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Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and CEO Sam Altman's top lieutenant, disclosed in court Monday that his stake in the ...

Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force's regiment at Camp Nerima in Tokyo scrapped a new logo created by one of its members using ...

The western Japan city of Sakai, the birthplace of tea master Sen no Rikyu (1522-1591), is moving ahead with plans for ...

Japan's ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi may be tempted to renege on its promise of realizing ...

Big repair work on the five-story pagoda at Rurikoji temple in Yamaguchi has finished. The pagoda is a national treasure and ...

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The U.S. military said it fired on Iranian forces and sank six small boats targeting civilian ships as it moved to ...

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A genre known as "healing novels," or stories that soothe and comfort the hearts of readers, is becoming a global trend. One ...

The 67-year-old is symbolic of efforts by the western Japanese city of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture, long known primarily ...

A driver plowed into people in a busy shopping area in the center of the German city of Leipzig on Monday afternoon, leaving ...