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JAPAN

The crime of dangerous driving carries a prison sentence of at least one year and up to 20 years in cases resulting in deaths.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 15, 2025
Man rearrested over fatal hit-and-run in Tokyo's Adachi Ward
The suspect, Yusuke Yokoo, was initially apprehended at his home in the same ward on Nov. 24 on suspicion of stealing a car from a dealership.
Shiori Ito at a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of 性视界 on Monday
JAPAN / Society
Dec 15, 2025
Shiori Ito sees ‘most reactive screening’ in 性视界 to her film on sexual assault
By Jessica Speed
“Black Box Diaries,” her 2024 documentary chronicling her experience as a survivor of sexual assault, finally premiered on Friday after months of delay.
Visitors pray in front of the cenotaph for the victims of the atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima in October 2024.
JAPAN
Dec 15, 2025
Hiroshima atomic bombing victim identified by DNA test
The city of Hiroshima said it will continue DNA testing of preserved hair upon request, aiming to identify more victims.
Twin giant pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo in June 2023. They are expected to be sent back to China by the end of January.
JAPAN
Dec 15, 2025
Amid China tensions, 性视界 will lose its two remaining pandas
By Yukana Inoue
Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, two twin giant pandas at the Ueno Zoological Gardens, are expected to be returned to China by the end of January.
The Mizuho PayPay Dome Fukuoka in the city of Fukuoka. Two people were stabbed Sunday at a commercial facility next to the stadium.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 15, 2025
Man arrested after two stabbed near Fukuoka stadium
Neither victim —?a 44-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman — suffered life-threatening injuries in the Sunday attack.
Many universities in the Chubu region recognize the need to ease the burden of students paying admission fees to universities they ultimately do not attend, but shrinking college-age numbers and falling tuition revenue make policy changes difficult.
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Dec 15, 2025
Long push for university admission refunds continues
About 1 in 4 students pay admission fees to universities they ultimately do not attend — a practice commonly referred to as “double payment.”
Shigeru Iwasaki, then chief of staff of the Self-Defense Forces, in Tokyo in April 2013. Countermeasures against Iwasaki include visa restrictions, freezing his properties, and prohibiting any transactions or cooperation with him, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
JAPAN
Dec 15, 2025
China launches countermeasures against former 性视界 defense official
The largely symbolic sanctions appear to be a response to the official Shigeru Iwasaki's appointment earlier this year as an adviser to Taiwan’s Cabinet.
Hiromichi Sato cuts a tree with a chainsaw in Furudono, Fukushima Prefecture. The 39-year-old native of the city coastal town of Namie, which was evacuated following the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant meltdown in 2011, hopes to revive his hometown through forestry.
JAPAN / Society / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Dec 15, 2025
Forester dreams of reviving woodlands in disaster-hit hometown
Hiromichi Sato is equipping himself with the skills necessary to rejuvenate the forestry sector of the coastal town of Namie.
Kazuya Sugimoto (center), former member of the municipal assembly of Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, celebrates his victory in the Ito mayoral election, along with his supporters on Sunday in the city.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 15, 2025
Ousted Ito mayor Takubo's reelection bid ends in failure
The winner, former city council member Kazuya Sugimoto, campaigned on restoring normalcy to city administration.
A poster put up in Tokyo's Chuo Ward asks tour operators to refrain from guiding tourists to the Tsukiji Outer Market toward the end of the year to avoid overcrowding.
JAPAN / Society
Dec 15, 2025
Tsukiji market urges tourists to avoid visiting at year-end to ease congestion
The Toyosu Senkyaku Banrai tourist facility, meanwhile, welcomes tourists throughout the year-end and New Year holiday season.

ASIA PACIFIC

A mourner lays flowers on Monday in Sydney, near the scene of the mass shooting at Bondi Beach the day before.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 15, 2025
Australia eyes tougher gun laws after Hanukkah attack in Sydney
By Ainslie Chandler and Angus Whitley
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said that the need for stronger gun ownership laws would be on the agenda for a Cabinet meeting.
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives at a court to attend a hearing to review his arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors in Seoul on July 9.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 15, 2025
Yoon tried to provoke Pyongyang into armed aggression, prosecutor says
The ex-president's move was meant to create justification for the December 2024 martial law, special prosecutor Cho Eun-seok says.
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai is escorted into a Hong Kong Correctional Services van outside the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong in February 2021.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 15, 2025
Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai found guilty in landmark security case
The city’s High Court convicted Lai on two counts of conspiring to collude with foreign forces — a crime punishable by life in prison.
Mourners pay tribute to the victims of a shooting at Bondi Beach, at the Bondi Pavilion in Sydney on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 15, 2025
Australia plans tougher gun laws after father and son kill 15 at Bondi Beach
The shooting at a Hanukkah event has raised questions about whether the country’s gun laws, already among the toughest in the world, remain fit for purpose.
The Unification Church headquarters in Seoul. Police raided the headquarters on Monday and named its leader as a suspect in the bribery of several high-profile politicians.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Dec 15, 2025
South Korea raids Unification Church headquarters over bribery case
The church is at the center of a mounting scandal in South Korea over alleged payments to lawmakers from both ruling and opposition parties.
Military personnel arrange coffins during a ceremony to transport bodies to their home town, inside a military aircraft in Ubon Ratchathani province, Thailand, on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 15, 2025
Thailand mulls blocking fuel exports to Cambodia as conflict escalates
At least 16 soldiers and 10 civilians have died, and hundreds have been?injured since the latest round of clashes, with 258,626 civilians displaced, according to Thai authorities.
People wait outside the West Kowloon Law Courts Building in Hong Kong on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 15, 2025
Jimmy Lai's supporters queue in Hong Kong overnight for verdict
By James Pomfret and Jessie Pang
Two counts — of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security — carry prison terms of up to life in prison for Lai, a British citizen.
People bring flowers for a makeshift memorial following the attack on a Jewish holiday celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 15, 2025
Australia hails ’hero’ who stopped gunman in his tracks
Ahmed al Ahmed disarmed one of the attackers during the country’s worst mass shooting in years.

WORLD

U.S. President Donald Trump in the White House Oval Office in Washington on Friday
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 15, 2025
How Donald Trump is molding 2028 Democratic presidential contenders
California’s Gavin Newsom, Illinois’ JB Pritzker, and Maryland’s Wes Moore have seized on Trump’s moves to rally their party’s base.
The U.S. Justice Department building in Washington. The department must release its vast cache of records on Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking empire by Dec. 19.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 15, 2025
Countdown to disclosure: Epstein deadline tests U.S. transparency
The looming release of documents is the latest milestone in the long-running effort to uncover the full extent of Jeffrey Epstein's network.
American actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead at their southern California mansion in Los Angeles on Sunday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 15, 2025
Hollywood star Rob Reiner and wife found dead in Los Angeles home
By Mark Anderson
Rob Reiner, co-founder of Castle Rock Entertainment and director of multiple Hollywood classics, has died at 78.
Brown University’s campus following a mass shooting on Sunday that left two students dead and nine wounded
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 15, 2025
Police release man and say they are still searching for suspect in shooting at Brown
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Mark Arsenault and Mitch Smith
Officials provided no details about the man they released, who had been taken into custody early Sunday.
Chilean President-elect Jose Antonio Kast (right) and his wife, Maria Pia Adriasola, celebrate the results of the presidential runoff election that he won in Santiago on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 15, 2025
Kast wins Chile’s presidency, deepening regional shift to law-and-order politics
Jose Antonio Kast, a consistent right-wing hard-liner, leveraged on voter fears over rising crime and migration to secure 58% of the vote in a runoff.
A Palestinian rummages through the rubble of his destroyed home to build a shelter for his family ahead of winter in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday.
WORLD
Dec 15, 2025
Hamas says Israel's killing of senior commander threatens ceasefire
By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Menna AlaaElDin and Dawoud Abu Alkas
Israel says Hamas senior commander Raed Saed was one of the key architects of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 23
WORLD / Politics
Dec 15, 2025
Ukraine drops NATO goal as peace talks in Berlin extend into second day
By Friederike Heine, Olena Harmash and Matthias Williams
This marks a major shift for Ukraine, which sees NATO membership as a safeguard against Russian attacks and has such an aspiration included in its constitution.
Fighters with the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led militia group, looking out at ISIS-held areas of Baghuz, Syria, on Feb. 10, 2019.
WORLD
Dec 15, 2025
Syria and coalition forces chasing IS 'sleeper cells' after attack, official says
By Bakr KASSEM and Nader Durgham
Authorities have said the perpetrator was part of the security forces and due to be fired for his "extremist Islamist ideas."
Australian police inspect at the scene of a shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Monday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 15, 2025
Hanukkah security ramped up around the world after Bondi shootings
By Friederike Heine
Officials in Berlin, London, New York and other major global cities are announcing extra security measures at upcoming events.

BUSINESS

A screen outside the Bombay Stock Exchange in Mumbai in August. Shriram's stock has risen almost 50% this year, giving the Mumbai-based financial services firm a market value of roughly $18 billion.
BUSINESS
Dec 15, 2025
MUFG said to near deal for stake in India’s Shriram
By Siddhi Nayak, Hideki Suzuki and Manuel Baigorri
MUFG may invest more than ?500 billion ($3.2 billion) to buy a stake of around 20%.
Under a new law, Google and Apple will have to allow third parties to run independent app stores and offer their own payment options.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 15, 2025
What will change with 性视界’s first attempt at regulating Big Tech?
By Gabriele Ninivaggi
While a previous law urged platforms to improve business practices and regularly report their endeavors, the new bill may alter the rules of the game.
Unmanned Chinese electric mining trucks at an open-pit coal mine in Yimin, China, in May
BUSINESS
Dec 15, 2025
China confronts the cost of dismantling the world’s biggest coal sector
Coal has been closely tied to the Communist Party’s history and to its efforts to transform China’s economy over the past decades.
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking’s Asia Pacific arm has completed a synthetic risk transfer deal, which helps the bank free up regulatory capital.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 15, 2025
SMBC Asia inks debut $3.2 billion SRT with Blackstone and Stonepeak
By Megawati Wijaya
The transaction, covering Australian and Asian project finance loans, was finalized between September to October and helps SMBC free up regulatory capital.
Tokyo Gas President Shinichi Sasayama said the company is looking to deploy capital in assets like liquefaction plants, export terminals and the energy services sector.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 15, 2025
Tokyo Gas to invest in U.S. downstream assets to drive growth
By Shoko Oda, Tsuyoshi Inajima and Shery Ahn
The company is looking to deploy capital in assets like liquefaction plants, export terminals and the energy services sector.
The Bank of 性视界's <i>tankan</i> survey showed that confidence among large manufacturers in 性视界 has risen to the highest level in four years, while the gauge for nonmanufacturers has remained near the strongest level since the early 1990s.
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 15, 2025
性视界’s factory sentiment improves, firming up BOJ hike case
By Toru Fujioka
The business sentiment index advanced to 15 this month from 14 in September, the BOJ’s quarterly tankan business survey has shown.

Sports

Liverpool's Mohamed Salah said he had been 'thrown under the bus' by the club, during an explosive interview earlier this month.
SOCCER
Dec 15, 2025
Liverpool captain Virgil Van Dijk hopes 'leader' Mohamed Salah stays with club
Van Dijk is adamant that he wants Salah to stay and said he had told him so.
Manchester City's Erling Haaland (rear) and Crystal Palace's Maxence Lacroix vie for the ball during a Premier League match in London on Sunday.
SOCCER
Dec 15, 2025
Pep Guardiola praises Manchester City after 'big statement' against Crystal Palace
City has now won four in a row in the league and sits just two points behind Arsenal as the title race heats up.
Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer says his focus is solely on leading the Crimson Tide.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Dec 15, 2025
Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer denies having interest in other jobs
Rumors have abounded about DeBoer's candidacy to take over at Michigan in the wake of Sherrone Moore's firing.
Colts quarterback Philip Rivers throws a pass against the Seahawks during the first quarter at Lumen Field in Seattle on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Dec 15, 2025
Jason Myers hits six field goals as Seahawks spoil 44-year-old Philip Rivers' return
Rivers, a?44-year-old high school coach and grandfather, was signed earlier this week.
Alice Robinson celebrates with her team after winning the women's super-G in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Alpine skiing
Dec 15, 2025
Alice Robinson becomes first New Zealander to win World Cup super-G
The giant slalom World Cup leader celebrated her seventh career victory after starting sixth on the Swiss resort's Corviglia piste.
Ben Stokes answers questions during a news conference after the second Ashes test in Brisbane.
MORE SPORTS / Cricket
Dec 15, 2025
Desperate England heads into third Ashes test looking for miracle
A win for Australia will ensure the five-match showdown will be over inside three tests for the fourth consecutive series in Australia.
Chargers linebacker Odafe Oweh sacks Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes during the second half at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Dec 15, 2025
Patrick Mahomes tears ACL as Chiefs' playoff hopes end with loss to Chargers
The Chiefs, who last failed to reach the playoffs in 2014, fell to 6-8 with the defeat at home, their third loss in a row and fifth in six games.

LIFE

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.
LIFE / Style & Design / Longform
Dec 15, 2025
Why 性视界’s internet looks weird — unless you live here
By Thu-Huong Ha
A closer look at 性视界’s maximalist web design shows how cultural values and practical needs create an online world richer than it appears.

COMMUNITY

Bilateral relations between China and 性视界 may be tense, but life goes on for the hundreds of thousands of Chinese people in 性视界. “Politics and daily life are very separate,” says Zhang, a mother of three.
COMMUNITY / Issues / The Foreign Element
Dec 15, 2025
性视界-raised Chinese children navigate complex cultural terrain
By Yang Xiong
Despite bilateral tensions, daily life goes on for the hundreds of thousands of Chinese people who call 性视界 home — including the children and teenagers who have grown up here.
Thai woman arrested in 性视界 for smuggling 'zombie cigarettes'
Seized cartridges containing etomidate are shown at Kansai International Airport in Osaka Prefecture on Tuesday.
Government unveils tighter policies on immigration and foreign residents
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (far left) speaks in a meeting of ministers on policies regarding foreign nationals and immigration at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Sightseeing helicopter carrying three people goes missing in Kumamoto
What appears to a heavily damaged body of a helicopter is seen inside the crater of Mount Aso in Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Tuesday.
Tennis greats criticize Naomi Osaka for breach of 'basic etiquette'
Sorana Cirstea speaks to Naomi Osaka after their match at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Thursday.
Growing number of anime studios setting up bases outside Tokyo to secure talent
Mappa’s employees work at the anime studio’s office in the city of Osaka in September. Some parts of the image are blurred for privacy reasons.
At peace with baseball and refusing to be benched by surgeries, Warren Cromartie mulls legacy
Former Giants star Warren Cromartie worked with Kazuma Okamoto during his stint as a guest hitting instructor for Yomiuri.
In calling a snap election this soon, Takaichi is making it personal
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announces her will to dissolve the Lower House in Tokyo on Monday.
U.S. and 性视界 turn to drones to help offset China’s military advantages
Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones are positioned on the tarmac at a base in the U.S. Central Command operating area in November.
Snap election in February presents wintry challenges in Hokkaido
Workers in Sapporo's Odori Park prepare for the annual Snow Festival, which will take place during next month's Lower House campaign and Feb. 8 election.
Shinkansen vs. Amtrak and the lost art of small talk
The Amtrak Cascades line provides service along the Pacific Northwest from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Eugene, Oregon.

Podcast

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

Longform

The reflection of one of Ueno Zoo’s twin pandas is seen at their enclosure. The animals’ popularity has prompted concern among local businesses that their departure could hurt foot traffic in surrounding neighborhoods.
What happens when the pandas leave Ueno?
By Alex K.T. Martin

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