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The Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Sazanami arrives in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean during a scheduled port visit in July. The Sazanami became the first Japanese warship to sail through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 26, 2024
Japan MSDF warship sails through Taiwan Strait for first time
The transit on Wednesday, which follows a spate of Chinese military moves near Japan, drew a strongly worded warning from Beijing.
Stefanos Tsitsipas, seen during a news conference during the Laver Cup Sept. 19, was eliminated from the Japan Open in the first round on Thursday.
TENNIS
Sep 26, 2024
Stefanos Tsitsipas loses in first round of Japan Open
Tsitsipas, a two-time Grand Slam finalist, also lost in the first round of the U.S. Open last month.
U.S. Steel said an arbitration board had ruled in favor of Nippon Steel's $14.9 billion buyout of the company.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 26, 2024
U.S. Steel says arbitration board rules in favor of Nippon Steel's $14.9 billion buyout
Nippon Steel had paid a hefty premium to clinch the deal for U.S. Steel on a bet that it could benefit from U.S. President Joe Biden's infrastructure spending bill.
Yonaguni Mayor Kenichi Itokazu speaks to a Ground Self-Defense Force soldier at the town hall on Yonaguni, Japan's westernmost inhabited island in Okinawa Prefecture last November.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 26, 2024
Deterring Taiwan conflict is top priority for Japan's ‘front-line’ mayor
The mayor believes the U.S. and Japan must do away with "strategic ambiguity" over Taiwan if they intend to keep China in check.
People shop for food during sunset hours in Taipei. Taiwan has lifted its import ban on Japanese foods.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2024
Taiwan lifts import ban on Japanese foods
Taiwan eased its import restrictions further, allowing all Japanese food products to be shipped there in principle.
Flowers are laid in front of a Japanese school in Shenzhen last Friday. A Japanese boy who was on his way to the school was fatally stabbed last week.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 25, 2024
Expat safety seen as a must for Japanese firms to keep doing business in China
Business leaders have underlined the duty of a host country to foreign firms in the wake of a fatal stabbing of a Japanese schoolboy in Shenzhen.
An unearthed Nazca Lines geoglyph in southern Peru
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 25, 2024
AI research uncovers 300 ancient etchings in Peru's Nazca desert
Researchers found the geoglyphs through field surveys conducted at sites selected with artificial intelligence technology from aerial photographs.
Japan's flag flies at half mast at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Thursday after a Japanese schoolboy was stabbed to death in the southern city of Shenzhen.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 24, 2024
The death of a Japanese school student: Is this just a tip of an iceberg?
Despite the fact that an innocent 10-year-old boy was brutally murdered, the reaction of the Japanese government and media was predictably restrained.
Former Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai (left) meets with with Zhao Leji, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, in Beijing, on Aug. 28.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 24, 2024
Form over substance: The contradictions in Japan-China relations
How Japan and other countries in Beijing’s periphery navigate the many incongruities in bilateral relations offers lessons for the U.S. and other Western nations.
A Maritime Self-Defense Force P-1 patrol plane fires off flares during a demonstration at an international fleet review ceremony in November 2022. The firing of flares is intended to confuse heat-seeking missiles but they are also commonly deployed to warn away other aircraft.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Sep 24, 2024
Moscow and Beijing unlikely to stop testing Tokyo's limits
Tokyo’s unprecedented decision to fire flares as a warning after a Russian military plane entered Japanese airspace may not be enough to prevent a recurrence.
Nippon Steel Vice Chairman Takahiro Mori says the company remains committed to talks with the United Steelworkers (USW) labor union.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 24, 2024
Nippon Steel's Mori asks USW leadership to 'come to the table'
The deal has faced opposition from high-profile Democrats and Republicans ahead of the U.S. November presidential elections.
Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (left) holds talks with China's top diplomat, Wang Yi (right center), during their 55-minute meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 24, 2024
China urges Japan to deal with stabbing 'calmly' as details of motive elude
Beijing has been trying to prevent the stabbing of the 10-year-old Japanese boy from spiraling into a wider diplomatic row between the Asian powers.
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JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Sep 23, 2024
Hokkaido seeks to grow market for scallops in the U.S. — and beyond
China's refusal to budge from its ban on Japanese seafood forces local officials to look elsewhere.
A Russian IL-38 patrol aircraft is seen in this image taken by the Air Self-Defense Force on Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2024
Japan fighters fire flares after Russian military plane enters airspace
A Russian IL-38 patrol aircraft violated Japanese airspace off Hokkaido’s Rebun Island three times, with the ASDF firing flares for the first time in response.
The street where a 10-year-old boy is said to have been stabbed with a knife last week in Shenzhen in southern China. The boy died the next day.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 23, 2024
Top Japanese and Chinese officials hold talks in wake of deadly stabbing
Japan's state minister for foreign affairs, Yoshifumi Tsuge, urged China on Monday to ensure the safety of Japanese nationals.
Visitors taste sake from Fukushima Prefecture at a Japan-South Korea exchange festival held in Seoul on Sunday.
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2024
Japan-South Korea exchange festival held in Seoul
The event comes at a time where more and more South Koreans are visiting Japan as relations improve and the yen remains weak.
Kishida thanked Khurelsukh at the meeting Sunday for Mongolia's cooperation over the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals decades ago.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 23, 2024
Japan and Mongolia leaders affirm defense equipment accord
The pact is designed to allow the two countries to export defense equipment and technologies to each other and to ensure their appropriate management after the transfers.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Indian leader Narendra Modi and U.S. President Joe Biden look on during an event at the Quadrilateral Summit in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 2024
Australia backs easing of China's ban on Japan fishery products
The leaders of Japan and Australia agreed to enhance their countries' cooperation on economic security and affirmed the importance of expanding youth exchanges.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. President Joe Biden meet at Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 22, 2024
Biden and Kishida affirm strong ties ahead of leadership transition in both nations
The leaders agreed to "advance cooperation" on a range of security, economic and diplomatic issues as both leaders prepare to leave office.
China fires long-range missile into Pacific Ocean in rare test
Chinese military vehicles carrying DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missiles travel past Beijing's Tiananmen Square during a military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, on Oct. 1, 2019.
Russia has a secret war drones project in China, intel sources say
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits a drone production facility of the the Special Technology Center in St. Petersburg on Sept. 19.
As Onosato dominates the spotlight, former sumo stars exit the stage
Takakeisho during a one-day tournament at Kokugikan in Tokyo in February 2020
Japan MSDF warship sails through Taiwan Strait for first time
The Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Sazanami arrives in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean during a scheduled port visit in July. The Sazanami became the first Japanese warship to sail through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday.
Putin issues nuclear warning to the West over Ukraine striking Russia
Russia's President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the Security Council on the subject of nuclear deterrence in Moscow on Wednesday.
A first look inside the new Nintendo Museum
The Nintendo Museum opens to the public on Oct. 2, but unlike the company's all-ages games, the new attraction may be geared more toward older rather than younger gamers.
China fires long-range missile into Pacific Ocean in rare test
Chinese military vehicles carrying DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missiles travel past Beijing's Tiananmen Square during a military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, on Oct. 1, 2019.
People of all ages and sizes scale new heights amid climbing boom in Japan
A climbing wall at a kindergarten in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture. The sport has been on the rise in Japan, mainly due to the popularity it gained from the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, and new climbing walls are popping all over the place.
In need of rice and some Japanese words that describe necessity
A farmer harvests rice in a paddy field in Tamba-Sasayama, Hyogo Prefecture, last month.
Does Sanae Takaichi have a real shot at becoming Japan's first female leader?
Economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, a candidate in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential election, speaks during a debate in Tokyo on Sept. 14.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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A woman passes an "akichi" (vacant lot) in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo. The capital is littered with such small lots in part because of Japan's aging and shrinking population.
Dealing with rising land vacancies as Japan shrinks
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