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Women check for their polling station during the general election in San Pablo de Tushmo, near Pucallpa, Uyacali region, Peru, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 13, 2026
Peru extends voting for president and congress amid delays at polling sites
The election quickly descended into confusion as many voters lined up Sunday morning only to find that ballots had not arrived.
Peru¡¯s impeached interim President Jose Jeri walks out of the Government Palace as his cabinet applauds him in the background in Lima on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 19, 2026
Peru president¡¯s ouster splits right wing before elections
President Jose Jeri¡¯s impeachment makes him the country¡¯s third straight president to be removed from office.
Peru's impeached interim President Jose Jeri walks out of the Government Palace along with his Cabinet in Lima on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 18, 2026
Peru ousts another president, extending political instability
Lawmakers accused President Jose Jeri?of failing to declare meetings with Chinese businessmen and hiring unqualified young women to work with him.
A gold miner holds up a piece of gold along the Madre de Dios River near Puerto Maldonado, Peru.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 6, 2025
Mining murders show Peru¡¯s struggles with illegal gold rush
Skyrocketing gold prices are creating a further incentive for illegal mining activities in the country.
Peruvian political scion Keiko Fujimori is accused of allegedly having led a criminal enterprise that laundered some $17 million to fund her presidential campaigns in 2011 and 2016.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 2, 2024
Peru puts political scion Keiko Fujimori on trial for money laundering
Prosecutors are seeking a jail term of up to 30 years for the daughter of the country¡¯s disgraced former President Alberto Fujimori.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 2, 2022
In Peru¡¯s hills, an artisanal miner boom frustrates Big Copper¡¯s plans
The rise of artisanal copper mining ¡ª driven by high global metal prices and sustained by a messy government permitting system ¡ª is threatening billions in new investments.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 5, 2021
In Peru¡¯s hinterland, a town battles world¡¯s worst COVID-19 outbreak
Peru this week almost tripled its official death toll to over 180,000 using revised figures, making it by far the highest in the world per capita.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
May 23, 2021
How Ford burned $12 billion in Brazil
Ford Motor Co announced the closure of its manufacturing plants in January, dealing a heavy blow to its more than 5,000 workers in the country and almost 300 dealerships.
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.

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

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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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