Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi says she hopes to deepen her relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump.

New R&D Center, to be located in Yokohama's Minato Mirai 21 district, is scheduled to begin operations in April 2026, with the official inauguration in the first half 2027Jan Fallgren appointed Head ...

Initially inspired by anime and manga, Wang enrolled in first-year Japanese. In the two years since, though, her path to fluency has been far from straightforward.

TOKYO - The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. ---------- Japan Diet to reelect Takaichi ...

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A United Airlines passenger ended up in a different country after accidently boarding the wrong flight. The passenger was headed from Los Angeles to Managua, Nicaragua, with a layover in Houston — but ...

On Tuesday, January 27, 2026, British startup Nothing Technology Limited (Nothing) announced that it will open its first directly managed store in India on Saturday, February 14, 2026. India’s first ...

Tokyo-based photographer Natsumi Hayashi is known as the "levitation girl." She became an internet sensation over the past year with her "Today's Levitation" series, a self-portrait project consisting ...

Robots equipped with cutting-edge technologies that perform duties on behalf of humans at workplaces and disaster-hit sites are on display at the 2025 International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo on ...

It was fitting that the top competition prize at the 2025 Tokyo International Film Festival went to a period epic—Palestine 36, Annemarie Jacir’s impressively mounted dramatic account of events ...