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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."

Countries can’t simultaneously control their currencies, independently set interest rates and allow capital to move freely across borders —...

The annual Freedom Shield drills will run until March 20, though live-fire exercises are suspended after South Korean jets mistakenly bombed...

There is no danger of the fire spreading further and firefighters will work to determine if it is has been extinguished, Ofunato Mayor Kiyos...

Aging plantations and slow replanting have led to lower yields even as demand for palm oil rises from various sectors.

Compound weather, when two or more concurrent events that collectively yield a result worse than if each had occurred on its own, are occurr...

Change of Control clauses, which had been rare in Japan, are being increasingly sought by investors.

Those age 65 and older account for 43.9% of the residents in such housing, 18.7 percentage points higher than the ratio of elderly in the ci...

Russia has retaken about two-thirds of the territory Ukraine seized last summer in the Kursk region of Russia, but at a fearful cost in live...

The operator of 7-Eleven stores says that it is doing so, and has rebuffed Artisan Partners Asset Management’s assertions of conflicts of in...

The triennial Upper House election comes after the LDP-Komeito ruling coalition lost its majority in the Lower House in last year's general...

Clashes that a war monitoring group said had already killed over 1,000 people in Syria continued for a fourth day.

The U.S. president's on-again, off-again tariff threats have roiled financial markets and stoked unease among consumers.

Carney takes the reins at a time when the White House is creating upheaval in the global economy — and with U.S. trading partners — with inc...

Mai Ishizawa’s debut novel, which won one of the three Akutagawa Prizes awarded in 2021, is also her first to be released in English, transl...

Germany, due to its Second World War past, has bound itself to non-nuclear defense in a number of international treaties but participates in...

More than 700 people were indicted on embezzlement and other charges by 2015, but the issue was later found to stem from flaws in Fujitsu's...

More than 1,000 people had been killed in the two days of fighting in the Mediterranean coastal region in some of the worst violence for yea...