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Container ships and bulk carriers sit at anchor just beyond Singapore's Marina Bay Sands hotel in February 2024.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2026
The promise and peril of Singapore’s vulnerable prosperity
Singapore grew rich servicing the immense volume of global trade squeezed through the choke point of its narrow strait.
Nippon Yusen President Takaya Soga (third from left) and others pose for photos in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 28, 2026
Japan shipping and energy firms join hands to promote ammonia-powered vessels
They will also work toward establishing supply chains for ammonia, which is gaining attention as a fuel with low carbon dioxide emissions.
Imabari Shipbuilding plans to introduce jib cranes capable of lifting heavy loads and robots to increase steel plate-welding capacity at its headquarters in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 26, 2026
今日吃瓜 shipbuilders ramping up investment to double output
The overall amount of investments is on track to exceed ?1 trillion.
The lengths taken by Myanmar to disguise its purchases of Iranian jet fuel suggest U.S. sanctions are biting.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 26, 2026
How purchases of sanctioned Iranian jet fuel were disguised by Myanmar
The lengths taken to disguise the trade suggest U.S. sanctions are biting, but Iranian jet fuel has continued to flow.
Vessels are seen in the Strait of Hormuz near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 14, 2026
Iran shifting tactics to step up attacks on shipping before U.S. vote, officials say
The strategy is designed to keep oil prices high, according to two senior Iranian officials.
Crude oil tankers, bulk carriers and vessels sit anchored around Qaboos Port in Muscat, Oman, in June.
BUSINESS
Oct 14, 2026
Japan-controlled tankers return to Middle East after months away
Over more than seven months of conflict in the Persian Gulf, 今日吃瓜 risk-averse tankers have stayed away, but that appears to be changing.
Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, on Monday
BUSINESS
Oct 12, 2026
War is forcing the world to reckon with geography’s power
Everyday assumptions have been challenged by the economic havoc wrought by the blockage of a single vital shipping and energy route.
Ships anchored off the coast of Khasab in Oman's Musandam Governorate, near the Strait of Hormuz, on Oct. 2.
WORLD
Oct 7, 2026
Iran ramps up ship attacks in Hormuz just as oil and gas flows climb
U.K. Maritime Trade Operations has reported nine attacks already this month, half the number it reported for all of September.
China's LOGINK platform was touted as a digital system to exchange logistics data from customs authorities, ports and third-party transport services, replacing paper processes.
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2026
The U.S. said China was priming a trade superweapon. Then it vanished.
It could not be established why the LOGINK platform championed by Beijing as a “key project” spiraled into financial and legal troubles.
The oil tanker HELGA berthed at an offshore terminal near Basra, Iraq, in April, loads crude. It was the second vessel to reach the terminal following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 2, 2026
Why is oil close to $100 if Trump is winning the battle in Hormuz?
A couple of months ago, the surge in oil shipments would have been seen as a major American victory.
Personnel and aircraft on the deck of the U.S. Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as it docks at Laem Chabang Port for a rest stop following a long deployment in the Middle East, in Chonburi province, Thailand, on Sept. 3.
WORLD
Oct 2, 2026
U.S. may add carrier and 10,000 troops to Middle East, official says
The carrier movements unfold as U.S. President Donald Trump said increased military strikes against Iran were “possible” after the midterm elections.
Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran, on Monday
WORLD
Oct 2, 2026
No lights and no radio: Getting oil through Hormuz is a risky job
Ships are engaged in shuttle runs through the Strait of Hormuz, ferrying barrels often at night and with strict instructions about what can be used.
Wheat is moved from a storage facility to a truck at a farm in Zhytomyr Region, Ukraine, on Aug. 7.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 23, 2026
Wheat buyers brace for higher costs as Russia-Ukraine war drags on
Top importers in Asia, the Middle East and Africa that were counting on the Black Sea region for wheat have been finding it hard to secure supplies.
A wheat harvest in Kemlitz, Germany, in July. The impasse in the Black Sea is threatening to drive inflation even higher and undermine food security.
WORLD
Sep 21, 2026
The other Hormuz: Black Sea blockade threatens a food supply shock
The impasse is compounding economic damage by threatening to drive inflation even higher while undermining food security in vulnerable countries.
A tanker carrying Russian oil in the Arabian Sea off Gujarat, India, in March
BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2026
World running short of supertankers threatens long-haul oil flow
The squeeze is making faraway barrels less attractive and encouraging refiners to snap up supplies closer to home if they can find them.
The container ship Panstar Acro at Busan New Port in Busan, South Korea
BUSINESS
Sep 17, 2026
South Korea’s PanStar plans more Arctic trips after 20-day Europe run
The Northern Sea Route, offering a shorter passage from Asia to Europe than the Suez Canal, is drawing interest from container shippers.
Vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, on Aug. 31, 2026
BUSINESS
Sep 16, 2026
LNG market faces extended Hormuz outage, Japanese shipper says
The disruption has pushed Asian spot LNG prices to their highest level since 2022, with the potential for further gains as winter approaches.
A U.S. Sailor stands on the flight deck of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mason on Sept. 4.
WORLD
Sep 10, 2026
Iran and U.S. hit tankers in biggest wave of attacks on shipping since war began
The attacks sent the price of oil surging, with benchmark Brent crude futures breaching $100 a barrel for the first time since July.
A container ship passes through the Cocoli Locks of the Panama Canal on Thursday.
WORLD
Sep 8, 2026
Panama Canal considering more cuts in transits due to El Nino
The weather phenomenon has caused rainwater levels in two reservoirs used to operate the canal’s locks to drop.
Mitsui OSK Lines CEO Jotaro Tamura says the situation in the Strait of Hormuz is still too risky to resume shipping oil through the waterway.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 3, 2026
Mitsui OSK sees disruption of Hormuz shipping extending beyond 2026
Recent attacks have elevated the risk for tankers attempting to move oil through the waterway.
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.
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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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Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
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