Local residents of Okinawa, southern Japan, have long protested against the U.S. military footprint there.

Police said they arrested Lance Cpl. Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, on suspicion of strangling Anna Yagi, 39, at a hotel.

Labor-linked bankruptcies reached 240 for the first half of the fiscal year, the highest level since comparable data became available in fiscal 2013.

Japan has published the required documents foreign workers should submit to get a skilled labour visa. The period of stay was also explained in the guidelines.

The Bank of Japan ​said on Thursday price increases driven by ‌higher raw material costs were spreading to consumer goods with some firms hiking prices more frequently than in ​the past, signaling its concern over broadening ​inflationary pressure.

In 2026, Soai Kensō received a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on life’s building block molecules, becoming the tenth Japanese chemistry laureate.

Japan tells China to show respect in addressing PM Sanae Takaichi amid diplomatic tensions. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and Japan. Begin Text Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy of the United States of America Michael Kratsios met with Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy