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At UN climate summit, world leaders say time is running...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) -- World leaders warned Thursday that time is running short f...

Trump hosts Central Asian leaders as US seeks to get ar...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump hosted leaders of five Central Asian c...

OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people t...

(AP) -- OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide...

Japan resumes seafood exports to China after Beijing ea...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan has resumed seafood shipments to China for the first time...

Parachute inspired by traditional Japanese paper art co...

TOKYO -- A parachute devised using techniques from Japan's traditional paper art...

Easy Japanese news in translation: Pokemon-themed park ...

A park featuring the Pokemon character "Lapras" opened in the town of Rifu, Miya...

N. Korea fires ballistic missile toward Sea of Japan

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- North Korea launched a ballistic missile Friday that apparently...

Tokyo stocks rebound on dip-buying after recent plunges

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks rebounded Thursday, with the Nikkei index briefly ...

Editorial: Japan mayor ousted after academic fraud accu...

The Ito city assembly in Shizuoka Prefecture has passed a second no-confidence r...

Japanese police amend rules to allow officers to use ri...

Japan's National Police Agency on Thursday amended rules to allow police officer...

Worker dies after being caught in garbage truck’s loadi...

A man in his 60s was killed after he was trapped in a garbage truck’s hydraulic ...

A decade after Brazil's deadly dam collapse, Indigenous...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A week before what the Indigenous Krenak people now cal...

The Mainichi News Quiz: Why aren't foreign workers comi...

How closely have you been following events in Japan? Try The Mainichi News Quiz ...

Fukuoka's JR Hakata Station counters covert filming wit...

FUKUOKA -- Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu) has installed mirrors along the walls ...

Nissan to sell headquarters in Yokohama for 97 bil. yen

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday it will sell and lease back its ...

Tokyo stocks rebound in morning after recent sharp falls

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks rebounded Thursday morning, with the Nikkei index ...