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Air Force Ospreys assigned to the Japan-based 353rd Special Operations Wing began flying again Tuesday, seven months a deadly crash killed eight airmen. ( read original story ...)

The chief judge of the Tsu District Court's civil division filed a lawsuit against the government on July 2, claiming that his salary reduct ... ( read original story ...)

Ayumu Yokoyama scored on a long-range one-on-one with keeper William Popp to lift relegation-threatened Sagan Tosu to a 1-0 away win against Yokohama F Marinos in the J-League first division on ... ( read original story ...)

Athletes at the last Summer Olympics remember the sadness and longing of competing with nearly no one in the stands, thanks to pandemic-era restrictions in Tokyo three years ago. Not just zero ... ( read original story ...)

The Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition announced on July 2 that it had received 16,828 applications for 600-plus available posit ... ( read original story ...)

Expo 2025 will host 161 countries and regions from April 13 to Oct. 13 with the theme “Designing Future Society for Our Lives.” The 155-hectare grounds are under construction on Yumeshima, an ... ( read original story ...)

Athletes at the last Summer Olympics remember the sadness and longing of competing with nearly no one in the stands, thanks to pandemic-era restrictions in Tokyo three years ago. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks rose Wednesday for the fourth straight trading day, buoyed by buying of technology and exporter issues on the back of th ... ( read original story ...)

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa - The governor of Okinawa was scheduled to visit Tokyo on Wednesday to file protests regarding two U.S. service members that were indicted for alleged sexual crimes this year. Gov ... ( read original story ...)

The yen hit a fresh 38-year trough against the dollar and a record low to the euro on Wednesday, as the currency continued its downward grind, with Japanese officials largely remaining on the ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese Transport and Tourism Ministry has a crazy idea to increase logistics efficiency, reduce road traffic, and avoid the increasingly dramatic labor shortage crisis the Asian nation is ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernise the bureaucracy.By ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's top court has ruled as unconstitutional a defunct eugenics law which saw 16,500 disabled people forcibly sterilised between the 1950s and 1990s. The Supreme Court also ordered the government ... ( read original story ...)

Blackstone and MBK Partners said on Wednesday the U.S. private equity firm is selling Japanese drugmaker Alinamin Pharmaceutical to the North Asian buyout fund.The deal size would be 350 billion yen ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s annual pay negotiations ended with the highest raises in more than three decades, according to the final tally of the country’s biggest union group, confirming an upward trend in wages sought ... ( read original story ...)

Japan will introduce a new type of floating-rate note that helps investors mitigate the risk from rising bond yields, two government sources told Reuters, a sign policymakers are gearing up for ... ( read original story ...)