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People near Martyrs Square in Beirut watch as Benjamin Netanyahu announces a ceasefire on television on Tuesday.

WORLD / Politics

Israel and Hezbollah reach a ceasefire agreement for Lebanon

By Hadriana Lowenkron and Galit Altstein

The deal for a 60-day pause could pave the way for a more lasting ceasefire after more than a year of fighting.

Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, followed by Princess Aiko and Princess Kako, prepare to attend a funeral service for Princess Yuriko at Toshimagaoka Cemetery in Tokyo on Tuesday.

JAPAN / Society

Funeral held for Princess Yuriko at Tokyo cemetery

By Yukana Inoue

The princess had been hospitalized since early March due to a stroke and pneumonia. She died of natural causes on Nov. 15 at age 101.

Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito, speaking to reporters in Tokyo on Monday, denies alleged election law violations.

JAPAN / Politics

Embattled Hyogo governor denies alleged election law violation

By Francis Tang

Embattled Gov. Motohiko Saito admitted Monday that he paid a PR agency to produce campaign posters, but he denied violating election law.

Akihisa Nagashima (center), a special adviser to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, meets with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell during a recent visit to Washington in this image posted to Campbell's X account.

JAPAN / Politics

Key Ishiba adviser visits U.S. as Japan builds inroads to Trump camp

By Jesse Johnson

Akihisa Nagashima has held talks with Republican lawmakers and others close to President-elect Donald Trump.

The Marines' Roki Sasaki practices at Es Con Field in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido, on Oct. 11.

BASEBALL / MLB

When Roki Sasaki signs his deal, Latin American amateurs will suffer

By Ken Rosenthal

His chosen team will likely use its entire bonus pool on him, breaking preexisting verbal commitments with some other amateur players.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's direct approach appears to mark a shift in the Japanese government's stance on the deal.

Ishiba urges Biden to approve Nippon-U.S. Steel deal, sources say

By Tim Kelly, David Dolan and Aishwarya Jain

The prime minister sent a letter asking the U.S. president to avoid marring recent efforts to strengthen ties between the two countries.

Cardboard beds at a designated evacuation shelter in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Jan. 31, following the Noto earthquake

Citing Noto quake, experts urge Japan to bolster disaster shelters

Key recommendations from a government task force include the provision of cardboard beds and adequate cooking and toilet facilities.

Many municipalities in Japan lack understanding of megaquake advisory system

False report on Yasukuni Shrine visit 'extremely regrettable,' top spokesperson says

Sapporo explosion leaves three injured

Japanese manicurist takes on plastic pollution, one nail at a time

By Tom Bateman

The services producer price index rose 2.9% in October from a year earlier, the Bank of Japan data shows, accelerating from a 2.8% gain in September.

Japan's steady corporate service inflation bolsters BOJ rate-hike view

By Leika Kihara

The Bank of Japan is watching service-sector inflation for clues on whether demand-driven price gains are broadening enough to justify further raising interest rates.

Four House Republicans wrote to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Friday, saying that recent developments related to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) "have called into question the integrity of its decision-making process,” and demanding the preservation of records related to a potential sale of U.S. Steel to Japan's Nippon Steel.

U.S. Steel review targeted by Republicans for potential probe

By Josh Wingrove

GOP lawmakers are calling on U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration to preserve documents related to the proposed sale to Japan's Nippon Steel.

Ishiba renews pressure on companies to ramp up pay

By Erica Yokoyama and Yuki Hagiwara

Antitrust watchdog raids Amazon Japan over alleged price-fixing

Trump pledges 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and more levies on China

By Jesse Johnson and Kathleen Benoza

Google and Meta urge Australia to delay bill on social media ban for children

By Renju Jose

A police officer drives a vehicle past burning trees during an evacuation of civilians from the outskirts of the Kurakhove town, in Donetsk region, Ukraine on Sept. 16.

Russia advances in Ukraine at fastest monthly pace since start of war, analysts say

By Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly

The war is entering what some Russian and Western officials say could be its most dangerous phase.

A satellite image shows a suspected missile assembly building under construction, visible in the lower central part of the image, at the "February 11" plant near the city of Hamhung in North Korea.

Satellite images may show North Korea expanding missile plant, researchers say

By Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart and Josh Smith

The plant in North Korea's second-largest city is the only one known to produce solid-fuel ballistic missiles Ukrainian officials say have been used by Russian forces.

Trump prepares wide-ranging energy plan centered on gas and oil, sources say

By Jarrett Renshaw

Philippines-China tensions trigger money-making disinformation

By Ara Eugenio, Jan Cuyco, Lucille Sodipe and Nattakorn Ploddee

Hong Kong court affirms housing and inheritance rights for same-sex couples

By Holmes Chan

Hong Kong a ‘global leader’ in financial crime, U.S. lawmakers say

Kotozakura speaks during a news conference in Fukuoka on Monday

Kotozakura unburdened by weight of history after claiming first title

By John Gunning

Sumo's top-ranked ozeki has won his first Emperor’s Cup.

GM agrees deal to enter F1 with Cadillac in 2026

By Alan Baldwin

U.S. women's keeper Naeher to retire after Europe matches

Ronaldo takes Al Nassr to brink of Asian Champions League quarters

Tiger Woods to skip Hero World Challenge after back surgery

Sanae Takaichi (left) celebrates Shigeru Ishiba’s victory in becoming the head of the Liberal Democratic Party along with then-Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo in September. Takaichi appears to be the only woman in any party who is close to breaking the glass ceiling to become the nation’s first female leader.

The derailing of potential female prime ministers

Edo Naito

Sanae Takaichi stands as the closest woman to breaking the glass ceiling and becoming Japan's first female prime minister.

Trump’s best hope for peace is to support Ukraine

By Tatyana Deryugina, Anastassia Fedyk, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Ilona Sologoub

Will Trump change course on critical and emerging tech?

By Kousuke Saitou

Peak beef could already be here

By David Fickling

Shadow of the British Empire hangs over New Zealand's treaty debate

By KARISHMA VASWANI

A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.

How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit

By Chris Russell

While offering relief to low-income households, such measures encourage the continued use of the fossil fuels driving climate change.

How Saudi Arabia turned back climate progress at COP29

By Akshat Rathi, Jennifer A. Dlouhy and John Ainger

Rich countries provide no haven from climate doom, study finds

By Frances Schwartzkopff

Can the world unite to end the plastic pollution crisis?

By Aaron Clark and Leslie Kaufman

Surprise solar boom in Pakistan helps millions, but harms grid

By Faseeh Mangi

Emerging Gen Z J-pop group ME:I will perform on this year's "Kohaku Uta Gassen," national broadcaster NHK’s New Year's Eve spectacle.

'Kohaku' still matters for J-pop bragging rights

By Patrick St. Michel

The recently announced 2024 lineup underlines how capturing a year of J-pop in one broadcast bonanza is impossible these days.

French-Japanese series takes best drama at International Emmys

By Kathleen Benoza

‘From 0 to 1’: Aiku Kurotaki’s fabric of existence

By Ansel Swindells

Chinese films about COVID-19 and gay romance win big at Taiwan awards

There's no room for wallflowers at Amapinight

By Kim Kahan

Totopa in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward was picked by consultants TTNE as the best sauna of the year.

Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat

By Greg Dvorak

The modern sauna experience is more than just taking a seat in some steam — whisking, aufguss shows and spectacle all play a part.

Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’

By Haru Beaufort

A buttery pound cake to die — or kill — for

By Simon Daly

After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future

By Jessica Kozuka

In rugged Yamanashi, a wild-goose chase for ‘real Japan’

By Owen Ziegler

After almost a decade of traveling around the world, a working holiday during the 2019 ski season in Nozawa Onsen was to be Rowie Geraerts’ last hurrah before she settled down in Australia.

How a solo yoga teacher built a wellness community in the Japanese Alps

By Samantha Mythen

A budding entrepreneur from Australia, Rowie Geraerts has created Shizen Collective in Nozawa Onsen — a new home for herself, locals and visitors.

Omar Nok: 'There are good people everywhere'

By Ansel Swindells

In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation

By Mike Fu

A bridge between kyogen and the world, Don Kenny dies at 88

By Rintaro Dainichi

Gary Perlman: ‘Kabuki is pure entertainment … the characters and themes are universal’

By Ansel Swindells

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat

By Greg Dvorak

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