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JAPAN

The city of Izumisano, in Osaka Prefecture, has successfully challenged a decision by the central government to cut special tax grants based on its revenues under the <i>furusato n¨­zei</i> (hometown tax donation) system.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 10, 2025
Government cuts to Izumisano's tax grants illegal, Osaka High Court rules
The city in Osaka Prefecture raised about ?49.8 billion in donations in fiscal 2018, the most among the local governments under the hometown tax donation program.
LDP leader Sanae Takaichi and Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito attend a party leaders' meeting on Friday in Tokyo.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 10, 2025
Takaichi's PM bid faces further headwinds with coalition split
By Kanako Takahara ¡ª Himari Semans ¡ª Gabriele Ninivaggi
Komeito¡¯s decision to end the 26-year partnership with the LDP means the ruling party will need to court opposition parties to vote Takaichi in as prime minister.
People observe a moment of silence on March 11, the 14th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, near the ruins of the former disaster prevention center in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025
Remains identified as 6-year-old missing after 2011 tsunami
The victim was at home in Iwate Prefecture and was washed away by the tsunami that came following the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba holds a news conference in Tokyo on Friday to deliver his statement on World War II
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 10, 2025
Ishiba statement explores 911±¬ÁÏÍø failure to avoid World War II
By Gabriele Ninivaggi
Ishiba¡¯s message was released in a personal capacity, without the formal approval of his entire Cabinet.
Atomic bomb survivors from Nihon Hidankyo making a request to each party at the office building of House of Councilors lawmakers in Tokyo on Thursday.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025
Cross-party group for nuclear abolition to be set up in Japan
Nihon Hidankyo members criticized the government for ignoring the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and refusing to send an observer to a meeting of signatories.
A bear seen in security camera footage taken at a supermarket in Numata, Gunma Prefecture, on Tuesday. More and more wild bears have been spotted in Japan in recent years, even in residential areas.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025
Man killed in apparent bear attack as deaths mount in Japan
The official death toll due to bear attacks has risen to six for the fiscal year starting in April, matching a record high seen in 2023.
Visitors lounge on the grassy hill on the top of the Grand Ring during the 2025 Osaka Expo in the city of Osaka in May.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 10, 2025
¡®Save the Ring¡¯ calls intensify as Osaka Expo¡¯s end nears
By Tomoko Otake
The prefectural and city governments of Osaka have announced they will retain just a 200-meter portion of the world's largest wooden structure.
The average price of rice decreased for the third consecutive week, but remained above ?4,000 for the fifth week in a row.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025
Average price of rice down in Japan for third straight week
The average price decreased for the third consecutive week, but remained above ?4,000 for the fifth week in a row.
Defense Minister Gen Nakatani speaks during a news conference on Friday at the ministry.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025
Japan to assist Ukraine with mine removal training
Instructors will deliver lectures on explosive ordnance disposal and conduct practical exercises for Ukrainian soldiers.
Over half of financially struggling pregnant women and new mothers in Japan have no savings, a survey by Save the Children Japan found.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025
Over half of needy pregnant women in Japan have no savings
An official from Save the Children Japan urged the central and local governments to strengthen their support measures.
In the reporting year that ended in March, per-capita consumption of rice ¡ª?which is 99% self-sufficient ¡ª?and domestic production of sugar beets and sugarcane grew from the previous year.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025
911±¬ÁÏÍø food self-sufficiency rate remains at 38%
The calorie-based food self-sufficiency rate stood at 38% for fiscal 2024, unchanged for the fourth year in a row, the agriculture ministry said Friday.
Foreign residents accounted for 3.21% of Japan's total population.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025
Foreign residents in Japan hit record 3.95 million
The number accounted for 3.21% of the country's total population as of the end of June.
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has appointed Itsunori Onodera as chairman of its Research Commission on the Tax System.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 10, 2025
Onodera to head LDP's tax panel
Onodera will succeed Yoichi Miyazawa, who has served as chairman of the tax panel for a total of eight years since 2015.
A conceptual image of Dassai, a 911±¬ÁÏÍø sake, brewed in space
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025
Sake brewing to be tested on International Space Station
The goal is to produce sake on the moon in the future.
There has been a rapid rise in the number of business manager visa holders in recent years, triggering concerns that some are using it as an easy route to long-term residency rather than for genuine entrepreneurship.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025
Business management visa requirements to be tightened from next week
By Jessica Speed
There has been a rapid rise in the number of business manager visa holders in recent years, triggering concerns some are merely using it as an easy route to long-term residency.
The University of Tokyo in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025
University of Tokyo lands its highest spot ever in global higher education ranking
By Elizabeth Beattie
Rising to 26th from 28th last year, the University of Tokyo remains the sole 911±¬ÁÏÍø university to crack the top 50 in the Times Higher Education's World University Rankings.
Democratic Party for the People leader Yuichiro Tamaki speaks during an interview on Thursday at the parliament building.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 10, 2025
DPP leader Tamaki negative on joining LDP-led coalition for now
The DPP chief noted that his party would not form a coalition with the LDP if it lacks Komeito.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings plans to decommission some reactors at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, excluding the No. 6 and No. 7 units.
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2025
Tepco mulls decommissioning some Kashiwazaki-Kariwa reactors
It would mark the first reactor decommissioning at the plant, which straddles the city of Kashiwazaki and the village of Kariwa in Niigata Prefecture.
Officials from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office's special investigation squad conduct a search of Alt's headquarters in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Thursday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 10, 2025
Former executives of AI developer Alt arrested for window-dressing
The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission searched locations related to the company in April over the alleged window-dressing

ASIA PACIFIC

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te speaks during National Day celebrations in Taipei on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 10, 2025
Taiwan president unveils 'T-Dome' air defense system to counter China threat
Taiwan is ramping up defense spending and modernizing its armed forces, but faces a China that has a far larger military.
Authorities inspect a damaged wall and a car outside a mall in Butuan, Philippines, on Friday, after a major earthquake struck the area.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 10, 2025
Powerful earthquake strikes off southern Philippines
People in nearby coastal areas were urged to evacuate to higher ground.
Damage to vehicles at the site of a military strike on a protest in central Myanmar's Chaung U township is seen on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 10, 2025
Myanmar junta says it targeted rebels in deadly attack on protest
A military strike on a festival and anti-junta protest in central Myanmar on Monday evening killed at least 25 people, and possibly as many as 43.

WORLD

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado addresses supporters at a protest in Caracas in January.
WORLD
Oct 10, 2025
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado
The committee hailed her as "one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times."
Members of the U.N. Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus take part in a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of their presence on the island in March 2024.
WORLD
Oct 10, 2025
U.N. peacekeeping forces to be cut 25% due to budget strains: official
The 25% reduction in troops will be spread across nine of the 11 peacekeeping missions, which had already developed contingency plans for potential budget cuts.
John Clarke, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, is interviewed on campus on Tuesday after being named one of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in physics.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 10, 2025
Nobel Prizes this year offer three cheers for slow science
By Katrina Miller
In an age when government efficiency has been used to justify sharp cuts to scientific funding, the science Nobels offer a case for plodding curiosity.
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is escalating its efforts to target domestic opponents, raising alarm among civil rights groups and Democratic leaders about the use of executive power.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 10, 2025
Trump¡¯s war on the left: Inside the plan to investigate liberal groups
By Nandita Bose ¡ª Jana Winter ¡ª Jeff Mason ¡ª Tim Reid ¡ª Ted Hesson
Potential tools to defund or shut down groups include IRS investigations to strip them of tax-exempt status and criminal probes by the Justice Department and FBI.
U.S. President Donald Trump outside the White House in Washington on Thursday. Trump has suggested that Spain could be removed from NATO over defense spending.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 10, 2025
Trump floats throwing Spain out of NATO over defense spending
Spain has previously earned Trump¡¯s ire for rejecting calls to increase defense spending to 5% of gross domestic product.
New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks in New York on Oct. 1.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 10, 2025
Letitia James, New York's attorney general and Trump foe, indicted over mortgage fraud
The Trump administration has sought to use government power against those who have pursued investigations into Trump or resisted his agenda.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 10, 2025
Trump exerted leverage for Gaza deal but tough questions remain
By Matt Spetalnick
Despite its potentially historic nature, the rushed deal leaves a host of unresolved issues that could still trip up implementation.
National guard members at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Broadview facility in Chicago on Thursday
WORLD / Politics
Oct 10, 2025
U.S. judge blocks Trump's deployment of national guard in Illinois
U.S. District Judge April Perry said that permitting guard troops in the state would only "add fuel to the fire."
An Israeli tank moves past destroyed buildings in Gaza on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 10, 2025
Palestinians return to wrecked homes as Israeli forces pull back under ceasefire
Israeli troops began pulling back from some parts of Gaza on Friday under a ceasefire deal with Hamas, and some residents returned to shattered neighborhoods.

BUSINESS

Less than a week ago, Sanae Takaichi seemed set to become Japan's first female prime minister.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 10, 2025
¡®Takaichi trade¡¯ starts unwinding as political calculus upended by Komeito exit
By Kazuaki Nagata
Stocks fell and the yen rose after the coalition collapsed
A Ford F-150 pickup truck on the assembly line at a factory in Dearborn, Michigan. The 911±¬ÁÏÍø government might be considering the purchase of some of the pickup trucks to meet its obligations as part of a trade deal with the United States.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 10, 2025
Ford F-150 might be imported by the 911±¬ÁÏÍø government: report
By Francis Tang
The pickup trucks would be used by local transport ministry offices for construction and road patrols.
The prospect of faster inflation and rising asset prices under Sanae Takaichi, who¡¯s likely to become the next prime minister, is seen as favoring loose monetary policy that would probably further boost paper gains in corporate property, luring activist funds.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 10, 2025
Japan¡¯s political shakeup opens door for real estate activism
By Kentaro Tsutsumi
The prospect of faster inflation and rising asset prices is seen as favoring loose monetary policy that would probably further boost paper gains in corporate property.
Japan's top financial leaders are working to ease fears that AI will cost jobs, emphasizing its role in boosting efficiency and transforming work.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 10, 2025
Japan¡¯s top bank CEOs push for AI, soothing worry over human work
By Taiga Uranaka ¡ª Takashi Nakamichi
In Japan, where the financial sector employs hundreds of thousands of people, the conversation over AI and its impact on work is picking up pace.
Employees assemble a Gazon Next truck at Gorkovsky Automobile Plant in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 10, 2025
Russia's industrial titans furlough workers as its war economy stalls
By Anastasia Lyrchikova ¡ª Gleb Stolyarov
The push to reduce wage bills shows the toll the conflict in Ukraine and the Western sanctions are taking on corporate Russia and on the workers of its heavy industry plants.
A mine for heavy rare earth metals outside of Longnan in south-central China's Jiangxi province
BUSINESS
Oct 10, 2025
China expands rare earths restrictions, targeting defense and chips users
The new curbs come ahead of a scheduled face-to-face meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea at the end of October.
Japan¡¯s government set a target of 60 million annual foreign visitors by 2030, but many businesses involved with tourism are already struggling with skilled worker shortages.
BUSINESS
Oct 10, 2025
Japan set to be most impacted by tourism labor shortages globally, report shows
By Elizabeth Beattie
The country will see a 29% shortfall in necessary labor in 2035, according to the Future of the Travel & Tourism Workforce report.

Opinion

Newly elected Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi is often compared to Margaret Thatcher, but the analogy fails because Japan today is not 1980s Britain and her success depends on pragmatism, not ideology.
EDITORIALS
Oct 10, 2025
Pragmatism, not ideology, must guide Takaichi
The key difference from Thatcher lies in economic policy, as the LDP has never been a truly neoliberal party.
People celebrate on Thursday in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas agreed on the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 10, 2025
A deal that might heal ¡ª or haunt ¡ª the Middle East
By Imran Khalid
A recent American intelligence assessment warned that Tehran views the ceasefire as a ¡°strategic timeout,¡± a chance to rearm its proxies while Washington celebrates diplomacy.
North Korea celebrates the 80th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang with a military parade on Oct. 10.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 10, 2025
North Korea¡¯s military is more advanced than you think
By Karishma Vaswani
Pyongyang is now in its strongest strategic position in decades, a reality that demands urgent attention.
Despite heightened geopolitical tensions and escalating trade wars, the U.S. dollar¡¯s global dominance is unlikely to fade in the near term, leaving Asian economies vulnerable to dollar shocks.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 10, 2025
How Asia can reduce its dollar dependence
By Yasuto Watanabe ¡ª Hiro Ito
While geopolitical tensions and the risk of sanctions have fueled diversification efforts, the greenback¡¯s international dominance is unlikely to diminish in the near term.
Then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and then-Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Sanae Takaichi mark a win by a party candidate in the July 2013 Upper House election. There is ongoing debate over whether Takaichi's economic approach will mirror the former prime minister's Abenomics.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 10, 2025
The 'Takaichi trade' isn¡¯t Abenomics 2.0, and that¡¯s OK
By Gearoid Reidy
Party leader Takaichi has been left with one of the poorest positions imaginable. The LDP is a minority in both houses of parliament.

Sports

England manager Thomas Tuchel watches team during its win over Wales in a friendly at Wembley Stadium in London on Thursday.
SOCCER
Oct 10, 2025
England manager?Thomas Tuchel takes issue with lack of support from fans
Tuchel took exception to what he felt was a tepid response from England's supporters during the win.
The Cubs' Ian Happ hits a three-run home run against the Brewers in Game 4 of the NLDS in Chicago on Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 10, 2025
Ian Happ's big blast helps Cubs top Brewers to force decisive Game 5 in NLDS
The clubs will play the deciding contest on Saturday night in Milwaukee.
Dodgers reliever Roki Sasaki pitches against the Phillies during Game 4 of the NL Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 10, 2025
Dodgers advance to NLCS after costly error by Phillies in 11th inning
Roki Sasaki threw three perfect innings for the Dodgers in the win.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 10, 2025
Red Sox legend Mike Greenwell dies at 62
Greenwell, a two-time All-Star, revealed he was battling medullary thyroid cancer in August. His wife, Tracy, said he died in Boston.
LeBron James (right) sits next to Bronny James on the bench during a game against the Warriors in San Francisco on Oct. 5
BASKETBALL / NBA
Oct 10, 2025
Lakers superstar LeBron James to miss start of season due to sciatica
The Lakers revealed the diagnosis of right-side sciatica after the team's practice on Thursday.
Bills quarterback Josh Allen drops back to pass during his team's game against the Patriots in Orchard Park, New York, on Oct. 5.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 10, 2025
Bills head into showdown with Falcons looking to rebound from upset loss
It's been over a calendar year since Buffalo's last losing streak.
U.S. long jumper Tara Davis-Woodhall celebrates with her gold medal at the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium on Sept. 15.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 10, 2025
Women's track-and-field startup Athlos eyes sustainable and durable growth
The concept, which is the brainchild of Reddit founder and women's sports entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian, appears to be going from strength to strength.
Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge reacts after the Sydney Marathon on Aug. 31.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Oct 10, 2025
Eliud Kipchoge hoping to cement legacy at New York City Marathon
The 40-year-old, widely considered the greatest marathon runner of all time, is the only man to have run the distance in under two hours.

LIFE

This year¡¯s World's 50 Best Bars list features bars from 29 cities worldwide, including debuts from Eastern Europe.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 10, 2025
Tokyo earns three spots on World¡¯s 50 Best Bars list
By Weiwen Lin
Bar Benfiddich climbs ranks, but Hong Kong steals the show with Bar Leone making history as the first bar in Asia to be named No. 1 in the listing.

CULTURE

¡°The Bathhouse of Honest Desires,¡± a Taiwanese-911±¬ÁÏÍø collaboration, was performed the first weekend of the Autumn Meteorite festival.
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 10, 2025
Autumn Meteorite stages a month of inventive theater in Tokyo
By Jessica Kozuka
The inaugural performing arts festival brings a variety of shows, from monodramas to 20-people, multivenue ensemble productions.
After earning her stripes in the 911±¬ÁÏÍø indie wrestling circuit, Iyo Sky made the decision to move to the United States in pursuit of new challenges ¡ª a risk that paid off for her career.
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 10, 2025
Iyo Sky takes flight: How the ¡®Genius of the Sky¡¯ turned risk into art and fear into fun
By Adam Davidson
After three memorable shows in 2024, WWE returns to Japan for back-to-back nights at Tokyo¡¯s Ryogoku Kokugikan this month.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai, a Hungarian novelist, in 2014. Krasznahorkai was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.
CULTURE / Books
Oct 10, 2025
Hungarian 'master of the apocalypse' Laszlo Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Prize in literature
The prize was awarded "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art."
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.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
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.

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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