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Japan attacker Takefusa Kubo was named man of the match as Real Sociedad saw off Benfica 1-0 away from home on Tuesday to go top of Group D in the Champions League after three games. Kubo was a constant menace playing on the right wing for the Spanish side, who edged their Portuguese counterparts thanks to Brais Mendez's…

U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission Raymond Greene, center, delivers a speech as Japanese Parliamentary Vice Minister for Defense Kimi Onoda, left, and Embassy of the Philippines Charge d'Affaires Robespierre Bolivar, right, listen in during an opening session of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on U.S.…

The U.S. state of Hawaii is working with its national and Japanese immigration authorities to create a system that allows Japanese tourists to complete immigration and customs procedures before departing their country, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said recently. Speaking in an interview with Kyodo News, Green said the new…

Japan’s government has “declared a war on floppy disks”. Decades after the unwieldy magnetic storage disks became obsolete and were phased out globally, Japan’s digital ministry has announced that it will finally do away with floppy disks and other outdated technology in a bid to modernise its bureaucracy. In a press conference this week,…

Vinson Chiu (L)/Jennie Gai compete during the mixed doubles first round match between Vinson Chiu/Jennie Gai of the United States and Guo Xinwa/Zhang Shuxian of China at the BWF World Championships 2022 in Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 23, 2022. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu) Ties Van Der Lecq/Debora Jille(L) compete during the mixed doubles second round match…

A 20-meter-tall Christmas tree is illuminated with about 150,000 LED lights in Hakodate on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Dec. 1, 2023. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. ---------- Japan gets "fossil" award again as climate action slammed DUBAI - An…

The Japanese and South Korean leaders agreed Thursday to respond jointly and trilaterally with the United States to North Korea's nuclear posturing as they vowed to communicate closely about regional and global challenges, in the latest sign of a thawing in relations long marred by wartime history. Meeting for the seventh…

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at a press conference in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 2022. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Saturday he will make prospective Cabinet ministers review and clarify links to a religious group under the spotlight since the killing of a former Japanese premier, when he…

A piece of wreckage from a crashed Osprey military aircraft was handed over to U.S. military Sunday, a southwestern Japanese town said, as an around-the-clock search continued for seven crew missing in nearby waters. The wreckage was collected by local fishermen, according to the town of Yakushima, after the tilt-rotor…

Exactly 76 years ago, on August 6, 1945, the United States launched a nuclear attack on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Both cities were almost completely destroyed. More than 2 lakh people lost their lives and those who survived, their lives were made worse…