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The wastewater discharges, which are expected to continue for decades, have been strongly opposed by fishing groups and neighboring countries including South Korea.

Two Japanese wrestlers took part in a unique bout from inside a bullet train.

Japanese professional fighters battled along a carriage aisle in what the organizer says was the first wrestling match held inside a bullet train.

In cooperation with NASA, JAXA will look at the strength of light at different wavelengths, the temperature of things in space and their shapes and brightness

Assembly lines at Toyota’s auto plants in Japan are shut down over a computer system problem.

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has called for his military to be constantly ready for combat to thwart plots to invade his country, as the U.S., South Korea and Japan held a trilateral naval exercise to deal with North Korea’s evolving nuclear threats.

The sound of treated radioactive water flowing to an underground pool could be heard as media toured Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for the first time after it began releasing the water into the Pacific Ocean last week.

Japan began releasing more than 1 million metric tons of radioactive water into the ocean on Thursday as part of its plan to decommission the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Japan’s tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.

The government and plant operator say the release is an unavoidable part of its decommissioning and will be safely carried out, but the plan faces opposition in and outside Japan. Here is a look at the controversy.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will release diluted radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean Thursday.

The controversial move comes more than 12 years after nuclear meltdowns at the plant caused by a massive earthquake and tsunami.

President Joe Biden will host the leaders of Japan and South Korea at Camp David to encourage the U.S. allies, who have been thawing their frosty relationship, to cooperate more given their shared concerns about aggression from China and North Korea.

Sweden is moving on to the Women’s World Cup semifinals after defeating Japan 2-1 in Auckland, New Zealand, on Friday.

Hiroshima officials are criticizing growing support for nuclear weapons as a deterent from uneasiness over Russia’s war on Ukraine and tensions in the Koreas.

Japan has scored its 14th goal of the Women’s World Cup and conceded its first in a 3-1 win over Norway to reach the quarterfinals for the fourth time.

Japanese players have worn black armbands in their Women’s World Cup opener against Zambia following the death of Fumiko Tottori, the mother of Japanese Princess Takamado.

A monkey with golden hair was spotted in northern Japan

A 15-year-old in Japan set a world record by swinging a jump rope under himself eight times on a single jump.

15-year-old Kirato Hidaka was recognized with a Guinness world record after completing an amazing jump rope feat.