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High court upholds approval for nuclear reactors in sou...
A Japanese high court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling rejecting a call ...
Japan to allow over-the-counter 'morning-after pill' sa...
Over-the-counter sales of morning-after pills will not be age restricted or requ...
Tokyo logs record 10 consecutive days of 35C or higher
Tokyo experienced a record 10 consecutive days of temperatures 35C or above, the...
Bones found at Japanese site where Korean forced labore...
Police said Wednesday that a set of bones recovered at a wartime mine in Japan a...
Editorial: Preventing tick-borne diseases vital as Japa...
Japan has seen a rising number of patients infected with severe fever with throm...
Trump saying 600,000 Chinese students could come to the...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump seemingly caught his loyal conservativ...
Swiss food delivery robot eyed for labor-challenged Jap...
ZURICH (Kyodo) -- A Swiss business project aims to introduce delivery robots in ...
Trump's order on flag burning could return the question...
(AP) -- The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that if it were up to...
Latest launch of SpaceX's Starship completes first-ever...
(AP) -- SpaceX launched the latest test of its mega rocket Starship on Tuesday n...
Statue of 16th-century warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Na...
NAGOYA -- A statue of famous 16th-century Japanese feudal lord Toyotomi Hideyosh...
Japan opposition party lawmaker's offices searched for ...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo prosecutors searched opposition party lawmaker Akira Ishi...
Central Tokyo sets new record for streak of 'extremely ...
TOKYO -- Temperatures across the Japanese archipelago rose Aug. 27 due to a high...
European and Iranian diplomats fail to agree on how to ...
VIENNA (AP) -- Representatives of three European countries threatening to reimpo...
Easy Japanese news in translation: 'Rice field rugby' e...
A "rice field rugby" event recently took place in the city of Sakurai, Nara Pref...
Trump's 50% tariff on Indian imports comes into effect
WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- U.S. President Donald Trump's 50 percent tariff on Indian ...
Tech university's exam reforms make it Japan's most att...
This spring, the Chiba Institute of Technology, a private institution near Tokyo...
