The prefectural police here on June 27 arrested two university students for allegedly shoplifting about 330,000 yen (roughly ...

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Kenshi Nakanishi, 26, has Down syndrome. He is helping visitors from other countries in English at Expo 2025 in Osaka.

Japan executed a man convicted for the 2017 serial murders of nine people in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, a source close to the ...

Russia's ambassador to Japan will attend an annual peace ceremony commemorating the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing in the ...

For decades, Japan's defense spending remained around 1% of GDP. Just two and a half years ago, at the end of 2022, the ...

Japan's top government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi on Friday refrained from commenting directly on U.S. President Donald ...

That's the marketing message of Sanseito, a new right-wing populist party in Japan known for its stance against immigrants ...

Hokkaido University's chemistry department has permitted several associate professors -- who had previously complained of ...

Japan's education ministry plans to restrict living expenses support for doctoral students to Japanese nationals only, a ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Thursday that his country had delivered ...

The Japanese government Friday approved evacuation plans in the event of an accident at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power ...