Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed at least 17 people early Friday including children, hospital workers said, as the new U.S. ambassador to Israel made his first public appearance… © Japan Today
Train services on Tokyo’s busy Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines were partially suspended Saturday as track-switching work began to construct a new line for faster access to Haneda airport,… © Japan Today
Japan has revised a law to more efficiently use its official development assistance to respond to massive global development financing needs under its limited budget, with increased focus on steps to help mobilize private funds. The revised law, which came into force Thursday, enables the Japan International Cooperation Agency to support companies in developing nations…
U.S. forces and Japanese police held a joint patrol in Okinawa Prefecture for the first time since 1974 on Friday, after a number of sexual assault cases involving U.S. military personnel came to light last year. The joint patrol was conducted in some busy areas of the city of Okinawa. It was proposed by the…
The body of an unidentified adult was found inside a drum at a recycling company in Yoshikawa City, Saitama Prefecture, on Friday. According to police, the body had… © Japan Today
For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways to determine the date of Easter. But this Sunday will mark a special moment for… © Japan Today
U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Friday met Italy’s Giorgia Meloni in Rome and later prayed at the Vatican during an Easter visit against a backdrop of transatlantic trade tensions. Vance’s visit, which also includes a meeting with the pope’s right-hand man, comes a day after Meloni met President Donald Trump and his number two…
The Supreme Court on Saturday blocked, for now, the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th century wartime law. In a brief order, the court directed… © Japan Today
Among the threats tariffs pose to the U.S. economy, none may be as strange as the sell-off in the dollar. Currencies rise and fall all the time because… © Japan Today
The government on Friday changed the expression for its overall view of Japan’s economy for the first time in eight months, warning that higher U.S. tariffs imposed by… © Japan Today
