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U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a joint news conference in Helsinki in 2018. For Putin, the upcoming summit with Trump is an opportunity not just to end the Ukraine war on his terms, but to split apart the Western security alliance.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 11, 2025
In a Trump-Putin summit, Ukraine fears losing say over its future
Kyiv¡¯s worry for the past six months has been that U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s image of a ¡°peace accord¡± is a deal struck directly between him and Russia.
U.S. President Joe Biden disembarks Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 18, 2024
Biden called ¡®more receptive¡¯ to hearing pleas to step aside
Biden has not given any indication that he is changing his mind about staying in the race, but has been willing to listen to rundowns of new and worrying polling data.
Pedestrians walk past the Trump International Hotel in Washington. House Democrats have released evidence that the former president took in at least $7.8 million from foreign entities while in office, engaging in the kind of conduct House Republicans are grasping to pin on U.S. President Joe Biden.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 5, 2024
Trump received millions from foreign governments as president: report
The report describes how foreign governments and their controlled entities, including a top U.S. adversary, interacted with Trump businesses.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 27, 2023
Frantic negotiations, late nights and no deal on America¡¯s debt
But all of the talking has so far failed to produce a deal to raise the country¡¯s debt limit, raising fears of a potentially catastrophic default that could upend financial markets.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Oct 18, 2022
The House Jan. 6 panel has set a high bar: Showing criminality
It is not clear whether the committee will follow through and take the largely symbolic step of issuing a criminal referral for former U.S. President Donald Trump.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 27, 2022
Inside the 20-month fight to get Trump to return presidential material
The government tried repeatedly for more than a year and a half to get the former president to give back documents from his time in office. Finally, it resorted to a search of his property.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 30, 2022
Call logs underscore Trump¡¯s efforts to sway lawmakers on Jan. 6
New details from White House documents provided to the House panel investigating the Capitol assault show a seven-hour gap in records of calls made by the ex-president on the day of the riot.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 12, 2022
Trump flouted the U.S. presidential records law. Will he face consequences?
While he was U.S. president, Donald Trump was known to destroy, tear up, remove and even flush White House documents down the toilet. He often eschewed the White House switchboard, using his own cellphone or those of his aides to communicate.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 3, 2022
U.S. Capitol riot panel faces difficult questions as anniversary approaches
Thursday marks a year since a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building, leading to deaths, injuries and a traumatized nation.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 7, 2021
Inside the U.S. Capitol, the sound of the mob came first
A ceremonial session of Congress to formally declare President-elect Joe Biden¡¯s victory devolved in an instant into a scene of violence and mayhem.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 3, 2021
Pence welcomes bid to overturn Biden¡¯s election as Republican senators join
Neither Pence nor any of the senators has made a specific allegation of fraud, instead offering vague suggestions that some wrongdoing might have occurred.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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