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Mount Fuji is viewed, Jan. 29, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, file)

A man airlifted from Japan’s Mount Fuji returns to the slope days later and is rescued again

Police in Japan say that climber who was airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope and was rescued for a second time just four days later.
 
Ivan Espinosa, who will become the chief executive at Japanese automaker Nissan in April, speaks to reporters at the Nissan Technical Center in Atsugi, Japan, Wednesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

Nissan revises down its earnings forecast with bigger losses

 
The first place winning U.S. team, from right, Jason Brown, Alysa Liu, Ilia Malinin, Amber Glenn, Madison Chock and Evan Bates, Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov, pose during the award ceremony of of the ISU World Team Trophy figure skating competition at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Saturday April 19, 2025 in Tokyo. (Kyodo News via AP)

World champion Alysa Liu takes free skate as US wins World Team Trophy

 
A Star Wars supporter poses for a photo during a fan convention called the Star Wars Celebration Japan in Chiba, near Tokyo, Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

‘Star Wars’ fans wave lightsabers as an upcoming film gets announced in Japan

 
U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass, second left, and his wife Mary, left, are welcomed by Joseph Young, center, Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Tokyo, Eiichi Kawahara, second right, Ambassador Special Assistant to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Victor Osumi, right, President of Japan Operations of Delta, upon their arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo Friday, April 18, 2025. (Kazuhiro Nogi/Pool Photo via AP)

New US ambassador to Japan says he’s optimistic a tariffs deal can be reached

 

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Skytree Tower in Tokyo lit in Olympic and French colours to mark start of Olympics

 

Heavy rain in northern Japan forces hundreds to take shelter

 

Heavy rainfall pounds northern Japan

 

Japan’s Nikkei and South Korea’s Kospi plunge following Wall Street nose-dive

 
FILE - People holding parasols sit on the bench under an intense sun at a park in Tokyo, July 8, 2024. Japan’s total population marked the 15th straight year of decline, according to government data released Wednesday, July 24. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Japan’s population falls for a 15th year with record low births and record high deaths

 

Leaders of Australia and Japan react to Biden dropping out of 2024 US presidential race

 
FILE - Paul Watson, then founder and President of the animal rights and environmental Sea Shepherd Conservation, attends a demonstration against the Costa Rican government near Germany's President residence during a visit of Costa Rica's president in Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. Greenland police said they arrested Watson on Sunday, July 21, 2024, on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)

Anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson arrested in Greenland. He faces possible extradition to Japan

 

Japanese and Taiwanese coast guards hold joint search and rescue drill off Japan’s eastern coast

 
FILE - Japan's Fumiaki Tanaka reacts after Japan lost to South Africa in the Rugby World Cup quarterfinal match at Tokyo Stadium in Tokyo, on Oct. 20, 2019. Tanaka has announced his retirement from international rugby at the age of 39, ending a career which spanned one of the most successful eras in Japanese rugby. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Retiring Tanaka praises Eddie Jones in Jones’ second stint at Japan rugby coach

 
FILE - A container ship is docked at a port in Tokyo, Oct. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Japan’s trade deficit for first half declines as exports recover

 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at the Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting, or PALM, in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, July 18, 2024. (Juntaro Yokoyama/Kyodo News via AP)

Pacific island leaders agree to enhance Japan’s role in the region amid growing China influence

 

Kabuki star on differences between stage and screen

 
Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara speaks during a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo, Friday, July 12, 2024. Kihara on Friday announced taking disciplinary action against more than 200 senior officials and service members over mishandling of classified materials and a spate of other misconducts, an embarrassment that undermines Tokyo's desire to work more closely with United States and other partners as a trusted partner. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan punishes hundreds of defense officials for mishandling classified data and other misconduct

 
This photo provided by Shochiku shows Kabuki actor Danjuro Ichikawa playing a fox disguised as a warrior to follow Lady Shizuka, a court dancer, filying over the crowd in “Hoshiawase Jusandan” at the Kabukiza Theater in Tokyo, July 1, 2024. Danjuro is a virtuoso in switching roles. In his latest production, he plays 13 parts, including a beautiful princess, a sushi chef and the owner of the sushi restaurant, a brave samurai and a fox who impersonates that samurai to get close to the court dancer Lady Shizuka, played by Nakamura Jakuemon. (Shochiku via AP)

On stage, one of Japan’s biggest Kabuki stars changes roles in an instant. Offstage, it took decades

 

Three reported missing after landslide in western Japan

 
FILE - A supporter for the LGBTQ+ community holds up a poster as plaintiffs speak in front of media members by the main entrance of the Tokyo district court after hearing the ruling regarding LGBTQ+ marriage rights, in Tokyo, on March 14, 2024. The poster reads, "Legalize the same-sex marriage." A Japanese high court has approved a legal gender change for a transgender woman without requiring the usual compulsory gender-affirming surgery. The Hiroshima High Court ruled Wednesday July 10, 2024 that the current requirement is possibly unconstitutional, signalling a change in how gender issues and LGBTQ+ rightgs are being addressed in Japan. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)

Court in Japan allows transgender woman to officially change gender without compulsory surgery

 
FILE - This undated photo released by and taken from the official website of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, shows a SH-60K chopper. Crew members' failure to keep a lookout and communicate, as well as lack of instructions and cooperation by their commanding officers led two Japanese navy SH-60K helicopters to collide during training, killing all eight people aboard, a Japanese navy office report said Tuesday, June 9, 2024. (The official website of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force via AP)

Japan Navy helicopters’ fatal crash caused by inadequate instructions to crew, says probe report

 

Japan and Philippines sign defense pact allowing their forces to train in each other’s territory

 
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, right, arrives at the Malacanang Palace in Manila, Philippines, Monday, July 8, 2024. (Lisa Marie David/Pool Photo via AP)

Japan and the Philippines sign a defense pact in the face of shared alarm over China

 
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, right, and Japanese lawmaker Shinjiro Koizumi, left, take part in a surfing event in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, on Japan's northeast coast Saturday, July 6, 2024. Earlier Saturday, the ambassador visited the nearby town of Minamisoma to join junior surfers and sample locally-caught flounder for lunch, aiming to highlight the safety of the area's seawater and seafood amid ongoing discharges of treated and diluted radioactive water from the tsuamni-ruined Fukusima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo News via AP)

US envoy to Japan expresses regret over alleged sex crimes by military personnel in Okinawa

 
A passerby walks past an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index, center, at a securities firm Thursday, July 4, 2024 in Tokyo. Japan’s Nikkei 225 benchmark closed Thursday at a fresh record high of 40,913.65, pushing past its most recent record close set in March. (Kyodo News via AP)

Stock market today: Japan’s Nikkei 225 hits new record close, as other world markets advance

 

Japan’s Nikkei 225 benchmark closes at a fresh record high of 40,913.65, pushing past its record close set in March

 
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, right, and Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda hold the country’s new banknotes in a frame, during a ceremony to mark the release of the banknotes, at the BOJ headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. (Japan Pool/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan issues new yen banknotes packed with 3D hologram technology to fight counterfeiting

 

Japan launches observation satellite on a new flagship H3 rocket

 

Japan’s emperor plants cherry tree at Oxford University college where he once studied

 
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks at a press conference in Tokyo Friday, June 28, 2024. Japan’s government protested to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo over at least two sexual assault cases involving American servicemembers on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa and the much delayed disclosures of the problems. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan protests sex assault cases involving US military on Okinawa and their delayed disclosure

 

Three bodies found inside crater at summit of Mount Fuji

 

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito given grand welcome for banquet in London

 
FILE - The shadow of Mount Fuji is cast on clouds hanging below the summit Aug. 27, 2019, in Japan. Three bodies were found inside a crater at the summit of Mount Fuji, Japan’s most famous mountain, with one of them already brought down from the slopes, police said Thursday, June 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Rescuers seek to bring down bodies found on Japan’s Mount Fuji

 

South Korean and US air forces hold combined air drills

 
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