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Japan Switches from Tax-Free Shopping to Refund-Based System for Nonresidents

Taiwan says China harassing shipping with east coast patrol

Japan’s Anime Market Hits Record $28.2 Billion as Local Sales Surge

Japan’s 2026 Defense White Paper

Ashita no Joe Creator Tetsuya Chiba Dies at 87

Japanese companies compensate users as cyberattacks buffet economy

NASA's Perseverance Just Broke The Off-World Driving Record, While Mostly Steering Itself

Japanese novelist Ryu Murakami dies at 74

Super Typhoon Champi intensifies to a Cat 5 after battering Guam

Nerves rattled in Japan as alert for magnitude 9.9 quake withdrawn minutes later

Japan mistakenly issues warning for magnitude 9.9 earthquake

A brewing Pacific storm could become one of the planet’s strongest this year

Roman Telescope Saves Fuel, Doubles Mission

Tooth Study Shows T. Rex Was Warmblooded

Physicists Just Turned The Entire Planet Into a Dark Matter Detector

Japan’s First Dedicated Missile Defense Warship Is A Monster

The Life-Size Unicorn Gundam Was Given A Lovely Send-Off

5.9-magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, injuring at least 37

Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model

M5.9 quake strikes eastern Japan including Tokyo, disrupting trains

Magnitude 5.9 earthquake rattles Tokyo and eastern Kanto region

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck eastern Japan on August 22, 2026, shaking Tokyo and surrounding areas.

Two of Neptune's tiny inner moons contain clay minerals that could not have formed on worlds so small and cold — suggesting they're built from the exposed interiors of much larger moons shattered when the captured Kuiper Belt world Triton tore through Nep

Four railway workers die after being struck by limited-express train in Tochigi

Japan to test hypersonic missiles in Australia

Japan aims for the moons of Mars

Torrential rain near Tokyo causes flooding and paralyzes traffic, killing 1

Astronomers Observe Binary Star Orbiting Stellar Giant Betelgeuse

Coming Soon to the Asia Pacific: A Storm Named Dim-sum

Earth Is On Track to Break the All-Time Record for Category 5 Hurricanes This Year

Historic Super Typhoon Dolphin hits Category 5 strength in the Northwest Pacific

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Scientists told them, 'No, it's too dangerous,' but they did it anyway: Inside Japan's super-close asteroid flyby

Japan is running out of royals. So why won’t it let women become emperor?

Japan’s Imperial House faces a succession crisis as political debate intensifies over restrictive inheritance laws that exclude women from the throne.

Dark energy flips its sign, but the Hubble tension refuses to budge

New data suggests dark energy may not be constant, though the persistent Hubble tension remains an unresolved cosmic mystery.

There were not one, but two asteroid encounters this weekend

Japan space probe skims asteroid in test for planetary defense

Japan's Hayabusa2 probe has successfully completed a flyby of asteroid Torifune to test critical planetary defense technology.

Comet from another star has a composition unlike anything else in our solar system

Mercosur launches economic partnership talks with Japan, eyes China

Mercosur is pivoting toward Asian markets, initiating economic partnership talks with Japan and exploring trade deals with China.

2 tropical storms pound Japan with floods and landslides, killing 1

Japan braces for double storms, torrential rains shut down parts of Taiwan

Japan is facing a rare double-storm scenario as two tropical systems bring flooding, landslides, and flight disruptions across the country.

Magnitude 6.9 quake hits northern Japan

Magnitude 6.9 earthquake hits northern Japan