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Ania TSOUKANOVA
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (right) and first lady Olena Zelenska arrive at Dublin Airport on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 2, 2025
Ukraine¡¯s Zelenskyy eyes Trump talks after ¡®progress¡¯
The Ukrainian president expects to discuss ¡°key issues¡± with the U.S. president amid an accelerated American-led push to end Russia¡¯s war on Ukraine.
Local residents inspect the damage to their apartment building in Ternopil, Ukraine, on Sunday, following a Russian strike a week earlier.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 25, 2025
Ukraine and Russia trade deadly strikes as negotiators hammer at deal
Donald Trump has given Kyiv until Nov. 27 to respond to his proposal to end the fighting, a timeline and blueprint that European leaders have balked at.
Ukrainian service members visit the Donetsk region entrance sign site, protected by an anti-drone net and surrounded by Ukrainian brigade flags, on Thursday. The possibility of weaker support and attention from Washington concerns Kyiv.
WORLD
Jun 20, 2025
Ukraine fears being sidelined by Iran-Israel war
However, Kyiv has welcomed Israeli attacks on a country that has directly aided and provided weapons to Moscow for its own strikes on Ukraine.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 15, 2023
¡¯Everything changed¡¯: Ukrainians look back on year of war
Not a single Ukrainian was left untouched by the Russian invasion. Three of them were interviewed?about what they lived through, and how the war changed them.
EDITORIALS
Nov 27, 2011
Warm Biz warming up
With the relatively successful Super Cool Biz campaign over for the autumn, the next drive for saving energy is already under way. Warm Biz is the latest campaign to save energy after the March disasters in Tohoku left dozens of nuclear reactors offline and potential electricity shortfalls looming. Government...
Reader Mail
Apr 6, 2008
Are sanctions really working?
The expiration day of the Japanese government's tough sanctions against North Korea is drawing near again. Japan imposed a package of sanctions as punishment for North Korea's nuclear test in October 2006 and has renewed them two times since then. There have been no traces of any North Korean products...
¡®AI simply can¡¯t replicate it¡¯: Japan embraces zine trend
A staff member taking a printed newspaper out of the machine at the Kyoto Shimbun factory in Kumiyama, Kyoto Prefecture.
Kyoto police search for missing American tourist
James "Weston" Higginbotham was last seen in Kyoto on May 29.
Japan should prepare for an intense typhoon season this year, experts say
Elevated water levels are seen along the Tama River in Kawasaki's Tama Ward as Tropical Storm Jangmi brought heavy rain and strong winds to the Kanto region Wednesday.
Japan likely sold Treasurys to fund yen intervention
Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Atsushi Mimura speaks to reporters in Tokyo on May 1 following reports of Japan's possible intervention in the currency market.
Man sues hospital after wife gives birth using someone else¡¯s sperm
The Kyoto District Court in the city of Kyoto heard a complaint Wednesday from a man who says his estranged wife presented someone else's sperm as his and was able to undergo successful fertility treatment using it without his awareness.
How Japan created its naphtha supply bottleneck
Japan received 93% of its oil via the Strait of Hormuz prior to the Feb. 28 start of the Iran war.
¡®Fujiko¡¯ transforms a mother¡¯s resilience into festival gold
¡°Fujiko¡± stars Yuki Katayama (left) as a scrappy single mother who fights for her autonomy in 1970s and ¡¯80s Japan.
Japan should prepare for an intense typhoon season this year, experts say
Elevated water levels are seen along the Tama River in Kawasaki's Tama Ward as Tropical Storm Jangmi brought heavy rain and strong winds to the Kanto region Wednesday.
The LDP wants another coalition partner. Will it happen?
Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of the Democratic Party for the People (DPP), delivers a question during a House of Representatives plenary session on May 25. Making the DPP a coalition member would make it easier for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (above left) to drive forward her legislative agenda.
Japan¡¯s Cannes moment signals a new global push
Tao Okamoto (left) and Virginie Efira (right) shared the Cannes Film Festival¡¯s best actress honor for their roles in Ryusuke Hamaguchi¡¯s ¡°All of a Sudden,¡± a coproduction between Japan, France, Belgium and Germany.

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

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Community programs and tracking systems are expanding across Japan as local governments search for ways to prevent dementia-related disappearances.
He told his wife he was ¡®coming home.¡¯ Then he disappeared.
By Alex K.T. Martin

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