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Pope Leo XIV prays at the Tomb of Saint Francis in Assisi, Italy, last month. The Vatican is pushing a global conversation on how AI can uphold human dignity and serve the common good. 
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 2, 2025
The Vatican’s voice of reason on artificial intelligence
The Vatican is pushing a global conversation on how AI can uphold human dignity and serve the common good, echoing the Church’s historic responses to past technological upheavals.
A rare earths processing plant in Dingnan County, Ganzhou, in eastern China's Jiangxi province on Nov. 20. The U.S. is looking to cut its dependence on China.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 2, 2025
U.S. moves to deepen minerals supply chain in AI race with China
The initiative, which builds on efforts dating back to the first administration of President Donald Trump, unfolds as the U.S. looks to cut its dependence on China.
A leaflet made by the Metropolitan Police Department explains its Digi Police crime prevention app.
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2025
Tokyo police app blocks incoming international calls to help combat fraud
When the new feature is enabled, the app automatically blocks international calls and calls from numbers Tokyo police know have been used for fraud.
An aerial view of an Amazon Web Services Data Center known as U.S. East 1 in Ashburn, Virginia, on Oct. 20
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 1, 2025
Keeping cool: Heat a key challenge for data centers and AI
An outage at the world’s biggest exchange operator, CME Group, has put a spotlight on data centers overheating.
Yumi Matsutoya began her decades-long career under her maiden name, Yumi Arai, but Japanese fans might know her better as “Yuming.”
CULTURE / Music / Longform
Dec 1, 2025
Yumi Matsutoya’s human touch in an AI age
Even as she experiments with AI, Yumi Matsutoya returns to the craft, memories and instincts that shaped her long career.
Employees work on the assembly line for the Land Aircraft Carrier electric flying car at a factory of Xpeng's subsidiary Aridge in Guangzhou, China, on Nov. 6.
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Nov 30, 2025
Electric vehicle prowess helps China’s flying car sector take off
Chinese companies are building on rapid development of drones and EVs while harnessing government support for the futuristic inventions.
Signage at the Micron Technology booth at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai is seen on Nov. 6.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 29, 2025
Micron to invest $9.6 billion in western Japan plant, report says
Micron will build the facility within the compound of its Hiroshima plant, starting in May, with plans to launch high-bandwidth memory chips shipments around 2028.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government plans to adopt a new cybersecurity strategy next month that calls for needed measures to address foreign threats such as election interference.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 29, 2025
Japan to seek steps on foreign threats in new cybersecurity strategy
The new strategy will set out policy goals for the next five years for a longer-term perspective.
A 10-year-old girl watches a show on YouTube at her home in western Sydney on Oct. 30.
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Nov 29, 2025
Driven by TikTok trends, new beauty brands target children
A growing number of companies are targeting a new generation of kids who have grown up with TikTok skin care and make-up routines.
Art Week Tokyo featured a live performance of Keiichiro Shibuya’s “Android Opera Mirror — Deconstruction and Rebirth —,” starring an advanced humanoid robot.
CULTURE / Art
Nov 28, 2025
Is human-machine collaboration the future of fine art?
At this year’s Art Week Tokyo, AI emerged as a major and incredibly nuanced theme among participating artists.
The Pentagon concluded that Alibaba, among others, should be added to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military.
WORLD
Nov 27, 2025
Pentagon cited Alibaba on China military aid in Oct. 7 letter
The letter was sent to Congress roughly three weeks before the U.S. and China agreed to a broad trade truce.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s fabrication plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Under a possible new arrangement, Taiwanese companies, including TSMC, would send new capital and workers to expand their U.S. operations and train U.S. workers.
BUSINESS
Nov 26, 2025
Trump team negotiating Taiwan deal that could train U.S. workers, sources say
Trump has previously said some skilled foreign workers may be necessary to train Americans in state-of-the-art factories.
SoftBank Group said it is issuing a yen-denominated bond at an annual coupon of 3.98%.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 26, 2025
SoftBank ¥500 billion bond coupon highest in more than a decade
The rate on the unsecured seven-year note was set near the upper end of the previously announced range of between 3.5% and 4.1%, according to a term sheet from the company.
Rapidus is planning to build a second plant in Hokkaido to produce next-generation microchips, according to local media reports.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 26, 2025
Rapidus plans second cutting-edge chip plant: reports
The aim is to produce next-generation 1.4-nanometer microchips as soon as 2029, the reports said.
A driver takes his hands off the wheel of an Isuzu self-driving truck during a test run in Mukawa, Hokkaido, on Nov. 18.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 26, 2025
Japan accelerates self-driving truck tests
They are aiming to attain Level 4 autonomous driving, or driving without human intervention under certain conditions.
Employees work on laptops in the Moore Kingston Smith office in London on Nov. 13.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 25, 2025
From two weeks to two hours: How AI might reboot Britain’s economy
AI’s rollout is raising hopes that Britain can escape the productivity problem that has dogged it for two decades, even as slow growth pushes the country toward tax hikes.
The AI frenzy that’s gripped global equity markets for months is getting a fresh look from investors, as focus shifts to finding stocks that can drive the next leg of the sector’s rally or at least withstand future selloffs.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 25, 2025
China’s AI promise lures top Asia fund away from South Korea and Taiwan
The AI frenzy that’s gripped global equity markets for months is getting a fresh look from investors.
Malaysian Communication Minister Fahmi Fadzil speaks during an interview in Kuala Lumpur in 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 24, 2025
Malaysia says it plans to ban social media for users under 16 from 2026
Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil cited a need to protect youths from online harms such as cyberbullying, financial scams, and child sexual abuse.
A truck waits outside of the gate of Nexperia factory amid a shortage of chip supply caused by the diplomatic standoff between China and the Netherlands over the company, in Dongguan, Guangdong province, China, on Nov. 7.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 24, 2025
How the Nexperia chip crisis upended auto supply chains — again
A factory in China’s industrial south has become a global choke point for automotive chips, upending a sector that swore it wouldn’t be caught again by supply-chain disruptions.
A flooded road in London on Nov. 7. Private companies are filling the void as the U.S. government slashes science spending amid rising demand for data on extreme weather and other climate change-related risks.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 24, 2025
U.S. government pullback from climate science fuels boom for private data firms
The private data boom is also raising questions around accuracy and access for those unable to pay.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men’s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
Japanese-language education is at a turning point
The country is gradually transforming Japanese-language education from a volunteer-driven system into a professional, government-supported network to better serve its growing foreign population. 
Six of the best: rikishi of note in each sumo division
Kazuma (right) faces off against future <i>yokozuna</i> Onosato during the All Japan Amateur Sumo Championships at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in December 2020.
Some startups see opportunity in an aging Japan
Yasmin Baba, CTO of Amilis, wins the Grand Prize at the Pitch2Tokyo Grand Final on Feb. 19.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.

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