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China has formally arrested two Japanese nationals working for Fuji Electric Co. in Dalian, suspected of breaching rare earth export regulations. The men were detained in May and arrested in mid- to late June.
Japanese authorities have arrested Hu Shi, a senior executive of the Cambodia-based Prince Holding Group, alongside two accomplices for submitting false residential documents. The syndicate is sanctioned by the US and Britain for operating large-scale scam compounds.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has opened an investigation into the controversial transfer of three Asian elephants from Zoo Taiping to Tennoji Zoo in Osaka, Japan, raising questions about procedural transparency.
Police in Japan have arrested a 35-year-old man accused of placing his partner's five-year-old daughter in a garbage can and closing the lid, which he claimed was a form of discipline. The child was unharmed.
The Netherlands prepare for their World Cup campaign with Sunday's Group F opener against Japan in Dallas. Coach Ronald Koeman acknowledges internal pressure to succeed, with key players like Memphis Depay fit and available for selection.
Thai authorities have arrested a 39-year-old Japanese man accused of leading a large-scale call-centre scam operation based in Poipet, Cambodia. The suspect faces fraud charges in Japan and is suspected of orchestrating phone scams that defrauded victims of billions of yen.
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Yohei Kono, the former Japanese lower house speaker and foreign minister who issued a landmark 1993 apology acknowledging Japan's military's role in coercing comfort women, has passed away at 89.
A waste disposal firm in Hokkaido failed to properly destroy hard drives from two hospitals, leading to a data breach affecting up to 510,000 people. Personal information including medical records was exposed on the second-hand market.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has called on Malaysian students studying in Japan to look beyond academics and embrace community values that will benefit the nation.
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Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has departed for Tokyo to lead Malaysia's delegation in meetings with Japanese counterparts, aiming to strengthen cooperation between the two nations.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake off the southern Philippines triggered tsunami waves that reached Japan's Okinawa region and other coastal areas on Monday, prompting evacuation alerts across multiple prefectures.
Two American visitors have each been fined ¥300,000 after being convicted of trespassing into a monkey enclosure at a Chiba Prefecture zoo housing the globally famous primate Punch.
Japan and Indonesia have agreed to begin working-level discussions on the potential export of Asagiri-class destroyers. The move reflects Tokyo's efforts to strengthen defence partnerships across the Indo-Pacific region amid regional security concerns.
Taiwan has urged Japan and the Philippines to acknowledge its maritime sovereignty and exclusive economic zone rights as the two countries prepare formal negotiations on their shared sea boundary.
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Four people sustained injuries after a bear attacked them at multiple locations in Fukushima, northeast Japan, on Tuesday morning. Authorities are considering lethal action to contain the animal.
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has pledged to achieve a major breakthrough on the abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korea, indicating willingness to pursue summit talks with Pyongyang.
Japan has announced the deployment of four Self-Defence Force personnel to NATO's Ukraine support command in Germany, marking the first time Tokyo has stationed staff at the facility to coordinate military assistance and learn from the ongoing conflict.
A Japanese woman identified as Haruka is suing the state for five million yen, alleging a prosecutor insulted her and dropped her rape complaint without thorough investigation in 2023.
Japan's tightened immigration policies and increasingly hostile atmosphere toward foreigners are forcing out long-term residents and entrepreneurs, reflecting deeper societal tensions as anti-foreigner sentiment gains political momentum.
An Idemitsu Kosan-operated tanker carrying 2 million barrels of crude oil has become the first Japanese vessel to successfully transit the Strait of Hormuz since Iran's closure of the strategic waterway, arriving in Aichi Prefecture on Monday.
Approximately 20 people sustained injuries following a substance spray incident at a upmarket shopping mall in Tokyo's Ginza district on Monday. Police are investigating the cause of the incident.