Researchers in Japan are using Pair Go, a version of the ancient board game played in teams, to explore how humans and ...

I first thought about Japan as a place to visit in 2020. The pandemic had just started, and I suddenly had a lot more time on ...

Faced with a worsening shortage of bus drivers, a Hiroshima transport company has turned to Indonesia for help, hiring two ...

Omitama city started to use six tablets this month. The tablets have a translation app. People can use them at service ...

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A project is underway to reconstruct stone markers donated late in life by 19th-century Japanese explorer Matsuura Takeshiro ...

Malaysian police said late Friday they have arrested six Japanese men and a Malaysian for their suspected involvement in onlin ...

A junior high school student in Iwate Prefecture was arrested after allegedly spraying bear repellent at students after the ...

Japan's farm ministry on Friday began procedures to buy back 210,000 tons of rice to replenish government reserves drawn down ...

Russians on Friday began three days of voting in the country's first wartime parliamentary election, which features virtually ...

A Kyodo News poll showed Friday that the approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Cabinet rose 3.2 ...

The U.S. dollar jumped above 157 yen on Friday after two of the Bank of Japan's nine policy board members voted against an ...