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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2025
Takaichi vows continued support in first talks with Zelenskyy
The prime minister held her first telephone talks with Ukraine’s president on Wednesday.
Commander of a drone unit of the 7th Rapid Response Corps holds a drone before his unit's deployment to Pokrovsk at an undisclosed location in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday.
WORLD
Nov 6, 2025
Russia and Ukraine say they are locked in fierce fighting in Pokrovsk
Ukraine said its troops face a difficult position in the city, once an important transport and logistics hub for the Ukrainian army that Russia has been trying to capture.
U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before a meeting at the Demilitarized Zone in Panmunjom, South Korea, in June 2019
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 5, 2025
U.S.-North Korea summit may be held in spring, South's spy agency tells lawmaker
U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly called for a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his trip to South Korea last week, but Kim did not respond to his overtures.
Members of the U.S. Navy react as U.S. President Donald Trump acknowledges them at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia, on Oct. 5.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 5, 2025
Trump's military use in other countries tests his MAGA base
The move is prompting an outcry among some mainstream Republicans and even some of his most ardent supporters.
Mike Burgess, director-general of security for the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, delivers the 2025 Lowy Lecture in Sydney on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 5, 2025
Australian spy chief says 'state sanctioned trolls' sowing social discord
Australia faces a trend seen across Western democracies of declining trust and rising disinformation.
The Arch of Independence in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Central Asia’s Turkic nations, united by shared history and culture, are emerging as a strategic counterbalance to Russia and China, offering Japan opportunities for investment and influence.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 4, 2025
Why Japan — like the U.S. — needs Central Asia
The C5 — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan — concerns Japan more directly than seems immediately obvious.
Pressed on his claims that Russia and China have been testing their nuclear weapons, U.S. President Donald Trump said that a global monitoring system that employs state-of-the-art technology had somehow failed to detect the tests.
WORLD / FOCUS
Nov 3, 2025
Trump claims that China and Russia secretly conduct nuke tests
The U.S. leader alleged that the nation's rivals "test way underground, where people don't know exactly what's happening."
State-owned giants in China such as Sinopec and PetroChina have canceled some Russian cargoes in the wake of U.S. sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil last month, according to traders.
BUSINESS
Nov 3, 2025
Russian oil finds fewer takers in China after hit from sanctions
The U.S. and its allies are ratcheting up sanctions on both Russian producers and their customers in a bid to stop the war by choking off Moscow’s oil revenues.
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright holds a news conference on the sidelines of the International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference in Vienna on Sept. 15.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 3, 2025
U.S. not planning nuclear explosions at this time, energy secretary says
The U.S. would continue "noncritical" testing that involves all the other parts of a nuclear weapon to make sure they are functioning and can set up a nuclear blast.
Students of the Arctic basic-training program carry out a fire drill in Sisimiut, Greenland.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 3, 2025
For Danish army, the threat to Greenland isn’t Trump. It’s Russia.
With NATO’s Arctic footprint expanding, Denmark is raising its military commitment to a territory seen as crucial to security.
Members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army stand as the strategic strike group displays DF-61 nuclear-capable intercontinental ballisitic missiles during a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing on Sept. 3.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 1, 2025
Trump's nuclear testing order risks expanded arms race
By ordering a resumption of nuclear testing, U.S. President Donald Trump risks an expanded arms race that could benefit China, experts say.
The system glitch affected companies that use Askul-affiliated logistics firms, including the Muji-brand household goods seller Ryohin Keikaku and sundry goods retailer Loft.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 31, 2025
Russian hacker group claims responsibility for Askul cyberattack
The group claimed that it stole some 1.1 terabytes of data from Askul, and customer information and purchase histories are now downloadable.
Jera's Hekinan thermal power station in Hekinan, Aichi Prefecture. Jera gets about 2 million metric tons of LNG per year from Russia's Sakhalin-2.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 31, 2025
Japanese utilities say they can replace Sakhalin-2 if supply interrupted
The United States this month urged Japan, along with other Russian energy buyers, to stop imports as it pushes the Kremlin towards ending the war in Ukraine.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi meets with Malaysian leader Anwar Ibrahim at the opening of the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 31, 2025
Takaichi shines on the diplomatic stage
Takaichi got especially high marks for her masterful handling of U.S. President Donald Trump. Channeling her mentor, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Japan is deploying two officers to Lithuania for demining training in support of Ukraine, marking a key step in its evolving security strategy and the maturation of its defense policy.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 31, 2025
Japan’s demining deployment is a security milestone
This deployment is the latest in demining support that Japan has delivered to Ukraine since Russia’s full scale invasion began in February 2022.
Many analysts said that U.S. President Donald Trump, who often tries to project strength as a negotiation tactic, likely was seeking to send a message to Moscow and Beijing with his remarks about resuming nuclear testing.
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Oct 31, 2025
Nuclear curveball: Trump's testing plan raises fears and confusion in Washington
Such a move, if implemented, could end up benefiting adversaries.
Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 31, 2025
Russia says peace talks with Japan only possible if Tokyo abandons ‘anti-Russian course’
Soviet troops took control of four islands off Hokkaido at the end of World War II.
The Baker test on July 25, 1946, the U.S.' second atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll.
WORLD / EXPLAINER
Oct 31, 2025
Nuclear testing: Why did it stop, why test and who has nuclear weapons?
No nuclear power — other than North Korea most recently in 2017 — has carried out explosive nuclear testing in over 25 years.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi reportedly turned down a request from the U.S. to cease imports of liquefied natural gas from Russia.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 30, 2025
Takaichi pushed back on U.S. request to ban Russian gas imports, sources say
Russian LNG accounts for nearly 9% of Japan's total LNG imports, with companies Mitsui and Mitsubishi holding stakes in the Sakhalin-2 project in Russia's Far East.
A mushroom cloud rises with ships below during Operation Crossroads nuclear weapons test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, in 1946.
WORLD
Oct 30, 2025
Trump asks Pentagon to immediately resume testing U.S. nuclear weapons
Never mind that Russia and China are not currently conducting nuclear tests and nuclear testing is overseen by the Department of Energy.
The Toyota buyout is a major test for Japan’s reforms
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
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.
ChatGPT nickname and Trump tariffs nominated for Japan’s buzzword of 2025
Women hold toys depicting Myaku-Myaku, the official character for the 2025 Osaka Expo, during a media day ahead of the event's public opening day in Osaka in April.
SoftBank is said to have explored potential takeover of Marvell
SoftBank explored a potential takeover of U.S. chipmaker Marvell Technology earlier this year, in what would have been the semiconductor industry's largest-ever deal.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
Across borders and screens, Tokyo film festival finds humanity in migration
“Mother Bhumi” takes place in a multiethnic rice-farming community where Chinese, Thai and Malay lineages intertwine.
Takaichi’s balancing act: Supporting Taiwan and stabilizing China ties
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan’s presidential adviser, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday in this image posted to Takaichi's official X account.
From 1973 to 2025: A Japanese American skater’s long ride to recognition
Judi Oyama at Winchester Skatepark in San Jose, California, in January 1979. The Skateboarding Hall of Fame inductee and Guinness World Record holder still skates and hopes to inspire older women.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo
Young Indonesians in Japan find their political voice
Indonesian students at Hiroshima University hold posters of the 17+8 Demands, demanding transparency and action from their homeland’s government.

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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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Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
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