On September 4, 2025, Japan and the United States announced a new agreement on the long-standing auto tariff issue. The U.S. formally set an upper limit of 15%—including the current Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) rate of 2.5%—on tariffs applied to passenger vehicles and auto parts imported from Japan.
On November 4, 2025, Japan’s Ministry of the Environment announced that the number of bear sightings nationwide in the first half of the fiscal year (April–September) had reached 20,792 cases (preliminary figure).
The events of February 24, 2022, unrelentingly exposed that, while a typical classic war of aggression had been waged on the twenty-first-century European continent, Europe had no means to stop it.