The mayor of this west Japan city apologized May 20 after it came to light that unsanitary conditions for meals served at a ...

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike announced May 20 that the basic water charge for all general households in the capital will be waived ...

Former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Wednesday he was appointed as the country's new farm minister, after Taku ...

Farm minister Taku Eto resigned on Wednesday after experiencing a backlash over a controversial admission that he does not ...

Japan's government on Tuesday proposed 17 industries for inclusion in a new program to replace the foreign trainee scheme, ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has decided to sack farm minister Taku Eto, sources close to the matter said Tuesday, under ...

Seiya Suzuki homered, doubled and had four RBIs, Kyle Tucker also went deep and the Chicago Cubs beat the Miami Marlins 14-1 ...

Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Los Angeles Dodgers had his no-hit bid broken up by Arizona's Ketel Marte in the seventh inning ...

Smartphone exports from China to the United States in April plunged about 70 percent from a year earlier amid a tariff ...

Many people from Hong Kong now feel afraid of visiting Japan. This worry comes from an old manga book made in 1999. Some ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Bulgarian President Rumen Radev agreed Tuesday to upgrade bilateral relations to a ...

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