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Japan in Focus
Japan moves to shut down the Unification Church 
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Japan in Focus
30 years since Japan’s worst domestic terrorist attack, the cult group behind it is ‘ongoing problem,’ officials say
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Japan in Focus
How a former gang member in Japan found a new path through Christianity
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Japan in Focus
‘It’s like a dream’: Artists and fans connect over the love of comic books at Japan’s biannual Comiket
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Japan in Focus
Japan’s ‘listening lounges’ offer pure music with a side of drinks
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Japan in Focus
How Tokyo developed a culture of transit in a world of cars
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Women & Gender
South Korean women are calling their leaders to account 
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Japan in Focus
Japan’s transit system is private. Should other countries consider the same?
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Japan in Focus
As Japan’s economy adapts to a tourism boom, so does daily life 
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Japan in Focus
Is retirement officially dead in Japan?
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Japan in Focus
Japan awakens for the global art market
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Japan in Focus
In Tokyo, some public toilets inspire wonder
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A portrait of Sasami from her self-titled LP, "Sasami."
Movement
‘It’s all mixed’: Sasami makes music inspired by her multicultural heritage 
A few customers sneak into a card shop just before closing time in Akihabara, Tokyo.
Arts, Culture & Media
Pokémon fever once again grips fans around the world
two actors pretending to fight
Tokyo’s trash-collecting samurai takes a fun, zany approach to cleanup
Customers get out their smartphones and go silent as Shizuo Mori begins his pudding-fling serving technique that made him a viral sensation.
Food
This 80-year-old pudding maker in Tokyo goes viral for his flan-flinging flair
sushi restaurant facade
Japanese restaurants use AI to combat sushi terrorism
man speaking at podium
Sacred Nation
Japan’s infamous ‘happy’ cult sets sights on the United States
The Manuscript Café in Tokyo helps writers to bring their projects to completion.
Tokyo café specializes in aiding procrastinators 
Japan's outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to the media as he arrives at the prime minister's office for a cabinet meeting in Tokyo, Japan
Obituary
Japan’s ex-leader Shinzo Abe assassinated during a speech
People walk across the famed Shibuya scramble crossing as the sun sets behind the skyscraper, Oct. 11, 2021, in Tokyo.
Energy
A Tokyo train company moves to become net-carbon neutral
Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese, center back, celebrates with his partner partner Jodie Haydon, right, and Labor senate leader partner Penny Wong at a Labor Party event in Sydney, Australia
Elections
Albanese sworn in as PM in Australia ahead of Tokyo summit
a young kid walking down the sidewalk
Lifestyle
Netflix’s ‘Old Enough!’ reality TV show sends very young kids on errands by themselves
A woman is shown holding back a curtain and entering a salon with painted over pictures of women on either side of the doorway.
Top of The World
UN warning of Taliban actions and impending humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan
Brazil's libero Camila Brait and teammate Rosamaria Montibeller fist bump during a women's volleyball semifinal match against South Korea, at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 6, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. 
Tokyo Olympics
Move over soccer: Brazil’s award-winning volleyball teams compete for Olympic gold
An several storeys tall stone church is shown carved into the side of a hillside.
Top of The World
Tigrayan forces take over Ethiopian town known for its ancient churches
Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is shown through a frosted glass window speaking into microphones.
Tokyo Olympics
2 coaches removed from Tokyo Olympics in Belarus case
Sakura Yosozumi is shown wearing a red shirt and purple helmet while skateboarding down a wall with "Tokyo 2020" painted on it.
Tokyo Olympics
Japan continues to dominate in skateboarding at the Olympics
Athing Mu is shown mid-stride on the track in blurred motion.
Tokyo Olympics
Athing Mu races to gold in Tokyo, makes US Olympic history
George Nissen appears on a trampoline at the 2000 Olympics.
Tokyo Olympics
The Olympic trampoline tradition: Remembering the man who taught the world to bounce
Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is shown running and wearing the track and field uniform for Belarus.
Activists: Belarus Olympian plans to seek asylum in Poland
A crowd of people are show walking in various directions outside of a railway station in Tokyo with tall buildings in the background.
Tokyo Olympics
Officials in Tokyo alarmed as virus cases hit record highs
Woman in white fencing gear trains with her coach standing behind her wearing black
Tokyo Olympics
‘It never feels routine,’ says Hungarian fencer Aida Mohamed, on her 7th Olympic Games
The Belgian men's team wears blue shirts during a tug of war competition.
Tokyo Olympics
Sports of Olympic past: Where are they now?
In high contrast color, the Olympic rings are shown floating in a large body of water with shipping container cranes in the distance.
Tokyo Olympics
PHOTOS: Olympic guests get view of Tokyo — from the bus
Two military personnel are shown wearing fatigues, black masks and carrying large rifles.
Top of The World
Suspects killed over Haiti assassination in a stunned nation
A woman is shown walking and wearing a face mask and blue t-shirt in a nearly empty dining hall with a sign in the nearground that says "Tokyo 2020."
Top of The World
Tokyo Olympics to allow spectators amid ongoing coronavirus crisis
In this May 17, 2021, demonstrators protest against the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. The IOC and Tokyo Olympic organizers run into some of the strongest medical-community opposition so far with the games set to open in just over eight weeks. 
Tokyo Olympics
As demand grows to cancel Tokyo Olympics, who has the power to call it off?
Table top tennis players compete in front of a large blue banner
Foreign policy
A fresh call for ‘pingpong diplomacy’ on the 50th anniversary of the first US-China games
Security guards look at outbound vehicles moving toward them at a security checkpoint where part of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is seen in the background in Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Feb. 25, 2021. An official
Fukushima 10 Years Later
The world rethought nuclear energy after Fukushima. Climate change complicates it.
This photo shows the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant situated in Naraha and Tomioka towns, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Feb. 26, 2021.
Fukushima 10 Years Later
‘The Journey Itself Home’: Reflections on moving forward after devastation in Japan
Japan National Stadium is shown in the distance from the vantage of a glass observatory where three women are standing.
Sports
Amid cancellation talk, Tokyo Olympics ‘focused on hosting’
US President Donald Trump faces a black and white striped wall.
US House forges ahead with Trump impeachment; Ireland’s COVID-19 rates skyrocket; Italian ‘Nndrangheta mobsters on trial
A station passageway is crowded with commuters wearing face mask during a rush hour Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, in Tokyo. 
Top of The World
COVID-19 flareups in China, Japan, US; 1-year anniversary of Ukrainian jet tragedy; National security concerns after US Capitol siege
A group of protesters carries protest signs. One wears a colorful tie-dye shirt and has blue hair. The others wear white and black shirts.
Protest
BLM Tokyo tackles Japan’s own issues with anti-Black racism
A woman is shown walking with through a area with flowering trees while holding an umbrella.
COVID-19
Japan declares emergency; Coronavirus impacts democratic participation; Hezbollah’s latest front line?
A man is shown wearing a face mask and walking in front of a countdown clock for the 2020 Olympics Games in Tokyo.
COVID-19
IOC to start discussions on possible Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games postponement
A long escalator is shown nearly empty with a person riding down and looking at their phone.
COVID-19
Coronavirus causes historic market drop, global scramble to contain ‘invisible enemy’
An LNG tanker unloads its cargo at the Port of Yokohama, Japan.
America’s shale gas ‘revolution’ has led to exports that span the globe — and helped solve Japan’s energy needs after a nuclear disaster
Two women are shown exiting a cruise ship wearing face masks and pulling suitcases.
COVID-19
Passengers depart coronavirus cruise ship at last; Japan’s effort under fire
illustration
Unsettled: Seeking asylum is tough in Trump’s America —and even tougher in Japan
Man stands in 7-Eleven in work vest
Protest
South Korea’s ‘No Japan’ boycott is new. But the wounds are old.
trump and abe
Global Politics
Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize? Japan’s nomination is part of a strategic plan.
Two young Japanese women are shown with there arms in the air and dancing.
Music
K-pop stardom lures Japanese youth to Korea despite diplomatic chill
whaling
Food
In Japan, few people eat whale meat anymore, but whaling remains popular
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Arts, Culture & Media
How a Japanese girl-group empire is conquering Asian pop
Seattle Mariners' outfielder Ichiro Suzuki gives autographs to fans before an exhbition game in Tokyo against the Yomiuri Giants, March 17, 2019.
Is Japan’s greatest baseball player about to take his final bow?
An illustration shows a man with the Japanese flag behind him holding a plutonium disc in his hands
Japan has plutonium, rockets and rivals. Will it ever build a nuke?
two students stand outside the Yasuda auditorium at the University of Tokyo
Women & Gender
Japanese student rejects tabloid’s apology for ranking women by ‘easiness’
Chef reflected in the mirror at his restaurant.
Food
Tokyo’s mom-and-pop sushi bars struggle to survive