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An engineer climbs a 5G telecommunication network mast in Duesseldorf, Germany, in 2020. The European Commission is looking for ways to compel EU countries to align with the commission’s security guidance on telecommunications equipment.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 11, 2025
European Commission seeks firmer line on EU use of Huawei and ZTE equipment
If an earlier recommendation to stop using high-risk vendors becomes a legal requirement, countries that don’t follow the rules could face penalties.
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.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a session of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee in parliament in Tokyo on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 10, 2025
Takaichi stands firm on controversial Taiwan contingency remarks
While the prime minister says she has “no intention” of changing the government’s position, her remarks push the line further than those of her predecessors.
A general view of the opening ceremony of the Global Women’s Summit 2025 as Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivers a speech on Oct. 13 in Beijing
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Nov 10, 2025
In China, victims of abuse are told to ‘keep it in the family’
When two women in China tried to escape their violent husbands, the system that promised to protect them looked the other way, until it was too late.
An attendee at a longevity and anti-aging conference exits a cryotherapy chamber in Shanghai on Sept. 21.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Nov 9, 2025
In China, the dream of outrunning time
The search for the elixir of life, embraced with gusto in recent years by American tech billionaires like Peter Thiel, has been under way in China for more than two millenniums.
A ship sits under construction in a ship-building yard in Dalian, China, in 2017.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 9, 2025
Unions slam Trump for giving China a pass on shipbuilding
The union reaction came after Trump touted a trade truce between the world’s largest economies, but shows that the deal came at the expense of some blue-collar workers.
Taiwan's vice president, Hsiao Bi-khim, briefs foreign media in Taipei in July.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 9, 2025
Taiwan is not alone, vice president says after breakthrough Europe trip
While Taiwan ministers visit other parts of the world that have no formal ties to Chinese-claimed Taipei, it is rare for an official as senior as the vice president to do so.
A sample of gallium. China produces over 90% of the world's processed rare earths and rare earth magnets.
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2025
China starts work on easing rare earth export rules but short of Trump hopes
China is working on easing rare earth export rules, but Washington shouldn't hope for a complete rollback of restrictions, industry insiders said.
Fisheries minister Norikazu Suzuki announces the resumption of Japanese scallop exports to China at a news conference after a Cabinet meeting on Friday at the National Diet Building in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2025
Japan resumes scallop exports to China
China banned imports of Japanese fishery products following the release of treated water from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into the sea.
Visitors look at a model of the Fujian aircraft carrier displayed at the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, in China's Guangdong province, in November 2024.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 7, 2025
China’s new aircraft carrier begins service in boost to Beijing
The carrier joins the People’s Liberation Army Navy as Beijing is locked in territorial disputes in regional waters such as the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea.
Satellite view of Minamitorishima Island
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2025
Japan and U.S. to join forces to mine rare earths near Pacific island
The move comes after the two allies struck an agreement to work together to cut their reliance on China for the critical material.
A couple pose with their marriage certificates after they registered at the Huguo Guanyin Temple, in Beijing, in October.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Nov 7, 2025
In China, wedding bells are ringing in nightclubs, a subway station and on snowy mountain peaks
In May, China began allowing weddings anywhere in the country instead of couples’ places of residence in an effort to boost marriage rates and ease the demographic crisis.
Display panels about the Senkaku Islands at the National Museum of Territory and Sovereignty in Tokyo on Wednesday
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2025
Japan to display past Chinese records on Senkaku Islands
Some of the records will be displayed on exhibition panels at the National Museum of Territory and Sovereignty in Tokyo.
Pen-ek Ratanaruang's "Morte Cucina," starring Bella Boonsang, is a food film par excellence.
CULTURE / Film
Nov 6, 2025
Asian auteurs stole the show at this year's TIFF
Zhang Lu and Pen-ek Ratanaruang delivered standout entries at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival.
Japan’s major trading houses face a prolonged slump in iron ore and coking coal prices as Chinese steel exports flood Asia, limiting profits for at least six months.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 6, 2025
Japan’s trading houses brace for more pain from China steel glut
Japan’s major trading houses are facing a prolonged slump in iron ore and coking coal prices as Chinese steel exports flood into Asia and beyond.
A news program in Taipei shows the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, on Oct. 30.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 6, 2025
‘Stability’ in U.S.-China competition isn’t surrender
A recent Rand report urges a stable rivalry between the U.S. and China, emphasizing managed competition and the need for mutual recognition of each other's political legitimacy.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends a reception for the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, at St James' Palace in London on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 6, 2025
'China is going to win the AI race,' Nvidia CEO says: report
China’s access to advanced AI chips remains a flash point in its tech rivalry with the United States.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping talk as they leave after a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, in Busan, South Korea, on Oct. 30.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 6, 2025
Trump pressed China's Xi to release jailed Hong Kong media tycoon, sources say
Trump appealed directly to China's Xi Jinping to free jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai when the two leaders met in South Korea last week.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on Air Force One after his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, on Oct. 30. During their talks, the two leaders discussed the suspension of rare-earth export controls by China and other issues.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 5, 2025
What Chinese leaders really think of Trump
The Chinese view is that we are entering a prolonged phase of counter-globalization.
Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun introduces the Chinese smartphone maker's new electric SUV YU7 at a launch event in Beijing on May 22.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 5, 2025
The human cost of Xiaomi’s rapid pivot from smartphones to EVs
Staff across China’s tech sector complain they spend all their time at the office, with several saying that overwork is prevalent in many top firms.
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.
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.
¥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.
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.
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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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
By Kathryn Wortley

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