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PALESTINIANS

The Eiffel Tower Stadium, under construction for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and the Champ-de-Mars Arena in Paris on April 13
OLYMPICS
May 21, 2024
No reason to sanction Israel at Games, says Paralympics head
Andrew Parsons says the situations regarding Israel, Russia and Belarus are different.
A scene following an Israeli strike on Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on April 22. Israel has carpet-bombed Gaza, obliterating neighborhoods and targeting hospitals, mosques, schools and camps for displaced people, according to a U.N. report.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 20, 2024
Impunity in Gaza is a threat to the international order
Israel's disregard for human rights and international law in Gaza, and the lack of consequences for such actions, are eroding the liberal international order that Japan relies on.
Jake Sullivan, national security adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden, speaks to reporters during a briefing at the White House in Washington on May 13.
WORLD / Politics
May 20, 2024
U.S. envoy touts 'potential' of Israel-Saudi deal in Netanyahu talks
Jake Sullivan called on the Israeli leader to link the military operation against Hamas with a "political strategy" for Gaza's future.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
WORLD / Politics
May 20, 2024
Israel’s war Cabinet in turmoil, but Netanyahu seen as secure
Two of the three members of Israel's war Cabinet have now spoken out against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's policies.
Ships are seen near a temporary floating pier built to receive humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip in Gaza Beach in this image release on Saturday.
WORLD
May 18, 2024
Fierce fighting in northern Gaza as aid starts to roll off U.S.-built pier
As the fighting raged, the U.S. military said trucks started moving aid ashore from a temporary pier, the first to reach the besieged enclave by sea in weeks.
Palestine Football Association President Jibril Rajoub called for Israel to be suspended from FIFA during the 74th FIFA Congress in Bangkok on Thursday.
SOCCER
May 17, 2024
Palestinian soccer officials call for Israel to be banned from FIFA
FIFA President Gianni Infantino told the FIFA Congress in Bangkok that the sport's global governing body will take independent legal advice to consider the Palestinian demand.
An Israeli soldier jumps off a tank near the Israel-Gaza border on Thursday. The slow progress of Israel's offensive highlights the difficulty of achieving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's aim of eradicating Hamas.
WORLD / Politics
May 17, 2024
Israel moves into north Gaza Hamas stronghold and pounds Rafah without advancing
The slow progress of its offensive highlights the difficulty of achieving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's aim of eradicating the militant group.
Displaced Palestinians travel in the Al-Mawasi area of the southern Gaza Strip on May 6.
WORLD / Society
May 17, 2024
'Our supplies will not last,' warns doctor at Gaza trauma center
Javed Ali says the situation around the southern city of Rafah is "dire."
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant talks to soldiers during a visit to a position along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel near Rafah.
WORLD / Politics
May 16, 2024
Israeli defense chief challenges Netanyahu over post-war Gaza plans
The televised vow to oppose any long-term Israeli rule over the ravaged Palestinian enclave is the most vocal dissent from within Israel's top echelon.
Displaced Palestinians drive their vehicles along a street devastated by Israeli bombardment in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
May 16, 2024
Israel PM says no humanitarian crisis in Rafah despite mass exodus
The sight of families carrying scant belongings through the ruins of war-scarred Gaza cities has evoked for many the events of the 1948 Nakba.
Demonstrators carry flags and banners during a protest in Amman, Jordan, on May 3 in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
WORLD / Politics
May 16, 2024
Jordan foils arms plot as kingdom gets caught in Iran-Israel shadow war
The weapons were sent by Iranian-backed militias in Syria to a Muslim Brotherhood cell in Jordan that has links to Palestinian group Hamas.
A pro-Palestinian supporter in Tokyo takes part in a protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza. Japanese universities are also experiencing their share of pro-Palestinian student demonstrations similar to those elsewhere in the world.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 15, 2024
What the campus Gaza protests lack — in Japan, too
Students are right to be distressed over the suffering of Palestinians. But are they applying cognitive empathy to understand the other side, too?
Displaced Palestinian children stand at a school as they wait to flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza city, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
May 15, 2024
How many of Gaza’s dead are women and children? For 10,000, it’s unclear.
The absence of personal details needed to ascertain their identities leads to their exclusion from the breakdown now being cited by the U.N.
Israeli army battle tanks move near the border with the Gaza Strip at a location in southern Israel on Monday.
WORLD
May 15, 2024
Israeli tanks push deeper into Rafah as battles rage in northern Gaza
Israel's international allies and aid groups have repeatedly warned against a ground incursion into Rafah.
Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, during a rally in Gaza City on April 14, 2023
WORLD / Politics
May 14, 2024
Secret Hamas files show how it spied on everyday Palestinians
A 62-slide presentation on the activities of the General Security Service reveals the degree to which Hamas penetrated the lives of Palestinians.
Israelis attend a ceremony at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery on Monday, marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers.
WORLD
May 14, 2024
In Israel, a 'different' Memorial Day amid Gaza war
Yom hazikaron, or Memorial Day, pays tribute to soldiers killed in the line of duty and to victims of attacks in Israel.
Boys watch smoke billowing during Israeli strikes east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
May 14, 2024
Celebrities face digital backlash over Gaza silence
For months, activists have flooded the comments sections of social media sites, urging stars to join calls for a cease-fire in the war.
Smoke billows following Israeli strikes on the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) on October 11, 2023.
WORLD / Society
May 13, 2024
Gazans strive to study as war shatters education system
The U.N. estimates that 72.5% of schools in Gaza will need full reconstruction or major rehabilitation.
A Palestinian student, who plans to return to his homeland after graduation and who wishes to remain anonymous, poses for a portrait while wearing a kaffiyeh along with his commencement cap at the Auraria Campus in Denver on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
May 13, 2024
Campus Gaza rallies may subside, but experts see possible 'hot summer of protest'
Academics say it's difficult to maintain the people-power energy on campus if most of the people are gone.
Palestinians who fled Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip transport their belongings in the back of a truck as they arrive to take shelter in Khan Yunis on Sunday.
WORLD
May 13, 2024
Israel pushes back into northern Gaza and ups military pressure on Rafah
Jabalia, Gaza's largest refugee camp, hosts over 100,000 people, mainly descendants of Palestinians displaced during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Sociologist Gracia Liu-Farrer argues that even though immigration doesn't figure into Japan's autobiography, it is more of a self-perception than a reality.
In search of the ‘Japanese dream’
By Thu-Huong Ha

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