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Proposed citizenship rule for hiring in Mie sparks cont...
A proposal by a local government in central Japan to reinstate a rule requiring ...
Ocean protections clash with mining pressure in Indones...
MISOOL, Indonesia (AP) -- There is an explosion of color beneath the surface in ...
Solitary mangrove creates striking views on Ishigaki Is...
ISHIGAKI, Okinawa -- A Mainichi Shimbun reporter visited Ishigaki Island, locate...
Tokyo stocks fall in morning on profit-taking, ceasefir...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks fell Thursday morning on profit-taking following t...
Baseball: Ohtani makes quality start, ties Ichiro's on-...
TORONTO (Kyodo) -- Shohei Ohtani allowed just one unearned run over six innings,...
Cherry blossom viewing starts at Japan Mint in Osaka
OSAKA (Kyodo) -- An annual cherry blossom viewing event began Thursday at the Ja...
Artemis II astronauts follow Apollo tradition of naming...
HOUSTON (AP) -- Lunar love knows no bounds.Now hurtling home from the moon, the ...
30,000 rally near Diet as protests against Constitution...
TOKYO -- Large-scale demonstrations opposing moves to revise the Constitution ar...
Court overturn of Japanese school's decertification ove...
FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- A high court decision to overturn a central government order ...
Opinion: Donald Trump doesn't understand nuclear semant...
By James ReidIn 1945, Kantaro Suzuki, then premier of the Imperial Japanese Empi...
Kyoto Univ. president urges new students to write in ow...
KYOTO -- Kyoto University held its entrance ceremony on April 7, welcoming 2,942...
Still no trace of missing 11-year-old boy after 16 days
Police in Nantan City, Kyoto Prefecture, on Wednesday continued their search for...
AI agents draw attention in China, with 24-hour work po...
SHANGHAI (Kyodo) -- Artificial intelligence agents that can work in place of hum...
Russia and China veto watered-down UN resolution aimed ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Russia and China on Tuesday vetoed a U.N. Security Counci...
Tokyo stocks surge, Nikkei up 5%, after US-Iran cease-f...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks surged Wednesday morning, with the Nikkei stock in...














