One day a foreign woman living in Japan suddenly received a visit from a police officer at her workplace. She had come under ...

U.S. automakers worry that President Donald Trump's agreement to tariff Japanese vehicles at 15% would put them at a ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is preparing to announce his resignation by August following the ruling Liberal Democratic ...

A U.N. committee has again asked Japan to provide detailed investigative information on a French woman who went missing ...

A new survey shows that many young people starting jobs in Japan in 2025 want to be promoted by seniority (age and years at ...

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Iwao Hakamada, who was acquitted in a retrial over a 1966 murder case in Shizuoka Prefecture, plans to file a damages suit ...

Shohei Ohtani matched a franchise record with a homer in the fifth straight game and Freddie Freeman drove in two runs with a ...

The Nikkei stock index briefly soared over 2 percent Thursday morning as investors kept buying on eased concern over the ...

Every time a nuclear test was conducted abroad, Ichiro Moritaki (1901-1994) staged a sit-in in front of the Cenotaph for the ...