More than 7,000 public school teachers in Japan took leave due to mental illness in both fiscal 2023 and fiscal 2024, ...

A 20-year-old U.S. Marine was arrested Sunday in Okinawa Prefecture on suspicion of robbing and murdering a local woman, ...

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A total of 68 information leak cases involving domestic violence (DV) victims and other protected individuals occurred ...

Yokozuna Hoshoryu, who has withdrawn from three consecutive grand sumo tournaments due to injury, performed a ring-entry ...

Japan remained in 12th place in an annual innovation report by the World Intellectual Property Organization this year, ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi pledged in a policy speech Monday to cut the consumption tax on food products without issuing ...

UBE, Yamaguchi -- A statue of the Evangelion Unit-01 robot from the popular anime series "Neon Genesis Evangelion" has been ...

The Nikkei stock index briefly topped the 70,000 line on Monday for the first time since early July, led by heavyweight ...

Japan is entering its "danger season" -- the October period when bear activity intensifies. More than half of the fatalities ...

A tourism facility where visitors can interact with Akita dogs has reopened in this northern Japan city after being moved and ...

Japanese police arrested a U.S. Marine in the alleged robbery and killing of a woman on Okinawa, officials said Sunday, the ...