
CDP and CRA’s opposing stances on imperial family bills cloud prospect for merger
The CDP opposes a clause allowing the future male offspring of newly reinstated members of the imperial family to become heirs to the chrysanthemum throne.

The CDP opposes a clause allowing the future male offspring of newly reinstated members of the imperial family to become heirs to the chrysanthemum throne.
People in Japan - where many workers are forced to wear suits to work - are divided over whether shorts are appropriate for work, with one saying, “I just don't think hairy legs look very neat”.
Overseas investors bought a net ¥499.8 billion of Japanese long-term bonds, their first weekly net purchase since May 30.

Extending the reach of AI beyond the data center and integrating it directly into devices and machines is an industrywide focus this year.

The announcement comes as Japan's capital seeks to strengthen its profile as an international education and research hub.
Nvidia Corp. and four of Japan’s leading industrial automation companies said they will expand their collaboration on robot development, bolstering Jensen Huang’s push into AI-enabled hardware.

The revision comes amid rapid technological innovation, including the launch of U.S. startup Anthropic's Claude Mythos.
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Cyberattacks are becoming a recurring operational risk for Japanese companies, with incidents increasingly disrupting more than just internal IT systems.
On Wednesday night, Jensen Huang was in Tokyo’s central Kanda district courting the little-known Japanese suppliers that underpin the AI supply chain.
The U.S. military was helping vessels through the strait as part of an operation involving scores of secretive ship-to-ship oil transfers to keep Gulf energy exports flowing.

Police near Tokyo have arrested a nurse on suspicion of killing an elderly patient by injecting feces into the IV line during a night shift. The suspect, 51-year-old hospital employee Miyuki Furukawa, has denied the char…

The draft was compiled based on South Korea's argument that people from the Korean Peninsula were forced to provide labor at the mining complex during World War II.

A Tokyo court sentenced an All Nippon Airways captain to 20 months in prison on July 14 for indecently assaulting a junior flight attendant, a case the airline said was not its to be involved in.

A family in northern Japan called police after finding a bear in their kitchen, an official said Wednesday, as anxiety over the animals grows following a surge in deadly maulings.

Tonegawa received the Nobel Prize in 1987 for clarifying how limited sets of genes produce various antibodies that play an important role in immunity.
Europe is having to adapt to rising temperatures that are stoking wildfires, causing thousands of excess deaths and putting infrastructure under growing pressure.

A nurse was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murdering an elderly patient by allegedly injecting excrement into his intravenous tube during a night shift at a hospital near Tokyo, police said. Miyuki Furukawa, 51, who…