月: 2025年9月

1. Japan’s transport safety authority is looking into whether a false alarm caused a United Airlines plane to make an emergency landing last week. The US carrier’s Boeing 737 took off from Narita Airport near Tokyo and was heading for Cebu in the Philippines when the cockpit received a warning indicating a fire in the cargo hold. The plane made an emergency landing at Kansai International Airport in Osaka. Five passengers sustained minor injuries during evacuation.
2. The US will lower tariffs on cars imported from Japan to 15 percent starting on Tuesday. The US Commerce Department released a document on the change on Monday. The new rate was calculated by halving the current 25 percent tariff to 12.5 percent, and adding the existing 2.5 percent levy. The reduced amount matchers the baseline rate that will be applied to most other goods from Japan.
3. A traditional sumo dance dedicated to Shinto gods was performed at Suwa Taisha shrine in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan. Local residents stage the dance every year on September 15 at the shrine’s Kamisha site. On Monday, 11 men in their 20s through 40s sang a traditional sumo song and danced in the courtyard outside the Honmiya worship hall.

1. A hot spring in western Japan is marking Respect For the Aged Day on September 15 by floating wood boards in the baths that bear messages from children to seniors. The boards are about 9 centimeters in diameter. Ones with messages such as “stay fit forever” were put in the men’s open-air bath. Bathers were reading them, while taking in the aroma of cypress.
2. Senior government officials from the United States and China have begun a new round of trade talks in Spain with a focus on the sale of Tik Tok’s American operations. In previous rounds, the US and China slashed additional tariffs that they had imposed on each other, and suspended some of the tariffs until November while they continue talks.
3. A large-scale anti-immigration protest took place in London on Saturday, capping more than a week of demonstrations across Britain. According to British media, over 30,000 asylum seekers were being housed in around 200 hotels in England and Wales as of the end of March. Tensions escalated in July after an Ethiopian asylum seeker staying at a hotel in Essex, southeast England, was charged with sexual assault and other offences.

1. Japan’s Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru and Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro have pledged to further develop economic relations between the two countries.
2. Japan says it has compiled a joint statement on foreign exchange policy with the United States. It follows the signing of a document on US tariffs by the two countries. Japanese Finance Minister Kato Katsunobu announced on Friday that he and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reaffirmed that exchange rates should be determined by markets.
3. Brazil’s Supreme Court has sentenced former President Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison for plotting a coup to overturn the results of the 2022 presidential election.

1. A conservative political activist and influential ally of US President Donald Trump has been shot dead in the western state of Utah. Charlie Kirk was attending an event on a university campus when he was shot by an unidentified attacker at around noon on Wednesday. Kirk was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
2. A former economic security minister of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Kobayashi Takayuki, has announced that he will run in the LDP’s leadership election. The race comes after Japan’s prime minister announced his decision to resign. Kobayashi held a policy study session on Thursday afternoon to exchange views on the party’s presidential election.
3. Atmospheric conditions have become extremely unstable in wide areas due mainly to an autumn rain front, bringing heavy rain to western Japan and the Kanto-Koshin region. Downpours also fell in Tokyo.

1. One person was confirmed dead on Tuesday in the wake of the intense tornado that struck central Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture last week. More than 1,800 houses were damaged. Some were flooded by rain from the tropical storm that approached last Friday. Gusty winds and heavy rain were reported across a large swath of the prefecture.
2. The International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran have agreed on “practical modalities” for resuming inspections of nuclear facilities in the country. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met I Egypt on Tuesday.
3. French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed the former defense minister, Sebastien Lecornu, as the new prime minister following the resignation of the Cabinet. The previous prime minister, Francois Bayrou, and his Cabinet stepped down after he lost a confidence vote in the lower house of parliament.

1. Japan’s main ruling Liberal Democratic Party will hold its leadership election with voting open to both Diet lawmakers and rank-and-file members across the nation. The LDP’s General Council decided on this format on Tuesday. Calls had been raised within the party for the views of all members to be heard in order to revive the LDP.
2. Japan’s opposition parties have agreed to demand that an extraordinary session of the Diet be convened soon to avoid creating a political vacuum after Prime Minister and current LDP President Ishiba Shigeru announced his decision to step down as party president. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is arranging a party leadership election to choose a new party president.
3. A research institute in Japan says the number of people infected so far this year with a disease transmitted mainly by ticks has reached a record high. Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome, or SFTS, can cause a reduction in blood platelets, hemorrhaging or unconsciousness. The health ministry says from 10 percent to 30 percent of cases are fatal.

1. Japan’s Prince Hisahito, the son of Crown Prince and Princess Akishino and the second in line to the throne, has visited Ise Jingu shrine in central Japan. He went to the shrine in Mie Prefecture on Monday to report that he had completed his coming-of-age ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday.
2. Revised government data show Japan’s economy grew faster than initially estimated in the April-June quarter, thanks mainly to brisk private consumption. The Cabinet Office says inflation-adjusted gross domestic product rose 2.2 percent in annualized terms in the period, up from a preliminary reading of 1.0 percent. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, real GDP grew a revised 0.5 percent.
3. Japan’s main ruling Liberal Democratic Party plans to discuss how to choose its new leader after Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru announced his decision to step down. Former LDP Secretary-General Motegi Toshimitsu has announced to run in the leadership race. Ishiba said sat Sunday’s news conference he thought now is the right time for him to step aside as negotiations on US tariff measures have achieved a significant step, and it is time to pass the baton to his successor.

September 5, Friday, 2025
1. US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to implement a trade deal with Japan that includes import tariffs. Japan’s trade negotiator Akazawa Ryosei and US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick signed documents the same day to formalize the agreement.
2. Washington D.C. has filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump’s administration over the deployment of National Guard Troops in the district.
3. Twenty-six countries have pledged to send troops to Ukraine as a “reassurance force” after the fighting with Russia is finished.

1. Japanese weather officials say a tropical storm is moving north over waters south of the Kyushu region and bringing intermittent heavy rain as it approaches southern Kyushu. Tropical Storm Peipah is expected to travel along the Pacific coast in western and eastern Japan through Friday. Rainfall may accumulate mainly in areas along the Pacific, raising the risk of mudslides and flooding in low-lying areas.
2. Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has welcomed the recent moves by Armenia and Azelbaijan to end conflict and achieve peace. Ishiba met with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan for about 40 minutes in Tokyo on Thursday. The meeting comes after Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a joint declaration for peace last month that was brokered by US President Donald Trump.
3. Police in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, have admitted mistakes in dealing with a stalking case that led to the murder of a 20-year-old woman. The Kanagawa Prefectural Police on Thursday released a report on its review of how officers responded to the complaints from the woman that she was being stalked. The report says the police systems for handling stalking cases had become a mere formality and failed to function.

1. Officials in Hokkaido, northern Japan, have called for a halt to the construction of a major solar-power generation project near the country’s biggest wetland. Prefectural officials notified the Osaka-based developer on Tuesday. They cited its failure to obtain approval from the governor of Hokkaido before starting the work.
2. The price of gold has reached record highs in Japan as investors turn to the precious metal amid speculation that the US Federal Reserve will soon cut interest rates. Gold futures for delivery in August 2026 reached an all-time high of 16,785 yen, or roughly 112 dollars, per gram at the Osaka Exchange on Tuesday.
3. Major mobile phone carriers in Japan are raising their basic fees to cover soaring electricity costs and other expenses, but they are also providing users with additional services at the same time.