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Japanese Olympic champion Daiki Hashimoto claimed a second all-around men's title with a 86.132 total score on Thursday at the World Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp. ( read original story ...)

The wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun its second round of releasing treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. The process may take 17 days. ( read original story ...)

Sources say the northern Japanese city of Sapporo has decided to give up its bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. They say instead, the city intends to aim to host the Games in 2034 or ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese star Daiki Hashimoto has defended his title at the world gymnastics championship. The 22-year-old overcame an early mistake on floor exercise to become the first men's gymnast since 2015 to win back-to-back world all-around titles. ( read original story ...)

A team of researchers has made a breakthrough discovery in the world of Beyond 5G/6G (B5G/6G) signal transmission. Taku Nakajima and Kazuji Suzuki of Nagoya University in Japan, along with their ... ( read original story ...)

The announcement comes after a meeting between Markiian Dmytrasevych, Ukraine's deputy agriculture minister, and Mizuno Masayoshi, the director-general of the Export and International Affairs Bureau of Japan's Agriculture Ministry. ( read original story ...)

The Osaka District Court ruled last month that the central government, the Kumamoto prefectural government, and Chisso must pay a total of about 350 million yen, or about 2.35 million dollars, to the ... ( read original story ...)

Halloween street parties in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo have been banned due to fear of a possible crowd crushing disaster. ( read original story ...)

Regent, a startup developing electric seagliders to transport people and cargo, has raised a $60 million round of venture funding and struck a partnership with Japan Airlines to figure out how to bring the company’s flying electric ferries to the waterways of Japan. ( read original story ...)

It’s “Samurai Time” for Japan at the Rugby World Cup.The equation facing the Japanese is quite simple heading into their final pool game against Argentina in Nantes on Sunday.Essentially, it’s win or go home. ( read original story ...)

Japan will put up to 165 billion yen ($1.11 billion) into the United Nation's main fund for helping vulnerable countries cope with climate change, the country said on Thursday. ( read original story ...)

At least one country is considering giving up building its own pavilion for the 2025 Osaka world exposition amid soaring material costs, and intending to use a shared pavilion built by the organizer ... ( read original story ...)

Discover Sapporo like never before on a local-led tour of the city's hidden treasures and cultural delights. In this article, we'll introduce you to a curated selection of fun Sapporo tours led by ... ( read original story ...)

The operator of YouTube has not responded to a request from the Osaka Municipal Government to delete a video containing hate speech against Korean residents in Japan, the city has announced.The video ... ( read original story ...)

Ken Hasebe says ‘please don’t come’ after 2022 Itaewon tragedy in Seoul, in which more than 150 people died ... ( read original story ...)

The mayor of Tokyo’s Shibuya district asked Halloween partygoers to avoid its streets this year, fearing the post-pandemic return of tourists may lead to chaotic mobs and crowd crushes like the fatal ... ( read original story ...)