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Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks during a Lower House budget committee session on Tuesday.

JAPAN / Politics

U.S. backs Japan in radar row with China as Tokyo refutes Beijing’s claims

By Jesse Johnson

Washington criticized Beijing over its military’s use of radar on Japanese fighter jets Saturday — the first time the Trump administration has weighed in on the incident.

Chinese and Russian bombers hold joint drill near Japan in ‘show of force'

Osaka tourism endures heavy hit as China-Japan tensions simmer

Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks during a Lower House budget committee session on Tuesday.

A damaged concrete pillar supporting the Hachinohe Line in the city of Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, on Wednesday.

JAPAN / Society

Like in past disasters, misinformation spreads online in Aomori quake aftermath

The spread of false information online during disasters has repeatedly emerged as a social issue in Japan.

Haneda Airport's international departure lobby in April 2023. Under U.S. President Donald Trump, travelers and immigrants have been scrutinized more aggressively.

JAPAN / Society

U.S. may require tourists to disclose social media history to customs

By Elizabeth Beattie

The U.S. is planning to require all foreign tourists to disclose five years of their social media history under a new proposal for enhanced border security.

Keio University President Kohei Ito (left) and OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon sign a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday in Tokyo.

BUSINESS / Tech

Keio and OpenAI sign MOU on integration of AI into university

By Kazuaki Nagata

The maker of ChatGPT will work closely with the Japanese institution on a range of projects.

A visitor to Osaka's World Expo 2025 wears Myaku-Myaku headgear in April. The mascot’s runaway popularity surprised many, turning what some expected to be a liability into one of the event’s biggest draws.

COMMENTARY

Myaku-Myaku and the year of the mascots

Gearoid Reidy

Myaku-Myaku was the event’s mascot and its breakout star. One report has the expo bringing in over ?3 trillion to the area, some ?300 billion ahead of estimates.

A visitor to Osaka's World Expo 2025 wears Myaku-Myaku headgear in April. The mascot’s runaway popularity surprised many, turning what some expected to be a liability into one of the event’s biggest draws.

Otani Junior and Senior High School apologized on Monday after confirming several students stole items from a store in Bali during a school trip.

Kyoto high school confirms students shoplifted during Bali study trip

By Yukana Inoue

A video circulating online appeared to show a group of male Japanese students putting T-shirts into their bags and leaving the store without paying.

Akira Yamada, director of the Meiji University's Defunct Imperial Japanese Army Noborito Laboratory Museum for Education in Peace in Kawasaki, explains weapons used for guerrilla warfare on Nov. 13.

Guerrilla weapons made for Japan mainland battle on display

A special exhibition highlighting the laboratory's activities during the period has opened at a museum in Kawasaki which occupies part of the former facility.

Fines for Dentsu Group over Tokyo Games bid-rigging finalized

LDP compiles proposals to address crimes by foreign nationals

Startup tests drone delivery over railroad in Fukushima

Mother of hit-and-run victim seeks to end statute of limitations for such cases

The government and ruling coalition are considering a ?6 million cap on tax-free holdings for a new investment program for minors under the revamped NISA framework, sources say.

NISA program for minors to have ?6 million tax-exemption cap

The cap will be introduced to address potential disparities that could arise when the assets are eventually withdrawn.

Stocks in Japan have become very expensive, encouraging firms to conduct stock splits to make their shares more accessible to individual investors.

Surging share prices in Japan lead to wave of stock splits

By Aya Wagatsuma

Stocks have become so expensive that the median minimum amount that Japanese investors need to buy shares is 10 times higher than in the United States.

Nissan to deploy tech from AI self-driving startup Wayve

Japan exchange launches AI-powered disclosure search service

Asahi's beer sales worsen in November as hack disruption lingers

By Kanoko Matsuyama

U.S. Fed appears set for third rate cut despite sharp divides

A member of the Ukrainian State Emergency Service attends a transfer ceremony of special vehicles from Japan to Ukraine in Kyiv in November 2023.

Ukraine eyes more nonlethal aid, long-term security ties with Japan: senior official

By Gabriel Dominguez

Kyiv hopes to transform what started as ad hoc, nonlethal aid into a long-term security partnership with Tokyo, the country’s deputy defense chief said.

Displaced residents take shelter at an evacuation center during clashes along the Thai-Cambodian border, in Thailand's Sa Kaeo province on Wednesday.

Cambodia-Thailand border clashes send half a million into shelters

Evacuees describe the fighting as being more intense than in July before both sides agreed to a short-lived truce.

Democracies must fight for freedom, Nobel laureate Machado says

By Gwladys Fouche and Terje Solsvik

Cambodia-Thailand border clashes send half a million into shelters

North Korea fires artillery salvo as it kicks off key party meeting

Australia says it will meet ‘challenges’ of AUKUS nuclear submarine timeline

By Kirsty Needham

Aonishiki pushes out Hoshoryu on Nov. 22 in Fukuoka. The undersized Ukrainian's rapid rise up the sumo rankings can be attributed to his elite technique.

Elite technique behind Aonishiki’s rapid rise to о?zeki

By John Gunning

Aonishiki gives up an average of 7 centimeters and 36 kilograms to his sumo rivals, but the rising star more than makes up for that disadvantage with his technical skills.

Cambodia pulls team out of Southeast Asian Games in Thailand over border conflict?

Sabalenka says women facing transgender athletes not fair

Orlando to face New York in NBA Cup semis at Vegas

NHL cuts 2028 World Cup host hopefuls to 16, including six in Europe

Solar panels power an environmentally friendly mosque in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana. Japanese companies are supporting green energy projects across Central Asia, promoting renewable power, climate resilience and sustainable development.

Japan should unveil a ‘Green Master Plan’ for Central Asia

David Hoffman

Japanese companies are driving green energy projects across Central Asia, advancing renewable power, climate resilience and sustainable development.

America will pay for pushing India away

By Brahma Chellaney

Trump has lost his political superpower

By Nia-Malika Henderson

The duty to disobey unlawful orders was America’s idea

By Andreas Kluth

The U.K. needs a new deal, without saying Brexit

By John Authers

A coal-fired power plant in Shanghai. China’s on track for another year of record mine output.

Energy demand boom keeps Asia tethered to coal

By Ishika Mookerjee and Dan Murtaugh

Concerns over energy security and costs are trumping the climate agenda in the region’s high-growth, high-polluting economies.

2025 on track to tie as second-hottest year on record, EU monitor says

Multilateralism works even as U.S., fossil fuel industry oppose climate action, U.N. chief says

By Valerie Volcovici

The world’s plastic glut is set to get much worse by 2040, study finds

By Leslie Kaufman

'Mischievous hands': Indonesians blame deforestation for devastating floods

Among the hand-drawn sketches in “Tadao Ando. Sketches, Drawings & Architecture” is the initial idea for the Hill of the Buddha in Hokkaido painted over a photograph of the site.

Tadao Ando’s raw passion in 750 artworks

By Zoria Petkoska

A new Taschen volume reveals the architect’s creative process through decades of sketches, studies and travel drawings.

Japan releases 'Emily in Paris' star after drug arrest

U.S. playwright Jeremy O. Harris arrested in Okinawa for alleged drug smuggling

Mr. Men and Little Miss characters set for first feature film

2025 was the year Japan’s box office returned

By Mark Schilling

Nostalgia for the past has always been big business in Japan, but this year, it's the recent past that has garnered more and more fans.

‘Messy, blingy, over the top’: Heisei Era charms Japan’s youth

By Jessica Speed

With 2025 drawing to a close, many in Japan are looking back on not only the year that was — but also a new period of the past overshadowed by its trendier predecessor.

A deep dive into Japanese comfort food

By Simon Daly

Frank O. Gehry, titan of architecture, is dead at 96

By Nicolai Ouroussoff

InterContinental Sapporo kicks off Hokkaido capital’s MICE push

By Owen Ziegler

Tokyo's green appeal, seen by a Swedish gardener who made Japan home

By Shuhei Yoshida

More than a quarter of married people in Japan report spousal violence of some kind, and nearly 1 in 10 women have experienced financial abuse, according to a 2023 survey by the Japan Cabinet Office.

Finding a way forward from financial abuse

By Louise George Kittaka

In Japan, nearly 1 in 10 married women have been the victim of financial abuse. Two expats share their stories, along with the resources and advice that helped them through.

Sunny fellow Naruto wins hearts and minds

A French cabbie behind the wheel in small-town Japan

By Isabelle Steen

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

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Brown rats, also known as sewer rats, often burrow into damaged pipes and survive on garbage and food scraps. While there aren’t any official numbers, at least hundreds of thousands of them are thought to be living in Tokyo.

In the company of rats: Tokyo's growing rodent problem

By Alex K.T. Martin

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