The right-wing populist party Sanseito, which made significant gains in the recent House of Councillors election, removed a ...

As Japan continues to see sweltering summer heat across the country, juvenile Japanese macaques in southwest Japan's Oita ...

The International Crime Division of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) on July 24 referred a 39-year-old woman to ...

Eighty women, aged 16 to 30 and selected from 135 applicants, joined the event at Tenjinbashisuji shopping street in Osaka's ...

New theme park Junglia Okinawa opened Friday in southern Japan with the price of general admissions for visitors from ...

A 4-year-old female polar bear named "Ho-chan" received a big ice block with her favorite apples inside on July 19 at Tennoji ...

Eight individuals who are the children of followers of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, formerly the ...

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Ichiro Suzuki on Thursday attended the opening of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's latest exhibit cele ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday he wants to oversee the "steady" implementation of a recently ...

A man named Jolan Bollen, 32, rode his bicycle from Hasselt, Belgium to Itami, Hyogo Prefecture in Japan. These two cities ...