Japan's Cabinet on Aug. 5 approved a policy to cut the consumption tax rate on food and beverages from 8% to 1%. However, ...

Typhoon Dolphin, a large and strong tropical storm and the 13th of the year, moved west on the morning of Aug. 7, bringing ...

Tomato growers in this quake-struck city, Japan's top tomato-producing area, face the prospect of being unable to grow their ...

A mother in the Japanese capital launched an online petition July 7 calling for sex offenders to be kept out of schools after ...

Far from her native Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan, a Japanese woman is helping revitalize a rural community in Vietna ...

Japan's household spending in June fell a real 3.3 percent from a year earlier, marking the seventh consecutive monthly drop, ...

A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young ...

Tokyo stocks opened lower Friday, tracking overnight losses on Wall Street and dragged down by heavyweight technology shares, ...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is once more trying to limit the number of people who are born in the country ...

The United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare on Aug. 6, 1945. The olive-green steel cylinder called ...

The number of foreign visitors to Japan's parliament building reached 13,697 in 2025, the highest since record-keeping began ...

Maki Morita became the first female umpire to call a spring or summer Koshien high school baseball tournament game in Japan, ...