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Japan executes ‘Twitter killer’ who killed and dismembered nine Takahiro Shiraishi’s victims included young women considering suicide, whom he lured to his home using social media and murdered.

Airport staff used a car to chase it away and closed the runway again, with the bear still at large somewhere in the facility.

Japanese officials are dismissing alarm over the prediction of a July “catastrophe” in a comic book, “The Future I Saw,” which is deterring some summer tourists.

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Japan runs much larger trade deficits in goods, other business services, and insurance and pension services, for example. While much attention has been paid to digital services imports, Japan’s ...

Microsoft has announced via Xbox Live Japan that the remaster of the first Gears of War game, Gears of War: Reloaded, will not get a Japanese PS5 release. However, the title will still come to ...

A highly visible missile base on Okinawa is part of a Japanese defense buildup made amid fears of Beijing’s growing power and questions about U.S. commitment.