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North Korean Defense Minister Kang Sun Nam sharply criticized the Camp David meeting among the United States, South Korea and Japan and vowed his country would take a 'pre-emptive' response. ( read original story ...)

Fish dolls with radioactive signs are seen during a rally against the Japanese government's plan to release wastewater from the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean at Gwang ( read original story ...)

One rail line in Japan’s capital is installing machines that will permit passengers to pay their fare with credit cards rather than the usual pre-paid passes. ( read original story ...)

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Richardson is one of the highest profile names in American track and field. But she missed out on the Tokyo Olympics after a controversial — and archaic — ruling by the World Anti-Doping Agency. ( read original story ...)

Tournaments for the Basketball World Cup held in Okinawa will begin Friday, despite a North Korean spy satellite launch attempt that prompted an evacuation alert in Japan. ( read original story ...)

NAGOYA >> A red-and-yellow checkered pattern has been painted on a road preceding a pedestrian crossing in Chiryu, Aichi prefecture. ( read original story ...)

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean police arrested 16 people on Thursday for entering a building housing the Japanese embassy in Seoul, carrying off and bundling some into a bus after banners were unfurled to protest Tokyo's release of waste water from its Fukushima plant. ( read original story ...)

South Korea Foreign Minister Park Jin and his U.S. and Japan counterparts on Thursday "strongly condemned" a North Korean rocket launch which they said was a ballistic missile disguised as a space rocket, ( read original story ...)

China announced Thursday it was banning all seafood from Japan in response to Tokyo’s decision to begin releasing treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant, dramatically ... ( read original story ...)

In a new TikTok video, North West danced and sang along to "American Boy," the 2008 hit from Estelle featuring a verse from her dad Kanye West. Take a look at her outfit that paid homage to one of ... ( read original story ...)

A man brandishing a knife was arrested by police in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district on early morning Thursday, August 24. The man in his forties pointed a 15-cm kitchen knife at a female police officer at ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks gained for the fourth consecutive day Thursday, led by heavyweight semiconductor-related shares following positive earnings from U.S. chip giant Nvidia Corp. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock ... ( read original story ...)

SBI Global Asset Management Co. plans to target retail investors with two new mutual funds for Japanese government bonds, a rare launch that shows activity revving up as the central bank loosens its grip on yield control. ( read original story ...)

Japan expects a "significant" impact from seafood import ban by Hong Kong and Macau due to the upcoming release of treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant, an official from the Ministry of Agriculture, ( read original story ...)

Japan Airlines was crowned the best airline in the world. Singapore Airlines, another airline from Asia, was ranked in second place. ( read original story ...)