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An apartment resident displays a model of a data center currently in development next door in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, in May.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Nov 11, 2026
Japan not immune to public backlash against data centers, experts say
Last week’s U.S. midterm congressional elections have highlighted just how strong opposition to data center construction has become.
Vientiane, Laos, in 2023
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 11, 2026
16 Japanese detained in Laos for suspected scam involvement
The incident is part of a series of crackdowns on Japanese nationals suspected involvement in such schemes in the Southeast Asian country.
Shinjuku Station in Tokyo in 2021. The new walk-through gates will work only with the Suica Mobile app, and not IC rechargeable metro cards or physical tickets.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 11, 2026
JR East to introduce touchless ticket gates in spring 2028
Passengers using the Suica Mobile app will be able to walk through special ticket gates at 40 select stations without having to tap on receivers.
Honda is under pressure to bounce back from its first annual loss since its founding in 1948 after a costly pivot away from electric vehicles led to a massive writedown.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 11, 2026
Honda raises outlook even as failed EV bet weighs on profit
The carmaker now expects an operating profit of ?780 billion in the fiscal year ending March 2027, up from its previous guidance of ?650 billion.
76ers guard Jaylen Brown (center) controls the ball against Celtics forward Jayson Tatum during the first quarter at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Nov 11, 2026
Celtics beat Sixers 123-101 as Tatum outshines Brown
Brown’s first regular-season clash against the Celtics team he called home for a decade came amid reports of a beef with his former partner Tatum.
The Tokyo District Court judged that fake ads on Facebook and Instagram infringed on Yusaku Maezawa's publicity rights but dismissed his request for an injunction against Meta.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 11, 2026
Tokyo court dismisses suit against Meta over fake ads involving entrepreneur
The ruling is believed to be the first judicial decision on whether fake ads impersonating celebrities infringe on?their rights.
Awa Mayor Hisato Machida
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 11, 2026
Mayor arrested for allegedly defrauding city to pay for accident he caused
The mayor of Awa, Tokushima Prefecture, conspired with two others to inflate the costs of a city contract to include the repair costs, police said.
Linda Noskova (right) shakes hands with Coco Gauff of the U.S. after winning their group stage match at the WTA Finals at Indian Wells in California on Tuesday.
TENNIS
Nov 11, 2026
Gauff upset at WTA Finals; Pegula back on track
Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula are now vying for the last remaining semifinal berth from Group 1.
Japan head coach Eddie Jones ahead of the match against Wales at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, on Saturday
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Nov 11, 2026
Japan coach Jones returns to face his former England charges
Japan will be the overwhelming underdog?against England but Eddie Jones has hinted he has a plan or two up his sleeve to spring a surprise.
Kirk Cousins drops back to pass for the Raiders against the Jets at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on Nov. 1.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Nov 11, 2026
Vikings reacquire Kirk Cousins in deadline deal with Raiders
Kirk Cousins knows the city, coach and playbook extremely well from his six seasons in Minnesota from 2018 to 2023.
A worker cleans up garbage including cigarette butts on Ebisubashi Bridge in Osaka's Dotonbori district early in the morning in September.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Nov 11, 2026
Osaka struggles to stamp out cigarette littering
Despite a citywide ban on smoking on streets, a deadly fire believed to have been caused by a discarded cigarette butt broke out there last year.
Microsoft, along with other companies and trade groups, is making a case that a ban on imports of Chinese optical transceivers could irreparably damage the U.S. edge over China in the AI race.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 11, 2026
Microsoft presses Trump to scuttle ban on Chinese data center tech
At stake are imports new models of Chinese optical transceivers, which allow data to travel over fiber-optic cables within data centers.
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.
BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2026
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
The Nvidia CEO admitted to having an affair with a woman who could have been a Chinese spy.
A B?1B Lancer bomber arrives at Royal Air Force Fairford airbase in Fairford, Gloucestershire, Britain, on Sept. 29.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 11, 2026
U.S. charges three ‘Iranian operatives’ over U.K. air base plot
Days after the September incident, the United States withdrew all its B-1 bombers from the base.
Toyota's KEI-01 mini truck that will be put on sale in the United States next year
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 11, 2026
Toyota to build minicar at Indiana plant and reboot Scion brand
Minicars are still a novelty in the U.S., where the vehicles don’t meet federal standards for high-speed roads.
A Luffy standee at NY Comic Con in New York
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 11, 2026
Sony bets on homegrown anime to fuel decades of future growth
Now in a strategic transition, the company is pouring time and money into the genre with the potential to power growth for decades to come.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei looks on after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron during the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on Feb. 19. As the speed of artificial intelligence development has become increasingly controversial, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is among those calling for top AI labs to "pace the frontier” in order to prioritize safety.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 11, 2026
Anthropic targets $64.4 billion IPO, nearing SpaceX’s record
At the top of the price range, Anthropic would have a market value of about $1 trillion, based on the shares outstanding listed in the filing.
The seals of the U.S. Cyber Command, the National Security Agency and the Central Security Service in Fort Meade, Maryland.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 11, 2026
More suicides at U.S. spy and cyber agencies scrutinized by Congress
At least 11 National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command workers died by suicide over roughly the past year, officials and public records say.
Vessels at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, on Oct. 19.
WORLD
Nov 11, 2026
Tankers continue to burn in the Middle East despite hopes for de-escalation
There is little sign of attacks abating in November, after 37 ships were attacked in October, the highest monthly total since the start of the war.
Members of the Russian and Ukrainian delegations hold talks in the presence of United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (center), U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff (center right) and U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner (center left) in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 11, 2026
U.S. calls for new Europe security framework at Russia-Ukraine talks
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later said the talks were “constructive and quite substantive.”
Employees fill boxes of perished goods outside an Intermarche supermarket in Paris on Oct. 13, a day after a cyberattack targeted refrigeration systems at French supermarket chains, causing food losses and fires at several stores.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 11, 2026
France supermarket hack marks new phase in Iran’s shadow war
Cyberattacks hit French supermarkets last month, forcing the disposal of entire inventories of perishable food.
Gadi Eisenkot speaks to the media during a party meeting at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 11, 2026
Eisenkot quickly targets Netanyahu’s legacy in new Israeli parliament
Though questions still linger over who can form a government, Gadi Eisenkot’s broad left-to-right bloc wasted no time in setting the agenda.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 11, 2026
U.S. House blocks path to impeach Defense Secretary Hegseth
The impeachment articles accused Hegseth of the “high crimes and misdemeanors” of illegally ordering ?military actions in Iran, Yemen and Venezuela.
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.
Japan works to shield Takaichi from any Xi snub at China summit
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 4.
Magnitude 5.7 quake injures dozens in central Japan
A magnitude-5.7 earthquake with its epicenter in Shizuoka Prefecture struck central Japan early Sunday, injuring dozens, shattering windows and disrupting train services, with no tsunami warning issued.
Private high schools remain out of reach for many despite tuition-free policy, survey finds
A survey showed that many families with children attending private high schools are struggling to pay expenses other than tuition.
‘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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