Tag - u.s.

 
 

U.S.

Scientists use a raft inside the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector located about 1 kilometer under Mount Ikeno near the city of Hida, Gifu Prefecture, in this undated image obtained on Wednesday
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 28, 2025
Researchers in U.S. and Japan offer insight into ghostly neutrinos
The new study is providing insight into the difference in mass between neutrino types, a key unanswered question.
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on next to people waving Malaysian national flags before he departs from Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Monday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 28, 2025
Trump’s new trade deals give U.S. an edge over Southeast Asia
The pacts give Trump some clear wins, such as the removal of many tariff and nontariff barriers on U.S. exports into those countries.
A Ford F-150 pickup truck
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2025
Trump’s ‘hot truck’ becomes symbol of Japan trade talks
When Trump met Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo on Tuesday, an F-150 was parked prominently outside the Akasaka Palace venue.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi raises her fist as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech in front of U.S. Navy personnel on board the U.S. Navy's USS George Washington aircraft carrier at the American naval base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 28, 2025
At first summit with Trump, Takaichi pledges ‘new golden age’ for alliance
The meeting was a crucial test of Takaichi’s diplomatic chops as she seeks to elevate the Japan-U.S. alliance while staving off pressure from the U.S. on defense spending.
Annealed neodymium iron boron magnets in a barrel at a factory in China
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2025
Rare-earth producers look to U.S.-led boom to blunt China’s power
U.S. companies are working to expand supplies of the tiny but vital industrial components at the heart of a global trade showdown.
Some Bank of Japan policy board members have started to dissent from the wait-and-see approach of their colleagues.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 28, 2025
Bank of Japan expected to sit this one out and keep benchmark rate at 0.5%
Even though inflation remains high, so too does uncertainty.
Katsuhiko Ushikubo, chief investment officer of Norinchukin Bank, ahead of an interview at the Bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Monday
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 28, 2025
Norinchukin still ready to invest in credit despite losses
Chief Investment Officer Katsuhiko Ushikubo is in charge of the bank’s efforts to repair its ¥40.7 trillion portfolio after losses on foreign bonds last fiscal year.
The U.S. government is partnering with Advanced Micro Devices to build two supercomputers that will tackle large scientific problems ranging from nuclear power to cancer treatments to national security.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 28, 2025
U.S. Department of Energy forms $1B supercomputer and AI partnership with AMD
The U.S. is building two supercomputers to run increasingly complex experiments that require harnessing enormous amounts of data-crunching capability.
An FAA air traffic control tower at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia on Oct. 24
WORLD / Society
Oct 28, 2025
Thousands of U.S. flights delayed as government shutdown halts paychecks
Roughly 13,000 air traffic controllers and 50,000 Transportation Security Administration officers must work without pay amid a government shutdown.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim as he walks from Air Force One upon arrival at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 28, 2025
Anwar turns Malaysia into stage for dealmaking with Trump’s help
Local media largely portrayed Anwar’s hosting of the ASEAN summit as a showcase of Malaysia’s diplomatic resurgence, calling it a moment of renewed regional leadership.
The Port of Nansha in Guangzhou, China
BUSINESS
Oct 28, 2025
Latest U.S.-China trade truce leaves fundamental issues unresolved
U.S. President Donald Trump, on a weeklong trip to Asia, said on Monday that he felt good about reaching a deal with China.
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama briefs reporters after her first in-person meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday night.
BUSINESS
Oct 27, 2025
U.S. and Japan finance chiefs hold first meet as Nikkei passes 50,000 mark
Bessent also exchanged views with Katayama on the $550 billion investment Japan pledged to the U.S.
An F/A-18F Super Hornet
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 27, 2025
U.S. Navy helicopter and fighter jet in separate South China Sea crashes
A Sea Hawk helicopter went down about 2:45 p.m. on Sunday “while conducting routine operations from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz,” the U.S. Navy said.
U.S. President Donald Trump is welcomed by Emperor Naruhito upon his arrival at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Monday evening.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 27, 2025
Trump arrives in Japan for security and trade talks in test for Takaichi
The prime minister will be seeking to build a solid relationship with the U.S. president as she looks to navigate increasing pressure on trade and defense issues.
The U.S.-China economic confrontation under Donald Trump's leadership is marked by chaos, a lack of strategy and internal divisions within U.S. circles, raising critical questions about the future of global diplomacy and trade.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2025
The U.S. has no China policy, no strategy and no clue
But tariffs were just the overture, as Washington and Beijing, tit-for-tat, started going after each other in every other way.
An electronic signboard in Tokyo shows the benchmark Nikkei 225 index above 50,000.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 27, 2025
Nikkei 225 breaks 50,000 for first time ever on trade and rate optimism
The rally comes after China and the United States reached a framework trade agreement.
An Apollo Go vehicle in Dubai
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 27, 2025
Chinese robotaxis race Waymo to take driverless cars global
The dominant EV industry China has built for decades gives its autonomous-vehicle companies a potential advantage over U.S. hopefuls.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, meet at the Kremlin in Moscow in July 2017.  Since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the West — especially Europe — has come to see China not just as an economic competitor but as a hard security challenge.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2025
China and Russia do not pose the same hard security threat to Europe
Prior to 2022, China was primarily considered an economic threat, or at most a “soft” security issue.
U.S. President Donald Trump disembarks Air Force One at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia, on Sunday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 27, 2025
U.S. and China tee up sweeping trade deal for Trump and Xi to finish
After talks wrapped up Sunday in Malaysia, an official said there is preliminary consensus on topics like export controls, fentanyl and shipping levies.
U.S. Marines at Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture demonstrate the Typhon ground-launched missile system in September. Capable of launching land-based Tomahawks, it has already been deployed in global exercises, proving that the technical challenges often cited as an excuse to withhold Tomahawks from Ukraine are unfounded.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2025
Sanctions or Tomahawks? Only credible threats will convince Putin.
A lack of resolve and realism in the West has encouraged Putin to believe he need only wait until Ukraine’s backers fail it and he’ll be able to achieve his maximalist goals.

Longform

The Terasaka Rice Terraces are seen with Mount Buko in the background.
What Yokoze can teach Japan about rural revival