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World's smallest Rubik's Cube Unveiled; You Will Be Shocked To Know...

A Japanese toymaker MegaHouse has designed the world's smallest Rubik's cube, so tiny that it can fit under a...

7 Oct 2024 7:14 AM GMT

World

Man found Innocent after 46 years in murder case

After spending 46 years on death row, a man was finally proven innocent and acquitted. Freedom came to the world's...

27 Sep 2024 10:57 AM GMT

World

Former Defense Minister Ishiba chosen to lead Japan's ruling party, to...

Tokyo: Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba won an election to lead Japan's governing party Friday and will become the...

27 Sep 2024 7:01 AM GMT

World

Japan ruling party votes for next PM

Tokyo: Japan's ruling party began a leadership vote Friday that will decide the next prime minister, with frontrunners...

27 Sep 2024 4:51 AM GMT

World

This man gets paid to do nothing

Tokyo: Shoji Morimoto has what some would see as a dream job: he gets paid to do pretty much nothing.The 38-year-old...

25 Sep 2024 9:53 AM GMT

Neighbours

Japan orders evacuations as heavy rains trigger floods in quake-hit...

Footage on NHK showed an entire street submerged in Wajima

21 Sep 2024 1:06 PM GMT

World

Prince Hisahito, first royal male to reach adulthood in Japan in 4...

Prince Hisahito, a member of the Japanese royal family, turned eighteen on Friday, making him the first male to attain...

10 Sep 2024 11:51 AM GMT

World

Japan's Panasonic to end Olympic sponsorship after 37 years

Tokyo: Japanese electronics giant Panasonic said Tuesday it will stop serving as a major sponsor of the Olympics and...

10 Sep 2024 10:48 AM GMT

Asia

Celestial clean: Japanese duo spruce up world's tallest bronze Buddha

USHIKU, Japan: Emerging from the head of the world's tallest bronze Buddha and climbing down to its right ear, two...

9 Sep 2024 7:57 AM GMT

World

Japan lodges formal protest over Chinese survey ship entering its...

Tokyo: Japan lodged a formal protest via China's embassy against what it called an incursion by a Chinese survey ship...

31 Aug 2024 9:58 AM GMT

World

Powerful Typhoon Shanshan hits Japan, multiple deaths reported

Oita: One of Japan's strongest typhoons in decades dumped torrential rain across southern regions on Thursday, leaving...

30 Aug 2024 1:34 AM GMT

Asia

Japan Prime Minister Kishida to step down in September

TOKYO: Japan's unpopular Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set to quit after announcing on Wednesday he will not seek...

14 Aug 2024 4:56 AM GMT