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Nobel panel head hails A-bomb survivors' stories as 'in...
Norwegian Nobel Committee chair Jorgen Watne Frydnes on Friday hailed atomic bom...
Japan to mull steps to ensure resident tax collection f...
The internal affairs ministry plans to survey municipalities about uncollected r...
Japanese women top global life expectancy for 40th stra...
Japanese women had the highest life expectancy in the world in 2024, marking the...
Japan raises travel alert for Thailand, Cambodia border...
Japan's Foreign Ministry on Friday raised its travel alert for the Thailand-Camb...
View of 'flowing otter' returns to delight visitors at ...
ICHIKAWA, Chiba -- The popular "flowing otter" attraction has made a comeback at...
Tokyo sushi worker killed at restaurant, allegedly by c...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A 32-year-old man was fatally stabbed Friday, allegedly by his ...
Over 50% of Japan's upper house lawmakers oppose LDP-le...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A postelection survey conducted by Kyodo News showed Friday tha...
Why are some in Japan calling to dismantle Finance Mini...
The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about why so...
Editorial: 80 yrs since Potsdam, Japan must defend rule...
July 26 marks 80 years since the 1945 Potsdam Declaration, in which the United S...
China lodges protest with Japan over Taiwan foreign min...
BEIJING (Kyodo) -- China has lodged a strong protest with Japan over a recent vi...
Man sprayed in face at JR Osaka Station during rush hou...
OSAKA -- A man sustained minor injuries after another man sprayed a foreign subs...
Yoroku: Putting in two cents on nuclear weapons suggest...
"May I put in my two cents?" A social media post that opens like this, respondin...
Kirin launches 20-yr whisky aging service for life mile...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A new service launched by Kirin Brewery Co. lets customers purc...
TEPCO plans waste building demolition ahead of debris c...
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has submitted a plan t...
Japan's Nankai quake, tsunami observation system repaired
Japan's weather agency said Friday that a malfunction in the ocean-floor observa...
Latvian staffer at Osaka expo goes viral with love of J...
A Latvian staff member at the World Exposition in Osaka has drawn over half a mi...
