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The government of Ishikawa Prefecture has built an accommodation hub at Noto Airport for government officials from across Japan. The container-style facility will house people arriving to help after the Noto Peninsula earthquake. Around 1,000 officials pour in daily from municipalities nationwide, and securing lodging has…

A pair of Vietnamese technical intern trainees make a bed in a hotel in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, on July 30, 2023. (Mainichi/Haruna Okuyama) TOKYO -- The Japanese government made a decision during a Cabinet meeting on March 29 to include four more areas under the "specified skilled worker" residency status and…

The Japanese government plans to better protect the public in an emergency, such as a contingency in Taiwan. Officials have decided on a basic policy for building new shelters in parts of Okinawa Prefecture, and improving other evacuation facilities nationwide. They say the new shelters will be designed to…

Japanese drug maker Kobayashi Pharmaceutical says two more people have died after taking its health supplements that contain "beni-koji" ingredients. "Beni-koji" is rice fermented with red yeast. Thursday's announcement brings to four the number of people who died after taking the supplements. More than 100…

The Japanese yen briefly fell to the 151.97-per-dollar level on Wednesday for the first time since July 1990. Investors are increasingly selling the yen and buying the dollar. The remarks of a BOJ policy board member are also having an influence. He said in a speech that he thinks the relaxed monetary environment…

People across India have celebrated the arrival of spring at Hindu temples, turning the air into an array of colors. The spring festival of Holi is known as a colorful event when people spatter each other with colored powders and dyed water. At a temple in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, a crowd was seen…

Russian authorities have charged four suspects with terrorism over Friday's deadly attack at a concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow. The Russian Investigative Committee says 137 people died in the incident in the city of Krasnogorsk. Health officials say 182 are undergoing treatment at hospitals.…

Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force has completed the deployment of all its amphibious operation units tasked with defending the country's remote islands. The GSDF Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade was established in 2018 and has been deployed in stages. The brigade's main missions include recapturing far-off…

Japan conceded a late winner to suffer a 4-3 defeat away to Brazil in a women's football international friendly on Thursday. Jun Endo's penalty and a well-taken goal from Mina Tanaka got Nadeshiko Japan level late in the second half, but Priscila Flor floated in the winner for Brazil deep in the stoppage time at Neo Quimica…

Photo taken on March 6, 2023 shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Futabacho, Futabagun of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)TOKYO, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Japan on Thursday started the third round of release of nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific…