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Japan airs 'strong concern' over Russian drones' flight...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan on Thursday expressed "strong concern" over the flight of...
Japan firms' mood turns positive as tariff fears ease: ...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Major Japanese companies took a positive view of business condi...
Editorial: Strikes on Hamas in mediating country an out...
The Israeli military recently attacked a base of the Islamic organization Hamas ...
Mount Fuji's climbing season ends; all trails closed un...
Mount Fuji's climbing season ended on Wednesday, with all four trails closed unt...
Woman contests Japan hospital's triple-rate charge for ...
A woman filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a hospital in Japan that diagnosed and...
Key Japan stock indexes end at fresh record highs
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's key stock indexes ended at fresh all-time highs on Wedn...
Graffiti found on pillars at World Heritage site Kasuga...
NARA -- Graffiti was discovered on pillars at the World Heritage site Kasugatais...
Fate of animals at closing Sapporo zoo remains uncertain
Over 300 animals including some predators at a privately owned zoo in Sapporo fa...
Japan mayor at center of academic fraud scandal dissolv...
ITO, Shizuoka -- Ito Mayor Maki Takubo on Sept. 10 dissolved the municipal assem...
Easy Japanese news in translation: Sloth celebrates 1st...
A cake was presented to a male two-toed sloth cub celebrating his first birthday...
Slain Japanese doctor was 'beacon of hope' in Afghanist...
Before he was gunned down in Afghanistan in 2019 at the age of 73, Dr Tetsu Naka...
Dead cockroach found in ramen at Tenkaippin restaurant ...
A dead cockroach was found in a bowl of noodles served to a customer at a restau...
Ministry raps JAL for pilot drinking episode that cause...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's transport ministry on Wednesday reprimanded Japan Airli...
N. Korea's Kim rules out denuclearization on founding a...
BEIJING (Kyodo) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears to have ruled out den...
JR East to resume 5 suspended E8-series bullet trains b...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- JR East said Tuesday that five E8-series trains taken out of se...
Japan opposition parties demand ruling bloc to convene ...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese opposition parties on Wednesday demanded that the ruli...
