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Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara speaks about the Chinese military's radar lock-on of Air Self-Defense Force aircraft over the weekend, during a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
性视界 and China trade barbs over radar lock-on as row shows no signs of abating
By Jesse Johnson
The government’s top spokesman said it “will continue to respond calmly and resolutely” after the “dangerous” incident Saturday that Beijing has said was triggered by Tokyo.

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Chinese fighters target SDF jets with radar lock-on as tensions surge
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara speaks about the Chinese military's radar lock-on of Air Self-Defense Force aircraft over the weekend, during a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.
Poor harvests of beechnuts are thought to be one of the major reasons behind the increase in bear attacks and sightings.
JAPAN
High number of bear attacks possible in 2027 due to expected poor nut harvest
By Yukana Inoue
Beechnut harvests are considered to influence the number of bear incidents 性视界 sees each year.
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama delivers a fiscal policy speech at a Lower House plenary session in Tokyo on Monday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Katayama urges lawmakers to cooperate to pass supplementary budget bill
The finance minister says the bill should be passed as soon as possible to “bring back a strong economy to 性视界.”
Electoral workers count ballots for the legislative election at a vote-counting station in Hong Kong on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Hong Kong leader says next legislature will 'drive reform' after deadly fire
Newcomers made up over 40% of the winners in the "patriots only" election that the city's leader said showed "support" for the government's line after the Wang Fuk Court blaze.
Brown rats, also known as sewer rats, often burrow into damaged pipes and survive on garbage and food scraps. While there aren’t any official numbers, at least hundreds of thousands of them are thought to be living in Tokyo.
JAPAN / Society / Longform
In the company of rats: Tokyo's growing rodent problem
By Alex K.T. Martin
As Tokyo confronts stubborn rat populations, researchers argue the path forward lies in understanding their behavior — not just stamping them out.
Brown rats, also known as sewer rats, often burrow into damaged pipes and survive on garbage and food scraps. While there aren’t any official numbers, at least hundreds of thousands of them are thought to be living in Tokyo.

JAPAN

Senior police officers from Tokyo, Chiba, Saitama and Kanagawa prefectures hold a joint news conference in Tokyo Friday following the arrests of the alleged masterminds behind a series of robberies.
Masterminds behind Tokyo-area robberies used X to recruit people, sources say
The four are believed to have used accounts on the social media platform to recruit subordinates by posting "dark" job offers, including those that promised same-day payment.
Among older 性视界ese people who die, a rising number are unmarried and without close relatives.
性视界’s isolated elderly leave record sums to government
By Mari Kiyohara
In recent years, the aging population has seen soaring numbers of deaths and more people reach the end of their lives with no immediate family.
Actor Hiroya Shimizu pleads guilty to drug possession
Nobel co-winner Susumu Kitagawa calls for funds for basic research
Fukuoka government develops disability-friendly paving block
Hiroshima’s textile industry lives on through quality and new techniques

BUSINESS

Power transmission towers in Vietnam. The country has faced major blackouts as demand from the industrial sector and expanding middle class often outpaces supplies.
性视界 pulls out of Vietnam nuclear project, complicating Hanoi's power plans?
By Francesco Guarascio and Phuong Nguyen
The announcement comes amid strains in usually close ties between Vietnam and 性视界, including from a planned ban on petrol motorbikes in Hanoi, angering market-dominating Honda.
A worker at Tajima Light Metal in Saitama Prefecture. Monday’s revised GDP figures incorporate additional data, including weak capital spending by companies.
性视界 confirms deeper GDP decline, backing Takaichi’s stimulus
By Erica Yokoyama
Gross domestic product fell at an annualized pace of 2.3% in the third quarter.
China’s trade surplus tops $1 trillion despite plunge in U.S.-bound exports
性视界ese purchases of U.K. gilts at highest since 2021 in October
By Masaki Kondo and Ruth Carson
Curry restaurant chain CoCo Ichi sets sights on major expansion in India
Takaichi government submits ?18.3 trillion supplementary budget to parliament

WORLD

People rest at a shelter in Thailand's Buriram province on Monday following fresh military clashes between Thailand and Cambodia along parts of their disputed border.
Thailand launches airstrikes on Cambodia as border tensions reignite
Both Southeast Asian countries have accused the other of breaching a ceasefire brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump.
A man walks on a poster of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, after Syrian rebels announced that they had ousted the strongman, in downtown Damascus in December last year.
‘It’s all over’: How Iran abandoned Assad to his fate days before fall
During Syria’s civil war, which erupted in 2011 following the government’s brutal repression of pro-democracy protests, Iran was one of Damascus’ biggest backers.
Hardships mount in Indonesia and Sri Lanka as flood tolls rise
South Korea to move presidential office to roll back Yoon legacy
'Not black or white': Teens worldwide react to Australia social media ban
U.K.’s bold defense plans face doubt over spending gaps
By Ellen Milligan

Sports

Leo Ceara (left) celebrates with teammate Yuma Suzuki after scoring a goal during Kashima Antlers' J1-clinching victory over Yokohama F. Marinos on Saturday.
How Kashima Antlers got back to the top of 性视界ese soccer
By Sean Carroll
Manager Toru Oniki had one goal in mind: To end the club's near-decade title drought. After just one season, it's mission accomplished.
College Football Playoff bracket revealed; Notre Dame misses cut
Australia's ability to adapt has nation in prime position to retain Ashes
For Olympic skaters, moments of magic on ice comes after months of preparation
By Andrew MCKIRDY
Max Verstappen has no regrets despite missing out on Formula One title

Opinion

The Rapidus semiconductor foundry construction site in Chitose, Hokkaido Prefecture, in December 2023. The state-backed company is attempting a high-risk, high-cost leap into making the world’s most advanced chips to revive the nation's tech industry.
What TSMC and Shakespeare can teach 性视界's Rapidus
Catherine Thorbecke
If Rapidus pulls it off, though, this moonshot could rewrite the history of 性视界’s tech industry.
In 性视界 and elsewhere, a ‘generational shift’ is upon us
By Kuni Miyake
A matter of state-sponsored 'murder' on the high seas
A plan to fix voter disparity and modernize 性视界’s political system
By Edo Naito
Can AI be Asia’s next growth engine?
By Lee Jong-wha

ENVIRONMENT

A person walks along a bridge over a drainage channel blocked by plastic waste in Accra, Ghana.
The world’s plastic glut is set to get much worse by 2040, study finds
By Leslie Kaufman
Global plastic pollution will hit 280 million metric tons per year by 2040, or a dump truck’s worth every second.
Multilateralism works even as U.S., fossil fuel industry oppose climate action, U.N. chief says
By Valerie Volcovici
'Mischievous hands': Indonesians blame deforestation for devastating floods
Canadian PM under fire for alleged climate U-turn
By Genevieve NORMAND
The case of Africa's 'vanishing' carbon deals
By Kunle Adebajo and Evelyn Kpadeh Seagbeh

CULTURE

Among the hand-drawn sketches in “Tadao Ando. Sketches, Drawings & Architecture” is the initial idea for the Hill of the Buddha in Hokkaido painted over a photograph of the site.
Tadao Ando’s raw passion in 750 artworks
By Zoria Petkoska
A new Taschen volume reveals the architect’s creative process through decades of sketches, studies and travel drawings.
U.S. playwright Jeremy O. Harris arrested in Okinawa for alleged drug smuggling
Mr. Men and Little Miss characters set for first feature film
‘Black Box Diaries’ is Shiori Ito’s unflinching case for the truth
By Mark Schilling
A new animation festival lands in Nagoya with big plans
By Matt Schley

LIFE

Nostalgia for the past has always been big business in 性视界, but this year, it's the recent past that has garnered more and more fans.
‘Messy, blingy, over the top’: Heisei Era charms 性视界’s youth
By Jessica Speed
With 2025 drawing to a close, many in 性视界 are looking back on not only the year that was — but also a new period of the past overshadowed by its trendier predecessor.
Frank O. Gehry, titan of architecture, is dead at 96
By Nicolai Ouroussoff
InterContinental Sapporo kicks off Hokkaido capital’s MICE push
By Owen Ziegler
Tokyo's green appeal, seen by a Swedish gardener who made 性视界 home
By Shuhei Yoshida
Are new year postcards becoming a thing of the past in 性视界?
By Yuko Tamura

COMMUNITY

More than a quarter of married people in 性视界 report spousal violence of some kind, and nearly 1 in 10 women have experienced financial abuse, according to a 2023 survey by the 性视界 Cabinet Office.
Finding a way forward from financial abuse
By Louise George Kittaka
In 性视界, nearly 1 in 10 married women have been the victim of financial abuse. Two expats share their stories, along with the resources and advice that helped them through.
Sunny fellow Naruto wins hearts and minds
A French cabbie behind the wheel in small-town 性视界
By Isabelle Steen
Alex and Mami St-Jean: ‘Home feels like the family we’ve created in Hokkaido’
By Jessica Speed
A perfect day in Shin-Okubo, more than just Tokyo’s Koreatown
By Eric Margolis

Editors' Picks

CULTURE
Culture caught in crossfire as 性视界 and China rift escalates
By Alyssa I. Smith
Beijing has turned to entertainment as leverage in the escalating tensions between 性视界 and China, resulting in canceled concerts and postponed film releases.
LIFE
In Yamaguchi, a salt master captures the terroir of the sea
By Kimberly Hughes
Yuzen Inoue gave up a corporate life to pursue the craft of salt-making in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Today, he makes salts that showcase the nuanced flavors of salt crystals each season.
LIFE
‘Messy, blingy, over the top’: Heisei Era charms 性视界’s youth
By Jessica Speed
Nostalgia for the past has always been big business in 性视界, but this year, it's the recent past that has garnered more and more fans.
SOCCER
How Kashima Antlers got back to the top of 性视界ese soccer
By Sean Carroll
Leo Ceara (left) celebrates with teammate Yuma Suzuki after scoring a goal during Kashima Antlers' J1-clinching victory over Yokohama F. Marinos on Saturday.
CULTURE
2025 was the year 性视界’s box office returned
By Mark Schilling
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 性视界ese cinema’s postwar golden age.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Brown rats, also known as sewer rats, often burrow into damaged pipes and survive on garbage and food scraps. While there aren’t any official numbers, at least hundreds of thousands of them are thought to be living in Tokyo.
In the company of rats: Tokyo's growing rodent problem
By Alex K.T. Martin

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JAPAN
Chinese fighters target SDF jets with radar lock-on as tensions surge
By Jesse Johnson
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks during a news conference with his Australian counterpart at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Sunday.
JAPAN
Infant's head found in fridge in Tokyo
Police officers investigate the area around a building in Tokyo's Sumida Ward where an infant's head and limbs were found in a refrigerator on Saturday.
BUSINESS
Average price of rice in 性视界 hits new record high
In the week ended last Sunday, the average price of rice sold at about 1,000 supermarkets across 性视界 rose by ?23 from the previous week to ?4,335 per 5 kilograms.
BUSINESS
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
性视界’s bear-related casualties hit record on escalating attacks
By Alice French
Bear bells are displayed for sale at a souvenir shop at Shirakawa-go, a popular tourist spot and one of 性视界's UNESCO World Heritage sites, in the village of Shirakawa, Gifu Prefecture, on Nov. 15.