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TOKYO – A 25-year-old man has been served a fresh arrest warrant for allegedly creating a computer virus using generative artificial intelligence (AI), the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)'s cybercrime control division announced on May 28, in what is believed to be the first such case in Japan....

An official at the Kyoto District Legal Affairs Bureau who allegedly grabbed and kicked a subordinate for revealing the plot of the popular manga “Oshi no Ko” has been reported to public prosecutors on suspicion of assault, sources familiar with the case have disclosed....

China has sharply ramped up its production of cheap electric vehicles, solar panels, and batteries just as the Biden administration has pushed through legislation supporting many of those same industries in the United States. ⠀...

TOKYO – Japanese manga artist Akira Toriyama, famous around the world for the “Dragon Ball” series and “Dr. Slump,” among other works, died on March 1, publisher Shueisha Inc. has announced.

GINAN, Gifu -- The mayor of this central Japan town on Feb. 28 announced his intention to resign after an investigative committee confirmed he had sexually harassed female staff at least 99 times....

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The chairman of a subsidiary of Japanese major oil refiner Eneos Holdings Inc. has been dismissed over sexual harassment, the firm said Wednesday, in the third such incident within the corporate group since 2022.

HIBA -- A high number of teachers in east Japan's Chiba Prefecture have recently been slapped with disciplinary measures for sexual assault against their students or children.

TOKYO -- The disapproval rate for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet hit 79% in a Mainichi Shimbun nationwide opinion poll conducted on Dec. 16.

NIIGATA -- A symposium on making gender-neutral school uniforms inclusive of students in the LGBTQ+ community was held Nov. 18 in this central Japan prefectural capital.

GENEVA (AP) -- Chinese officials say they did not detect any "unusual or novel diseases" in the country, the World Health Organization said Thursday, following an official request by the U.N. health agency for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children.

WAKAYAMA -- The Wakayama prefectural teachers' union is demanding that foreign instructors who have passed a prefectural teachers' license exam be emp

NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday it will adopt Tesla Inc.'s charging standards for its electric vehicles to be sold in North Ameri

NAGASAKI -- Thirty-three Amazon Japan delivery workers in the Nagasaki area boycotted their jobs on the afternoon of Sept. 15, claiming that they were not paid incentives as promised when they received more packages during the shopping website's "Prime Day" sale in July, a labor union has revealed.

TOKYO -- A social welfare corporation based in the capital's Sumida Ward revealed on Sept. 28 that it is planning to establish a "baby hatch" at one of its hospitals in the ward in fiscal 2024 to anonymously accept infants whose parents are unable to raise them.

NEW YORK (AP) -- An appeals court Thursday rejected Donald Trump's bid to delay a civil trial in a lawsuit brought by New York's attorney general, all

TOKYO -- The Unification Church has published a protest against Japanese public broadcaster NHK, demanding that it stop airing and apologize for a program dealing with the religious group's recruitment methods.

DENVER (AP) -- Attorneys for former President Donald Trump argue that an attempt to bar him from the 2024 ballot under a rarely used "insurrection" clause of the Constitution should be dismissed as a violation of his freedom of speech.

FUKUSHIMA -- One of the three former Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) members who have been accused of indecently assaulting then colleague Rina Gonoi denied the allegations in a trial on Sept. 25 and insisted that Gonoi is "lying" about the damage.

TOKYO -- As the world witnessed record heat this summer and rain disasters become more frequent, thousands of people joined a climate protest event here on Sept. 18, calling for a society powered 100% by renewable energy with stricter climate policies and no nuclear power.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- China's military sent 103 warplanes toward Taiwan in a 24-hour period in what the island's defense ministry said Monday was a daily record in recent times.

NAGASAKI -- An English teacher whose employment contract with Nagasaki University was terminated just before he would have been eligible to claim an unfixed term is set to return to work indefinitely after a court settlement.

NAGASAKI -- An English teacher whose employment contract with Nagasaki University was terminated just before he would have been eligible to claim an unfixed term is set to return to work indefinitely after a court settlement.