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Lawmaker Lee Seong-kweun said he will encourage South Koreans to visit Japan for the expo.

The number of people aged 20 to 39 in Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures fell by about 20% to 30% between 2010 and 2024.

Kazuo Momma, a former executive director in charge of monetary policy, says the central bank is likely to move roughly every six months to m...

Police in Manila acted on an International Criminal Court warrant tied to Duterte's deadly war on drugs.

Independence has been a key campaign theme in the semiautonomous territory of Denmark after the U.S. president said he wants control over th...

"Parents and children alike are carrying heavy emotional burdens," one expert said.

The revised figures highlight pockets of weakness in the Japanese economy even as it continues to moderately expand.

Accord comes at critical moment after mass killings of Alawite minority members in western Syria threatens effort to unite country after 14...

Two-time defending men's champion Carlos Alcaraz highlights the night session in the combined ATP Masters and WTA 1000 event.

At night the territory is plunged into almost total darkness, after more than 15 months of intense Israeli bombardment and fighting that had...

A law states all contaminated soil must be disposed of outside Fukushima by March 2045.

There has been no indication of any malicious activity or other actors involved in the incident, security sources say.

The attack raises questions as to whether the politically divisive billionaire — and top adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump — is being t...

What had been a steady pullback from the U.S. stock market accelerated sharply Monday as investors retreated from virtually every type of ri...

Part of the goal is to attract a more permanent workforce to Fukushima to support the development of the prefecture as a whole.

Diverging national interests among BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — may also prove sticking points.

Born in 1999 at Asahiyama Zoo in the city of Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Oto had been at Aichi Prefecture's Toyohashi Zoo & Botanical Park since 20...

A federal auction model that helped the country add more than 130 gigawatts of renewables projects over the past decade is under threat of c...

Over a decade after 3/11, Japan has the chance to foster truly participatory energy democracy by engaging its civic environmental organizati...

The museum in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward is designed to publicize Japan's position on disputed territories.

"Knowledge workers" need a back-up plan as artificial intelligence keeps getting better.

When Ukraine gets bulldozed into accepting a ceasefire on the capitulatory terms Putin might accept, Trump’s America will dismiss complaints...

Rice from the stockpile is expected to hit shelves from around the end of the month.

An estimated 100,000 people died on March 10, 1945, after about 300 U.S. B-29 bombers dropped bombs on Tokyo.

The monument is inscribed with the words, "We will never forget that day."