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An employee checks newly-assembled electric cars to be exported to South America at an electric vehicle factory in Zouping county, Shandong province, China, on Sept. 24, 2013.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 8, 2026
How China’s clean-tech machine is reshaping the global climate fight
Beijing sent $132 billion in clean technology and investment to the developing world last year — the largest such contribution of any country.
An internally displaced family sits at a makeshift shelter during a visit by World Food Program officials to assess the knock-on effects from the escalation of hostilities in the Middle East in Kahda district of Mogadishu on May 7.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2026
The U.S.-Iran war is making world hunger much worse
The combined scourges of undernourishment, child stunting and wasting have become worse, halting a two-decade trend of improvement.
Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi (right) shakes hands with Malaysian Defense Minister Mohamed Khaled bin Nordin at a signing ceremony at the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Oct 21, 2026
Japan to provide Malaysia with counterdrone system
The government will spend ?1.65 billion on the system, marking its third provision of official security assistance to Malaysia.
A circus group performs during the Second Africa Climate Summit in Addis Ababa in September 2025.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 19, 2026
JICA and the World Bank should put the poor first
Poor people are vulnerable to everything — disease, hunger, broken infrastructure and economic shocks. The question is will climate policy help them.
Displaced Palestinian women gather to receive hot meals distributed by a charity kitchen in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sept. 25.
WORLD
Oct 11, 2026
Hunger and malnutrition stalk Gazans, one year on from ceasefire
Every day, Niyaha al-Masri spends six exhausting hours or more queueing at a community kitchen in the hope of getting some food for her family.
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and his Mongolian counterpart, Batmunkh Battsetseg, meet in Ulaanbaatar on Sept. 3.
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2026
Japan to lend Mongolia ?150 billion for airport expansion
Passenger traffic at Ulaanbaatar’s Chinggis Khaan International Airport has far exceeded expectations since it opened in 2021.
A woman walks past houses damaged by last month's massive flash floods in the town of Trishuli in Nepal's Nuwakot district on Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 13, 2026
Nepal takes its floods to the U.N. — and asks who will pay
Experts have attributed the flooding to a massive rockslide in the Himalayas, a hazard that climate change is making more frequent as the region warms.
Manga artist Tetsuya Chiba is calling for support via crowdfunding for the delivery of temporary housing to areas affected by the recent Kumamoto earthquakes.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2026
Manga artist launches crowdfunding campaign for Kumamoto
Manga artist Tetsuya Chiba is calling for support via crowdfunding for the delivery of temporary housing to areas affected by earthquakes.
Nepal is seeking compensation for climate change-related damages from a United Nations fund set up to help developing nations deal with the worst impacts of global warming.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 7, 2026
Nepal’s request for flood payout tests new climate-aid system
Costs are expected to come to at least $5 billion, an enormous amount for one of Asia’s poorest countries, and the fund it’s hoping to tap is new, underfunded and untested.
Pacific leaders attend the Leaders Plenary during the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Koror, Palau, on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 2, 2026
Australia and U.S. commit $580 million to support Pacific island nations
The funding follows an increase in China’s influence in recent years via grants, infrastructure projects and donations.
Children play at a mother-and-child evacuation center in Hikawa, Kumamoto Prefecture.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2026
Shelter for families with children opens after Kumamoto earthquake
The specialized evacuation shelter, which also caters to the needs of pregnant women, is the only one of its kind in Kumamoto.
Yonas Fote has created a makeshift cinema for the village.
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2026
What happens if you give everyone $700? A local economy thrives
An experiment designed to showcase what the future of aid might look like is seeing success in the village of Kamala in southern Malawi.
Volunteers with the Democratic Republic of Congo Red Cross carry the body of an Ebola victim for transfer to a burial site in Ituri province, DRC, on June 8.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2026
Ebola is back — and the IMF’s relief fund is empty
The IMF should provide immediate debt relief to Ebola-hit countries and use part of its gold reserves to permanently fund future health emergencies.
Kumamoto Mayor Kazufumi Onishi (second from right) submits a request for reconstruction support to Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara during their meeting in Tokyo on Monday.
JAPAN / Society
Aug 18, 2026
Aid package for earthquake-hit Kumamoto to be crafted by end of August
Measures are likely to include steps to stimulate tourism demand in the Kyushu region, where many hotel reservations have been canceled after the magnitude 7.1 quake.
Two cruisers donated by the Vietnamese government to the Cambodian Navy take a delegation for a tour off a Cambodian naval base near Sihanoukville.
JAPAN
Jul 19, 2026
Japan to provide patrol boats to Cambodia in first OSA
Cambodia will receive aid under the OSA program, which provides defense equipment free of charge to like-minded countries.
Japan Cleft Palate Foundation Executive Director Nagato Natsume (second from left) examines a child at Nguyen Dinh Chieu General Hospital in Vinh Long province, Vietnam. Natsume is part of a Japanese team that carries out volunteer overseas missions to provide free surgery to people born with cleft lips or palates.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Chubu
Jul 6, 2026
Japanese doctors mark 34 years of free cleft-lip surgeries in Vietnam
In many developing countries, treatment for cleft lips or palates is often delayed because of financial hardship and limited access to specialized care.
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.
Developing countries facing rising financial and geopolitical risks are turning to greater Global South cooperation through the newly formed Borrowers' Platform.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 24, 2026
Debtor countries finally have a group of their own
For decades, developing countries have been forced to navigate an increasingly complex international financial system
A resident of a village isolated by the Noto earthquake expresses his gratitude as he heads to a Self-Defense Forces rescue helicopter, in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Jan. 6, 2024.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 17, 2026
‘Poor kids join the SDF’ remark reflects deeper debate over 今日吃瓜 military
The statement by a CDP lawmaker exposed a widening gap between public support for the SDF and the political debates that continue to shape 今日吃瓜 civil-military relations.
Yosei Kozuma, chief of the Cultural Heritage Disaster Risk Management Center, checks materials restored after flood damage at a court in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in March.
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2026
Japan helps restore flood-damaged court papers in Sri Lanka
More than 170,000 documents at a court in the city of Kandy were soaked in floodwater when the island was affected by Cyclone Ditwah last November.
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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Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
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