TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Bank of Japan decided Tuesday to further reduce its monthly government bond purchases beyond April next ...

Two months into Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, ticket sales have picked up, with daily visitor numbers trending upward. Every day ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and the Ministry of the Environment have issued a "heatstroke alert" for Chiba, Ibaraki ...

The rule allowing fixed-term academic employees to switch to indefinite employment after 10 years is a serious factor in ...

Ippei Mizuhara, a former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, is in U.S. federal prison, prison ...

Donald Keene's journey tracing the footsteps of haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) in Basho's masterpiece "Oku no Hosomichi, ...

The Usa Naval Air Corps was established in 1939, and around 800 personnel were stationed at the base, which was centered in ...

Shohei Ohtani gave up a pair of two-strike hits and a run in his Los Angeles Dodgers pitching debut against the San Diego ...

The leaders of the Group of Seven nations on Monday called for a resolution of the recent conflict between Israel and Iran, ...

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A record number of 99 women, making up 34% of the 295 total candidates, have filed their candidacies in the upcoming Tokyo ...

The leaders of the Group of Seven democracies discussed global trade Monday as they kicked off two days of talks in Canada ...