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A plastic bottle cap about 3.5 centimeters in diameter, where polychaete worms built a nest out of small pebbles. It drifted from the coast of the Philippines and was recovered off Kochi Prefecture.

JAPAN

Jul 20, 2026

Researchers find tiny marine ecosystem — population 307 — in a bottle cap

The discovery shows that a large amount of plastic waste floating in the sea can become small ships of organisms, according to a Japanese research team.

Cafe owner Takahiro Yamazaki hopes an expected registration of the Asuka-Fujiwara ancient capitals in Nara Prefecture as a UNESCO World Heritage site will give more people a chance to think about Japan's ancient times.

JAPAN / Society

Jul 20, 2026

Nara cafe owner hopeful about ancient capitals’ World Heritage listing

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee’ is deliberating in Busan, South Korea, whether to add the Asuka-Fujiwara ancient capitals to its list of World Heritage sites.

The Ground Self-Defense Force's Camp Asaka, which straddles Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture

JAPAN

Jul 20, 2026

Fire breaks out at GSDF camp in Tokyo suburbs

The fire is believed to have started at the camp’s garbage storage area, according to officials of the GSDF facility.

Shoko Kawata, the mayor of the city of Yawata in Kyoto Prefecture, during an interview at city hall on Friday

JAPAN / Politics

Jul 20, 2026

Japanese mayor makes history with maternity leave that caused a stir

By Joseph Campbell

Shoko Kawata, the mayor of Yawata in Kyoto Prefecture, ?became Japan’s ?youngest female mayor in 2023 at the age of 33.

The Sagamihara police station of the Kanagawa Prefectural Police Department

JAPAN / Crime & Legal

Jul 20, 2026

Police officer fires warning shot after vehicle rams into store in Kanagawa

A 15-year-old male customer in the store was hit by the vehicle and suffered slight injuries.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (left) meets with his Japanese counterpart, Toshimitsu Motegi, in Tokyo in November 2020.

JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS

Jul 20, 2026

ASEAN meetings offer chance of China-Japan encounter — for better or worse

By Jesse Johnson

When Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi visits Manila for ASEAN meetings this week, a familiar face will also be in attendance: his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi.

People walk with parasols in Tokyo on Monday, as the city saw its first scorching day of the year, marking 35 Celsius or higher.

JAPAN

Jul 20, 2026

Extreme heat grips Japan as rainy season officially ends in Tokyo

By Jessica Speed

Temperatures exceeded 35 degrees Celsius across much of the country on Monday.

A letter set distributed by the family of Mikiko Watanabe, who died in the arson attack at Kyoto Animation in 2019, at lectures and other events

JAPAN

Jul 20, 2026

Brother of KyoAni arson victim makes letter-writing set, pushing others to express gratitude

Isamu Watanabe, regretful for being unable to thank his sister, is distributing the set for free to help prevent anyone else from feeling the same.

Two Ainu men sit in front of an altar during a memorial service for Ainu people killed by <i>wajin</i> (ethnic Japanese) in a 15th-century battle in Kaminokuni, Hokkaido, in 2019.

JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hokkaido

Jul 20, 2026

With lawsuit over remains, Ainu continue fight for cultural recognition

By Eric Johnston

The Shibechari Ainu Tribe in Hokkaido hopes the lawsuit will set a legal precedent that helps address the injustices stemming from the removal of Ainu remains from their graves.

JAPAN

Jul 20, 2026

Japanese health insurance cards no longer usable in clinics from August

By Jessica Speed

Patients in Japan will need a My Number card registered for insurance use or a special certificate to receive insured medical treatment.

Yoshinori Omura (second from right), chair of the second-generation committee of Nihon Hidankyo, presents a survey on hibakusha second-generation issues at the organization's general assembly in Tokyo on June 17.

JAPAN

Jul 20, 2026

2,000 children of A-bomb survivors support Hidankyo movement

Members of organizations cooperating with Nihon Hidankyo have held exhibitions on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, collected signatures and shared their parents’ stories.

Team Mirai leader Takahiro Anno answers reporters' questions after the party's first convention, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Saturday.

JAPAN / Politics

Jul 20, 2026

Team Mirai faces challenge of how to confront Takaichi administration

There is a view that the LDP and coalition partner JIP are taking advantage of the small opposition party to secure a majority vote in the House of Councilors.

The Osaka Bar Association holds a rally in September. The association has been supporting member lawyers dealing with physical and mental health issues, many of which arise from the heavy workloads and unique pressures of the legal profession.

JAPAN

Jul 20, 2026

Osaka bar group offering mental health support for lawyers

The Osaka Bar Association started providing support for its members in 2008, when it established a consultation desk staffed by lawyer-consultants with expertise in various fields.

<i>Kokeshi</i> craftsman Toshio Takada uses a potter's wheel to shave wood into the shape of a doll.

JAPAN / Regional Voices: Tohoku

Jul 20, 2026

Craftsman strives to hand down traditional kokeshi making skills

Toshio Takada quit his job and began training to eventually become an award-winning craftsman.

Police stand guard outside the Philippine International Convention Center, the venue for the ASEAN foreign ministers meeting, in Manila on Monday.

ASIA PACIFIC

Jul 20, 2026

Top China and Philippines envoys to meet for first time since 2024

By Andreo Calonzo

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is scheduled to meet with Philippine counterpart Theresa Lazaro on the sidelines of the ASEAN foreign ministers meeting in Manila.

Mui, a woman who suffered persistent child sexual abuse for years, poses for a photo in Hong Kong on June 16 after speaking on the condition of anonymity about her childhood experience.

ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal

Jul 20, 2026

Survivors warn of loopholes in Hong Kong sexual offense reforms

Long-awaited changes will introduce stricter penalties for sexual crimes, but some say they don’t bar the defense of “mistaken belief” or improve protections enough for children.

Activists and supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party take part in a protest demanding the resignation of India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged NEET examination irregularities in New Delhi on Monday.

ASIA PACIFIC

Jul 20, 2026

India’s cockroach movement supporters gather to march despite police ban

The youth-led movement is seen as the biggest public challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his third term.

Akhmad, a former crew member of a Chinese fishing vessel, shows his contract document indicating his monthly wages during an interview on June 10 at the port of Bungko Lor hamlet in Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia.

ASIA PACIFIC / Society

Jul 20, 2026

‘No rest’: Indonesians overworked and abused on foreign fishing vessels

By Marchio Gorbiano and Becca MILFELD

Many are recruited online and assigned ships without being properly informed about their rights, leaving them vulnerable to abuse, experts say.

Residents look at damaged vehicles after flash flood and landslide triggered by heavy rains wreaked havoc at Rajouri district in India's Jammu region on Sunday.

ASIA PACIFIC

Jul 20, 2026

A yo-yo monsoon in India is threatening crops and the power grid

By Azman Usmani

With about half of India’s farmland dependent on rainfall for irrigation, swings between dry spells and violent rain jeopardize rural incomes and raise risks of higher food costs.

Father Jose Francisco Syquia at the Saint Michael Center for Spiritual Liberation and Exorcism in Makati, Metro Manila on March 18.

ASIA PACIFIC / Society

Jul 20, 2026

Faith vs. therapy: Inside the Philippine school for exorcists

By Pam Castro

A key element of exorcists’ training is discerning the difference between psychological and spiritual problems.

Participants practice evacuating an underground facility during a typhoon survival training session at the Lvxing Disaster Simulation Training Center in Hangzhou, China, on Wednesday.

ASIA PACIFIC

Jul 20, 2026

In China, people brave simulated typhoons to prepare for the real thing

By Nicoco Chan and Chenxi Yang

Climate change is increasingly exposing China to destructive weather events, and simulation training sessions are getting its people ready for the real thing.

As governments increasingly prioritize security and economic interests, democracy and human rights face new challenges in a changing world order.

ASIA PACIFIC / Society / Interview

Jul 20, 2026

Can human rights survive the era of great-power competition?

By Michael Judge

Human Rights Watch’s Maya Wang explains why democracy and human rights remain worth fighting for.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office on July 14.

WORLD / Politics / FOCUS

Jul 20, 2026

Trump is silent so far on Iran strategy as U.S. death toll rises

Both Iran and the U.S. have largely abandoned the tentative peace deal the U.S. president had touted.

A woman looks at the main square damaged by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake that struck Central Peru on Saturday, in Pumpunya, Chupaca province, Junin region, Peru, on Sunday.

WORLD

Jul 20, 2026

Peru’s central region hit by 5.1 quake weeks after Venezuela

The earthquake that struck Peru’s central Junin region late Saturday killed five people, injured 32 and affected about 200 more, according to authorities.

A health worker checks his personal protective equipment during a training exercise by Doctors Without Borders in Kenya on July 10.

WORLD / Science & Health

Jul 20, 2026

U.S. and Congo Ebola travel curbs may hamper humanitarian aid response

By Jason Gale and Michael J Kavanagh

The overlapping restrictions threaten to slow the deployment and rotation of doctors, nurses and other specialists needed to contain the epidemic.

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar addresses a news conference in the Red Hall of the parliament building in Budapest on July 13.

WORLD / Politics

Jul 20, 2026

Magyar to ask chess champion Judit Polgar to become Hungary’s president

Polgar is the only woman to have ?crossed the 2700-rating threshold that many consider the “Super GM” distinction.

Ukraine's new prime minister, Sergii Koretskyi, spent most of his nearly 30-year career working in the private sector, mainly for energy companies.

WORLD / Politics

Jul 20, 2026

Zelenskyy tasks political novice to get Ukraine through winter

By Volodymyr Verbianyi

The Ukrainian president has named Sergii Koretskyi, a technocratic energy executive, as prime minister to prepare the country for another winter of war.

A protester holds a sign showing a crossed out abstraction of German dictator Adolf Hitler during a demonstration in Erfurt, eastern Germany on July 4.

WORLD / Politics

Jul 20, 2026

Austria hopes Hitler’s birth house won’t lure Nazi pilgrims after €20 million rebuild

By Marton Eder

A police station will open at the site after proposals for a museum were rejected due to the risk that a place of memory could be misrepresented by visitors.

Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi invites his Australian counterpart, Richard Marles, to walk after they inspected a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile interceptor unit deployed at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo last December.

WORLD

Jul 20, 2026

Boeing ramping up production of critical interceptor seekers

Japan, which also makes PAC-3 Patriot missiles, has been looking to boost production — though this has reportedly been delayed by a shortage of the Boeing-made seekers,

Local residents walk past the smoke of a fire at the Russian e-commerce firm Wildberries' logistics complexes in the town of Elektrostal outside Moscow on Saturday.

WORLD

Jul 20, 2026

Russia hits Kyiv with largest ballistic missile barrage

Ukrainian forces hit warehouses operated by one of Russia’s largest e-commerce marketplaces on Saturday.

Newly elected leader of Britain's Labour Party Andy Burnham shakes hands with a man by Gravesend Town Pier in Gravesend, Kent, Britain, on Friday.

WORLD / Politics

Jul 20, 2026

Burnham vows unity after lightning ascent to U.K. premiership

By Alex Morales

The incoming leader will inherit a prime ministerial inbox bursting with tricky issues.

Newly assembled Toyota vehicles in Tijuana, Mexico, in 2017

BUSINESS

Jul 20, 2026

One year on, Trump tariffs continue battering Japan automakers

In fiscal 2025, which ended in March this year, combined costs from the Trump tariffs at six major Japanese automakers, including industry leader Toyota, exceeded ?2.4 trillion.

A visitor uses her phone next to Maruti Suzuki's e Vitara SUV at the company's Gujarat plant in the village of Hansalpur Becharaji, India, in August 2025.

BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS

Jul 20, 2026

Suzuki’s no-frills cars once ruled India. Then buyers demanded frills.

By Aditi Shah

Suzuki’s struggles reflect how cost-sensitive managers in Japan were slow to adapt to the changing tastes of newly affluent Indians.

Wendell Huang, chief financial officer of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., speaks to the media following a news conference in Taipei on Thursday.

BUSINESS / Tech

Jul 20, 2026

TSMC’s $265 billion U.S. spend driven by demand and rivals, CFO says

By Stephen Engle and Debby Wu

The company, fresh off reporting expectation-beating sales and profit and increasing its growth forecasts, still sees challenges in fulfilling all customer orders.

An employee walks past cabinets containing different varieties of dried fish maws and shark fins (top left) in Hong Kong in March 2016.

ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife

Jul 20, 2026

‘Cruel, wasteful’: Dakar port a hotspot for illegal shark fins

By Marchio Gorbiano and Becca MILFELD

Finning, the practice of removing fins and casting the rest of the shark overboard, often alive, is largely prohibited across a variety of regulatory zones and countries.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of the 48th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Busan, South Korea, on Sunday.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Jul 20, 2026

U.N. to list more sites as ‘in danger’ from conflict or climate change

Among them are a biblical site, Lebanese castles, an antelope migration path and the world’s deepest lake.

Then-U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard (center), FBI Director Kash Patel (left) and CIA Director John Ratcliffe attend a House Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats on Capitol Hill in Washington in March.

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 20, 2026

If the U.S. keeps messing with this spy agency, it’ll pay a high price

By Andreas Kluth

Rather than weakening or abolishing the ODNI, the United States needs a stronger, professional and politically independent intelligence leadership.

Britain’s patchwork of age limits for adult rights and responsibilities highlights the difficulty of defining maturity, with the voting age debate testing whether 16-year-olds are ready for such civic responsibility.

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 20, 2026

British teens have yet another reason for pity

By Rosa Prince

One recent survey found only 48% of 16- and 17-year-olds felt getting the vote at their age was a “good idea.”

Voice actors for "Pokemon: The First Movie" pose during a news conference in Tokyo in December 1999. Japan has long excelled at creating global hits but has too often let others capture the long-term value they generate.

COMMENTARY / Japan

Jul 20, 2026

Japanese culture permeates the world. Who owns it?

By Waka Ikeda

Japan begins from a far stronger position. It does not need to convince the world to love its culture. That battle was won decades ago. Its challenge now is ownership.

A 7?megawatt wind turbine, a pilot project led by Marubeni and funded by the Japanese government, at a port in Onahama, Fukushima Prefecture

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 20, 2026

Blow winds blow: Time to harvest wind power off Japan’s coast

By Leslie Mabon

Japan is investing heavily in offshore wind abroad while its domestic sector still lags due to policy and infrastructure hurdles.

SpaceX prepares a Starship rocket at Starbase in Texas on June 11.

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 20, 2026

SpaceX’s blow-it-up testing won’t fly on Starship

By Thomas Black

This spending underscores the second obstacle. SpaceX is no longer a private company and has shareholders to please.

Spain captain Rodri kisses the World Cup trophy after the team's victory over Argentina in the World Cup final in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Sunday.

SOCCER

Jul 20, 2026

Spain’s Rodri overcomes adversity to help deliver World Cup triumph

By Nick Mulvenney

“I’d love for the younger generations to see that a player who touches the heavens, then descends into hell, can come back. It’s a lesson in overcoming adversity,” Rodri said.

Argentina's Lionel Messi is met by FIFA President Gianni Infantino (left) and U.S. President Donald Trump during the awards ceremony following the World Cup final in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Sunday.

SOCCER / World cup

Jul 20, 2026

World Cup’s U.S. makeover leaves soccer facing battle for its soul

By Julien Pretot

FIFA embraced elements of the U.S. sporting model with enthusiasm.

Spain captain Rodri lifts the World Cup trophy as he and his teammates celebrate after their victory over Argentina in the World Cup final in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Sunday.

SOCCER / World cup

Jul 20, 2026

Spain tops Argentina in extra time to win World Cup final

Ferran Torres scored the only goal of the game in the second half ?of extra time.

The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani throws in the outfield before the second game of a doubleheader against the Yankees in New York on Sunday.

BASEBALL

Jul 20, 2026

Dodgers remove Shohei Ohtani from rotation indefinitely due to knee issue

Ohtani made ?his last mound appearance on ?July 3.

Former Stanford first baseman Rintaro Sasaki was selected by the Marlins in the eighth round of the MLB draft on July 12.

BASEBALL / MLB / Sac Bunts

Jul 20, 2026

Rintaro Sasaki and NPB face separate challenges as slugger chooses to sign with Marlins

By Jason Coskrey

For Sasaki, a more direct path to MLB is worth the risk of grinding it out in the U.S. minor leagues, as opposed to starting in Japan, where he would be a big name.

Ryan Fox poses with the Claret Jug after winning the British Open at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England, on Sunday.

MORE SPORTS / Golf

Jul 20, 2026

Ryan Fox birdies No. 18 to cap comeback win at Open Championship

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (67) and hometown favorite Tommy Fleetwood (68) tied for fourth at 7 under. ?Scheffler was the defending champion.

Christopher Flinn works remotely from Tokyo earlier this month. Japan issued 646 digital nomad visas in 2025, but tourism officials are hoping to increase that figure in the coming years, with Japan's relatively cheap cost of living and the weak yen seen as potential draws for young professionals.

COMMUNITY / Our Lives

Jul 20, 2026

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

By Mai Yoshikawa

Japan’s small but growing ranks of digital nomads have embraced the opportunity to embed themselves in a Japanese life — and take advantage of a weak yen.

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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