Akemi Terukina

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba responds to questions from the media after a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump, at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo on May 23, 2025. Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on May 23 that he had again pressed US President Donald Trump on tariffs, in a phone call ahead of fresh talks on easing the levies. (Photo by JIJI Press / AFP) / Japan OUT (Photo by STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump calls Japan’s Ishiba ahead of latest tariff talks

By Yoshiaki Nohara, Akemi Terukina, and others

computer illustration of bacteria

A rare flesh-eating bacteria that can kill people in 48 hours is spreading in Japan and could have a ‘terrifying’ mortality rate

By Akemi Terukina and Bloomberg