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The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called for de-escalation in tensions amid China’s latest acts in the West Philippine Sea over the past two weeks, including the deployment of flares and ramming of a Filipino vessel. ( read original story ...)

Democratic Republic of Congo's government has asked Japan to donate at least 2 million doses of mpox vaccine, a senior official at Africa's top public health body and a Congolese official said on Tuesday. ( read original story ...)

An emotional Naomi Osaka made a triumphant US Open return by beating Jelena Ostapenko in a blockbuster first-round match. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO-YOKOHAMA remains the world’s largest science and technology cluster in 2024, though clusters in middle-income economies are seeing the fastest growth in the innovation sector, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The UN’s World Intellectual ... ( read original story ...)

Japan says a Chinese military intelligence-gathering aircraft entered its territorial airspace off remote islands in the East China Sea on Monday, the first time Tokyo has accused the People’s Liberation Army Air Force of an airspace violation and a new ... ( read original story ...)

Did you know that Rockstar briefly considered releasing a Grand Theft Auto game set in Tokyo? Speculation about a Japanese edition of the crime sandbox caper has been rife for several years, especially after Take-Two famously filed trademarks for a game ... ( read original story ...)

As the dust has settled from the 2024 Olympics in Paris, it has been reported that 30.6 million on average watched the Olympics, representing an 82 percent increase from the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, writes Hannah Miller for Bloomberg. The number was ... ( read original story ...)

Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed a rare, 17th-century Japanese samurai sword from the wreckage of a cellar that was destroyed during World War II.The team discovered the heavily corroded short sword, ( read original story ...)

However it is the 2018 final at Flushing Meadows between Williams and Naomi Osaka that will go down as one of the most remarkable - but not only for Osaka's breakthrough moment. The Japanese star is back in New York in 2024 - where she was also champion in ... ( read original story ...)

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 27 - The Amerigo Vespucci historic Italian navy training and sailing ship "is a symbol of the Italian system, which we as General Commissariat for Italy at the 2025 Expo Osaka bring as a crew to recount our country, make it better known ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO - On your next visit to Japan, you may wonder why some of its taxi drivers do not have their hands on the steering wheels. In November, Japan-based tech start-up Tier IV will launch the country’s first Level 4 self-driving taxi service. Level 4 ... ( read original story ...)