An accomplished Marine Corps helicopter and tiltrotor pilot — a veteran of the war in Iraq — took up his first overseas ...

On March 8, 2025, the U.S. Marine Corps began a new chapter in aviation as F-35B Lightning II jets arrived at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan. Replacing the legacy F/A-18 Hornets, this deployment marks a ...

More than 800 tremors have shaken the southwestern Tokara Islands over the past 11 days, including a 5.6-magnitude quake on Wednesday.

The BOJ staff paper, using data from 2002 to 2024, analysed trends in Japan and Europe - which both rely heavily on imported commodities - to study the extent to which rising material costs led to ...

Japan has successfully launched a climate monitoring satellite using its H-2A rocket. This marks the rocket's 50th and final ...

Japan has cancelled an annual security meeting with the US after the Donald Trump administration told the country it had to spend more on defence. US secretary of state Marco Rubio and defence ...

Directions: About a one-minute walk from the entrance of the Iwakuni train station. Hours: Open 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekdays ...

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Of the 1,830 children who got into such accidents between 2020 and 2024, 613, or 33.5%, ran out into the street, according to the 2025 traffic safety white paper, adopted at the day's Cabinet meeting.

Why now: Publisher Michael Komai said in a Rafu Shimpo story announcing the move that rising rents and gentrification have made it impossible to stay in L.A.'s Little Tokyo — a neighborhood now listed ...

Researchers have developed the world’s first transparent paper that is thick enough to serve as a beverage container but also biodegradable so as to not pollute the oceans.