5+ hour, 41+ min ago  (531+ words) April 9, 2026 at 17: 30 JST HONG KONG--Oil rose again to above $97 a barrel and Asian stocks were trading mostly lower Thursday on skepticism over a fragile ceasefire between the U. S. and Iran. Investors were closely watching whether a two-week ceasefire between the…...

5+ hour, 18+ min ago  (146+ words) Japanese town sours on the crowds coming to see cherry blossoms and Mount Fuji" Japanese town sours on the crowds coming to see cherry blossoms and Mount Fuji April 9, 2026 at 16: 20 JST Rare Japanese WWII fighter raised from sea after 81 years…...

4+ hour, 44+ min ago  (875+ words) April 9, 2026 at 18: 27 JST A tanker, background, brings crude oil from Saudi Arabia to Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, on March 30. A mid-journey transfer allowed the tanker to bypass the Strait of Hormuz. (Yasushi Horie) Japan is bracing for a "Reiwa oil shock…...

5+ hour, 10+ min ago  (98+ words) April 3, 2026 at 10: 40 JST Keith Kellogg served as chief of staff of the National Security Council during the first Trump administration. (Shoko Mifune) An "iron hand" is needed to deal with an adversary that is destabilizing a region or the world,…...

5+ hour, 9+ min ago  (359+ words) By KEN SAKAKIBARA/ Staff Writer April 9, 2026 at 18: 02 JST The number of corporate bankruptcies in fiscal 2025 topped 10, 000 for the second consecutive year, reaching 10, 505 in a 3. 6 percent increase from the prior year, Tokyo Shoko Research Ltd. announced April 8. This is the fourth…...

5+ hour, 30+ min ago  (667+ words) By FUJIO MIYATA/ Staff Writer April 9, 2026 at 17: 41 JST The wreckage of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Shiden Kai fighter aircraft is brought to the surface in Akune, Kagoshima Prefecture, on April 9. (Provided by the association for preserving Hokusatsu's war heritage for…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (100+ words) April 8, 2026 at 17: 19 JST The former Unification Church's headquarters in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, under the control of a court-appointed liquidator, on April 7 (The Asahi Shimbun) Despite being ordered to disband for engaging in shady fund collection practices, past officials of the…...

6+ hour, 1+ min ago  (467+ words) April 9, 2026 at 17: 10 JST The Financial Services Agency will expand its current probe to conduct an on-site inspection of the parent company of Prudential Life Insurance Co. , whose employees defrauded customers of large sums of money, as early as April. If…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (789+ words) December 16, 2024 at 14: 50 JST Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki, right, hands over a request letter to Defense Minister Gen Nakatani at the Okinawa prefectural government building in Naha on Dec. 15. (Mizuki Sato) NAHA--In the first meeting of'Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and…...

7+ hour, 38+ min ago  (487+ words) April 9, 2026 at 15: 33 JST At the Edo-Tokyo Museum's library, visitors can watch video testimonies of Katsumoto Saotome and other survivors' wartime experiences. (Tetsuro Takehana) Author Katsumoto Saotome (1932-2022) recalls the night of the Tokyo firebombing of March 1945 in a testimonial video. "I…...