While the vast area across the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean is being recognized as a unique strategic space, the way of order in this "Indo-Pacific" region has become a major issue for the countries involved.
The U.S. softball coach Ken Eriksen's comments on how good the Fukushima peaches were and how he had six of them, following the team’s game in Fukushima Prefecture, had garnered a lot of attention.
On August 15, 2025, Japan’s summer was wrapped in deep prayer and silence. Marking 80 years since the end of World War II, the government’s National Memorial Service for the War Dead was solemnly held at Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan.