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Data from NTT Docomo’s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.

JAPAN / FOCUS

As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach

By Jessica Speed

A sociology professor warns a blanket ban could push children toward less visible online spaces or encourage them to lie about their age, making exploitation harder to detect.

Data from NTT Docomo’s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.

A car makes its way through strong winds and rain as Typhoon Dolphin approaches, on Amami island, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Friday in this screenshot obtained from a social media video.

JAPAN

Typhoon Dolphin hits Okinawa, with China shutting ports ahead of landfall

By Satoshi Sugiyama and Eduardo Baptista

The storm left five people injured and cut power to 14,000 buildings in the prefecture.

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike shakes hands with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi during a meeting Friday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.

JAPAN

Missile shelter to be built near Tokyo Station amid rising security concerns

By Jesse Johnson

The push to build more durable shelters comes amid North Korea’s ramped-up pace of ballistic missile tests and China’s growing arsenal of powerful weapons.

A collapsed roof is seen at a hotel in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, on July 30, after a powerful earthquake hit the area days earlier.

JAPAN

Kumamoto quake toll rises to 39

The number of casualties from the temblor has reached 205 in the prefecture, with 23 severely injured.

Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.

JAPAN / Society / Longform

What Kumamoto revealed about Japan’s earthquake readiness

By Alex K.T. Martin

Roads stayed fairly clear after the quake. Water, care and daily life proved much harder to restore.

Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.

Japan's food self-sufficiency ratio, which stood at ?37% in fiscal 2025, has remained below 40% for ?more than a decade despite ?government efforts to boost domestic production of heavily imported crops.

Japan’s food self-sufficiency ratio falls to 37%, well below 2030 goal of 45%

By Yuka Obayashi

The ?ratio is among the lowest of developed economies and underscores the country’s vulnerability ?to food supply disruptions amid heightened geopolitical ?tensions.

Kayoko Mori (left) holds a portrait of Shigeaki Mori, together with Robert Tatalovich, a relative of a U.S. serviceman killed in the atomic bombing, in the city of Hiroshima on June 3.

Historian’s wife continues his research on U.S. captives in Hiroshima

Shigeaki Mori became famous when he hugged then U.S. President Barack Obama in Hiroshima in 2016. Since his death, Kayoko Mori has continued his work.

Japan protests South Korean maritime survey off disputed Takeshima

Tamaki faces challenge in DPP leadership race

Prince Hisahito offers flowers for Hiroshima A-bomb victims

Tax official dismissed over fraud and dodging tax on gambling winnings

U.S. President Donald Trump during an American mining industry roundtable discussion at the State Department in Washington on Friday

U.S. to invest $3 billion in minerals projects to boost supply chains

Minerals including rare earths, tungsten, germanium and scandium are essential for precision-guided missiles and other advanced weapons.

U.S. and Japanese officials have warned investors they’re determined to keep defending the yen if needed.

Yen jumps on U.S. data as traders watch for intervention clues

The currency gained 0.4% on the day to trade at ?157.76 per dollar as of 5 p.m. in New York.

Trump’s homegrown solar push risks widening green divide

Trump renews effort to fire Fed Gov. Lisa Cook, continuing attacks on central bank

Japan’s GPIF posts $152 billion gain with help from stocks

By Hideyuki Sano

U.S. support for yen increases expectations for September rate rise in Japan

By Kazuaki Nagata

The U.S. Cyber Command building (center) stands on the National Security Agency campus at Fort Meade, Maryland.

America’s cyberforces grapple with cluster of deaths by suicide

By JAKE BLEIBERG

The U.S. military’s cyberwarfare unit is scrutinizing an unusually high number of deaths by suicide among personnel over a monthlong period this summer.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left), Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (center) and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif meet in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Friday.

Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan sign defense pact amid regional war

Riyadh is looking to strengthen its security ties against the backdrop of war between the U.S. and Iran, which has drawn in surrounding nations and disrupted shipping.

Russia’s only anti-war party eyes support boost at elections

Exodus: West Bank hardships drive out Palestinian Christians

India’s ‘cockroach’ protest movement keeps heat on Modi

New Colombia president pledges robust fight against crime, fiscal austerity

Players from each J. League club pose during a kickoff event on Monday ahead of the start of the 2026-27 campaign.

J. League enters new era as league kicks off first fall-spring campaign

By Sean Carroll

A move to align with the European calendar has been made in part to strengthen the position of Japanese clubs in the transfer market — especially when it comes to selling players.

Former Carp catcher wishes for peace 81 years after atomic bomb

Kawhi Leonard had undisclosed deal with video board company, according to report

Formula One CEO says to expect more sprint races in 2027

Australia looking for fresh start under new coach Les Kiss against Japan

Clarisse Agbegnenou of France celebrates after winning her match against a disappointed Miku Takaichi of Japan during the judo mixed team final at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Japan’s winning sports tradition shouldn’t include abuse

Kanae Doi and Hanna Yumura

Japan needs to establish an independent Safe Sport Center to address abuse in athletics and ensure that recent legal reforms translate into meaningful protections for athletes.

Nagasaki 81 years on: Learn what hibakusha know

By Annelise Riles

Japan and the world should not fear a real nuclear debate

Flag-waving at Fuji Rock: Conviction or fashion?

By Yukari Easton

Can Moonshot’s Kimi K3 now stay in orbit?

By Catherine Thorbecke

A former eel fishing boat covered in mud sits at the banks of the river Rhine as the water levels fall near Neuss, Germany, on Tuesday.

Low water levels on Germany’s Rhine amid heat and drought threaten economic blow

Shallow water is imposing tighter limits on how much ship cargo can float down the river — sending prices up for riverboat freight and heaping pressure on the government to act.

As the Danube hits record lows, every centimeter of river counts

Australian regulator sues Japan’s Inpex over Ichthys LNG emissions breaches

Lithium mining for green power triggers eco-outcry from South African farmers

By Tim Cocks

Climate change expected to redraw Africa’s malaria map, study finds

By Janice Kew

Takeshi Shibata (middle) directs Masahiro Motoki on the set of “The Man Who Carries the Voice of August.” Shibata says he hopes the film can help viewers around the world understand hibakusha and “the threat of nuclear weapons.”

‘The Man Who Carries the Voice of August’ explores the fragile legacy of the hibakusha

By Sebastien Raineri

A journalist’s effort to record hibakusha testimonies raises questions about memory, truth and survival.

‘Till We Meet Again on the Starry Hill’: Time-travel kamikaze romance gets a pointless sequel

By James Hadfield

‘Ghost of Ueno’: A human drama about the invisible among us

By Mark Schilling

Fans rush to buy copy of Keigo Higashino’s final work

By Elizabeth Beattie

Before the art islands, a reason to stop in Okayama

By Erik Augustin Palm

Japan's first prison-turned-hotel, Hoshinoya Nara Prison offers as much luxury as it does surprisingly thoughtful reflections on the former facility's place in the country's march toward modernity.

Locked up in luxury at the new Hoshinoya Nara Prison hotel

By Owen Ziegler

Open from July, the lodging occupying an Important Cultural Property prompts guests to reflect on societal progress and the role of prisons.

How one Japanese couple made the 1920s and ’30s into a way of life

By Alex K.T. Martin

At Nonna Nietta, Italian magic in suburban Tsukuba

By Robbie Swinnerton

A sushi rice pocket by any other name

By Simon Daly

Beast of Reincarnation shows Game Freak has more to learn

By Owen Ziegler

Volunteer Vicky Parthasarathy (right) believes that people from various cultures can understand each other better through food.

This children’s cafeteria in Shikoku serves up free meals and global perspectives

By Jacob Meyer

As immigration becomes an increasingly contentious issue in Japan, a children’s cafeteria in Shikoku is bridging cultural gaps, one hot meal at a time.

How foreign workers became an essential part of Japan’s ubiquitous konbini

By Yumi Wijers-Hasegawa

The 180-day locals: Life on Japan’s digital nomad visa

By Mai Yoshikawa

A friendly ‘peaches-and-cream’ fellow

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

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.

What Kumamoto revealed about Japan’s earthquake readiness

By Alex K.T. Martin

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