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Shinsuke Kimura, head of the Recovery Support Center, talks about the group's activities during an interview in Tokyo last week.

JAPAN

Mar 3, 2025

Nonprofit supporting victims of 1995 Tokyo sarin attack to disband

The Recovery Support Center was created as many victims complained of problems with their eyes even years after medical examinations began to be offered.

The entrance to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, in the city of Hiroshima, on Feb. 22

JAPAN

Mar 3, 2025

Annual visitors to Hiroshima museum top 2 million for the first time

The total number of visitors since the museum's opening is expected to surpass 80 million by the end of this month.

Maersk shipping containers are stored aboard the ‘Albert Maersk’ in Navi Mumbai, India, on Feb. 28.

BUSINESS / Markets

Mar 3, 2025

U.S. tariffs, easing of Middle East tensions threaten reversal of shipping boom

Global liner rates fell 5.9% sequentially in the week ended Feb. 27, after earlier breaking below $3,000 per 12-meter container for the first time since early May

WADA's Gunter Younger speaks during a news conference in December 2019.

MORE SPORTS

Mar 3, 2025

WADA looking to extend investigative program to Oceania and Asia

WADA launched the Intelligence and Investigation (I&I) program in Europe in 2022.

The higher cost of food is forcing Japanese consumers to scrimp and bargain hunt as their purchasing power drops.

BUSINESS / Economy

Mar 3, 2025

Japan’s consumers hunt for bargains as food inflation bites

The prices of staples such as rice, eggs and cabbage have all surged in the past 12 months.

A Russian military vehicle heads toward Hmeimim air base in Latakia, Syria, on Dec. 15, 2024.

WORLD / Politics

Mar 3, 2025

Russia gambles to keep military bases in post-Assad Syria

Syria's interim president wants to renegotiate the 49-year lease for one base and an indefinite lease for the other to secure better terms.

A woman checks her phone at Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea, in 2020. Passengers on South Korean airlines must now keep power banks and e-cigarettes on their person and not in overhead cabin bins.

BUSINESS / Tech

Mar 3, 2025

Seoul's lithium battery rules on planes highlight growing risk for aviation

Passengers on South Korean airlines must now keep power banks and e-cigarettes on their person and not in overhead cabin compartments.

Fulham goalkeeper Bernd Leno (right) celebrates with his teammates after their win over Manchester United in Manchester, England, on Sunday.

SOCCER

Mar 3, 2025

Fulham upsets Manchester United to reach FA Cup quarterfinals

Fulham goalkeeper Bernd Leno was the hero in the shootout

Xiaobaodang Coal Mine, in Shaanxi province, China, in 2023. China, which mines and burns half the world’s coal, is facing swelling inventories of the fuel.

BUSINESS / Markets

Mar 3, 2025

Coal’s four-year lows hide a coming global supply squeeze

Demand for the fuel continues to rise in India and China, outpacing breakneck rates of expansion in solar and wind.

People gather by the rubble of destroyed buildings for a mass gathering for a communal iftar fast-breaking meal on the second day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the area of al-Dahduh in Gaza City's Tal al-Hawa district on Sunday.

WORLD / Politics

Mar 3, 2025

Israel blocks aid to devastated Gaza as truce's first phase ends

The decision came as talks on a truce extension appeared to hit an impasse, after the ceasefire's 42-day first phase drew to a close.

Pedestrians commute through Shibuya Station in central Tokyo, an area that is almost never devoid of people.

JAPAN / Society / Longform

Mar 3, 2025

As the rest of Japan shrinks, Tokyo grows

Women and young people are leading a migratory wave that the government is struggling to halt.

Container cranes at the Port of Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Friday

BUSINESS / Economy

Mar 3, 2025

Trump heads toward tariff barrage on Canada, Mexico and China

The long-promised tariffs scheduled to take effect Tuesday would easily be among the most sweeping of the Trump era, applying to roughly $1.5 trillion in annual imports.

Xi Jinping, China's president, during a news conference with Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil's president, not pictured, at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. In roughly a dozen meetings with world leaders over a week in South America, Xi repeatedly sought to win assurances that nations would uphold the international free trade system as US President-elect Donald Trump threatens to put 60% tariffs on Chinese goods.

BUSINESS / Markets

Mar 3, 2025

Xi prepares to unveil China stimulus plan as trade war heats up

AI breakthroughs and Xi’s recent embrace of private entrepreneurs have driven a rally ahead of the National People’s Congress.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy either "needs to come to his senses and come back to the table in gratitude, or someone else needs to lead the country to do that."

WORLD / Politics

Mar 3, 2025

Trump allies pressure Zelenskyy to change course or resign

Democrats, meanwhile, have expressed disgust over the tenor of U.S. President Donald Trump's meeting with the Ukrainian leader.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron embrace after holding a meeting during a summit at Lancaster House in central London on Sunday.

WORLD / Politics

Mar 3, 2025

European leaders seek ‘coalition of willing’ to secure Ukraine

Britain and France aim to take a "Europe-plus” grouping to U.S. President Donald Trump in coming days to get his buy-in.

U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office in Washington on Tuesday. The U.S. president just signed another executive order on Saturday designating English as the official language of the United States.

WORLD / Politics

Mar 2, 2025

Trump designates English as official language of U.S.

The White House published an executive order by Trump which says it is "long past time" that English is declared as the nation's official language.

This still image taken from a Feb. 24 video released by Firefly Aerospace shows Firefly's Blue Ghost lander on its third lunar orbit, showing the far side of the moon.

WORLD / Science & Health

Mar 2, 2025

In first, private U.S. spaceship lands upright on moon

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 touched down shortly after 3:34 am U.S. Eastern Time on the moon's northeastern near side.

Lydia Ko poses with the trophy after winning the HSBC Women's Championship in Singapore on Sunday.

MORE SPORTS / Golf

Mar 2, 2025

Lydia Ko adds 'Asia's Major' to trophy haul with Singapore crown

Ko, a three-time major winner, started the final round with a one-shot lead over a tightly packed field.

The government plans to make it easier for urban workers to get side jobs in regional areas.

BUSINESS / Companies

Mar 2, 2025

Government to help regional firms hire urban workers for side jobs

The subsidies are part of a program that matches corporate workers with struggling small and midsize companies in regional areas.

Former Reds great Pete Rose speaks during a ceremony for the unveiling of his bronze statue at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati on June 17, 2017.

BASEBALL / MLB

Mar 2, 2025

MLB's Rob Manfred reviewing petition to reinstate Pete Rose

The report comes one day after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would pardon Rose.

Smoke is seen rising from the mountains of the city of Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on Friday. Authorities said the wildfire kept spreading, burning 1,800 hectares by Sunday morning.

JAPAN

Mar 2, 2025

Thousands flee after Japan's biggest wildfire in decades

There were about 1,300 wildfires across Japan in 2023, concentrated in the February to April period when the air dries out and winds pick up.

Ethiopia's Tadese Takele wins the the Tokyo Marathon on Sunday.

MORE SPORTS / Athletics

Mar 2, 2025

Tadese Takele wins Tokyo Marathon

Ethiopia's Deresa Geleta was second in 2:03:51, with Kenya's Vincent Kipkemoi Ngetich third in 2:04.

Bic Camera paid ¥557 million less than originally agreed to 51 contract makers of its private-label products including home appliances between July 2023 and August 2024, according to the Fair Trade Commission.

BUSINESS

Mar 2, 2025

Japan FTC urges Bic Camera to pay subcontractors in full

Bic Camera is believed to have begun underpaying subcontractors in 2020, when it began selling items under its own name.

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Pedestrians commute through Shibuya Station in central Tokyo, an area that is almost never devoid of people.

As the rest of Japan shrinks, Tokyo grows

By Alex K.T. Martin