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JAPAN

Komeito lawmaker Natsuo Yamaguchi speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Thursday.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 5, 2024
Ex-Komeito chief Yamaguchi won't run for Upper House district seat
The 72-year-old did not say whether he will aim to secure a proportional representation seat or retire from politics.
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda speaks during a news conference last month.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 5, 2024
CDP and DPP to coordinate basic policies
The CDP aims to reach an agreement on basic policies with the DPP as early as possible within this fiscal year.
A navy serviceman is reflected on a radar screen aboard the BRP Tarlac landing ship off the shore of Calayan Island, the Philippines, on June 30, 2023. Japan is providing another tranche of military aid to the Philippines that will include a grant for additional coastal surveillance radar systems, boats and other equipment.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2024
Manila to get more radars and boats from Tokyo under new military aid tranche
By Gabriel Dominguez
The grant is intended to help strengthen the capabilities of the Philippines' navy and air force, the Foreign Ministry says.
A screenshot taken from video footage posted on the Metropolitan Expressway's X account shows an electric scooter entering the highway on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 5, 2024
Electric scooter seen unlawfully entering Tokyo expressway
By Jessica Speed
Officials released video footage of the incident on social media to warn riders of the extreme danger.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba responds to questions from the press corps at the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 5, 2024
Martial law turmoil will likely affect Japan-South Korea ties
Some 911±¬ÁÏÍø government officials are struggling to understand President Yoon Suk Yeol's intention,?saying?the martial law issuance was surprising and unexpected.
Sake bottles are displayed at the 19th World Cultural Heritage Conference, as sake was added to UNESCO'S Intangible Cultural Heritage list, in Asuncion, Paraguay on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Society
Dec 5, 2024
911±¬ÁÏÍø sake brewing added to UNESCO intangible heritage list
By Yukana Inoue
Traditional sake brewing marks the 23rd 911±¬ÁÏÍø entry on the Intangible Cultural Heritage list, joining other culturally significant arts such as washoku and kabuki.
Passengers line up at Narita Airport to board a flight to Seoul on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2024
911±¬ÁÏÍø companies weigh impact of South Korea's martial law chaos
The Foreign Ministry estimates that over 40,000 911±¬ÁÏÍø nationals reside in South Korea, with around 3,000 911±¬ÁÏÍø companies maintaining local offices.
A woman is arrested for soliciting prostitution near Okubo Park in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in October.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 5, 2024
88 arrested for soliciting prostitution near Tokyo park so far this year
The arrests reflect ongoing challenges in curbing illegal activities in Shinjuku's Okubo Park area, which has been dubbed a ¡°prostitution haven¡± on social media.
Prosecutors said Tamotsu Shiiki, 58, had sex with a 12-year-old girl at a karaoke parlor on Aug. 20 after he approached her on the streets, well aware that she was underage.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 5, 2024
Former Nippon Ishin lawmaker pleads guilty to statutory rape
By Karin Kaneko
The lawmaker had approached her on the streets of the Kabukicho entertainment district in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Aug. 20 and was aware she was underage.
911±¬ÁÏÍø elementary and junior high school students continued to get high science and math scores in an international survey in 2023.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2024
Science and math scores remain high among students in Japan in 2023
A related questionnaire showed that more junior high school students in Japan found studying math and science to be fun.
The 911±¬ÁÏÍø government is considering several proposals regarding visas for Chinese visitors, including simplifying document procedures and expanding the scope of those eligible for multiple short-term visas.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2024
Japan to ease visa requirements for Chinese visitors
The move comes after China reinstated its short-term visa waiver for 911±¬ÁÏÍø visitors at the end of last month.

ASIA PACIFIC

Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party, during an interview at the National Assembly in Seoul on Thursday
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 5, 2024
South Korea opposition chief says ousting Yoon will be difficult
Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung said the situation remains in a "state of flux¡± ahead of a parliamentary vote on launching impeachment proceedings against Yoon.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announces his decision to impose martial law on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 5, 2024
South Korea turmoil strikes at heart of U.S. alliances in Asia
By Alastair Gale
The potential impeachment of South Korea¡¯s president after an aborted attempt to impose martial law may complicate U.S. efforts to counter China.
A TV screen broadcasts a news report of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law and a following announcement that he will lift the martial law after the measure was voted down by parliament, at a railway station in Seoul on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / EXPLAINER
Dec 5, 2024
How to impeach a South Korean president
A two-thirds majority in parliament needs to pass an impeachment motion, and the Constitutional Court will conduct a trial to either confirm or reject it.
Protesters call for the resignation of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol during a demonstration in Seoul on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 5, 2024
South Korean ruling party opposes Yoon impeachment as defense minister quits
By Joyce Lee and Hyunjoo Jin
The opposition Democratic Party planned to put up a vote in parliament to impeach Yoon at around 7 p.m. on Saturday, a party spokesperson said.

WORLD

The skeleton of a mammoth, one of the large mammals that roamed North America during the last Ice Age, is displayed at the Mammoth Site where numerous mammoth fossils have been excavated, in Hot Springs, South Dakota, on Aug. 31, 2018.
WORLD
Dec 5, 2024
Mammoths topped the menu for North American Ice Age people
By Will Dunham
Scientists discovered that the woman's diet was mostly meat from megafauna ¡ª the largest animals in an ecosystem ¡ª with an emphasis on mammoths.
U.S. think tanks from across the political spectrum have compiled a report to address the nation's social and fiscal issues in an effort to show that compromise is still possible.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 5, 2024
U.S. think tanks' policy 'grand bargain' comes amid deep partisanship
By Howard Schneider
The authors of the outline have no illusions about how their plan will be greeted by the incoming administration of Donald Trump, though.
Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 5, 2024
Amnesty says Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
By Stephanie van den Berg
The human rights group said the legal threshold for the crime had been met, in its first such determination during an active armed conflict.
Members of the media work near the scene where the CEO of UnitedHealthcare Brian Thompson was reportedly shot and killed in Midtown Manhattan in New York City on Wednesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 5, 2024
Questions of motive emerge in UnitedHealthcare CEO¡¯s killing
By Cynthia Koons, John Tozzi, Myles Miller, Antonia Mufarech and David Voreacos
Police in New York said it appears that UnitedHealthcare's CEO was targeted.
Displaced Palestinians arrive in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 5, 2024
Trump's Mideast envoy in push to reach Gaza ceasefire before inauguration
By Andrew Mills, Humeyra Pamuk and Matt Spetalnick
Steve Witkoff met the prime ministers of Israel and Qatar separately in late November.
Then-U.S. Presidential nominee Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet at Trump Tower in New York City in September.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 5, 2024
Trump's plan for Ukraine comes into focus, with ceding land possible
By Gram Slattery and Jonathan Landay
Other options allegedly being explored for ending the war include taking NATO membership for Ukraine off the table.
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier removes his glasses after delivering a speech at the National Assembly in Paris on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 5, 2024
No-confidence vote throws France deeper into crisis
By Elizabeth Pineau and Michel Rose
France's prime minister must now tender his resignation and that of his government to President Emmanuel Macron.

BUSINESS

The headquarters of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2024
BOJ rate hike bets retreat as traders count down to key meeting
By Mia Glass
The predictions hardly budged even after one of the policy board¡¯s most dovish members said he isn¡¯t opposed to higher rates.
PayPay Bank is competing for funds as rates rise.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 5, 2024
PayPay Bank paying big to attract deposits, with offer of 2% on dollars and yen
By Kathleen Benoza
The offer is many times the rates advertised by competing banks and applies to yen deposits of up to ?5 million, with no limit for dollar deposits.
Bank of Japan board member Toyoaki Nakamura's cautious stance on raising interest rates indicates that the idea of a December hike may not have unanimous support.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 5, 2024
BOJ¡¯s leading dove calls for careful approach to tweaking easing
By Toru Fujioka
The board member's remarks indicate that the idea of hiking interest rates this month may not have unanimous support.
Bitcoin has risen to $100,000 for the first time amid optimism in the market that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's administration will provide support to the digital-asset industry.
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 5, 2024
Bitcoin hits $100,000 in highly anticipated crypto milestone
By Michael P. Regan and Emily Nicole
A price of $100,000 pushes the market value of Bitcoin to just shy of $2 trillion, making it a larger investment asset than all but a handful of public companies.
Members of the workers' union UA Zensen watch a video, during a kick-off rally for the annual "shunto" wage negotiations, in Tokyo in March 2023.
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2024
UA Zensen unveils plan to demand 6% pay hike in 2025 Shunto
UA Zensen plans to seek a 7% wage increase for part-time workers, who make up about 60% of the roughly 1.9 million workers in its member unions.
Major electronics firms plan to pay new graduate hires starting salaries that vary depending on skills and experiences.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 5, 2024
911±¬ÁÏÍø electronics firms rethink uniform starting salaries
Panasonic Connect plans to pay an additional 10% to 20% on top of this year's starting salaries to spring 2025 recruits with past startup experiences or tech skills.
Under a plan being put forward by JR East, the Yamanote Line's base fare will be raised from ?150 to ?160.
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2024
JR East to raise standard fares for first time since privatization
The plan would mark the railway operator's first full-fledged fare hike since its creation through the 911±¬ÁÏÍø National Railways' privatization in 1987.
If the deal goes through, the 911±¬ÁÏÍø steelmaker has promised not to transfer any U.S. Steel production capacity or jobs outside the United States.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 5, 2024
Nippon Steel committed to U.S. Steel takeover, executive says
By Yuka Obayashi, Katya Golubkova and Ritsuko Shimizu
"There is no global strategy without the U.S.," Takahiro Mori, the 911±¬ÁÏÍø company's vice chairman, said this week.

ENVIRONMENT

Tokyo Gas' liquefied natural gas terminal in Sodegaura, Chiba Prefecture, last month. The utility is considering several wind power projects in Southeast Asia amid the global decarbonization push.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Dec 5, 2024
Tokyo Gas eyes wind power projects in Southeast Asia
The gas utility is expected to make final investment decisions on some of the envisaged projects as early as 2025.

Opinion

South Korea¡¯s currency recovered while its stocks fell Wednesday as investors braced for prolonged political uncertainties following a brief decree of martial law by President?Yoon Suk Yeol.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 5, 2024
Capitalism is the unsung hero of South Korean democracy
By Daniel Moss
Capitalism, with its economic pressures and global integration, has been crucial in fostering democracy in South Korea.
Yoshiki Taniguchi (right), mayor of Aioi, Hyogo Prefecture, apologizes to Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito ahead of a meeting between prefectural government officials and leaders of municipalities in the prefecture held in Kobe on Nov. 26. Taniguchi publicly questioned whether Saito had the credentials to become governor before his election.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 5, 2024
'Old' media blames 'new' media for success of 'populist' candidates
By Edo Naito
Many young voters, especially those in their 20s, are believed to have supported Hyogo Gov. Saito due to his social media outreach.
Protesters angry over President Yoon Suk Yeol¡¯s declarations of martial law call on him to step down at a rally at the national assembly in Seoul on Wednesday.?REUTERS
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 5, 2024
Where does South Korea's democracy go from here?
By Kuni Miyake
Why did he dig himself such a deep political hole? The answer to that is Yoon is not really a ¡°politician¡± either.

Sports

Royal Albert Hall in London will host a sumo tournament next year.
SUMO
Dec 5, 2024
Japan Sumo Association to hold tourney in London next year in rare overseas event
The announcement means the world's top professional sumo wrestlers will be competing in London for the first time since 1991.
Hiroshi Kagawa¡¡covered a total of 10 FIFA World Cup tournaments during his career, starting with the 1974 event in West Germany.
SOCCER
Dec 5, 2024
Pioneer soccer journalist Hiroshi Kagawa dies at 99
Kagawa covered a total of 10 FIFA World Cup tournaments, starting with the 1974 event in West Germany.
Kawasaki players celebrate after Yuki Yamamoto (second from left) scroed the team's second goal during the first half of Wednesday's Asian Champions League home win over Shandong.
SOCCER
Dec 5, 2024
Kawasaki hands Shandong an Asian Champions League thrashing
The win puts the J. League side on 12 points to sit one point behind Yokohama F. Marinos, Gwangju FC and Vissel Kobe in the east standings.
Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton ahead of the Qatar Grand Prix on Sunday in Lusail.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Dec 5, 2024
Hamilton bids farewell to Mercedes as Ferrari vies for the title
Sunday's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix marks the end of an era as the Briton concludes a remarkable 12-year spell with the Silver Arrows.

CULTURE

¡°A Big Home¡± offers a sincere portrait of the vulnerable youth who live in more than 600 group homes across Japan.
CULTURE / Film
Dec 5, 2024
Vulnerable youth look for sense of belonging in ¡®A Big Home¡¯
By Mark Schilling
Ryo Takebayashi¡¯s documentary profiles the residents of a group home, but shies away from making emphatic statements about the circumstances that brought them there.
Ema Ryan Yamazaki¡¯s ¡°The Making of a 911±¬ÁÏÍø¡± is an even-handed portrait of elementary school in Japan, where the citizens of tomorrow are forged.
CULTURE / Film
Dec 5, 2024
¡®The Making of a 911±¬ÁÏÍø¡¯: A warm and engaging portrait of 911±¬ÁÏÍø schoolchildren
By James Hadfield
Ema Ryan Yamazaki¡¯s documentary is a candid and heartfelt glimpse of elementary school in Tokyo.
Japan suspects Chinese aircraft carriers conducted drills against U.S.
Chinese aircraft carrier, the Liaoning. It crossed what is known as the second island chain, which links the Ogasawara Islands and the U.S. territory of Guam, on June 7.
G7 backs Israel¡¯s ¡®right to defend itself¡¯ as Trump hastily leaves summit
U.S. President Donald Trump walks to have a family photo taken at the Group of Seven leaders' summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, on Monday.
Nippon Steel may have gotten the deal it wanted all along
Nippon Steel is buying United States Steel in a deal that gives the U.S. government a golden share in the U.S. steelmaker.
Japan sweats under extreme heat despite ongoing rainy season
People walk under the scorching sun in Tokyo's Omotesando area on Tuesday as temperatures rise above 35 degrees Celsius in much of eastern Japan.
No breakthrough on tariffs at Ishiba-Trump meeting in Canada
U.S. President Donald Trump (left) speaks with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the Group of Seven summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, on Monday.
Nippon Steel may have gotten the deal it wanted all along
Nippon Steel is buying United States Steel in a deal that gives the U.S. government a golden share in the U.S. steelmaker.
Tokyo moves to restore open skies over historic Nihonbashi bridge
Nihonbashi bridge, long overshadowed ¡ª literally ¡ª by an elevated expressway, is at the center of a multidecade project to relocate the highway underground in hopes of restoring the scenery around the historically significant bridge.
The underlying risks to Japan¡¯s undersea cables
A screenshot of a submarine cable map on TeleGeography¡¯s website shows a network of cables connecting with Japan.
Japan and the U.S. face challenges in economic security discussions
Rare earths from Australia's Mount Weld mine. 911±¬ÁÏÍø companies have a supply agreement with a company that sources rare earths from the mine.
Decokatsu could save you money and help the planet. But you probably haven't heard of it.
Eating locally grown food could be part of a decokatsu lifestyle that's both good for the planet and your wallet.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

The classic red brick arches of Tokyo¡¯s first ¡°g¨¡do-shita,¡± built in 1910, are what most 911±¬ÁÏÍø people think of when they think about commercial spaces under elevated railways.
Revitalizing the space under Tokyo¡¯s train tracks
By Alex K.T. Martin

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