
A Danish princess (voiced by Mana Ashida) journeys through the afterlife in search of her undead uncle, determined to avenge her father’s death in "Scarlet."
CULTURE / Film
Nov 20, 2025

Mamoru Hosoda’s ‘Scarlet’ takes on ‘Hamlet’ with bold visual departure

The Oscar-nominated director re-imagines the Shakespearean tale as an animated quest through the afterlife.
The music industry has been battling AI companies, alleging illegal use of their songs.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 20, 2025

Major music labels strike deals with new AI streaming service

The world’s largest music companies have licensed their works to a music startup called Klay, which is building a streaming service that will allow users to remake songs using artificial intelligence tools.
Twitch will be forced to remove all users under the age of 16 when Australia's strict social media laws take effect next month.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 21, 2025

Livestream giant Twitch to ban under-16s in Australia

The eSafety Commissioner said that the U.S. company — which started out as a platform for gaming streamers — met its criteria to be banned.
U.S. President Donald Trump said a group of Democratic lawmakers who called on troops to disobey his orders should be put on trial — and even suggested they should face the death penalty.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 21, 2025

Trump calls for sedition trial after Democrats urged troops to disobey orders

His suggestion that the lawmakers be put to death drew even more attention to a video telling the intelligence community and military members to disobey unlawful orders.
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama speaking on Wednesday. On Friday, she said that intervention on the currency markets is a “possible option.”
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 21, 2025

‘Sell Japan’ trade takes a breather as verbal intervention dialed up slightly

The stimulus package that so worried the market came in within expectations
Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Cloudflare has been ordered to pay ¥500 million after four major publishing firms accused the firm of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.
Japan plans higher visa fees for foreign residents
Along with planned higher fees for foreign residents to stay, Japan is looking to raise the ¥3,000 single-entry visa fee for inbound tourists to Western standards in the next fiscal year.
Two men suspected of smuggling 1 ton of gold into Japan from South Korea
U.K. gold bullion bars and coins are displayed at Baird & Co. in Hatton Garden in London.
Takaichi rejects China's demand to retract Taiwan remarks
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has rejected China's demands for her to retract her comments on Taiwan, saying Tokyo's stance on a major regional security crisis remains unchanged.
¥21.3 trillion stimulus package approved by Cabinet
The Cabinet is expected to submit an extra budget bill to finance the package to parliament, which is in session until Dec. 17.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Japanese companies advised to change mindset about investment in Africa
Bernard Laurendeau, chief of Enkopa Lab Japan, in Tokyo last month
Munetaka Murakami headlines quartet looking to move to MLB via posting system
The Swallows' Munetaka Murakami has 246 career home runs in eight NPB seasons.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Why we can’t get enough of the sham of the rental family
“Rental Family,” directed and co-written by the single-named Hikari, follows out-of-work actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser), who is hired as the “token white guy” at a Tokyo agency called Rental Family.

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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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Juzo Itami’s “Tampopo” was released Nov. 23, 1985, and though it wasn’t a hit at the time, it has gained a cult following in the years since.
Eat, slurp, love: 'Tampopo' turns 40
By Weiwen Lin

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