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PM Takaichi to hold presser at 6 p.m., likely for lower...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will hold a press conference at 6...

Japan's new opposition party unveils pledges to fight '...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's new opposition party, the Centrist Reform Alliance, unv...

China's 2025 GDP grows 5.0% to meet annual goal, aided ...

BEIJING (Kyodo) -- China's economy in 2025 grew a real 5.0 percent from a year e...

Editorial: Japan's new centrist party must prove it sta...

The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP) and Komeito have agreed to fo...

Easy Japanese news in translation: Shirakawa-go settlem...

The Shirakawa-go settlement light-up event started on January 12 in the village ...

Locals turn tsunami recovery effort into global furnitu...

What began as a makeshift carpentry space amid tsunami debris has grown into an ...

TEPCO postpones 1st reactor restart since Fukushima due...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc will postpone the restart of its nucle...

Japan coast guard plans to double MQ-9B drones to 10 to...

Japan plans to reinforce its maritime surveillance capabilities by doubling the ...

2nd day of unified university entrance exams held acros...

About 496,000 students and others on Sunday sat for Japan’s unified university e...

Japan's Tourism Agency issues bear-warning pictogram signs

Japan's Tourism Agency said it created new pictogram signs warning visitors that...

Japan PM mulls to include zero food tax proposal for el...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering including...

Football: Kobe's Miyashiro joins promotion hopefuls Las...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan forward Taisei Miyashiro is joining Spanish second-tier s...

European Union and Mercosur bloc of South American nati...

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) -- The European Union and the Mercosur bloc of South Ame...

China tightens screening of Japan-bound rare earth exports

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Kyodo) -- China has tightened screening of Japan-bound exports...

Latest high-tech Japanese toilets can check health via ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Famous for their innovative products, Japanese toilet makers ha...

Thousands march in Greenland to support Arctic island i...

NUUK, Greenland (AP) -- Thousands of Greenlanders carefully marched across snow ...