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The U.S.-led Artemis Program is shooting for the moon. The international lunar exploration program has a broad range of objectives, including the return of humans to the surface of Earth's closest celestial neighbor for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.

The University of Tokyo is scheduled to open a Metaverse School of Engineering in September. In the metaverse virtual reality space on the internet, members of the public, such as junior and senior high school students and working adults, will be able to attend lectures and events.

Typhoon No. 8 brought heavy rains to the Tokai region Saturday, making landfall over the Izu Peninsula at about 5:30 p.m.

Almost two-thirds of beaches in three prefectures hit hard by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake have opened to swimmers this summer, a record-high proportion since the disaster and another sign of recovery in the region.

In a case of suspected organ trafficking in living donor kidney transplants, a nonprofit organization in Japan had planned transplants in Sri Lanka this year and told an overseas coordinator it would send "two patients [at intervals] for a total of about 10 patients," The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned from…

KITAKYUSHU -- A fire broke out near Tanga Market in Kitakyushu on Wednesday night, burning an area of about 2,000 square meters.

Following the shooting death of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the National Police Agency has found that police forces across the nation have not given enough attention to the threat of homemade guns being used to attack very important persons.

The approval rating for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida plunged to an all-time low of 51% directly after a Cabinet reshuffle, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun nationwide opinion survey. This made for a 6-point drop from the previous survey.

UENO, Gunma -- Friday marked the 37th anniversary of the Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash into Mt. Osutaka in Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, in which 520 passengers and crew died.

Taro Kono, the digital minister in the newly reshuffled Kishida Cabinet, spent his first day in his post Wednesday like no other minister -- showing off his tech-savvy by tweeting his every move in office.

The reshuffled Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida faces a raft of domestic and international challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic response, surging prices and strengthening the nation's defense capabilities.