NHK
 
US President Donald Trump arrived at Tokyo's Haneda Airport shortly after 5 p.m. on Monday.
He was traveling from the ASEAN summit in Malaysia. This is his fourth visit to Japan as US president. The last was in 2019 to attend the Group of 20 summit in Osaka.
Trump met with Emperor Naruhito ...

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NIPPON
 
Japan's new Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama on Sunday vowed to "do everything possible" to secure funds to raise the share of the country's defense spending to its gross domestic product to 2 pct in the current fiscal year.
"Japan is in the most severe security environment in the world...

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NIPPON
 
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi left for Malaysia on Saturday to attend summit talks related to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Takaichi will emphasize the importance of the free and open Indo-Pacific initiative as well as free trade, aiming to demonstrate Japan's pres...

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NIPPON
 
European leaders have celebrated in social media posts the inauguration of new Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae.
"Congratulations...on your historic vote as Japan's first female prime minister," British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said.
"I look forward to working together" with the...

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VOI.ID
 
Japanese authorities will take stricter steps to control their bear population, Japan's Environment Minister said Friday, after a recent record of death from a bear attack.
Japan set bears on a list of species in population control in April 2024, but sightings and attacks have soared, wi...

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JAPAN TIMES
 
Princess Aiko is scheduled to make an official six-day visit to Laos starting on Nov. 17, according to a plan approved by the government at a Cabinet meeting on Friday.
Marking the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Laos this year, the princess will attend a ...

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NIPPON
 
The 2025 World Exposition in the western Japan city of Osaka attracted a total of 25,578,986 visitors during its 184-day run through Monday.
According to the data released by the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition, the event’s organizer, on Tuesday, 207,889 people visited th...

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FRANCE 24
 
Coach Hajime Moriyasu said Japan's first win over Brazil had been decades in the making and backed his players to use it as a springboard to World Cup success.
Japan stunned Brazil with three second-half goals to claim a 3-2 friendly victory in Tokyo on Tuesday, their first win over t...

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NIPPON
 
The Diet, Japan's parliament, will elect a new prime minister to replace Shigeru Ishiba on Oct. 21, a senior official at the ruling Liberal Democratic Party said Tuesday.
Yoshihiko Isozaki, the LDP's Diet affairs chief in the House of Councillors, told his counterpart from the opposition...

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NHK
 
Japan has lodged a protest with China after a Chinese marine survey ship was suspected of carrying out a survey again in Japan's exclusive economic zone.
The Japan Coast Guard says a patrol ship saw the Chinese vessel extending a pipe-like object in waters roughly 400 kilometers west of Ama...

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