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Biden's announcement includes $1.25 billion in military aid drawn from U.S. stockpiles and a $1.22 billion Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative package. [...]
At 39,894.54, the benchmark index finished at its best year-end level ever, topping the previous high from the end of 1989 at the height of the country's bubble economy. [...]
The voice actor is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. [...]
The incoming U.S. administration has made financial deregulation a policy priority for the next four years while European policymakers continue to take a cautious approach. [...]
As South Korean investigators probe the causes of the country's worst-ever aviation disaster on home soil, experts offer a glimpse at what could have gone wrong. [...]
Arne Slot has stressed nothing can be won yet with Liverpool still one game shy of the halfway mark in the Premier League. [...]
The stock fell as much as 6.7% on Monday in Tokyo. The carmaker’s shares had soared more than 60% since Dec. 17, a day before news of the deal broke. [...]
It isn't only the foreign gaze that produces stereotypes of Japanese women as submissive and promiscuous. Local laws and cultural norms play just as important a role. [...]
Helping people eat healthier diets with more fruit, vegetables and fiber would have enormous benefits for human well-being and the planet. [...]
Sales of the 112-year-old company’s AI-use substrates are robust, with customers buying up all that Ibiden can sell, CEO Koji Kawashima said in an interview. [...]
The new game, titled 2045, tasks gamers with navigating the troubles of war by using colorful action cards. [...]
"It's necessary to solve the problem in local communities rather than leaving it to schools," a senior official said. [...]
More than 200 people still live in shared emergency shelters, while thousands of others are in accommodation units meant as a stop-gap solution. [...]
The application by investigators marks the first attempt in the country's history to forcibly detain a president before the impeachment procedure is complete. [...]
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Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka made a winning straight-sets start to her season Monday as she strives to rediscover the form that took her to world number… [...]
At least 71 people died in Ethiopia when a truck packed with passengers plunged into a river, according to the spokesperson for the southern Sidama regional government and… [...]
Kazuto Ioka's New Year's Eve title rematch against WBA super flyweight champion Fernando Martinez has been canceled after the Argentine developed influenza, Ioka's Shisei gym said Monday. The… [...]
Global interest in Japanese residential real estate is perhaps at an all-time high. Japan offers property buyers a stable and transparent economic and legal framework, freehold property rights… [...]
The Nikkei stock index ended the final trading day of 2024 on a down note but, for the year, rose 19 percent from 2023, closing at a record… [...]
South Korean law enforcement officials on Monday requested a court warrant to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol as they investigate whether his short-lived martial law decree on… [...]