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Tokyo police arrested a man, 74, for allegedly stabbing a woman in a restaurant in Asakusa on Monday (TBS News) At 3:30 p.m., police received a tip from an employee at the restaurant, located near Asakusa Station on the Tsukuba Express Line, about a female ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese company is hoping to attract workers to the country's understaffed demolition industry through the medium of bulging muscles. While it may have an unfashionable 1970s ring to it, the Nagoya-based Crassone company recently held a "macho ... ( read original story ...)

NAGOYA, Japan, June 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The first Japanese-assembled F-35A was unveiled at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Komaki South F-35 Final Assembly and Check Out (FACO) facility here today. The Japan F-35 FACO is operated by MHI with ... ( read original story ...)

YOKOHAMA – A 14-year-old in Osaka Prefecture has become the first person in Japan arrested for allegedly creating ransomware, police said. The third-year junior high school student is suspected of combining free encryption programs to create the malware ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — The U.S. energy secretary has reassured Japan that his country is committed to tackling environmental issues and to promoting clean energy even though the country is leaving the Paris accord. Japanese officials say Energy Secretary Rick ... ( read original story ...)

However, with no news on whether there will bee a "Tokyo Ghoul" season 3 or not, and when it will arrive if it is really happening, fans can only wonder if Ken Kaneki will, indeed, be known as Haise Sasaki in the next season of the anime series. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Japan could hold its first referendum on revising its pacifist constitution next year, a historic step which if successful would cement Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s conservative legacy but risks splitting the public and worrying China and South Korea. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- A Japanese town conducted an evacuation drill Sunday amid rising fear that a North Korean ballistic missile could hit Japanese soil. More than 280 residents and schoolchildren from Abu, a small town with a population of just over 3,400 on Japan's ... ( read original story ...)

Four-time World Touring Car champion Yvan Muller believes teams should accept responsibility for the spate of punctures in last weekend's Nurburgring Nordschleife round, as blaming supplier Yokohama is "too easy". Erstwhile WTCC leader Tiago Monteiro ... ( read original story ...)

A town in western Japan conducted an evacuation drill Sunday amid rising fear that a North Korean ballistic missile could hit Japanese soil. More than 280 residents and schoolchildren from Abu, a small town with a population of just over 3,400 on Japan's ... ( read original story ...)

The Foreign Ministry says Japanese visitors should "pay close attention to the ... Trump began tweeting about the attacks an hour or so after initial news reports. One tweet read: "We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us ... ( read original story ...)

adding that news about North Korea and missile tests is always in newspapers and on TV. Sunday's evacuation drill in this town of 3,500 people some 760 km (475 miles) west of Tokyo involved a simulated North Korean missile attack as more Japanese towns and ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - - Japan could hold its first referendum on revising its pacifist constitution next year, a historic step which if successful would cement Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's conservative legacy but risks splitting the public and worrying China ... ( read original story ...)

Japan has issued a travel advisory warning its nationals to ... Trump began tweeting about the attacks an hour or so after initial news reports. One tweet read: "We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. ( read original story ...)

A FULL list of 2020 Tokyo Olympics medal events will be finalised by the IOC executive board next week, one month ahead of schedule. Among more than 60 proposals, 3-on-3 basketball is an expected favourite after all were analysed by an International ... ( read original story ...)

"Cartivator", a start-up group of about 30 engineers including some young Toyota employees, started to develop a flying car "SkyDrive" in 2014 with the help of crowdfunding. Head of Cartivator, Tsubasa Nakamura, said that while the car was still at ... ( read original story ...)