Somali Ambassador Hodan Osman Abdi presented her credentials to Emperor Naruhito in July. It's the first time the role has ...

A volcano on the island nation of Vanuatu in the South Pacific erupted on Tuesday. Meteorological officials in Japan are ...

The Meteorological Agency announced its September to November forecast on Tuesday. It says overall atmospheric temperatures ...

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A new boarding facility at Tokyo's Haneda Airport has been opened to the media ahead of its start of operations on September ...

Typhoon Narra has triggered landslides and flooding in northern Vietnam. One person has died. Thousands of residents have ...

A convenience store went up in flames on Monday night, in a fresh attack after dozens of incidents in the country's restive ...

Police say a man has stolen four foreign-made luxury watches worth about 200 million yen, or more than 1.2 million dollars, ...

President Donald Trump says the US will increase import tariffs to 50 percent on Canadian cars, trucks, auto parts and steel ...

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Japan's government has decided on a series of fee increases for residence permit procedures for foreign nationals.