An explosion occurred Monday at the U.S. military's Kadena Air Base in the southern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, slightly ...

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Records of crop thefts and crimes blamed on alcohol are among Edo-period (1603-1867) documents on display at a museum in this ...

Amid calls that Self-Defense Force members be honored at Tokyo's Yasukuni Jinja shrine if they die in war, some have ...

Direct bus services connecting Mishima Station in the city of Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, and the fifth station of Mount ...

Japan's top tariff negotiator is arranging a visit to the United States later this week for a sixth round of ...

Under the revised Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act that came into effect in June 2024, foreign nationals can ...

TOKYO -- A new study found that almost 90% of workers in Japan still feel worried about work even after they go home. The ...

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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba spoke by phone with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Monday, a Japanese ...

Japan's economy shrank an annualized real 0.2 percent in January to March, revised up from the preliminary report but still ...

Japan posted a current account surplus of 2.26 trillion yen ($15.6 billion) in April, up 3.2 percent from a year earlier, ...