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CHERNIVTSI, Ukraine -- The grandfather of a 12-year-old girl orphaned by the war in Ukraine made a daring intervention to stop her being taken to an orphanage in Russia.

The government will harness investments in human resources to achieve economic growth, according to two drafts compiled in line with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's signature "new form of capitalism" policy.

International passengers landing at Narita Airport in Chiba Prefecture on Wednesday morning completed their arrival procedures smoothly as Japan scrapped on-arrival COVID-19 testing and self-quarantine requirements for visitors from 98 countries and regions from that day.

KOFU -- Yamanashi Prefecture, which prides itself on having some of the longest hours of sunshine of any prefecture, is pushing hard for the production of hydrogen using solar power.

Much attention was focused on how the draft of the government's economic and fiscal reform policy would refer to an increase in defense spending. Released Tuesday, the draft of the Basic Policy on Economic and Fiscal Management and Reform ultimately did not specify the range of increase, but did refer…

A number of male film directors have recently been accused of sexual violence by women. Actors are vulnerable to violence because of the strict hierarchical relationships in film productions and their unstable employment status. The film industry should establish a system to support harassment victims and work to build an…

BEIJING/JAKARTA -- Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday met with his counterparts from 10 South Pacific island nations in Fiji. According to Australian media, the Chinese government presented a draft agreement that includes strengthening security cooperation, but the parties failed to reach consensus because of opposition by at…

The United States and Australia are moving to counter China's active engagement with South Pacific island nations.

Japan's Foreign Ministry for the second consecutive day lodged a protest through a diplomatic channel with South Korea over its maritime survey activities being conducted within Japan's exclusive economic zone near the Takeshima islets in Shimane Prefecture, according to Japanese government sources.

Central Japan Railway Co. held a press viewing for the first time of a building site for a station in Sagamihara on the under-construction Linear Chuo Shinkansen maglev line on Monday.

"Is that to eat here?" Vietnamese workers said cheerfully in Japanese as they practiced taking orders at a training facility of a hamburger shop operator in Tokyo. They were there to learn the fast food business, some of the many foreign workers who have finally been allowed into Japan.