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Koji Suzuki, the Japanese author known for horror novels including "Ring," died at a Tokyo hospital Friday. He was 68.

Police authorities in Indonesia's Surabaya have detained foreigners including Japanese nationals for their suspected involvement in fraud, according to Indonesian media reports.

More Japanese local governments are extracting phosphorus from sewage sludge for fertilizer, aiming to reduce the country's reliance on imports amid increasing global prices reflecting the Middle East tensions.

A Japanese group of forestry organizations launched an online timber marketplace in February to match forest owners with buyers nationwide.

Japan still faces a tough road ahead over the construction of a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Aomori Prefecture, whose completion date has been moved back 27 times.

The Quad countries of Japan, the United States, India and Australia will hold a meeting of their foreign ministers in New Delhi around May 24 to 26, diplomatic sources said Saturday.

Isseikai, a group led by former lawmaker Ichiro Ozawa of the opposition Centrist Reform Alliance, has opened an office near the parliament building in Tokyo.

Nicotine-vaping devices, collectively known as "nicopuff" in Japan, are gaining popularity among young people, although they are unapproved and their sales are prohibited in the country.

A group of Ainu indigenous people in Hokkaido, northern Japan, has started a lawsuit demanding that the remains of 279 Ainu ancestors held by a state facility be returned to their descendants.

The Mie prefectural government in central Japan is considering not restoring the nationality requirement for its fiscal 2026 employment examinations, officials have said.