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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Thursday embarked on a four-day trip to the United Arab Emirates to attend a U.N. conference on climate change, during which he is expected to hold talks with Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Kishida is slated to take part in a summit-level gathering of the 28th session of the…

Newly-married couples attend a group wedding in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, July 31, 2011. (Xinhua/Ji Chunpeng) TOKYO, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- One in four couples who got married in the past year in Japan met through matching apps, the same proportion as those who met at work, a recent survey conducted by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. has…

Nakagawa Miyu (R) of Japan spikes the ball during the final match between China and Japan in the 2022 AVC Cup for Women at the Philsports Arena in Pasig City, the Philippines, Aug. 29, 2022. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali) MANILA, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- China's women's volleyball team lost to Japan 25-23, 25-21, 19-25, 25-16 to come out runner-up in the…

In a rare moment in the international spotlight, Laos was the topic of two articles published by major world media outlets in early October, although not with the sort of headlines the ruling communist party wanted to read.  The BBC ran a piece on Oct. 8 under the banner: “‘I feel hopeless’: Living in Laos on…

Japan's tallest skyscraper opened in the heart of Tokyo on Friday, with visitors on its first business day expressing their excitement about the capital's new nature-rich 330-meter landmark. Some 30 million people are expected to visit the Azabudai Hills Mori JP Tower and its surrounding facilities each year, said Mori…

TOKYO: Japan on August 6,  marked the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima that took place in the final days of the Second World War.  A moment of silence was observed at 8:15 a.m., the exact time a uranium bomb dropped from a US bomber exploded over the city on August 6, 1945, killing over 140,000 people by the end of the year…

Ozeki Kirishima said Monday that winning the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament under the name he inherited from his stablemaster made the victory extra special. The 27-year-old from Mongolia is on the path for promotion to sumo's highest rank, yokozuna, after clinching his second Emperor's Cup, and first as an ozeki, at the…

This July 26, 2018 file photo shows the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology building in Tokyo. (Mainichi) TOKYO -- The full-scale implementation of digital textbooks is set to begin in the 2024 academic year in English classes for fifth grade to third-year middle school students in Japan.…

A full-scale model of a jungle cave is displayed at the memorial museum of Shoichi Yokoi in Nagoya's Nakagawa Ward on Sept. 3, 2022. (Mainichi/Koji Hyodo) NAGOYA -- The memorial museum here for the late Shoichi Yokoi, a former Japanese soldier who lived in the mountains of Guam for 28 years without knowing the…

Japan and Britain pledged Tuesday to deepen their security partnership in the Indo-Pacific while also expressing concern over China's assertive military posture in the region. The Japanese and British foreign and defense ministers meanwhile reaffirmed their support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia's invasion and…