Japan to expand language education for foreign residents
The education ministry plans to help local governments strengthen their teaching programs through subsidies and expert guidance.
The education ministry plans to help local governments strengthen their teaching programs through subsidies and expert guidance.
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TOKYO -- The Oyatsu Company Ltd., known for its Baby Star Ramen snack brand, has launched a tartar sauce-flavored version of its "Sozai Ichiba: Same n
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's transport ministry began accepting applications for custom motorcycle number plates on Monday, expanding a program previously
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YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) -- Newcomer Atsumi Harasawa won the Yokohama mayoral election Sunday with the backing of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and othe
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks opened lower Monday, tracking Wall Street losses late last week amid concerns over heavy investment in artificial intell
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sent a monetary offering to the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Monday, a senior ruling party me
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TOKYO -- Japanese companies and local governments have recently disclosed a series of personal data leaks. A white-hat hacker who monitors malicious c
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TSUYAMA, Okayama -- In a mountainous area of Okayama Prefecture in western Japan, young Buddhist priests are struggling with shrinking congregations,
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- With the help of Japan, home to legendary players Ichiro Suzuki and Shohei Ohtani, baseball has gradually gained a foothold in Sri La
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YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) -- Lawyer Atsumi Harasawa, backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and some other parties, won the Yokohama mayoral election Su
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Sunday praised Self-Defense Forces personnel who had returned from fighting forest fire
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TOKYO (AP) -- Japan is set to launch a spacecraft on the world's first mission to bring back samples from Phobos, one of the two small, potato-shaped
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A lack of official records is making it difficult to determine whether ousted farm minister Kazuo Yana pressured the land ministry to
