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A program allowing foreign workers without Japanese driver's licenses to operate freight transportation vehicles on aircraft ...

The spread of unverified information, false rumors, and fake images or videos related to elections and politics on social ...

This time felt different. The 25-year-old Iranian fashion designer hoped that mass protests nearly four years ago -- the ones ...

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Blazing a trail without a single technical supervisor, Japan's first Alpine snowboard world champion Tsubaki Miki is looking ...

"ChoViva" is a chocolate substitute developed by the German food tech company Planet A Foods and recently launched in Japan ...

A new survey shows that about half of parents in Japan whose children took junior high school entrance exams regret that ...

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One of a minority of Japanese cities that don't share a name with the prefecture they are the capital of, Kofu is the ...