Candidates in favor of advancing a survey to select a nuclear waste disposal site have won a majority in a town assembly election in Hokkaido, northern Japan.
US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been removed from his post. It is the first time in history that members of the House of Representatives voted to oust their leader.
The head of a UN agency that provides support to Palestinian refugees has called on the international community to squarely face the decades-old issue.
Japanese fishers have been unable to start this season's operations to catch Okhotsk Atka mackerel in waters around Kunashiri Island. This follows Russia's decision not to engage in bilateral talks on the safety of Japanese fishing boats.
Sources say Johnny & Associates, a Japanese talent agency at the center of a sex abuse scandal involving its late founder, is considering setting up a new company to manage its performers.
Tokyo police have arrested a possible mastermind behind the robbery of a luxury watch store in central Tokyo in May. The suspect is an 18-year-old part-time worker.
Republicans in the US House of Representatives promised that as soon as they had a majority they would try to impeach President Joe Biden. They have started to make their case, but they are struggling to come up with evidence.
A former executive of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee has refused to testify in a trial of a former executive of a major Japanese advertising agency accused of giving bribes.
Japan has refuted North Korea's assertions at the UN General Assembly over the release of treated and diluted water into the ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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