As crimes by so-called anonymous, fluid criminal groups in Japan emerge as a social problem, a man in central Japan's Gifu ...

This southwestern Japan city has made improving academic performance a priority for fiscal 2026, placing "artificial ...

The Gunma Prefectural Government is set to alter the application system for its "Gunma Passport" booklet from a first-come, ...

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Graduate students at Germany's prestigious University of Bonn have been translating video testimonies by atomic bomb ...

A Japanese business group is considering sending a delegation to China in late September, after the annual visit originally ...

Oil prices rose, and stock markets dropped in shaky trading worldwide Wednesday after President Donald Trump raised doubts ...

China identified two possible flight routes for its test-firing of a ballistic missile from a nuclear-powered submarine ...

The U.S. carried out another round of strikes on Iran on Wednesday, hours after President Donald Trump said that r ...

A former member of an elite investigative unit of Tokyo prosecutors has become the target of a probe for allegedly having an ...