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A French counterterrorism officer deactivates a mock bomb during a training exercise simulating an attack at a railway station in Paris. The goal of terrorism isn’t to cause suffering, but to provoke a self-destructive response.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 29, 2026
How nations fall into the terrorist trap
America responded exactly as the terrorists would have wanted after 9/11 and likely exceeded their expectations.
On Oct. 24, 1926, the front page of The Japan Times featured the opening of Meiji Jingu Stadium. The ceremony was presided over by then-Prince Regent Hirohito, two months before his enthronement.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Oct 1, 2026
Japan Times 1926: Meiji Shrine baseball park opens
Also in the archives, the Lower House approves peace and security treaties and an SDF antiterrorism bill wins quick Diet passage.
Emergency crews work through smoke, debris and collapsing structures in the chaotic aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijacked?plane attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 14, 2026
The world Sept. 11 set in motion remains broken
The cold, hard reality is that neither the president nor Congress has any real interest in preserving constitutional rights and norms.
Kazusada Sumiyama holds a photograph of his son Yoichi Sugiyama during an interview at his home in Tokyo's Meguro Ward on Aug. 31.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2026
25 years on, father of Japanese 9/11 victim continues to grieve
“My sorrow and anger will persist until I die,” said Kazusada Sumiyama, who lost his son to the terrorist attacks.
A generation after the Sept. 11, 2001, al?Qaida attack on New York City and Washington, the enduring consequences of that event continue to define global security and stability.?
EDITORIALS
Sep 11, 2026
The stains and trauma of 9/11 linger a quarter century later
That just 19 men, armed with box cutters and a budget of half a million dollars, could inflict such damage forced a rethink of the very essence of security.
A visitor looks at paintings by former U.S. President George W. Bush at the George W. Bush Presidential Museum in Dallas, Texas, on Sept. 9, 2026.
WORLD
Sep 11, 2026
Former U.S. President Bush remembers 9/11 through exhibit of his art
The 80-year-old former U.S. president took up painting a few years after leaving office in 2009.
Dust from the collapsed World Trade Center settles in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. Much of the research on exposure to the World Trade Center residue has focused on emergency workers, but people there when they were young say their health is at risk, too.
WORLD
Sep 11, 2026
Children of 9/11 to finally get a major health study
Major questions remain about whether exposure to the toxins and the trauma on 9/11 and afterward increased the children’s long-term health risks.
Maritime Self-Defense Force sailors bid farewell to crew aboard the minesweeper Uraga as it leaves Yokosuka naval base in November 2001 to provide logistical support in the Indian Ocean for the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan — Japan's first military deployment in a war situation since World War II.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 11, 2026
How 9/11 changed 今日吃瓜 approach to security forever
The attack triggered new precedents in overseas activities that became enshrined in law and led to the deepening of ties with foreign partners.
The Tribute in Light installation is illuminated over the lower Manhattan skyline ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, in New York on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 10, 2026
Trump’s Iran campaign echoes the post-9/11 ‘forever wars’
With the 9/11 anniversary at hand, Trump’s war against Iran is drawing comparisons to the conflicts in the Middle East that preceded it.
New York City Fire Department member Scott Brian Larsen sits for a photograph at FDNY Engine 325 & Ladder 163, where his father served during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, in the Woodside neighborhood of Queens in New York on Aug. 20.
WORLD
Sep 10, 2026
Twenty-five years after 9/11, Americans still live with its legacy
The events of Sept.?11, 2001, profoundly reshaped U.S. national security policy and led to decades-long wars in which more than 900,000 died.
The Tribute in Light art installation and the One World Trade Center are seen over lower Manhattan, on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, from Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York on Sept. 11, 2021.
WORLD
Sep 10, 2026
Ash-covered shoes and a president in crisis: A reporter remembers 9/11
U.S. President George Bush showed horror, anger and grief as he came to grips with events that marked a turning point for his presidency and the U.S.
Flowers are placed among the names on the North Pool at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, in New York on Aug. 31.
WORLD
Sep 9, 2026
25 years after 9/11, Americans fear domestic extremists more than foreign attacks
When asked to name the biggest threat to the safety of average Americans, 33% of respondents picked “domestic terrorism.”
On Sept. 12, 2001, the front page of The Japan Times features striking imagery of the collapsing south tower of the World Trade Center in New York, shortly after the 9/11 attacks.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Sep 1, 2026
Japan Times 2001: Terrorists attack United States
Also in the archives, the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco and a secretive Soviet jet lands in Hokkaido.
Pedestrians cross Enghelab Square in Tehran, near a billboard showing Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader, in the Iranian capital on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 12, 2026
The Indo-Pacific price of a hasty war with Tehran
The allies are not abandoning the U.S.; they are recoiling from a war that lacks a defined strategy.
Tom Riches, whose firefighter brother was killed when the Trade Centers fell, and his son Tommy, 10, at the family home in Brooklyn on Sept. 5.
WORLD / Society
Sep 11, 2025
A new 9/11 generation: These children promise to never forget
They have no memory of the Sept. 11 attacks but are increasingly shouldering the responsibility to carry it on.
The World Trade Center's South Tower (left) and the North Tower burn after al-Qaida terrorists flew hijacked airliners into the buildings in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. Nearly 3,000 people died in the incident, including 24 Japanese nationals. REUTERS
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 18, 2024
The forgotten impact of 9/11 on Japan
Though an ocean away, 9/11 was a wake up call to the Japanese people that the 21st century would not be an era of everlasting peace.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump stand together alongside other high-profile politicians during a Sept. 11 memorial service in New York City on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 12, 2024
A temporary truce as Harris, Trump and Biden mark 9/11
It is a sign of how traumatic 9/11 is as a national memory that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump would feel compelled to set aside their differences to mark the day.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is shown in this file photograph during his arrest on March 1, 2003.
WORLD
Aug 3, 2024
Pentagon chief revokes plea deals with three 9/11 suspects
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has revoked plea deals agreed to in recent days with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two accomplices.
An Israeli man attends a day of prayer in the Old City of Jerusalem on Oct. 19 where attendees called for the safe return of hostages taken by Hamas militants earlier in the month.?
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 31, 2023
Israel’s own 9/11 moment
Israel needs to prepare now for when the fighting stops. Will it look to the Palestinian Authority to administer Gaza? What role will the U.N. play?
The remains of the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 12, 2001
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 27, 2023
U.S. plea proposal for 9/11 suspects splits victims’ relatives
Some say a deal without trial means the whole truth might be lost — others say that every year the trial is delayed, there are fewer left to see justice.
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.
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‘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
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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.
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