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Vitalii Hnidyi
Ukrainian soldiers walk past a damaged apartment building, amid Russia's war against Ukraine, in the front-line city of Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on Sept. 10.
WORLD
Oct 1, 2025
Ukraine¡¯s front-line cities filled with dread and defiance
Thousands of unmanned aerial vehicles hover above more than 1,000 kilometers of front lines in Ukraine¡¯s east and south at any one time.
A teacher and children walk down a corridor during the first day of the new school year at an underground school, which was built to protect children from Russian missile attacks, in Kharkiv on Monday.
WORLD / Society
Sep 3, 2025
Ukrainian children open school year by heading underground
Some 17,000 children in Ukraine¡¯s second-largest city, Kharkiv, are attending schools set up underground to avoid the danger of Russian attacks.
Brothers Andrii Tupkalenko, 8, and Maksym Tupkalenko, 6, two of the last children left in their front-line village, pose for a photo with toy guns, their favorite toys, in Kalynove, Kharkiv region, Ukraine.
WORLD / Society
Jul 12, 2025
Childhood shaped by war for two Ukrainian brothers
The war in Ukraine is reshaping the fabric of ravaged frontier communities and leaving unseen as well as visible injuries on their youngest.
A man stands on a balcony damaged by a Russian drone strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Jun 12, 2025
Russia hits Ukraine¡¯s Kharkiv with deadly nighttime barrage of drones
The overnight attack followed Russia¡¯s two biggest air assaults of the war on Ukraine this week.
A young woman holds placards depicting Ukrainian prisoners of war during a rally calling to speed up their exchange, at Independence Square in Kyiv on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 8, 2025
Ukraine denies postponing prisoner swaps as Russian strike on Kharkiv kills four
Kharkiv, one of Ukraine¡¯s largest cities, sits close to the Russian border and has been under frequent Russian shelling for more than three years.
Ukrainian service members pose for a picture as they repair a military vehicle near the Russian border in Sumy region, Ukraine, on Sunday.
WORLD
Aug 12, 2024
Ukraine¡¯s shock Kursk attack was to pressure Russia, Zelenskyy says
Ukraine¡¯s largest incursion into Russian territory since the start of the war has left southwestern parts of Russia vulnerable.
Evacuees from the Ukrainian village of Liptsi, near the Russian border, arrive at an evacuation point in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine on Sunday.
WORLD
May 13, 2024
Russian forces bear down on Ukraine border town in Kharkiv region
Moscow troops smashed into the Kharkiv region on Friday, opening a northeastern front in the 27-month war that has long been waged in the south and east.
Ukrainian third-grader Arina Herasymova gets ready for a walk after an online reading class in Sloviansk, Ukraine, on Dec. 20.
WORLD / Society
Dec 29, 2023
Ukraine¡¯s front-line children yearn for return to classroom
The war has deprived younger students, especially, of the opportunity to start off their schooling like most of their peers elsewhere.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 28, 2023
Elderly Japanese man opens free cafe in Ukraine¡¯s Kharkiv
The cafe was mainly made possible by donations made from Japanese people via social media.
Double barrage of storms to hit Japan this week
A map depicting the paths of Typhoon Mekkhala and Tropical Storm Higos
Japanese companies get serious about workplace DEI
People working in human resources departments participate in a workshop in Tokyo in January. The participants played a card game in which they took on roles of people with various disabilities.
Two Japanese held in China for allegedly smuggling export-restricted goods
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara speaks during a news conference on Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Consumer affairs watchdog raises alarm over air conditioner repair scams
The National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan has issued a warning over a rise in air conditioner repair scams.
China accuses Japan of ¡®harassment¡¯ during far-seas aircraft carrier training
China's Liaoning aircraft carrier takes part in a military drill in the western Pacific in April 2018.
Remembering the wrestlers who rarely make the headlines
Tsurugisho throws salt at a one-day sumo event at the Kokugikan in Tokyo in February 2020.
China¡¯s mineral squeeze testing Japan¡¯s military buildup
Samples of rare earth luminescent materials displayed at an exhibition on China¡¯s manufacturing achievements at the National Museum in Beijing in March
Stepping up, not aside: Japan¡¯s retirement-age tour guides
Yoichi Miura (third from left) now divides his time between his import business and guiding international visitors across Japan.
Japan-South Korea detente persists ¡ª but breakthrough remains elusive
While Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung have kept relations from sliding backward, experts say they have struggled to turn stability into concrete steps forward.
Japan¡¯s AI goldrush faces backlash as data centers sprout up in urban areas
Erin and Munekazu Tanikawa look out from their balcony at the construction site of a planned 52-meter-tall data center that would dominate their surroundings, in the city of Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, last month.

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