The Japanese education ministry's human resources committee on July 30 broadly approved a plan to limit the recipients of ...

The Kyoto Prefecture city of Kyotango on July 31 called for confirmation of the facts surrounding a joint Japan-U.S. military ...

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Japan logged its hottest July for the third year in a row, with average temperatures 2.89 C above normal, the weather agency ...

Ito Mayor Maki Takubo has reversed her decision to resign amid allegations she falsified her academic credentials, and will ...

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For weeks, President Donald Trump was promising the world economy would change on Friday with his new tariffs in place. It ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the construction of a freight station near the Chinese border to support a ...

Tactile paving for people with visual impairments in Japan has recently been enhanced with audio guidance, as the develope ...

An association for Korean atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima held its first-ever memorial ceremony on Saturday to honor ...

SpaceX delivered a fresh crew to the International Space Station on Saturday, making the trip in a quick 15 hours.