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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is heading to the Philippines seeking to further boost an alliance in the face of China’s growing assertiveness in the region and he plans to symbolically board a Japan-built Philippine patrol ship that has repeatedly clashed with the Chinese coast guard

Police in Japan say that climber who was airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope and was rescued for a second time just four days later

Posters in Tokyo’s enormous Shinjuku railway station are normally used for advertising commodities like cosmetics and food, as well as new films. But occasionally you may happen across a poster with a birthday message and a picture of a young man, often from a boy band and typically with impeccable…

5/5 Hiroshige was one of Japan’s most popular print artists during the Edo period and this new exhibition shows how his visual language helped shape the arts

June S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESM25) are down -0.11%, and June Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQM25) are down -0.16% this morning as investors look ahead to earnings reports from some of the biggest tech heavyweights as well as key economic data, including the jobs report, the Fed’s favorite inflation gauge,…

Chinese national, 27, reportedly returned to Japan’s highest mountain days after first rescue to retrieve his phone

The championship standings tell of a Red Bull in third place, the only team able to break McLaren's domination at the start to this F1 world championship, thanks to Max Verstappen’s victory at the Japanese GP. And yet, the start of the season for the Milton Keynes stable has not been…

The championship standings tell of a Red Bull in third place, the only team able to break McLaren's domination at the start to this F1 world championship, thanks to Max Verstappen’s victory at the Japanese GP. And yet, the start of the season for the Milton Keynes stable has not been…