Sunday, the twenty-first of December, two thousand twenty-five
Police said they were yet to find any accomplice and were investigating possible motives. (The Japan Times)
Video footage aired on local television networks showed the suspect, who was wearing a gas mask and clad in black, dropping at least two smoke grenades at the Taipei Main metro station. (The Japan Times)
Taipei Metro said that a staffer was hospitalized after he inhaled excessive smoke while responding to the attack. (The Japan Times)
The area boasts gorges and waterfalls of varying sizes, along with primeval forests of beech and fir. In autumn, the foliage adds a palette of fall colors to the area. (The Japan Times)
Friday, the nineteenth of December, two thousand twenty-five
Karl Bushby made a barroom bet that he could walk from the southern tip of South America all the way home to England. (The Japan News)
That conversation gathered steam, until eventually I did the math and thought, 'this is doable'... I became semi-obsessed with what it would take to achieve something like this. (The Japan News)
He's traversed some of the most remote, hostile and politically fraught places on Earth, and crossed deserts, jungles and war zones. (The Japan News)
Once you're in the army and you get to travel and see some of these amazing places, that really inspires and motivates a wanderlust, (The Japan News)
He walked through the Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia - known as one of the most perilous jungle passages in the world. (The Japan News)
He swam across the Caspian Sea from Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan to circumvent traveling through Iran or Russia. (The Japan News)
Bushby said that anytime he was ill or down on his luck, a stranger would swoop in and help - either with shelter, a meal, financial support or guidance. (The Japan News)
He said he has only suffered one major injury - he slipped and gashed open his wrist - and he gave himself stitches. (The Japan News)
Although Bushby knows globe-trotting is not for everyone, he hopes to inspire people to take on more adventure in their lives. (The Japan News)
"The world will wrap itself around you and help you achieve things and keep you moving," he said. "It's been absolutely astounding." (The Japan News)
Friday, the nineteenth of December, two thousand twenty-five
Karl Bushby made a barroom bet that he could walk from the southern tip of South America all the way home to England. (The Japan News)
That conversation gathered steam, until eventually I did the math and thought, 'this is doable'... I became semi-obsessed with what it would take to achieve something like this. (The Japan News)
He's traversed some of the most remote, hostile and politically fraught places on Earth, and crossed deserts, jungles and war zones. (The Japan News)
Once you're in the army and you get to travel and see some of these amazing places, that really inspires and motivates a wanderlust, (The Japan News)
He walked through the Darien Gap between Panama and Colombia - known as one of the most perilous jungle passages in the world. (The Japan News)
He swam across the Caspian Sea from Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan to circumvent traveling through Iran or Russia. (The Japan News)
Bushby said that anytime he was ill or down on his luck, a stranger would swoop in and help - either with shelter, a meal, financial support or guidance. (The Japan News)
He said he has only suffered one major injury - he slipped and gashed open his wrist - and he gave himself stitches. (The Japan News)
Although Bushby knows globe-trotting is not for everyone, he hopes to inspire people to take on more adventure in their lives. (The Japan News)
"The world will wrap itself around you and help you achieve things and keep you moving," he said. "It's been absolutely astounding." (The Japan News)
Thursday, the eighteenth of December, two thousand twenty-five
Berlin-based writer Yoko Tawada was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize, a biennial prize in Germany for a person of letters who has contributed to the mutual understanding of different cultures at a ceremony in Dortmund in western Germany on Sunday. (The Japan Times)
The prize was launched in 1961 to honor Nelly Sachs, a Berlin-born Jewish poet and a Nebel Prize laureate. (The Japan Times)
Occasions such as this provide an opportunity to reaffirm the strength and resilience of the partnership between the State of Qatar and Japan - one that is founded on mutual respect, shared values and a steadfast commitment to constructive, future-oriented cooperation. (The Japan Times)
Qatar's strategic geographic location, linking Asia with Europe and Africa, also offers companies an ideal springboard for expansion into regional and global markets. (The Japan Times)
Wednesday, the seventeenth of December, two thousand twenty-five
At an old clay pit for making bricks near the village of Barnham, the researchers found a patch of heated clay, some heat-shattered flint handaxes and two pieces of iron pyrite - a mineral that creates sparks when struck against flint to ignite tinder - that they identified as a repeatedly used campfire. (The Japan Times)
Through cooking, our forerunners were able to eliminate pathogens from meat and toxins from edible roots and tubers. (The Japan Times)
The researchers believe that Neanderthals, our close evolutionary cousins, were the fire-makers, another piece of evidence showing the intelligence and ingenuity of these archaic humans long maligned in popular culture. (The Japan Times)
Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on Earth, thanks to interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals before their disappearance. (The Japan Times)
Buzoianu, from the junior center-right Save Romania Union, is reforming the ministry's forestry and water agencies, long seen as politicized. (The Japan Times)
Overreliance on other countries for development could lead to restricted access depending on bilateral relations, and the inability to fully ensure a safe usage environment. (The Japan Times)
Going forward, the proposals noted the generative AI deployed in the workspace could replace human labor, potentially leading to job cuts, reduced hiring plans and wage declines, and urged the government to implement preemptive measures and provide the necessary support to prevent generative AI from becoming a factor creating new economic disparities.
Tuesday, the sixteenth of December, two thousand twenty-five
The exhibition, Ramses and the Pharaohs' Gold, features scores of objects from the "warrior king", who sired 100 children, reigned for 67 years and won about 15 military campaigns. (The Japan Times)
The large-scale excavation of Egypt's numerous archaeological sites began in earnest only after Napoleon's invasion in the late 18th century. (The Japan Times)
He said it would consider "loan requests for any part of the collection". (The Japan Times)
A father and son opened fire on a Jewish festival at Sydney's Bondi Beach in a shooting spree that killed 15 people including a child, authorities said Monday as they denounced the attack as antisemitic "terrorism." (The Japan Times)
Police are still unravelling what drove the shootings, although authorities have said the plot was clearly designed to sow terror among the nation's Jews. (The Japan Times)
Carrying long-barrelled guns, they peppered the beach with bullets for 10 minutes before police shot and killed the 50-year-old father. (The Japan Times)
Wary of reprisals, police have so far dodged questions about the attackers' religion or ideological motivations. (The Japan Times)
They said the "improvised explosive device" had likely been planted by the pair. (The Japan Times)
Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor, the latest in the government's archaeological events that aim at drawing more tourists to the country. (The Japan Times)
The colossi were toppled by a strong earthquake in about 1200 B.C. that also destroyed Amenhotep III's funerary temple, said Ismail. (The Japan Times)
They were fragmented and partly quarried away, with their pedestals dispersed. (The Japan Times)
Monday, the fifteenth of December, two thousand twenty-five
Yarik Sisa, creative manager for the film, said the story is inspired by ancestral practices that have survived the passage of time, including taking musical instruments to energetic points of the land the night before a celebration so that the instruments are endowed with "soul". (The Japan Times, 2025-12-13)
The film also includes characters such as Ayaruku, which represents an indomitable spirit; Ayawa, a representation of the sublime and the feminine; and Ayaku, a child symbolizing tenderness. (The Japan Times, 2025-12-13)
These characters play their traditional instruments and stomp their feet as part of a rhythmic dance as they enter a dark cavern, which symbolizes globalization, where the spirits give them the mission of becoming new seeds of their people. (The Japan Times, 2025-12-13)
Her grandfather then asks her to never stray from that path. (The Japan Times, 2025-12-13)
Saturday, the thirteenth of December, two thousand twenty-five
The Hachinohe city government issued an evacuation directive to the 48 households within 50 meters of the tower on Thursday and opened an evacuation shelter at a community center. (The Japan News)
To repair the tower, it is expected to take about two weeks to set up the scaffolding and another week to weld and reinforce the fractured section. (The Japan News)
It's tiring to keep eating out until the evacuation directive is lifted. I want to go back home as soon as possible. (The Japan News)
Message board website Reddit on Friday filed a lawsuit asking the High Court to overturn Australia's social media ban for people under 16 as well as its inclusion in it, calling the law an infringement of free political expression. (The Japan News)
They produced an animated short film titled "We're Aya" that follows the adventures of Aya, a mythical Otavalo warrior, and other characters who interact under the watchful eye of a condor - an iconic bird for Andean Indigenous cultures that symbolizes power and energy. (The Japan News)
Quichua is the vibration that gives meaning to existence and without language, the meaning of life and our energy comes to an end. (The Japan News)
Thursday, the eleventh of December, two thousand twenty-five
During the January-September period last year, two people had their driver's license suspended for particularly egregious cases of riding bicycles while drunk. (The Japan News)
Some local governments are toughening up penalties for drunk cycling. (The Japan News)
The Chiba prefectural government dismisses in disgrace employees who have been caught driving a car or riding a bicycle while under the influence of alcohol. (The Japan News)
As December brings year-end parties that will offer people plenty of opportunities for drinking, police are beefing up enforcement on the street. (The Japan News)
The quake occurred as the Pacific Plate subducted beneath the North American Plate. (The Japan News)
Since the Monday tremor occurred in a "void" with few recorded earthquakes of comparable magnitude, some experts suggest it may have taken place after part of a plate boundary, which had not entirely broken, was ruptured. (The Japan News)
Thursday, the twenty-seventh of November, two thousand twenty-five
Hideyoshi letter seeking to entice rival discovered (The Japan News)
A letter written by feudal general Toyotomi Hideyoshi has been discovered, promising rewards to an enemy retainer if he will switch sides. (The Japan News)
It measures 32.8 centimeters high and 44.7 centimeters wide and is now arranged as a hanging scroll. (The Japan News)
Murai specializes in medieval Japanese history and believes that the letter is the original, as it bears Hideyoshi's kao signature and the handwriting of his secretary. (The Japan News)
At the time, Hideyoshi was besieging Bitchu Takamatsu Castle in what is now Okayama City as the top commander of the force attacking the Mori clan at Nobunaga's order. (The Japan News)
As a reward for Uehara giving his loyalty to "Ue-sama" (Lord), meaning Nobunaga, Hideyoshi pledges to get a document with a vermillion seal from Nobunaga that will give Uehara the right to govern Bingo. (The Japan News)
The letter shows us how Hideyoshi, who didn't know about the death of Nobunaga, schemed to cajole an enemy with 'big words,' such as giving him Bingo or Bitchu. (The Japan News)
Tuesday, the twenty-eighth of October, two thousand twenty-five
Timed to coincide with the museum's ongoing exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Tokyu Setagaya Line, it dispenses stories connected to stations along the line. (The Japan News)
The user selects one of three options, such as "Sangenjaya Station-Wakabayashi Station," and the machine prints out an an excerpt from a work such as Fumiko Hayashi's "Diary of a Vagabond." (The Japan News)
Friday, the nineteenth of September, two thousand twenty-five
When I visited the workshop, I saw Iida sitting cross-legged in a tatami-mat room, silently sewing the panels of fabric to the umbrella ribs with thread. (The Japan News)
The fabric patterns adorning its umbrellas include cross-sections of ears of corn, swan boats on a lake and chamomile flowers. (The Japan News)
The United States and China have surged ahead in the development of generative AI, which can create text and other content, but there are concerns that relying on these overseas models could result in data flowing abroad and incorrect information about Japan being widely disseminated. (The Japan News)
The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), which is under the jurisdiction of the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry, will provide data in Japanese collected over about the past 20 years. (The Japan News)
The staff trade their badges with others working at different pavilions and attach them to their ID card lanyards. (The Japan News)
"Having lots of badges feels like having lots of medals, and the fun of 'bartering' probably captures the hearts of many staff members," Fujii said. (The Japan News)
Thursday, the eighteenth of September, two thousand twenty-five
Min was one of 70 participants in Reading City, a communal reading event with no discussions, no social mingling but just the simple pleasure of reading alongside others in a shared space, with music - a mix of ambient, downtempo and deep house - that blended into the background. (The Japan News)
In the grand theater of South Asian politics, the tectonic plates are shifting. (The Japan News)
It is a "Youthquake" - a seismic wave of change driven by young, digitally native citizens no longer content with the status quo. (The Japan News)
Kainan is believed to be the birthplace of the Suzuki surname, now borne by an estimated 1.76 million people in Japan. (The Japan News)
Focusing on the surname, the nation's second most common after Sato, local residents and others are working to revitalize Kainan by various means, including the restoration of a mansion associated with the Suzuki surname. (The Japan News)
Wednesday, the seventeenth of September, two thousand twenty-five
France rues declines of the family dinner (The Japan News, 2025/09/15)
The newspaper Le Figaro has said that the ritual of the evening meal is being sacrificed in an ever more frenzied society. (The Japan News, 2025/09/15)
In a sign of the sensitivities that surround food in France, media commentators have viewed the results with foreboding. (The Japan News, 2025/09/15)
Roblox, which says it is "the safest place on the internet", has subsequently banned him from the platform and sent him a cease and desist letter, claiming that his "vigilante" tactics were against its terms of service. (The Japan News, 2025/09/15)
They plan to launch a class-action lawsuit against Roblox for the abuse that they experienced. (The Japan News, 2025/09/15)
Thomas posed as a nine-year-old girl on Roblox and bribed boys into sharing explicit material. (The Japan News, 2025/09/15)
I got groomed very viciously by this person. (The Japan News, 2025/09/15)
Tuesday, the sixteenth of September, two thousand twenty-five
In India, competition for IT talent is already fierce, and Vietnam is seeing a similar trend as U.S. tech companies step up hiring with appealing conditions. (The Japan News. 2025/09/15)
The key will be how Japanese companies can prevail when competing with foreign firms in the future. (The Japan News, 2025/09/15)
Tuesday, the ninth of September, two thousand twenty-five
Sukesan Udon, a restaurant chain that started out in Kitakyushu, is popular for its wide variety of so-called comfort foods for residents, such as udon noodles with a chewy texture and carefully prepared broth. (The Japan News)
It also sells oden simmered stew, katsudon pork cutlet rice bowls and botamochi, a traditional sweet made of steamed mochi rice and red bean paste. (The Japan News)
AI isn't a person, after all. It can't leak or file suit. (The Japan News)
The phenomenon is widely known as "the liar's dividend." (The Japan News)
His opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, said she was wrong to call some of his supporters "a basket of deplorables." (The Japan News)
Polling suggests many Americans are wary about AI. (The Japan News)
They have reason, and Trump has played a sizable role in muddying trust and truth. (The Japan News)
He then moved to the Naiku shrine, which enshrines Amaterasu Omikami, the mythical ancestor of the Imperial family. (The Japan News)
The prince traveled to Kashihara, Nara Prefecture, on Monday afternoon to offer a prayer at the mausoleum of Emperor Jimmu, the mythical first emperor, before flying back to Tokyo. (The Japan News)
Friday, the fifth of September, two thousand twenty-five
During the concert a week later, his wrinkled face, creased with experience, appeared on an auditorium screen, as CBS News first reported. (The Japan News)
Moments later, when Gabriel swayed both his arms to lead the band, the 85-member group erupted into playing "America the Beautiful." (The Japan News)
Wednesday, the third of September, two thousand twenty-five
The rapid spread of digital devices in recent years may be causing a significant problem by eroding the habits of handwriting and reading. (The Japan News)
Vietnam celebrated the 80th anniversary of its declaration of independence from colonial rule on Tuesday, with its largest military parade in decades, unprecedented cash handouts and the release of nearly 14,000 prisoners. (The Japan News)
A separate event at sea featured Russian Kilo-class submarines and frigates. (The Japan News)
National leaders and foreign dignitaries, including top lawmakers from China and Russia, watched the military procession in Ba Dinh Square, where on Sept. 2 1945, revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh made his historical declaration of independence. (The Japan News)
President Loung Cuong also announced last week a major amnesty for 13,920 prisoners who will be released before the end of their jail terms, including 66 foreigners. (The Japan News)
Twelve boats made by neighborhood associations in the city and other groups were floated down the river one after another and lit with torches. (The Japan News)
Tuesday, the second of September, two thousand twenty-five
Like a modern-day prophet, the Nobel Prize winner is raising alarms about the dangers of uncontrolled and unregulated artificial intelligence. (The Japan News)
As the technology - and investment dollars - powering AI have advanced in recent years, so too have the stakes behind it. (The Japan News)
Tuesday, the twelfth of August, two thousand twenty-five
The atomic bombing claimed the lives of 185 employees of Hiroshima Electric Railway Co. and damaged 109 streetcars. (The Japan News, 2025/08/11)
"I hope this atomic-bombed street car will serve as a living witness and prompt people to think about peace and about Hiroshima." (The Japan News, 2025/08/11)
The proposed Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity would run across southern Armenia, giving Azerbaijan a direct route to its exclave of Nakhchivan and in turn to Turkey. (The Japan News, 2025/08/11)
"This corridor will not become a passage owned by Trump, but rather a graveyard for Trump's mercenaries," Velayati said. (The Japan News, 2025/08/11)
Trump welcomed Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in the White House on Friday and witnessed their signing of a joint declaration aimed at drawing a line under their decades-long on-off conflict. (The Japan News, 2025/08/11)
Wednesday, the sixth of August, two thousand twenty-five
Mayflies on the Danube River in Budapest are swarming earlier and in greater numbers than usual this year due to low water levels and an unusually hot summer, filling the air along the river banks as they are drawn to the city lights. (The Japan News)
Hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of mayflies engage in a frantic rush to mate and reproduce before they perish within just a few hours. (The Japan News)
Low water means more sunlight reaches the riverbed, helping algae grow, which provides food for the mayfly larvae, Kriska said. (The Japan News)
Everyone who goes there, comes back either with a bag of flour or carried back [on a wooden stretcher] as a martyr, or injured. (The Japan News)
At the hospital, some bodies were wrapped in thick patterned blankets because white shrouds, which hold special significance in Islamic burials, were in short supply due to continued Israeli border restrictions and the mounting number of daily deaths, Palestinians said. (The Japan News)
But lately, his real star power has come from his international tours, during which he blitzes into foreign countries to see the sights while surrounded by screaming teenagers, all of it live-streamed. (The Japan News)
His two-week trip through China this spring, where he fawned over the country's state-of-the-art phones and luxury cars, went so viral that the Chinese Communist Party's official newspaper hailed it as a "digital-age Marco Polo journey." (The Japan News)
Speed "aimed to explore the lucrative Chinese market ... [and] the government effectively capitalized on it as a 'laid on a plate' opportunity." (The Japan News)
Crystal Abidin, an anthropologist who studies internet culture, said it only made sense that governments would tap influencers, whose fame now rivals movie stars, for their ability to churn out viral moments of spectacle and surprise. (The Japan News)
One journalist there wrote that the moment - in which "an unregulated content creator [was] peacocking at the home of Latvian broadcasting" - offered a foreboding symbol of how modern media had changed. (The Japan News)
Tuesday, the fifth of August, two thousand twenty-five
Atop air strikes, displacement and hunger, an unprecedented water crisis is unfolding across Gaza, heaping further misery on the Palestinian territory's residents. (The Japan News)
Wells that supplied some needs before the war have also been damaged, with some contaminated by sewage which goes untreated because of the conflict. (The Japan News)
At any rate, wells usually run on electric pumps and energy has been scarce since Israel turned off Gaza's power as part of its war effort. (The Japan News)
Gaza's desalination plants are also down, save for a single site that reopened last week after Israel restored its electricity supply. (The Japan News)
According to Variety, Amazon.com Inc. has made an undisclosed investment in Fable, a Bay Area start-up, and specifically in its newly launched Showrunner service, which Fable is touting as the "Netflix of AI." (The Japan News)
While the animations got over 80 million views, "South Park"'s cultural cachet was likely the driving force. (The Japan News)
With the software's star power still a big if, the question of who Showrunner's intended audience is looms even larger. (The Japan News)
It's tiring enough to scroll through the constant stream of clumsy generative-AI "art," with its unsettling visuals and recurring anatomical erros - so the idea of actually watching a full scene, let alone an entire episode, of AI-generated animation feels especially unappealing. (The Japan News)
People in all walks of life - especially in business and tech - love to describe themselves as "storytellers" (even when they're only "telling stories" in the most generous sense of the phrase), while simultaneously taking every opportunity to kneecap actual storytellers. (The Japan News)
Sunday, the sixth of July, two thousand twenty-five
"I'm happy to see his face up close," she said. (The Japan News, 2025/07/01)
War trauma has long been considered a personal issue, although there have been many cases where former soldiers' mental anguish has made it difficult for them to perform daily activities. (The Japan News, 2025/07/01)
"We want to continue safeguarding their valuable records," said Yoshinobu Naganuma, 71, a hospital staff member who assisted with the preservation efforts. (The Japan News, 2025/07/01)
According to Shigeyuki Mori, professor emeritus of clinical psychology at Konan University, many former Japanese soldiers who had experienced harsh battles or the deaths of comrades exhibited symptoms such as hyperarousal, a state of heightened stress for prolonged periods of time, and emotional numbness. (The Japan News, 2025/07/01)
Keijiro did not secure steady employment after the war and led a life of apathy. (The Japan News, 2025/07/01)
In response to these efforts, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry began a study on war trauma in fiscal 2024. (The Japan News, 2025/07/01)