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The U.S. imposed sanctions on Sberbank, Russia's biggest bank, following Moscow's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula more than a decade ago and tightened them in response to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2026
Top consulting firms test boundaries with China workarounds
Faced with a fraught geopolitical environment, global consultancies are turning to riskier ways to do business in China.
Hitoshi Nakama, a fisherman who has been fishing around the Senkaku Islands, speaks as his fishing boat sails past a Japan Coast Guard ship docked at a port in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, on Jan. 13.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Feb 3, 2026
Fearing clash with China, Japan asks fishermen to avoid flash point islands
The requests signal an abrupt shift after years in which Tokyo tacitly accepted such trips.
Japan's exports of agricultural, forestry and fishery products and food rose 12.8% from the previous year to a record ¥1.7 trillion in 2025, though they fell short of the government’s ¥2 trillion target, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 3, 2026
Japan’s farm, food and fishery exports in 2025 set record for 13th year
The total failed to reach the government’s target of ¥2 trillion for 2025 even though exports to all top 10 destinations increased year on year.
Supporters of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attend an election campaign event in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, on Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 3, 2026
Where will Japan’s democracy go from here?
Many question the rationale for the snap election with some critics claiming that it is an election without a “just cause.”
Sony has effectively handed control of its TV business to China’s TCL, allowing the Sony brand to live on screens made by others while the company concentrates on higher-value areas.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 2, 2026
Sony switches off the TV and that’s just fine
It is the end of an era as Japan’s iconic electronics giant, Sony, cedes TV business to TCL.
A man walks past an advertisement in Hong Kong in 2023.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 2, 2026
China AI deals push Hong Kong listings to busiest start of the year
Initial public offerings fetched about $5 billion last month, the highest total for any January on record.
An employee serves a customer shopping for pork at a black pork shop in Taizhou, Jiangsu province, China, on Jan. 16.
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 2, 2026
Disgruntled with Western pork, China wants to go back to black pigs
For older buyers in particular, black pork evokes childhood, when black-haired ‍pigs were ⁠raised at home and slaughtered around Lunar New Year.
Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu attends a meeting at a residence outside Moscow in August 2024.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 2, 2026
Shoigu backs China’s position on Taiwan, says Russia watching Japan’s ‘militarization’
China and Russia have forged close ties in ‍recent years and declared a “no limits” strategic partnership days before the war in Ukraine started in 2022.
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits Yuyuan Gardens in Shanghai on Friday.
WORLD
Feb 2, 2026
Trump warns U.K. on ‘dangerous’ China moves after Starmer trip
London seeking a reset with Beijing, but the U.K. prime minister has been careful not to present it as an effort to hedge against the U.S. under Trump.
A Ukrainian officer watches as an SS-24 nuclear missile booster is removed from its bunker at a military base in Pervomaisk in southern Ukraine in September 1998 as part of the dismantling of the country’s remaining SS-24 missiles under the START I treaty.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 1, 2026
Goodbye arms control, hello nuclear anarchy
This marks the first time since the iciest days of the Cold War when no formal arms-control regime will limit the two atomic superpowers.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi during a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Saturday
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 1, 2026
Britain and Japan agree to deepen defense and security cooperation
Starmer arrived in Tokyo after a four-day visit in China, where he followed in the footsteps of other Western leaders looking to counter an increasingly volatile United States.
Haneda Airport's parking facility in Tokyo's Ota Ward where an attempted robbery occurred on Friday
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 1, 2026
Victims of Haneda incident previously robbed of ¥95 million
Last year, their vehicles were broken into at a parking facility at Haneda Airport, located in Tokyo’s Ota Ward, and also at another parking lot in Chuo Ward.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits the Forbidden City in Beijing on Thursday
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jan 31, 2026
Visit by Britain’s Starmer shows drawbacks of ‘China pivot’ in countering Trump
The deals the British leader brings back to London show the limits of the balancing act that middle powers may try to play.
A Japanese police officer stands guard at the entrance of the Chinese embassy in Tokyo
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 31, 2026
Chinese advised not to visit Japan after robbery
The embassy issued the advisory on social media and said that it has asked Japanese police to resolve the robbery case as soon as possible.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during a campaign event at Maiko Park in Kobe on Thursday
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jan 31, 2026
Strong voter mandate could hand PM Takaichi new clout to counter China
A big win on Feb. 8 will help send a message to Beijing that its attacks have not damaged her domestically, a senior Japanese government official said.
A mine containing rare earth minerals in northern China
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2026
Japan struggling to reduce rare earth dependence on China
As part of its backlash against Takaichi’s remarks about a possible Taiwan contingency, the Chinese government has shown signs of restricting Japan-bound exports of the minerals.
A Vietnamese worker picks tomatoes at a farm in Asahi, Chiba Prefecture, in 2018. Vietnamese comprised the largest percentage of foreign workers in Japan in 2025.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2026
Foreign workers in Japan reach a record 2.57 million in 2025
The total was up 11.7% from a year earlier and comes amid an acute labor shortage in the rapidly aging country.
A China Coast Guard vessel sails near a Japan Coast Guard vessel around a group of disputed islands called the Senkaku Islands in Japan, and known in China as Diaoyu Islands, on Sep.14.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2026
China coast guard patrolled Japan-held islands almost daily last year
China’s coast guard patrolled the islands for 357 days last year, coast guard ‌head Zhang Jianming said.
Despite Donald Trump’s celebratory claims that TikTok’s U.S. odyssey is over, the formerly Chinese-owned app now faces mounting challenges around growth, competition, governance, user trust and execution that could quickly erode its immense value.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 30, 2026
The TikTok U.S. saga isn’t over — it’s just beginning
To call the saga over — as many headlines did — would be unwise. Its challenges are only just beginning.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi holds talks with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Nara on Jan. 13. Once a central diplomatic actor, Japan is increasingly absent as global power rivalries intensify.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 30, 2026
The cost of silence: Japan’s diminishing relevance
This diplomatic fade is more than a temporary slump. Japan is experiencing a crisis of international relevance at precisely the moment when the rules-based order is fracturing.
Japan might be giving the currency market the silent treatment
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama has issued verbal warnings recently using the same language and the same tone, saying authorities “will take appropriate action at any time, as necessary.”
Murakami says his novels are ‘different’ from AI literature
Haruki Murakami's first book in three years hit shelves in Japan on Friday.
Suspected Asian fraud ring exec served fresh warrant in Japan
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and Osaka Prefectural Police have issued arrest warrants for three people, including a suspected fraud network leader, over alleged immigration and residency violations.
Japan needs caregivers. Young Indians are answering the call.
Young people in India's northeast are increasingly studying Japanese in hopes of building new lives and careers in Japan.
Tokyo hospital baby hatch accepts 20 newborns in first year
Hitoshi Kato (left), head of San-ikukai Hospital in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, speaks during a news conference at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building on Thursday.
Japan bets on character IP to drive global growth
Born on social media platforms in 2022, Opanchu Usagi has become a major hit, especially among Generation Z.
Filmmaker explores history of discrimination against foreign nationals in Japan
Takashi Nishihara, the director of "Now and Then," in Tokyo on Wednesday. The director has spent 10 years traversing politically charged terrain while exploring youth-driven grassroots political movements that scrutinize the status quo.
Japanese nail salons are tourists’ new obsession
Tourists in Japan have always been interested in quintessentially Japanese approaches to modern culture, and, increasingly, visits to nail salons have become the new hot thing.
Okinawa’s prized seaweed under threat as oceans warm
Local harvesters gather <i>mozuku</i> during low tide at Hyakuna Beach in the city of Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture. As the planet warms, rising ocean temperatures are placing increasing pressure on the seaweed industry.
‘Defense,’ not ‘warfare,’ stressed as pacifist Japan beefs up capabilities
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi attends an annual training session near Mount Fuji at Higashifuji Training Field in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, on June 7.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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The Terasaka Rice Terraces are seen with Mount Buko in the background.
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