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JAPAN

Japan¡¯s population has been falling year on year since 2011 after peaking in 2008.
JAPAN / Society
Apr 14, 2025
Japan¡¯s population shrinks for the 14th consecutive year
By Karin Kaneko
Japan¡¯s population has been falling year on year since 2011 after peaking in 2008.
The survey showed that more children are starting to use social media at an earlier age.
JAPAN / Society
Apr 14, 2025
Two-thirds of fourth to sixth graders in Japan use social media, survey finds
By Jessica Speed
The survey showed that more children are starting to use social media from an earlier age.
Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura speaks during the opening ceremony of the 2025 Osaka Expo on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Apr 14, 2025
As Osaka Expo kicks off, Nippon Ishin continues to hold its breath
By Eric Johnston
The Kansai-centered opposition party has a lot to lose if the six-month event being held in its stronghold turns out to be a flop.
Shuhei Kishimoto
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2025
Wakayama governor taken to hospital after collapse
Kishimoto is unconscious and in critical condition, and is being treated in an intensive care unit, sources said.
Whooping cough is believed to be spreading in Japan mainly among children.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 14, 2025
Whooping cough is spreading in Japan
Cases reported so far this year have already exceeded the total number from 2024.
Shizuyo Yoshimura, who survived the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes, has spent nearly a decade recounting her time at a local evacuation center to pass on lessons to future generations.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2025
Kumamoto earthquakes survivor shares evacuation center lessons nine years on
One survivor has spent nearly a decade recounting her time at a local evacuation center, aiming to pass on her hard-earned knowledge to future generations.
Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks at a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office on Monday.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2025
911±¬ÁÏÍø national confirmed dead in Myanmar quake
The Foreign Ministry had asked local authorities to search for the individual, and the person's body was found at the site of a collapsed building Saturday.
Ryuji Matsumoto pats one of the sheep at his farm in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Apr 14, 2025
The man behind Fukushima town's 'Strawberry Sheep'
Ryuji Matsumoto, 54, incorporates dried strawberries into the feed for his sheep, which gives their meat a certain sweetness.
Turkmenistan held its "national day" event to show its traditional dance performance at the Osaka Expo on Monday.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2025
Turkmenistan first to mark Osaka Expo with national day
Turkmenistan held an event to show its traditional dance performance.
A child welfare center in Naha in May 1966
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Apr 14, 2025
In Okinawa, war trauma carried by orphans still lingers
¡°War orphans were pushed to the margins of society after the war," says one academic.
The Grand Ring walkway is crowded with visitors amid rain on the opening day of the Osaka Expo on Sunday.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Apr 14, 2025
Crowds, long lines and confusion: Osaka Expo makes turbulent start
India, Nepal and three other countries were unable to open their pavilions on the first day of the Expo, due to construction delays.

ASIA PACIFIC

Students raise their hands in class in front of fans at an elementary school in Manila on March 21. Last year, heat waves forced millions of children in the Philippines out of school. It was the first time that soaring temperatures had caused widespread class suspensions, prompting a series of changes.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Apr 14, 2025
Early holiday, more fans: Philippines' schools adapt to climate change
By Cecil Morella
Heat waves forced millions of children in the Philippines out of school in 2024, the first time that soaring temperatures had caused widespread class suspensions.
Ousted former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol gestures from a vehicle, as he returns to his private residence in Seoul on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 14, 2025
South Korea begins criminal insurrection trial of ousted leader
By Joyce Lee
Yoon Suk Yeol, who the Constitutional Court removed from the presidency this month, argued that his martial law declaration in December was "not a coup d¡¯etat."
Chinese leader Xi Jinping waves as he arrives for a two-day state visit at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 14, 2025
Xi seeks to win with Southeast Asia trip as Trump pauses some tariffs
Xi arrived in Vietnam on Monday and was due to visit Malaysia and Cambodia later this week, just days after Trump raised tariffs on China but gave everyone else a 90-day pause.
A Ukrainian rescuer walks by a burned car in front of damaged building at the site of a missile attack in Sumy, northeastern Ukraine, on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Apr 14, 2025
Bangladesh families seek sons feared fighting for Russia
By Sheikh Sabiha ALAM
Around a dozen families have contacted Dhaka's embassy in Moscow to seek help bringing back their sons they allege were duped into joining the Russian army.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese delivers a speech during the Labor party campaign launch in Perth, Australia, on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 14, 2025
Australia¡¯s prime minister approval rises as Trump looms over May election
By Ben Westcott
The prime minister is seeking to become the first in over two decades to win consecutive elections in Australia.
People walk past debris in the damaged Me Nu Brick monastery on the outskirts of Mandalay, Myanmar, on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 14, 2025
Myanmar quake victims mark new year camped in ruins
By Lynn MYAT
Families were buying clay pots and plant sprigs customarily placed inside homes to welcome the new year, though some had nowhere to put them.
Lo Kin-hei (center), chairman of the Democratic Party, attends a news conference after an extraordinary general meeting to seek members' views on the potential dissolution of the party in Hong Kong on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 14, 2025
Hong Kong's last major opposition party moves toward disbanding
By James Pomfret and Jessie Pang
The head of the Democratic Party says 90% of its 110 members had voted for disbandment arrangements to begin, followed by a final vote in the coming months.

WORLD

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the European Union summit in Brussels on March 20
WORLD / Politics
Apr 14, 2025
Hungary set to restrict constitutional rights in 'Easter cleanup'
By Andras ROSTOVANYI
Hungary's parliament on Monday is expected to approve constitutional changes further clamping down on rights for LGBTQ+ people and other groups, part of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's "Easter cleanup" against his domestic opponents.
The heavily damaged Al-Ahli hospital after an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Sunday. The Israeli military struck and destroyed part of the hospital on Sunday morning, shortly after telling patients and staff to evacuate the site.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 14, 2025
Child dies after Israel strike hits Gaza hospital, WHO says
By Youssef Hassouna
The Al-Ahli Hospital in northern Gaza is one of few functioning hospitals in the war-ravaged territory.
Palestinian girl Silla Abu Aqleen, who lost her right leg during the Israeli military offensive, holds her artificial limb during a physiotherapy session at the Gaza City municipality-run Artificial Limbs and Polio Center, in Gaza City on March 17.
WORLD / Society
Apr 14, 2025
Gaza's amputees face life in a war zone with little treatment and less hope
By Dawoud Abu Alkas and Nidal al-Mughrabi
Israel suspended all humanitarian aid into Gaza after the collapse of a 2-month-old ceasefire last month, complicating efforts to obtain artificial limbs.
A person walks along a snow covered road in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada, on Feb. 28.
WORLD
Apr 14, 2025
'Hard on the body': Canadian troops train for Arctic defense
Canada is making a significant push to boost its military strength in the Arctic, which accounts for 40% of its territory.
A man reads a newspaper on a park bench in Tehran on Saturday. The first meeting between the U.S. and Iran over its expanding nuclear program displayed a seriousness of purpose, but hardliners in both countries ¡ª and Israel ¡ª are expected to balk at any deal.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 14, 2025
Iran says U.S. talks to focus solely on nuclear issue and sanctions
By Ahmad Parhizi and Payam DOOST MOHAMADI
Analysts had said the U.S. would push for discussions over Iran's ballistic missile program along with Tehran's support for the anti-Israel "axis of resistance."
Fire damage at the Pennsylvania governor¡¯s mansion in Harrisburg on Sunday. Pennsylvania state authorities have arrested a 38-year-old Harrisburg man and said he set fire to the Pennsylvania governor¡¯s mansion, forcing Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family to evacuate early Sunday before the blaze severely damaged part of the building.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 14, 2025
Suspect held over arson attack on Pennsylvania governor¡¯s mansion
Shapiro, who is Jewish, said the suspect¡¯s motives weren¡¯t known but he evoked the Passover meal he hosted at the governor¡¯s residence hours before the fire was set.
Ukrainian law enforcement officers work at the site of a deadly missile attack in Sumy, northeastern Ukraine, on Sunday.
WORLD
Apr 14, 2025
Russian missile strike on Ukraine city kills 34 on Palm Sunday
European and U.S. leaders condemned the strike ¡ª one of the deadliest attacks in months ¡ª that also wounded 117, including 15 children.

BUSINESS

In Europe, the PS5 digital edition will now cost €499.99 ($570.04), PlayStation said, while in Britain its price will be ?429.99 ($566.53).
BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2025
Sony announces PS5 price hikes in some regions
The price of the PS5 digital edition, which has no disk drive, will rise by more than 10% in Europe, Britain and Australia.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore during an interview in Tokyo. The governor is in Japan on a four-day trade and investment mission.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 14, 2025
Maryland governor talks trains and trade while in Japan
By Francis Tang
Gov. Wes Moore said he believes the Northeast Maglev ¡ª which may use technology from Japan ¡ª could transform the region's economy.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a Lower House Budget Committee session on Monday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 14, 2025
Japan avoids tariff confrontation ahead of crucial U.S. trade talks
By Gabriele Ninivaggi
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba again ruled out imposing retaliatory measures, arguing that escalation would not serve the country¡¯s national interest.
The yen rose 2.3% against the dollar last week and hit its strongest level since September on Friday.
BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2025
Hedge funds and asset managers boost bullish yen bets amid tariffs
By Mia Glass and Anya Andrianova
The yen has been one of the best performers against the dollar this month as investors anticipate that the trade war may hurt global economic growth.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a chart next to Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick as Trump delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on April 2.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 14, 2025
Trump warns tariffs are coming for electronics after reprieve
The American president downplayed a weekend exemption as a procedural step in his overall push to remake U.S. trade.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says currency talks are part of the issue of the U.S.'s massive trade deficit with Japan.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 14, 2025
U.S. trade representative hopes to discuss currency with Japan
Currency is "certainly part of" the issue of the U.S.'s massive trade deficit with Japan, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says.
A sign outside the headquarters of JP Morgan Chase & Co in New York in 2013
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 14, 2025
JPMorgan analyst says he now tempers public comments on U.S. tariffs
By Scott Murdoch
Michael Cembalest, chair of market and investment strategy and a Wall Street veteran, said he had not been able to fully express his views.
U.S. President Donald Trump attends a bilateral meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during the Group of 20 leaders summit in Osaka in June 2019.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Apr 14, 2025
How China went from courting Trump to ¡®never yield¡¯ tariff defiance
Beijing has put civilian government officials on a "wartime footing¡± and ordered a diplomatic charm offensive aimed at encouraging other countries to push back.
Workers transport soil containing rare earth elements for export at a port in Lianyungang, in China's Jiangsu province, in October 2010.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 14, 2025
China halts critical rare earth exports as trade war intensifies
By Keith Bradsher
The official crackdown is part of Beijing¡¯s retaliation for President Donald Trump¡¯s sharp increase in tariffs that started April 2.

Opinion

U.S. President Donald Trump and his?¡°madman theory¡± won¡¯t get Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei to scrap his nuclear program.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 14, 2025
Why should Iran believe anything the U.S. threatens or promises?
By Andreas Kluth
The Iranians ¡ª like the Russians ¡ª are notoriously shifty negotiators. But so are the Americans, now that they¡¯re led by Trump.
While U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed new tariffs on nearly every country in the world, China is clearly his primary target.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 14, 2025
How should Beijing respond to Trump¡¯s tariffs?
By Huang Yiping
Many are already comparing it to President Herbert Hoover¡¯s 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which slashed global trade by 66% in five years and deepened the Great Depression.
A wave of fear is spreading in immigrant communities as ICE uses secretive, aggressive tactics, bypassing legal protections and spreading panic reminiscent of authoritarian crackdowns.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 14, 2025
Unmarked vans and secret lists. The police state has arrived.
By M. Gessen
"It¡¯s the unmarked cars,¡± a friend who grew up under an Argentine dictatorship said. He had watched the video of Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil¡¯s abduction. In the video, which Khalil¡¯s wife recorded, she asks for the names of the men in plainclothes who handcuffed her husband.
The Trump administration has slashed LGBTQ+ health research funding, dismantling key programs and halting studies on disparities and mental health, which experts warn will reverse progress and harm vulnerable communities.
COMMENTARY
Apr 14, 2025
The very idea of LGBTQ+ health is under attack
By Lisa Jarvis
The Trump administration is rapidly breaking down the research infrastructure for these communities and doing so in a manner that guarantees it can¡¯t be restored.

Sports

Liverpool manager Arne Slot (left) hugs defender Virgil van Dijk after their win over West Ham United in Liverpool, England, on Sunday.
SOCCER
Apr 14, 2025
Arne Slot praises Liverpool's mentality as club moves closer to title
With a 13-point lead over second-place Arsenal, Liverpool needs just two wins from its final six games to win the Premier League title.
Giants fans cheer during an exhibition game against the Dodgers at Tokyo Dome on March 15.
BASEBALL / 911±¬ÁÏÍø Baseball / Sac Bunts
Apr 14, 2025
NPB can learn from MLB amid backlash to its new social media policy
By Jason Coskrey
Arguing that the rights of NPB and its broadcasters are in peril because fans upload short videos from games is a hard sell.
Paige Bueckers led to UConn to the NCAA women's basketball national title this season.
BASKETBALL
Apr 14, 2025
Paige Bueckers: A basketball star Is born
By Abigail Covington
Bueckers¡¯ profile has risen amid a significant era for women¡¯s basketball.
Clippers guard James Harden drives against Warriors guard Moses Moody during their game in San Francisco on Sunday.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Apr 14, 2025
Harden bags 39 as Clippers claim playoff spot and send Warriors to play-in
Harden's superb display in San Francisco helped the Clippers bag the fifth seed in the Western Conference and sets up a first-round series with the fourth-seeded Denver Nuggets.
Carlos Alcaraz hits a shot against Lorenzo Musetti during the Monte Carlo Masters final in Monte Carlo on Sunday.
TENNIS
Apr 14, 2025
Carlos Alcaraz caps 'difficult week' with first Monte Carlo Masters title
The 21-year-old Spaniard, already a four-time Grand Slam winner, dropped the opening set but came back to take the next two.
Japan celebrates after beating Canada to secure a spot in the Billie Jean King Cup finals at Ariake Colosseum on Sunday.
TENNIS
Apr 14, 2025
Japan gets past Canada to book spot in Billie Jean King Cup finals
The United States also booked a spot after defeating Slovakia.
ICC chairman Jay Shah (left) attends an Indian Premier League match on March 30.
MORE SPORTS / Cricket
Apr 14, 2025
International Cricket Council creates fund for displaced Afghan female players
Afghanistan had 25 contracted female?cricketers in 2020, most of whom have resettled in Australia with humanitarian visas due to restrictions at home.
McLaren drivers Oscar Piastri (left) and Lando Norris (right) celebrate with team principal Andrea Stella after the Bahrain Grand Prix in Sakhir, Bahrain, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Apr 14, 2025
Oscar Piastri's victory in Bahrain GP puts McLaren in F1 driver's seat
McLaren faces a welcome but nonetheless potentially complex question of how to deal with two talented teammates battling for the same prize.
Masters champion Rory McIlroy receives his green jacket from 2024 winner Scottie Scheffler after the final round at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Apr 14, 2025
Rory McIlroy wins Masters in dramatic fashion to complete career Grand Slam
It marked the fifth major championship for McIlroy, and his first since capturing the PGA Championship for the second time in 2014.
French soccer legend Zinedine Zidane holds the torch during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics on July 26, 2024.
OLYMPICS
Apr 14, 2025
Paris Olympic torches auctioned off along with other memorabilia
Money raised from the auction was handed over to three charities by the company in charge of the 2024 Olympics.

LIFE

When you stare into the abyss at the bottom of the No. 3 shaft of the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, the abyss stares back.
LIFE / Travel
Apr 14, 2025
A new tour of Tokyo¡¯s most underground attraction
By Owen Ziegler
From April, the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel will offer guided treks of areas previously inaccessible to the public.

CULTURE

Mori Calliope fan Taylor Jones holds a penstick as fans await entry to the historic venue Hollywood Palladium for a sold-out concert by Virtual YouTuber Mori Calliope.
CULTURE / Music
Apr 14, 2025
Digital divas: Can 911±¬ÁÏÍø virtual YouTuber craze crack America?
By Tomohiro Osaki, Paula Ramon and Gilles Clarenne
VTuber agency Cover Corp. recently opened a U.S. office to accelerate business in North America.
In the dystopian society of Sayaka Murata's latest book to come out in English, sex between married couples is considered incest and therefore taboo.
CULTURE / Books
Apr 14, 2025
'Vanishing World': Sayaka Murata¡¯s vision of a sex-hating society
By Thu-Huong Ha
In Sayaka Murata¡¯s latest book to come out in English, sex between married couples is considered taboo, and humans reproduce predominantly via IVF. ?
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ?100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Japan must correct Trump¡¯s false data for trade talks, says Kono
Former Foreign Minister Taro Kono
Japan wants to 'separate' tariff and security issues. That may be tough.
Japan¡¯s chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, poses with a "Make America Great Again" cap at the White House in Washington on April 16.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Japan set to fine cyclists on the spot for rule violations from 2026
Under new rules, those who use smartphones while riding a bicycle would be subject to the maximum fine of ?12,000.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ?100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan¡¯s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

Podcast

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

Longform

Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.
By Tomoko Otake

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