Japanese officials say senior Afghan Taliban officials are in Japan for talks, as part of Tokyo’s efforts to help Afghanistan build a more inclusive political system and protect human rights.

Japan will allow people from Taiwan to list the island as their place of origin in the country's family registry instead of ...

It’s been a long time coming, but it looks like an Aboriginal flag emoji is finally here! Well, kind of. Representing some 60,000 years of First Nations culture, history, and pride, the flag has ...

Mr Maru, in his recent meeting with the new Japanese Ambassador to PNG, Hisanobu Mochizuki, said: “From the trade and investment point of view, we are very grateful for the trade surplus that we enjoy ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan saw record-high exports last year, as its annual trade deficit declined 44% from the previous year, the Finance Ministry reported Thursday. The trade deficit, which measures ...

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Some shouted banzai — “live long” — while others waved small paper Japanese flags. “I feel for those who are still greatly suffering,” Naruhito said, referring to the quake in Ishikawa Prefecture that ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and his family greeted throngs of New Year’s well-wishers from a balcony window at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Thursday. Some shouted “banzai ...

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More than 60 people signed an American flag that bears more than 500 names of Japanese internment camp survivors during a ceremony at the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple on Aug. 15, 2021. Photo by ...

However, for the two Koreas, China, Myanmar, Malaysia, and other Asian nations, it is a symbol of the war atrocities committed by Japanese forces in the past. That is why flying the flag at the ...

(The museum acquired the original suite of emoji designs for their permanent collection in 2016; an acknowledgement of the work’s important place in communication history.) Designers Jesse Reed and ...