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Israeli social inclusion model reaches Tokyo with café employing people with disabilities

GOOD THE GOOD, a new café in the Japanese capital, is based on an Israeli model developed by Shekulo Tov to help people with disabilities and mental health challenges enter the workforce and connect with the community

Itamar Eichner | 06.15.26

Japan fans clean up World Cup stands even before celebrating team's match, and the images go viral

Japan fans stayed behind after the dramatic draw with the Netherlands to collect trash from the stands, reviving a beloved World Cup tradition that has followed the Blue Samurai for nearly three decades

Ynet | 06.15.26

Can you cross Japan without a phone? Two Israelis set out to find out

Israeli content creators Ariel Ron and Ben Gordon landed in Japan without smartphones, Google Maps or advance research, relying on strangers, joining a local rap video shoot and being invited to dinner by a Japanese couple they met by chance

Sharon Kidon | 06.09.26

Traveling to Japan? This common mistake could cost you a fine

'Throw trash, lose cash': That’s the slogan behind a new campaign in one of Japan’s busiest tourist districts, where both visitors and residents caught littering will now face on-the-spot fines under a tougher crackdown on street waste

Asaf Rozen | 06.02.26

New Arkia route breaks El Al's exclusivity in Israelis' favorite destination

Competition for Japan heats up: Arkia announced that it will launch direct flights to Tokyo in October 2026, ending El Al's monopoly on the route; Ticket prices between the two companies on some dates can be significant

Iris Lifshitz-Klieger | 06.02.26

Japanese medtech giant buys Israeli maker of prostate cancer protection device in $270M deal

Olympus will buy the Netanya-based maker of a biodegradable balloon implant that protects healthy tissue during prostate cancer radiation therapy, with operations expected to remain in Israel

Meir Orbach/ Calcalist | 05.27.26

This Japanese island promised wild, photogenic adventure and lived up to the hype

Photographer Rafi Koren set out on an 8-day circular journey through Hokkaido, from a surprise earthquake on the first day to late cherry blossoms at an ancient star-shaped fort, and found a region that left him eager to return

Rafi Koren | 05.23.26

Long after Iran war, Trump’s feuds may haunt US alliances

Analysis: Europe, Gulf states and Asian partners are rethinking their reliance on Washington, while China and Russia look for openings in a shifting global order

Reuters | 05.09.26

Israeli hiker found dead on Japan mountain

Tevel Shabtai, 23, disappeared after setting out alone to climb Mount Asahi in Hokkaido, where snow, strong winds and freezing temperatures hampered search efforts

Itamar Eichner | 05.05.26

The women who took up the sword in samurai Japan

Japan’s samurai became famous as skilled warriors who lived by strict ethical code; In popular culture and museums, samurai are often portrayed as men, raising the question: Were there female samurai, too? Scholars are divided

Yogev Israeli | 05.05.26

Drink-spiking fears in Japan as tourists report memory loss and thousands stolen from cards

Britain says reports of drink spiking and credit card fraud are rising in Japan’s nightlife districts, especially Kabukicho, Roppongi, Shibuya and Ikebukuro; tourists describe waking with no memory of the night and finding charges of hundreds to tens of thousands of pounds

Roy Elman | 04.29.26

Elbit Systems becomes Israel’s most valuable company, overtaking Teva and major banks

Elbit Systems jumped 4.5% to a market value of $122 billion, becoming Israel’s most valuable company, as Tel Aviv stocks closed mixed while Asian markets plunged, including a 12% drop in Seoul

Miki Greenfeld, Calcalist, ynet | 03.04.26

'There are times it’s unhealthy to remember': novelist Kazuo Ishiguro on war, trauma and recovery

Childhood in the shadow of the atomic bomb, life between cultures and a career shaped by memory and forgetting: Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro reflects on postwar Japan, Israel after Oct. 7 and why 'living too much in the past can destroy a nation’s future'

Amir Kaminer, Cannes | 02.06.26

Amid tensions with China, Japan extracts rare earth elements from deep ocean

Sediments containing elements vital to multiple industries were extracted from 6,000 meters in the Pacific by a Japanese drilling ship to curb reliance on China, as environmental groups warn deep-sea mining threatens ecosystems

Yogev Israeli, AFP | 02.02.26

Trebitsch Lincoln: the Jewish Nazi who became a British MP and the Dalai Lama

A Hungarian born con artist, Trebitsch Lincoln moved from the British Parliament to Nazi circles, espionage and Buddhist monastic life before dying under mysterious circumstances in wartime China

Liran Friedmann | 01.22.26

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