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Koichiro Ito was reportedly accused of paying a 15-year-old girl money in return for sex, and demanding that another teenager take and send...

In the 1980s, Japan dominated semiconductor production. Fast-forward to today and the country is trying to recapture its past glory, this ti...

It’s unsettling, but the amount of plastic in your brain is probably less than the plastic spoon’s worth grabbing the headlines.

Had Roosevelt forced Churchill to surrender to Hitler and hand over his country's coal with no U.S. security guarantees, it would resemble w...

Without the well-developed road infrastructure of many parts of Honshu, it has never been easy to be a truck driver in Hokkaido.

The Financial Services Agency is asking life insurers about the scale of the practice and the type of contracts they have in place.

The shares will be offered at ¥810 to ¥820 each after feedback from investors, JX Metals said in a filing in Tokyo on Monday.

Starting out as a complete amateur, Takatoshi Hayashi now receives orders from abroad for his “Ishinomaki Kokeshi” as his renown spreads onl...

Conquering Europe for the first time appears to be Arsenal's only chance of ending a five-year trophy drought.

Blackstone has been increasingly active in Japan’s life science sector amid a wider buyout boom in the country.

Gender inequality in the household is a large barrier to women’s participation in politics, creating a vicious cycle that delays progress, K...

The Japanese leader sought to strike a balance for Japan, the sole Asian G7 member, in its alliance with the U.S. and its longstanding suppo...

Pressure for growth is rising after a counterproposal by Seven & I’s founding Ito family and Itochu for a ¥9 trillion management buyout coll...

The Trump administration announced last week that it was canceling nearly 10,000 foreign aid grants and contracts worth almost $60 billion,...

The Recovery Support Center was created as many victims complained of problems with their eyes even years after medical examinations began t...

Global liner rates fell 5.9% sequentially in the week ended Feb. 27, after earlier breaking below $3,000 per 12-meter container for the firs...

The prices of staples such as rice, eggs and cabbage have all surged in the past 12 months.

Syria's interim president wants to renegotiate the 49-year lease for one base and an indefinite lease for the other to secure better terms.

Passengers on South Korean airlines must now keep power banks and e-cigarettes on their person and not in overhead cabin compartments.

The decision came as talks on a truce extension appeared to hit an impasse, after the ceasefire's 42-day first phase drew to a close.

Women and young people are leading a migratory wave that the government is struggling to halt.

Stakeholders in Suginami Ward have been fighting against a road development plan for some years — but economic forces are already transformi...

The long-promised tariffs scheduled to take effect Tuesday would easily be among the most sweeping of the Trump era, applying to roughly $1....

Democrats, meanwhile, have expressed disgust over the tenor of U.S. President Donald Trump's meeting with the Ukrainian leader.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain and France and "one or two others” would work with Kyiv on a "plan to stop the fighting.”