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A former University of Tokyo professor was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for three years, and fined about ?1.83 million for accepting lavish entertainment in exchange for favoring a cosmetics industry group in a joint research project.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 23, 2026
Ex-University of Tokyo professor gets suspended sentence over bribes
According to the ruling, the 63-year-old former professor, Shinichi Sato, received a total of about ?1.83 million worth of entertainment.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at Memphis Air National Guard Base in Tennessee on March 23.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 14, 2026
CFTC staff were told to retract analysis of suspicious oil trades
As the Iran conflict deepened, examples multiplied of large, markedly well-timed trading in futures and prediction markets.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD
Oct 14, 2026
In Trump’s pardons for public officials, Republicans win most of the mercy
Experts say U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated acts of clemency for corruption give impunity to people meant to uphold the public trust.
Bid-rigging cases were found for repair work contracts for 171 condominium buildings in Tokyo and six prefectures around the capital.
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2026
42 Japanese firms engaged in bid-rigging over condo repair work
The Japan Fair Trade Commission imposed fines totaling about ?1.6 billion on 37 of the firms.
Chinese President Xi Jinping during a military parade in Beijing in September of last year.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 23, 2026
China’s purges of top military commanders spur questions about war-waging ability
The crackdown is likely to have strengthened Xi Jinping’s grip on an institution that is a key source of power for the Communist Party, analysts say.
Gen. Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission, has been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and the military, according to an official announcement on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 22, 2026
China expels two top generals from party and military, alleging disloyalty
Zhang Youxia, the vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, and Liu Zhenli, a member of the commission, were also accused of corruption.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter Ju Ae attend a commissioning ceremony for the destroyer Kang Kon at Wonsan Port in North Korea's Kangwon Province on Sept. 6.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 20, 2026
The hidden human cost of Kim Jong Un’s newfound power
Kim’s position rests on the brutal exploitation of his own people, from coal miners to diplomats, at home and abroad.
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak speaks to journalists outside the Federal Court in Putrajaya, Malaysia, in August 2022.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 18, 2026
Najib wins house arrest in Malaysia’s 1MDB corruption case
The pardon, however, is conditional upon former Prime Minister Najib Razak paying a 50 million ringgit ($12.3 million) fine.
Tokyo-based company Same Two has been fined ?150 million for bid-rigging related to the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2021.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 16, 2026
Ex-event firm chief guilty over Tokyo Games bid-rigging
All six companies charged over Tokyo Games bid-rigging were found guilty at the Tokyo District Court.
Britain's Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage arrives to deliver closing remarks at the party conference in Birmingham, England, on Sept. 5.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 10, 2026
U.K. police probe Farage’s Reform over donation allegations
Channel 4 News aired a report last week showing Reform officials appearing to discuss how to circumvent electoral law to accept foreign donations.
East Japan Usami and Kyoei Sekiyu of Tokyo, Eneos Wing of Nagoya, Enex Fleet of Osaka and Kitaseki of Miyagi Prefecture are suspected of violating the antimonopoly law.
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2026
Five Japanese oil distributors admit to forming price cartel
East Japan Usami and Kyoei Sekiyu of Tokyo, Eneos Wing of Nagoya, Enex Fleet of Osaka and Kitaseki of Miyagi Prefecture are suspected of violating the antimonopoly law.
U.S. President Donald Trump converses with Vice President JD Vance at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington in February.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2026
Trump’s expansion of executive privilege would invite more corruption
The Trump administration’s latest assertions about executive privilege — that it protects the confidentiality of a president’s communication with private advisers who aren’t part of the government — are like too much else in this White House: politically unprecedented, legally wrong and morally...
Isao Kurauchi, head of the Fukuoka Prefecture Assembly at the center of a bribery scandal, announced Monday his intention to resign as a member of the assembly.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 25, 2026
LDP worried over impact of Fukuoka Assembly bribery scandal on elections
The LDP’s headquarters has attempted to distance itself from the scandal ahead of local elections next year.
U.S. President Donald Trump shows off an image of his planned ballroom at the White House on May 19.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 24, 2026
Big business bought political influence. The bill is now due.
Corporate leaders’ attempts to buy political access under Trump could leave businesses exposed to public backlash and future administrations.
Fukuoka Prefectural Assembly head Isao Kurauchi speaks to reporters in the city of Fukuoka on Aug. 5.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 24, 2026
Fukuoka Prefectural Assembly head Kurauchi to resign as assembly member
His announcement came amid a money scandal that has rocked the legislative body.
Members of Electricity Action Campaign and Unite Behind, angered over energy policy and corruption, demonstrate outside South Africa's Parliament in Cape Town in April 2023.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 18, 2026
Africa’s energy curse is a political choice
Every barrel of oil shipped from an African port to a European or Chinese terminal is a barrel not converted into kilowatts for an African household.
Last month, Truth Social announced it would sell faster access to U.S. President Donald Trump’s market-moving posts via a service called Truth API, which costs $60,000 to $100,000 a month.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 13, 2026
U.S. president sued over plan to sell faster access to his posts on Truth Social
Two media organizations have argued that the First Amendment guarantees equal access to a president’s public pronouncements and doesn’t permit early access to be sold.
Chinese President Xi Jinping might secure a precedent-defying fourth term during next autumn’s Chinese Communist Party leadership congress.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 13, 2026
Xi’s secretive graft purges spawn underground market for leaks
The groups are flourishing a year before the leadership congress where Xi could secure a precedent-defying fourth term.
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani attends the 51st Gems and Jewellery Awards in Jaipur, India, on Nov. 30, 2024.
BUSINESS
Aug 11, 2026
Gautam Adani wins dismissal of U.S. securities fraud charges
The U.S. alleged Adani was part of a scheme to pay more than $250 million in bribes to lock in solar energy contracts — allegations Adani consistently denied.
A graffiti demanding then-Gov. Angel Aguirre’s resignation in El Zocalo square in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico, in 2014. The Mexican public prosecutor’s office announced on Thursday the arrest of the former governor.
WORLD
Aug 7, 2026
Ex-Mexican governor held for allegedly destroying evidence tied to 43 missing students
The case, considered one of the country’s worst human-rights atrocities, has been marred by missteps ?and interference.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
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Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
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Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
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Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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