Japan Airlines (JAL) is introducing robots as baggage handlers at an airport in the capital city of Tokyo. Staff at Haneda airport - which receives a staggering 60 million travellers a year - will be joined by the robots from the beginning of May.

April 27 (Reuters) - China denounced remarks ⁠by ⁠Japan and the European Union about ⁠the South China Sea at a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday and ​accused Tokyo of provocative behavior in the Taiwan Strait and planning military expansion.

Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae will visit Vietnam and Australia from May 1 through 5. Chief Cabinet Secretary Kihara Minoru revealed the itinerary at a news conference on Tuesday. In Vietnam,

Japan Airlines (JAL) will start using humanoid robots in ground handling tasks at Tokyo's Haneda airport from May, in a two-year trial it said is aimed at easing employees' workload. For a start, the Chinese-made robots will be deployed to load and unload cargo containers,

Japan 's prime minister inaugurated a panel on Monday tasked with reviewing her country's security and defense policies as tensions escalate with China, North Korea and Russia ramping up their military footprint in the region.

Humanoid robots join Tokyo airport crews to move baggage, as Japan tests automation to tackle labour shortages through 2028.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck off Japan's northern coast, prompting a temporary tsunami alert across the region.

A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Japan's northern coast on April 20, but footage of a horse supposedly protecting its owner during the disaster shared online is actually AI-generated. The

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