Japan’s Nippon Foundation will spend $2 million to help move tens of thousands more Rohingya refugees to a remote island in Bangladesh and provide them with
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited a new semiconductor plant for which his government has pledged more than 1 trillion yen ($7 billion) of support to
Max Verstappen’s record-breaking dominance in Formula 1 resumed yesterday with his victory in the Japanese Grand Prix, leading almost the entire race on a sunny day in
Twenty-two historic artifacts that were looted following the Battle of Okinawa in World War II have been returned to Japan after a family from Massachusetts discovered
The head of the U.N. atomic agency told local Japanese representatives at a meeting in Fukushima on Wednesday that the ongoing discharge of treated radioactive wastewater at
Space One was aiming to be Japan’s first private sector success at putting a satellite into orbit. Online video showed the Kairos rocket blasting off in
The Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Japan’s Riken Yamamoto, who earns the field’s highest honor for what organizers called a long career focused on “multiplying
The number of babies born in Japan last year fell for an eighth straight year to a new low, government data showed this week, and
Japan’s first moon lander responded to a signal from Earth, suggesting it has survived a second freezing weeks-long lunar night, Japan’s space agency said yesterday. JAXA called the signal,
A leader of a Japan-based crime syndicate conspired to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in the belief that Iran would use it to make nuclear weapons,
A whale as long as a train car that died after straying into a port in Osaka last month is set to be buried until it naturally becomes a
Japan’s exports surged a stronger than expected nearly 12% in January, helped by robust demand for vehicles, auto parts and machinery. That helped the nation’s trade deficit shrink to
Hirotake Yano, who founded the retail chain Daiso known for its 100-yen shops, Japan’s equivalent of the dollar store, has died. He was 80. Yano
Japan’s economy is now the world’s fourth-largest after it contracted in the last quarter of 2023 and fell behind Germany. The government reported the economy
An unmanned lunar spacecraft has captured and transmitted data analyzing 10 lunar rocks, a greater-than-expected achievement that could help provide clues about the origin of the
Highly radioactive water leaked from a treatment machine at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but no one was injured and radiation monitoring shows no
The Ukrainian-born winner of this year’s Miss Japan beauty pageant and the contest’s organizers say she has renounced her title after a magazine published an article about her
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stressed yesterday he was determined to make a clear break from money politics as he renewed an apology for the latest major
A Japanese moon explorer is up and running yesterday after several tense days without the sunlight it needs to generate power. Japan’s first lunar mission hit its
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