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Japan’s parliament on Saturday enacted a law to restrict malicious donation solicitations by religious and other groups, which mainly targets the Unification Church, whose fundraising tactics and cozy ... ( read original story ...)

More than two decades on from the protocol, country shows enthusiasm for nuclear restarts over renewables ... ( read original story ...)

The Justice Ministry plans to bring charges against 22 prison officers in Nagoya for alleged assaults committed on three inmates, a source familiar with the situation said Saturday. The ministry is ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Naoya Inoue said Saturday that he intends to prove that he rules the bantamweight world when he faces England's Paul Butler for the undisputed title in Tokyo next week. ( read original story ...)

An 88-year-old man who survived the Tokyo Air Raid in the final phase of World War II has recounted his experience of the U.S. bombing in a n ... ( read original story ...)

Izmir Smajlaj was given a spot in the Tokyo Olympics after being named the winner of a 2021 competition in Albania ... ( read original story ...)

Bleacher Report catches you up on the latest news from the WWE Universe and All Elite Wrestling. Sasha Banks Reportedly Expected to Attend NJPW ... ( read original story ...)

An investigation has started regarding the repeated assaults at a prison in central Japan by inmates. The Nagoya Prison assaults on guards has led to a country-wide investigation. ( read original story ...)

Former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka has done away with her previous coping methods of 'powering through' adversity and is determined to prioritise her own obstacles ahead of tennis ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese government has launched a probe into the Unification Church, which could lead to it losing its legal status. ( read original story ...)

Japan's Justice Ministry disclosed Friday that more than 20 prison guards had repeatedly pushed, slapped and used other forms of physical violence against a group of inmates at a prison in central ... ( read original story ...)

Japan, Britain and Italy are merging their next-generation jet fighter projects in a ground-breaking partnership spanning Europe and Asia that is Japan’s first major industrial defense collaboration ... ( read original story ...)

Twenty-two officers at a central Japan prison repeatedly assaulted inmates from November last year to this August by spraying their f ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's government is set to raise defence spending by 1 trillion yen ($7.34 billion) to around 6.5 trillion yen in the next fiscal year as part of efforts to earmark 43 trillion yen for the five-year defence build-up plan, ( read original story ...)

This month's U.N. biodiversity talks in Montreal aim to hammer out a new, global agreement. But this isn't the first time governments have tried to halt environmental loss through agreed targets. ( read original story ...)

The season arrived later than usual in the Japanese capital this year, but its foliage is particularly glorious — as seen in these specially commissioned snapshots taken earlier this week ... ( read original story ...)