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Japan, the only country to have suffered atomic bomb attacks, has repeatedly called for a global ban on nuclear weapons. Yet it sided with the nuclear powers and NATO in refusing to sign a treaty to ban such weapons during the U.N. General Assembly meeting ... ( read original story ...)

They star in a new Hollywood film. The emoji is heir to a tradition of pictographic writing stretching back millennia to Egyptian hieroglyphics and the ideograms used to write Chinese and Japanese. Despite their ubiquity, they started in 1998 with one man ... ( read original story ...)

(Madoka Ogawa/Kyodo News via AP) Without a plutonium-burning fast reactor, Japan has resorted to burning MOX, a mixture of plutonium and uranium fuel, in conventional reactors. Only three reactors, including two at Takahama, use MOX, a fraction of planned ... ( read original story ...)

A 6.1 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Japan, just 320 kilometres east of Fukushima nuclear plant. The American scientific agency, which tracks natural disasters around the world, said the quake occurred 281 kilometres from Kamaishi ... ( read original story ...)

A powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Japan near Fukushima. Details of the extent of the damage have not yet emerged regarding the quake which hit 281km South East of Kamaishi. A similar earthquake back in 2011 killed 15,894 ... ( read original story ...)

Dozens of descendants of Japanese soldiers killed in World War II have headed to Hawaii to pay respects to American war dead. Nippon Izokukai, the Bereaved Family Association of Japan, is sending 36 children, grandchildren and other relatives of fallen ... ( read original story ...)

World No.8 Srikanth, who clinched back-to-back titles in Indonesia and Australia this year, demolished Hong Kong's Hu Yun 21-12 21-11 within half an hour to make it to the final eight of the $325,000 Japan Open Super Series, on Thursday. The Indian will ... ( read original story ...)

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has hit off the coast of Japan, the US Geological Survey says. The agency's website says the quake hit early on Thursday about 283 kilometres southeast of the city of Kamaishi and more than 322km east of Fukushima. A massive 2011 ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - With no platform, no party leader and not even a formal name, a nascent political party linked to popular Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is preparing for a snap election that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to call for next ... ( read original story ...)

NAGOYA: The estranged wife of a former violin maker broke into his house and destroyed 54 violins and 70 bows after they fought over payments for child support, prosecutors said on Tuesday. In the opening session of the trial of Qin Yue at the Nagoya ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo-The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., is pleased to announce that its 'YOKOHAMA Forever Forest' project, started back in 2007, achieved its goal of 500,000 trees planted on September 14. Chairman Tadanobu Nagumo, President Masataka Yamaishi joined others to ... ( read original story ...)

UPDATE ONE: The Sony Tokyo Game Show 2017 will be kicking off in little less than an hours time, bringing with it new PS4 news and games reveals. The PlayStation TGS live stream kicks off at 8am today, with an English YouTube embed available to view at the ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei index on Tuesday morning rose past ... Japanese politics may also be contributing to the gains, Matsuno said, as news reports say Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering a possible snap election next month as he sees recovering ... ( read original story ...)

Dragon's Crown Pro coming to PS4 Gungrave announced for PSVR Zone of the Enders remake coming to PS4 with PSVR support Final Fantasy 9 released for PS4 in Japan New Monster Hunter World gameplay and release date announced The show was a steady stream of ... ( read original story ...)

The Sony PlayStation Tokyo Game show will include a live stream that kicks off at 8am, on Tuesday September 19. The Youtube embed supplied by Sony appears to confirm that there will either be English captions, or voiceover for the TGS 2017 reveals. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan on Tuesday moved a mobile missile-defence system on the northern island of Hokkaido to a base near recent North Korean missile flyover routes. Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera said a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor unit was ... ( read original story ...)