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Toyota vehicles are loaded onto a ship at the Port of Nagoya in June last year.

BUSINESS / Economy

Concerns grow over possible U.S. tariffs on Japan's auto sector

By Kazuaki Nagata

U.S. President Donald Trump has pointed out that the U.S. is importing a "very big" amount of Japanese cars while other countries are not really buying American cars.

Trump threatens further tariffs as EU, Canada retaliate for those already in place

The U.S. says Japan has a 700% tariff on American rice. Is that the case?

Alimentation Couche-Tard founder and executive chairman Alain Bouchard (left) and President Alex Miller hold a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday.

BUSINESS / Companies

Alimentation Couche-Tard ramps up campaign to take over Seven & I

By Elizabeth Beattie

The Canadian convenience store giant and owner of Circle-K has sought to combat skepticism surrounding the deal, most recently with a news conference in Tokyo.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attends an Upper House Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Monday.

JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS

How Upper House pressure led to Ishiba's stunning reversal on medical cost caps

By Himari Semans

An unprecedented second amendment to Japan's budget shows opposition in the Lower House is not the only external pressure to which the government is exposed.

A construction site in Tokyo in July 2018. Businesses failing to take measures to prevent severe heatstroke among employees will be subjected to criminal punishment from June.

JAPAN / Science & Health

Japan to get tough on businesses not taking heatstroke countermeasures

By Tomoko Otake

Violators will be punishable with up to six months' imprisonment or a maximum fine of ¥500,000 ($3,380).

Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani poses with President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman at Ohtani's introductory news conference at Dodger Stadium on Dec. 14, 2023.

BASEBALL / MLB

Dodgers' Andrew Friedman hails team's growing Japan connection

By Jason Coskrey

“I think the atmosphere is going to be electric. ... I think it’s the closest I’ll ever get to traveling with the Beatles."

Kenichi Takano leaves a police station in Tokyo on Thursday to be sent over to prosecutors.

Man arrested in Tokyo stabbing tracked victim through livestream

Police turned over Kenichi Takano to prosecutors on suspicion of murder, believing he used the livestream to track the victim's location.

Some 40% of online casino users are unaware that gambling via the casinos is illegal, a survey by the National Police Agency shows.

3.37 million in Japan use overseas online casinos, police survey suggests

Around 40% of respondents in the survey said they were unaware using paid services offered by such sites was illegal, according to the National Police Agency.

Ishiba Cabinet disapproval rises to 44%

Japan embassy in Brazil holds Osaka Expo promotional event

Children targeted for crime through social media fell 10.8% in 2024

Man arrested on suspicion of using counterfeit new ¥10,000 bills

Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda has indicated he has little problem with the recent rising yield trend.

Shift in BOJ stance favors free market functioning over intervention

By Toru Fujioka and Sumio Ito

People familiar with the central bank's policy approach say the market should decide rates, and that investors need to get used to a world without yield curve control.

A worker inspects a steel coil on the factory floor before Canada's Prime Minister-designate Mark Carney visits the ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel mill in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, on Wednesday.

Trump threatens further tariffs as EU, Canada retaliate for those already in place

By Andrea Shalal, David Lawder and Jarrett Renshaw

The U.S. tariffs have rattled investor, consumer and business confidence and raised recession fears.

South Korean steelmakers eye U.S. investments as Trump tariffs kick in

By Heekyong Yang and Byron Kaye

Struggling Intel names industry veteran Lip-Bu Tan as CEO

Nomura exits bank climate group, joining Wall Street exodus

By Takashi Nakamichi

Electronic dictionary market shrinking in Japan

The level of intraparty animosity between the KMT and DPP is so high that brawls have repeatedly broken out in parliament as the government and opposition try to block each other from physically participating in voting on bills.

Taiwan’s DPP and KMT lock horns amid specter of recall votes

By Gabriel Dominguez

Recall votes could potentially alter the balance of power in the Legislative Yuan in favor of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party.

Mahmoud Khalil speaks to members of the media about the Revolt for Rafah encampment at Columbia University during the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York on June 1, 2024.

Judge extends ban on deportation of U.S. student over opposition to war in Gaza

By Luc Cohen, Jonathan Allen and Tom Hals

The case that has become a flash point following a pledge by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to deport some pro-Palestinian college activists.

Cautious Russia weighs Ukraine ceasefire plan as U.S. tries to seal a deal

By Guy Faulconbridge and Dmitry Antonov

Wife of student arrested in U.S. says she was naive to think he would be secure

By Jonathan Allen

Canadians, stung by Trump's tariffs and rhetoric, balk at U.S. travel

By Doyinsola Oladipo

U.S. steered Syrian Kurds toward Damascus deal, sources say

By Timour Azhari, Phil Stewart, Jonathan Spicer and Suleiman Al-Khalidi

Dodgers stars (from left) Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki disembark at Haneda Airport after arriving on Thursday for the upcoming MLB Tokyo Series games at Tokyo Dome.

Hundreds of fans vie for glimpse of homecoming MLB hero Ohtani

The roughly 500 fans who waited at Tokyo's Haneda airport did not get a chance to welcome their hero, with strict security measures in place.

Naoya Inoue to end four-year Las Vegas absence against Ramon Cardenas

Verstappen says Red Bull 'not the quickest at the moment'

Swiatek and Medvedev book spots in Indian Wells quarters

By Amy Tennery, Shrivathsa Sridhar and Frank Pingue

Jazz fined $100K for holding Lauri Markkanen out of games

Just like in times of old, with unresolved territorial disputes, regional disunity and economic self-interest prevailing over solidarity, Southeast Asia faces growing instability as tensions escalate.

Southeast Asia must learn to defend itself

David Hutt

Would any of the region’s governments lift a finger to maintain peace on behalf of a neighbor?

Pancreatic cancer vaccine shows hope. Make the investment.

By Lisa Jarvis

Lessons from Ukraine: Allies are fickle, nukes are forever

By Thomas O. Falk

Social media and playing at democracy

By Kaushik Basu

The law finally caught up with Rodrigo Duterte

By KARISHMA VASWANI

India, the world’s third-biggest emitter, wants to more than double clean-power capacity to 500 gigawatts by 2030. That won't be easy.

Eyeing short-term savings, India’s utilities put green energy boom at risk

By Rajesh Kumar Singh

A federal auction model that helped the country add more than 130 gigawatts of renewables projects over the past decade is under threat of circumvention.

On the Mongolian steppe, climate change pushes herders to the brink

By Rebecca Bailey

Most contaminated U.S. nuclear site is set to be the largest solar farm

By Keith Schneider

BRICS' climate leadership aims hang on healing deep divides

By Virginia Furness

Cascading extreme weather events unleash billions in damages globally

By Brian K Sullivan, Mary Hui and Joe Wertz

Ichiko Aoba’s latest full-length album, “Luminescent Creatures,” weaves in sounds mimicking whale songs and wind to express her fascination with the natural world and its interconnectedness.

Ichiko Aoba’s intimate sonic fantasy born from dreams

By Patrick St. Michel

The singer-songwriter turns her subconscious into songs about the natural world and its interconnectedness on “Luminescent Creatures.”

‘Escape’: Masao Adachi’s fugitive biopic salutes a kindred spirit

By James Hadfield

‘Nemurubaka: Hypnic Jerks’: Opposites come together with quips and dry humor

By Mark Schilling

Grief ebbs and flows between two tragedies in 'The Place of Shells'

By Thu-Huong Ha

‘May You Have Delicious Meals’: The ugly taste of office and gender politics

By Eric Margolis

While Google may be the restaurant review medium of choice in other countries, Japan largely prefers Tabelog, where five-star reviews are rare and three-star reviews aren't what they seem.

On Japan's top foodie site, imperfection is gold

By Weiwen Lin

Cultural expectations may influence ratings on Tabelog, but reading between the lines might help you find the next hidden gem.

Air Canada has a new 'kaiseki'-inspired menu

By Zoria Petkoska

Scams, taxes and tariffs: It's that time of year.

By Yuko Tamura

‘Granny hobbies’ are the new self-care

By Yuko Tamura

Stories from behind the bar at Shinjuku's Golden Gai

By Mika Inoue

Hiromi Okuda’s study abroad experience at the University of Mumbai inspired her to build a career at the intersection of social welfare and IT.

Hiromi Okuda: 'Humans and emerging tech should exist symbiotically'

By Jessica Kozuka

For the past 30 years, Hiromi Okuda has forged a career at the intersection of social welfare and technology.

A shy Shiba mix is ready to bloom

Redevelopment and resistance in historic Nishiogikubo

By Aviraj Gokool

How a Canadian missionary found spiritual transformation in Shikoku

By Suzanne Kamata

Mike Sunda: ‘Creative production comes with a bigger responsibility than ever before’

By Mike Fu

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Wealthier women in the prewar era had been the targets of various media-related health campaigns that mistakenly encouraged them to avoid everything from riding bicycles to reading novels when their monthly cycles came around.

Menstruation in Japan: Breaking the silence, slowly

By Tomoko Otake

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