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US allies and rivals in Asia gauge fallout from war in ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- As war spreads across the Middle East, U.S. rivals an...

15 years after Fukushima meltdown, an innkeeper makes r...

Fifteen years after the 2011 nuclear disaster, color-coded radiation maps hang o...

Two people fall while climbing Mount Fuji

Two people fell Monday while climbing Mount Fuji, which is still closed to the p...

Nissan eyes cooperating with Uber over autonomous driving

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nissan Motor Co. and U.S. ride-hailing company Uber Technologie...

Japan Jan. household spending down 1.0% on year on lowe...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's household spending in January fell a real 1.0 percent f...

Japan economy grows 1.3% in Oct.-Dec., revised up, on s...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's economy expanded an annualized real 1.3 percent in the ...

Nikkei rises over 3% in morning as crude oil prices ret...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Nikkei stock index rose over 3 percent Tuesday morning as c...

Editorial: US, Israel, Iran must end war crippling glob...

This war with no exit has pushed the world economy to the brink. Both the United...

North Korean leader's sister criticized US-South Korea ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong U...

6 injured in suspected gas leak at paper mill in centra...

GIFU, Japan (Kyodo) -- A suspected gas leak at a paper mill in central Japan lef...

G7 energy ministers to hold talks Tues. over coordinate...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The energy ministers of the Group of Seven are set to hold talk...

Oil prices and markets seesaw over uncertainty of war a...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Oil prices surged and markets slid Monday af...

Japan to tighten immigration control for foreign touris...

TOKYO -- The Japanese Cabinet approved a bill on March 10 to amend the Immigrati...

Nago mayor lodges protest after U.S. Marine chopper lan...

Nago Mayor Taketoyo Toguchi lodged a protest with the central government on Mond...

Japan prepares for deployment of its first home-develop...

Japan is preparing to deploy its first batch of domestically developed long-rang...

As Fukushima memories fade, Japan embraces a nuclear-po...

Takuma Hashimoto was three years old when a massive earthquake and tsunami struc...