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Israeli F-16 fighter jets sit on a runway at an airbase in the country's south in March. The Israeli military said on Saturday it was carrying out "precise strikes" on military targets in Iran.

WORLD

Israel conducts 'precise strikes' on military targets in Iran

The White House was notified shortly before Israel carried out the airstrikes, Fox News reported Friday.

Israeli F-16 fighter jets sit on a runway at an airbase in the country's south in March. The Israeli military said on Saturday it was carrying out "precise strikes" on military targets in Iran.

Investors already rattled by economic and monetary policy uncertainty are carefully watching Sunday's election.

BUSINESS / Economy

Tokyo stocks could 'plunge' if ruling coalition loses majority in Sunday vote

By Kazuaki Nagata

Investors are already rattled by monetary-policy tightening and geopolitical concerns.

Liberal Democratic Party candidate Nobuyasu Nikai speaks in front of a crowd in the district of Aridagawa, Wakayama Prefecture, on Monday.

JAPAN / Politics

Election wildcard in Wakayama puts rural district in national spotlight

By Gabriele Ninivaggi

Former LDP member Hiroshige Seko's decision to seek a Lower House seat as an independent candidate highlights the fractured state of the ruling party.

The number of female CEOs in Japan in 2024 rose 37,038 from the year before, or by 6%.

BUSINESS

Proportion of female CEOs in Japan breaks 15% for first time

By Himari Semans

Survey finds progress but notes that prejudice based on gender roles remains an issue.

Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui hits a solo home run off Pedro Martinez of the Phillies in Game 2 of the World Series on Oct. 29, 2009.

BASEBALL / MLB

From Shinjo to 'Godzilla': The Japanese players who have made their mark on the Fall Classic

By Jason Coskrey

Tsuyoshi Shinjo got the ball rolling for Japanese stars in MLB’s Fall Classic in 2002, and stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto are set to join the growing club.

Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui hits a solo home run off Pedro Martinez of the Phillies in Game 2 of the World Series on Oct. 29, 2009.

According to Fujikyu Railway, a group of around 10 people, who appear to be foreign nationals, boarded a train at Fujikyu-Highland Station on Oct. 16 and filmed themselves dancing onboard before they got off at Otsuki Station.

Fujikyu Railway weighs legal action over foreign tourist dance video

By Yukana Inoue

The video, made by a group that appears to be a New York-based dance troupe, features dancers sliding on the floor and asking for a hand from nearby passengers.

Along with official videos from parties and candidates, individually produced videos are on the rise on YouTube and other platforms.

Short social media videos gain traction in Japan's election campaign

Both official campaign and user-generated videos are on the rise, with experts warning that the latter may present misleading or out-of-context information.

Japan to resume trial removal of Fukushima nuclear debris, reports say

Tetsuya Chiba becomes first manga artist to receive Order of Culture

Tokyo police rearrest couple suspected of multiple murders of family members

Malaysia tour bus crash leaves one Japanese dead and others injured

Core consumer prices in Japan's capital rose 1.8% in October from a year earlier, slipping below the central bank's 2% target for the first time in five months.

Tokyo inflation slows below 2% ahead of election and BOJ meet

By Erica Yokoyama

Consumer prices excluding fresh food rose 1.8% in the capital in October.

Watami CEO Miki Watanabe (right) during a news conference in Tokyo on Friday

Izakaya chain buys Subway Japan in challenge to McDonald’s

By Ryotaro Nakamaru and Eddy Duan

The Subway franchise has historically struggled to gain footing in the Japanese market, with just 178 locations compared to nearly 3,000 for McDonald’s.

Marubeni-backed salmon farm starts Japan sales as part of diversification push

By Katya Golubkova

Rigaku shares fall 10% in market debut after IPO priced at the top

By Sam Nussey

Japan’s military pivot is firing up NEC’s defense tech business

By Yuki Furukawa and Mayumi Negishi

Fast-food chains hold the onions after McDonald's E. coli outbreak

By Brad Brooks

When Italy’s Cavour aircraft carrier visited Japan in August, it was the latest in a string of other ports of call by European nations such as Britain, Germany and France, all of whom are engaging in military and defense industry partnerships in East Asia.

Will Europe's pivot to Asia have any teeth?

By Gabriel Dominguez

Deals are being made and carriers are making visits, but it is yet to be seen if nations on the other side of the world will come when a crisis hits.

Neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump has outlined a comprehensive platform on climate, an issue that remains far from the center of the U.S. campaign despite the country being the world's second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, after China.

Trump vs. Harris: Competing visions for a warming world

By Lucie Aubourg

The U.S. is the world's second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, after China.

Putin appears to hint that North Korean troops are in Russia

By Jesse Johnson

White House urges agencies to adopt AI for military and spy use

By Katrina Manson

U.S. Democratic candidates step up immigration messaging in last weeks

By Bo Erickson

U.S. presses for Gaza truce as negotiators prepare to meet

By Courtney McBride, Galit Altstein and Dan Williams

Nanako Fujita competes during a race in 2019. The recent news of Fujita quitting after her suspension for breaking horse racing's strict phone rules shows that bad habits related to smartphone use don't discriminate.

Horse racing in Japan has a smartphone problem

By Mai Yoshikawa

Nanako Fujita's recent retirement over breaches of smartphone rules put a spotlight on a big issue for horse racing in Japan.

Baseball’s biggest stars and biggest markets align for MLB broadcaster

By Hannah Miller

Sofia Kenin into Pan Pacific Open semis while home favorite Sayaka Ishii withdraws

By Jason Coskrey

Verstappen carries momentum back to a favorite track

By Alan Baldwin

‘That’s for another day’: Yankees not talking Juan Soto’s future

In Japan, terms like "progressive," "liberal," "conservative," and "nationalist" may sound familiar but do not align with their meanings in other democracies.

How to understand labels in Japanese politics

Edo Naito

The issues that define political labels are often unique to Japan. As a result, quite a few Western authors will pick them up and use them.

In space, no one can hear Musk's rivals scream

By Lionel Laurent

BRICS once again meet to complain and vent frustrations

Human rights are key to resolving the war in Ukraine

By Goro Matsumura

Shifting the paradigm in Ukraine

By Marci Shore

A cyclist cools off at a fountain at Madrid Rio park during a heat wave in Madrid in July.

U.N. says world is on course to warm up to 3.1 degrees Celsius

By John Ainger

Little progress has been made over the past few years despite repeated calls for stronger action plans.

Wildfires are gaining speed in a worrying trend for western U.S.

By Todd Woody

Nature ‘piracy’ and funding battles will dominate U.N. biodiversity summit

By Natasha White

Japan scientists are tracking the big climate problem with tiny aerosols

By Joel Tansey

Japan studying measures for more renewable energy areas

Ryoma Takeuchi (right) is perfectly cast as Kazuma Kiryu, a Jack Reacher-esque character of impermeable physicality in Amazon Prime’s new series “Like a Dragon: Yakuza.”

Amazon’s ‘Like a Dragon: Yakuza’ pulls its biggest punch

By Owen Ziegler

Amazon’s new series based on the long-running Ryu Ga Gotoku games flattens the quirkiest elements of the Kamurocho red-light district for a run-of-the-mill crime drama.

‘The Cats of Gokogu Shrine’: Documentary paints intimate portrait of a community in decline

By Mark Schilling

‘Strangers’: A satisfyingly unnerving stolen identity drama

By Matt Schley

Tokyo International Film Festival boasts strong line-up of Japanese fare

By Mark Schilling

Chilean trio Mareo! is on a lengthy tour to help grow its Latin-inspired sound in Japan

By Patrick St. Michel

Located in the Otemachi neighborhood, the 'skull mound' of Taira no Masakado is said to be the source of ills and misfortunes of any who would disturb the site.

Take a Halloween stroll through Tokyo’s dark history

By Mark Schreiber

Tokyo has no shortage of creepy places to check out this Halloween, and the good news is that many are conveniently accessible.

Japan’s ancient capital houses a millennium of ghosts

By Edward J. Taylor

Celebrating spooky season with Halloween-themed vocabulary

By Yuko Tamura

A designer moves easily from royal gowns to Uniqlo

By Laura Neilson

Ca’enne: Into the Yatsugatake mountains for Nagano’s freshest produce

By Andrew Lee

New and strengthened rules aim to make street drinking a thing of the past in Shibuya's nightlife center — but the reality may not be that simple.

Can you drink in Shibuya and Shinjuku this Halloween? It depends.

By Ansel Swindells

Shibuya and Shinjuku are both planning on cracking down on street drinking this Halloween and beyond. But the problem might be bigger than a night of drunken revelry.

Andrijana Cvetkovikj: ‘We have to create more opportunities for women to be playing on equal ground’

By Zoria Petkoska

Tokyo’s Indonesians get through life abroad with a couple of laughs

By Yohana Belinda

Named for an opera, Lauretta is more adorable than dramatic

Jonathan Dunnett: ‘The ocean is far bigger than we are, and it will humble us.’

By Justin Randall

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

When Italy’s Cavour aircraft carrier visited Japan in August, it was the latest in a string of other ports of call by European nations such as Britain, Germany and France, all of whom are engaging in military and defense industry partnerships in East Asia.

Will Europe's pivot to Asia have any teeth?

By Gabriel Dominguez

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