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Residents, students share rides on school buses in west...
TOYOOKA, Hyogo -- A district in this western Japan city has launched a program a...
Philippines to get 5 used destroyers from Japan: defens...
MANILA (Kyodo) -- The Philippines expects to acquire five soon-to-be-retired Jap...
Japan, Vietnam to hold defense ministerial talks next week
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Friday that his...
China video platform stirs controversy with launch of A...
BEIJING (Kyodo) -- An artificial intelligence-powered platform for professional ...
Narita airport operator to start land expropriation pro...
The operator of Japan's Narita airport and related entities agreed Friday to beg...
43,000 non-consensual AI celebrity deepfakes created in...
Over 43,000 images and videos are suspected to have used artificial intelligence...
Mount Rausu hiking trails closed again after brown bear...
The town of Shari in Hokkaido said it closed hiking trails on Mount Rausu, where...
Tokyo stocks end higher on strong chip shares, optimism...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks ended higher Friday as semiconductor-related share...
Japan's southwestern islands on high alert as powerful ...
A large and powerful typhoon approached a remote chain of islands in Japan's sou...
City in Chiba Prefecture bars mosque prayer session in ...
A decision by a city near Tokyo to bar a mosque from holding a longstanding outd...
JFA sounds out Moriyasu on short-term extension as manager
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japan Football Association has sounded out national team ma...
Osaka Pref. moves to expand emergency bear hunting capa...
OSAKA -- As bear attacks on people continue across Japan, particularly in the no...
Japan wholesale prices up 7.1% in June, fastest rise in...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's wholesale prices rose in June at the fastest pace in ov...
Japan brushes aside market views gov't pressuring BOJ n...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese officials on Friday dismissed market views that the go...
Why are more railway companies in west Japan adding pai...
The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about why pa...
Baseball: Suzuki hits 15th homer, Murakami to return fr...
BALTIMORE, Maryland (Kyodo) -- Seiya Suzuki hit his second home run in as many g...
