A knife-wielding man kills a woman at a Tokyo Pokemon shop before taking his own life

A man brandishing a knife stabbed a woman in a Pokemon store in downtown Tokyo before turning the knife on himself, leaving ...

Japan's ispace delays NASA-sponsored moon landing to 2030

By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO, March 27 (Reuters) - Japanese spacecraft startup ispace said on Friday it will further delay a U.S.
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Japan to boost coal-fired power as Mideast war causes energy turmoil

Japan's government plans to temporarily lift restrictions on coal-fired power plants as it seeks to ease an energy crunch caused by the Middle East war, officials said on Friday. But Yoko Mulholland ...

Japan: Tokyo sakura season begins with Ueno Park picnics

Japan officially entered cherry blossom season in Tokyo on Thursday after the Japan Meteorological Agency confirmed the first ...

As cherry blossom season begins across Japan, expert urges caution amid toppling trees

As cherry blossoms begin to bloom across Japan, concerns are rising after a tree fell over and injured a visitor at Kinuta ...
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Japan shifts focus to oil in unorthodox scramble to talk up yen

TOKYO >> Japan is weighing a controversial plan to arrest the yen’s slide: stepping into oil futures markets, sources say, as ...
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From the archives: Ethel Kennedy rings a bell in Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 5, 1962: Ethel Kennedy, wife of the U.S. attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, swings a wooden boom to ring ...

Japan says beginning release of state oil reserves

TOKYO: Japan said it had started to release another part of its strategic oil reserves Thursday as it looks to temper the ...