TOKYO – Japan’s government will set aside 3.5 trillion yen for new child care measures, slightly more than earlier estimated, in a move likely to add more debt to the industrial world’s heaviest public debt burden.

TOKYO – Japan’s government will set aside 3.5 trillion yen for new child care measures, slightly more than earlier estimated, in a move likely to add more debt to the industrial world’s heaviest public debt burden.

Hyonhee Shin and Chang-Ran Kim – North Korea attempted to launch what it called a space satellite over the sea to the south on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, as the nuclear-armed North seeks to gain ground in a regional space race.

MANILA, Philippines — Basic education students are “not truly learning but merely progressing” through the school system, according to a report by the Philippine Business for Education (PBEd) which linked the “unofficial” policy of mass promotion to poor learning outcomes.

SEOUL/TOKYO – Korea has notified Japan of a plan to launch a satellite between May 31 and June 11, a Japanese coast guard official said on Monday

NAGANO – The son of a city assembly chief in central Japan was arrested Friday on suspicion of killing two policemen in a stabbing and shooting attack that left a total of four people dead, according to local police.

TOKYO – Japan held a ceremony on Wednesday marking its planned donation of about 100 military vehicles to Ukraine, as Tokyo seeks to provide equipment that can be of broader military use than its earlier shipments of helmets and hazmat suits.

MANILA, Philippines — Typhoon Mawar has strengthened into a supertyphoon, although it remains outside the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) as of 2 p.m. on Tuesday, with maximum sustained winds of 185 kilometers per hour and moving northward at 15 km.

TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is increasingly certain to call a snap election, perhaps within weeks, as domestic support surges after a G7 summit that drew a surprise visit by Ukraine’s president.

HIROSHIMA – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that seeing the history of Hiroshima’s devastation by an atomic bomb over seven decades ago reminded him of what Russia’s invasion has done to his country, as he visited a museum documenting the tragedy that hit the western Japanese city