UPDATES
2024 Rewind: Japan railways, buses turning away from IC...
The year 2024 saw some train and bus operators in Japan switch to contactless cr...
Bloodied Ukrainian troops risk losing more hard-won lan...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- Five months after their shock offensive into Russia, Ukrai...
AI-based app helping Japanese farmers forecast crop pests
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Hiroaki Asakura, a farmer in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, l...
North Korea declares 'toughest anti-US counteraction' s...
BEIJING (Kyodo) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared at a key ruling part...
Don't wipe toilet seats with bathroom paper, Japanese m...
FUKUOKA -- Though cleaning toilet seats with flushable paper at hand sounds easy...
2024 was big for Japan film industry with int'l festiva...
TOKYO -- 2024 was a year of major movement in the Japanese film industry, with t...
Retro Japan: Ex-coal mine in Hokkaido closed in 1994 st...
AKABIRA, Hokkaido -- A former coal mine here that was closed in 1994 is still at...
Japan's emperor eyeing visits to domestic war-related s...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Arrangements are being made for Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Em...
Top Japan defense firms saw revenue increase 35% in 202...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The top five Japanese defense firms tallied sales of $10 billio...
Death toll from a plane fire at a South Korean airport ...
SEOUL (AP) -- South Korea's fire agency says 96 people have been confirmed dead ...
Work begins to reinforce soft soil in Okinawa U.S. base...
Sand deposition for work reinforcing soft soil as part of the U.S. military base...
Hokkaido to introduce lodging tax of up to ¥500 a night...
The government of Hokkaido, a northern island popular with tourists, will introd...
Azerbaijani and US officials suggest plane that crashed...
(AP) -- Russian air defense systems may have brought down an Azerbaijani airline...
2024 a year of diverse public duties in Japan, abroad f...
TOKYO -- Princess Kako, niece of Emperor Naruhito and second daughter of Crown P...
Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the attack ...
HONOLULU (AP) -- Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese a...
Editorial: Japan investigators show no remorse over wro...
The Supreme Public Prosecutors Office and Shizuoka Prefectural Police recently r...
