Following a busy month of art in October, November keeps the momentum going, kicking off with the return of Art Week Tokyo on November 4. Visiting exhibitions is also significantly easier this month thanks to the Autumn Night Museum 2026 initiative; every Friday evening in this month, six metropo...
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TOKYO -- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has denied social media claims that Japan agreed to accept 100,000 workers from Bangladesh after Prime Minist
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TOKYO -- A Swiss-made luxury Audemars Piguet wristwatch worth 46 million yen (about $291,000) that was stolen from a store in Tokyo's Nakano Ward was
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TOKYO -- A new consumption tax exemption system for foreign visitors to Japan took effect Nov. 1. Under the new "refund system," travelers pay the tax
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AKITA -- With northern Vietnam confronting the challenge of increasingly severe rainfall, Vietnamese local government officials recently visited lands
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan will act in financial markets if they experience excessive volatility or speculative movements following the U.S. midterm elect
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TOKYO -- Artificial intelligence (AI) has increasingly revealed its threatening side amid a series of cases in which the technology has been misused i
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks fell Monday, as investors took a risk-off stance ahead of the U.S. midterm elections and a Japanese holiday on Tuesday,
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan has asked the United States to thoroughly enforce discipline after a U.S. Marine in Okinawa Prefecture was arrested for alleged
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MIZUNAMI, Gifu -- The Mizunami Fossil Museum in this central Japan city announced Oct. 30 that fossils of an animal with forked antlers, discovered in
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A man accused of attempted murder after throwing firebombs at riot police outside Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party headquarter
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan Airlines Co. said Monday its net profit for the April-September period fell 42.2 percent from a year earlier to 39.07 billion y
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The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about how the Japanese government determines caps on foreign workers in the countr
