Category: NEWS

A graphic listing numerous false and unsupported restrictions purportedly enforced by Japan on Islam and Muslims is being shared online. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Thousands of tons of dead sardines have washed up on a beach in northern Japan for unknown reasons, officials said Friday. The sardines and some mackerel washed ashore in Hakodate on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Thursday morning, creating a sliver blanket along a stretch of beach about a kilometer (0.6 ...

The U.S. military has announced it is grounding all of its Osprey V-22 helicopters, one week after eight Air Force Special Operations Command service members died in a crash off the coast of Japan ( read original story ...)

Electric eels are renowned for their ability to generate up to 860 volts of electricity, a power potential previously harnessed to run machines ... ( read original story ...)

Nintendo has canceled an upcoming video game event and postponed several others because of persistent threats to the company, its workers and players. ( read original story ...)

Demand to open bars in Tokyo's LGBTQ+ district is high, despite fears ageing buildings could be torn down and repurposed. ( read original story ...)

Two Danish artisans have helped refit the wood blades of an old windmill that is the symbol of a theme park near Tokyo. ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and several key Cabinet ministers have been grilled by opposition lawmakers in parliament over a widening fundraising scandal that threatens to further drag down ... ( read original story ...)

After making nearly $1 billion at the global box office, 'Oppenheimer' will be released in Japan, the only nation to have an atom bomb dropped on it. ( read original story ...)

It can release up to 860 volts, which is enough to run a machine. In a recent study, a research group from Nagoya University in Japan found electric eels can release enough electricity to genetically ... ( read original story ...)

Former world number one Naomi Osaka is targeting the 2024 Paris Olympics and further Grand Slam crowns as she prepares to return to action. ( read original story ...)

Former world number one Naomi Osaka is targeting the 2024 Paris Olympics and further Grand Slam crowns as she prepares to return to action. ( read original story ...)

A "nervous" Naomi Osaka has targeted a place at next year's Paris Olympics and more Grand Slam titles after she makes her eagerly anticipated return to tennis. The 26-year-old former world number one ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's yen was on track for a fourth weekly gain on Friday as traders speculated the ultra-dovish Bank of Japan was moving closer to tightening monetary policy. ( read original story ...)

A search of four locations by authorities in this west Japan city on Dec. 7 turned up 16 types of products containing substances similar to t･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

A 58-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 16-year-old female high school student who was found dead in an apartment in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture, apparently after a cough medicine ... ( read original story ...)