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JAPAN

The lawmaker that secures a majority of votes in the Lower House will become prime minister. If no one gets a majority, the two top contenders will enter a runoff in which the person with the highest number of votes gets elected.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 14, 2025
Could an opposition candidate become Japan¡¯s next prime minister?
By Gabriele Ninivaggi
With the CDP, DPP and Nippon Ishin no Kai still far apart when it comes to their key policies and political objectives, it¡¯s unclear if they can field a unified candidate.
LDP head Sanae Takaichi attends an LDP meeting in Tokyo on Oct. 4.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 14, 2025
A frustrated LDP weighs its options now that Komeito is out
By Himari Semans
Having Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba stay on at the helm and delaying the prime ministerial vote entirely were floated as ideas to buy time.
An All Nippon Airways flight returned to Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Monday evening, about an hour after takeoff, after it was found to have struck runway lights.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2025
ANA flight returns to Haneda Airport after hitting runway lights
None of the 174 passengers and crew members on the flight to Iwakuni Kintaikyo Airport in Yamaguchi Prefecture were injured.
Masanori Aoki, 34, has been handed the death penalty for killing four people, including two police officers, in the city of Nakano, Nagano Prefecture, in 2023.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 14, 2025
Nagano court sentences man to death for quadruple murder
Presiding Judge Masashi Sakata said the crime ¡°leaves no room for leniency, and deserves the highest level of condemnation.¡±
Participants sample sake at an event in London on Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2025
Sake industry steps up promotion in Britain
The Times newspaper has published a feature on sake, and local supermarkets have begun selling the drink.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2025
Japan welcomes release of Israeli hostages in Gaza
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi on Tuesday welcomed the release of the last 20 living Israeli hostages by the militant group Hamas.
Newly-elected leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Sanae Takaichi (right) celebrates with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba after winning the LDP leadership election in Tokyo on October 4.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 14, 2025
Number of scenarios now on the table for who might be Japan¡¯s next prime minister
By Eric Johnston
With Komeito¡¯s exit from the ruling coalition, there is now no guarantee LDP chief Sanae Takaichi will be voted prime minister when parliament convenes.
The Imperial Household Agency's headquarters building inside the Imperial Palace. The agency released the list of 1,777 invitees on Tuesday for a garden party to be hosted by Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako at the Akasaka Imperial Gardens in Tokyo on Oct. 28.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2025
More than 1,700 people invited to autumn imperial garden party
The list includes meritorious individuals, local government officials and their spouses.
A recent survey by the Sports Agency found that women in their 30s and 40s were less physically fit in 2024 compared to 1998 levels as more women are busy working and/or raising children.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 14, 2025
Fitness levels fall for women in their 30s and 40s compared to 1998, survey finds
By Jessica Speed
The survey from the Sports Agency suggested women are too busy working and/or raising children to do physical exercise, resulting in the decline.
A Chinese marine survey vessel was spotted by the Japan Coast Guard on Monday within Japan's exclusive economic zone off an island in Kagoshima Prefecture.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2025
Chinese survey ship spotted in Japan¡¯s EEZ off Amami Oshima
The ship was found extending a pipe-like object into the sea about 385 kilometers west of the island.
Bear warning signs at the Akita Prefectural Government building
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2025
As temperatures drop in Japan, bear attacks shoot up to historic highs
By Yukana Inoue
A total of 39 people sustained injuries from bear attacks in September alone.
University of Osaka professor Shimon Sakaguchi (right), and Susumu Kitagawa, special professor at Kyoto University, attend a reception for Swedish Crown Princess Victoria hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo on Monday.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2025
Japanese Nobel winners attend reception in Tokyo
It was the first time Shimon Sakaguchi and Susumu Kitagawa had appeared together in public since being named Nobel laureates last week.

ASIA PACIFIC

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said Tuesday the recent kidnappings in Cambodia were causing "significant harm to South Koreans," and urged immediate government action.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 14, 2025
80 South Koreans missing in Cambodia scam center row, Seoul says
Between January and August this year, 330 South Koreans were reported to have gone missing or been held against their will after entering Cambodia.
Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary To Lam (right) and Chinese President Xi Jinping
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 14, 2025
From menacing to ¡®cool¡¯: How views on China have shifted in Vietnam
By Phuong Nguyen and Francesco Guarascio
Social media appears to be playing a crucial role in the changing mood in Vietnam ¡ª and in particular TikTok, which is popular among the young.
Thai army and police (bottom) face off with Cambodian people in a disputed area along the Cambodia-Thailand border, as seen from Sa Kaeo province, on Sept. 17.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 14, 2025
Trump to attend signing of Thai-Cambodian ¡®peace deal¡¯
Malaysia¡¯s foreign minister said the U.S. leader would visit Malaysia on Oct. 26 to attend the ASEAN summit in the Malaysian capital, which runs through Oct. 28.
Amina (L), a household helper, sits beside her mother as she speaks during an interview in Karachi on July 31.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 14, 2025
¡®I know it¡¯s immoral¡¯: Child workers still common in Pakistan
By Sameer MANDHRO
One in four households in a country of 255 million people employs a child as a domestic worker, mostly girls aged 10 to 14.
Alleged victims of Myanmar's scam centers in the process of repatriation on Feb. 12. Fraud factories in Myanmar blamed for scamming Chinese and American victims out of billions of dollars are still in business and bigger than ever.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 14, 2025
Myanmar scam cities booming despite crackdown ¡ª using Musk¡¯s Starlink
By Isabel Kua, Matthew WALSH and Nalini Lepetit-Chella
China, Thailand and Myanmar had pressured militias into vowing to ¡°eradicate¡± the compounds in February, releasing around 7,000 people from a brutal call center-like system.
Young Nepalis register for the upcoming parliamentary elections in Kathmandu on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 14, 2025
After uprising, Nepal¡¯s Gen Z rush to register to vote
By Anup OJHA
For many, it will be their first time participating in an election, and they see it as a chance to shape the future of their country of 30 million people.
Jin Mingri, the head pastor of the Zion Church in Beijing, has been detained by Chinese authorities on "suspicion of the illegal use of information networks."
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 14, 2025
China detains prominent underground pastor in crackdown
Jin Mingri, who founded the unregistered Zion Church, has been detained on ¡°suspicion of the illegal use of information networks.¡±

WORLD

A health worker administers HPV vaccine to a student in Islamabad on Sept. 24.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 14, 2025
Spread of drug-resistant superbugs surging, WHO warns
By Nina LARSON
The United Nations¡¯ health agency warned that one in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections worldwide in 2023 showed resistance to antibiotic treatments.
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport as Trump leaves Israel en route to Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, to attend a world leaders' summit on ending the Gaza war, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal, in Lod, Israel, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 14, 2025
Trump convinced Netanyahu to take a deal. Can he keep him on board?
By Gram Slattery, Alexander Cornwell and Humeyra Pamuk
With Israel and Hamas divided over many aspects of Trump¡¯s plan, Netanyahu¡¯s approach may shift as he attempts to keep his right-wing coalition together for next year¡¯s elections.
A worker at one of the Blast Furnaces at British Steel's steelworks site on April 15
WORLD / Politics
Oct 14, 2025
Brexit, decay and politics collide on U.K.¡¯s industrial east coast
By Maddie Parker and Jamie Nimmo
The common thread is fading industrial competitiveness because of things like high energy costs compared to rivals like China, that politicians have struggled to address.
Mourners and villagers carry the coffin of a Pakistani soldier in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 14, 2025
Why has the latest Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict erupted?
By Saeed Shah
Late on Saturday, Taliban forces attacked Pakistani military posts along the length of the 2,600-kilometer?border, with Pakistani forces later retaliating.
Crowds gather as a helicopter carrying hostages freed from captivity by Hamas in Gaza arrives at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 14, 2025
Trump hails ¡®tremendous day for Middle East¡¯ as leaders sign Gaza declaration
The signing came hours after Israel and Hamas exchanged hostages and prisoners.
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech during the Gaza Peace Summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 14, 2025
Trump basks in the spotlight in Egypt with harder part to come
Trump has offered a vision for a broader Middle East peace after the success of U.S.-led mediation efforts to end the fighting in Gaza. But these goals are formidable.
France's Economy and Finance Minister Roland Lescure (left) and Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard arrive for a meeting with the newly appointed members of the reappointed Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu's Cabinet, at the Hotel Matignon in Paris on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 14, 2025
France¡¯s embattled prime minister faces clutch day in parliament
By Anne RENAUT, Anna Smolchenko and Francesco Francesco
France is in a deep political crisis that has spooked markets and raised concern about its minority government¡¯s ability to govern and ease the country¡¯s debt burden.
Palestinian militants on the day that hostages held in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack, are handed over in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Monday.
WORLD
Oct 14, 2025
Hamas carries out wave of Gaza killings, citing crime and security concerns
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking on his way to the Middle East, suggested Hamas had been given a temporary green light to police Gaza.
Commuters cross Westminster Bridge in London in 2024. The United Kingdom¡¯s domestic security service has warned politicians and their staff that they are being targeted by spies from China, Russia and Iran.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 14, 2025
MI5 warns U.K. politicians of spying efforts by China, Russia and Iran
By Alex Wickham
The warning comes weeks after a high-profile espionage case in which two men were accused of spying for China fell apart.

BUSINESS

Instagram has tightened content filtering for teen accounts to be in tune with the U.S.' PG-13 rating standard used for films.
BUSINESS
Oct 14, 2025
Instagram accounts for teens to be in tune with U.S. PG-13 rating standard
The move comes as Meta and other social media platforms face pressure to show they aren¡¯t putting profit and engagement over the well-being of users, especially children.
A participant samples tuna exported to Brazil by a company from Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, at a Japan External Trade Organization event in Sao Paulo on Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 14, 2025
Firms show off Japanese food at event in Brazil
Tradbras Importacao E Exportacao, a Brazilian unit of Japanese food manufacturer Kikkoman, showed off rice made in Niigata Prefecture.
CEATEC 2025, a cutting-edge international digital technology exhibition, opened at Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 14, 2025
CEATEC digital tech show kicks off near Tokyo
Companies featuring products and services that utilize artificial intelligence account for more than half of the 810 participants from Japan and abroad.
The 'Takaichi trade' is in doubt and Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi faces challenges from opposition parties.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 14, 2025
China-U.S. trade war and political turmoil in Japan weigh on Tokyo stocks
By Francis Tang and Kazuaki Nagata
The Nikkei 225 fell as much as 1,500 points, and closed the day down 2.58%, at 46,847.32.
A 1978 picture shows King Charles III, then the Prince of Wales, wearing a Barbour jacket as he attends a cross country hunt event in Cirencester, England. Barbour jackets can be worn for decades because one can get them rewaxed.
BUSINESS
Oct 14, 2025
This old thing? Why brands are hyping well-worn, heritage hand-me-downs
By Chris Rovzar
Shoppers, particularly Gen Zers, are becoming more attracted to used items, even paying top dollar for weathered jeans and jackets.
AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot with U.S. President Donald Trump during an announcement about lowering U.S. drug prices, at the White House in Washington on Friday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 14, 2025
U.S. investments, and rhetoric, help AstraZeneca seal drug deal with Trump
By Maggie Fick
Deal to lower drug costs for Americans and shield the drugmaker from import tariffs was the culmination of efforts stretching back to November last year, sources say.
Britain's National Cyber Security Centre was asked to help with 429 cyber incidents in the 12 months to August, half of which were considered to be of "national significance."
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 14, 2025
U.K. warns business leaders as ¡®highly significant¡¯ cyber incidents rise 50%
By James Pearson
A series of cyberattacks in recent months has knocked some of Britain¡¯s biggest brands ¡ª including Marks & Spencer, Co-op and Jaguar Land Rover ¡ª offline.
People walk past a large electronic screen showing the Samsung logo at a train station in Seoul on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 14, 2025
Samsung rides global AI boom to its biggest profit since 2022
By Yoolim Lee
South Korea¡¯s largest company reported an operating profit of 12.1 trillion won in the September quarter, according to a preliminary earnings report.
Takahiro Kobayashi, the new CEO of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management, says the firm is aiming to become one of the top three managers of Japanese mutual funds.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 14, 2025
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust¡¯s fund manager targets top-three ranking
By Takako Taniguchi and Nao Sano
The firm is shooting for the higher ranking by driving up two of its funds¡¯ total assets to more than ?1 trillion each.
A container ship at the Port of Los Angeles. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has accused China of pointing a bazooka at the supply chains and the industrial base of the entire free world with its rare earth curbs.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 14, 2025
Trump and Xi spark another standoff with world economy at risk
The question now is which side blinks first.
Bridgestone CEO Shuichi Ishibashi says truck tire demand for new vehicles in the U.S. has fallen sharply since early August.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 14, 2025
Bridgestone CEO sees U.S. slowdown, cyberattack and tariffs hurting business
By Reina Sasaki
The challenges in North America are testing Bridgestone¡¯s?ability to defend margins and sustain growth, a familiar refrain for Japan¡¯s export-driven manufacturers.
Pace Japan Vice President Kyoko Hattori, the de facto head of the nation¡¯s business, believes a larger, more lucrative art market will allow Japan to be more attractive for collectors.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 14, 2025
Pace eyes great strides for Japan¡¯s art market
By Elizabeth Beattie
One of the largest art galleries in the world wants to turn the country into the center of Asia¡¯s art scene.

Opinion

U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order on tariffs at the White House on April 2. Trump's protectionism is rippling through labor markets and dampening consumer demand around the world.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 14, 2025
Is the global economy as resilient as it seems?
By Eswar Prasad and Caroline Smiltneks
U.S. economic expansion is losing steam as the Trump¡¯s erratic economic policies, harsh immigration tactics and cuts in social expenditures take a toll on growth and employment.
Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of the Democratic Party for the People, holds a news conference at the Diet on Oct. 7. The collapse of the LDP-Komeito coalition highlights the risks of an opposition more focused on obstruction than solutions.?
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 14, 2025
Japan¡¯s opposition coalition is a recipe for paralysis, not progress
By Stephen R. Nagy
The collapse of the LDP-Komeito coalition highlights the risks of an opposition more focused on obstruction than solutions.
Brooklyn Nets' Cam Thomas dribbles past Phoenix Suns' Oso Ighodaro during the NBA pre-season basketball game at the Venetian Arena in Macau on Sunday.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 14, 2025
The NBA¡¯s return to China is no slam dunk
By Juliana Liu
From a commercial point of view, re-engaging with its second-biggest market is an obvious move.
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt moors at Changi Naval Base in Singapore in April 2018.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 14, 2025
Singapore thrived in a U.S.-led world. Now what?
By Hal Brands
Singapore is a mind-blowing success story that reminds us how distinctive America¡¯s post-World War II global project was.

Sports

Japan's national team poses for a group photo after beating Brazil at Ajinomoto Stadium in Tokyo on Tuesday.
SOCCER
Oct 14, 2025
Japan beats Brazil for first time in chaotic comeback win
By Sam Byford
In a match marked by defensive breakdowns on both sides, Samurai Blue was able to overturn a two-goal deficit and extend its home unbeaten streak to 21 games.
Supporters celebrate Cape Verde's victory against Eswatini in a 2026 World Cup qualifying match, at a fan zone in Sao Vicente, Cape Verde, on Monday.
SOCCER
Oct 14, 2025
Cape Verde erupts in celebration after first World Cup qualification
FIFA President Gianni Infantino said the achievement was likely to ¡°power a new generation of football lovers¡± across the nation.
Iceland defender Victor Palsson (left) falls over France forward Jean-Philippe Mateta during a 2026 World Cup qualifying round match in Reykjavik on Monday.
SOCCER
Oct 14, 2025
France faces crunch match against Ukraine after 2-2 draw with Iceland
France remains top of Group D with 10 points from four games, three ahead of Ukraine, which beat Azerbaijan 2-1 on Monday.
Dodgers players celebrate after defeating the Brewers during Game 1 of the NLCS round for the 2025 MLB playoffs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Monday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 14, 2025
Dodgers barely preserve Blake Snell¡¯s win in NLCS opener
Freddie Freeman hit a solo homer in the sixth inning and Los Angeles increased the lead to 2-0 in the top of the ninth when Mookie Betts drew a bases-loaded walk.
Mariners second baseman Jorge Polanco hits a three-run home run against the Blue Jays in Toronto on Monday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 14, 2025
Mariners rout Blue Jays to seize 2-0 lead in MLB playoffs
The Mariners are halfway to winning the best-of-seven American League Championship Series and reaching their first World Series.

LIFE

The award-winning Existing is Exhausting beer is a crisp and bitter West Coast IPA with a hint of sweetness.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 14, 2025
A bitter pale ale from Yokohama finds a sweet win at World Beer Awards
By Jeremy Wilgus
Libushi Bashamichi brewery¡¯s award-winning IPA, Existing is Exhausting, was born out of a collaboration with a Shibuya craft beer bar and a local English wrestler.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Authorities urge continued caution after heavy rain in Chiba leaves eight dead
A local resident walks past a 7-Eleven convenience store in a flooded area after heavy rain in the city of Oamishirasato, Chiba Prefecture, on Friday.
Takaichi drops ¡®remorse¡¯ in her first war memorial address
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks onstage during a memorial service ceremony marking the 81st anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, at Budokan Hall in Tokyo on Saturday.
U.S. to tell partners they must pick sides in AI race with China?
People march as they protest against Pax Silica, a U.S.-led initiative, in Manila on Thursday.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Takaichi needs Aso on her side to solidify position in LDP
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a Liberal Democratic Party meeting alongside LDP Secretary-General Shunichi Suzuki (left) and LDP Vice President Taro Aso in Tokyo earlier this month
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Japan¡¯s changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

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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