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JAPAN

Maki Takubo
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 12, 2025
Thirty people enter Ito Municipal Assembly race over controversial mayor
If the assembly passes a fresh no-confidence motion in its first assembly session, Takubo will lose her post of mayor under the local autonomy law.
Android robots shown at the Osaka Expo in a pavilion produced by University of Osaka professor Hiroshi Ishiguro will be relocated to Kyoto Prefecture.
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2025
Osaka Expo androids to be moved to Kyoto
The robots will be shown to the public at a research facility in the Keihanna Science City research district.
After a run-up marked by apathy, organizers soon found they had the opposite problem as crowd control became a concern.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Oct 12, 2025
As the Osaka Expo comes to a close, what will its legacy be?
By Joel Tansey ¡ª Tomoko Otake
The mega-event was a resounding success, taking in some 25 million visitors over 184 days. But how its legacy will look in the decades to come remains a question mark.
Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday after leaving the ruling coalition earlier in the day.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 12, 2025
After ruling bloc collapses, LDP and opposition scramble to find needed votes for PM
By Eric Johnston
New LDP President Sanae Takaichi faces a higher hurdle in finding the votes needed to become Japan¡¯s next leader as opposition forces discuss a unified candidate.
The internet has become the main source of daily news in Japan, a survey has shown.
JAPAN / Society
Oct 12, 2025
Internet becomes 911±¬ÁÏÍø top daily news source for first time
The newspaper subscription rate fell 3.7 percentage points from a year earlier to 50.1%, continuing to decline since marking 88.6% in fiscal 2008, when the survey began.
Saury catches from August to the end of September this year totaled about 28,500 tons ¡ª a 2.4-fold increase from the same period last year.
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2025
Japan group to launch AI service for saury size predictions
Since 2020, AI has helped predict likely saury fishing spots based on seawater temperature changes and past fishing records.
Nihon Hidankyo co-chair Terumi Tanaka speaks to reporters during an event held in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 12, 2025
Hidankyo and others hold event 80 years after atomic bombings
Outside the venue, attendees spoke with those who experienced the massive U.S. bombing of Tokyo in March 1945.
Natsuki Kai, a high school student who attended last year's Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony as a student peace messenger, is interviewed in Hiroshima in September.
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2025
One year after Hidankyo's Nobel Prize, student remains true to the cause
Natsuki Kai's great-grandparents were among those exposed to the U.S. atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

ASIA PACIFIC

A China Coast Guard ship fires a water cannon at a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries vessel during an incident in disputed waters of the South China Sea on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 12, 2025
China and Philippines trade blame over boat collision in disputed sea
Confrontations between Philippine and Chinese vessels occur frequently in the contested South China Sea.

WORLD

Afghan citizens and their vehicles loaded with belongings idle in Chaman, Pakistan, as they head back to their country after Pakistan closed border crossings with Afghanistan on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 12, 2025
Pakistan-Afghan border crossings closed after heavy clashes
The neighboring countries have had frosty relations since the Taliban returned to power in Kabul in 2021.
People walk amid the destruction in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Saturday, a day after an Israel-Hamas ceasefire took effect.
WORLD
Oct 12, 2025
Gazans stream back home as Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds
Thousands of Palestinians streamed north along the coast of Gaza on Saturday, trekking by foot, car, and cart back to their abandoned homes as a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas appeared to be holding.
A drone detection and defense system is parked in Kottingbrunn, Austria, on Oct. 3
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 12, 2025
How can Europe protect its skies against 'escalating' drone menace?
By Fabien Zamora
Concerns are growing that such disruptions are part of Russian hybrid war tactics three-and-a-half years into its invasion of Ukraine.
The U.S. Capitol in Washington on Friday. The current government shutdown is the most acute symptom of a general lack of goodwill in Washington, where bipartisan deal-making has increasingly gone out of vogue.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 12, 2025
Trump layoffs and broken trust harden Democrats¡¯ shutdown stand
By Steven T. Dennis
Democrats have expressed doubts that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump will deliver a health care fix unless forced to do so.
A federal agent chases a man in a shopping center parking lot in Chicago on Saturday, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered increased federal law enforcement presence to assist in crime prevention.
WORLD
Oct 12, 2025
U.S. appeals court says national guard sent to Illinois can stay, but not deploy
The decision largely upholds a lower court's halt on the mobilization by U.S. President Donald Trump as part of his mass deportation campaign.
U.S. President Donald Trump returns to the White House on Friday after a medical checkup at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Trump said on Saturday that he had identified funds that would allow the administration to pay members of the military, even though the government remains shut down and Congress has not approved additional money for the troops.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 12, 2025
U.S. military will use R&D money to pay troops if shutdown persists
With no signs of a resolution anytime soon, the administration on Friday began making good on Trump's threat to lay off thousands of federal workers.

BUSINESS

A Qantas Boeing 737-800 plane prepares to land next to a Qantas Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft preparing to take off at Sydney International Airport in September last year. The Australian airline said Sunday that data from 5.7 million customers stolen in a major cyberattack in July had been leaked online.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 12, 2025
Australian airline Qantas says millions of customers' data leaked online
Most of the data leaked was names, email addresses and frequent flyer details, the firm said.
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses hundreds of American generals and admirals summoned to the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, on Sept. 30.
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Oct 12, 2025
Trump¡¯s dealmaking diplomacy grows fragile as China fires back
The sudden, and unexpected, back-and-forth between the world¡¯s two largest economies came just weeks ahead of a consequential meeting between the U.S. and Chinese leaders.
A container ship sails at the port in Qingdao, China, on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 12, 2025
China blames U.S. for raising trade tensions and defends rare earth curbs
Beijing's decision not to immediately respond to Trump's opening salvo could leave the door open for both countries to negotiate a deescalation.
In a ranking of the best-performing equity indexes this year, the U.S. doesn¡¯t crack the Top 50. You need to go all the way to No. 66 before the world¡¯s most valuable equity index shows up ¡ª one of the worst relative performances since the global financial crisis for the U.S. benchmark.
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Oct 12, 2025
A great year for U.S. stocks? Not compared with rest of the world.
By Michael Msika ¡ª Winnie Hsu ¡ª Sagarika Jaisinghani
The underperformance, market participants say, owes just as much to a broader shift in the mindset among foreign investors

ENVIRONMENT

The Gas Pavilion had welcomed around 500,000 visitors by the end of August, making it one of the most popular exhibits at the Osaka Expo.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy / OUR PLANET
Oct 12, 2025
At Osaka Expo, gas giants promote a greener future. But is it a lot of hot air?
By Joel Tansey
While major 911±¬ÁÏÍø gas companies have lauded e-methane as key in fighting climate change, experts paint a different picture.

Opinion

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks to supporters while holding up electoral records during a rally in Caracas in August 2024. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday she was the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 12, 2025
Machado receives the Nobel Peace Prize as Trump¡¯s attempts to secure award fall short
By Andreas Kluth
Machado, as the committee put it, is known for her tireless work promoting democracy for Venezuelans and her struggle against dictatorship.
A screen outside a Tokyo securities firm shows the Nikkei 225 Stock Average on Oct. 6. As Japan's financial markets reacted to Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party presidential win, much of the media's focus was on the falling yen, downplaying the surge in equities to record highs.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 12, 2025
Sanae Takaichi gets 'the Abe treatment'
By Edo Naito
Given that she is frequently labeled a "Shinzo Abe protege," the media coverage of her so far reminds me of how they reported on Abe himself throughout his second term.

Sports

The BayStars' Tatsuo Ebina (center) celebrates with his teammates after his walk-off hit against the Giants at Yokohama Stadium on Sunday.
BASEBALL / 911±¬ÁÏÍø Baseball
Oct 12, 2025
BayStars reach final stage of Climax Series after dramatic sayonara win over Giants
By Jason Coskrey
The BayStars are trying to win back-to-back Japan Series titles.
Brewers first baseman Andrew Vaughn celebrates after hitting a home run during the fourth inning of Milwaukee's Game 5 win over the Cubs on Saturday.
BASEBALL
Oct 12, 2025
Brewers oust Cubs and will face Dodgers in MLB playoffs
The win sets up a showdown with the Los Angeles Dodgers for a place in the World Series.
The BayStars' Yoshitomo Tsutsugo, seen during a game on Oct. 1 in Yokohama, opened the Climax Series with a 4-for-4 day that included two home runs.
BASEBALL / 911±¬ÁÏÍø Baseball
Oct 12, 2025
Yoshitomo Tsutsugo produces vintage performance in Climax Series opener
By Jason Coskrey
BayStars manager Daisuke Miura credited Tsutsugo with giving the team momentum.
Aces center A'ja Wilson (22) celebrates with teammates after Las Vegas clinched the WNBA championship on Friday in Phoenix.
BASKETBALL
Oct 12, 2025
Las Vegas Aces flip the odds to cap WNBA season comeback for the ages
A'ja Wilson earned her second Finals MVP honor in a scene few could have imagined only two months ago.
A giant inflatable basketball promoting NBA preseason games held at Venetian Arena in Macao on Friday.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Oct 12, 2025
Treading fine line, NBA money machine kicks into gear on China return
By Holmes Chan
The preseason games heralded the NBA's return to China for the first time since being effectively frozen out of the country in 2019.
Xander Schauffele hits a tee shot during the Baycurrent Classic in Yokohama on Sunday. The American went on to win the tournament for his first victory of the season.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 12, 2025
Schauffele ends title drought at PGA Tour's Yokohama tourney
Schauffele said it was "special" to get his 10th PGA Tour win in Japan, where his mother grew up and his grandparents still live.
Sauber team principal Jonathan Wheatley at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku last month.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Oct 12, 2025
From Sauber to Audi, Wheatley prepares to disrupt in F1 revolution
By Nick Mulvenney
The Swiss-based outfit, in Formula One since 1993 and with one grand prix triumph and 28 podiums, will become the Audi works team next year.

CULTURE

Actress Diane Keaton speaks during the handprints and footprints ceremony to celebrate "Mack & Rita" at TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, in August 2022. Keaton, known for her Oscar-winning performance in 1977's "Annie Hall" and her role in "The Godfather" films, has died at age 79.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Oct 12, 2025
Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton dead at 79
Keaton was a frequent collaborator of director Woody Allen, portraying the titular character in "Annie Hall," the charming girlfriend of Allen's comic Alvy Singer.
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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