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Nikkei stock index ends above 53,000 for 1st time, on e...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's key stock indexes closed at record highs on Tuesday, wi...

G7 agrees to speed up reduction of reliance on China fo...

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- Finance ministers from the Group of Seven countries agreed...

Tokyo stocks hit record highs on election speculation, ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks hit intraday record highs Tuesday morning, with th...

Toyota remains top automaker by sales in 2025 for 6th year

BRUSSELS (Kyodo) -- Toyota Motor Corp. remained the world's top-selling automake...

Famed TV presenter Hiroshi Kume passes away at 81

TOKYO -- Prominent former Tokyo Broadcasting System Television (TBS) announcer H...

Yen drops to upper 158 vs. dollar, lowest since July 2024

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The yen slid to the upper 158 level against the U.S. dollar on ...

Chiba governor warns snap election in Japan would strai...

CHIBA -- In response to media reports that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is cons...

Emergency calls to Japan police exceed 10 million in 20...

TOKYO -- Police across Japan received more than 10 million calls to the 110 emer...

Japan's Katayama says concern over weak yen shared with...

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said Monday she...

Japan PM Takaichi intends to call for election at start...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to dissolve the Ho...

US lawmakers to visit Denmark as Trump continues to thr...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation is headed to Copen...

Japan aims to dig deep-sea rare earths to reduce China ...

A Japanese research vessel on Monday began a historic voyage to attempt to dig d...

'Genius' chimpanzee Ai dies in Japan at 49

Ai, a "genius" chimpanzee who could recognize more than 100 Chinese characters a...

Top Japan diplomat urges 'robust' implementation of Gaz...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Sunday visited I...

Forest fire north of Tokyo extinguished after burning f...

MAEBASHI, Japan (Kyodo) -- A forest fire north of Tokyo was extinguished Monday ...

Japanese language teaching in UK tackling outdated perc...

Teachers of Japanese in Britain are shaking up the way they teach the language i...