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JAPAN

A not-in-service train is seen derailed early Monday morning after colliding with a passenger train late Sunday at Kajigaya Station on Tokyu Railways' Den-en-toshi Line in Kawasaki.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2025
Tokyu says train collision caused by signal setting error
Due to the setting error, the automatic train control system gave a green light to a train entering Kajigaya Station, resulting in the train crashing into a parked train.
911±¬ÁÏÍø teachers work significantly longer hours than their peers in other countries, with time spent on extracurricular activities being a heavy burden, an OECD study shows.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 7, 2025
Teachers in Japan still work the longest hours, OECD survey finds
By Yukana Inoue
Teachers worked an average of over 50 hours per week, but much of it was spent on out-of-classroom work.
The LDP's newly-appointed election chief Keiji Furuya (far left), general affairs council chair Haruko Arimura (second from left), vice president Taro Aso (center left), president Sanae Takaichi (center right), secretary-general Shunichi Suzuki (second from right) and policy chief Takayuki Kobayashi in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 7, 2025
Takaichi's leadership lineup favors Aso and his allies while shutting out rivals
By Himari Semans
The new lineup also reflects her desire to reward allies of the party¡¯s former Secretary-General Toshimitsu Motegi and former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi.
Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito speaks to reporters at parliament after meeting with Liberal Democratic Party executives on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 7, 2025
Future of 911±¬ÁÏÍø ruling coalition uncertain as Komeito pushes back on Takaichi
By Gabriele Ninivaggi
Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito has said that they cannot form a coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party unless Komeito's concerns are addressed.
Participants from various countries take part in a discussion at a global forum to discuss eliminating nuclear damage on Monday in the city of Hiroshima.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2025
Nuclear victims hold global forum in Hiroshima
The event was held for the first time in 10 years.
Shimon Sakaguchi, an immunologist and a distinguished professor of Osaka University, attends a news conference after winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in medicine, in Suita, Osaka prefecture, on Monday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 7, 2025
With medical breakthrough, Japan¡¯s latest Nobel winner bucked convention
By Tomoko Otake
Shimon Sakaguchi¡¯s unwavering conviction in the validity of his research paid off with the discovery of immune-regulating cells ¡ª and a Nobel Prize in medicine.
Japan's then-foreign minister, Yoko Kamikawa (left), and Philippine defense chief Gilberto Teodoro shake hands after signing a Reciprocal Access Agreement at the Malacanang Palace in Manila in July last year.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2025
Tokyo and Manila apply visiting-forces pact for first time to supply relief goods
By Gabriel Dominguez
The two countries employed the Reciprocal Access Agreement as part of a disaster relief mission following a deadly quake in the Philippines last week.
Shimon Sakaguchi, an immunologist and distinguished professor at Osaka University, attends a news conference after winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in medicine, in Osaka Prefecture on Monday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 7, 2025
911±¬ÁÏÍø immunologist among three Nobel medicine prize winners
By Tomoko Otake
911±¬ÁÏÍø immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi was awarded the prize along with two other scientists for their discovery concerning peripheral immune tolerance.
Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako visit the Future of Life pavilion featuring androids and robots at the Osaka expo on Monday.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2025
Imperial couple make second visit to Osaka Expo
The emperor showed his fascination at an android modeled after Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), saying that the 911±¬ÁÏÍø novelist "continues to live on."
Takumi Yamaguchi (right), head of startup AirKamuy, and a colleague retrieve a drone made of cardboard after a test flight in a field near Nagoya.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 7, 2025
Startups lead charge as Japan warms to defense and dual-use technologies
By Alastair Gale
Opinion polls show public support growing for a stronger defense, and the new leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Sanae Takaichi, has called for more military spending.
The government's revised action plan for preventing human rights violations linked to corporate activities is likely to focus on small companies as a "priority area."
JAPAN / Society
Oct 7, 2025
911±¬ÁÏÍø revised corporate action plan on human rights to prioritize small firms
The government aims to accelerate efforts across entire supply chains by encouraging small businesses, which have been slower to adopt human rights measures, to make improvements.
Rice that was about to be illegally imported, seized at the container inspection center of the Osaka Customs Nanko Branch Office on Aug. 8 in Osaka Prefecture
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 7, 2025
Osaka couple arrested for attempting to import rice illegally
The suspects are alleged to have tried to import some 45 tons of rice from Vietnam, claiming it as mung beans.
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, gives a news conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 7, 2025
Trump hails 'wisdom and strength' of 911±¬ÁÏÍø incoming prime minister
Media reports have said that Trump is expected to visit its key Asian ally in late October.

ASIA PACIFIC

Chinese Premier Li Qiang addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Sept. 26.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 7, 2025
Chinese Premier Li Qiang to visit North Korea for ruling party anniversary
By Jesse Johnson
The festivities are expected to include a large-scale nighttime military parade, South Korean authorities have said.
A screen capture from video shows trekkers leaving their campsite as unusually heavy snow and rainfall pummeled the Himalayas, in China's Tibet Region on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 7, 2025
Hundreds of trekkers rescued from Everest in Tibet amid unusually heavy snow
By Ryan Woo
October is a peak season, when skies usually clear at the end of the Indian monsoon.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te visits the Taipei Aerospace and Defense Technology Exhibition in Taipei on Sept. 19.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 7, 2025
China takeover of Taiwan would threaten U.S. too, Taiwan president says
China's increasing military activities further and further from its own shores are a challenge not only for Taiwan, Lai said.

WORLD

A bust of Swedish chemist, inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel, founder and namesake of the Nobel Prize, stands at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on Monday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 7, 2025
Nobel physics prize goes to pioneers of quantum mechanics
By Niklas Pollard ¡ª Johan Ahlander
Quantum technology is already ubiquitous, with transistors in computer microchips an everyday example.
A woman places a candle as people grieve at the site of the Nova festival where partygoers were killed and kidnapped, in Reim, southern Israel, on Tuesday, the two-year anniversary of the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas from Gaza.
WORLD / Society
Oct 7, 2025
Israel marks Oct. 7 anniversary as talks in Egypt aim to end Gaza war
By Jay Deshmukh ¡ª Chloe Rouveyrolles-Bazire
Hamas' attack killed 1,219 people, according to Israeli figures. Israel's retaliatory campaign has killed at least 67,160 people, according to data the U.N. considers credible.
Palestinian mother Iman Abdel Halim Abu Mutlaq holds her newborn twins Uday and Hamza Abu Odah inside the maternity ward at Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on Nov. 2, 2023.
WORLD
Oct 7, 2025
The Gaza twins whose whole lives have been war
By Ramadan Abed
The lives of the children have been defined and encompassed by Israel's military offensive, launched in response to the deadly attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Ana and Maria, (not their real names), victims of sex trafficking from Latin America, clean dishes in Tirane on Aug. 1.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 7, 2025
'I found hell': the women ensnared in Albania's global sex trade
By Briseida MEMA
Empowered by the global reach of cybercrime, criminal networks are using Albania as a transit point to exploit women from other nations around the world.
A protester holds a sign with an image depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and the words "Nobel" written on it, as supporters and family members of hostages who were kidnapped during the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, demonstrate to demand the immediate end of the war and the release of all hostages, outside the U.S. Consulate in Tel Aviv, on Sept. 2.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 7, 2025
Trump has his eyes on the prize ¡ª but a Nobel win looks unlikely
By Jesse Johnson
While this year¡¯s prize is expected to be out of reach, the U.S. president could gain momentum for next year¡¯s award if his Gaza plan and North Korea outreach prove fruitful.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (left) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (right) attend a European Union leaders' summit in Brussels in June 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 7, 2025
Ukraine's obstacles to EU membership extend beyond Hungarian resistance
By Lili Bayer
Senior European Union officials who recently visited Ukraine have delivered a stern message that Kyiv still has a lot more to do.
An armored vehicle carrying members of a Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Response Team pulls up by a crowd of protesters outside of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 7, 2025
Illinois sues to halt Trump¡¯s deployment of national guard, but troops on the way
By Nate Raymond - Dietrich Knauth
The case is the latest flashpoint in a growing number of court battles over Trump's authority to deploy military forces domestically.
A plume of smoke rises in the background as Palestinians return from a food distribution point run by the U.S. and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation group, near the Netsarim corridor in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 7, 2025
Gaza talks turn to key sticking points between Israel and Hamas
By Ahmed Fahmy ¡ª Nidal al-Mughrabi ¡ª Andrew Mills
Israel and Hamas both endorse the overall principles behind Trump's plan, under which fighting would cease, hostages would go free and aid would pour into Gaza.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and U.S. President Donald Trump meet at the White House in 2019.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 7, 2025
Trump seems to turn page on Bolsonaro in ¡®very good¡¯ Lula call
By Augusta Saraiva - Daniel Carvalho
In a 30-minute conversation, the two leaders discussed lifting trade levies and U.S. sanctions on Brazilian officials, without mentioning former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
Law enforcement officers stand guard outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters, after U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut on Sunday temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from sending any National Guard troops to police Portland, in south Portland, Oregon, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 7, 2025
Trump says may invoke Insurrection Act to deploy more troops in U.S.
By Octavio Jones ¡ª Chris Lefkow
The U.S. president openly mulled use of the Insurrection Act after a federal judge in Oregon temporarily halted a National Guard deployment in Portland.
Boxes of single-use e-cigarettes are displayed for sale on shelves in a shop in Gardanne, France
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 7, 2025
Surging numbers of children using e-cigarettes, WHO says
In countries that have the data, children are on average nine times more likely than adults to vape, the organization said.
U.S. President Donald Trump attends an event at the White House on Monday.
WORLD
Oct 7, 2025
White House says no shutdown-related layoffs yet, but warns they could come
Previous shutdowns have not forced the government to fire any workers, though hundreds of thousands are typically told not to work.
Air traffic controllers work in the control tower at Los Angeles International Airport in 2016. Air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration officers must still turn up for work during the government shutdown, but they are not being paid.
WORLD
Oct 7, 2025
Slight rise in U.S. air traffic controllers calling in sick seen since shutdown began
Air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration officers must still turn up for work during the shutdown, but they are not being paid.
French President Emmanuel Macron attends and event in Saarbruecken, Germany, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 7, 2025
Macron wanders alone by the Seine as grip on his future slips away
By Michel Rose
The resignation of his fifth prime minister in two years has raised the chances that he will not make it to the end of his term.

BUSINESS

Tokyo stocks staged a powerful rally on Monday. On Tuesday, they rallied again, then retreated.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 7, 2025
¡®Takaichi trade¡¯ stalls as political reality calls for wait-and-see approach
By Francis Tang
Tokyo stocks zoomed to a new record and then quickly retreated.
OpenAI has rolled out a social app powered by Sora 2, its artificial intelligence video generator, which was quickly flooded with videos featuring iconic 911±¬ÁÏÍø intellectual property.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 7, 2025
OpenAI¡¯s Sora 2 is drowning in 911±¬ÁÏÍø 'AI slop'
By Elizabeth Beattie
Iconic 911±¬ÁÏÍø characters are prevalent across Sora 2, but legally, this places the company on shaky ground.
Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda's ?4.7 trillion buyout plan for Toyota Industries is delayed due to slower-than-expected antitrust reviews overseas.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 7, 2025
Toyota Industries $31 billion buyout plan faces antitrust delays
By Nicholas Takahashi
The regulatory hurdle could be the first of many as Toyoda attempts to tighten his family¡¯s grip on Toyota in a deal that would rank among the biggest buyouts on record anywhere.
AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo's drug Datroway extended survival in patients with a hard-to-treat form of breast cancer.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 7, 2025
Breast cancer patients lived longer on drug Datroway, says maker
By Ashleigh Furlong
The drug is said to have significantly improved survival and delayed disease progression in patients with a particularly hard to treat form of the disease.
Children play with the AED-themed Toy Cocoro.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 7, 2025
Hokkaido company president develops defibrillator toy to promote awareness
The toy sold out soon after going on sale last autumn, but it will be available for purchase again next March.
Etsuro Honda, who advises the ruling party's head Sanae Takaichi on economic policies, says a rate hike by the Bank of Japan this month would be difficult.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 7, 2025
Takaichi adviser and Abenomics architect says October too soon for BOJ rate hike
By Toru Fujioka
Remarks by Etsuro Honda, who advises the new ruling-party leader on economic policies, suggest the BOJ may wait, despite earlier speculation of an October move.
Outlays by households adjusted for inflation rose 2.3% in August from a year earlier, driven by transport and entertainment, the government said Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 7, 2025
Japan¡¯s household spending rises more than expected in August
By Yoshiaki Nohara
Outlays by households adjusted for inflation gained 2.3% from a year ago in August, led by spending on transport and entertainment.
A BYD electric vehicle dealership in Berlin on Sept. 12
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 7, 2025
China bets on Europe for self-driving tech expansion
By Nick Carey
Beijing is pushing its companies to dominate autonomous-vehicle development globally while crafting national regulations to provide a clear roadmap at home.
The Daimler Freightliner truck assembly plant in Derramadero, Coahuila state, Mexico
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 7, 2025
Trump announces new 25% large truck tariff starting Nov. 1
It was unclear if a previous Japan-U.S. deal limiting duties on light-duty vehicles would apply under the newly announced tariffs.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks in Washington in July.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 7, 2025
OpenAI signs multibillion dollar chip deal with AMD
The ChatGPT-maker is pushing ahead with an investment spree to secure massive amounts of computing power.

Opinion

Only a country with absolute indispensability in critical goods ¡ª like China ¡ª can withstand Donald Trump and America¡¯s tariff onslaught.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Oct 7, 2025
Trump weaponizes American trade policy
By Kazuto Suzuki
The U.S. may have an indispensable domestic market for some trading partners, but China has indispensable goods and America cannot easily substitute for them.
The oil tanker Eagle S sails alongside a Finnish border guard ship and tugboat in the Gulf of Finland on Dec. 28. The vessel was seized by Finland on suspicion of damaging underwater cables in the area at the time.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 7, 2025
Russia¡¯s hybrid war looks increasingly like the real thing
By Brad Glosserman
European officials are warning that Moscow appears to be ¡°at war¡± with countries it hasn¡¯t invaded yet.
Sanae Takaichi celebrates in Tokyo on Saturday with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba after winning the Liberal Democratic Party leadership election.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 7, 2025
From radical to Rihanna: Myths about the new LDP leader
By Gearoid Reidy
When Shinzo Abe returned as LDP leader in 2012, there was a similar flood of coverage attempting to cast him as a radical conservative.

Sports

UEFA said its Executive Committee had reluctantly approved the move to allow LaLiga and Serie A games to be played abroad, and reiterated that it remains opposed in principle to such matches.
SOCCER
Oct 7, 2025
UEFA clears Milan and Barcelona to play domestic league matches abroad
A LaLiga fixture between Barcelona and Villarreal will be staged in Miami in December, while AC Milan will meet Como in Perth in February.
Brewers center fielder Jackson Chourio hits a three-run home run against the Cubs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Monday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 7, 2025
Brewers blast three homers to take 2-0 NLDS lead over Cubs
The Brewers are in the playoffs for the seventh time in eight seasons but have not won a playoff series since the 2018 NLDS.
Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani hits an RBI single against the Phillies in Philadelphia on Monday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 7, 2025
Dodgers hold off Phillies to win MLB playoff thriller
The win puts the Dodgers firmly on course to advance to the National League Championship Series.
Jannik Sinner (right) reacts on the bench as he receives medical attention during his men's singles match against Tallon Griekspoor at the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament in Shanghai on Sunday.
TENNIS
Oct 7, 2025
ATP open to heat policy after string of retirements in Shanghai sauna
By Shrivathsa Sridhar
The temperature at the Shanghai Masters was at around 30 degrees Celsius throughout the opening rounds with the humidity soaring over 80% at times.
Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies on the grid before the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Sept. 21
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Oct 7, 2025
Red Bull's Mekies taking no credit as Verstappen narrows F1 gap
The four-time world champion has won twice since Mekies arrived six races ago.
Tiger Woods participates in a ribbon-cutting event in Philadelphia on Sept. 8. The 49-year-old golfer last competed at the British Open in July 2024.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Oct 7, 2025
Woods to make TGL Season 2 debut in mid-January
Woods will lead Jupiter Links Golf Club in a Jan. 13 match against Season 1 runner-up New York Golf Club.

COMMUNITY

Thales is 10 years old, but has the vigor and good cheer of a much younger dog.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / ADOPT ME!
Oct 7, 2025
Chipper Yorkie-Maltese mix still young at heart
Ten-year-old Thales, named after a Greek philosopher, is decidedly unserious and will make an energetic companion for the right household.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France ¡ª where he had lived since he was a young child ¡ª stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Tokyo ranked world¡¯s richest city by GDP, with Osaka-Kobe also rated highly
Tokyo has a gross domestic product of $2.55 trillion, just ahead of New York¡¯s $2.49 trillion and Greater Los Angeles¡¯ $1.62 trillion, according to CEOWorld¡¯s global wealth index.
Tokyo looks to keep ¡®monster parents¡¯ at bay with new protocols
New guidelines are addressing struggles by teachers to deal with the burden of parents who make irrational complaints that go beyond what is considered socially acceptable, often referred to as "monster parents," which is overwhelming their workload.
China delivers warning to U.S. and Japan with third aircraft carrier
The Fujian, China's third aircraft carrier, carries out sea trials at an unknown location in May last year.
Japan lawmakers eye firm response to Chinese envoy's threat to behead PM
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at a Lower House Budget Committee meeting on Friday.
As Japan¡¯s female leader rises, can she cross sumo¡¯s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn¡¯t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
China delivers warning to U.S. and Japan with third aircraft carrier
The Fujian, China's third aircraft carrier, carries out sea trials at an unknown location in May last year.
Jenson Button brings end to an illustrious racing career intertwined with Japan
Jenson Button races for Honda during the Singapore Grand Prix in September 2008.

Podcast

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

Longform

Bear attacks have dominated 911±¬ÁÏÍø news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan¡¯s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
By Yukana Inoue

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