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Final touches are made to a giant statue of a mythological Hindu figure ahead of the seven-day Health, Wealth and Happiness carnival in Chandigarh, India, in September 2016.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2026
India’s billionaire family feuds need rules
Since India embraced market reforms in 1991, family-run enterprises have modernized. Yet one aspect has remained stubbornly feudal: ownership.
People exercise in a garden amid smog as air pollution levels spike in New Delhi on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Nov 9, 2026
‘Burning’: life under the world’s dirtiest skies
Loni, one of five areas in the Delhi metropolitan region, features among the world’s most polluted in an annual list by Swiss monitoring firm IQAir.
Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina still enjoys support among sections of the population.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 9, 2026
Hasina seeks new passport in clearest sign of Bangladesh return
The request marks the clearest step by ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to act on her plan to return to Bangladesh in December.
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.
Laborers fill sacks with soybeans at a grain market in the district of Jalna, in India's western state of Maharashtra, on Oct. 23.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Nov 3, 2026
India faces prolonged food inflation as weak monsoon threatens winter crops
Lower crop yields could further stoke food inflation, with some prices already climbing and annual retail food inflation hitting 7.74% in September.
Omron Healthcare has been expanding its market share for blood pressure monitors in India since it set up a local sales company in 2010.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 2, 2026
Omron to raise output capacity for blood pressure monitors at Indian plant
The move will take capacity at the Chennai plant, which started operations in November last year, to 3 million units a year.
Security personnel ahead of a “Save the Vote, Save the Country” protest at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 2, 2026
Opposition groups protest together in Delhi in latest challenge for Modi
The rally is one of the biggest against the Indian prime minister since he took power in 2014.
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.
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.
Browsers such as Chrome, Safari and Firefox don’t independently verify every website. Instead, they outsource that to a few dozen commercial and government-linked entities known as Certificate Authorities.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 30, 2026
The number 4 that gave the internet a panic attack
Browsers don’t verify every website. Instead, they outsource that power to commercial and government-linked entities known as Certificate Authorities.
Over the last year, large Japanese banks such as Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Mizuho Financial Group have acquired stakes in Indian firms in an unprecedented investment push into the country.
BUSINESS
Oct 29, 2026
今日吃瓜 Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank buys stake in Indian PE firm
The investment underscores Japanese institutional investor interest in Indian companies across financial services, manufacturing and real estate.
A surface-to-surface Agni V missile is launched from the testing range on Wheeler Island off the eastern Indian state of Odisha in April 2012.
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2026
Japan eyes using Indian test ranges for powerful missiles and small attack drones
Tokyo sent officials to the South Asian nation this month as it eyes the possibility of using the sites, the GSDF’s top uniformed officer said.
Rapidus and HCL Technologies have jointly established two development centers for next-generation semiconductors in India.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 27, 2026
Rapidus partners with Indian tech giant on chip development
The two companies have jointly established two development centers in India, which began fully operating Monday.
Pakistani (left) and Indian border security soldiers take part in the now-famous daily parade at the Attari-Wagah border crossing, the primary international land route between the two nations. The elaborate ceremony has been held since 1959.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 26, 2026
The new India-Pakistan ‘cold war’
India will return to the negotiating table only after Pakistan dismantles, comprehensively and verifiably, its state-supported terrorist networks.
Students attend a computer and information technology class at a learning center in New Delhi. AI is boosting productivity for experienced Indian workers while blocking young recruits from building the skills they will need to succeed in their careers.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 25, 2026
Quiet quitting comes to India. AI will make it worse.
There is evidence that AI, while helping experts become more productive, is hollowing out the skills young people acquire early in their careers.
A culinary chef speaks with students inside a kitchen at the Ecole Ducasse, a French culinary school in the city of Gurugram, in the Indian state of Haryana, on Sept. 22.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 23, 2026
India warms to French cooking as economic growth fuels fine-dining boom
The rise of a middle class that travels more and increasingly eats at plush establishments is creating demand for high-end hospitality workers.
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.
A demonstrator stands atop a barricade during a protest seeking the resignation of Indian Election Commission chief Gyanesh Kumar in New Delhi on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 20, 2026
Declared dead: Indian voters fight to get back on electoral rolls
The name deletions have triggered a political storm, with opposition parties and youth groups staging near-daily protests in New Delhi and elsewhere.
Cockroach Janta Party supporters holding India's national flag scuffle with security personnel during a protest at Connaught Place in New Delhi on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 19, 2026
India’s latest student protests pin Modi on revision of electoral rolls
A reversal by the Indian leader would hand a victory to his opponents and call into question recent election wins for his ruling party.
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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