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Sympathy Tower Tokyo attracted controversy for being partly written using AI. Does its author think the technology could write a better novel than a human?

During a trip to Japan on Monday, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul also criticised China for its "support for the Russian war machine" amid Moscow's ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine, now well into its fourth year.

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American lawmakers are using a trip to South Korea and Japan to explore how the United States can tap those allies’ shipbuilding expertise and capacity to help boost its own capabilities

Car prices rose just $97 in 2025 -- but vehicles from the U.K., Japan and more saw major price hikes. See which imports got cheaper, too.

Video contains artwork that fans have said resembles the Rising Sun Flag, widely associated with Japanese imperialism

In an effort to advance fusion-based clean energy, Tokyo-based Helical Fusion announced last month it raised $15 million in Series A funding to accelerate development of the world's first steady-state net power fusion plant, a reactor that the firm's CEO calls "another sun" on Earth.

The queen, Keir Starmer and veterans of second world war in Asia hear testimonies at remembrance service

In August 1945 the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 people, overwhelmingly civilians. Eighty years on from this slaughter – which the then US army commander and later president Dwight D. Eisenhower called “completely unnecessary” – is an apt…