Iranian ambassador to Japan Peiman Seadat has urged Tokyo to stand against U.S. and Israeli strikes on nuclear facilities in ...

The effective U.S. tariff rate on all imports rose to as high as 25.9 percent under President Donald Trump, surpassing levels ...

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

U.S. President Donald Trump recently justified his country's attacks on nuclear facilities in Iran by likening them to the ...

The mayor and other officials of this eastern Japan city, known for its searing summer heat, got a taste of super spicy food ...

Early ripening peaches have reached their harvest season in the city of Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture. These juicy, ...

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

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

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

In parts of rural upstate New York, schools have more than 1,100 students for every mental health provider. In a far-flung ...

Japan's government on Friday asked major platform operators to help counter harmful social media posts in an effort to ...