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The Japanese Parliament approved a record $56 billion defense budget proposal for fiscal 2024 along with revisions allowing it to send ammunition to the United States and potentially aid Ukraine's war efforts. ( read original story ...)

The move by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's administration comes as Western countries run low on supplies of ammunition to send to Ukraine. ( read original story ...)

STORY: The Santas - mostly office workers from the area - traded their business attire for Santa suits to take part in the event at the Marunouchi district near Tokyo Station.Participating Santas were split up into three groups - one that gave out small ornaments as gifts in a shopping mall, ( read original story ...

Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party replaced two of its top executives as part of a purge related to investigations into alleged political slush funds. ( read original story ...)

The fleet of Ospreys is still temporarily grounded in order to investigate the “causal factors,” of the Nov. 29 crash. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s defense spending would increase more than 16% next year under a record military budget that is intended to accelerate the deployment of long-range cruise missiles that can hit targets in China or North Korea. ( read original story ...)

A congressional oversight committee has launched an investigation into the V-22 Osprey program following a deadly crash in Japan, which killed eight Air Force special operations service members ( read original story ...)

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have used artificial intelligence to discover a new method for understanding small defects called dislocations in polycrystalline materials, materials widely ... ( read original story ...)

World No.1 Iga Swiatek has welcomed back Rafael Nadal and Naomi Osaka and believes that their experience could help them win again. ( read original story ...)

The decision is a landmark for Japan, which has had a self-imposed ban on weapons exports for decades as a legacy of its desire to stay out of global conflicts following World War II. ( read original story ...)

Researchers at Nagoya University's Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences and the National Institute of Physiological Sciences in Japan have demonstrated how a specific type of neuron in the ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Toni hasn’t changed one bit since she reunited with her born-again Christian daughter, Angela White, formerly Blac Chyna, in May. You would think White’s transformative lifestyle would rub off ... ( read original story ...)