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Thirteen European countries and Japan have condemned Israel’s decision earlier in the month to approve 19 new Jewish ...

The Japanese government will tighten regulations and end financial support for large-scale solar power projects to protect ...

take aim at something try to deal with an issue; criticise something. She took aim at her rival for the job promotion by ...

Japan's government revised up its economic forecast for the fiscal year to next March and projected that growth would ...

As overtourism strains Japan’s major cities, Gifu Prefecture offers travelers a slower, more intimate way to experience the ...

Japan’s beloved former Emperor Akihito is marking his 92nd birthday as his heart condition stabilizes, palace officials say, ...

Since the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, Japan has restarted 14 reactors of its plant that remain operable as it tries ...

On Dec. 23, 1948, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were hanged in Tokyo under sentence of ...

The Bank of Japan moved to slow inflation as the prime minister is borrowing more to fund an ambitious effort to build up ...

F or nigh on 1,000 years, the Japanese pirates have wreaked havoc…they respect only force, and their hearts are bursting with ...

Japan’s top pen maker Pilot has raised prices on its bestselling Frixion pen for the first time in nearly 20 years. CEO Fumio ...