Education officials in two cities in Japan failed to respond appropriately to incidents of sexual violence among students, ...

A 13-month-old boy died at a hospital after choking on his lunch at a licensed day care center in this city's Kita Ward on ...

More than a dozen indoor shoes were stolen from a child care facility here in early November, and security cameras installed ...

A sample of fuel debris was recently retrieved for the first time from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station's No. 2 ...

The government will designate Japan's first laboratory to handle deadly pathogens like the Ebola virus for research as soon ...

Iran successfully sought a meeting with Elon Musk, according to a U.S. official, one in a series of steps that appeared aimed ...

Disgruntled X users are again flocking to Bluesky, a newer social media platform that grew out of the former Twitter before ...

LIMA (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday he and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to foster ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya made an unannounced visit Saturday to Ukraine for talks with officials, his ministry ...

Koreshige Anami, Japan's ambassador to China, who sought to ease tensions over visits to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine by ...

Japan's Yuma Kagiyama led after the men's short program and Hana Yoshida after the women's at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure ...

The 82-year-old son of a Japanese migrant to the Philippines, who had lived his entire life there as a stateless person, ...