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The country's opiate economy — including the value of domestic consumption as well as exports abroad — is estimated to be between $589 milli...

The suspect is said to have approached the woman in her 20s near Takadanobaba Station and stabbed her without warning as she walked, apparen...

Communist Party cadres from different regions competed to market their locales as China’s next AI hub at the National People’s Congress seve...

Metal theft has surged in recent years, driven by rising copper prices.

Poor teaching and a dearth of basic equipment has led to a pressing shortage of qualified workers and high unemployment among young people.

In Asia, stocks were battered across the board with Japan's Nikkei and Taiwan stocks hitting their lowest levels since September.

Top Taiwanese officials believe the U.S. will stay invested in the island's security as Washington remains united on the need to counter Chi...

The U.S. opposes language in a joint document that could harm its efforts to bring Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table, Secretary of...

Lawmaker Lee Seong-kweun said he will encourage South Koreans to visit Japan for the expo.

The number of people aged 20 to 39 in Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures fell by about 20% to 30% between 2010 and 2024.

Kazuo Momma, a former executive director in charge of monetary policy, says the central bank is likely to move roughly every six months to m...

Police in Manila acted on an International Criminal Court warrant tied to Duterte's deadly war on drugs.

Independence has been a key campaign theme in the semiautonomous territory of Denmark after the U.S. president said he wants control over th...

"Parents and children alike are carrying heavy emotional burdens," one expert said.

The revised figures highlight pockets of weakness in the Japanese economy even as it continues to moderately expand.

Accord comes at critical moment after mass killings of Alawite minority members in western Syria threatens effort to unite country after 14...

Two-time defending men's champion Carlos Alcaraz highlights the night session in the combined ATP Masters and WTA 1000 event.

At night the territory is plunged into almost total darkness, after more than 15 months of intense Israeli bombardment and fighting that had...

A law states all contaminated soil must be disposed of outside Fukushima by March 2045.

There has been no indication of any malicious activity or other actors involved in the incident, security sources say.

The attack raises questions as to whether the politically divisive billionaire — and top adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump — is being t...

What had been a steady pullback from the U.S. stock market accelerated sharply Monday as investors retreated from virtually every type of ri...

Part of the goal is to attract a more permanent workforce to Fukushima to support the development of the prefecture as a whole.

Diverging national interests among BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — may also prove sticking points.

Born in 1999 at Asahiyama Zoo in the city of Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Oto had been at Aichi Prefecture's Toyohashi Zoo & Botanical Park since 20...