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Yu, 13, wins record-breaking first major gold medal

China’s Yu Zidi, 13, wins a record‑breaking 200m women’s butterfly gold at the Asian Games in Tokyo.

BBC20 Sept

Your AI doomsday questions answered: ‘What, if anything, can people like me do about it?’

After a week of alarming warnings about artificial intelligence’s potential to destroy the world as we know it, our technology reporters Aisha Down , Blake Montgomery and Dan Milmo answer your questions on the reality of the AI threat In realistic terms how would artificial intelligence actually kill me? What is the main proxy threat? Nuclear war, death due to breakdown of society, a virus? I hear all these reports it could kill us but still unsure how that could practically happen? To be honest all sounds too wooly to really take seriously. Pottys99 Aisha: For what it’s worth, it seems unlikely that AI at this point can significantly change the equation around bioweapons or viruses … What has prevented bioweapon attacks through the past decades is not the difficulty of inventing new deadly viruses, but other, more prosaic issues. Consider the failure of Aum Shinrikyo to kill vast numbers of people with botulism and anthrax by spraying these around central Tokyo. There are a lot of logistical challenges, and chemical weapons seem more straightforward. Those exist without AI needing to invent new ones. Continue reading...

The Guardian•Aisha Down, Blake Montgomery and Dan Milmo19 Sept

Starlux Airlines First Class On A Short Haul, Intra-Asia Flight: How Good Is It?

After a transpacific flight in Starlux first class, I tried the airline's short intra-Asia first class from Taipei to Tokyo. Here's how the two compared.

One Mile at a Time•Ben Schlappig19 Sept

• neutral toward Starlux Airlines · 95%

EBiDAN’s ‘Yes! Tokyo’ Logs Third Week at No. 1 on Japan Hot 100 as Aimyon’s ‘Marigold’ Returns to Top 10 After Six Years

SixTONES' "Dance Forever" is at No. 2.

Billboard•Katie Atkinson18 Sept

Japan tests mobile robotic rubbish bins at Shinjuku Station

Japan's busiest railway station is testing mobile robotic rubbish bins in Tokyo, with the aim of easing the workload of sanitation workers.

Euronews18 Sept

USD/PY Consolidates; Bullish Momentum Remains

USD/JPY OANDA:USDJPY snapped a three-day winning streak and pared some of Wednesday's gains, consolidating around the psychological 156.00 level throughout the Asian trading session on Thursday, September 17, 2026. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ✅ BoJ vs. Fed Monetary Policy: BoJ Rate Hike to 1.25% Tomorrow (31-Year High) vs. Fed's Hawkish Dot Plot The foreign exchange market stands on the brink of a historic monetary policy decision from Tokyo: - ⚡Certainty of BoJ Rate Hike Tomorrow (+25 bps to 1.25%): The Bank of Japan is widely expected to raise its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points (bps) to 1.25% at tomorrow's policy meeting. Markets have also priced in the probability of a further hike in December due to persistent domestic energy inflation pressures. - ⚡USD Strengthening Post-Fed Decision: The Fed's FOMC unanimously raised the benchmark rate by 25 bps on Wednesday night and signaled one additional hike this year via the Dot Plot chart. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh highlighted persistent inflation, propelling the US Dollar (DXY) to its highest level since late July. - ⚡US Bond Sector: The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note is hovering near the 5.0% threshold (a high not seen since April 2007), preventing a sharp slide in USD/JPY ahead of the BoJ announcement. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ✅ Price Action Analysis (H4 Timeframe) The H4 structure reveals a significant recovery in bullish momentum following the massive vertical drop from the Higher High (HH) peak around 160.294. The decline was precisely halted at the floor of the Major Demand Zone (the lowest gray box: 152.875 – 153.500), forming a bottoming pattern followed by a series of bullish candles with substantial bodies. At the 156.024 price level, the most recent H4 candle shows consolidation near the latest local peak (156.279). A micro "Break of Structure" (BOS) is visible above the 155.248 green line; the area that previously acted as "Support Become Resistance" (SBR) has now transformed into a strong Support level. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ✅ Key Zones: - ⚡Resistance / Supply Zone: The 156.300 – 156.600 range (middle gray box / nearest Supply Zone) and the 158.059 green line level (upper limit of the Major Supply Zone). - ⚡Support / Demand Zone: The 155.248 green line level (lower-middle gray box / local SBR & Demand area) and the 152.875 green line level (lowest gray box / Major Demand Zone). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ✅ Elliott Wave Analysis Mapping wave cycle movements on the H4 timeframe: ⚡Wave Structure: The impulsive rally from the 152.875 floor to 156.279 is calculated as the impulsive expansion of Wave 1 (or a macro Wave A). ⚡Current Status: The mild consolidation near 156.024 is currently identified as the initial formation of a minor Wave 2 (Corrective Wave) or a sub-wave consolidation prior to the launch of the main expansion. ⚡Projection: Price action is projected to complete this minor consolidation above the 155.248 green line before launching an impulsive Wave 3 push—breaking through the 156.500 resistance and traversing the LVN zone—to target the 158.059 green line.

• favorable toward USD · 86%

‘Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo’ Review: Takashi Miike Brings Trouble To Tokyo In A Funny Riff On Abel Ferrara’s Corrupt Cop Drama – Toronto Film Festival

Takashi Miike took to the stage at the world premiere of his new film Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo like a rock star. “I’m Miike” he roared. “I’m back!” Which is immediately funny, because he’s never, ever really been away; arguably the hardest-working man in show business, Miike is never very far from a movie camera. Produced […]

Deadline•Damon Wise16 Sept

‘Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo’ Review: Takashi Miike’s Loose Remake is a Complete Nonstarter

The second re-imagining of “Bad Lieutenant” — Abel Ferrara’s 1992 neo-noir starring Harvey Keitel — Takashi Miike’s baffling “Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo” borrows the broad strokes of the original, but tells its own Yakuza-centric story that never fully gets going. Its stop-start approach sees numerous characters and subplots introduced before existing ones can be resolved, or […]

Variety•Siddhant Adlakha16 Sept

Whisper of the Heart review – Studio Ghibli deep cut is pep talk on how to live the artistic life

Hayao Miyazaki-scripted 90s teen romance sees an aspiring writer drawn to a potential soulmate thanks to library books and a curmudgeonly cat While 2013’s The Wind Rises and 2023’s The Boy and the Heron saw Hayao Miyazaki break his wizard’s staff, artistically speaking, this lesser-known Studio Ghibli cut from 1995, based on his screenplay, shows he was dwelling on creative responsibilities from early on. Featuring a typical Ghibli protagonist on the brink of adulthood – aspiring schoolkid writer Shizuku (voiced by Yōko Honna) – this teen romance doubles up as an earnest pep talk on how to commit to the artistic life. It’s not quite as sophisticated, though, in its understanding of the interplay between imagination and reality as Miyazaki’s later masterpieces. It also features highly inventive use of that 2010s soundtrack favourite: John Denver’s Take Me Home, Country Roads . Shizuku shows off her fledgling penmanship for a school performance of the song devising hilarious Japanese lyrics that satirise Tokyo’s “concrete roads”. But while her writing shows promise, her love life remains in the fantasy realm. Mainlining library books, she realises that the same name, Seiji Amasawa, keeps appearing on the lists of previous borrowers. It feels like fate is pointing her towards a soulmate – especially when a curmudgeonly cat leads her “like in a story” to an intriguing curio shop near the library. Continue reading...

The Guardian•Phil Hoad16 Sept

From nail hammering to drilling, Japan’s new robots push physical AI forward

Technology companies gathered in Tokyo on 16 September 2026 for a one-day summit focused on physical AI, showcasing robots designed to perform tasks in the real world.

Euronews16 Sept

How Etihad Is Using Its Widebody Fleet To Add Capacity Where Demand Is Strongest

Etihad is moving its biggest aircraft to the markets showing the strongest demand, from Paris and Tokyo to high-capacity Dhaka.

Simple Flying•Victoria Agronsky16 Sept

• neutral toward Etihad Airways · 99%

Cate Blanchett to Attend Tokyo Festival for Japan Premiere of Displacement Film Fund Shorts

Cate Blanchett will travel to Tokyo for the 39th edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival, where five short films backed by the Displacement Film Fund will receive their Japan premieres. Blanchett co-founded the Displacement Film Fund, which supports displaced filmmakers and those with a demonstrated history of telling authentic stories rooted in the experiences […]

Variety•Naman Ramachandran16 Sept

Waymo partners to launch Tokyo’s first autonomous robotaxi service by 2027

Waymo's Tokyo venture could accelerate global adoption of autonomous vehicles, addressing labor shortages and enhancing urban mobility solutions.

CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team15 Sept

Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo review – Takashi Miike follows Ferrara and Herzog with a disappointment

Toronto film festival: There’s a surprisingly tame quality to the gorehound’s contribution to the rough and ready franchise and a general aimlessness that frustrates Abel Ferrera’s Bad Lieutenant, starring Harvey Keitel as the eponymous coke-addled cop stumbling into crime scenes and contributing to the injustices, felt like it had us rooting around the mouldy and corroded interior of a back-alley dumpster, searching for a soul. A Takashi Miike adaptation seemed an appealingly foul idea. The maestro behind Audition and Ichi The Killer is known for punishing audiences with J-horror violence but with a formal elegance that we couldn’t look away from. His Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo should have been the perfect marriage of moral degradation and corporal desecrations. The movie lives up to its promise when those extremes are giddily on the same page. But more often than not Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo is a confounding and frustrating mess, a smorgasbord of good ideas (and some bad ones) at odds with each other, barely held together by Shun Oguri’s wily performance. Continue reading...

The Guardian•Radheyan Simonpillai in Toronto15 Sept

United Airlines Launches New Nonstop 14-Hour Route In 1 Month: See Flights Now

United’s Chicago-Narita return will intensify Tokyo competition, briefly pushing O’Hare to a record seven daily Tokyo departures.

Simple Flying•Paul Hartley15 Sept

• neutral toward United Airlines · 98%

ANA NW26 Tokyo Haneda Long-Haul Aircraft Changes

Published at 1400PDT / 2100GMT 14SEP26 ANA during Northern winter 2026/27 season schedules selected aircraft change on long-haul routes, to/from Tokyo Haneda . Planned adjustments as of 13SEP26 include the following. Tokyo Haneda – Los Angeles 01DEC26 – 07FEB27 5 of 7 weekly NH106/105 787-9 replaces -8 (except 26DEC26 – 11JAN27; NH126/125 continues to be served by 787-9) Tokyo Haneda – Munich 02DEC26 – 07FEB27 5 of 7 weekly 787-8 replaces -9 (except 24DEC26 – 12JAN27) Tokyo Haneda – Vienna eff 03DEC26 787-8 replaces -9, 3 weekly (except 26DEC26 – 11JAN27, 08FEB27 – 18FEB27) Tokyo Haneda – Washington Dulles 787-9 replaces -8 during following periods 02DEC26 – 23DEC26 Day x247 13JAN27 – 20JAN27 Day 3 22JAN27 – 06FEB27 Day x247

• neutral toward All Nippon Airways · 99%

Capcom Brings Its First U.S. Pop-Up Shop to Los Angeles Next Week

Capcom's shop will host an array of collectible Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, and Mega Man merch to LA's Little Tokyo for a limited time.

Polygon•Jen Glennon14 Sept

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (09.12.26)

“We are taking those five cases seriously. We have been raising awareness on the issue, but we have imposed the restrictions to make it more effective.” Source: Ken Sawahara, a transport ministry official on aviation safety, commenting as Japan is tightening measures against private jet pilots who fail to follow instructions from air traffic control (ATC), with three strikes resulting in a ban from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport.

Aero-News Network14 Sept

Japan’s central bank set for pivotal moment on rates

Governor Kazuo Ueda is facing competing pressures from Tokyo and Washington

Financial Times14 Sept

‘Just making a joke’: Usain Bolt retracts claim stairs got him out of breath

Jamaican says athletes ‘loving’ Ultimate Championship Former sprinter proposed to Kasi Bennett last month A year ago, Usain Bolt revealed he had stopped running and got out of breath whenever he went up the stairs. But now the greatest sprinter in history has insisted he has made a lightning return to fitness after proposing last month to his long-term partner Kasi Bennett. Bolt, who is an ambassador for the World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Budapest, laughed as he told reporters that his claims about his lack of fitness in Tokyo last year had been overegged for effect. “I made a joke and you guys took it out of context,” Bolt said, with a grin. Continue reading...

The Guardian•Sean Ingle in Budapest13 Sept