This Week’s Archives

The past seven editions — each opens on its own page

Edition	Vol. / No.	Pages	Stories	Files
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
Monday, October 19, 2026	Vol. 2026, No. 291	25	139	PDF · DOCX
Arrest Warrants Will Be Requested and Issued Online From This Fiscal Year, Starting With Drug Cases in Tokyo and Three Neighbouring Prefectures Harasawa Wins Yokohama by a Landslide as the Sanseito-Backed Newcomer Finishes Second and Former Mayor Yamanaka Loses More Than 460,000 Votes From Request to Detention: How Japan's Warrant System Works, and the Clock That Starts When Someone Is Arrested Four in Five Voters Said Harassment Mattered, the Exit Poll Shows, and Sanseito's Candidate Led Among People in Their Thirties Sanseito: The 'Japanese First' Party That Went From One Seat to a Force in Six Years
Sunday, October 18, 2026	Vol. 2026, No. 290	27	132	PDF · DOCX
Textbooks Will Stay Paper-First When Digital Books Become Official, With Fully Digital Editions Barred for Younger Children DeNA Rally With Two Out in the Ninth to Sweep Hanshin and Set Up a Japan Series Rematch With SoftBank From Curriculum to Classroom: How a Japanese Textbook Is Written, Screened and Chosen Paper or Screen? What the Research Says About How Children Read Triple Crown Winner Teruaki Sato Says He 'Can't Say Anything' Yet About the Majors as Hanshin's Season Ends
Saturday, October 17, 2026	Vol. 2026, No. 289	26	122	PDF · DOCX
Kyoto Court Acquits Kudo-kai Executive of the 2013 Murder of Ohsho's President, Saying DNA on Cigarette Butts Leaves Reasonable Doubt SoftBank Clinch a Third Straight Japan Series Place as DeNA Shut Out Hanshin Again to Move One Win From the Series How Japan's Courts Judge a Case Built on Circumstantial Evidence, and Why DNA on a Cigarette Butt Was Not Enough The Kudo-kai: Japan's Only 'Specially Dangerous' Crime Syndicate and a Decade of Prosecutions Sano's Three-Run Homer and Katayama's Seven Scoreless Innings Put DeNA One Win From the Japan Series
Friday, October 16, 2026	Vol. 2026, No. 288	26	114	PDF · DOCX
Nikkei Plunges 3,318 Yen, Its Third-Largest Fall on Record, as Fears Over AI Debt and an Early U.S. Rate Rise Sweep Through Chip Stocks Takaichi Names Arata Takebe Farm Minister to Steady Her Government After Yana's Exit The Nikkei's Biggest One-Day Falls, in Points and in Percentages Why a Fall in One American Company's Bonds Shook Tokyo: CoreWeave and the Borrowed Money Behind the AI Boom From Washington to Kabutocho: How a Hotter Inflation Report in America Ends Up Knocking Thousands of Yen Off the Nikkei

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