A missing 16-year-old high school girl from Tokyo who was found dead in a closet in a house in central Japan had sustained ...

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It's a cold and drizzly October day, but the atmosphere is warm and lively inside the second-grade classroom at Takasaki ...

Tokyo stocks were mixed Wednesday morning, weighed down by selling amid uncertainty over planned U.S. reciprocal tariffs, ...

Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rubble of a building in Myanmar's capital on Tuesday, but hope was fading ...

State-backed Japanese chip venture Rapidus Corp. began the initial phase of running a pilot manufacturing line for ...

A former Fuji Television Network Inc. employee expressed both relief and frustration in a statement Tuesday after a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is due to announce reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday in an effort to slash his country's global ...

Yuki Yanagita drove in two runs including a solo home run as last season's Pacific League champion SoftBank Hawks w ...

BEIJING (Kyodo) -- China said Tuesday it has launched military drills around Taiwan that serve as a "stern warning and ...

Japan plans to invest over 20 trillion yen ($134 billion) in the five years from fiscal 2026 to enhance the country's ...

Seeing vacant buildings and houses in disrepair in Japan is becoming more commonplace with the aging and decline of the coun ...