Japan
Fifth time lucky for Japan’s new prime minister
In a night of drama, Shigeru Ishiba managed to win his party’s and, consequently, his country’s leadership, negating Japan its first female PM.
- by Motoko Rich and Hisako Ueno
Latest
By modern standards it’s small, but this Japanese tanker is causing big shockwaves
Might the test ship Excool be a breakthrough in trapping and transporting gas emissions to places like Australia for storage underground?
- by Nick O'Malley
To surname or not to surname? That is the question dividing Japan
A law dating from the Meiji era is diving the country and may make the difference in who runs it.
- by Motoko Rich and Kiuko Notoya
World’s longest-serving death row inmate found not guilty
The 88-year-old former boxer was wrongly accused of a quadruple murder in 1966 with help from fabricated evidence.
- by Mari Yamaguchi
Biden caught saying China is ‘testing us’ in hot mic moment with Albanese
The president’s comments to Quad leaders are likely to raise eyebrows in China, which has been at odds with the US over everything from trade to spy balloons.
- by Farrah Tomazin
Analysis
China relations
After murder of Japanese boy in China, Xi Jinping’s nationalism faces reckoning
With unrest mounting over China’s economic slowdown, the government is now grappling with online hatred spilling over into real life violence.
Opinion
Hedge funds
Risk of flash crashes in markets is rising as Japan does its own thing
When the Federal Reserve Board cuts US interest rates this week, Japan’s will be the only major central bank moving in the other direction. That could lead to more turbulence.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
How scientists got wind of airborne germs at 3km altitude
Hundreds of different types of fungi and bacteria have been caught for the first time in the atmosphere and researchers think they know where they come from.
- by Carl Zimmer
Four reasons to visit this relatively unknown Tokyo neighbourhood
You might know Shinjuku, you’ve heard of Harajuku. But who travels here with the idea of calling through Jimbocho? Almost no one.
- by Ben Groundwater
Biden preparing to block Nippon Steel $22 billion takeover of US Steel
The deal would have created the third-largest global steelmaker in a bid to compete with Chinese rivals on the global stage.
- by Josh Wingrove
This country had ‘free’ mortgages. Now it’s coming to an end
For years, mortgages in Japan have been nearly cost-free. Homeowners are now bracing for that to change as Japan’s central bank has announced an end to the era of zero interest rates.
- by River Akira Davis and Kiuko Notoya
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