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Nepal's foreign minister has called for urgent measures to address the risks climate change poses to mountain regions, in a speech at the UN climate change conference in Turkey.
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US President Donald Trump says the FBI is investigating Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's intimate relationship with an alleged Chinese spy.
Japan's Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae will meet Vietnam's top leader To Lam in Tokyo on Monday.
People have rushed to a food market in Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture to get their hands on snow crab, a winter specialty for areas along the Sea of Japan.
US President Donald Trump has announced that he offered the head of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, or UFC, the post of White House Press Secretary.
Vietnam's top leader To Lam has expressed hope for deeper investment and cooperation from Japan in cutting-edge fields, including semiconductors and artificial intelligence.
Visitors to an aquarium in central Japan have bid farewell to Kira, a popular female sea otter. The 18-year-old animal died on Thursday.
Ukrainian authorities have confirmed that 55 people died in a Russian airstrike on a site where humanitarian aid supplies were being distributed. The facility is located in the Zaporizhzhia region in southern Ukraine.
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The Japan Meteorological Agency says the magnitude 5.7 quake occurred in Aichi prefecture, with an intensity of upper 5 on the Japanese scale of 0 to 7 in the hardest-hit areas.
The Japan Meteorological Agency says there is no tsunami threat.
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An international hacker group that has carried out cyberattacks on companies in and outside Japan has told NHK that it targets Japanese firms because they tend to leave system vulnerabilities unaddressed.
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The US Democratic Party's big win in the mid-term elections weighed on the Tokyo stock market even further on Friday.
Japan Football Association Honorary President Tashima Kohzo says he plans to run in the FIFA presidential election scheduled for March next year.
People head to a beach in western Japan every November with a comfy chair. They gaze at the sea in quiet reflection, while also considering the importance of disaster preparedness, should a large tsunami ever come.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Thursday placing assets owned by an overseas subsidiary of Japan Tobacco under the temporary management of a Russian company.
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Japanese police issued nearly 16,000 tickets to cyclists for traffic violations in the six months after the country's ticketing system was expanded to cover bicycles in April.
A Saudi Arabian airline has postponed the launch of direct passenger flights to Japan, due to worsening security conditions in the Middle East.
Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index tumbled on Friday following a sharp sell-off in AI-related stocks overnight in New York. The benchmark skidded below the 60,000 mark for the first time in more than five months, or since May 20.
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An advisory body to UNESCO has recommended that Japanese calligraphy be registered on the organization's Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
American voters have sent a blue wave sweeping across the United States. They have returned control of both houses of Congress to the Democrats, according to media projections. This is a major blow to President Donald Trump and his Republican Party.
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US President Donald Trump said "The Democrats did a good job," following his party's setback in the midterm election.
