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3rd gen Japanese Peruvian questions election policies o...
ISESAKI, Gunma -- With the population of foreign residents in Japan now reaching...
Easy Japanese news in translation: Lavender in full blo...
Lavender are now at their best at Kuju Flower Park in the city of Taketa, Oita P...
Swimming: Open water racer Kajimoto wins Japan's 1st me...
SINGAPORE (Kyodo) -- Ichika Kajimoto won Japan's first medal of the world aquati...
Disney sues Hong Kong company it says is selling illega...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Walt Disney Co. on Wednesday sued a Hong Kong jewelry co...
Japan's trade surplus shrinks 31% in June as exports to...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's trade surplus in June shrank 30.8 percent from a year e...
A crowd surge at an aid site in Gaza run by an Israeli-...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Twenty Palestinians were killed at a food distribution ...
Couche-Tard drops $47 bil. bid to buy Seven-Eleven pare...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Canadian retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. said Thursday i...
No wins in 2 prestigious Japanese literary awards, 1st ...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The organizer of two prestigious Japanese literary awards on We...
Sapporo couple arrested for allegedly leaving 3 childre...
SAPPORO -- A couple who allegedly left their three young children unattended at ...
Japan's Toto launches smart toilet that scans, analyzes...
FUKUOKA -- Japanese toilet maker Toto Ltd. is this August releasing a home-use t...
Editorial: China's murky sentencing of Japanese man on ...
A Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma Inc. who was detained in Beijing and char...
Local gov't ordered to pay damages to acquitted ex-assi...
OTSU (Kyodo) -- A Japanese court on Thursday ordered a local government to pay a...
Hiroshima reveals vault containing unclaimed ashes of A...
HIROSHIMA -- The Hiroshima Municipal Government on July 16 opened to the media t...
Japan sees record 22 mil foreign visitors in 1st half o...
Japan saw a record 21.5 million foreign visitors in the first half of 2025, gove...
Japan discards state-acquired COVID-19 drugs worth ¥240...
The government discarded COVID-19 oral medicines believed to be worth around 240...