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Umberto Bacchi
A solar power station near Lobito, Angola, in 2024
BUSINESS
Nov 24, 2025
EU and Africa leaders to talk trade and minerals, as Ukraine looms large
Leaders are gathering in Angola on Monday for a summit aimed at deepening economic and security ties that will serve as a backdrop to emergency talks on Ukraine.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a news conference at the EU headquarters in Brussels on Oct. 30.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 5, 2024
First candidates grilled in parliament test for EU top team
The showdown is a rare opportunity for the European Union parliament to flex its muscles against the bloc¡¯s powerful executive.
Migrants walk to board an inflatable dinghy in an attempt to cross the English Channel, on the beach of the Slack dunes in Wimereux, France, on Sept. 4
WORLD / Politics
Oct 11, 2024
¡®Mood change¡¯ on migration puts deportation hubs on EU table
Talks of such hubs come only a few months after the European Union adopted a sweeping reform of its asylum policies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jun 10, 2022
Russia gas crisis highlights Europe¡¯s green energy storage problem
The European Union needs to more than triple its storage capacity by 2030 to adequately support its green transition goals.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 27, 2022
Online army deploys to save Ukraine¡¯s art and heritage
Historians, librarians and IT specialists from around the world have joined forces since the invasion began to form an online army to back up everything from websites to libraries.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 4, 2022
Russia¡¯s war migrants find mixed reception in Georgia
Many have headed for Georgia, Turkey and Armenia, drawn by visa-free regimes and pre-existing Russian communities, but not all have been welcomed with open arms.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Mar 18, 2022
Pandemic surveillance: Is tracing tech here to stay?
Rights advocates say intrusive solutions could already be so entrenched that personal privacy is the long-term price many people may yet pay.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2022
The delivery apps making gig work a ¡®digital wild west¡¯
In Italy, where more experienced or highly ranked Glovo riders get priority when it comes to choosing working shifts, new apps are being used by novice gig workers to get orders.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 29, 2021
China¡¯s bitcoin crackdown sparks fears of dirtier cryptomining
By cutting off access to China¡¯s power grid, with its plentiful supply of affordable renewable energy, the new restrictions could push miners toward dirtier sources of electricity.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Apr 29, 2021
Right to disconnect gains ground as pandemic brings work home
Ireland introduced a legal right for employees to not respond to emails, telephone calls or other messages during nonwork hours from April 1.
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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