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JAPAN

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi answers a question during a session of the House of Councilors Budget Committee at the National Diet in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2025
Tokyo-Beijing Forum postponed following Takaichi's Taiwan remark
The postponement was requested in a letter from the China International Communications Group, with which 性视界ese nonprofit think tank Genron organized the event since 2005.
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi shakes hands with his Indonesian counterpart, Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, during a visit to the Yokosuka naval base, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Monday in this image posted to Koizumi's X account.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
Indonesia’s defense chief inspects MSDF vessels as talk of exports grows
By Gabriel Dominguez
Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin met with Defence Minister Shinjuro Koizumi in Tokyo ahead of a third round of “two-plus-two” talks between both countries’ foreign and defense ministers.
A Self-Defense Forces member holds a shield during practice setting up a bear trap in Kazuno, Akita Prefecture, on Nov. 5.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2025
Wild bears attacked 196 people in 性视界 between April and October
By prefecture, Akita had the highest number of casualties during the April-October period, with 56, including three fatalities.
With the government's integration of health insurance with My Number cards, conventional health insurance cards will no longer be accepted at clinics and hospitals across 性视界 from Dec. 2.
JAPAN / Explainer
Nov 17, 2025
What you need to know about the shift to My Number health insurance cards
By Jessica Speed
By integrating health insurance with My Number cards, the government hopes to streamline administration processes, reduce paperwork and make it easier to treat patients.
The transport ministry has proposed extending the runway at Sapporo's Okadama Airport from 1,500 meters to 1,800 meters to support longer routes amid rising inbound tourism.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Nov 17, 2025
Two plans proposed for runway extension at Sapporo’s Okadama Airport
By Eric Johnston
A longer runway will increase commercial flight capacity, attract more business jets and facilitate medevac flights.
Princess Aiko at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Monday
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2025
Princess Aiko leaves for official visit to Laos
After arriving in Vientiane, Princess Aiko will pay a courtesy call to Laotian President Thongloun Sisoulith and attend a dinner hosted by Vice President Pany Yathotou on Tuesday.
Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi (right) inspects a drill held inside the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant's No. 6 reactor building in Niigata Prefecture on Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2025
Niigata governor to visit Fukushima ahead of nuclear plant decision
By Shoko Oda
Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi is expected to soon make a decision on the possible restart of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa facility in his prefecture.
A building housing the welfare ministry in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2025
Panel OKs smaller cuts to welfare benefits
The government plans to finalize the benefit amounts by the end of this month based on the welfare ministry panel's proposal.
Workers from Heisei Chikuho Railway replace an old railroad tie with a new one, securing it with heavy-duty nails.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Kyushu
Nov 17, 2025
Railway in rural Fukuoka stands at crossroads as passenger numbers dwindle
If Heisei Chikuho Railway maintains its current train line operations, it is projected to incur an annual deficit of around ?1 billion over the next 30 years for maintenance.
A Chinese tour group in the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo on Sunday. China has advised its citizens to avoid traveling to 性视界, following a diplomatic feud sparked by remarks from Tokyo's new prime minister about a hypothetical attack on Taiwan.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
性视界 sends senior official to China to cool boiling tensions
By Gabriele Ninivaggi and Jesse Johnson
Masaaki Kanai, a top Foreign Ministry official, will be looking to explain that there has been no change in 性视界’s existing position on the Taiwan issue.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during a Lower House Budget Committee meeting on Nov. 7.
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2025
Announcement of 性视界-China survey results postponed amid diplomatic spat
This is the second time that the announcement of the latest survey results has been postponed at the request of the Chinese side.
A bear walks in front of a box trap set up at a park in the city of Akita on Nov. 2.
JAPAN / Society
Nov 17, 2025
Bears attacks and sightings continue in northern 性视界
A woman was found dead in a rice field of a suspected bear attack in Akita Prefecture on Sunday while a bear made its way into an Aeon shopping mall in the prefecture.
Metropolitan Police Department investigators examine a poster put up at a building where a woman was stabbed, in the capital’s Minato Ward on Sunday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 17, 2025
Suspect on run after stabbing woman in Tokyo’s Akasaka area
The victim, a woman in her 40s, was stabbed in her side and her left hand while in the basement of a building in the busy Akasaka area, according to police.
Iwao Hakamata's legal team heads to the Shizuoka District Court in the city of Shizuoka on Oct. 9 after Hakamata, a former death row inmate who was acquitted in a retrial for the 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka Prefecture, filed a damages lawsuit against the central and prefectural governments.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 17, 2025
Ban on prosecutors' appeals in retrials wins expert support
For Iwao Hakamata, a man who was acquitted of murdering four people in a retrial, it took about nine years for the decision to start a retrial to become final because of appeals.

ASIA PACIFIC

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina delivers a speech during the 25th International Conference on The Future Of Asia, in Tokyo in 2019.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
Bangladesh court sentences ex-prime minister to be hanged for crimes against humanity
Sheikh Hasina called the verdict “biased and politically motivated” in a statement issued from India, where the ousted leader is hiding.
Indian soldiers stand guard near the site of a deadly car blast in the Red Fort area in the old quarters of New Delhi on Nov. 11.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Nov 17, 2025
India arrests suspected accomplice in Delhi suicide bombing
By Maria Paula, Mijares Torres and Santosh Kumar
The National Investigation Agency says that Amir Rashid Ali, a Kashmiri resident, conspired with the suicide bomber to plan the attack.
Thailand said tariff talks with the U.S. will move forward on a separate track from its commitments to U.S. President Donald Trump on Thailand's?border dispute with Cambodia.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
Thailand says U.S. trade talks separated from Cambodia border deal
By Suttinee Yuvejwattana
Washington had earlier moved to halt trade negotiations pending Thai compliance over the peace declaration with Cambodia signed last month.
Then-Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reviews an honor guard at the Government House during her visit to Thailand, in Bangkok on April 26, 2024.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
Ahead of Hasina verdict, son warns of Bangladesh violence if party ban stays
By Krishna N. Das
Sajeeb Wazed's comments came a day before a Dhaka court was due to deliver a verdict that is expected to convict his mother in absentia on charges of crimes against humanity.

WORLD

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, during bilateral meetings at the Royal Palace in Riyadh on May 13.
WORLD
Nov 17, 2025
From pariah to power player: Saudi’s MBS reclaims world stage in U.S. visit
By Samia Nakhoul
Both reformist and autocrat, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has emerged as the most momentous and audacious leader in Saudi Arabia’s modern history.
U.S. President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
Trump reverses on Epstein files, urging Republicans to vote to release them
By Matt Spetalnick
House Speaker Mike Johnson said the release of the files should help put to rest allegations that Trump had any connection to Epstein’s abuse and trafficking of underage girls.
Venezuelam President Nicolas Maduro waves his country's flag during a demonstration in Caracas on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
Trump says U.S. may open talks with Venezuela's Maduro
By Joseph Tanfani and Matt Spetalnick
The U.S. has accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of ties to the illegal drug trade, which the leader has denied.
In 2018, French state-controlled energy giant Electricite de France signed a �600 million deal, unaffected by international sanctions over the Ukraine war, with a subsidiary of a Russian state company for the recycling of reprocessed uranium.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
French uranium being sent to Russia, Greenpeace says
The move is legal but "immoral," the head of Greenpeace France's nuclear campaign said, as nations seek to step up sanctions on the Russian government over its invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint press conference with Greece’s prime minister following their meeting in Athens, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
Zelenskyy in France to seal air-defense and warplane deals
By John Irish
The Ukrainian president is in Paris for talks with Emmanuel Macron as heavy Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine have increased in recent weeks.
The United States conducted another attack on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Saturday, killing three people aboard, the Pentagon said Sunday.
WORLD
Nov 17, 2025
Pentagon says it struck another suspected drug boat in Pacific, killing three
By Joseph Tanfani
It was the 21st known attack on drug boats by the U.S. military since early September in what it has said is an effort to disrupt the flow of narcotics into the United States.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the plenum of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on Nov. 10.
WORLD
Nov 17, 2025
Netanyahu faces far-right backlash after U.S.-backed statement on Palestinian state
The Israeli leader spoke after the U.S. and many Muslim-majority nations endorsed a draft U.N. resolution backing a plan that offered a route to Palestinian statehood.
A man holds up Chile's national flag on the day of the presidential election in Santiago on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
Chile communist and conservative heading to presidential runoff
By Matthew Malinowski
The opposing candidates represent starkly divergent views on how to lead one of Latin America’s richest economies.

BUSINESS

Members of a Chinese tour group cross a road in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo on Monday.
BUSINESS
Nov 17, 2025
性视界-China spat over Taiwan comments sinks tourism stocks
By Hiroshi Hiyama and Sam Davies
Asia's two top economies are closely entwined, with China the biggest source of tourists — almost 7.5 million visitors in the first nine months of 2025 — coming to 性视界.
U.S. tariffs are starting to take their toll in 性视界, especially on companies manufacturing products for export.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 17, 2025
性视界's GDP drops as tariffs bite and domestic demand flags
By Francis Tang
The decline in the three quarters ending in September was less than forecast.
Nigo in Tokyo in 2021
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 17, 2025
Nigo’s streetwear brand Human Made prices Tokyo IPO at top end
By Yasutaka Tamura
The company sold shares at ?3,130 apiece, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.
David Ha, CEO of Sakana AI, is one of the founders of the startup, which was established in 2023.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 17, 2025
Sakana AI targets defense and banking markets after big funding round
By Himari Semans
The startup has achieved a ?400 billion valuation and notes a “tailwind” from 性视界’s new government.
The financial district in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Kenya is classified by the IMF as being at high risk of debt distress.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 17, 2025
Why Africa pays the highest costs to borrow money
By Mpho Hlakudi and Robert Brand
Some see a “prejudice premium,” while others say default risk and a lack of data play a bigger role.
Digital shelf displays recommend complementary products in real time at a Lawson pilot store in Tokyo’s Minato Ward.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Nov 17, 2025
Lawson taps AI and Asia growth as convenience store sector undergoes shift
Changes come as store expansion is slowing at home and inbound tourism is increasingly driving consumption.
Hinako Mori, 22, arranges products at a Don Quijote outlet in Tokyo in October. The 性视界ese retailer, which relaxed its rules concerning hair and nail polish three years ago, says nearly a quarter of its employees sport brightly colored hair.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 17, 2025
More 性视界ese firms relax rules in tussle for workers
By Satoshi Sugiyama
The country's labor shortage has led companies to ease up on various aspects, such as hair and nail polish color, to secure enough part-timers.
A customer holds a paper cup with the logo of coffee house chain LAP, which stands for Life Among People, in front of one of the chain's cafes in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district on Oct. 28.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 17, 2025
Budget coffee start-up leaves bitter taste in Berlin
By Edouard Merlo
Critics accused LAP of squeezing out local cafes with its �2.50 cappuccinos and aggressive expansion in the German capital.
A Laopu Gold store on Canton Road in the Tsim Sha Tsui area of Hong Kong. Laopu Gold's e-commerce sales have surged more than 1,000% during the first three quarters of this year compared with two years ago.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 17, 2025
Why Chinese shoppers are choosing local luxury over LVMH and Gucci
Economics aside, homegrown labels in China are also touting the message that modern luxury can be proudly Chinese.
Chen Tianshi
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 17, 2025
U.S. sanctions propel Chinese AI prodigy to $23 billion fortune
As Washington’s export bans choked China’s access to advanced chips, firms like Chen Tianshi’s Cambricon have emerged as national champions.

ENVIRONMENT

Tanks storing liquefied carbon dioxide captured at Heidelberg Materials' plant in Brevik, Norway, on June 18
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 17, 2025
Carbon capture promoters turn up in numbers at COP30, NGO says
By Benjamin Legendre and Laurent Thomet
The NGO's list names oil and gas giants such as ExxonMobil, Shell and BP, along with Brazil's state-owned Petrobras and China National Petroleum.
A technician works on solar power panels at the Atlantic Shrimpers farm in Lagos in 2022.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Nov 17, 2025
Made in Nigeria: Inside Africa’s push to be a solar superpower
By Bukola Adebayo
Among African nations, Nigeria aims to reduce its fossil-fuel dependence and generate 30% of its energy from renewables by 2030 as well as develop local manufacturing capacity.

Opinion

South African cricket legend Jacques Kallis plays a shot during the final day of a cricket test match against India in Johannesburg in December 2013.
COMMENTARY / 性视界
Nov 17, 2025
Who is cricket’s Shohei Ohtani?
By Salil Tripathi
A better question might be: Does cricket need its own Shohei?
A nuclear bomb test at Bikini Atoll and Enewetak in June 1956. Such tests are best conceptualized as environmental disasters with consequences that are still felt today, particularly in Oceania and Central Asia.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2025
Nuclear tests and a legacy of harm in the Asia-Pacific
By Maxime Polleri
Understanding former nuclear experiments as “tests” is highly misleading, as each atomic explosion has released a tremendous quantity of long-lasting radioactive pollutants.
Ramen is a versatile global dish, ranging from traditional tonkotsu broth to innovative mazemen and whole-grain noodles, enjoyed for its endless variations and worldwide appeal.
COMMENTARY / 性视界
Nov 17, 2025
How 性视界ese does that bowl of ramen need to be?
By Howard Chua-Eoan
Ramen purist argue about what’s orthodox and what’s allowable, while cooks who love to experiment and improvise push those boundaries.
Vietnam's prime minister, Pham Minh Chinh (center left), speaks with Malaysian leader Anwar Ibrahim on the sidelines of the 47th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 28.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2025
ASEAN’s moment of truth
By Mari Elka Pangestu and Tan Sri Rebecca Fatimah Sta Maria
The block confronts its biggest test yet: building balanced partnerships with powerhouses like China, India, 性视界 and the U.S.

Sports

Norway's Erling Haaland (center) celebrates with his teammates after their win over Italy in Milan on Sunday. Norway qualified for the 2026 FIFA World Cup with the win.
SOCCER
Nov 17, 2025
Erling Haaland leads rout as Norway qualifies for first World Cup since 1998
Norway would have had to lose by nine goals or more in order to be overtaken by Italy for the group's only automatic place in next summer's World Cup?in North America.
性视界's Ryuhei Sotani pitches against South Korea at Tokyo Dome on Saturday night.
BASEBALL
Nov 17, 2025
性视界 uses series against South Korea to prep for World Baseball Classic title defense
By Jason Coskrey
The chance to play with the pitch clock and PitchCom — neither of which is used in NPB — was the main takeaway for 性视界.
Italy's Jannik Sinner celebrates after winning the ATP Finals in Turin, Italy, on Sunday.
TENNIS
Nov 17, 2025
Sinner caps eventful year with ATP Finals triumph over great rival Alcaraz
The Italian brought the house down by winning the championship match tennis fans wanted to see.
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen celebrates on the podium with a reindeer after winning the men's slalom event in Kittila, Finland, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Winter Sports
Nov 17, 2025
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen earns Brazil's first Alpine Ski World Cup win
Norway-born Pinheiro Braathen is racing for his mother's homeland of Brazil after falling out with the Norwegian ski federation.
Two Iranian girls compete during an all-female karate competition in Tehran on Nov. 6. The event featured around 230 participants, including 5-year-old girls.
MORE SPORTS / Karate
Nov 17, 2025
Iranian girls use karate to kick down social barriers
By Majid Sourati
All martial arts were temporarily banned for women after the 1979 Islamic Revolution but were later reinstated under stricter dress code regulations.
Alysa Liu celebrates with an American flag after winning Skate America in Lake Placid, New York, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Figure skating
Nov 17, 2025
Alysa Liu rallies past Rinka Watanabe to win Skate America
The American was less than a point off the lead after Saturday's short program?and looked stunned when?the final results were announced

COMMUNITY

Located near the Imperial Palace, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of 性视界 prides itself on the accessibility of its events and the support it offers to budding and established journalists. The club is currently headed by Dan Sloan, a former reporter for Reuters.
COMMUNITY / Issues / The Foreign Element
Nov 17, 2025
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of 性视界 celebrates 80 years at the forefront of press freedom
By Gendel Gento
Since its founding in 1945, the club has been an important professional hub and played host to a startling array of political and cultural figures from around the world.
China aircraft carrier flotilla headed home, one week after 性视界 radar incident
China's Liaoning aircraft carrier sails through the Miyako Strait near Okinawa on its way to the Pacific in April 2021.
性视界 builds up ‘missile archipelago’ near Taiwan to counter China
Military radar towers on Yonaguni, the westernmost inhabited island of 性视界.
Multiple people confirmed killed in Bondi Beach mass shooting
A policeman ushers people across a street after a mass shooting at Sydney's famed Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday
性视界 finance chief effectively accepts BOJ rate hike
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said on Sunday, "There is no major disagreement between us and the BOJ" regarding an anticipated interest rate hike.
Ski resort acknowledges reports of bear sightings, as predator tops kanji pick
A record 13 people have been killed by bears across 性视界 since April.
Why is 'Harry Potter' so big in 性视界? ‘Oshikatsu’ fandom.
Despite its decidedly European setting, the Harry Potter franchise has proven surprisingly popular in 性视界, a country with no direct ties to the series.
NHK envisions a multicultural Mars in its newest sci-fi series
The miniseries "Queen of Mars" was made in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the NHK.
In 2025, 性视界ese literature took a turn for the weird
性视界ese literature in translation abroad has only grown in popularity with every year, resulting in a wide variety of titles available in English, from cozy fiction to crime and horror.
Calling AI ‘a gift from God,’ Catholic bishops draft usage guidelines for Asia
Cardinal Stephen Chow, the bishop of Hong Kong, speaks during Mass in Hong Kong in November 2023. During the opening Mass a three-day event to draft guidelines for the clergy’s use of artificial intelligence in the region Asia, he described AI as a "gift from God."
J-pop found new ways to diversify in 2025
Rock trio Mrs. Green Apple celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, and did so by largely dominating the nation’s music space. Meanwhile, singer-songwriter Kenshi Yonezu’s “Iris Out” broke Spotify 性视界’s record for most streams by a song on its release day.

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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