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Federal agents deployed tear gas after demonstrators gathered at an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon, on Oct. 18.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2025
Flush with cash, U.S. immigration agency expands weaponry and surveillance
Spending on the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown is vastly higher than during his first presidency.
Flags fly near a banner depicting U.S. President Donald Trump during a "No Kings" protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's policies, in Washington on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 19, 2025
As 'No Kings' protests decry Trump, surveillance worries emerge
The Trump administration has declined to share details about how officials typically monitor demonstrators.
California National Guard members stand ready as people protest against the detention of migrants by federal law enforcement in downtown Los Angeles on June 9.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 16, 2025
Los Angeles declares state of emergency over immigration raids
The declaration is the latest effort to push back on President Donald Trump's hard-line immigration policies.
People flee, cough, and cover their faces as the neighborhood fills with tear gas deployed by federal agents on the southeast side of Chicago on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 15, 2025
Military tactics by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Chicago fuel backlash
Agents trained to spot illegal border crossings, who normally police the frontier, are being sent into densely populated neighborhoods deep inside the country.
Eduardo Santoyo stands by his family's tamales stand in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago on Saturday. Santoyo's mother, Maria, was tending their business on Friday morning when she was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 13, 2025
Snatched: How ICE raids are shattering Chicago's immigrant world
Families are left to pick up the pieces as immigration agents swoop in without warning, often in broad daylight, snatch unsuspecting residents and drive off.
A demonstrator wrapped in a U.S. flag stands amid smoke during a protest at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 8, 2025
Trump's Insurrection Act threat escalates showdown with Democratic cities
President Donald Trump again left open the possibility of using the Insurrection Act to sidestep any court rulings blocking the dispatch of guard troops into Democratic-led cities.
An armored vehicle carrying members of a Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Response Team pulls up by a crowd of protesters outside of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 7, 2025
Illinois sues to halt Trump’s deployment of national guard, but troops on the way
The case is the latest flashpoint in a growing number of court battles over Trump's authority to deploy military forces domestically.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detain a man after conducting a raid at an apartment complex in Denver, Colorado, in February.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2025
Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration
The apps alert users to ICE agents in their area, but the U.S. Justice Department says the apps could increase the risk of assault on agents.
ICE agents stand guard during a protest against the immigration policies of the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, outside an ICE detention facility in Portland, Oregon, on Sept. 1.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 28, 2025
Trump authorizes 'full force' troop deployment in Portland, Oregon
The U.S. president has made crime a major focus of his administration even as violent crime rates have fallen in many U.S. cities, including Portland.
A federal agent aims a less-lethal launcher at protesters outside the Broadview ICE processing facility, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered an increased federal law enforcement presence to assist with crime prevention, in Broadview, Illinois, on Friday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Sep 27, 2025
ICE tactics inflame tensions in New York, Chicago and other cities
Immigration officers are pepper spraying protesters and manhandling detainees in overt displays of force.
Law enforcement personnel respond at the scene of a shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 25, 2025
Gunman wrote 'ANTI-ICE' on unused bullet in fatal attack on Dallas immigration office
U.S. President Donald Trump quickly politicized the incident on his Truth Social platform, accusing "Radical Left Democrats" of stoking anti-ICE violence.
An activist holds a banner as South Korean workers who were detained in a huge immigration raid in the U.S. arrive at the Incheon International Airport in South Korea on Sept.12.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 24, 2025
‘America is not a safe place to work’: South Koreans describe Georgia raid
Some of the workers arrested this month at a Hyundai-LG factory said that although they had entered the U.S. under murky circumstances, they always planned to return home.
Tom Homan, U.S. President Donald Trump’s border czar, outside the White House in Washington on Sept. 9. Sources say Homan accepted a $50,000 bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent last year in a case that has since been closed.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2025
Trump aide Homan accepted $50,000 in bribery sting operation, sources say
The case was closed by FBI Director Kash Patel over the summer and Homan faces no criminal charges.
Police and first responders work at a cordoned-off area after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a man as officers attempted to detain him, according to the Department of Homeland Security, in Franklin Park village, northwest of Chicago, on Friday.
WORLD
Sep 13, 2025
ICE officer kills man in Chicago suburb during arrest attempt
ICE officers were conducting a vehicle stop to arrest Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez when he drove his car at the officers, DHS said in a statement.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 18, 2022
Beijing got all ready for Olympic curling. But about the ice …
The ice makers of Olympic curling are part physicist, part meteorologist, part engineer. They know that creating a stage for a world-class event is all about the process.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Apr 30, 2021
How ICE’s mishandling of COVID-19 fueled outbreaks around the U.S.
To date, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reported over 12,000 virus cases. The New York Times investigation found that the impact of infection extended beyond U.S. detention centers.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Aug 22, 2019
Trump imposes rule allowing U.S. to detain migrant families indefinitely, scrapping 20-day limit for holding kids
The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled a rule that allows officials to detain migrant families indefinitely while judges consider whether to grant them asylum in the United States, eliminating a previous 20-day limit.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2018
Motel 6 must pay $7.6 million to Hispanics for giving guest lists to U.S. immigration agents
Motel 6 will pay up to $7.6 million to Hispanic guests to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit claiming that it violated their privacy by regularly providing guest lists to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 20, 2018
Jeff Sessions limits ability of U.S. judges to dismiss deportation cases
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced new limits on the ability of immigration judges to terminate deportation cases on Wednesday, the latest in a series of decisions to facilitate the removal of immigrants in the country illegally.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 22, 2018
Newly confirmed water on moon has NASA chief excited about prospects for humans' return
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has a vision for "sustainable" human exploration of the moon, and he cites the newly confirmed ice on the lunar surface as a key to success.
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.
New satellite images suggest 'mass graves' in Sudan's El-Fasher
A general view of a berm construction in Kinin Village near El-Fasher.
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.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.
Takaichi calls for the updating of Japan's economic security law
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to a panel on promoting economic security in Japan on Friday.
These are the hottest lower-division rikishi to watch right now
Fukazaki (right) grapples with Enho at the IG Arena in Nagoya on July 13.
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

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

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
By Alex K.T. Martin

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