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The Nara District Court where Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, is on trial for the murder of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe's wife, Akie, attended the trial on Wednesday for the first time.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Man accused of shooting Abe apologizes to former PM’s widow and family
Describing his actions as inexcusable, Tetsuya Yamagami said they caused pain to the former prime minister’s family even though he held no grudge against them.
The Nara District Court where Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, is on trial for the murder of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe's wife, Akie, attended the trial on Wednesday for the first time.
Masato Edamitsu, the 60-year-old founder of Shinshin Kenko Club, training and guiding his client
JAPAN / Science & Health / FOCUS
Japan’s fitness industry is catering to a new clientele: Health-conscious seniors
By Jessica Speed
A fitness survey released by the Sports Agency in October of this year found that seniors today are fitter than they were in 1998.
Visitors head to Shirakawago, a popular tourist spot, in Gifu Prefecture in November.
JAPAN / Explainer
The key points under discussion on policies affecting foreign nationals
By Himari Semans
Policymakers are looking at tighter restrictions on real estate purchases, higher visa-related fees and better Japanese language education, among other things.
Participants chat during the Responsible AI in the Military Domain (REAIM) summit in Seoul on Sep. 10, 2024. Military systems infused with artificial intelligence are enabling soldiers not only to identify anomalies or threats that might be missed but also to quickly analyze large volumes of data to support critical decision-making on the battlefield.
WORLD / Politics
Canadian military’s cyber chief touts AI’s advantages but warns against ‘unquestioned’ use
By Gabriel Dominguez
The head of the country’s cybercommand has said that AI can provide critical battlefield advantages, but emphasized the need to prevent misuse.
In 2025, “Demon Slayer” and “Kokuho” broke box-office records, while films such as “Renoir,” A Pale View of the Hills” and “Two Strangers, Two Seasons” garnered acclaim on the international film festival circuit. The year’s biggest loss was the death of Tatsuya Nakadai, an highly regarded actor who had worked with nearly all of the top directors of Japanese cinema’s postwar golden age.
CULTURE / Film / 2025 IN REVIEW
2025 was the year Japan’s box office returned
By Mark Schilling
Anime ruled the screens once again, but a kabuki drama surprised us all.
In 2025, “Demon Slayer” and “Kokuho” broke box-office records, while films such as “Renoir,” A Pale View of the Hills” and “Two Strangers, Two Seasons” garnered acclaim on the international film festival circuit. The year’s biggest loss was the death of Tatsuya Nakadai, an highly regarded actor who had worked with nearly all of the top directors of Japanese cinema’s postwar golden age.

JAPAN

The Osaka Expo site is packed with visitors on Oct. 13, the final day of its six-month run.
Myaku-Myaku pushes Osaka Expo's economic impact up to estimated ?3 trillion
The figure surpassed last year’s projection of ?2.75 trillion, thanks to the popularity of goods featuring the expo’s official mascot Myaku-Myaku, according to a survey.
Campaigners working for the legalization of same-sex marriages in Japan walk toward the Supreme Court in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Same-sex marriage campaigners take fight to 91仓库 top court
The court has been asked to consider the lives of people who dreamed of marrying but were "consistently excluded from the legal marriage system."
Fukui governor resigns over sexual harassment of government employees
Police arrest high school student over cyberattack on net cafe operator
Japan to give full insurance coverage for childbirth costs
Dry-cured ham may run short in Japan as swine fever risk halts Spanish imports

BUSINESS

Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda meets with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at the Prime Minister's Office on Nov. 18. During the meeting, Takaichi reportedly acknowledged the central bank's plan to gradually raise rates.
BOJ's Ueda won Takaichi over this time. What happens next?
By Leika Kihara
Gov. Kazuo Ueda's recent pitch for a December rate hike seems to have been accepted by markets and the administration, but how will the bank communicate its longer-term intentions?
U.S. President Donald Trump announces his administration will ease fuel economy standards, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Wednesday. A reduction to the standards, proposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, would cost Americans an additional $185 billion in fuel and increase carbon dioxide emissions by about 5%.
Trump proposes easing fuel rules, in boost for automakers, despite emissions
By David Shepardson
A reduction to the standards, proposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, would cost Americans more for fuel and increase carbon dioxide emissions by about 5%.
Key Japan officials would go along with a BOJ December rate hike
By Erica Yokoyama, Takashi Umekawa and Masaru Aoki
Spotlight shines on humanoid robots at Tokyo show
Trump to clear the road for minicar production in the U.S.
By Francis Tang
Japan small makers’ unions to seek ?17,000-yen pay scale hike

WORLD

The European Union's executive body says to cover Ukraine's military and basic services against Russia's war, it favors a "reparations loan" using Russian state assets immobilized in the EU.
EU proposes using frozen Russian assets or borrowing to give Ukraine �90 billion
By Julia Payne, Lili Bayer and Andrew Gray
Russia has warned the EU and Belgium against using its assets, which it says would be an act of theft.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (second from right) received French President Emmanuel Macron (second from left) and his wife, Brigitte (left), at the Capital International Airport in Beijing on Wednesday.
France's Macron in China with Ukraine on the agenda
The French presidency said Macron will tell Chinese leader Xi Jinping that Beijing must "refrain from providing any means, by any means, to Russia to continue the war."
China massing military ships across region in show of maritime force, sources say
By Ben Blanchard and Yimou Lee
Hong Kong races to remove scaffolding nets blamed for fueling deadly fire
By Clare Jim and Mei Mei Chu
Airline pilots hide mental health struggles to keep flying
By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Dan Catchpole
Macron and Xi meet in Beijing to discuss trade tensions and Taiwan
By Ania Nussbaum and Colum Murphy

Sports

Kashima's Yuma Suzuki (center) takes a shot during a game against Kashiwa in March.
Kashima or Kashiwa: J. League title chase goes down to the wire
By Sean Carroll
Antlers are without domestic silverware since winning a record eighth league crown in 2016, but a win on Saturday could change all that.
Toyota to become title sponsor of Haas F1 team
Clippers release veteran All-Star Chris Paul in late-night move
Formula One revs up for three-way title showdown
By Alan Baldwin
Maresca blasts 'very poor' Chelsea after damaging Leeds defeat

Opinion

After Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi warned that a Taiwan conflict could pose an existential threat to the nation, China responded with coordinated economic, cultural and information campaigns of coercion — pressure that Japan should not yield to.
Why Takaichi must stand up to Beijing’s bullying
Stephen R. Nagy
This wasn’t spontaneous outrage; it was calculated coercion — a playbook Beijing has refined over years of punishing those who dare speak uncomfortable truths.
Photoshopping, not chatbots, might be AI’s killer app
By Catherine Thorbecke
The EU is the wrong power player for Ukraine
By Marc Champion
How an unfree press stoked the flames of Hong Kong’s deadly blaze
By Mark L. Clifford
The West is facing fearsome new 'giants'
By Adrian Wooldridge

ENVIRONMENT

A person walks along a bridge over a drainage channel blocked by plastic waste in Accra, Ghana.
The world’s plastic glut is set to get much worse by 2040, study finds
By Leslie Kaufman
Global plastic pollution will hit 280 million metric tons per year by 2040, or a dump truck’s worth every second.
Multilateralism works even as U.S., fossil fuel industry oppose climate action, U.N. chief says
By Valerie Volcovici
'Mischievous hands': Indonesians blame deforestation for devastating floods
Canadian PM under fire for alleged climate U-turn
By Genevieve NORMAND
The case of Africa's 'vanishing' carbon deals
By Kunle Adebajo and Evelyn Kpadeh Seagbeh

CULTURE

Aichi Nagoya International Animation Film Festival director Shinichiro Inoue (left) and artistic director Tadashi Sudo (right) started the new event in Nagoya in part due to local government support and Aichi Prefecture’s ongoing investment in arts and culture.
A new animation festival lands in Nagoya with big plans
By Matt Schley
The Aichi Nagoya International Animation Film Festival will feature screenings, chat shows and storytelling.
‘Black Box Diaries’ is Shiori Ito’s unflinching case for the truth
By Mark Schilling
‘The Chatterboxes’: ‘A comedy of errors finds a common language
By James Hadfield
Yumi Matsutoya’s human touch in an AI age
By Patrick St. Michel
Oscar-winning U.K. playwright Tom Stoppard dies at 88

LIFE

No part of the sheep goes to waste at Cuore in Hokkaido. Here, creamy lamb's brain is pan-fried with banana and draped with a sliver of 24-month-aged prosciutto.
At Cuore in Hokkaido, lamb offal plays more than a bit part
By Robbie Swinnerton
Chef Yuya Urushizaki takes a nose-to-tail approach when cooking, turning typically wasted cuts of sheep into gourmet delicacies.
In winter, spring chrysanthemum greens hit their peak
By Makiko Itoh
Chasing dragons across the temples of Nara
By Greg Goodmacher
As bathroom behavior changes, these Japanese expressions can help explain why
By Yaeko Kabe
From Otaru with love, a recipe for salmon-topped miso ramen
By Simon Daly

COMMUNITY

A native of the Jura region of France, Severine Lamielle moved to Tottori Prefecture in 2024 and found a job as a taxi driver.
A French cabbie behind the wheel in small-town Japan
By Isabelle Steen
In Tottori, Japan’s least populous prefecture, Severine Lamielle’s career as a taxi driver is both a curiosity and a small sign of demographic change.
Sunny fellow Naruto wins hearts and minds
Alex and Mami St-Jean: ‘Home feels like the family we’ve created in Hokkaido’
By Jessica Speed
A perfect day in Shin-Okubo, more than just Tokyo’s Koreatown
By Eric Margolis
Bilal Karakus: ‘Coming to Japan has broadened my palate’
By Patrick Parr

Editors' Picks

CULTURE
A new animation festival lands in Nagoya with big plans
By Matt Schley
Aichi Nagoya International Animation Film Festival director Shinichiro Inoue (left) and artistic director Tadashi Sudo (right) started the new event in Nagoya in part due to local government support and Aichi Prefecture’s ongoing investment in arts and culture.
COMMUNITY
A French cabbie behind the wheel in small-town Japan
By Isabelle Steen
A native of the Jura region of France, Severine Lamielle moved to Tottori Prefecture in 2024 and found a job as a taxi driver.
LIFE
In Japan, beloved pets receive human-style farewells
By Kat Joplin
In pet-loving Japan, the ways owners say goodbye to their dearly departed animals can mirror the ways they bid farewell to other humans.
LIFE
At Cuore in Hokkaido, lamb offal plays more than a bit part
By Robbie Swinnerton
No part of the sheep goes to waste at Cuore in Hokkaido. Here, creamy lamb's brain is pan-fried with banana and draped with a sliver of 24-month-aged prosciutto.
CULTURE
Is human-machine collaboration the future of fine art?
By Jessica Kozuka
Art Week Tokyo featured a live performance of Keiichiro Shibuya’s “Android Opera Mirror — Deconstruction and Rebirth —,” starring an advanced humanoid robot.

Podcast

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

Longform

Yumi Matsutoya began her decades-long career under her maiden name, Yumi Arai, but Japanese fans might know her better as “Yuming.”
Yumi Matsutoya’s human touch in an AI age
By Patrick St. Michel

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JAPAN
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BUSINESS
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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during the Future Investment Initiative conference in Tokyo on Monday.