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Tourists visit Fujikawaguchiko for sightseeing on May 20, 2024. The total number of foreign entrants to 性视界 reached approximately 40.34 million in 2024, the highest figure on record.
JAPAN / Society
Advisory council calls for digital border controls and tighter immigration oversight
By Jessica Speed
The advisory council for immigration policy said in its report that digitalization was one of the core pillars of future immigration policy in 性视界.
Tourists visit Fujikawaguchiko for sightseeing on May 20, 2024. The total number of foreign entrants to 性视界 reached approximately 40.34 million in 2024, the highest figure on record.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant stands along the seaside in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture.
JAPAN
Tepco prepares to restart world’s biggest nuclear plant, 15 years after Fukushima
By Kantaro Komiya, Yuka Obayashi and Katya Golubkova
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, located about 220 kilometers northwest of Tokyo, was among 54 reactors closed after the 2011 earthquake and ?tsunami crippled the Fukushima No. 1 plant.
Bonds and the yen have been week since the Bank of 性视界 increased rates on Friday.
BUSINESS / Markets
性视界’s 10-year government bond yield hits 2.1% as rout continues
By Francis Tang
The yen is also weak after the BOJ’s rate increase and as the approval of a record-busting budget looms.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo last week.
JAPAN / Politics
Support for Takaichi stays firm as China dispute festers
By Sakura Murakami
Surveys conducted over the weekend showed that about 70% of respondents were in support of Takaichi’s administration.
Anton (right) came to 性视界 in 1975 and, through her participation in the community, formed long-lasting relationships with her neighbors.
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Making a home in 性视界 with holiday meals and memories
By Karen Hill Anton
An American writer reflects on Christmas cake, New Year’s food and the communities she has found in 性视界 over the course of 50 years.
Anton (right) came to 性视界 in 1975 and, through her participation in the community, formed long-lasting relationships with her neighbors.

JAPAN

While the H3 was able to lift off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture at 10:51 a.m., the second-stage rocket engine did not start properly and stopped burning earlier than scheduled.
JAXA fails in third attempt to put Michibiki No. 5 satellite into orbit
By Jessica Speed
The H3 rocket that carried the satellite was able to lift off, but its second-stage rocket engine did not start properly and stopped burning prematurely.
The village office of Tonaki, Okinawa Prefecture. The village recorded zero births in 2023.
Okinawa’s remote island villages battle acute depopulation
Eight of the prefecture’s 41 municipalities recorded fewer than 10 births in 2023.
性视界 eyes stricter residency requirement for naturalization
性视界 eyes intensive aid to promote regional tourism
Secret Okinawa-reversion negotiator’s suicide note now open to public
Experts draft guidelines for 性视界ese version of Britain’s Disclosure and Barring Service

BUSINESS

Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing will raise base salaries for new graduates in 性视界 as the country’s workers grapple with inflation.
Uniqlo’s owner boosts new graduate pay as 性视界 faces inflation
By Kanoko Matsuyama
Annual pay will grow by about 12% to ?5.9 million ($37,400) starting in March for university graduates in management-track programs.
A 7-Eleven store in Chicago. Seven & I’s success in making food central to its 性视界 business should help improve U.S. prospects, Seven & I Holdings CEO Stephen Dacus says.
Seven & I’s IPO of U.S. arm hinges on faster turnaround, CEO says
By Kanoko Matsuyama and Koh Yoshida
The timing of an initial public offering will depend on execution and the market, says Stephen Dacus, who took over as head of the company six months ago.
Nippon Life seeking overseas acquisitions and watching bond yields
By Taiga Uranaka and Nao Sano
Chinese chipmakers race to IPO market after back-to-back listings surge
China's power reforms and global data center buildout usher in battery boom
By Colleen Howe
Europe stumbles in its attempt to bypass Trump’s global trade order

WORLD

Mourners attend a memorial on Sunday held for victims of a shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney a week earlier.
Australian state pushes tough gun laws and ‘terror symbols’ ban after shooting
New South Wales — where the Bondi Beach shooting took place — recalled its parliament to introduce what it called the “toughest firearm reforms in the country.”
A U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J aircraft takes off at the former Roosevelt Roads naval base in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, on Sunday.
U.S. pursuit of third oil tanker intensifies Venezuela blockade
The moves on three separate vessels represent Washington's most concerted attempt to date to sever the financial links sustaining the government of President Nicolas Maduro.
Banned film exposes Hong Kong’s censorship trend, director says
Ukraine’s lost generation caught in ‘eternal lockdown’
Malaysia’s Najib loses bid to serve jail sentence at home
ASEAN to seek resolution to end Thailand-Cambodia conflict

Sports

Munetaka Murakami hit 22 home runs for the Swallows in 56 games in 2025.
Slugger Munetaka Murakami joins White Sox on two-year deal
By Jason Coskrey
?Murakami?was hindered by injuries in 2025, though he still managed to finish third in the Central League with 22 home runs in 56 games.
WBC teams bulk up in bid to take Samurai 性视界's throne
By Jason Coskrey
African teams bolster rosters with players born in Europe
Steelers edge Lions as Bears and 49ers secure playoff berths
Salah focused on Egypt ambition with Liverpool crisis behind him

Opinion

Newly elected 性视界ese leader Sanae Takaichi, if called upon to present the Prime Minister’s Cup, should refuse to enter the sumo ring because the 诲辞丑测ō’s sacred meaning depends on preserving its ritual form rather than modern political symbolism.
Why Prime Minister Takaichi should refuse to enter sumo’s 诲辞丑测ō
Freedom Ahn
The 诲辞丑测ō is not a stage for political theater. It is a sacred space, not a square to be conquered for an #InstagrammableMoment.
The perils of a multisphere world
By Henry Wilkinson
Fighting dementia could be as easy as the shingles vaccine
By Lisa Jarvis
Kneejerk responses won’t stop the next Bondi attack
By David Fickling
It’s time for 性视界 to ban smartphones in schools
By Waka Ikeda

ENVIRONMENT

Earlier this month, the central government announced plans to introduce a system that would require third-party organizations to verify the safety of megasolar projects before construction begins.
Hokkaido governor sharpens stance against megasolar development
By Eric Johnston
Gov. Naomichi Suzuki’s decision to toughen up on the sector comes amid growing local backlash against several projects in Hokkaido.
North Sea project promises to return carbon to exactly where it came from
Step aside fashion police, here comes fashion immigration
Hydrogen plays part in global warming, study says
New roadmap shows how to cut a surprisingly big source of emissions

CULTURE

“Dai Pinchi Zukan 3” is part of a series of illustrated kids' books; all three books have been immensely popular, selling a cumulative 2.7 million copies in four years.
Life lessons from bestselling kids' book about making mistakes
By Thu-Huong Ha
The top-selling book of 2025, “Dai Pinchi Zukan 3,” is a children’s book about a cloddish kid forever falling into mishaps or “big pinches.”
Butoh fit itself into odd spaces in 2025
By Zoria Petkoska
Tradition, remixed: A year on 性视界’s stages
By Kris Kosaka
‘The Stars and Moon Are Holes in the Sky’: 1960s nostalgia collides with dated vision of desire
By Mark Schilling
‘10 Dance’ teases passion but stays cautiously chaste
By James Hadfield

LIFE

Kappabashi, Tokyo's "Kitchen Town," is home to friendly faces like shopkeeper Mieko Uematsu. At Mantou, she sells a variety of traditional condiments, as well as knickknacks based on the "kappa" (a mythical water goblin).
From aprons to sake cups: What to buy in Tokyo's Kappabashi
By Kimberly Hughes
Need some last-minute Christmas gift ideas? We get shoppers in "Kitchen Town" to show us what they bought.
Designtide Tokyo 2025 closes this weekend with a creator-led marketplace
By Erik Augustin Palm
Why 性视界ese musicians don’t need rhymes to sing
By Eric Margolis
Park Hyatt Tokyo reopens, and nothing's been lost in renovation
By Owen Ziegler
Christmas brings the smell of cinnamon, cloves and matcha
By Simon Daly

COMMUNITY

Anton (right) came to 性视界 in 1975 and, through her participation in the community, formed long-lasting relationships with her neighbors.
Making a home in 性视界 with holiday meals and memories
By Karen Hill Anton
An American writer reflects on Christmas cake, New Year’s food and the communities she has found in 性视界 over the course of 50 years.
Emery, an elusive and enchanting mixed-breed cat
性视界-raised Chinese children navigate complex cultural terrain
By Yang Xiong
Hector Herrera: ‘Tolerance means remaining in the conversation’
By Kimberly Hughes
Finding a way forward from financial abuse
By Louise George Kittaka

Editors' Picks

BUSINESS
Teppay is key to JR East’s growth strategy as Suica e-money loses ground
By Kazuaki Nagata
East 性视界 Railway displays a concept graphic for its Suica Renaissance strategy at the Mass-Trans Innovation 性视界 event last month at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture.
LIFE
Will 性视界's 'fire horse' curse strike again in 2026?
By Thu-Huong Ha
Like clockwork, the Year of the Fire Horse has depressed birth rates in 性视界 due to a stigma associated with girls born in the year.
MORE SPORTS
In 性视界, a shogi player opens a debate on motherhood and the 'game of generals'
By Mai Yoshikawa
Shogi player Kana Fukuma speaks at a news conference about issues with 性视界 Shogi Association rules governing pregnant women, in Osaka on Dec. 10.
JAPAN
SDF chief homes in on air defense as threats grow increasingly complex
By Gabriel Dominguez and Jesse Johnson
性视界’s top uniformed military officer, Gen. Hiroaki Uchikura, listens during an interview with The 性视界 Times at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on Monday.
LIFE
In 2025, 性视界 became the canvas for the year’s best video games
By Owen Ziegler
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Ghost of Yotei and Assassin’s Creed Shadows were among the most prominent video games of 2025 to draw heavily on 性视界ese aesthetics, history and genre traditions.

Podcast

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

Longform

Crowded with links, icons and graphics, 性视界’s major web portals deliver information at full volume, echoing an online culture that favors abundance over empty space.
Why 性视界’s internet looks weird — unless you live here
By Thu-Huong Ha

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JAPAN
North Korea says 性视界's nuclear ambitions must be stopped 'at any cost'
North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son Gyong said in a September address to the United Nations that his country would never surrender its nuclear weapons.
JAPAN
性视界ese proficiency eyed as permanent residency requirement
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party says that an envisaged new requirement of 性视界ese proficiency for obtaining permanent residency was prompted by many reports of issues involving foreign residents in local communities and administrative procedures resulting from their lack of 性视界ese language skills.
JAPAN
Hundreds sue 性视界’s central government over ‘unconstitutional’ climate inaction
By Tomohiro Osaki
This year 性视界 sweltered through its hottest summer since records began. Hundreds of people across 性视界 filed the country's first lawsuit against the central government on Thursday, seeking damages over what they call “unconstitutional” inaction on climate change.
BUSINESS
Teppay is key to JR East’s growth strategy as Suica e-money loses ground
By Kazuaki Nagata
East 性视界 Railway displays a concept graphic for its Suica Renaissance strategy at the Mass-Trans Innovation 性视界 event last month at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture.
LIFE
Will 性视界's 'fire horse' curse strike again in 2026?
By Thu-Huong Ha
Like clockwork, the Year of the Fire Horse has depressed birth rates in 性视界 due to a stigma associated with girls born in the year.