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Japan Cloud Native Developers Reach 950,000 as AI Infrastructure Adoption Accelerates
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The Tokyo District Court earlier this month sentenced a man to a prison term for sexually assaulting a woman in a chilling "rape-for-hire" plot
Tokyo police have arrested a senior yakuza gang member and three accomplices over an attempt to extort 2 million yen from a man in the Akabane n…
Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 36-year-old company employee for allegedly severely beating a man and demanding cash following a traff…
The fate of modern dance pioneer Michio Ito (1892-1961), who was sent to Japan on the exchange ship Gripsholm in 1943, is the subject of a new a…
Hotel Okura Co., Ltd., the leading global Japanese hotel operator, is pleased to announce that the Hotel Okura Thermal Resort Spa Cappadocia is…
Evolution has engineered a creature that shouldn't exist—a fish that thrives in conditions that would pulverize almost any other organism on Ear…
Authorities have arrested a 15-year-old junior high school student in Sendai City on suspicion of possessing marijuana
The site has moved into a bigger premises on the same road - and we were mightily impressed on our visit
Fukui Prefectural Police announced on July 24 the departure of Mikiko Masuda, the prefecture's first-ever female police chief, in a major person…
Miyagi police have arrested a 42-year-old man for stealing a bag containing a staggering 22 million yen after security workers accidentally drop…
A hacker has come forward to detail how he weaponized free artificial intelligence to rake in approximately 1 billion yen through deepfakes
Osaka police investigating the grisly murder of a woman whose body was found dumped on a barge in Osaka City have recovered the corpse of her mi…
Aichi Prefectural Police have raided the Nagoya branch of the Japan Finance Corporation (JFC) following the arrest of a former employee in a maj…
Police in Hiroshima City have arrested a 50-year-old bar owner following the discovery of a man’s battered corpse inside his establishment
A popular teacher at an elite international school is murdered just before leaving for Japan. As detectives investigate, everyone becomes a susp…