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A city assembly member in central Japan was ordered on Thursday to pay damages to award-winning author Li Kotomi for ...

In interparty talks on reforming Japan's House of Representatives electoral system, the ruling coalition of the Liberal ...

A man died at a construction site Thursday in Anjo, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, while rescue efforts are underway for ...

Japanese airline ANA Holdings Inc. said Thursday its net profit for the April-September period fell 11.8 percent from a year ...

A former investigator who worked for a prefectural police force in western Japan has told the Mainichi Shimbun that police ...

One would never imagine that an expired driver's license could be improperly diverted by the police in Japan. Such misuse ...

A team of researchers from Japanese and U.S. universities has identified a gene in yellow fever mosquitos key to the ...

Orders poured in from across Japan for earrings made by a 27-year-old aspiring indigo dye artisan after Princess Kako wore ...

A group of 13 Tokyo residents who do not own smartphones or Japan's My Number identification cards sued the Tokyo ...

The SoftBank Hawks clinched back-to-back Japan Series titles Wednesday as they completed a 4-0 sweep of the DeNA BayStars, ...

For people overwhelmed by distress or a sense of helplessness, being able to talk anonymously to someone who will simply ...