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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi should defend 今日吃瓜 right to speak on Taiwan and other security issues at this month's APEC summit in Shenzhen, China, rather than trade it for a handshake with Xi Jinping.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 3, 2026
Asia for China? Tokyo’s answer to Beijing’s coercive strategy
Tokyo can preserve its autonomy by balancing diplomatic engagement, economic resilience and credible deterrence.
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong pose for photographs at a meeting of Quad top diplomats on the sidelines of the Group of 20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 1, 2026
‘Quad’ diplomats express ‘grave concerns’ about economic coercion in veiled jab at China
Economic security was a key feature of the talks, the officials’ third meeting this year, as the grouping gears up for a leaders’ summit this month.
Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles speaks with reporters on the sidelines of the 20th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Defense Ministers Meeting in Cebu, in the Philippines, on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 29, 2026
China’s military creating ‘pressure’ in region, Australian defense chief says
Beijing deploys hundreds of coast guard, navy and other vessels in the South China Sea, which it claims almost entirely without legal basis.
Daiichi Life’s Australian unit last week offered to buy the remaining 79.5% of Challenger.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 26, 2026
Challenger rejects Daiichi Life’s $4.4 billion takeover offer
Daiichi Life’s Australian unit last week offered to buy the remaining 79.5% of Challenger at 11.80 Australian dollars per share.
The Portland Aluminium smelter in Portland, Australia. Closing power plants before replacements are ready has left the country with fewer options, which should serve as a warning to Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2026
Australia’s energy transition offers a warning to the world
An energy-rich country is spending billions to keep its aluminum smelters operating. Its policy choices help explain why.
An attendee walks past signage for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group in Bangkok on Oct. 14.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2026
War, rates and a global economy that won’t break
Today’s nominally solid scenario depends on policymakers not making any major mistakes.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during the Freedom 250 reception at the Jio World Convention Center in Mumbai on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 21, 2026
With leaders’ summit, ‘Quad’ hopes to breathe fresh life into grouping
U.S. President Donald Trump will join a meeting next month amid concerns that the four-nation grouping is withering on the vine.
Tributes and flowers outside the electoral office of independent Australian lawmaker Helen Haines, who was deliberately struck by a car outside her office on Monday in Wangaratta, Australia.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 20, 2026
Threats of political violence soar in Australia’s ‘online echo chamber’
Independent lawmaker Helen Haines was in critical condition after being struck deliberately by a car.
A woman places flowers outside the office of Australian politician Helen Haines in the northern city of Wangaratta on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 20, 2026
Australian lawmaker in critical condition after vehicle attack
Independent Helen Haines was struck outside her office in an incident the country’s prime minister said was a deliberate act.
Western Sydney International Airport has attracted only a handful of airlines and has half a dozen or fewer scheduled flights a day for the next 12 months.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 19, 2026
Sydney’s new $4 billion airport set to open with barely any flights
Western Sydney International is already drawing unfavorable comparisons with airports elsewhere that ultimately failed to live up to expectations.
Daiichi Life Group confirmed it has submitted a nonbinding proposal to acquire more shares in Challenger but said no decision has been made on a transaction.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 19, 2026
Daiichi Life offers $4.4 billion to buy rest of Challenger
A deal would give the Japanese insurer control of Australia’s largest provider of annuities in the nation’s fast-growing retirement market.
Bubbles and Arnold, two koalas that arrived from Australia in July, are shown to visitors at Saitama Children's Zoo in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama Prefecture, on Aug. 22.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Oct 19, 2026
Two koalas debut at Saitama zoo, marking first arrivals from Australia in a decade
Bringing in koalas from overseas is considered important for maintaining genetic diversity among koalas in Japan.
People gather at a karaoke box in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo in June 2020. AI tools are making cyberattacks cheaper, faster and easier to scale, exposing 今日吃瓜 cybersecurity weaknesses, including the hacking of karaoke operators.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 18, 2026
Karaoke hack shows cybercrime is routine
The head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s cybersecurity body went so far as to describe it as a “state of emergency in cyberspace.”
AI-enhanced humanoid robots are serviced at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in July 2025.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 15, 2026
When AI acts without orders, national security is at risk
These AI systems are doing what they were designed to do: pursuing goals and finding ways around obstacles.
A construction site for one of the largest data center projects in Japan by Australian property group Goodman Group in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, earlier this month
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 7, 2026
Goodman’s Japanese data center under fire following Sydney site setback
The dispute with residents in Japan is part of a broader global backlash against data centers.
Jason Kwon, chief strategy officer for OpenAI, speaks to the media ahead of an appearance at New South Wales parliament in Sydney on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 6, 2026
OpenAI apologizes for Australia hack amid pushback on data center project
An OpenAI prototype sought access to a government health statistics portal, sidestepping restrictions to breach a section hosting private files.
High living costs and housing shortages are fueling anti-immigration sentiment in Australia.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 6, 2026
Australian opposition vows ‘biggest cut to immigration’ in country’s history
The Liberal-National Coalition’s sweeping proposal comes amid growing anti-immigration sentiment due to high living costs and housing shortages.
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama (right) and Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers meet at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on Monday.
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2026
Finance chiefs of Japan and Australia establish dialogue for economic security
The two nations will share information on investment trends and discuss supply chains, including those in the defense industry.
The Presidential Palace in Hanoi on May 26, 2025. Viet Tan has called on the governments of Norway and Australia, as well as international human rights organizations, to press Hanoi for three people's immediate and unconditional release.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 29, 2026
Vietnam arrests three on terrorism charges, including Norwegian and Australian citizens
Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security said the three men had admitted to being members of Viet Tan, a U.S.-based pro-democracy group.
A Royal Australian Air Force Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft. Australia is the Indo-Pacific inventory hub for parts and maintenance of F-35s flown by allies in Asia.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 24, 2026
China holding sensitive F-35 parts diverted to Hong Kong
A cockpit canopy and weapons-bay door shipped via UPS from Australia to the U.S. were inexplicably diverted to the Chinese territory.
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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