Following a rule change this year sparked by high schools' reliance on foreign runners, international students were only ...

Major defense equipment maker Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. engaged in fictitious transactions with business partners for ...

A bear measuring about 90 centimeters from head to tail was found in the living room of a house belonging to a man in his 60s ...

According to the association, 50.5% of respondents chose coughing and sneezing, making it the top-ranked annoying behavior ...

Shohei Ohtani is keeping elite company. The Japanese superstar caps 2024 by winning The Associated Press Male Athlete of the ...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee commended Nihon Hidankyo's work of demonstrating the inhumanity of nuclear weapons through ...

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A Japanese court sentenced on Monday a former local assembly member to 19 years in prison for suffocating his wife to death ...

More than 2,500 people gathered here on Dec. 22 to protest against a spate of sexual assaults by U.S. servicemen stationed in ...

The Saitama District Court on Dec. 20 rejected a lawsuit by a 64-year-old life science researcher over what he claims was an ...

Hawaiian-born former ozeki Konishiki, the first wrestler from abroad to reach sumo's second-highest rank, revealed Monday ...

Safe deposit boxes, expected to be secure, have become the center of a shocking scandal in Japan: a bank employee had been ...