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The crew pointed a gun at the Japanese fisheries vessel, forcing it to withdraw, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference. The incident happened last Friday about 500 kilometers (310 miles) west of Japan's northern coast in an area ... ( read original story ...)

Japan hanged two death-row inmates Thursday morning ... when a man was hanged for killing two women in Kumamoto Prefecture. Kaneda told a news conference following the 2016 execution that the punishment was for “an extremely cruel case in which the ... ( read original story ...)

Kazuo Hoshi, 87, trekked with researchers searching for Japanese remains to repatriate them decades after World War II. Masako Watanabe/PDN ASAN, Guam — Hiking up the Asan hillside on a sunny Wednesday, 87-year-old Kazuo Hoshi barely broke a sweat. " ( read original story ...)

It’s actually not too different from the way people outside the country get their gaming news, but there are a few local twists. Game blogs made it big in the West slightly before they did in Japan, with the big ones coming online in around 2007 ... ( read original story ...)

Bamboo is getting attention these days as a versatile and sustainable material for housewares, so the timing is good for a Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit that explores Japan's ancient craft of basketry. "Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection" is ... ( read original story ...)

(CNN) — Maid cafes have become so embedded in Japan that it is hard to imagine a Tokyo without them. There are now more than 200 maid cafes in Japan, but the good news is that increased competition is making them much, much crazier. It's even become an ... ( read original story ...)

Some Tokyo stocks were in the spotlight on individual news. Women's wear company Honeys Holdings soared 9.3 per cent and was the seventh biggest gainer on the board after it forecast a 30.5 per cent increase in operating profit for the year through March 2018. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's public broadcaster NHK apologized Wednesday over a cartoon with Adolf Hitler's face that was printed on a T-shirt worn by a talk show guest. The black T-shirt worn by entrepreneur Takafumi Horie also carried a "No war" message on one side ... ( read original story ...)

(Kyodo News via AP) Abe had been visiting European leaders after attending the G-20 summit in Germany. Abe cancelled a visit to Estonia, the last leg of his European trip, and returned to Japan one day earlier than planned. He returned Tuesday and held a ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida wants to leave ... while retaining key ally Chief Cabinet Minister Yoshihide Suga and Finance Minister Taro Aso, Kyodo news agency said, quoting unidentified sources close to the matter. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO – Three more bodies were found Wednesday in southwest Japan, potentially raising the death toll from last week's heavy rains to 28, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the hardest-hit areas. Two deaths have been confirmed, and a third body is ... ( read original story ...)

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cherished goal of revising Japan's pacifist constitution has become more difficult to achieve after a plunge in his popularity and the erosion of public trust, a ruling party lawmaker said on Wednesday. Support for Abe has ... ( read original story ...)

BRUSSELS – Japan and the European Union exchanged a memorandum of understanding Tuesday on their cooperation to remove terms that restrict the resale of liquefied natural gas from LNG import contracts. The cooperation deal, also aimed at making the LNG ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Kyodo News agency said the scammers phoned victims in Japan. It said the 35 were detained in the southeastern province of Fujian earlier this month and Japanese authorities alerted on July 3. ( read original story ...)

NEW YORK – Japan has joined an international convention for tackling transnational organized crime after putting into force a law penalizing the planning of a range of crimes. Tokyo submitted to the United Nations in New York an instrument of acceptance ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese pensioner accused of killing three partners and attempting to murder a fourth has told a court that she fatally poisoned her husband. Chisako Kakehi was arrested in 2014 and went on trial in Kyoto late last month. Her lawyers have pleaded not ... ( read original story ...)