In this week’s news roundup we report on the arrest of Hokkaido Shimbun journalist Yuki Imai in Russia. Sanae Takaichi’s Cabinet approval ratings fall again. Arata Takebe replaces Kazuo Yana as agriculture minister. The Yokohama mayoral election sees a surge in early voting with Atsumi Harasawa r...
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TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi 's comments about the additional work she has to take on as a woman compared to her male predecess
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The number of foreign residents in Japan hit a record 4.28 million at the end of June, accounting for 3.4 percent of the total popula
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The number of foreigners holding business manager visas who left Japan without applying for reentry permits nearly quadrupled in the
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's weather agency said Thursday that the year's 30th typhoon has formed, making 2026 the first year since 2013 to see 30 or more
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The operator of the Burger King hamburger chain in Japan on Thursday became the latest company to report a data breach, with 11.18 mi
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Russian intelligence authorities have detained a male reporter from Japan's Hokkaido Shimbun Press stationed in Sakhalin Oblast in the Far East, trans
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Stories about the Vancouver Asahi, a Japanese-Canadian baseball team that became popular in Canada before being disbanded during Worl
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SATSUMASENDAI, Kagoshima -- This southwest Japan city has unveiled a basic development plan to promote an industrial cluster centered on one of Japan'
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday appointed Arata Takebe as her new farm minister, seeking to minimize disruption to
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TOBA, Mie -- Poor oyster growth in this central Japan city has left farmers without market-ready oysters at the start of the harvesting season, forcin
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's health ministry is warning people heading to the mountains this fall to beware of poisonous mushrooms that closely resemble e
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Mizuho Financial Group Inc., one of Japan's three megabanks, said Thursday it will fully launch a three-month program next month to t
