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The Self-Defense Forces have found what appears to be the fuselage of a missing SDF helicopter on the seabed about 100 meters below the ocean surface north of Irabu Island, Okinawa Prefecture.

In a bid to boost customer satisfaction, Tokyo Disneyland has produced a new version of its daytime parade for the first time in five years ahead of the park's 40th anniversary on Saturday.

Yuko Kishida, wife of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, will visit the United States on her own at the invitation of U.S. first lady Jill Biden, it was learned Thursday.

A legal basis for the existence of the Self-Defense Forces was the subject of much debate on revising the Constitution on Thursday.

The Group of Seven nations are expected to agree on basic principles for trading greenhouse gas emission reductions at a ministerial meeting in Sapporo on Saturday and Sunday, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

A moon lander operated by Tokyo-based ispace Inc. will attempt to land on the moon at around 1:40 a.m. Japan Time on April 26 at the earliest, the startup has announced.

A former member of the all-male talent agency Johnny & Associates Inc. has alleged he was sexually assaulted by the late president of the company Johnny Kitagawa in his teens.

Toyota Motor Corp. plans to launch a hydrogen-powered fuel cell version of the new Crown Sedan in autumn, its second fuel cell passenger car after the Mirai, the automaker said.

Yellow dust was observed in central Tokyo on Thursday morning for the first time in two years, as a haze from continental Asia continued to drift over a wide area from Kyushu to Hokkaido.

A special exhibition on manga artist Go Nagai is underway at the Toshima City Tokiwaso Manga Museum in Toshima Ward, Tokyo.

People stroll beneath cherry blossoms in full bloom in Kitakata, Fukushima Prefecture, on Wednesday. About 1,000 cherry trees are planted along a 3-kilometer promenade that was created along the former route of the Nicchu Line of the now-defunct Japanese National Railways. The Nicchu Line was closed in 1984.