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Joichi Ito, then director of Massachusetts ?Institute of Technology's Media Lab, speaks during a news conference in Tokyo in July 2016. He resigned ?in 2019 from the role over a Jeffrey Epstein-linked funding scandal.
JAPAN
Mar 2, 2026
Joichi Ito’s government role in Japan uncertain amid fresh Epstein scrutiny
A report in the Sankei newspaper, citing an unidentified source, said Joichi Ito would not be reappointed to an entrepreneurship project ?after his term ended this month.
Joichi Ito in Tokyo in 2016. Ito resigned in 2019 from a prominent position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after revelations about his efforts to conceal millions of dollars he raised through connections to Jeffery Epstein.
JAPAN
Feb 27, 2026
How a close associate of Epstein’s found career redemption in Japan
Joichi Ito resigned in 2019 from a prominent position at the MIT after revelations about his efforts to conceal millions of dollars he raised through connections to Epstein.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2019
MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito resigns following reports of financial ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Saturday that Joichi Ito had resigned as director of the MIT Media Lab amid concern over his financial ties with disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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.
Man arrested over theft of watch that was returned days later to Tokyo mall
A 30-year-old man who is believed to have stolen a luxury wristwatch in Tokyo last month reportedly told police he was the one who had sent it back with a handwritten apology.
Japan not immune to public backlash against data centers, experts say
An apartment resident displays a model of a data center currently in development next door in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, in May.
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.
‘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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