Japanese authorities likely refrained from intervening in the currency market on Thursday, the first business day of this week, after multiple apparent actions during the long holiday weekend, according to a Bloomberg analysis of central bank accounts.

Unveiled in February, “Stealth House” is Japan’s first 3D-printed two-story home. Building-tech startup Kizuki collaborated with more than 20 companies, including ONOCOM to create the home, which meets strict building codes for seismic design in a country where earthquakes are common.

Neither China nor Japan wants war. The danger is that each side increasingly believes the other is preparing for one.

Japan's largest anti-war protests in decades highlight a population divided over changes to its pacifist constitution.

The approval clears a final set of hurdles for Japan's postwar arms sales and facilitate its future sale of weapons such as a next-generation fighter jet and combat drones.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have agreed to deepen cooperation in areas including energy security, defense and critical minerals as the Iran war threatens global supply chains.

Japan’s historic relaxation of its defense export restrictions opens the door for its defense industry to expand globally. Still, success will require a sustained whole-of-government effort in collaboration with firms.

Step back to the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, and then forward to a U.S. Navy whose heritage remains true to that infamous day.

In recent years, speculation among analysts, experts, and scholars that America’s two key allies in the Indo-Pacific could finally pursue nuclear weapons has intensified. The eminent diplomat Henry Kissinger predicted in 2023 that Japan would go nuclear within the decade.

Japan’s Mogami and Britain’s Type 31 are the top two contenders, but Australia may have already tipped the scales.