This Week’s Archives

The past seven editions — each opens on its own page

Edition	Vol. / No.	Pages	Stories	Files
Monday, October 26, 2026	Vol. 2026, No. 298	27	138	PDF · DOCX
Takaichi Says Japan Will Use Every Option, Including Neutralising Attack Servers, as Leaks Spread and GMO Reveals a $50 Million Demand Yasuo Fukuda, Prime Minister Who Followed His Father Into Office and Worked to Mend Ties With China, Dies at 90 'My Balance Had Fallen From 3 Million Yen to 1.2 Million Overnight': A GMO Customer Describes the Trades She Never Made The Four Documents Beijing Invoked: The Agreements That Frame Relations Between Japan and China Champi's Remnants Bring Record October Rain to Goto and Imari as a Fisherman Dies in Nagasaki; Unstable Air Threatens the Izu Islands
Sunday, October 25, 2026	Vol. 2026, No. 297	24	120	PDF · DOCX
GMO Asks the Government to Use Its New Cyber Defence Powers for the First Time After an Intruder Demands Money and Threatens Customers Champi, Now a Tropical Storm, Heads for Kyushu as a Front Threatens Heavy Rain From Kyushu to Kanto; Iriomote Records More Than 400 mm in a Day What Active Cyber Defence Allows, and Why GMO's Request Is the System's First Test In-fa Is Forecast to Become a Very Strong Typhoon by Thursday; Its 31st Place Makes 2026 One of the Busiest Seasons on Record Champi Loses Its Storm-Force Winds but Keeps Its Gales, and Its Path Shifts West: Kagoshima on Monday Afternoon, a Low South of Shikoku by Tuesday
Saturday, October 24, 2026	Vol. 2026, No. 296	27	140	PDF · DOCX
Revised Imperial House Law Takes Effect, Letting Princesses Keep Their Status After Marriage and Opening the Way to Adoption Champi Lingers North of Yonaguni After Record Winds and Rain in the Sakishima Islands; Western Japan Braces for Heavy Rain The 11 Houses That Left the Imperial Family in 1947 From Signing Laws to Garden Parties: The Work That Rests on a Shrinking Family From 1947 to Saturday: How the Law Was Changed
Friday, October 23, 2026	Vol. 2026, No. 295	33	190	PDF · DOCX
SoftBank Halts Earthquake and Tsunami Alerts Until Monday Over the PHP Flaws, as the Government Forms a Team of White-Hat Hackers Champi Makes Its Closest Approach to the Sakishima Islands, Putting Yonaguni, Ishigaki and Miyakojima Inside Its Storm Winds How Emergency Alert Mail Works, and How to Get Warnings Until Monday Switch Off or Stay On: The Choice Behind This Week's Outages Champi Slows Near Yonaguni Before Turning North: The Forecast, Step by Step, From Saturday's Storm Winds to an Extratropical Low South of Tokyo
Thursday, October 22, 2026	Vol. 2026, No. 294	29	166	PDF · DOCX
Critical Flaws in PHP, the Language Behind Seven in Ten Websites, Send Banks, Railways and Ministries Rushing to Patch or Pull Sites Offline Champi Bears Down on the Sakishima Islands With Gusts of 80 Metres a Second; Storm Winds Could Reach Miyakojima, Ishigaki and Yonaguni by Friday Morning What PHP Is, and Why a Flaw in It Reaches So Far Remote Code Execution: Why the Most Serious Kind of Flaw Earns a Score Above 9 Champi Passes Its Peak but Keeps a Huge Wind Field: The Forecast, Step by Step, From the Sakishima Islands to the Sea of Japan
Wednesday, October 21, 2026	Vol. 2026, No. 293	30	158	PDF · DOCX
Takaichi Marks a Year in Power With Her Rivals Kept Close and Her Party Firmly Behind Her, as the Food Tax Cut Opens Year Two Typhoon Champi Deepens to 900 Hectopascals and Heads for the Seas South of Okinawa; the Sakishima Islands Brace for Storm Winds The Takaichi Year in Dates From 8 Per Cent to 1 Per Cent for Two Years, Then a Benefit Tied to Income: What the Government's Tax Bill Would Do The Week Ahead
Tuesday, October 20, 2026	Vol. 2026, No. 292	28	144	PDF · DOCX
Japan Sends MMX on Its Way to Mars, Bidding to Bring Back the First Samples Ever Taken From the Martian System Foreign Workers to Return to Hospital and Care-Home Kitchens From April 2027 Under a Rule Change, but the Freeze on Restaurants Stays From Itokawa to Ryugu to Phobos: How Japan Became the World's Specialist in Bringing Back Pieces of Other Worlds How the Specified Skilled Worker System Works, and Why One Field Was Closed to New Workers This Spring Champi Becomes a Violent Typhoon and Is Forecast to Deepen to 925 Hectopascals as It Bears Down on the Seas South of Okinawa

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