The number of elderly people living alone is growing steadily in Japan, and municipalities increasingly find themselves ...

Three Japanese men and an Uzbek man have been arrested on suspicion of fraudulently obtaining commissions by having the Uzbek ...

Japan's Self-Defense Forces on Thursday continued searching for the two missing crew members of an Air Self-Defense Force ...

The Japanese government is considering roughly doubling the supply of stockpiled rice to about 600,000 tons, as rice prices ...

A 15-year-old boy who was arrested May 12 on suspicion of murder in this eastern Japan city has told police that if he ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday will visit a U.S. installation at the center of American involvement in the Middle East as ...

Shohei Ohtani led off the game with his 13th home run and Yoshinobu Yamamoto notched his fifth win of the season Wednesday ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his NATO counterparts meet in Turkey on Thursday to prepare a pivotal summit of ...

Refugees, immigrants and their supporters connected through cultural exchanges at a recent festival held in a park here.

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Between April 28 and May 4, rice sold at supermarkets in Japan cost an average of 4,214 yen (around $28.60) per 5 kilograms ...

The government on Wednesday set a five-year goal of achieving annual inflation-adjusted wage growth of 1 percent across Japan ...