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SAPPORO—A cool reproduction of the Catbus and sisters Satsuki and May in popular anime “My Neighbor Totoro” won the top prize in the citizen sculpture event at the 2023 Sapporo Snow Festival. There ... ( read original story ...)

When Yuko Honda, a professor at Japan's Sapporo University, tried to start a scholarship for Ainu Indigenous students and a club to celebrate their culture, she ran into fierce resistance. When she ... ( read original story ...)

Visitors flocked to Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo on Sunday to bid goodbye to a hugely popular female giant panda on her last day ... ( read original story ...)

Public support for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida edged down slightly in an opinion poll by the Mainichi newspaper, after a former aide made discriminatory remarks regarding the LGBTQ community ... ( read original story ...)

Thousands of Japanese fans on Sunday bade farewell to four beloved pandas which will be returned to China this week, with some visitors shedding tears.In Tokyo, the final viewing of Xiang Xiang, the ... ( read original story ...)

The city government and a local university here have agreed to work toward the real-world use of flexible, film-like Perovskite solar cell ... ( read original story ...)

A ward office in the Japanese capital will hold metaverse socializing events to help "hikikomori" recluses ease back into society by encourag･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

Built in 1933 and housing the headquarters of Osaka Gas Co. as well as facilities such as a gas appliance showroom, lecture hall, beauty salo ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi met his South Korean counterpart Park Jin on Saturday and reiterated the need for continued communications between the two countries to return to a "healthy relationship". ( read original story ...)

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Japan news every morning. Last year, Japan’s crime rate rose for the first time in 20 years, and did so quite sharply. Alarming, perhaps, and surely nothing to celebrate. Especially since ... ( read original story ...)

North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile Saturday which landed in Japan's exclusive economic zone, Seoul and Tokyo said, after Pyongyang warned of a strong response to upcoming US-South Korean military drills. The launch, Pyongyang's first ... ( read original story ...)

Japan and China will hold security talks next week, Japanese foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said after meeting his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on ... ( read original story ...)

North Korea launched a ballistic missile early Saturday afternoon, according to the Japanese and South Korean governments. The missile landed a short while later in the East Sea. The Japanese prime ... ( read original story ...)