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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Ali Akbar Ahmadian, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, in Saint Petersburg on Friday
WORLD / Politics
Sep 15, 2024
Russia sharing nuclear secrets with Iran fuels U.S.-U.K. worries
The nuclear information and technology may be in exchange for Tehran providing Moscow with ballistic missiles for its war in Ukraine.
Speaking remotely to a forum in Kyiv, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said President Joe Biden will meet Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy in late September at the U.N. General Assembly in New York to discuss aid to Ukraine.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 15, 2024
Biden to use rest of term putting Ukraine in 'best position'
The U.S. president will meet Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy in late September at the U.N. General Assembly in New York to discuss aid to Kyiv.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (right) and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy speak to the media outside of the West Wing of the White House in Washington on Friday following a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 14, 2024
Biden hasn’t let Ukraine strike deep into Russia. Could Britain change that?
A trip to Washington by Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, came after President Vladimir Putin of Russia warned that the allies’ next step could mean war for NATO.
A Ukrainian serviceman carries a part of a downed Russian suicide drone amid Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, near Kyiv last November.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 14, 2024
Russia produces new kamikaze drone with Chinese engine
The intelligence indicated that a subsidiary of a Russian state-owned weapons-maker produced more than 2,500 attack drones from July 2023 to July 2024.
Pope Francis holds a news conference aboard the papal plane on his flight back to Rome after his 12-day journey across Southeast Asia and Oceania, on Friday.
WORLD / Society
Sep 14, 2024
Pope says Trump and Harris 'against life' as Asia tour ends
The comments on the U.S. presidential hopefuls came as he defied health concerns to connect with believers from Papua New Guinea to Singapore.
Workers with picket signs outside the Boeing Seattle Delivery Center during a strike in Seattle on Friday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 14, 2024
Boeing and union negotiators to resume talks next week amid strike
A long strike could further damage Boeing's finances, already groaning due to a $60 billion debt pile.
Employees work on an electric car production line near Ningbo, China, in April 2021. In new measures announced Friday, the Biden administration is moving to block off a popular tariff-free path for Chinese apparel coming into the United States, and added stiff levies on electric vehicles, solar panels and other products.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 14, 2024
U.S. locks in steep China tariff hikes, as some industries warn of disruptions
The tariffs include a 100% duty on Chinese EVs, 50% on solar cells and 25% on steel, aluminum, EV batteries and key minerals.
A secretive program called Secure Enclave and involving Intel and the Pentagon seeks to establish production for advanced chips with military and intelligence applications.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 14, 2024
Intel solidifies $3.5 billion deal to make chips for U.S. military
The secretive program, called Secure Enclave, seeks to establish production for advanced chips with military and intelligence applications.
A water tower at the United States Steel Edgar Thomson Works steel mill in Braddock, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 4
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 14, 2024
Biden administration is likely to delay decision over U.S. Steel
The White House has faced backlash for politicizing its review of Nippon Steel’s takeover of the company.
Nippon Steel headquarters in Tokyo
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 13, 2024
Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel send letter to Biden on merger plans
A spokesperson did not provide details about the letter's content, but said it was signed by the chief executives of both steelmakers.
World Anti-Doping Agency President Witold Banka attends the World Anti-Doping Agency Symposium in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 12, 2024.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 13, 2024
Report clears WADA in doping case involving Chinese swimmers
The report's author, Swiss prosecutor Eric Cottier, said he found "WADA has done its work autonomously, independently and professionally."
Union members react as Aerospace Machinists District 751 President Jon Holden (out of frame) announces that union members rejected a proposed Boeing contract and will go on strike, following voting results at their union hall in Seattle, Washington, on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 13, 2024
Boeing workers going on strike after 96% vote for walkout
The Boeing workers' last strike in 2008 shuttered plants for 52 days and hit revenue by an estimated $100 million per day.
The deepening rift and growing geopolitical divide between the United States and Europe threatens the trans-Atlantic alliance.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 13, 2024
The U.S. will abandon Europe. But when and how?
The deepening rift and growing geopolitical divide between the United States and Europe threatens the trans-Atlantic alliance.
A vendor attends to a customer at the secondhand books section of Panjiayuan antiques market in Beijing
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 13, 2024
China wants academic exchanges, but censorship could stand in the way
The Chinese Communist Party has exerted control over all publications since establishing the People's Republic of China in 1949.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during an event in St. Petersburg on Thursday.
WORLD
Sep 13, 2024
Giving Kyiv long-range missiles pulls West into war, Putin says
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been pleading with Kyiv's allies for months to let Ukraine fire Western missiles deep into Russian territory.
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event at the Tucson Music Hall in Tucson, Arizona, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 13, 2024
There will be no more debates with Harris, Trump says
While Donald Trump said in his post that polls showed he won the debate, several surveys showed that respondents thought Kamala Harris did better.
Japanese media's lack of critical engagement and depth in covering debates can be attributed to Japan's Broadcasting Law, which mandates political impartiality in news coverage.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 12, 2024
How Japanese and U.S. election coverage differs
Japanese media's coverage of U.S. debates tends to be more superficial and uniform, often merely reflecting U.S. media content.
China Coast Guard vessels fire water cannons toward a Philippine resupply vessel on May 4 near the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea. Beijing claims the waterway almost in its entirety despite an international court ruling that its assertion has no legal basis.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 12, 2024
China to 'crush' foreign encroachment in South China Sea, PLA official says
Lt. Gen. He Lei said the Chinese military will "resolutely crush any foreign hostile encroachment on China's territorial, sovereign and maritime rights and interests."
Nippon Steel argues that its acquisition of U.S. Steel would be a win-win.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 12, 2024
Quiet assurances mooted as U.S. Steel deal shakes global order
Analysts and informed observers have been gaming out the possible outcomes and adding up the potential damage.
The U.S. presidential debate is unlikely to change the minds of voters significantly; instead, it may maintain the current momentum of the race, with Harris emerging as the apparent victor and Trump revealing his limitations.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 12, 2024
Trump may not have met his Waterloo, but he more than met his match
The race is too close to call, but Tuesday, Harris was the clear victor. Trump, on the other hand, left no doubt about his limitations.
Japan must correct Trump’s false data for trade talks, says Kono
Former Foreign Minister Taro Kono
Japan wants to 'separate' tariff and security issues. That may be tough.
Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, poses with a "Make America Great Again" cap at the White House in Washington on April 16.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Nintendo says demand for Switch 2 console in Japan is overwhelming
An attendee plays with the Nintendo Switch 2 gaming device at a media event in Tokyo on April 3.
Top Japanese firms scrap employment system that held women back
MUFG Bank, a unit of the nation’s biggest banking group, is among firms that recently scrapped a clerical job category that consisted almost exclusively of women, a sign that the financial sector is finally getting more serious about reducing gender inequalities.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.
Cases of epidural use in labor rise in Japan alongside concerns
Of the 721,000 childbirths reported in 2024 in Japan, 13.8% involved the use of an epidural, according to the Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
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