The government agency overseeing child policies on Thursday announced a new certification mark for entities taking part in a "Japanese DBS" program to check the sexual offense histories of people ...
The mother of a 24-year-old woman who committed suicide due to overwork on Dec 25, 2015, appealed to the public not to let the issue of karoshi (death due to overwork) be forgotten. Speaking at a news ...
Christmas celebrations were held at Sydney's famed Bondi beach on Thursday in the aftermath of a terror ‌attack that killed 15 people there more than a week ago, as the community continued to grapple ...
Police in Ikuno, Osaka Prefecture, said a man in his 30s who had been in custody died of an illness in hospital on Wednesday. According to police, the man was being held in the police station's ...
US President Donald Trump seized on the occasion of Christmas Eve to assail opposition Democrats, branding them "radical left scum" as he sent out holiday greetings. From his Mar-a-Lago estate in ...
"For every one Japanese, there have been 1.72 foreigners." This shocking statement, made on the floor of the Diet by the member of one of the opposition parties, would appear to claim that the crime ...
The White House has ordered U.S. military ‌forces to focus almost exclusively on enforcing the "quarantine" of Venezuelan oil for ⁠at least the next ‍two months, a U.S. ‍official told ‍Reuters on ...
Thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem's Manger Square on Christmas Eve as families there and at other sites across the Holy Land heralded a much-needed boost of holiday spirit, after two years of ...
President Donald Trump is reportedly setting his sights on a Christmas peace deal in the Ukraine-Russia war. The timing is apt. Every December, political leaders reach instinctively for the language ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited a nuclear submarine factory and received a message from Russia's Vladimir Putin hailing the countries' "invincible friendship", Pyongyang's state media said ...
Cristian Romero could be hit with an extended suspension after he was charged by England's ruling Football Association with failing to leave the field and acting in an "aggressive" manner when he was ...
The European Union's executive on Wednesday warned that it would take action against any “unjustified measures” after the U.S. State Department barred five Europeans it accuses of pressuring U.S.