Early on April 16, Kyoto Prefectural Police arrested the father of an 11-year-old boy whose body was found in the prefecture ...

A man arrested for abandoning the body of his son who had been missing for weeks has admitted to killing the boy and ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was being awarded the prestigious International Four Freedoms Award at a cerem ...

Nine high school students in Nagasaki used artificial intelligence (AI) to add color to old black-and-white photos of life in ...

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Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers issued warnings to 21 individuals aged between 13 and 19 around the so-called ...

Is it really feasible to build a final disposal site on Japan's easternmost island for radioactive waste generated at nuclear ...

TOKYO -- Amid a declining birth rate and an increase in the rate of people who remain unmarried for life, "charitable ...

Time magazine on Wednesday included Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in its selection of the world's 100 most ...

China's economy in the January-March period grew a real 5.0 percent from a year ago, official data showed Thursday, with the ...

In Japan's izakaya pubs, people drink and discuss the usual topics including sports and politics. But one group of fathers ...

Shohei Ohtani pitched one-run ball over six innings and struck out 10 in which he did not also bat since 2021, and the Los ...