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Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks at a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Aug 27, 2024
Japan calls Chinese military aircraft incursion 'unacceptable' threat to safety
Officials are grappling with the rationale for and response to the entry into Japanese airspace off Nagasaki Prefecture.
A China Coast Guard ship is seen from the Philippine Coast Guard vessel BRP Cabra during a supply mission to Sabina Shoal in disputed waters of the South China Sea on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Aug 27, 2024
China-Philippine tensions center on new flash point: Sabina Shoal
Clashes between the countries’ vessels have become more frequent and intense as the two sides vie for control over the disputed South China Sea atoll.
Black Myth: Wukong has sold over 10 million copies in less than a week — by far the best launch of a Chinese-developed single-player game in history.
LIFE / Digital
Aug 27, 2024
With Black Myth: Wukong, China is now a force to reckon with in AAA games
Can China’s first AAA gaming hit bear the weight of the cultural baggage it’s being burdened with?
A Chinese military Y-9 intelligence-gathering plane that entered Japanese airspace on Monday.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2024
Japan says Chinese military violated territorial airspace for first time
The ministry said one of the Chinese military's Y-9 intelligence-gathering planes had briefly entered Japanese territory near the Danjo Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture.
A humanoid robot developed by Ex-Robots winks at the World Robot Conference in Beijing on Aug. 21.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 26, 2024
China robots conference spotlights the changing face of humanoids
"The robot industry has broad prospects and huge market potential," said Chinese Premier Li Qiang.
An aerial view of the BRP Sierra Madre on the contested Second Thomas Shoal, locally known as Ayungin, in the South China Sea in 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 26, 2024
China's actions in South China Sea 'patently illegal,' Philippine Defense Minister says
Manila's South China Sea task force accused Chinese vessels of ramming and using water cannons against a Philippine fisheries vessel near Sabina Shoal.
A Philippine's military-chartered boat sails past a China Coast Guard ship during a resupply mission for the BRP Sierra Madre, in the Second Thomas Shoal in the disputed South China Sea, on Nov. 10.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 25, 2024
Philippines accuses Chinese vessels of blocking South China Sea supply mission, ramming its ship
The Philippines says Chinese vessels made "aggressive and dangerous" maneuvers including ramming the ship and using water cannons.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is scheduled to meet with senior U.S. official Jake Sullivan this week in the first visit by an American national security adviser to China since 2016.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 25, 2024
China says will voice 'serious concerns' on Taiwan and security in U.S. talks
This will be the first visit by a U.S. national security adviser to China since 2016, although other senior officials have visited over the past two years.
Instead of secretly arming against the combined nuclear forces of China, Russia and North Korea, the U.S. must launch a global campaign to restart arms control.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2024
Why is the U.S. fighting nuclear threats behind closed doors?
Secret armaments or doctrinal shifts without public messaging will only make adversaries more paranoid and a full-on arms race all but inevitable.
Tepco employees serve scallops at an event in Tokyo last month.
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2024
Japan scallop exports shifting away from China dependence
The efforts led to increases in scallop exports to the United States and other markets, highlighting the scallop supply chain's shift away from China.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, alongside Fukushima fisheries cooperative chief Tetsu Nozaki (far right), inspects fish caught off Fukushima Prefecture during a visit to Iwaki on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 24, 2024
Japan to compile additional measures to support fisheries industry
The additional measures will be put in place to help fishery operators hurt by China's blanket ban on imports of Japanese marine products.
Seafood for sale at a market in Zhoushan, China. Beijng's import ban has fueled an aversion to seafood in general, creating a situation it hadn't anticipated.
BUSINESS
Aug 24, 2024
China keeps door firmly closed to Japanese seafood imports
Despite assurances of safety, Beijing continues to call water released from the crippled Fukushima plant "nuclear-contaminated water."
This screen shot from the Philippine Coast Guard video taken on Monday shows a Chinese air force fighter jet deploying flares near a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources plane that was flying near the Chinese-controlled, Philippine-claimed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 24, 2024
Philippines says China fired flares at its South China Sea plane
The unprovoked Chinese "harassment" included "deploying flares multiple times at a dangerously close distance of approximately 15 meters, Manila said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embrace at the entrance of the Mariinskyi Palace ahead of their meeting in Kyiv on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Aug 24, 2024
After Russia, Modi visits Ukraine as he walks diplomatic tightrope
The Indian leader reiterated the need for “dialogue and diplomacy” to end the war, during talks in Kyiv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan attends a plenary session during the summit on peace in Ukraine, in Stansstad near Lucerne, Switzerland, in June.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 24, 2024
With election approaching, U.S. national security chief to visit China
During three days of talks starting Tuesday in Beijing, Jake Sullivan will discuss issues ranging from Taiwan to bilateral military talks.
Friday's sanctions include measures against companies in China involved in shipping machine tools and microelectronics to Russia, according to the U.S. State Department.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 24, 2024
U.S. sanctions 400 entities aiding Russia's war — including Chinese firms
Friday's sanctions include measures against companies in China involved in shipping machine tools and microelectronics to Russia.
The Fukushima No. 1 plant in August last year
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2024
One year on, no abnormalities have been found in tritium levels off Fukushima
The plant has so far discharged 60,000 tons of treated water, which contains small amounts of radioactive tritium, into the sea after diluting it with seawater.
Masanobu Sakamoto (left), head of the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations, meets with industry minister Ken Saito (right) in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 23, 2024
Head of fishery group expresses industry's concern over import bans
Such bans by other countries in response to the release of treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant leave the sector uncertain about its future, he says.
A boy pushes a biped robot developed by LimX Dynamics at the World Robot Conference in Beijing on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 23, 2024
China's robot makers chase Tesla to deliver humanoid workers
The Asian giant's push into the emerging industry draws from the formula behind its initial electric vehicle drive more than a decade ago.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te pays respects at a ceremony commemorating the war against Chinese forces on the front-line island in Kinmen, Taiwan, on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 23, 2024
On front-line island, Taiwan president rejects China's rule for freedom
On his first trip to Kinmen since assuming office in May, Lai Ching-te laid a wreath at a memorial park for the 66th anniversary of a clash with Chinese forces.
China seizes disputed reef near key Philippine military outpost
China Coast Guard officers unfurl a national flag on Sandy Cay reef, near the Philippine-held Thitu Island, in disputed waters of the South China Sea this month in this screen shot taken from Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami
A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
California says it overtakes Japan to become world’s No. 4 economy
Vehicles travel along the 110 freeway in downtown Los Angeles. California's GDP has overtaken Japan's to become the world's fourth largest economy, according to the U.S. state.
Arunima Mazumdar: ‘Japanese literature has a niche but deeply engaged readership in India’
Arunima Mazumdar, a New Delhi-based communications professional, began sharing her love of Japanese literature online in 2022. The platform has grown into a robust community known as Dokusha Book Club.
Counting the reasons why there are so few American cars in Japan
Tesla's store in Tokyo's Shibuya district. While sales of American cars in Japan appear to be shrinking, Tesla's presence in the country is growing.
Shohei Ohtani's example could change Japan's views on paternity leave
Shohei Ohtani and Mamiko Tanaka announced the birth of their first child on April 19.
Counting the reasons why there are so few American cars in Japan
Tesla's store in Tokyo's Shibuya district. While sales of American cars in Japan appear to be shrinking, Tesla's presence in the country is growing.
Nearly half of workers in Japan engage in ‘quiet quitting’
"Quiet quitting" is most common among the younger generation, with 46.7% of respondents to a survey in their 20s identifying with the practice, reflecting a less-motivated workforce more focused on work-life balance.
U.S. secretary of the navy weighs ‘dual-use’ shipbuilding with Japan
John Phelan at a Senate confirmation hearing for U.S. secretary of the navy in Washington in February
Expo '25 gives the world a masterclass in mascots
2025 Osaka Expo mascot Myaku-Myaku dances on the stage during the event's official opening ceremony on April 12.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
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