The Hiroshima Municipal Government on July 16 opened to the media the vault at the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound containing the ...

A couple who allegedly left their three young children unattended at their home here for more than six hours were arrested ...

At Tohoku University, a growing number of employees hired as regular staff with no expiry dates on their contracts are being ...

As Japan is experiencing extreme heat, a spate of water accidents has been reported across the country, and many foreigners ...

A Japanese court on Thursday ordered a local government to pay a former assistant nurse about 31 million yen ($209,000) in ...

A Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma Inc. who was detained in Beijing and charged with spying has been sentenced to 3 1/2 ...

Japanese toilet maker Toto Ltd. is this August releasing a home-use toilet which measures the amount, hardness and other ...

Tokyo stocks ended higher Thursday, as heavyweight chip shares trimmed earlier losses after robust earnings from Taiwan ...

The Blue Impulse aerobatics team from Japan's Air Self-Defense Force flew over the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, on July 12 and 13 ...

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Canadian retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. said Thursday it has withdrawn its $47 billion buyout proposal for Japanese ...

What is one major change to Japan's system for switching a foreign driver's license to a Japanese one starting in October ...