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An unprecedented orange juice crisis is hitting consumers in Japan due to supply shortages caused by natural disasters and a fruit tree disease in orange-producing countries.

Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and his South Korean counterpart, Shin Won-sik, agreed Saturday on measures to prevent a recurrence of an incident in 2018 in which a South Korean warship directed its fire control radar toward a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force plane.

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Saturday that he has made a "painful decision" to cancel his plan to become the first non-astronaut individual to orbit the moon.

Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara showed a sense of crisis over the situation in the Indo-Pacific region, in his speech at the Asia Security Summit, also known as Shangri-La Dialogue, in Singapore on Saturday.

The western Japan city of Kyoto on Saturday launched an express bus service connecting Kyoto Station with major tourist destinations in the city.

An internal investigation team at Nippon Television Network Corp., or Nippon TV, has drawn up a report on the "Sexy Tanaka-san" drama series that aired from October to December last year, following the apparent suicide in January of Hinako Ashihara, the creator of the title's original manga series.