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A runway was closed for hours at Naha Airport in the southern island prefecture of Okinawa on Tuesday after a Japanese Self-Defense Fo ...

A man suspected of illicitly dealing prescription drugs to young people in a corner of Osaka's Minami district known as a hangout for youths ...

Disaster volunteers have begun helping residents in this east Japan city after heavy rain on Aug. 13 and 14 caused extensive f ...

What new requirement has Japan imposed on students of foreign nationality under its expanded free high school tuition program ...

Documents found at a sake museum in Hyogo Prefecture show that Japan's former Imperial Army and Navy ordered sake brewers to hel ...

A high school student carrying two pistols shot to death a fellow student before killing himself Tuesday in an attack in a ...

The death toll from the torrential rain that struck Chiba Prefecture last week has risen to 13 from 11, the prefectural government sa ...

South Korea on Monday expressed hopes for resumption of diplomacy between the U.S. and North Korea to ease animosities on t ...

A central Japan local commuter train line is thought to have become the country's first to be converted into a reservation- ...

A flame-lighting ceremony for the upcoming Asian Games torch relay was held in Tokyo on Tuesday, around a month before the opening of ...

A lawsuit in Japan about family names after marriage is now at an important time. A couple in Sapporo sued the state. They say parts of the ...