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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.

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. ⠀...

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

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan plans to require day nurseries, kindergartens and schools to use a government system to confirm that those applying to work the

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) -- The small band of soldiers gather outside to share cigarettes and war stories, sometimes casually and sometimes with a degree of

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese animation art director Nizo Yamamoto, renowned for his background illustrations for numerous Studio Ghibli and other films,

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....

(AP) -- Human-caused global warming made July hotter for four out of five people on Earth, with more than 2 billion people feeling climate change-boos

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The average life expectancy of Japanese people declined in 2022 for the second straight year, affected significantly by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the health ministry.

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.

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.

YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) -- Services resumed Sunday after over 1,000 passengers were trapped for nearly two hours in a train Saturday night near Tokyo, with some complaining of heatstroke and hyperventilation after it crashed into a power pole that had fallen onto the tracks, local authorities said.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The government plans to open a hotline for male sex victims possibly in September as part of emergency steps unveiled Wednesday, with Japan's top male talent agency hit by sexual abuse claims surfacing against its late founder Johnny Kitagawa.

KYOTO -- A man accused of carrying out an arson attack on a Kyoto Animation studio in 2019 that claimed 36 lives admitted to charges of arson and murder as his lay judge trial opened in the Kyoto District Court on Sept. 5.

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....

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

SAPPORO (Kyodo) -- The mother of a woman who was arrested for allegedly mutilating the corpse of a decapitated man found in a Sapporo hotel room earlier this month said her daughter was previously involved in a violent incident with him, investigative sources said Wednesday.

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.

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.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An elderly husband and wife were found dead in their Tokyo home Saturday, with police suspecting they may have died of heatstroke as

UTSUNOMIYA -- The Tochigi Labor Bureau announced on July 24 the work-related death of a man due to heatstroke, the first of its kind in the eastern Japan prefecture in eight years.

SAPPORO -- A human head was found on July 24 at the home of a doctor and his daughter, who were arrested in connection with the discovery of a decapitated body at a Sapporo hotel on July 2, investigative sources said.