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Paralympics: Opening ceremony, amid absences, marks 50 ...

VERONA, Italy (Kyodo) -- The Milan Cortina Paralympic Winter Games began Friday ...

The Mainichi News Quiz: The Saitama governor said what ...

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Japan's gender pay gap progress slows in 2024, female m...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The pace of closing the gender pay gap among full-time workers ...

Japan asks US not to slap higher tariffs in weeks befor...

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- Japan's industry minister Ryosei Akazawa on Friday urged t...

Japanese craftsman turns leather scraps into samurai ar...

NAGOYA -- A unique "randoseru" school backpack is trending on social media, with...

Japan police turn to short videos, manga to draw young ...

TOKYO -- "Don't join the police."The line comes not from a critic but from a pol...

Japan's Tohoku gaining favor as relocation place 15 yrs...

SENDAI (Kyodo) -- Three prefectures in the Tohoku region, northeastern Japan, ra...

Japan, Canada agree to launch economic security dialogu...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Friday she had agre...

Islamic militants abduct more than 300 people in northe...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Islamic militants attacked a town in northeastern Nigeria...

Japan approves stem-cell treatment for Parkinson's in w...

Japan has approved ground-breaking stem-cell treatments for Parkinson's and seve...

U.S. to exhume and identify remains of 88 Pearl Harbor ...

The U.S. military plans to exhume the remains of 88 sailors and Marines killed w...

Japan, UAE confirm conclusion of EPA negotiations

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday confirmed the co...

Tokyo stocks rise on buybacks, erase losses on Middle E...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks erased earlier losses to end higher on Friday, as ...

Editorial: As theater of conflict expands in Iran war, ...

The military attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel have triggered a ch...

Trump says he wants to be involved in picking Iran's ne...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he...

Japan PM condemns Iran for civilian casualties in Middl...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday condemned Ir...