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Akihito, the eldest son of Emperor Hirohito (b. 1901, d. 1989) and Empress Nagako (b. 1903, d. 2000) is currently the longest ...

For many, a smart city begins with technology. In Japan, it starts with a person. In local lore “customer is god,” and the customers of any city are its people. In the Japanese sense, being smart when ...

LONDON (Kyodo) -- Japan will bid to host the 2035 Rugby World Cup, the head of the country's rugby union said Thursday. Japan ...

The Japanese plug-in electric car market is in a disappointing stage. After a 7% decrease in 2018, in 2019 sales decreased by another 17% year-over-year to 43,867. The market share was just 0.8% ...

Violent changes in the atmosphere associated with extreme weather phenomena caused some of the deadliest disasters this year. In 2019, several meteorological disasters affected the planet, from ...

Japan's output gap in the April-June quarter was upgraded to 0.3%, its largest since July-September 2019, after reflecting a ...

Japan hanged three death-row inmates on Tuesday, its first executions in two years, amid growing criticism by human rights groups of the country's use of the death penalty. One of the three, Yasutaka ...

The first trilateral Bushido Guardian exercise in Japan sees Australian, Japanese, and USAF F-35 fleets train together with 750 personnel and 25 aircraft.