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Mobile battery starts emitting smoke inside plane bound...
Usually, flights between Okinawa and Tokyo are pretty unremarkable. It’s only ab...
No. of foreign residents in Japan hits record high, sur...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The number of legal foreign residents in Japan has topped 3.95 ...
N. Korea's Kim vows to build 'socialist paradise' at ru...
BEIJING (Kyodo) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged on the eve of the 80t...
What is Japan lawmakers' reaction to Takaichi's remark ...
The statement by Sanae Takaichi, the president of the ruling Liberal Democratic ...
Japan to send SDF personnel to Lithuania for demining i...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan plans to send two Ground Self-Defense Force personnel to ...
Editorial: Japan Nobel laureate Sakaguchi stood in his ...
Shimon Sakaguchi, a specially appointed professor at the University of Osaka, wa...
Taiwan's president pledges to accelerate the building o...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te on Friday pledged to acce...
Japan ruling party's junior ally Komeito to end coaliti...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese ruling party's junior partner in government Komeit...
Baseball: Clutch Sasaki helps Dodgers walk off NLDS win...
LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) -- Roki Sasaki delivered a clutch performance out of the bul...
Japan closely monitoring fluctuations in forex market: ...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan is closely watching volatile moves in the currency market...
Easy Japanese news in translation: Shizuoka Prefecture ...
Preparations for "Shichi-go-san"* celebrations were carried out at Mishimataisha...
Unknown bright objects approached reactors at Saga nucl...
Three bright objects observed flying over a nuclear power complex in southwester...
New holding firm for Toyota, Daimler truck units named ...
TOKYO (Kyoto) -- The new holding company of the merged truck units of Toyota Mot...
Rising bear attacks prompt new shooting rules, but hunt...
Japan's surge in bear attacks has forced the government to relax rules on "emerg...
Typhoon batters Izu islands
Heavy rain from a typhoon on Thursday battered a chain of Japanese islands south...
Japan online flea market Mercari to get tougher on mali...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Online flea market operator Mercari Inc. said Thursday it may k...
