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EDITORIAL: With AI getting scarier, the need for global safety standards rises | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (57+ words) September 9, 2026 at 16:16 JST The race to develop cutting-edge artificial intelligence has entered a new stage and prompted a higher level of worry. [Read More] Team uses AI to study colors seen when black-and-white top is spun Fire destroys shopping street…...
Japan concealed U.S. admission to likely PFAS link in Okinawa | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
4+ day, 38+ min ago (484+ words) By TAKASHI WATANABE/ Staff Writer September 9, 2026 at 14:31 JST Firefighting foam leaks from the U.S. Kadena Air Base in 2013. (From the Jon Mitchell Collection at the Okinawa International University Library) The Japanese government concealed the U.S. military’s acknowledgement in 2023 that two of its…...
VOX POPULI: ‘Chairman Mao’ still towers over China 50 years after his death | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (564+ words) September 9, 2026 at 13:16 JST In China, people call Mao Zedong (1893-1976) “Mao Zhuxi,” or “Chairman Mao.” Mao, who led his country’s communist revolution, was once chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party; chairman of the Political Bureau, or Politburo;…...
EDITORIAL: Government must not lose sight of original mission of ODA | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (685+ words) September 7, 2026 at 15:12 JST A Japanese official hands over ships to the Fiji coast guard provided under the Official Security Assistance framework. (Provided by Foreign Ministry) The government has clearly laid out its stance of strategically utilizing official development assistance to…...
Off-season in Hokkaido offers a ‘sea of clouds’ at ski resort | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (612+ words) By TAKEO KATO/ Staff Writer September 6, 2026 at 07:00 JST SHIMUKAPPU, Hokkaido—What began as a trial project created by maintenance staff 21 years ago to let nature’s glory speak for itself remains a tourism lodestar for a ski resort here during the…...
VOX POPULI: Syed Omar died 81 years ago as a hibakusha far from home | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
1+ week, 3+ day ago (453+ words) September 3, 2026 at 13:18 JST A 19-year-old man died on Sept. 3 exactly 81 years ago. His name was Syed Omar. Hailing from Malaya (present-day Malaysia), he arrived in Japan in 1943 as one of the 205 so-called “Nanpo Tokubetsu Ryugakusei” (Southern Special Students)—young men…...
EDITORIAL: Now is the time for Koike to show the will to face up to the bitter past | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
1+ week, 3+ day ago (642+ words) September 2, 2026 at 15:11 JST Participants pray on Sept. 1 at a Tokyo park for the Koreans who were killed in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. (Ryosuke Yamamoto) This is an age in which, on one hand, groundless information and lies…...
Taiwan's chip prowess is built on democracy and rule of law | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
1+ week, 4+ day ago (577+ words) September 2, 2026 at 11:05 JST Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te delivers a speech during the Taiwan-EU Semiconductor Forum held on the sidelines of the SEMICON Taiwan exhibition in Taipei on Sept. 1. (Reuters) TAIPEI—Taiwan’s semiconductor prowess is built on the foundations of democracy…...
Workers from Myanmar speak on daily abuse at Hokkaido farm | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
2+ week, 5+ day ago (460+ words) By YUTO OTA/ Staff Writer August 24, 2026 at 16:45 JST Six Myanmar farm workers speak to reporters in Sapporo on Aug. 21. (Yuto Ota) SAPPORO—Six Myanmar nationals gave a tearful account here of the daily physical abuse they endured on a farm…...
Netizens slam professor calling gig work ‘welfare’ | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
2+ week, 5+ day ago (537+ words) August 24, 2026 at 16:25 JST HONG KONG—The term “flexible employment” has gone viral in China after a prominent economics professor described gig work as a form of “welfare,” drawing widespread public anger and highlighting deep anxieties over job insecurity. Zhang Dandan,…...