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"These people are asking for help. They're just waiting for someone to speak with them," says Yukio Shige, who patrols and uses binoculars to find people preparing to commit suicide on Japan's Tojinbo cliffs.

At Japan’s suicide cliffs, he’s walked more than 600 people back from the edge

August 22, 2019 at 2:53 a.m.

Almost no one jumps on rainy days. They jump when the sun returns and the masses step outside, reminding them of their misery. They jump during financial crises and in...

Ryoji Maki, KitKat's marketing manager in Japan, left, and Nestle Japan spokesman Takuya Hiramatsu show off their wares.

How the humble KitKat conquered Japan with ever-changing flavors

August 22, 2019 at 1:59 a.m.

Two years ago, KitKat’s marketing manager in Japan won an internal corporate award. His prize: a golden trophy shaped like one of the iconic chocolate bars. Today, the manager, Ryoji...

A woman leaves with a child after telling the media she came to withdraw the child from the RYB kindergarten in Beijing on Friday, Nov. 24, 2017. The school has suspended three teachers.

Many in China outraged by shocking sexual abuse allegations at a kindergarten in Beijing

August 22, 2019 at 1:46 a.m.

Several parents have accused a Beijing kindergarten of drugging and sexually abusing their children, causing an upswell of anger on Chinese social media and prompting an investigation into abuse at...

Trucks cross the Sinoâ??Korean Friendship Bridge from North Korea into Dandong, China.

Worried by Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile tests, China will restrict oil exports to North Korea

August 22, 2019 at 1:00 a.m.

China will soon begin restricting oil exports to North Korea, the country's Commerce Ministry announced on Saturday, marking a major step by Pyongyang's top ally and trading partner to further...

A screen grab taken from video recorded on Dec. 6, 2008, two days before Liu Xiaobo was detained by Chinese authorities.

Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo dies

August 22, 2019 at 12:07 a.m.

Liu Xiaobo, the famed Chinese dissident who won the Nobel Peace Prize while jailed for his pro-democracy writings, has died in a hospital in northeastern China at the age of...

Here’s what’s driving North Korea’s nuclear program — and it might be more than self-defense

August 21, 2019 at 11:11 p.m.

In North Korea, missiles and nuclear bombs are more than a means of national defense — they are, for broad segments of the public, objects of near-religious devotion. In Pyongyang,...

Soldiers salute as their national anthem is played during a military parade to celebrate the 105th birthday of Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang, North Korea.

There’s no such thing as a failed missile launch: Lessons from North Korea, the post-truth capital of the world

August 21, 2019 at 11:02 p.m.

All afternoon we obsessively checked our phones, seeking a reason — or even a clue — as to why North Korea wouldn't let us leave. I was among roughly two...

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, smiles after getting off his plane for a refueling stop in Anchorage, Alaska on April 7, 2017.

China’s President Xi Jinping makes surprise stop in Alaska

August 21, 2019 at 10:53 p.m.

China's President Xi Jinping made a surprise stop in Alaska on Friday after a two-day summit with President Donald Trump in Florida, underscoring China's resource ambitions in the global far...

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives at the government palace in Lima, Peru, on Nov. 21, 2016.

Trump’s election has China’s former critics looking to it to defend globalization — willingly or not

August 21, 2019 at 9:05 p.m.

Just months ago, world leaders were fretting over the threat posed by an increasingly assertive China. The country's government oversaw the worst crackdown on dissent in nearly three decades. The...

A drug suspectwas killed in a shootout with policemen during a buy-bust operation inside his home in the slum of Tondo in Manila on July 3.

Covering the Philippines’ war on drugs, where the president encourages citizens to kill drug dealers

August 21, 2019 at 7:51 p.m.

The radio crackled. Linus Guardian Escandor II knew what was coming. The station, AM 594 kHz, would report a summary execution. He would squeeze into a pickup truck with four...

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