S Korean police summon Japanese woman for kissing BTS member without consent
[Japan Today] - 02/28/2025
South Korean police said Friday they are summoning a Japanese woman for questioning over allegedly kissing Jin, a member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, without consent during a free hug event…
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Floods hit eastern Australia; 200,000 properties blacked out
Torrential rain from the remnants of Cyclone Alfred flooded swathes of Australia's east coast on Monday, as workers (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
China strikes back at Trump tariffs with 15% levies targeting U.S. farmers
China on Monday retaliated against President Donald Trump's tariffs with an additional 15% tax on key American farm (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
North Korea fires ballistic missiles as South begins drills with U.S.
North Korea fired "multiple unidentified ballistic missiles" on Monday, South Korea's military said, the (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
South Africa's giant playwright Athol Fugard, whose searing works challenged apartheid, dies at 92
Athol Fugard, South Africa's foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
Arrested Palestinian Columbia student moved to Louisiana jail as lawyers fight deportation effort
The Palestinian student activist at New York's Columbia University detained as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
Japanese career-track bureaucrat applicants hit record low for FY2025
The number of applicants for this spring's Japanese career-track national civil service examinations for fiscal 2025 (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
Russia expels 2 British diplomats from embassy in Moscow over espionage claims
Russia said on Monday it was expelling two British diplomats based at the embassy in Moscow over spying allegations (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
Face-off
Stepping into the Society 5.0 exhibition at the Future City Pavilion inside the Osaka 2025 Expo venue, visitors are (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
Israel's halt to food and aid deliveries worsens Gaza conditions
Israel's suspension of goods entering Gaza is taking a toll on the Palestinian enclave, with some bakeries closing (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
Medics who treated soccer legend Maradona before his death go on trial for homicide
Seven members of the medical team that treated Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona before his death will go on (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
Japan auctions emergency rice reserves as prices soar
The Japanese government began a rare auction on Monday of its emergency rice stockpiles in a bid to help drive down (…)
[Japan Today] - 10/03/2025
