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A U.N. General Assembly committee has adopted a Japan-led resolution calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons for the 33rd consecutive year, with 150 countries voting in favor, seven against and 25 abstaining.
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2026
U.N. panel adopts Japan-led nuclear weapon abolition resolution
The resolution received support from 150 countries, while seven voted against it and 25 abstained.
A horse pulls a carriage through Central Park in New York City on Wednesday.
WORLD / Society
Oct 23, 2026
New York bans horse-drawn carriages after decadelong battle
New York’s City Council voted 40 to 7 to pass the bill Thursday, which Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to sign.
Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Ryosei Akazawa speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 15, 2026
U.S. chip project significant for Japan-U.S. AI edge: Akazawa
Under the project, two new plants are set to be built in the state of New York with funding of up to $21 billion.
GlobalFoundries plans to build two new chip plants with the backing of as much as $21 billion from Japan.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 15, 2026
Japan to invest up to $21 billion in two U.S. chip factories to be run by GlobalFoundries
The move is part of a deal for Japan to invest $550 billion in the U.S. struck by President Donald Trump’s administration last year.
The entrance to the Rikers Island correctional facility in Queens, New York, on Oct. 5. The facility was due to shutter by 2027, but New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has acknowledged the city will not meet that deadline.
WORLD
Oct 12, 2026
New York’s notorious Rikers jail awaits elusive closure
The jail has counted John Lennon’s killer Mark David Chapman, rapper Tupac Shakur and Sex Pistols musician Sid Vicious among its residents.
Demonstrators protest Cornell University's handling of the 2024 fraternity gang rape allegations on the university's campus in Ithaca, New York, on Monday.
WORLD
Oct 6, 2026
Cornell students stage anti-rape rally in support of ‘Jane Doe’
Protesters called for an inquiry into how Cornell’s administration has handled the matter, as well as new guidelines for handling future cases.
Artist Yayoi Kusama poses with her artwork "Love arrives at the Earth Carrying with it a Tale of the Cosmos" at the Tate Modern gallery in London in February 2012.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 2, 2026
Yayoi Kusama and the cost of recognizing artists too late
Her later global success can tempt rewriting the past. Once an artist becomes profitable and internationally validated, national pride arrives easily.
A delivery worker in New York in January. A settlement between delivery app operator DoorDash and the city of New York includes more than $83 million to resolve a disagreement over how pay should be calculated for time workers spend online between deliveries.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 24, 2026
DoorDash to pay $132 million in NYC over missing wages
The settlement includes more than $83 million to resolve a disagreement over how to calculate pay for time couriers spend online between deliveries.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Monday before her departure for New York.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 2026
Takaichi arrives in New York to attend U.N. General Assembly
The prime minister is also set to hold talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, hoping to align their views on China ahead of a U.S.-China summit.
Kazusada Sumiyama holds a photograph of his son Yoichi Sugiyama during an interview at his home in Tokyo's Meguro Ward on Aug. 31.
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2026
25 years on, father of Japanese 9/11 victim continues to grieve
“My sorrow and anger will persist until I die,” said Kazusada Sumiyama, who lost his son to the terrorist attacks.
Dust from the collapsed World Trade Center settles in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. Much of the research on exposure to the World Trade Center residue has focused on emergency workers, but people there when they were young say their health is at risk, too.
WORLD
Sep 11, 2026
Children of 9/11 to finally get a major health study
Major questions remain about whether exposure to the toxins and the trauma on 9/11 and afterward increased the children’s long-term health risks.
A still from “TekkonKinkreet” shows Kiddy Kastle after a terrorist attack, its smoke-shrouded towers evoking the devastation of the World Trade Center after Sept. 11, 2001.
CULTURE / Film / CULTURE SMASH
Sep 11, 2026
Anime didn’t change after 9/11, but 9/11 changed how I watched anime.
Japanese anime was already imagining a fractured, unstable world. After 9/11, we began seeing it differently.
New York City Fire Department member Scott Brian Larsen sits for a photograph at FDNY Engine 325 & Ladder 163, where his father served during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, in the Woodside neighborhood of Queens in New York on Aug. 20.
WORLD
Sep 10, 2026
Twenty-five years after 9/11, Americans still live with its legacy
The events of Sept.?11, 2001, profoundly reshaped U.S. national security policy and led to decades-long wars in which more than 900,000 died.
The Tribute in Light art installation and the One World Trade Center are seen over lower Manhattan, on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, from Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York on Sept. 11, 2021.
WORLD
Sep 10, 2026
Ash-covered shoes and a president in crisis: A reporter remembers 9/11
U.S. President George Bush showed horror, anger and grief as he came to grips with events that marked a turning point for his presidency and the U.S.
A customer exits a Bank of America branch in New York on Tuesday. Bank of America’s main Manhattan office is located right near the heart of Times Square at One Bryant Park.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 2, 2026
Bank of America vice president killed in Manhattan stabbing
Erin Piacenti — who was a vice president of business selection and conflicts at the bank, according to a LinkedIn profile — died at the hospital from the stabbing injuries.
On Sept. 12, 2001, the front page of The Japan Times features striking imagery of the collapsing south tower of the World Trade Center in New York, shortly after the 9/11 attacks.
JAPAN / History / Japan Times Gone By
Sep 1, 2026
Japan Times 2001: Terrorists attack United States
Also in the archives, the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco and a secretive Soviet jet lands in Hokkaido.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani shows an app used to scan foods labeled with a 30% off sticker during a news conference discussing municipal grocery stores in the city’s Brooklyn borough on July 27.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2026
New York will regret going into the grocery business
When a market fails, it is tempting for public officials to intervene to fix it. Sometimes these interventions work. Often they make the problem they are trying to solve worse.
Supporters of Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen pray outside the U.N. in New York last month.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 7, 2026
Anguish and hope: why a Tibetan set himself on fire in New York
No one knew what Lobga Rangzen was planning. Not the monk who was his friend of 30 years, not his niece in New York.
A man drinks from a water fountain amid a heat wave in New York City on July 4.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 23, 2026
Energy efficiency is no communist plot
Politics, not policy, drives the backlash against power conservation in the U.S.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces that an agreement has been reached on the city's 2027 budget at City Hall on June 30.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 21, 2026
Mamdani’s American dream
Something new has emerged with the rise of so-called democratic socialists in the United States.
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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