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Defense Minister Gen Nakatani speaks to reporters during a visit to the Air Self-Defense Force's Space Situation Awareness radar in Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 29, 2025
‘Killer satellites’ beware: Japan unveils first space defense guidelines
The guidelines outline plans to protect Japanese satellites, while promoting cooperation between the public and private sectors on cutting-edge tech.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has called off a trip to Central and South America that would have included stopovers in the U.S.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 29, 2025
Taiwan's Lai calls off trip with U.S. transit as Trump seeks Xi summit
The Taiwanese president had intended to stop in New York and then Dallas as part of a trip to diplomatic allies in Central and South America.
China's Yu Zidi in action during the women's 200m medley final at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore on Monday.
MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Jul 29, 2025
I'm no genius, says 12-year-old Yu after just missing podium at worlds
Yu, who shaved over a second off her personal best, received high praise from fellow competitors but said she was focusing only on her training.
The Foreign Ministry will implement a large-scale organizational reform on Friday, including the establishment of an economic security division under the Economic Affairs Bureau.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 29, 2025
Japan's Foreign Ministry to set up economic security division
It will be the first time in 19 years for the ministry to carry out a large-scale organizational reform involving multiple bureaus.
China's government will offer subsidies to parents to the tune of $500 per child under the age of three per year, Beijing's state media said on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 29, 2025
China rolls out childcare subsidy to boost birth rate
The assistance is meant as an incentive for young couples wary of rising costs of child-rearing.
A Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma, sentenced to three years and six months in prison for espionage in China, did not appeal the ruling by Monday's deadline, according to officials at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 29, 2025
Astellas employee makes no appeal against conviction in China
A Chinese court said he had been paid to provide information on China's politics and economy to intelligence agencies.
Displaced people hold candles as they celebrate Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn's 73rd birthday after the leaders of Cambodia and Thailand agreed to a ceasefire on Monday, effective midnight, in Sisaket province, Thailand, on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 29, 2025
Ceasefire takes effect between Thailand and Cambodia after five-day border battle
The two countries' leaders agreed to end hostilities, resume direct communications and create a mechanism to implement the ceasefire after efforts by Malaysia, the U.S. and China.
Sanseito supporters celebrate at a rally in Tokyo on July 21, a day after the party’s strong showing in the Upper House election.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 28, 2025
Japan’s neighbors anxiously assess Upper House election results
Most notably, the far-right, anti-immigrant Sanseito won 14 seats, increasing its total seats from one to 15.
A view of the Balboa Port in Panama City on March 4
BUSINESS
Jul 28, 2025
CK Hutchison to invite China investor to join port deal
State-owned China Cosco Shipping was negotiating a powerful role for itself as a condition to join the consortium, it was reported last week.
Researchers from Japan and China take part in a cultural exchange forum in Beijing on Sunday.
JAPAN
Jul 28, 2025
Researchers from Japan and China discuss cooperation
The forum for Japanese and Chinese researchers to hold dialogue to enhance friendship as well as human and cultural exchanges took place for the first time in Tokyo last year.
U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands after making joint statements at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in 2017.
BUSINESS
Jul 28, 2025
U.S. and China to resume tariff talks in effort to extend truce
China is facing an Aug. 12 deadline to strike a durable tariff agreement with the Trump administration, after Beijing and Washington reached a preliminary deal in June.
A supporter of Taiwan's main opposition party, Kuomintang (KMT), waves the country's national flag during a rally against the recall election in front of the Presidential Office in Taipei on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 28, 2025
Failed bid to oust Taiwan opposition gives China new leverage
All 24 Kuomintang lawmakers survived recall votes over the weekend, dealing a blow to Lai’s Democratic Progressive Party and its hopes of regaining a parliamentary majority.
Tzukte, popularly known as Asang, was taken into custody sometime in early July after he sang a song eulogizing Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, the CTA said in a statement Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 27, 2025
China detained activist-singer, says Tibetan exile government
A young Tibetan singer and activist has been detained by Chinese authorities, the India-based Central Tibetan Administration said.
Kuomintang lawmaker Hsu Chiao-hsin celebrates after the results of the recall election in Taipei on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 27, 2025
Taiwan opposition defeats recall and keeps legislative control
Voters overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to recall 24 Kuomintang lawmakers.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Philippine leader Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Jul 26, 2025
Trump tariffs leave costly China supply question unanswered
The U.S. president has threatened to rocket rates up to 40% for products deemed to be transshipped, or re-routed, through Southeast Asia.
People vote in a recall election, at a polling station in Taipei on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 26, 2025
Taiwan votes in high-stakes recall election
The high-stakes recall election to oust Kuomintang lawmakers could give President Lai Ching-te's Democratic Progressive Party control of parliament.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang speaks during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Saturday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 26, 2025
Chinese Premier Li Qiang takes aim at AI ‘monopoly’ as U.S. effort quickens
China will spearhead the creation of an international organization to jointly develop AI, the country’s No. 2 official said.
Batam, a duty-free Indonesian enclave a short ferry ride from Singapore, has become a key waypoint in a convoluted global shuffle involving Chinese solar panels and U.S. tariffs.
BUSINESS
Jul 25, 2025
China’s stealthy solar exports stay one step ahead of U.S. tariffs
Of Indonesia’s 10 biggest exporters of solar cells and panels to the U.S. during the first half of 2025, six in Batam were found to be owned by executives at Chinese companies.
Visitors at Matryoshka Square, a theme park in the border town of Manzhouli, in China’s Inner Mongolia, on July 10. Much of the trade between China and Russia has long run through Manzhouli.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 25, 2025
How a Chinese border town keeps Russia’s economy afloat
The economic strategy of the town of Manzhouli underlines Russia’s evolution into a supplier of raw materials to China’s vast manufacturing sector.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (center) responds to questions during the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing, China, on July 17. Nvidia is one of the companies at the heart of the global artificial intelligence movement.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 25, 2025
DeepSeek and Trump’s plan steer agenda at China’s premier AI forum
This year's edition of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference takes place at a critical juncture in the U.S.-Chinese tech rivalry.
JICA to designate four Japanese cities as 'hometowns' for African nations
The Japanese flag (left) with the flag of the African Union
Osaka fire kills two firefighters and leaves four injured
Firefighters work at the scene of a fire in the Dotonbori district in the city of Osaka on Monday.
Winning warship bid gives Japan confidence boost as Tokyo eyes more exports
Australia’s decision to select Japan's upgraded Mogami-class warship, seen in this computer-generated image, has been “well received across Japanese industry," a Defense Ministry official said.
Two Japanese nationals shot dead in Manila
Commuters cross the street through traffic in Manila.
A factory town in crisis shows Japan’s fading manufacturing era
Nissan workers walk outside its Oppama plant in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. Nissan plans to shut the plant by the end of fiscal 2027.
Candidates preparing to make final pitches for Sawamura Award
Hawks pitcher Livan Moinelo has a 1.13 ERA in 19 starts this season.
Winning warship bid gives Japan confidence boost as Tokyo eyes more exports
Australia’s decision to select Japan's upgraded Mogami-class warship, seen in this computer-generated image, has been “well received across Japanese industry," a Defense Ministry official said.
In Paris, chefs Chizuko Kimura and Kei Kobayashi make their mark
Chef Kei Kobayashi is France's only Japanese chef with three Michelin stars.
In preserving Japanese hospitality, ‘details are everything’
Beniya Mukayu, a traditional "ryokan" inn located in Ishikawa Prefecture, considers itself at "the heart of onsen towns, local residents, farmers, fishermen, sake brewers and artisans" — all of which need new, sustainable methods of serving visitors to survive into the future.
A seaside hotel built on competitive Japanese cycling
In a region more associated with art, Keirin Hotel 10 takes a decidedly more athletic approach to attracting tourists.

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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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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers
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