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A Bulgarian military police car is parked at an access point to a farmland area where a drone that entered Bulgaria exploded, near the Kardam border-crossing between Bulgaria and Romania, on Saturday.
WORLD
Aug 9, 2026
Ukraine denies targeting Bulgaria as drone explodes near pipeline
Drone-related incidents have become increasingly frequent across eastern European countries that are NATO members and supporters of Ukraine.
An electoral billboard for former Bulgarian President Rumen Radev is pictured next to a traffic light in Sofia on April 17. Radev won a landslide victory in an election on Sunday that he stepped down from the ceremonial role to run in.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 21, 2026
Rumen Radev, Russia-friendly ex-fighter pilot, sweeps Bulgaria¡¯s election
Sunday¡¯s election outcome will allow Radev to head Bulgaria¡¯s first single-party government in nearly three decades.
The Progressive Bulgaria coalition's leader and former President Rumen Radev speaks to the media at his party headquarters after polls closed in Bulgaria's parliamentary elections, in Sofia on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 20, 2026
Bulgaria¡¯s pro-Russian former president set for landslide win, exit polls show
If confirmed, the runaway victory of Pro-Russian former President Rumen Radev¡¯s Progressive Bulgaria would mark one of the strongest results in a generation.
A voter casts his ballot at a polling station during Bulgaria's parliamentary elections in Sofia on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 19, 2026
Bulgaria votes as pro-Russian former president leads the polls
Radev, a eurosceptic who opposes military support for Ukraine¡¯s war effort against Moscow, stepped down from the presidency in January ?to run ?in the election.
Simon Yates celebrates on the podium after winning the Giro d'Italia, in Rome on June 1.
MORE SPORTS / Cycling
Dec 2, 2025
Bulgaria to host opening trio of 2026 Giro stages
It will be the 16th time that the Giro, which will run from May 9 to 31, will start in a foreign country.
The plane transporting European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and her staff lifts off from the tarmac of Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, in Mihail Kogalniceanu, near Constanta, Romania, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 2, 2025
GPS system of EU chief¡¯s plane jammed, with Russian interference suspected
The EU did not address the question of whether it believe European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen¡¯s airplane had been deliberately targeted.
Checkpoint officers at the border between Romania and Bulgaria man their stations on Dec. 31, moments before both countries join the Schengen zone.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 2, 2025
Romania and Bulgaria become full members of EU¡¯s Schengen zone
The two countries join an expanded bloc whose residents can travel without passport checks.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (L) poses with Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, on July 11.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2024
Trump¡¯s friends in Europe welcome return of a kindred spirit
Some expect him to be less critical of their manipulation of democratic institutions, as well as their pushback on minority rights and non-Christian immigrants.
Polina Oba enjoys the food in Fukuoka, but still finds herself traveling to Tokyo often as that¡¯s where most of the decision-makers are based.?
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Aug 12, 2024
Polina Oba: ¡®Try quick, fail quick, learn quick and you need to always pivot¡¯
Networking is at the core of Polina Oba¡¯s GourmetPro startup. Not only is it great meeting new people but you¡¯ll never know where those connections may lead.
Kimia Alizadeh (left) fled Iran in 2020 and will compete for Bulgaria at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
OLYMPICS
May 17, 2024
Kimia Alizadeh targets Olympic gold with Bulgaria after fleeing Iran
Alizadeh left her country in 2020 and competed for the Refugee Olympic Team at the Tokyo Olympics.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 27, 2022
Russia halts gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria
Poland confirmed that supplies had been cut, while Bulgaria said it would find out soon. Both accused Russian energy firm Gazprom of breaching longstanding supply contracts.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 17, 2018
Japan-EU trade agreement is about freedom
The Japan-EU FTA sends a powerful sign that U.S. retrenchment on trade will not see the democratic world abandoning the open, rules-based trading system.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 7, 2017
Scientists hope to show humankind originated in Mediterranean
A team of excavators in Bulgaria has resumed a search for fossils of an ape-like creature that may be the oldest-known direct ancestor of man and whose discovery has challenged the central hypothesis that humankind originated in Africa.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 11, 2016
Tiny bead from Bulgaria may be world¡¯s oldest gold artifact
It may be just a tiny gold bead ¡ª 4 mm (1/8 inch) in diameter ¡ª but it is an enormous discovery for Bulgarian archaeologists who say they have found Europe¡¯s ¡ª and probably the world¡¯s ¡ª oldest gold artifact.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 30, 2013
Once Tories¡¯ answer to EU fears, enlargement is now their problem
With the U.K. Independence Party breathing down the Tories¡¯ necks, EU enlargement is no longer the British government¡¯s answer in Europe, but its No. 1 problem.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 29, 2013
British fears of migrant influx mirrored in Sofia
There are no anti-immigrant militia forces roaming the streets of Britain, but Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev sees clear parallels with the U.K. — indeed, in states across Europe — and he is deeply worried.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 29, 2013
Britons ready to welcome arrivals from Bulgaria, Romania, with caveats
Romanians and Bulgarians coming to the U.K. on New Year¡¯s Day will be welcomed by more than two-thirds of Britons if they integrate and work hard, a new poll suggests ahead of restrictions on them being lifted.
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.
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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.
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