Top S. Korean court orders reparations for WWII forced labor
Japan's government criticizes the South Korean top court's decision ordering Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal to pay repara...
read morePrincess Ayako weds commoner
Japan's Princess Ayako, the third daughter of the late Prince Takamado, ties the knot with commoner Kei Moriya.
read moreJapan satellite to monitor CO2 emissions
Japan launches a new satellite with enhanced capabilities to monitor global warming gas emissions to shed light on clima...
read moreAbe, Li vow to improve ties
Visiting Japanese Prime Minister Abe and Chinese Premier Li agree to further develop economic relations.
read moreToo much plastic
Japan produces more plastic garbage than it can process domestically, so some ends up as microplastics in the country's ...
read moreJapan, China mark 40 years of treaty
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets China's leaders in Beijing to mark 40 years of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship.
read moreFreed journalist Junpei Yasuda returns to Japan
Freelance journalist Junpei Yasuda comes back to Japan after being held captive by an armed militant group in Syria.
read moreJapanese freelance journalist freed
Junpei Yasuda, a freelance journalist held by an armed group in Syria for more than three years, is freed in Turkey.
read moreJapan to end aid to China
Japan will end official development assistance to the world's second largest economy China after 40 years.
read moreSyria's eastern Ghouta faces long recovery
Syria's eastern Ghouta district remains devastated six months after the Assad regime took over the rebel stronghold in A...
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