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A flag outside United Nations headquarters in New York.
WORLD
Apr 10, 2025
U.N. may get first female chief as Latin bloc unites
Latin American and Caribbean nations are working to back a single candidate ¡ª likely a woman ¡ª for U.N. chief as Antonio Guterres prepares to step down.
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley at the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Nov. 12.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Dec 3, 2024
Barbados completes world¡¯s first debt swap for climate resilience
Barbados¡¯ new deal could generate around $125 million to go toward?sewage treatment plant upgrades that should boost water supplies and reduce pollution.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Jun 24, 2023
Paris finance summit breaks new ground in climate and poverty fight
France hammered home a key underlying principle for the reforms under discussion ¡ª that ¡®no country should have to choose between fighting poverty and fighting for the planet.¡¯
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 8, 2022
More developing countries refinancing debt in green deals to tackle climate change
Collectively, 58 of the world¡¯s developing countries most vulnerable to climate change have almost half a trillion of debt servicing payments due in the next four years.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 29, 2021
China vs. the British Commonwealth
A current situation within the Commonwealth can be summed up in four words, ¡®the Chinese have arrived,¡¯ to which the critic can add four more words, ¡®the British have departed.¡¯
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 30, 2021
Barbados ditches Britain¡¯s Queen Elizabeth to become a republic
The birth of the republic severs almost all of the colonial bonds that have tied the island to England, but some also wonder what this transition actually means.
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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