The number of foreign workers in Japan injured or killed in work-related accidents topped 6,000 in 2024 for the first time, ...

Capital spending by Japanese companies in the July-September quarter rose 2.9 percent from a year earlier, rising for the ...

From the 1980s through the 1990s, large numbers of foreign nationals came to Japan. Economic growth and a booming economy ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country's president to grant him a pardon from corruption ...

Princess Aiko, the only child of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, turned 24 on Monday after marking a year full of fresh ...

On a quiet street in Tokyo's Jimbocho district, known for its secondhand bookstores and publishing houses, one shop stands ...

Inside a glass-fronted kitchen at a shop within JR Hiroshima Station, Hiroshima Ekibento Co., founded in 1901, prepares and ...

An illumination event has begun at a park in this northeast Japan city where light flowers emerged at twilight.

BEIJING (Kyodo) -- A Japanese singer whose songs feature in the popular anime "One Piece" was forced to stop performing on ...

Some residents of the flood-hit Indonesian island of Sumatra have resorted to stealing food and water to survive, authorities ...

About half of Japan's district court branches have one or fewer female lawyers in their jurisdictions, a recent survey by ...

Four people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting during a family gathering at a banquet hall in Stockton, sheriff's offic ...