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Ships are docked along a pier at the Khor Fakkan Container Terminal, the only natural deep-sea port in the region and one of the major container ports in Sharjah Emirate, along the Gulf of Oman on Tuesday. Tehran announced it was closing the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday and launched missiles and drones at its Gulf neighbors.

WORLD

Trump resumes Iran port blockade and threatens strikes on energy targets

The 1949 Geneva Conventions on humanitarian conduct in war prohibit attacks on sites considered essential for civilians.

After Hormuz, Iran turns to Red Sea gateway as new pressure point

Ships are docked along a pier at the Khor Fakkan Container Terminal, the only natural deep-sea port in the region and one of the major container ports in Sharjah Emirate, along the Gulf of Oman on Tuesday. Tehran announced it was closing the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday and launched missiles and drones at its Gulf neighbors.

The finale of the Saga Joka Sakae no Kuni Matsuri festival in the city of Saga on May 24

JAPAN / Society

Organizers reschedule summer events to dodge extreme heat and heavy rain

Summer festivals and fireworks shows that used to be held in July or August have either been brought forward or pushed back.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Rome on June 15. The prime minister is entering the finals days of the current parliamentary session without a serious dent in her approval.

JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS

Takaichi Cabinet retains high approval ratings despite challenges

By Kenji Yoshida

Latest polls from NHK and JNN show support declining just 1 and 5.9 percentage points, respectively, compared to polls from March.

Since April 2024, the amount of overtime doctors can perform has been capped at a maximum of 960 hours per year.

JAPAN / Society

15% of doctors put in over 960 hours of overtime, health ministry survey finds

By Tomoko Otake

The results come despite yearslong efforts to address overwork in the medical industry.

Spanish defender Pedro Porro celebrates after his team won the 2026 World Cup football tournament semi-final match between France and Spain at the Dallas Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Tuesday.

SOCCER

Majestic Spain stun France to reach World Cup final

World Cup winners in 2010, Spain will now face either Argentina or England in Sunday’s final in New Jersey.

Spanish defender Pedro Porro celebrates after his team won the 2026 World Cup football tournament semi-final match between France and Spain at the Dallas Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Tuesday.

Tokyo Metropolitan Government officials wear shorts, T-shirts and sneakers at work on Tuesday as part of the capital's "Cool Biz" initiative.

Too hot: Buttoned-up Tokyo officials ditch suits for ‘cool’ shorts

The loosening of a strict dress code comes as Japanese offices cut reliance on air conditioning due to high energy costs linked to the Middle East war.

Bears have killed at least five people in Japan since April 1, all in the northern region of Tohoku, after a record 13 fatal attacks across the country in the last fiscal year, according to the environment ministry.

Japan family finds bear in kitchen, calls police

Bears have killed at least five people in Japan since April 1, all in the Tohoku region.

Japanese companies gradually implement measures to combat customer harassment

Two more former Japan Post workers implicated in bribery scandal

ANA captain jailed for sexually assaulting flight attendant

International conference on bluefin tuna fails to strike agreement

Analysts say investors remain more focused on Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s expansionary fiscal agenda, expectations for only gradual Bank of Japan policy tightening and still-wide interest-rate differentials.

Japan’s bid to bring money home faces fiscal and BOJ reality check

The renewed focus on domestic investment comes as Tokyo seeks new ways to support Japanese assets after repeated foreign-exchange interventions failed to halt the yen’s slide.

OpenAI is developing a new smart speaker that will turn its presence on a computer screen to a physical manifestation of its ChatGPT.

OpenAI’s first device will be movable, screenless speaker built as AI companion

By Mark Gurman

The device represents a critical next step for OpenAI, which is poised for an initial public offering in the coming months.

KFC Japan may cut menu as logistics outage disrupts deliveries

By Maho Nambu

JR East announces design of new inspection shinkansen train

AI ignites ‘ignored sector’ for Japan chipmaker Kioxia

By Katie Forster

BOJ’s 2016 negative rate shock shows split board hitting limit

By Toru Fujioka

Yemeni gunmen brandish their weapons during a rally to recruit more fighters in Sanaa on July 6. A senior Yemeni official warned on Monday that the country's armed forces were prepared to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

After Hormuz, Iran turns to Red Sea gateway as new pressure point

By Samia Nakhoul

A senior Yemeni official warned the country’s armed forces were prepared to close a waterway linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden if Saudi Arabia continued to attack Yemen.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks to the media after his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on July 10.

Can U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s Ukraine initiatives survive without him?

The late senator, a close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, was a vocal advocate for Ukraine.

Kenya’s goons: A world of political violence and desperation

Brutal killing of 11-year-old highlights unrelenting sexual violence in India

By Tora Agarwala

Vietnam jeweler rocked as ex-official linked to gem smuggling

By Nguyen Kieu Giang

Burnham team falls into infighting over Miliband chancellor pick

Jude Bellingham has emerged as England's most indispensable player during its run to the semifinals.

Argentina and England set to renew historic rivalry in World Cup semifinals

Meetings between the countries have long felt larger than soccer.

AL All-Stars score early, shut out NL on three hits

‘Immense disappointment’: Mbappe rues end of World Cup dream

McIlroy seeks end to British Open drought as Scheffler defends title

By Kieran CANNING

IOC asked to investigate FIFA president’s role in Balogun reversal

An honor guard presents the flags of Japan and the United States during a welcoming ceremony attended by then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ahead of a bilateral meeting in Tokyo in March 2021.

Long-held strategic assumptions no longer hold

Brad Glosserman

For Japan, then, any real discussion of security must start with questions about the U.S. commitment to the region.

Japan looks to Ukraine’s battlefield for defense blueprint

By Cory Alpert

What Budapest’s Pride march taught me about Japan

By Waka Ikeda

The yen’s plunge changes the case for Bank of Japan rate hikes

By Koichi Hamada

America’s new India doctrine: Never repeat the China mistake

By Brahma Chellaney

A firefighting aircraft works to contain wildfires at the Fontainebleau forest, in Acheres-la-Foret, amid a heat wave affecting large parts of France on Sunday.

Wildfires ravage over 1,300 hectares of historic forest near Paris

Police have arrested two people on suspicions of arson over the fire that erupted Sunday in the sprawling Fontainebleau forest, a former royal hunting estate.

Extreme heat threatens Italy’s Parmigiano-Reggiano heartland

By Sara Rossi

‘Green curtains’ take root as communities seek out eco-friendly sun protection

Europe recorded 10,000 excess deaths during late-June heat wave, data shows

By Kate Abnett

South Korea issues first emergency heatwave warning under new rating system

By Kang Jin-kyu

Actor Yutaka Matsushige performs a dining scene during the filming of an episode of the TV drama series "Solitary Gourmet" at a tuna restaurant in Chiba Prefecture.

How ‘The Solitary Gourmet’ became one of Japan’s most enduring TV hits

By Mathias Cena

The understated TV series has won devoted fans by celebrating Japan’s neighborhood eateries and the quiet pleasures of dining alone.

‘Why Wait, Just Die’: A dead-eyed investigator takes on an unsolved murder

By James Hadfield

‘AnyMart’: A surreal parable about the dark side of convenience stores

By Mark Schilling

The beating heart inside ‘Human Vapor’

By Gabriella Geisinger

Japanese dancers win ballet prizes in Moscow

It's not unheard of for summer temperatures in Kumagaya to reached over 40 degrees Celsius, but the Uchiwa Festival goes on regardless.

Surviving the Uchiwa Festival, Japan’s hottest ‘matsuri’

By Jessica Kozuka

Temperatures in Kumagaya, home of the raucous Uchiwa Festival, often top 40 degrees Celsius.

A sensory encounter at rare architectural gem KAIT Plaza

By Erik Augustin Palm

In Japan, ‘tastes like medicine’ can be a compliment

By Makiko Itoh

Japan’s top high school ‘karuta’ players head to their own Koshien

By Yuko Tamura

Stripped of Michelin stars, Sezanne embraces a changing of the guard

By Phoebe Amoroso

Young people in India's northeast are increasingly studying Japanese in hopes of building new lives and careers in Japan.

Japan needs caregivers. Young Indians are answering the call.

By Megha Wadhwa

From classrooms in India’s northeast to nursing homes in Japan, an emerging labor corridor hopes to improve lives in both countries.

Found on Jan. 1, Osechi is a New Year’s darling

Filmmaker explores history of discrimination against foreign nationals in Japan

By Elizabeth Beattie

Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way

By Mai Yoshikawa

Two furry siblings seek their forever home

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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