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    Courtesy of Sanae Takichi
    Japan’s aspiring leader drums to relieve stress. She has many reasons to reach for her sticks
  • A billboard for Asahi Super Dry beer in Tokyo, on October 3, 2025.
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    Hack on Japan’s biggest brewer renews concerns over cyberattack readiness
  • A bear attack in a supermarket in Gunma, Japan, on October 7, 2025
    Gunma Perfectural Police/TV Asahi
    Bear enters Japanese supermarket, pounces on customer, as nationwide toll reaches new high
  • Former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) leadership election in Tokyo on October 4, 2025.
    Kyodo News/AP
    Japan ruling party picks new leader, likely to become country’s first female prime minister
  • Japan's former Economic Security Minister Takayuki Kobayashi, former Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi and Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi pose at the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidential election candidates joint press conference at LDP headquarters, in Tokyo, Japan, on September 23, 2025.
    Eugene Hoshiko/Reuters
    Japan’s ruling party is in crisis as voters swing to right-wing rivals. Can a new leader save it?
  • Crews in Japan practice loading a dummy Tomahawk munition aboard the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer JS Chokai at Yokosuka Naval Base near Tokyo last week.
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    Japan is arming a warship with US missiles that can hit targets up to 1,000 miles away as Pacific arms race heats up
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  • 2 passengers injured after mid-air report of fire prompts emergency evacuation of United Airlines 737 in Japan
  • After the ‘craziest’ race of his life, 16-year-old Cooper Lutkenhaus will make history at the World Athletics Championships
  • ‘Inconvenient,’ ‘retrograde’ and more popular than ever: The rise of instax cameras
  • US and Japan begin exercises including missiles that China calls a threat
  • Japan PM Ishiba resigns after series of bruising election losses
  • Who is Japan’s ‘dragonfly’ prince, who could be the last emperor of the world’s oldest monarchy?
  • US Open women’s semifinals preview: Two Americans and two grand slam winners battle for spot in final
  • CEO of Japanese drinks giant Suntory resigns following drug probe
  • A private phone number, secret opening times, and no interest in Michelin: Inside one of Tokyo’s invite-only restaurants

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  • This puffer jacket uses light and sound to lull you to sleep anywhere
  • Asian painters were ‘othered’ in Paris a century ago. Now, the art world is taking note
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    Tokyo takes the top spot in ‘world’s coolest’ neighborhood rankings (with London and Chicago close behind)
  • Video Why Uji’s matcha is the world’s most coveted green tea 1:28
  • ‘Utterly foolish’: 12 hours before World War II ended, the US firebombed this Japanese city
  • Bananas don’t grow in Tokyo. That hasn’t stopped them from becoming a symbol of the city anyway
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