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Japan's new Centrist Reform Alliance party vows strict ...

TOKYO -- The Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA), a new political party formed by the...

Japan 2025 convenience store sales hit record 12 trilli...

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Tourist attraction turns tragic after chopper crash ins...

FUKUOKA -- The area around the craters of Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture, wher...

Shooter of ex-Japan PM Abe given life term for 'vile' act

NARA (Kyodo) -- A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced the man charged with the...

Tourists hit record 42.7 mil in Japan in 2025, despite ...

A record number of tourists flocked to Japan last year, officials said Tuesday, ...

Helicopter carrying 3 goes missing near Mount Aso in so...

A sightseeing helicopter went missing around noon Tuesday near the summit of Mou...

ChatGPT gets full marks in 9 Japan unified univ. entran...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The artificial intelligence ChatGPT earned perfect scores in ni...

'Is Takaichi prioritizing Diet dissolution ahead of wor...

TOKYO -- While Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi had pledged to "give utmos...

Japan PM Takaichi's snap election risks political vacuu...

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Inequality and unease are rising as elite Davos event o...

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- Corporate chiefs and government leaders including U.S...

From 'mottainai' to 'PechaKucha': Oxford dictionary add...

Eleven English words of Japanese origin were added to the Oxford English Diction...

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Trump ties his stance on Greenland to not getting Nobel...

NUUK, Greenland (AP) -- U.S. President Donald Trump linked his aggressive stance...