HIROSHIMA -- The Hiroshima Institute for Peace Education here has completed its 2026 "Hiroshima peace calendar," continuing ...

A University of Tokyo research team announced findings showing that the H5N1 avian flu virus can remain infectious in ...

Students and other applicants sitting university entrance exams in north Japan next year are likely to have difficulty ...

Parties to an international treaty regulating the trade of endangered species on Thursday formally rejected a proposa ...

Japan has often prided itself on its orderly, low-crime society, but cracks in that image are widening amid rising car thefts ...

Renowned illustrator and manga artist Hisashi Eguchi is facing mounting criticism after allegedly using a photograph without ...

Japan has seen a series of judicial decisions criticizing insufficiencies in the protection of rights of same-sex couples.

A woman suspected of murdering the wife of her former schoolmate has told police that she wanted the victim's husband to ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, many foreign workers came to Japan because the economy was strong and there were not enough Japanese ...

TOKYO (AP) -- The pledge by Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to "work, work, work, work and work" for her country has ...

The World Exposition in Osaka is estimated to have generated an economic ripple effect of 3.05 trillion yen ($19.6 billion), ...

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