In 2022, a third-year student at Saitama Prefectural Ina Gakuen Junior High School was slashed in the leg with a box cutter by another stud ...

Finance ministers of the Group of Seven industrialized nations discussed a possible coordinated release of oil reserves ...

Para alpine skier Momoka Muraoka won Japan's first medal at the Milan Cortina Paralympic Winter Games on Monday, c ...

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The Ground Self-Defense Force transported early Monday a launcher and other equipment to its garrison in Kumamoto on the so ...

TOKYO -- A new survey shows that about 40% of low-income families in Japan go into debt to pay for their children's school expenses. Read the full English article Read the original Japanese article ...

Over 100 Japanese people and other nationals who evacuated amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East arrived in Japan ...

The National Police Agency (NPA) has begun operating a system to certify and recommend private-sector smartphone apps that ...

The cultural association that sells goods related to Japan's Imperial Family has been in discussions with the Imperial ...

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Nago Mayor Taketoyo Toguchi lodged a protest with the central government on Monday after a U.S. military helicopter made an ...

Japan's real wages in January rose 1.4 percent from a year earlier, marking the first gain in 13 months, helped by pay growth ...