TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan on Friday launched a "security clearance" system to allow critical government information to be ...

Japan is considering expanding the scope of industries under the Specified Skilled Worker visa for foreigners to address a ...

Japan Display Inc. said Thursday that CEO Scott Callon will step down to take responsibility for the company's struggling ...

Japan's economy shrank an annualized real 0.7 percent in the January-March period, marking the first contraction in four ...

Pope Leo XIV met Thursday at the Vatican with the head of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, in one of his first audiences ...

Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown was charged Thursday in England for allegedly beating a music producer in a London ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks dropped Friday morning, weighed down by selling of export-oriented issues on a stronger yen.

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The Japanese government and ruling coalition decided May 14 to distribute 100,000 metric tons of stockpiled rice as the ...

TINIAN/GUAM (Kyodo) -- The Pacific island of Tinian is planning a "big" commemoration in August to mark the 80th anniversary ...

Many Japanese students now go to an Indian international school in Tokyo. More than half of the school's students are now ...

NATO foreign ministers on Thursday debated an American demand to massively ramp up defense investment as the United States ...