(AP) -- A Japanese spacecraft rocketed toward Mars on Tuesday on an unprecedented quest to explore its mysterious moons and bring back samples.Five of
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese casual clothing retailer Uniqlo said it will raise the average selling price of its products by about 4 percent.The price in
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military began a joint exercise Monday across Japan, with more than 50,000 members taki
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OSAKA (Kyodo) -- The head of the ruling coalition's junior partner on Monday reiterated its resolve to seek the passage of a controversial bill to cut
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government on Monday proposed resuming, from next April, applications under a special visa program for foreign workers p
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The government-backed Japan External Trade Organization said Monday it has temporarily shut down its website following unauthorized a
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Kazuaki was a second-year junior high school student when he sat across an acrylic partition from Satoshi Uematsu, the man accused of
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UTSUNOMIYA -- The government of this east Japan city has partnered with The Nippon Foundation to develop a model for supporting people with disabiliti
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YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) -- A 77-year-old woman died and 13 other people were injured on Monday in a six-vehicle collision involving a tour bus in Kanagawa Pr
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. on Monday said they would aim for 1 trillion yen ($6.3 billion)
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sent a monetary offering to the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Monday for its autumn f
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TOKUSHIMA -- A male teacher at a public junior high school in southern Tokushima Prefecture suffered serious injuries when a student assaulted him dur
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TOKYO -- Two people with foreign roots launched a new political group in Japan this summer, aiming to field candidates in next year's nationwide unifi
