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Flowers at the site of a terrorist attack in Dhaka in July 2016
JAPAN
Jul 3, 2026
JICA holds memorial for victims of 2016 Dhaka terror attack
During the ceremony, participants, including bereaved families and representatives from Japan and Bangladesh, observed a moment of silence and laid flowers in front of a cenotaph.
Khaleda Zia, then Bangladesh¡¯s main opposition leader and a former prime minister, speaks at a rally in Dhaka on July 29, 1998.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 30, 2025
Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh¡¯s first female prime minister, dies at 80
After becoming prime minister in 1991, she went on to develop a bitter rivalry with Sheikh Hasina as they spent decades trading power.
Supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party arrive to welcome BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman after his return from London, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 25, 2025
Bangladesh leader considered top PM candidate returns from exile ahead of polls
Tarique Rahman, son of ailing former ?Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, has lived in London since 2008 and led the Bangladesh Nationalist Party as acting chairman since 2018.
Once a heavily guarded palace, the former official residence of Bangladesh's ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina ¡ª seen here on July 28 ¡ª is being turned into a museum as a lasting reminder of her oppressive rule.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 4, 2025
Former prime minister¡¯s palace in Bangladesh to become revolution museum
Muhammad Yunus, the caretaker government¡¯s leader, said the conversion to a museum would ¡°preserve memories of her misrule and the people¡¯s anger when they removed her from power.¡±
Firefighters work to remove the wreckage from a building after an air force training aircraft crashed into Milestone College campus in Dhaka on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 22, 2025
At least 20 killed as Bangladesh fighter jet crashes into school
Twenty people were killed, including the pilot, and 171 others were injured when the jet crashed following a mechanical failure.
Sheikh Hasina, then the prime minister of Bangladesh, in her office in Dhaka on June 11, 2023
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 6, 2024
Swift downfall of iron-fisted Sheikh Hasina marks new era in Bangladesh
Hasina saw her 15-year rule as Bangladesh¡¯s prime minister unravel over the course of a bloody weekend that left scores of people dead.
Protesters are being detained in a police van while protesting outside the High Court building as they demand justice for the victims arrested and killed in the recent countrywide violence in Dhaka on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 1, 2024
Bangladesh police disperse march over excessive use of force
The unrest is the biggest test facing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina since she won a fourth term in January.
A mother sits next to her daughter while she receives treatment for dengue fever in Dhaka on Tuesday. More than 1,000 people in Bangladesh have died of dengue fever this year, the country's worst recorded outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 6, 2023
Bangladesh swamped by record deaths from dengue fever
More than 1,000 people have died this year in the nation¡¯s worst recorded spate of the mosquito-borne disease, with climate change playing a role.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 26, 2023
Heat stress rises for Dhaka¡¯s poor as green spaces shrink
In 2022, Dhaka was seen as the seventh least livable city in a global ranking due to its booming population, high disaster risk and loss of green spaces.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 17, 2023
Congested Dhaka navigates cleaner transport and jobs with first metro rail
Alongside its growth, Dhaka has seen extreme congestion in recent years, hampering mobility in the city.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 24, 2021
Bangladeshi returnees from jobs overseas sink into debt amid glut of workers
The novel coronavirus has devastated the South Asian nation, which is one of the world¡¯s largest exporters of workers and the world¡¯s second largest supplier of clothing.
ENVIRONMENT
Dec 29, 2019
Bangladesh cold wave leaves at least 50 dead
At least 50 people have died in Bangladesh as cold weather continues to sweep across the country, officials said.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 18, 2016
Dhaka police nab four who rented property on sly to cafe attackers
Police in Dhaka on Saturday arrested three people and another on Sunday, including a university professor, for failing to register information about tenants renting property who later attacked a cafe in the city, killing 20 people.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 6, 2016
Dhaka police criticized for not heeding online terrorist attack threat, may have mistakenly killed hostage
Bangladeshi police said on Tuesday one of the men they shot dead during the siege of a Dhaka cafe on the weekend may have been a hostage killed by mistake, while the hunt for accomplices of the gunmen who killed 20 people focused on six suspects.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 11, 2016
Islamist party leader hanged in Dhaka for 1971 war rape, genocide
Bangladesh hanged Islamist party leader Motiur Rahman Nizami on Wednesday for genocide and other crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, the law minister said, a punishment that risked provoking an angry reaction from his supporters.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 19, 2016
Bangladesh seeks FBI¡¯s help in investigating central bank heist
Bangladesh has formally sought assistance from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to track down the cyber crooks who stole $81 million from its central bank¡¯s U.S. account, the interior minister said on Saturday.
WORLD
May 4, 2015
Bangladesh al-Qaida branch claims February hacking death of U.S. citizen blogger, SITE says
The leader of al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) claimed responsibility for the murder of a U.S. citizen hacked to death in Bangladesh in February and the deaths of other ¡°blasphemers¡± in the region, SITE Intelligence Group reported on Sunday.
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
¡®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.
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.
Severe tropical storm Chan-hom makes landfall near Tokyo
Severe Tropical Storm Chan-hom made landfall around Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Tuesday night.
What Â鶹´«Ã½ language rules for permanent residency should look like
Potential health care workers hoping to find work in Japan take Japanese language instruction in Jakarta. Not all applicants for permanent residency should be expected to reach this level of proficiency.
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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