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JAPAN

"Shuto Kacho" (flowers and birds in the autumn and winter)
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2025
Tokyo art museum to exhibit Japanese works from British Museum
The exhibition will be held from July 25 to Oct. 18 at the museum in the Ueno district of the capital's Taito Ward.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a ceremony Monday in Tokyo after her comment referring to her determination to work hard as president of the Liberal Democratic Party was awarded buzzword of the year for 2025.
JAPAN / Society
Dec 1, 2025
Takaichi¡¯s work ethic sound bite wins Japan¡¯s buzzword of the year
By Yukana Inoue
¡°Work, work, work, work and work¡± was named 2025¡¯s buzzword of the year.
LDP and JIP lawmakers discuss Lower House seats reduction in Tokyo on Nov. 21.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 1, 2025
Takaichi and JIP's Yoshimura agree to submit bill reducing Lower House seats
By Eric Johnston
Passing a bill to cut seats in the lower chamber was a key demand for the Japan Innovation Party to enter into a coalition government with the Liberal Democratic Party.
Rin Yonezu holds his late brother's backpack at an elementary school in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, in August.
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Tohoku
Dec 1, 2025
How one man struggled with his image as a relative of disaster victims
Some people?have suffered by seeing?their?experiences of losing their loved ones in disasters reported in ways that went against their wishes.
A leaflet made by the Metropolitan Police Department explains its Digi Police crime prevention app.
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2025
Tokyo police app blocks incoming international calls to help combat fraud
When the new feature is enabled, the app automatically blocks international calls and calls from numbers Tokyo police know have been used for fraud.
Elementary students engage in creative activities at Okinawa International School in the city of Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture.
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Okinawa
Dec 1, 2025
Okinawa school attracts Tokyo families seeking international education
Two-thirds of first graders at Okinawa International School come from families who relocated from outside the prefecture, mostly from the Tokyo metropolitan area.
A photo of a bear taken by a drone camera in the village of Showa, Fukushima Prefecture
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2025
Drones used to locate and drive away bears in Fukushima village
Showa's local government has conducted patrols using the drones on a regular basis since October.
Japan has reportedly held informal talks with the Philippines on the possible export of a Type-03 Medium-Range Surface-to-Air Missile system to Manila.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 1, 2025
Japan defense firms saw sales boom in ¡¯24 as Tokyo eyes end of more export curbs
By Jesse Johnson
Sales by Japan¡¯s top defense firms rose 40% year-on-year in 2024, new research has shown, as Tokyo looks to further ease rules on the export of lethal defense gear.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (left) meets with Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki in Naha on Sunday.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 1, 2025
Central government and Okinawa remain apart over U.S. base relocation
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara visited Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki at the prefectural office in Naha in Sunday.
Fumitake Fujita, co-leader of the Japan Innovation Party, speaks at a news conference on Nov. 19.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Dec 1, 2025
Uncertainty looms over Lower House seat reduction
Frustration is increasing within the Liberal Democratic Party over the attitude of the Japan Innovation Party.
Princess Aiko poses for a photo at the Imperial Palace in November prior to her 24th birthday on Monday.
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2025
Princess Aiko, daughter of Emperor Naruhito, turns 24
The princess has had busy but fulfilling days, balancing her work at the Japanese Red Cross Society with her official duties as a member of the imperial family.

ASIA PACIFIC

A drone view shows an area hit by deadly flash floods following heavy rain in Padang, West Sumatra province, Indonesia,on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 1, 2025
Asia floods toll tops 1,100 as militaries aid survivors
By Rezan Soleh and Amal JAYASINGHE
Indonesia's death toll of at least 502 is the worst in a natural disaster there since a massive 2018 earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed more than 2,000 people.
Officers from the Hong Kong Police Force's Disaster Victims Identification Unit work inside an apartment block in the aftermath of the deadly fire at the Wang Fuk Court residential estate in Hong Kong's Tai Po district in this image released on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 1, 2025
Police comb fire-ravaged Hong Kong apartments as death toll hits 146
Police have completed sweeps of four of the seven towers, finding bodies of residents in stairwells and on rooftops, trapped as they tried to flee the flames.

WORLD

Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov (R) and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (L) speak to the press after a meeting with U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, in Hallandale Beach, Florida, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 1, 2025
Rubio sees progress in Florida talks with Ukraine, but more work needed to reach deal
The top U.S. diplomat said the talks were meant to create a pathway for Ukraine to remain sovereign and independent.
People camp in a heavily damaged U.N. school in Jabalia, Gaza, on Jan. 23.
WORLD
Dec 1, 2025
Egypt trains hundreds of Palestinians for future Gaza police force
A Palestinian official said all members of the force will be from the Gaza Strip and paid by the Palestinian Authority, which is based in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
Israa Mukhtar, a witness of an attack by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April on Relief International's medical clinic in Sudan's Zamzam camp, sits inside a tent, in Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, on June 13.
WORLD / Society
Dec 1, 2025
Hospital massacre caps long series of attacks on health care in war-torn Sudan
By Nafisa Eltahir and Lena Masri
Attacks on health care intensified after the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary besieged al-Fashir in April 2024 amid a civil war against the Sudanese Armed Forces.
The U.S. Navy¡¯s Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group sail toward the Caribbean Sea under F/A-18E/F Super Hornets and a U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress, in the Atlantic Ocean on Nov. 13.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 1, 2025
Trump says will 'look into' supposed follow-on strike on alleged drug boat
Since September, U.S. airstrikes have targeted alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing at least 83 people.
Pope Leo XIV disembarking from his plane upon arriving at Beirut International Airport, in the Lebanese capital, on November 30, 2025. Pope Leo XIV on November 30 called on the Lebanese people to embrace reconciliation and to remain in their divided, crisis-hit country, which has seen waves of emigration.
WORLD / Society
Dec 1, 2025
Pope urges Lebanese to embrace reconciliation and stay in the country
By Clement MELKI and Lisa Golden
Long hailed as a model of coexistence, multi-confessional Lebanon is nonetheless plagued by sectarian and political rifts, and has seen waves of emigration.
A man walks past voting posters in favor of an initiative for compulsory civic duty for all is seen in a street in Geneva, on Nov. 25.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 1, 2025
Swiss reject universal compulsory civic duty and climate tax for superrich
By Nina LARSON
Final results from across the country showed voters spurning the proposals that had generated significant discussion in the wealthy Alpine nation.
The New York Times reported Friday that Donald Trump and Nicolas Maduro had discussed a possible meeting.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 1, 2025
Trump confirms call with Maduro, Venezuela slams U.S. maneuvers
By Patrick FORT and Aurelia End
Washington says the aim of its Caribbean military deployment is to curb drug trafficking in the region, but Caracas insists regime change is the ultimate goal.
The cases against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have exposed divisions in Israeli society between his supporters and opponents.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 1, 2025
Israel's Netanyahu seeks pardon in corruption cases
By Gianluca PACCHIANI
The cases against Netanyahu have exposed divisions in Israeli society between his supporters and opponents, with his backers dismissing the trials as politically motivated.
An Airbus attack helicopter during a NATO military training exercise in Cincu, Romania
WORLD / Politics
Dec 1, 2025
NATO is preparing to confront Russia with limited U.S. support
By Andrea Palasciano and Andra Timu
Threats from Washington to shut off remaining military support for Kyiv has raised the possibility of European powers having to defend Ukraine with limited U.S. backing.

BUSINESS

Yoshinori Kanehana, chairman of Kawasaki Heavy Industries, during the Future Investment Initiative conference in Tokyo on Monday
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2025
Kawasaki signals price hikes for motorbikes to offset tariffs
By Nicholas Takahashi
Kawasaki Heavy is widely known for its popular motorbikes, but its business spans naval frigate engines to subway cars.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during the Future Investment Initiative conference in Tokyo on Monday.
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2025
Takaichi uses line from 'Attack on Titan' to drum up investment
After mentioning the popularity of Japanese manga and anime in Saudi Arabia, Takaichi quoted the line in her speech: "Just shut your mouths. Invest everything in me!"
Tourists from China in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo on Nov. 22
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2025
China travel warning deals blow to Matsuya Ginza tax-free sales
By Kanoko Matsuyama
The slump in inbound spending underscores how diplomatic tensions between China and Japan since mid-November are weighing on retail sales.
Brisk sales of "Myaku-Myaku" mascot at Osaka Expo's official stores helped raise West Japan Railway's profit.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 1, 2025
Osaka Expo boosts earnings at rail operators in western Japan
Osaka Metro and JR West are set to pay special bonuses to their employees amid a surge in passengers and expo-related business profits.
Nobumitsu Hayashi, head of Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), is interviewed in Tokyo last week.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 1, 2025
91²Ö¿â JBIC shifts financing focus to economic security projects
By Makiko Yamazaki and Tamiyuki Kihara
JBIC's role has expanded in response to China's growing influence and rising geopolitical risks, evolving into a tool of economic statecraft.
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda speaks at a meeting with business leaders in Nagoya on Monday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 1, 2025
BOJ¡¯s Ueda sends clear hint at chance of December rate hike
By Toru Fujioka
The central bank ¡°will consider the pros and cons of raising the policy interest rate and make decisions as appropriate,¡± he told local business leaders in Nagoya.
An aerial view of an Amazon Web Services Data Center known as U.S. East 1 in Ashburn, Virginia, on Oct. 20
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 1, 2025
Keeping cool: Heat a key challenge for data centers and AI
By Lucy Raitano and Supantha Mukherjee
An outage at the world's biggest exchange operator, CME Group, has put a spotlight on data centers overheating.
Japan¡¯s two main stock benchmarks have chalked up annualized returns above 6% in the last five years in dollar terms, attracting international investors.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 1, 2025
Citadel and Point72 alumni to lead new Japan hedge fund
By Bei Hu
Takeo Serizawa will become chief investment officer of Hong Kong-based Invictus Investment Partners, while Tomohiro Yamaguchi will become CEO.
Atsuki Tofukuji, head of BYD's Japan unit, speaks during an unveiling of the company's Sealion 6 plug-in SUV in Tokyo on Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 1, 2025
BYD releases its first plug-in hybrid for Japanese market
The front-wheel-drive version of the Sealion 6 SUV sells for ?3,982,000 and the four-wheel-drive version for ?4,488,000.
Japan¡¯s two-year note yield, which is sensitive to monetary policy expectations, rose to its highest level since 2008.
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 1, 2025
Japan¡¯s two-year yield hits highest since 2008 on rate-hike bets
By John Cheng
The swap market is now pricing in about a 76% chance of a rate hike when the central bank delivers its next policy decision on Dec. 19.
An employee places food items made in-store on the shelves at a Ministop convenience store outlet in the city of Chiba in October.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Dec 1, 2025
Scandal puts Ministop's handmade onigiri at crossroads
This summer, Ministop acknowledged that workers at 25 domestic stores falsified consume-by dates on onigiri, deli items and other foods prepared in store.
Japanese firms' capital expenditure on goods excluding software edged down 0.3% from the previous quarter in the three months through September.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 1, 2025
Japanese firms scale back investment as tariff headwinds hit
By Erica Yokoyama
Capital expenditure on goods excluding software edged down 0.3% from the previous quarter even as corporate profits jumped by the most in two years.
U.S. White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett is seen as the likely choice to succeed Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chair.
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 1, 2025
Trump says he has made his choice to lead the Federal Reserve
By Josh Wingrove, Maria Paula and Mijares Torres
People familiar with the matter said last week that White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett is seen as the likely choice to succeed Jerome Powell as Fed chief.
A sample of monazite, a mineral used in the rare earth industry to extract elements such as cerium, lanthanum and neodymium, at the Geological Museum of China in Beijing. The European Union is set to announce a plan to reduce its reliance on raw materials from China.
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2025
'Slow' EU to unveil plan for cutting reliance on raw materials from China
By Julia Payne
The EU will face challenges creating its own?critical raw materials and rare earths industry, largely from scratch, from mines to extraction, processing and stockpiling.
Kayakers paddle on the Swan River in Perth, Australia, in 2008.
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 1, 2025
AUKUS set to further fuel Australia¡¯s hottest housing market
By Swati Pandey
Around $16 billion is due to be poured into Western Australia¡¯s Perth over the next decade.

Sports

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta shouts instructions to his players during the club's match against Chelsea in London on Sunday.
SOCCER
Dec 1, 2025
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta reflects on grueling week after draw with Chelsea
Arteta's injury-hit side salvaged a point at Stamford Bridge thanks to Mikel Merino's header in the 59th minute.
Panthers quarterback Bryce Young passes against the Rams during the first quarter in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 1, 2025
Bryce Young enjoys big day as Panthers upset Rams
The Rams, who boasted the best record in the NFC heading into Sunday's duel in Charlotte, were left ruing mistakes at key moments.
Sweden's Armand Duplantis mimics Baseball Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium on Sept. 15.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Dec 1, 2025
Armand Duplantis and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone named World Athletes of the Year
Duplantis, along with retaining his gold medal at the world championships in Tokyo in September, continued his dominance of men's pole vault.
Lane Kiffin will become the next coach at LSU after six seasons with Ole Miss.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Dec 1, 2025
Lane Kiffin leaves Ole Miss to become head coach at LSU
In his statement, Kiffin confirmed that he would not be coaching Ole Miss in the postseason.
McLaren's Oscar Piastri drives during the Qatar Grand Prix in Doha on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Dec 1, 2025
McLaren boss admits team made costly strategy blunder during Qatar GP
McLaren's decision not to pit under an early safety car intervention when every other team pitted both drivers wrecked its hopes.
Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates after winning a World Cup slalom race in Copper Mountain, Colorado, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 1, 2025
Shiffrin bags 104th World Cup win with Copper Mountain slalom victory
She tops the discipline standings and also heads the overall standings.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen celebrates after winning the Qatar Grand Prix in Doha on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 1, 2025
Max Verstappen wins Qatar Grand Prix to set up three-way showdown for F1 crown
Verstappen's third win in a row in the night race moved the four-time?world champion up to second in the standings.

CULTURE

Yumi Matsutoya began her decades-long career under her maiden name, Yumi Arai, but Japanese fans might know her better as ¡°Yuming.¡±
CULTURE / Music / Longform
Dec 1, 2025
Yumi Matsutoya¡¯s human touch in an AI age
By Patrick St. Michel
Even as she experiments with AI, Yumi Matsutoya returns to the craft, memories and instincts that shaped her long career.

COMMUNITY

A native of the Jura region of France, Severine Lamielle moved to Tottori Prefecture in 2024 and found a job as a taxi driver.
COMMUNITY / Issues / The Foreign Element
Dec 1, 2025
A French cabbie behind the wheel in small-town Japan
By Isabelle Steen
In Tottori, Japan¡¯s least populous prefecture, Severine Lamielle¡¯s career as a taxi driver is both a curiosity and a small sign of demographic change.
Trump security strategy demands more from Japan while unveiling ¡®burden-sharing network¡¯
U.S. President Donald Trump makes a speech aboard the USS George Washington aircraft carrier during his visit to the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Oct. 28.
Spotlight shines on humanoid robots at Tokyo show
A representative from Noitom Robotics demonstraties remote robot operation at the iREX International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo on Friday.
Japan¡¯s bear-related casualties hit record on escalating attacks
Bear bells are displayed for sale at a souvenir shop at Shirakawa-go, a popular tourist spot and one of Japan's UNESCO World Heritage sites, in the village of Shirakawa, Gifu Prefecture, on Nov. 15.
Suspected ³Ù´Ç°ì³Ü°ù²â¨± masterminds in Tokyo-area robberies arrested
Takuya Saito, 26, is one of four men arrested by Japanese police on Friday on suspicion of masterminding a series of robberies in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
Average price of rice in Japan hits new record high
In the week ended last Sunday, the average price of rice sold at about 1,000 supermarkets across Japan rose by ?23 from the previous week to ?4,335 per 5 kilograms.
Will Takaichi bank on her high approval ratings to call a snap election?
While media polls show a high support rate for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi¡¯s Cabinet, the support for the LDP is not as great, meaning there¡¯s no guarantee of a coattail effect if a snap poll is called.
¡®Black Box Diaries¡¯ is Shiori Ito¡¯s unflinching case for the truth
¡°Black Box Diaries¡± documents Shiori Ito¡¯s legal case, while also showing her thoughts and feelings through journal style videos she recorded herself.
Kashima or Kashiwa: J. League title chase goes down to the wire
Kashima's Yuma Suzuki (center) takes a shot during a game against Kashiwa in March.
2025 was the year Japan¡¯s box office returned
In 2025, ¡°Demon Slayer¡± and ¡°Kokuho¡± broke box-office records, while films such as ¡°Renoir,¡± A Pale View of the Hills¡± and ¡°Two Strangers, Two Seasons¡± garnered acclaim on the international film festival circuit. The year¡¯s biggest loss was the death of Tatsuya Nakadai, an highly regarded actor who had worked with nearly all of the top directors of Japanese cinema¡¯s postwar golden age.
The key points under discussion on policies affecting foreign nationals
Visitors head to Shirakawago, a popular tourist spot, in Gifu Prefecture in November.

Podcast

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

Longform

Yumi Matsutoya began her decades-long career under her maiden name, Yumi Arai, but Japanese fans might know her better as ¡°Yuming.¡±
Yumi Matsutoya¡¯s human touch in an AI age
By Patrick St. Michel

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