Japan's squad is looking to bounce back from Sunday's loss to Costa Rica. The players have been preparing for a crucial showdown against Spain and they say they are not daunted by the task.
Japan's Lower House has passed a second supplementary budget for the current fiscal year to tackle soaring prices. The bill was sent to the Upper House.
The Japanese government has decided to step up measures against highly venomous fire ants by designating them as an invasive alien species that requires urgent action.
Japan's Reconstruction Minister Akiba Kenya has refuted a report that he allegedly violated the election law during the Lower House election campaign in October last year.
Japan's education and culture minister, Nagaoka Keiko, says she will exercise the government's legal authority on Tuesday to question the religious group formerly known as the Unification Church.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has dismissed another Cabinet minister. Internal affairs minister Terada Minoru has been under fire over a series of allegations of inaccurate political funding reports. Kishida has now lost three ministers in just one month.
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and Chinese President Xi Jinping have met in Bangkok. It marks the first bilateral in person summit for their countries in three years.
The APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) ministerial meeting in Thailand has come to a close, but there are still conflicting views on how to include the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on the region's economy in the ministerial statement, which continues to be coordinated.
Japan's space agency says a small probe designed to become the country's first spacecraft to land on the moon has yet to establish stable communications after its separation from a large US rocket.
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