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Tokyo: Tensions flared in East Asia on Saturday as the Japanese government issued an urgent warning following military activity from Pyongyang. The Prime Minister's Office of Japan, in a post on X, ...

This photo taken in July 2023 shows the municipal office in the Kumamoto Prefecture village of Kuma, which was named by the Population Strategy Council as a "municipality at risk of disappearance," ...

Japan plans to inform the United States next week that it intends to participate in the proposed “Golden Dome” missile defense initiative, according to government sources familiar with the matter. The ...