Japan's space agency, JAXA, launched its Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) spacecraft on October 19 from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima prefecture. The mission is described as the world's first round-trip sample-return mission to Mars.
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Russia's Federal Security Service said Tuesday that it had arrested a Japanese journalist from the Hokkaido Shimbun newspaper on espionage charges, accusing him of gathering information on Russian defense capabilities for Japanese intelligence while preparing to leave the country.
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Russia's Federal Security Service announced on Tuesday the arrest of a Japanese journalist working for the newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun, detained in the Sakhalin region as he prepared to leave the country.
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Japan's food and drink makers are shifting strategy as the anti-ageing supplement market, long a reliable growth engine, becomes saturated, according to an analysis of the sector published Monday.
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Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing methods to produce a single mirror-image form of a molecule rather than a mixture of both. The prize, announced Wednesday, carries 12 million Swedish crowns, about $1.2 million, to be split between the two laureates.
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Japan has dropped out of the top 10 overseas destinations for Chinese travellers planning trips over the National Day holiday, according to the travel agency Tuniu. A year earlier, Japan was first on the same list.
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Maldon is asking the public to find the "perfect pyramid" flake of sea salt. The contest marks 145 years of the company making sea salt flakes.
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Japanese researchers have used silkworm eggs across space missions to study how cosmic radiation and spaceflight affect developing organisms. In May 1997, eggs spent nine days in orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis during the STS-84 mission.
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