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JAPAN

Self-Defense Forces personnel collect apparent parts of an Air Self-Defense Force T-4 training jet from a reservoir in Inuyama, Aichi Prefeture, on Thursday. The jet crashed shortly after takeoff a day earlier.
JAPAN
May 15, 2025
Two crew feared dead after ASDF training jet crashes in Aichi
By Jesse Johnson
Pieces of the T-4 training aircraft and some of the crew's equipment have been recovered from the crash site ¡ª a large reservoir in Inuyama.
The Saitama Prefectural Police headquarters. A motorist plowed into a group of elementary school students in the city of Misato, Saitama Prefecture, on Wednesday afternoon, injuring four boys before fleeing.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 15, 2025
Four elementary students injured in Saitama hit-and-run
Four 11-year-old boys were injured in the incident on Wednesday, with one of them believed to have suffered a fractured leg, leaving him in serious condition.
Mount Fuji fills the skyline above a bridge connecting stores at a popular outlet shopping center in the city of Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, in November 2024.
JAPAN / Society
May 15, 2025
Irresponsible climbing prompts debate over who should pay for Mount Fuji rescues
By Yukana Inoue
Rescue teams put themselves in grave danger, and the cost of flying a helicopter for a rescue can be up to between ?600,000 and ?800,000.
Tokyo police arrested five people on suspicion of buying some 2,800 boxes of heated tobacco products, worth about ?1.64 million, at a convenience store using the Apple Pay iD contactless payment service over 167 times from Nov. 8 to 10 last year.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 15, 2025
Five arrested for alleged credit card fraud over tobacco purchases
Offline payment, whose inappropriate use is unstoppable when smartphone signals are cut, was used for the crime.
In part due to low awareness that placing bets using overseas sports gambling sites is illegal, access to such platforms in Japan has surged in recent years.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 15, 2025
Illegal wagers on overseas sports betting sites top ?6.4 trillion, study finds
By Jessica Speed
The findings, reported by a sports organization, comes after two baseball players were sent to prosecutors earlier this month for allegedly placing bets from Japan.
"Federal funding typically accounts for about 10% of our annual operating budget, which is significant," said Ann Burroughs, president and CEO of the 911±¬ÁÏÍø American National Museum.
JAPAN
May 15, 2025
911±¬ÁÏÍø American museum head laments Trump-led cuts to financing
The Department of Government Efficiency, led by billionaire Elon Musk, has stopped funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities, which financially supports museums.
According to a survey, some 70% of children from 911±¬ÁÏÍø households with an annual income of less than ?3 million take no after-school private lessons.
JAPAN / Society
May 15, 2025
Children from low-income families take fewer after-school private lessons
The proportion of children who take after-school private lessons and the frequency of doing so are higher as household income increases, a survey shows.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN
May 15, 2025
Russia to conduct drill in waters near disputed island off Hokkaido
The 911±¬ÁÏÍø government has lodged a protest with Russia over the planned drills near Shikotan.
From around spring 2027, people will be able to pick up over-the-counter drugs from convenience stores without pharmacists in Japan.
JAPAN
May 15, 2025
Over-the-counter drugs to be made available at convenience stores
The move will require consumers to listen to explanations from pharmacists online before purchases.
Tokyo officials are pushing back against arguments that blame the dwindling national population partly on the concentration of people and businesses in the capital.
JAPAN / FOCUS
May 15, 2025
Regional revitalization faces Tokyo-countryside divide
Some blame 911±¬ÁÏÍø dwindling national population partly on the concentration of people and businesses in the capital.
Japan hopes to increase the number of cybersecurity experts in the country to 50,000 by 2030.
JAPAN
May 15, 2025
Japan looks to increase number of cybersecurity experts to 50,000 by 2030
A private survey has shown that Japan faces a cybersecurity expert shortage of about 110,000 people, highlighting an urgent need to nurture such professionals.
Calling themselves "Cheer Re-Man's" ¡ª a mash-up of "cheerleading" and "salaryman" ¡ª the group is made up of alumni from the elite Waseda University's male cheerleading squad.
JAPAN
May 15, 2025
911±¬ÁÏÍø 'salarymen' inspire with cheerleading acrobatics
By Mariko Katsumura and Kyung Hoon Kim
The young men are all about spreading cheer through their eye-popping acrobatic performances, volunteering their weekends to entertain crowds.
The government should "design a specific system by around fiscal 2026 to make standard childbirth expenses free of charge,¡± an expert panel said, as the aging nation seeks to reverse its declining population and shrinking pool of tax-paying workers.
JAPAN
May 15, 2025
Expert panel suggests Japan¡¯s government make childbirth free
By Sakura Murakami
The proposal follows a child care policy package adopted in 2023 to reverse Japan¡¯s declining birthrate by supporting families with young children.

ASIA PACIFIC

Student bookbags lay in front of a school building damaged in a airstrike carried out by Myanmar's military at the Ohe Htein Twin village in Tabayin township, Sagaing Region, on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 15, 2025
'Children are innocent': Myanmar families in grief after school airstrike
The airstrike in central Myanmar occurred during a purported truce and killed 20 students and two teachers, witnesses said.
A Pakistan Ranger stands guard at the Pakistan-India joint check post at Wagah border, near Lahore, Pakistan, on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 15, 2025
Pakistan and India shift to war of words after shooting stops
By Kamran Haider
"Mr. Modi, if you take this route again, you will get a devastating answer,¡± Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said.

WORLD

Iceland's national flag flies next to the European flag
WORLD / Politics
May 15, 2025
Trump's Greenland threats spark Iceland jitters
Around 74% of Icelanders think Trump's interest in Greenland, and in the Arctic in general, pose a threat to their country, according to a recent poll.
George Simion gestures while attending a presidential debate in Bucharest on May 8.
WORLD / Politics
May 15, 2025
MAGA goes east: Romania's presidential frontrunner rides hard-right wave
By Krisztina Than and Luiza Ilie
George Simion, a nationalist who campaigns to "Make Romania Great Again,"?opposes military aid to Ukraine and is critical of the EU's leadership.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer travels to the resort island of Jeju, South Korea, to join his counterparts at the meeting of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation members on Thursday and Friday.
WORLD / Politics
May 15, 2025
Trade chiefs jostle for time with Greer at APEC meeting in South Korea
By Yoshiaki Nohara and Soo-hyang Choi
Many will seek talks with the U.S. trade representative to try to blunt the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s barrage of tariffs.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (right) greets interim Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa (left) as U.S. President Donald Trump looks on in Riyadh on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
May 15, 2025
Syrian leader's path from global jihad to meeting Trump
By Tom Perry and Timour Azhari
The meeting is a huge boost for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa as he tries to bring the fractured country under his control and revive its economy.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump walk during the G20 leaders summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019.
WORLD / Politics
May 15, 2025
Putin and Trump to skip Ukraine's peace talks that Russian leader proposed
By Steve Holland and Tom Balmforth
The absence of the Russian and U.S. presidents lowers the expectations for a major breakthrough in the war Russia started in February 2022.
Farmers load a truck with vegetables in San Ignacio, El Salvador, in May 2020.
WORLD
May 15, 2025
World hunger monitor faces 'large gap' after U.S. aid cuts
By Nelson Renteria and Nita Bhalla
USAID cuts have significantly affected humanitarian organizations around the world that were working on life-saving programs.
A uranium conversion facility in Iran. The country currently enriches uranium to 60% purity ¡ª far above the 3.67% limit set in the 2015 deal but below the 90% needed for weapons-grade material.
WORLD / Politics
May 15, 2025
Top Iran aide says nuclear deal possible for sanctions relief
An adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran could accept far-reaching curbs on its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
U.S. President Donald Trump talks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on April 7.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
May 15, 2025
Bypassed by Trump, Israel dismayed but silent
By James Mackenzie
Israel has maintained a diplomatic silence this week even as their assumptions about their standing with the U.S. were shaken by Trump's moves.

BUSINESS

Mizuho Financial Group forecast on Thursday that its net income will likely climb 6.1% to ?940 billion ($6.5 billion) in the year that started in April.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 15, 2025
Mizuho anticipates record earnings in fiscal 2025 despite tariff dent
By Taiga Uranaka and Hideki Suzuki
911±¬ÁÏÍø third-largest lender indicated that uncertainty in global trade has led to a more conservative outlook as U.S. tariff measures make business planning less predictable.
The yen slumped more than 2% on Monday alone, nearing ?150 to the dollar, after the U.S. and China temporarily lowered tariffs, triggering a reversal of bearish dollar bets.
BUSINESS / Economy
May 15, 2025
Rich 911±¬ÁÏÍø still fear yen crash, wealth manager says
By Bailey Lipschultz
911±¬ÁÏÍø most prosperous households are still scarred by the market¡¯s collapse in the early 1990s.
Net income is likely to reach ?2 trillion ($13.7 billion) for the 12 months ending March, up 7.5% from ?1.86 trillion in the previous fiscal year, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group said on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 15, 2025
MUFG expects record profit and joins rivals in buying back shares
By Taiga Uranaka and Hideki Suzuki
Net income is likely to reach ?2 trillion for the 12 months ending March, up 7.5% from ?1.86 trillion in the previous fiscal year.
Morgan Stanley analysts estimate the top five makers of hearing aids hold roughly 99% of the global market, which they predict will be worth over $14 billion by next year rising from about $12 billion in 2023.
BUSINESS / Tech
May 15, 2025
Trump¡¯s tariffs spare Europe-dominated hearing aid industry
By Lisa Pham
An ecosystem developed over more than a century has given three Danish companies and a Swiss rival a quasi-monopoly on the market for devices that help people hear better.
Customers try the Apple Vision Pro headset inside an Apple Store in San Francisco, California, on April 30.
BUSINESS / Tech
May 15, 2025
Apple readies feature that lets Vision Pro users scroll with their eyes
By Mark Gurman
The capability is being tested as part of an upcoming version of the headset¡¯s operating system.
According to the Fair Trade Commission, Kadoya Sesame Mills and Takemoto Oil & Fat violated the antimonopoly law by repeatedly conspiring to raise the prices of sesame oil sold to food-makers S&B Foods and Marumiya.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 15, 2025
FTC orders sesame oil-makers to halt price cartel, issuing ?21.98 million fine
The antitrust watchdog said the two firms formed the cartel to secure profits amid rising sesame prices due to production cuts in Africa and a weaker yen.
Solar panels on display at the Canton Fair in Guangzhou, China, on April 16
BUSINESS / Tech
May 15, 2025
Rogue communication equipment found in Chinese-made solar power inverters
By Sarah McFarlane
The rogue components provide undocumented communication channels that could allow security measures to be circumvented remotely, sources said.
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group¡¯s clients are becoming cautious about making deals and investments amid uncertainties over U.S. tariffs.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 15, 2025
Sumitomo Mitsui braces for tariff fallout with more buffers
By Taiga Uranaka and Hideki Suzuki
Japan¡¯s second-largest lender expects net income to climb about 10% to ?1.3 trillion in the year that started in April.
U.S. President Donald Trump (center), Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani (right) and Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg attend a signing ceremony in Doha on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 15, 2025
Qatar Airways orders 160 Boeing twin-aisle jets during Trump visit
By Andrew Mills and Dan Catchpole
The deal for Boeing 777X and 787 planes with GE Aerospace engines was worth $96 billion, according to the White House.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said the government will do all it can to raise wages, particularly for small and midsize businesses, which account for 70% of employment in Japan.
BUSINESS / Economy
May 15, 2025
Japan to target 1% real wage gains within the next five years
By Erica Yokoyama
The goal is based on the premise that stable and sustainable 2% inflation is in place.
Rakuten Group's stock dropped after the 911±¬ÁÏÍø e-commerce firm reported a 19th straight quarterly loss, fueling concerns about the financial drag from its ailing mobile business.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 15, 2025
Rakuten Group shares sink on worse-than-expected quarterly loss
By Alice French
The stock plunged as much as 10% in Tokyo on Thursday, its biggest intraday drop since April 7.
Uber Technologies CEO Dara Khosrowshahi in New York on Wednesday
BUSINESS / Companies
May 15, 2025
Uber to launch self-driving mobility service in Japan
The U.S. ride-hailing service provider plans to introduce autonomous rides in Japan once partner firms are ready, an executive said.
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's tariff czar, after the first round of talks in Washington. Media reports indicate he may be headed back to the United States next week for the third round of negotiations.
BUSINESS / Economy
May 15, 2025
Third round of U.S.-Japan tariff talks may be held next week: report
By Francis Tang
Akazawa¡¯s two previous visits to Washington yielded no tangible results.
NTT said last week it will take its data service unit NTT Data Group private. That followed its acquisition of its mobile service arm, NTT Docomo, in 2020.
BUSINESS
May 15, 2025
Listed subsidiaries get the ax in Japan after investor pressure
By Hideyuki Sano and Kanoko Matsuyama
The trend stems from pressure on firm to cater to shareholders in response to activist campaigns, demands from the stock exchange and hostile takeovers.

ENVIRONMENT

SeaForest CEO Sam Elsom at the company's headquarters in Triabunna, Tasmania, on March 26
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
May 15, 2025
Australian seaweed farm tackles livestock burps to combat climate change
By Gregory PLESSE
While far less abundant in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, methane is about 80 times more potent over a 20-year timescale at warming the planet.

Opinion

Over 30 years, U.S.-China trade talks have largely failed because Beijing prioritizes protecting its political system, making only symbolic concessions, while Washington struggles to win lasting changes.
COMMENTARY / World
May 15, 2025
The U.S. will never win a trade war with China
By Kuni Miyake
For sure, the 90-day truce is merely temporary relief. As long as negotiations continue as they are, the U.S. will not be able to win a trade war with China
With Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's ruling coalition in crisis, the opposition divided and the Democratic Party for the People gaining momentum, Japan¡¯s upcoming Upper House election could trigger a major political realignment.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 15, 2025
Elections are fast approaching, and none of the big parties are ready
By Edo Naito
With Ishiba in place, the fear that the LDP could next lose its current majority in the Upper House in July is pervasive.
Carlos Ghosn, then president and CEO of Nissan Motor and Renault, delivers a speech during an opening ceremony of a Nissan car factory in St. Petersburg in June 2009.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 15, 2025
Nissan is dying and taking globalization with it
By David Fickling
Nissan is a 911±¬ÁÏÍø business in name only: Despite accounting for 45% of jobs and about 35% of manufacturing assets, just 16% of sales are at home.

Sports

Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim says the struggling team needs to perform better in the future.
SOCCER
May 15, 2025
Ruben Amorim not planning to walk away from Manchester United
United is?staggering to its worst top-flight season since it was relegated in 1974, with Sunday being its 17th defeat in 36 games and ninth loss at Old Trafford.
Japan's Shohei Ohtani carries the 911±¬ÁÏÍø flag onto the field before the start of the World Baseball Classic final against the United States in Miami on March 21, 2023.
BASEBALL
May 15, 2025
Historian Rob Fitts discovers earliest ever reference to baseball in Japan
By Jason Coskrey
The widely held belief is that American Horace Wilson introduced the sport to Japan in 1872. Fitts' discovery revises the timeline to 1869.
Timberwolves forward Julius Randle holds the ball while being defended by the Warriors' Draymond Green in Game 5 of their Western Conference semifinal series in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday.
BASKETBALL
May 15, 2025
Timberwolves finish off Warriors to reach Western Conference finals
The victory completed a 4-1 series triumph for the Timberwolves, who return to the Western Conference finals for the?second straight season.
Rory McIlroy watches his shot during a practice round for the PGA Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
May 15, 2025
Relaxed Rory McIlroy unburdened by pressure to chase 'north star'
The 36-year-old is still a force wherever he tees it up, but even he finds it hard to imagine anything that could top what he achieved at Augusta National in April.
The Ravens' Derrick Henry runs to the end zone against the Pittsburgh Steelers during the AFC wild card game in Baltimore, Maryland, on Jan, 11.
MORE SPORTS / Football
May 15, 2025
Derrick Henry and Ravens reach agreement on $30 million extension
Henry joined the Ravens last year after spending the first eight seasons of his career with the Tennessee Titans.
Red Bull driver Max Verstappen speaks during a news conference ahead of the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on March 13.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
May 15, 2025
FIA reduces penalty for swearing after driver backlash
Competitors in Formula One and rallying have been at loggerheads with FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem over a crackdown on bad language during events.

CULTURE

Along with running a commissary located outside a prison, Shinji Kaneko (Ryuhei Maruyama) carries out requests on behalf of detainees and their families in ¡°Kaneko¡¯s Commissary.¡±
CULTURE / Film
May 15, 2025
¡®Kaneko's Commissary¡¯ explores prison culture from the outside in
By Mark Schilling
First-time director Go Furukawa¡¯s heartfelt film stands out from the genre crowd for its informed examination of how the prison complex operates.
¡°Ambient, Environment, Circumstances ¡ª The Typography of Contemporary Art ¡ª¡± is Simose Art Museum¡¯s first contemporary art exhibition.
CULTURE / Art
May 15, 2025
Emerging Asian artists converge at the 'world¡¯s most beautiful museum'
By Kim Kahan
The Shigeru Ban-designed Simose Art Museum celebrates its Prix Versailles architectural award with its first contemporary art exhibition.
Though the protagonist of ¡°Jinsei¡± (voiced by rapper Ace Cool) is an emotional blank slate, his journey throughout the film takes wild turns.
CULTURE / Film
May 15, 2025
¡®Jinsei¡¯: Ryuya Suzuki¡¯s solo animation is a singular debut
By James Hadfield
The 30-year-old wrote, directed, animated, edited and soundtracked in isolation ¡ª creating one of the most striking films of 2025 so far.

COMMUNITY

Edison lost his home during the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, but these tragic circumstances led him to a new life with the Makino family in Chiba Prefecture.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
May 15, 2025
A new chapter for a gentle dog
After losing his home in the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, Edison got a fresh start in Chiba Prefecture with the Makino family.
U.S. intel chief warns ¡®warmongers¡¯ fomenting nuclear war after Hiroshima visit
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard (second from right) poses with U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass (third from left) and U.S. Marines during a visit to the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture on June 4.
How long can Koizumi stay frenemies with the agriculture lobby?
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi eats a rice ball made of stockpiled rice during a tasting event in Tokyo on May 29.
Hakuho¡¯s new venture not an automatic 'Grand Slam'
Former yokozuna Hakuho arrives at a news conference to announce his future plans in Tokyo on Monday.
Air India Dreamliner crashes into Ahmedabad college hostel, kills over 240
The rear of an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane following its crash, in Ahmedabad, India, on Thursday.
Japan ranks 118th out of 148 countries in gender gap report
Office workers in Tokyo. In an annual gender gap report, Japan recorded its strongest gains in economic participation, where its score climbed to 61.3% from 56.8% in 2024.
Pride and prose: Novels that illuminate queer lives in Japan
June is Pride Month, which means it¡¯s the perfect time to get acquainted with how sexual minorities have been represented in 911±¬ÁÏÍø fiction if you¡¯re not familiar with these narratives already.
Montbell founder went from a feeble boy to a renowned mountaineer
For Isamu Tatsuno, the founder and CEO of outdoor gear maker Montbell, his youth was all about reaching the pinnacle. Today, he¡¯s far more interested in enjoying the journey.
¡®Kokuho¡¯ finds riveting drama on and off the kabuki stage
Lee Sang-il¡¯s "Kokuho" stars Ryo Yoshizawa as an orphan from a yakuza clan who rises through the world of kabuki to become a star performer.
Junto Nakatani remains on collision course with Naoya Inoue after latest win
Junto Nakatani celebrates after defeating Ryosuke Nishida to unify the WBC and IBF bantamweight titles at Ariake Coliseum on Sunday.
At a mountainside shrine, yuzu candy made by imperial decree
Descendents of the original "Gonin Byakush¨­" families are the only vendors allowed inside the gates of Kotohira Shrine, where they sell "kamiyoame," a golden-hued, yuzu-flavored candy meant for good fortune.

Podcast

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

Longform

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a 911±¬ÁÏÍø company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture ¡ªlife¡¯s too short, after all.
How 911±¬ÁÏÍø youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic
By Alex K.T. Martin

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