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Kishida said it was important to gain people’s trust and that the new Cabinet included only those who agreed to strictly review their ties to the Unification Church. ( read original story ...)

Japan has appointed a male minister to tackle the country’s falling birthrate. To deepen his understanding of the issue, minister Masanobu Ogura in turn tried out a “pregnancy belly”. Prime minister ... ( read original story ...)

Police in Sapporo, Hokkaido, have arrested a 26-year-old man on suspicion of assaulting his wife at their home. According to police, the suspect, a carpenter by profession, hit his wife, who is in her ... ( read original story ...)

Yushi Shimizu drove in his first run of the season with a 10th-inning single that lifted the Pacific League's last-place Nippon Ham ... ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government reported 31,247 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday. The daily tally in the capital is down 4,092 from a week earlier and down week-on-week for a sixth straight day. The ... ( read original story ...)

Today’s guest columnist is Christophe Dubi, Olympic Games executive director at the International Olympic Committee. When the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games were postponed by a year as a consequence of the ... ( read original story ...)

While the capital has seen a downward trend in daily cases this week, other parts of the nation are posting record numbers. ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus agreed to establish a new Japan-based affiliate of the WHO, Japanese news agency Kyodo ... ( read original story ...)

The World Health Organization says Japan reported the highest number of new COVID-19 cases of any country in the world during the week through Sunday. Japan had the highest number of new cases in the ... ( read original story ...)

Next week kicks off with China activity data followed by growth data from Japan and a policy meeting in the Philippines ... ( read original story ...)

At the start of the 1600s, Japan's rulers feared that Christianity which had recently been introduced to the southern parts of the country by European missionaries would spread ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reshuffled his Cabinet on Wednesday in an apparent bid to distance his administration from the conservative ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The number of travelers heading to their hometowns or vacation spots for Japan's mid-August obon holiday period peaked on Aug. 11, but remained fewer than before the coronavirus pandemic. ( read original story ...)

The pair became so serious about their dream that they founded a "training school" here, offering aspirants a chance to swim like mermaids with the help of a tail fin. Striving to promote the joy of ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO. KAZINFORM - A series of strong earthquakes jolted Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido early Thursday, the weather agency said, issuing no tsunami warning, Kyodo reports. Local police ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s population suffered its largest drop since 2013 last year, falling to less than 126 million. The population fell by 726,342, or 0.57 per cent, from the ... ( read original story ...)