Officials on Friday withdrew an alert sent when they believed a 9.9-magnitude earthquake had taken place. In the end, the tremor was hardly felt.

Sanae Takaichi said she has a busier schedule than her male predecessors, a nod to the disproportionate share of household tasks in Japan that fall to women.

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Tokyo summoned Russia’s ambassador after a Japanese reporter was arrested in Russia’s far east and accused of collecting military intelligence.

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Critical infrastructure has been targeted in a wave of cyberattacks, which experts say are rising because of artificial intelligence.

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