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Yubari Mayor Tsukasa Atsuya said Saturday that pay cuts for city government employees, which have been in place ever since the northern Japan city fell into insolvency 20 years ago, will be scrapped at the end of the current fiscal year.

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrived in Belgium on Saturday, following the conclusion of their state visit to the Netherlands.

A Japanese prosecution inquest committee has ruled that the prosecutors' decision not to indict Hyogo Governor Motohiko Saito on charges of violating the public offices election law was appropriate.

Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, 31, said in an Instagram post Saturday that he and his wife, Mamiko, 29, have welcomed their second child.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said Saturday that it has completed the second round of the fiscal 2026 treated water release into the Pacific Ocean from its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, a day later than planned.

The Japanese government has released a draft revision of its Artificial Intelligence Basic Plan, indicating its policy of enhancing cooperation with foreign government agencies and AI developers to address risks such as the misuse of AI.

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, currently on a state visit to the Netherlands, planted a cherry tree at a park near Amsterdam on Friday.

Japanese agriculture minister Norikazu Suzuki on Friday promoted Japanese rice at a supermarket near Paris.

The Japanese government has decided to raise the fees for visas for foreign nationals by revising a related cabinet order.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda has been discharged from a hospital where he underwent treatment for a liver cyst infection, the central bank said Friday.