5, 2021, file photo, Misato Michishita, of Japan, and her guide break the tape to take the gold

20 inches was recorded over 24 hours in the town of Misato in Kyushu’s Miyazaki Prefecture. Japan

A tugboat moves a Paralympic symbol installed for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at Odaiba Marine Park on Aug.... Some 4, 400 athletes are readying to compete in 539 events across 22 sports in 19 venues located across Tokyo and three nearby prefectures.... Zero tickets will be sold to regular spectators, though, as organizers look to limit the spread of the virus that caused the opening ceremony to be postponed by one year to Aug 24, 2021....

TOKYO — Late in February, just days after the Russian invasion, Ukraine asked Japan to ship an

As Japan’s prime minister prepares for his first meeting with President Trump, he is hoping to make

TOKYO — Shinzo Abe is facing some of the toughest challenges of his record-setting tenure as Japan

boats into or near Japan’s territorial waters around the disputed islands, known as the Diaoyu in

What is happening to these drivers, whose livelihoods are becoming increasingly popular as a" free working style"?... A Mainichi Shimbun reporter interviewed some of the people who carry packages for Amazon to find out.... For lunch, he buys pastries and takes five minutes to finish them in the vehicle....

And the government has continued to tiptoe around the issue of the state visit by Mr.... Australia led the call for a global inquiry into the origins of the pandemic, which began in China, and announced an investment of nearly$ 1 billion in cyberweapons and defenses to counter Beijing.... Britain and Canada, along with Australia, have suspended extradition agreements with Hong Kong because of the national security law. China has responded by curbing Australian imports and threatening an array

His Twitter following of 2.4 million dwarfs those of his three rivals combined. But in the back rooms where Japanese political decisions are made, Mr.... But this time, the political horse trading has sometimes seemed at odds with popular sentiment, even as the public has expressed dissatisfaction with the party’s leadership on the pandemic and the economy.... Kono differs from his rivals in style as well as substance....