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A file in the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security in Budapest on Sept. 29
WORLD / Politics
Nov 5, 2026
Hungary opens communist-era informer files
During the 1949-89 one-party rule that repressed dissent, authorities employed an extensive network of informants to monitor public sentiment.
A Semcorp lithium-ion battery separator film plant in Debrecen, eastern Hungary
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 29, 2026
Hungary’s post-Orban shakeout ripples through auto industry
Its tougher line on environmental enforcement comes at a time when the former prime minister’s bet on electric cars is starting to pay off.
A bridge over the Vistula River in Warsaw. U.S. President Donald Trump has long campaigned on stopping illegal immigration, but his second term has been defined in equal measure by his efforts to curb legal migration.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 9, 2026
U.S. resumes immigrant visa processing for Hungary and Poland
Trump has long campaigned against illegal immigration, but his second term has been defined in equal measure by his efforts to curb legal migration.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (left) greets Viktor Orban, then Hungary’s prime minister, in 2022.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 26, 2026
Orban’s EU influence comes to an abrupt end as cash dries up
When he was Hungarian prime minister, he poured millions into organizations within the Brussels bubble that offered allies a platform and training ground.
Danube cruise ships moored in Bratislava, on Tuesday. The river level is too low to go back up to Vienna or down to Budapest, the authorities said.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 6, 2026
As the Danube hits record lows, every centimeter of river counts
With its water level at a record low, the shrunken Danube is disrupting trade and tourist cruises and making locals along its banks confront the impact of climate change.
A resident of Szentendre-Pismany, Hungary, fills a tank with drinking water on July 31. Due to drought and low levels of the Danube River, the small city has run out of potable water.
WORLD
Aug 6, 2026
Austria hits record temperature and Hungary curbs power use as Europe feels the heat
The world’s fastest-warming continent, Europe has endured record-breaking heat and destructive wildfires this summer.
Firms that leveraged ties to former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to build sprawling empires through large government projects such as sports stadiums and highways must find a new course as the new ruling party moves to stamp out alleged cronyism.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 3, 2026
Life after Orban: Hungary Inc. digs in as new political era takes hold
Former officials, companies and analysts said billionaires among former Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s inner circle were rethinking operations under new leader ?Peter Magyar.
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar during a news conference at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant in Paks, Hungary, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 3, 2026
Hungarian nuclear plant shuts down as heat and drought dry out Danube
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said the country faces a critical five days as ?its ?sole nuclear power plant is halted for the first time in over four decades.
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar addresses a news conference in the Red Hall of the parliament building in Budapest on July 13.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 20, 2026
Magyar to ask chess champion Judit Polgar to become Hungary’s president
Polgar is the only woman to have ?crossed the 2700-rating threshold that many consider the “Super GM” distinction.
LGBTQ+ supporters and advocates for freedom of assembly cross Elizabeth Bridge during the Budapest Pride March on June 27.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 14, 2026
What Budapest’s Pride march taught me about Japan
Marching is good. But the right to marry, to adopt, to be recorded as a family in the koseki would be great.
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar speaks during a news conference at the Chancellery in Berlin on June 2.
WORLD
Jul 13, 2026
Hungary is poised to oust president in a rollback of Orban era
Prime Minister Peter Magyar’s administration is seeking to oust President Tamas Sulyok less than three years into his five-year term.
Visitors at a park in Budapest watch a traditional Japanese fencing demonstration by a classical samurai sword school during Japanese Cultural Program Day in July 2021.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 22, 2026
Is Cool Japan really the secret to soft-power success?
The part of Europe where Japanese culture is growing fastest is also where Japan has invested least.
Transcarpathia is a western Ukrainian region and one of the country's most ethnically diverse areas, populated by groups including Hutsuls, seen here in Yasynya, as well as Hungarians, Romanians, Slovaks and Ukrainians.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 11, 2026
Language, power and the price of entry
The same logic that protects Hungarians in Ukraine leaves Russian in the cold. Language policy, it turns out, has a foreign policy.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, right, and Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar during a rally in Gdansk on Monday
WORLD / Politics
May 21, 2026
Magyar and Tusk tout Hungary’s return to Europe in post-Orban era
Hungary could learn from Poland on fighting corruption and restoring ties with Europe, new Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar says.
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar in Budapest on Saturday
WORLD / Politics
May 19, 2026
Hungary’s Peter Magyar visits Poland on first trip abroad as PM seeking EU reset
The Hungarian leader’s trip is rich in symbolism as he seeks to steer his nation back towards the European mainstream.
Poland's former Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro during an Independence Day march in Warsaw on Nov. 11, 2022. Ziobro, wanted on several criminal charges in his home country, confirmed on Sunday that he has fled Hungary for the United States, following local media reports.
WORLD / Politics
May 11, 2026
Polish fugitive minister fled Hungary as Orban ousted
Zbigniew Ziobro and his wife, Patrycja Kotecka, arrived stateside after U.S. President Donald Trump personally intervened to approve their visas.
A Soviet-made T55 tank is exhibited in front of pictures of the victims of communist dictatorship at the House of Terror Museum in Budapest. The building of the museum was used by the state police until 1956 and its basement was turned into a prison.
COMMENTARY / World
May 5, 2026
What China will learn from Orban’s defeat
The lesson Mao drew from these events was that under one-party rule, an opening for dissent can easily ignite rebellion.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (right) meets with Hungary's incoming Prime Minister Peter Magyar in Brussels on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 30, 2026
Hungary’s Magyar pushes to unblock EU billions in Brussels
In a sign he intends to turn the page on the bad blood of Viktor Orban’s rule, incoming Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar visited Brussels before he takes office next month.
Hungarian presidential election winner Peter Magyar speaks during a press conference in Budapest on April 20.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 29, 2026
People linked to top Orban aide were blocked trying to send funds abroad, Hungary’s Magyar says
Peter Magyar is due to be sworn in as Orban’s successor on May 9.
A couple views a vandalized poster of outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest on April 13, one day after Hungary's general elections.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 27, 2026
Hungary’s shift unlocks new opportunities for NATO and Ukraine
Ukraine. By the time of his rejection by the electorate, he was widely regarded as Putin’s top ally in Europe and a Trojan horse inside the alliance.
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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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.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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