Visibility and internal acceptance guided volleyball player Rui Takahashi’s decision to publicly come out as gay, a move ...

SEOUL—South Korea’s spy agency said Wednesday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ’s recent revelation of a ...

OSAKA—A regenerative medical product derived from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells was used to treat a patient in a ...

China’s factory activity expanded in September for the first time in three months, striking a more positive tone as Chinese ...

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Dodgers expect a healthier Shohei Ohtani at the top of their lineup for the postseason. The ...

Aiming to strengthen ties with Mongolia, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi agreed to a yen loan worth about 158 billion yen ($1 ...

Creating a framework for democratic control of the activities of intelligence agencies will be indispensable. Takaichi ...

A city here became the fifth municipality and the only one on the main Honshu island to embark on the selection process for ...

TOYAMA—The internal affairs ministry said Sept. 29 it has filed the first-ever criminal complaint over suspected data ...

The number of foreign residents in Japan surged to 3.84 million, an all-time high, the 2025 national census showed, while the nation’s total population continued its decline, falling 3.17 million from ...

東急田園都市線の梶が谷駅（川崎市）構内で昨年10月、普通列車と回送列車が衝突、脱線した事故で、国の運輸安全委員会が1日、事故調査の中間報告となる「経過報告書」を公表した。回送列車に乗っていた見習運転士の訓練のため、指導者の指示で、本来の停止位置より約 ...

2022年8月の豪雨災害以降、全線の7割超にあたる区間で不通が続くJR米坂線（山形県米沢市―新潟県村上市）。被災から4年が経過し、その復旧をめぐる論議が、にわかに活発化している。新潟県側の自治体はバス転換容認の方向でまとまりつつある一方、山形県側は早 ...