FUKUOKA -- A heated exchange broke out in front of a mosque in this southwest Japan city in September after members of a ...

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Japan's university system has long centred on engineering faculties led by manufacturing, resulting in a relative shortage of AI talent While humanoid robots from China and the US have captured the ...

For those trying to understand Japan’s plummeting birthrate – which some fear could eventually lead to Japanese people ceasing to ...

We all have certain gaps in our knowledge that are widely known to others. Everyone has their blind spots, and we can only hope they don’t emerge in embarrassing or damaging situations… or both, as ...

The Japanese government has posted a new video series describing how and why North Korea abducted Japanese citizens, in an ...

Gunmen opened fire just after 6.30 p.m. Sunday evening as hundreds of people attended the Chanukah by the Sea event to ...

Seismic activity remains high off the eastern coast of Aomori Prefecture following a magnitude-7.5 earthquake on Monday.

The atomic bomb proved to be the most devastating weapon used in any war, past or present, but was the United States justified in dropping two nuclear warheads on Japan for their unconditional ...

Haruki Murakami recently received two honors in New York for his contributions to literature and cultural exchange.

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Under the program, experiments were conducted on civilians to develop chemical and biological weapons. At least 3,000 people ...