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Paraguayan and Taiwanese flags outside of the Taiwanese Embassy in Asuncion, Paraguay, last year
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 30, 2026
Paraguay says it’s not abandoning Taiwan. China has other plans.
China has flexed its economic muscles in an effort to force countries, including Paraguay, to break ties with Taiwan, which China considers part of its territory.
The Embassy of Cuba in Washington was the target of a Chinese hacking campaign that began in January.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 30, 2026
Chinese hackers spied on Cuban embassy as U.S. prepared blockade
The campaign began in January and compromised the emails of 68 officials, including the Cuban ambassador and the deputy chief of mission, researchers said.
A Tomahawk Land Attack Missile is fired during Operation Epic Fury on Feb. 28.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 30, 2026
Pentagon’s $25 billion price tag for Iran war may miss key costs
Pentagon officials declined to give a more detailed breakdown of the costs when pressed for answers during a congressional hearing.
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell departs following his final news conference at the central bank in Washington on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 30, 2026
Powell to remain at Fed amid legal ‘battering’ by Trump administration
Powell’s decision, unprecedented in the modern era of central banking, reflects concern over ongoing political attacks on the institution.
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday, the day justices released a ruling in Louisiana vs. Callais. The Supreme Court’s ruling on the Voting Rights Act in the middle of primary season could create a potentially chaotic scramble among states that may consider drawing new maps.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 30, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court guts key provision of Voting Rights Act
With November congressional elections looming, the decision could prompt Republican-led states to seek to redraw electoral maps in order to gain an advantage.
Gen. Xavier Brunson, commander U.S. Forces Korea, delivers remarks at a House Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington on Apr. 22.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 30, 2026
A vision for the peninsula: Our interview with the head of the U.S. military in South Korea
A transcript of The Japan Times’ interview with U.S. Forces Korea Commander Gen. Xavier Brunson.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Britain's King Charles III
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Apr 29, 2026
U.K.’s split-screen moment lays bare struggle to adapt to Trump
Managing ties with U.S. President Donald Trump’s United States has come to consume the British state.
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference on Dec. 10, 2025.
BUSINESS
Apr 29, 2026
Jerome Powell: Fed chair who stood up to Trump set to finish tenure on top
All eyes are on Powell to see if he will choose to continue on the Fed’s board past his time as chair.
An exhibition on the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki held at the United Nations' headquarters in New York on Monday
JAPAN
Apr 29, 2026
Atomic bombing exhibition opens at U.N. headquarters as NPT is under review
The exhibition, organized by the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, the 2024 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, will run until June 1.
U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Busan, South Korea, on Oct. 30.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Apr 29, 2026
China-U.S. tensions build over Iran and AI before Trump meets Xi
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are headed toward a summit next month with a shared desire to stabilize ties. That calm is being tested as both leaders rush to shore up strategic vulnerabilities over Iranian oil and AI.
Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov (fourth from left) and Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin (fifth from left) clap as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the opening ceremony of a memorial museum honoring North Korean troops killed while fighting for Russia in the war against Ukraine, in Pyongyang on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 29, 2026
North Korea’s Ukraine war lessons reshaping calculus on Korean Peninsula
Pyongyang’s battlefield experience, ability to project force overseas and increasingly rapid weapons development cycles are worrying trends, the head of U.S. Forces Korea says.
U.S. forces patrol the Arabian Sea near the Touska cargo ship, on April 20.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 29, 2026
Trump tells aides to prep for lengthy Hormuz blockade, WSJ says
The decision suggests that the U.S. could be moving into a lengthy period with the fighting largely halted, but no durable resolution to the conflict.
Applied Materials, which has significant business supplying China, is among those believed to ​have received a letter from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 29, 2026
U.S. orders chip equipment companies to halt some shipments to China’s Hua Hong
The move is the latest U.S. action to slow China’s development of advanced chips, two people familiar with the matter said.
A woman walks past a billboard featuring an image of the late supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on a building in Tehran on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 29, 2026
U.S. spy agencies examine how Iran would react to Trump declaring victory
A quick de-escalation could ease political pressure on the U.S. president but also leave behind an emboldened Iran that could eventually threaten U.S. allies in the region.
Britain's King Charles III speaks during a joint address to Congress in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 29, 2026
King Charles urges U.S. to reject isolationism in landmark speech
Britain’s King Charles III used his remarks to a joint session of Congress to also argue for preserving the alliance between the U.K. and U.S.
Through much of 2025, a U.S. special agent had been looking into claims that some Meta employees and contractors could see the content of encrypted WhatsApp messages. The investigation was just abruptly closed.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 29, 2026
U.S. ends investigation into claims WhatsApp chats aren’t private
The abrupt closure ends a law enforcement inquiry into claims that challenge how the company markets the chat service’s privacy.
A woman feeds her malnourished child at a hospital in Somalia on April 20 amid a shortage of lifesaving therapeutic foods caused by shipping disruptions due to the Iran war.
WORLD / Society
Apr 28, 2026
Iran war is latest blow to Somalia’s malnourished children
Shortages of lifesaving therapeutic foods are forcing clinics to turn away severely malnourished children and ration supplies.
U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House earlier this month
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 28, 2026
Trump administration fires entire National Science Board
The independent board was established in 1950 ‌to advise ‌the president and Congress on policies ​about science and engineering.
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi greets his Australian counterpart, Penny Wong, at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 28, 2026
Australia and Japan tighten regional energy security coordination amid Mideast crisis
Foreign Minister Penny Wong highlighted the need for boosted cooperation following talks in Tokyo with Japan’s ministers for trade, economic security and foreign affairs.
Milorad Dodik, the former president of Republika Srpska, the Serb half of Bosnia-Herzegovina, is building closer ties with people associated with U.S. President Donald Trump.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 28, 2026
Trump’s family and friends help revive a former Balkan pariah
Milorad Dodik, the former president of the Serb half of Bosnia-Herzegovina, is benefiting from the Trump family’s business focus on the Balkans.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
Japanese-language education is at a turning point
The country is gradually transforming Japanese-language education from a volunteer-driven system into a professional, government-supported network to better serve its growing foreign population. 
Japan’s princesses face life-altering legal revisions
Princess Aiko, the daughter of Emperor Naruhito, said in a 2022 news conference upon coming of age that she hopes to “spend a long time together” with her parents.
Japan plans to sharply raise fees for residence permits from October
Foreign tourists walk on the path leading to the Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in May.
Iran war exposed, but hasn’t changed, Japan’s reliance on imported oil
Wind turbines generate energy from strong easterly winds on the Shonai Plain in Yamagata Prefecture. Despite the oil crisis caused by conflict near the Strait of Hormuz, and concerns instability in the region could continue to impact supply and the price of imports, the administration of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi does not seem to be drawing on the war as a pretext to hasten progress toward Japan's renewable goals.
Six of the best: rikishi of note in each sumo division
Kazuma (right) faces off against future <i>yokozuna</i> Onosato during the All Japan Amateur Sumo Championships at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in December 2020.
Some startups see opportunity in an aging Japan
Yasmin Baba, CTO of Amilis, wins the Grand Prize at the Pitch2Tokyo Grand Final on Feb. 19.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.

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