A popular entertainment district in central Tokyo is bracing for large crowds of Halloween revelers this weekend. The Shibuya Ward office has fenced off the iconic Hachiko dog statue outside JR Shibuya Station.
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Japan's anime industry's market size reached a record high for the fifth straight year in 2025, driven largely by strong sales overseas.
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Early voting is underway across the United States ahead of the midterm elections on November 3.
A tight race is being fought in Brazil's presidential runoff election, which will be held next Sunday between the country's incumbent left-wing president and the son of a former right-wing president.
Japan's Meteorological Research Institute says its analysis has shown it is highly likely that global warming increased the amount of precipitation in parts of the country by about 20 percent, bringing record heavy rainfall to some areas from August to September.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a meeting with his US and Chinese counterparts to discuss the Ukraine situation.
Hope for progress on North Korean abductions "Time waits for no one, and human lives have their limits. I want to know what happened to my mother. But information is hard to come by, and all I can do is wait."More than 20 years after returning to Japan, Soga Hitomi ― once abducte...
The administration of US President Donald Trump says it has approved the sale of PAC-3 interceptor missiles and related equipment to Ukraine for an estimated 2.1 billion dollars.
A Japanese mission to bring back samples from one of the moons of Mars has been launched.
Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu has called for the immediate release of a detained Japanese journalist during talks with his Russian counterpart. The sit-down was the first formal in-person meeting between the two countries' top diplomats in nearly five years.
The children at a school north of Tokyo have let their imaginations run wild for Halloween. They turned up for class in fancy dress. And so did the teachers.
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ASEAN defense ministers began their annual meeting in the Philippines.
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Researchers at the University of Tokyo and other institutions have developed a plastic embedded with enzymes that give it an accelerated marine degradation rate, which may help reduce garbage accumulation on the seabed.
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