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People protest on the street near Congress, following former Paraguayan President Santiago Pena's removal from office in an impeachment trial that found him guilty of poor performance over his links to the collapse of digital lender Ueno, in Asuncion, Paraguay, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 9, 2026
How a digital bank’s collapse toppled Paraguay’s president
Until March 2025, impeached Paraguayan President Santiago Pena had been a business partner of the group that owns Ueno Bank.
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak arrives at the Kuala Lumpur High Court for a hearing on Oct. 14. Najib has paid a $12 million fine, allowing him to serve the rest of his jail sentence under house arrest, his party said Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Nov 6, 2026
Jailed Malaysian ex-PM Najib pays fine, meeting condition for house arrest
Malaysian King Sultan Ibrahim granted Najib a conditional pardon in September.
Tax authorities ordered two organizations that operate addiction rehabilitation facilities to pay penalties for aggravated tax evasion after their head improperly diverted a total of about ?110 million in organizational funds for personal use.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 6, 2026
Drug addict rehabilitation facility head accused of siphoning ?110 million
The man is believed to have had the organizations pay him under the guise of living expenses that was then used for personal purposes.
Former Lower House member Masatoshi Akimoto
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 6, 2026
Six-year sentence sought for former lawmaker in wind power bribery case
The trial is scheduled to conclude after final arguments from the defense in January.
Anti-government banners are displayed at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on July 23.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 1, 2026
India’s protest movements unite in fresh headache for Modi
The event will bring together two strands of Indian political agitation that had largely operated separately.
A former manager at Takenaka admitted to having a subcontractor submit inflated bills for construction work related to the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka.
JAPAN
Oct 29, 2026
Ex-Takenaka manager admits breach of trust over Osaka Expo
The former manager acknowledged having a subcontractor submit inflated bills for construction work related to last year’s World Exposition.
A former University of Tokyo professor was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for three years, and fined about ?1.83 million for accepting lavish entertainment in exchange for favoring a cosmetics industry group in a joint research project.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 23, 2026
Ex-University of Tokyo professor gets suspended sentence over bribes
According to the ruling, the 63-year-old former professor, Shinichi Sato, received a total of about ?1.83 million worth of entertainment.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at Memphis Air National Guard Base in Tennessee on March 23.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 14, 2026
CFTC staff were told to retract analysis of suspicious oil trades
As the Iran conflict deepened, examples multiplied of large, markedly well-timed trading in futures and prediction markets.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD
Oct 14, 2026
In Trump’s pardons for public officials, Republicans win most of the mercy
Experts say U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated acts of clemency for corruption give impunity to people meant to uphold the public trust.
Bid-rigging cases were found for repair work contracts for 171 condominium buildings in Tokyo and six prefectures around the capital.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2026
42 Japanese firms engaged in bid-rigging over condo repair work
The Japan Fair Trade Commission imposed fines totaling about ?1.6 billion on 37 of the firms.
Chinese President Xi Jinping during a military parade in Beijing in September of last year.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 23, 2026
China’s purges of top military commanders spur questions about war-waging ability
The crackdown is likely to have strengthened Xi Jinping’s grip on an institution that is a key source of power for the Communist Party, analysts say.
Gen. Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission, has been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and the military, according to an official announcement on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 22, 2026
China expels two top generals from party and military, alleging disloyalty
Zhang Youxia, the vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, and Liu Zhenli, a member of the commission, were also accused of corruption.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter Ju Ae attend a commissioning ceremony for the destroyer Kang Kon at Wonsan Port in North Korea's Kangwon Province on Sept. 6.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 20, 2026
The hidden human cost of Kim Jong Un’s newfound power
Kim’s position rests on the brutal exploitation of his own people, from coal miners to diplomats, at home and abroad.
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak speaks to journalists outside the Federal Court in Putrajaya, Malaysia, in August 2022.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 18, 2026
Najib wins house arrest in Malaysia’s 1MDB corruption case
The pardon, however, is conditional upon former Prime Minister Najib Razak paying a 50 million ringgit ($12.3 million) fine.
Tokyo-based company Same Two has been fined ?150 million for bid-rigging related to the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2021.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 16, 2026
Ex-event firm chief guilty over Tokyo Games bid-rigging
All six companies charged over Tokyo Games bid-rigging were found guilty at the Tokyo District Court.
Britain's Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage arrives to deliver closing remarks at the party conference in Birmingham, England, on Sept. 5.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 10, 2026
U.K. police probe Farage’s Reform over donation allegations
Channel 4 News aired a report last week showing Reform officials appearing to discuss how to circumvent electoral law to accept foreign donations.
East Japan Usami and Kyoei Sekiyu of Tokyo, Eneos Wing of Nagoya, Enex Fleet of Osaka and Kitaseki of Miyagi Prefecture are suspected of violating the antimonopoly law.
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2026
Five Japanese oil distributors admit to forming price cartel
East Japan Usami and Kyoei Sekiyu of Tokyo, Eneos Wing of Nagoya, Enex Fleet of Osaka and Kitaseki of Miyagi Prefecture are suspected of violating the antimonopoly law.
U.S. President Donald Trump converses with Vice President JD Vance at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington in February.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2026
Trump’s expansion of executive privilege would invite more corruption
The Trump administration’s latest assertions about executive privilege — that it protects the confidentiality of a president’s communication with private advisers who aren’t part of the government — are like too much else in this White House: politically unprecedented, legally wrong and morally...
Isao Kurauchi, head of the Fukuoka Prefecture Assembly at the center of a bribery scandal, announced Monday his intention to resign as a member of the assembly.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 25, 2026
LDP worried over impact of Fukuoka Assembly bribery scandal on elections
The LDP’s headquarters has attempted to distance itself from the scandal ahead of local elections next year.
U.S. President Donald Trump shows off an image of his planned ballroom at the White House on May 19.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 24, 2026
Big business bought political influence. The bill is now due.
Corporate leaders’ attempts to buy political access under Trump could leave businesses exposed to public backlash and future administrations.
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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