Governments across the world moved quickly to stake out positions after U.S. forces carried out strikes in Venezuela on Saturday, an operation that Washington said resulted in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro. The reaction…
Long-term foreign residents across Japan are moving more cautiously as social and political tensions sharpen. On crowded Tokyo trains and in quiet rural towns, many say they are deliberately keeping their voices down, their movements…
Japan and China traded sharp words at the United Nations this week after Beijing renewed its demand that Prime Minister Takaichi retract comments linking a potential Taiwan conflict to Japan’s national survival, turning what began…
Akio Toyoda built his reputation as the steady heir to Japan’s most influential industrial powerhouse, Toyota. For years he guided the company through recession, recalls, technological shifts, and rising global competition, showing the restraint and…
China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, issued an unusually sharp warning this week, telling his German counterpart that Japan is now “threatening China militarily,” a charge Beijing framed as both dangerous and historically tone-deaf. The remark…
A viral CCTV clip showing four Japanese tourists shoplifting from a small Bali shop has ricocheted across Indonesia and Japan, setting off a wave of embarrassment, anger, and reflection. What looks, on the surface, like…
FILE - Exterior of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
International Criminal Court prosecutors made clear on Friday that the arrest warrants issued for Vladimir Putin and five other Russian officials will not simply disappear, even if U.S.-led peace talks end with a sweeping amnesty…
The newest nationwide survey on attitudes toward foreign workers lands with the weight of a quiet turning point. It suggests a country not only debating policy but grappling with the deeper question of who it…
Esta combinación de imágenes proporcionadas por el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos muestra a Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada (izquierda), líder del Cártel de Sinaloa, y a Joaquín Guzmán López, hijo del famoso capo mexicano Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. Ambos fueron detenidos el 25 de julio de 2024 por las autoridades estadounidenses en Texas. (Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos vía AP)
The guilty plea entered in a Chicago courtroom this week by Joaquín Guzmán López, one of the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, carried a sense of inevitability but also of quiet consequence. It was…
