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Police in Osaka are looking for three men who assaulted and robbed another man outside an izakaya (Japanese pub) early Saturday morning. According to police, the incident occurred at around 3:30 a.m. ( read original story ...)

The 2025 Osaka world expo organizer is asking businesses to purchase 7 million advance tickets. Our site uses cookies and other technologies to give you the best possible experience. By using this ... ( read original story ...)

Japan pressed bankrupt Sri Lanka on Saturday to expedite its debt restructuring, including with its biggest creditor China, to stabilise the island nation's economy after an unprecedented crisis.China holds about 52 percent of Sri Lanka's bilateral credit, ( read original story ...)

South Korea has become the first foreign country to submit a basic plan for building its own pavilion at the 2025 World Exposition in ... ( read original story ...)

Prospective Heart of Midlothian forward Kyosuke Tagawa has apologised to Tokyo fans for leaving so soon after his return from his loan spell with Santa Clara but says he could not turn down a chance to play abroad permanently. ( read original story ...)

A University of Tokyo professor and his students have launched a project focusing on animals used in the Pacific War to better understand their roles in various aspects of war by digitally mapping out their photos. ( read original story ...)

The company is one of the global leaders in the tire industry and other rubber applications. Yokohama Rubber was the eighth largest tire manufacturer in the world, and when it acquired Trelleborg it ... ( read original story ...)

The delays for the construction of foreign pavilions for the Osaka Expo has made headlines recently, with negotiations between construction companies and foreign countries facing headwinds. ( read original story ...)

Japanese film "Hiroshima," in which some 88,000 residents of the atomic-bombed city appeared as extras, will be screened at a civic center in western Tokyo on July 30, in the hope that many people will learn about the production conveying the reality of damage from the nuclear attack. ( read original story ...)

Sri Lanka on Saturday invited Japan to resume investment in projects including power, roads and ports, after the Japanese foreign minister wrapped up the first high-level visit to the crisis-hit country in nearly four years. ( read original story ...)

The announcement, which Shinjiro Atae said he'd been wanting to make, is highly unusual in Japan where same-sex unions are not legal. ( read original story ...)

The city health center here on July 25 imposed a sales ban and recall of products from a local food trading company after coliform bacteria w･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

Just as Japan saw a substantial increase in foreign residents in 2022, it also registered a decline in its native population of approximately 800,000 people, marking the biggest drop on the country’s record. ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan on Friday took another step toward normalizing monetary policy—or did it? Add confusion to the list of risks from decades of policy experimentation by the central bank in the world’s third-largest economy, as investors decipher the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's population crisis continues to get worse by the year. New data released on Wednesday by Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs reveals that the number of Japanese nationals fell by more than 800, ( read original story ...)

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is gearing up to send the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, mission to the moon on an H-2A rocket on Aug. 26 Japan time (0034 GMT, 9:34 a.m. JST, or 8:34 p.m. EDT on Aug. 25). ( read original story ...)