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A satellite image shows Nur Khan air base in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 14, 2025
How backchannel diplomacy pulled India and Pakistan back from the brink of war
At 2 a.m., explosions began. By nightfall, a U.S.-brokered ceasefire ended the deadliest escalation between India and Pakistan in decades.
An Indian soldier stands guard on a street, following the Pahalgam attack in south Kashmir, in Srinagar on May 5.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 6, 2025
Pakistan tests missile and India orders drills amid Kashmir standoff
Relations between the nuclear-armed states have nosedived since gunmen killed 26 people on April 22 in an attack targeting Hindu tourists in Indian Kashmir.
A supporter of former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party gestures after tear gas was fired by the police to disperse the crowd during a protest to demand Khan's release in Islamabad on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 27, 2024
Pakistani forces launch midnight raid on Khan’s supporters
At least six people, including four paramilitary soldiers, were killed before the night raid was launched.
Security officials examine the site of an explosion near Karachi's international airport in the Pakistani city on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 7, 2024
‘Terrorist attack’ near Karachi airport kills two Chinese nationals
Separatist militant group Baloch Liberation Army has claimed responsibility over the attack, which it said targeted Chinese nationals.
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 30, 2024
Pakistan court jails Imran Khan for 10 years, days ahead of polls
Khan has been fighting dozens of cases since he was ousted from power in a parliamentary vote of no confidence in 2022.
A man watches the news on television showing the Pakistani foreign ministry's statement about the country's strikes inside Iran targeting separatist militants, in Peshawar, Pakistan on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jan 19, 2024
Iran-Pakistan flare-up rooted in restive borderlands, not Mideast strife
Both had launched attacks on each other’s soil, targeting what they described as militants and separatists.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 23, 2023
Pakistan’s economic meltdown spurs more people to risk lives to reach Europe
Cash-strapped Pakistan’s $350 billion economy is in peril, with inflation at a record 38% and the country facing the prospects of a default.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
May 23, 2023
Uncertainty in Pakistan as military faces unprecedented challenge to authority
The arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan earlier this month led to violent nationwide protests, including attacks on military buildings and on the homes of senior officers.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 27, 2023
Islamist militants have Pakistan’s police in their crosshairs
The increasingly deadly assaults arrive from hideouts in the border region adjoining Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 3, 2022
Ousted Pakistan PM Imran Khan shot in shin in what aides call assassination attempt
Khan was six days into a protest procession bound for Islamabad, standing and waving to thousands of cheering supporters from the roof of a container truck, when the shots rang out.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 12, 2022
‘Line through our hearts’: A Kashmir village, 75 years after partition
Since early 2021, the Line of Control that cuts Kashmir into two, has been mostly quiet, following the renewal of a ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 4, 2022
What political upheaval in Pakistan means for rest of the world
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s actions have created huge uncertainty in Islamabad, fueling anger among the opposition and deepening the country’s political crisis.
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.
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.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘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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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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