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Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro during the presidential debate at the TV Band studios in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Oct. 18.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2026
Billionaire Brazilian brothers emerge as Bolsonaro’s foes in presidential runoff
Joao and Walter Moreira Salles are major donors to progressive and left-leaning?congressional candidates.
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 — driven by high global metal prices and sustained by a messy government permitting system — 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.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Man arrested over theft of watch that was returned days later to Tokyo mall
A 30-year-old man who is believed to have stolen a luxury wristwatch in Tokyo last month reportedly told police he was the one who had sent it back with a handwritten apology.
Japan not immune to public backlash against data centers, experts say
An apartment resident displays a model of a data center currently in development next door in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, in May.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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