Chemicals potentially harmful to human health, collectively known as PFAS, were detected in about 20 percent of tap water in ...

Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito has come under suspicion that his campaign violated the Public Offices Election Act over a local PR ...

A 23-year-old man was convicted of dangerous driving and sentenced to eight years in prison on Nov. 28 for causing a 2021 ...

Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov arrived in North Korea on Friday for talks with North Korean military and politica ...

Hitam, a lively black-and-white stray cat has been spayed and returned to the loving arms of Alvin, a parking attendant in ...

KUMAMOTO -- A total of 38 "confidential births," in which women with unplanned pregnancies give birth after only revealing ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday he will strive to build consensus across party lines as his minority ...

The yen soared to a one-month high in the upper 149 level against the U.S. dollar Friday as higher-than-expected inflation ...

Over 3,000 employees of Toshiba Corp.'s group companies in Japan have applied for its early retirement program as part of the ...

Every Wednesday, retiree Zhang Zhili travels an hour by bus to an education center, drawn by the pulsing rhythms of the ...

The Kanagawa Prefectural Government is poised to stop providing female police officers with uniform skirts, as they are ...

Prefectural police here verbally instructed dozens of officers by Nov. 28 after several under Japan's drinking age of 20 who ...