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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

נשיא ארה"ב טראמפ עם נשיא צרפת מקרון ראש ממשלת איטליה מלוני ראש ממשלת בריטניה סטרמר קנצלר גרמניה מרץ ונשיא אוקראינה זלנסקי פסגה הבית הלבן

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

ספינת הקידוח היפנית "צ'יקיו", שביצעה כריית יסודות נדירים מעומק של 6 קילומטרים באוקיינוס השקט

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

Japan’s booming ‘rent-a-family’ industry explores loneliness as a business in Hikari’s new film

After helping bring Asian American rage to the screen in the hit series Beef, director turns her lens to a different Japan, where families, love and emotional presence can all be rented for a fee

Amir Kaminer | 01.19.26

Why you feel exhausted at work: social jet lag may be the reason

A large Japanese study tracking sleep data from nearly 80,000 workers found that irregular sleep patterns, especially ‘social jet lag’ between weekdays and weekends, are linked to lower productivity and billions in economic losses

News Agencies | 01.17.26

Less is more: the Japanese art of flower arranging finding new roots in Israel

Ikebana is a minimalist Japanese flower-arranging art rooted in Zen philosophy, where every branch and leaf carries meaning, the process matters more than the result and Israeli experts are now teaching the craft locally

Miri Ben-David Livi | 01.11.26

Warming ties with Japan: parliamentary delegation visits Israel ahead of foreign minister’s arrival

Ahead of Japan’s foreign minister visit, 15 lawmakers toured southern Israel, met massacre survivors and visited the Nova site, signaling Tokyo’s intention to deepen ties with Israel under its new government

Itamar Eichner | 01.09.26

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