Police looking for a common thread in a spate of recent home break-ins in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area are focusing on ...

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HAMAMATSU--Hideko Hakamada, 91, spent much of her life working to free her brother from nearly a half-century on death row.

SEOUL--South Korea's spy agency said Friday that North Korea has dispatched troops to support Russia's war against Ukraine.

Candidates of the ruling party seem to be strikingly out of touch with the opposition parties, and even with the junior ...

A man in his late 40s was taken into police custody after he hurled several crude firebombs at the Tokyo headquarters of the ...

Nearly all opposition candidates in the Oct. 27 Lower House election say the revised Political Fund Control Law is ...

Renowned judoka siblings Hifumi Abe and his younger sister, Uta, have towered over their competitors, winning gold medals and ...

Deceased hibakusha who share their final resting place at a common grave on the outskirts of Tokyo will soon receive some ...

The property became available under the Uozu city government’s “100-yen Akiya Bank” program, which was started this fiscal ...

HANOI--A Vietnamese real estate tycoon was convicted Thursday of fraudulently obtaining property worth billions of dollars ...

Aficionados tip their glass to the Kyushu region as the birthplace of shochu, a traditional Japanese distilled alcoholic ...