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DETROIT--Honda Motor Co. announced it has begun commercial production of a new hydrogen fuel cell system jointly developed with General Motors Co.

TAIPEI–Taiwan’s parliament on Thursday elected a former presidential candidate for the largest opposition party as its new speaker, who will be responsible for hosting visiting foreign lawmakers and who the ruling party has said is pro-China....

Lights designed to prevent runway incursions were out of service when a Japan Coast Guard plane collided with an arriving Japan Airlines Co. passenger jet at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Jan. 2.

Toyota Motor Corp. has developed a succession of fuel-cell (FC) commercial vehicle models including delivery and garbage trucks powered by hydrogen.

Thousands rallied here on a national holiday to protest the government’s decision to bolster Japan’s military presence in the country’s southwestern region in response to threats from China and North Korea.

Japanese government officials on Nov. 22 criticized North Korea’s purported rocket launch and disputed Pyongyang’s claim that it had successfully put a spy satellite in orbit.

To jump-start Japan’s stagnant electric vehicle market, a charging network operator unveiled ambitious plans to install 1,000 rapid chargers in Tokyo over the next two years....

Twenty envoys from 12 Western and Asian delegations told Reuters that in recent months they had noticed larger police presences around some diplomatic premises and increased attempts by Chinese authorities to intimidate embassy contacts and disrupt civic outreach endeavors, including LGBT and gender-themed events.

Twenty envoys from 12 Western and Asian delegations told Reuters that in recent months they had noticed larger police presences around some diplomatic premises and increased attempts by Chinese authorities to intimidate embassy contacts and disrupt civic outreach endeavors, including LGBT and gender-themed events.

Last month was the hottest July in Japan in more than a century, according to analysis by The Asahi Shimbun of average temperatures since 1898.

“Whole,” a 2019 Japanese film directed by Bilal Kawazoe, has a scene in a ramen shop where a rude Japanese patron keeps pestering a fellow customer, a young biracial man, with questions.

A driver’s license is no longer required for motorized kick scooters, although people under the age of 16 will be banned from riding them.

Newly appointed teachers at public schools are quitting in droves due to burnout caused by long working hours and a lack of support.

Eruptions from an undersea volcano have apparently created an islet in the Ogasawara island chain more than 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean, officials said.