Tokyo had a net migration gain of 65,219 people in 2025, but the margin declined by 14,066 people from the previous year, marking the first decline in four years, according to a government report ...

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Japan’s Nikkei share average climbed 3% on Tuesday, rebounding from a decline posted in the previous session, after the ...

Nineteen members of Japan’s delegation to the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics arrived at Milan Malpensa Airport in Italy on ...

A man confirmed to have contracted measles potentially came into contact with a number of people as he visited the Ito-Yokado Kokuryo store in Chofu, Tokyo, and the Sukesan Udon Adachi Shikahama ...

As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its grippers, it looks ...

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday that obtaining a Russian visa would be required for former residents seeking to visit the graves of relatives in the northern territories, effectively ...

An earthquake occurred in the water off Ibaraki Prefecture at 18:03 p.m. on Tuesday, and a 3 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 was recorded in Ibaraki, Fukushima and Tochigi prefectures.

Snow-capped camellia flowers are seen in the cold air at the Nonoichi Central Park in Nonoichi, Ishikawa Prefecture. The park was designated an International Camellia Garden of Excellence by the ...

Conger eels peek out of tubes resembling ehomaki sushi rolls at Sendai Umino-mori Aquarium in Sendai. Ehomaki, literally “lucky direction rolls,” are eaten while facing the year’s lucky direction on ...

A 13-year-old junior high school girl was struck from behind by a monkey on Monday on a road in Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, the prefectural police announced.

The successful test excavation of rare earth-bearing mud from the deep ocean floor by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) was a major step forward for Japan’s economic ...