An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 hit the Tokara Islands in southwestern Japan on Wednesday, an area that has ...

The Japanese government said Tuesday it has updated its disaster risk plan in the hope of reducing the estimated death toll ...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Israel has agreed on terms for a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza and warned Hamas to accept ...

Two male university students were arrested for allegedly shoplifting about 330,000 yen (approx. $2,280) worth of official ...

The Royal Train will soon leave the station for the last time. King Charles III has accepted it's time to decommission the ...

Coco Gauff became just the third woman in the Open era to lose in the first round at Wimbledon right after winning the ...

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Tokyo stocks dropped Wednesday morning, pressured by growing concern that U.S.-Japan tariff negotiations could be prolonged ...

The top diplomats of Japan, the United States, Australia and India agreed Tuesday to launch an initiative aimed at bolstering ...

Koko Kondo, an 80-year-old Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor, was invited to give a peace studies lecture for students at Komyo ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of further increasing tariffs on imports from Japan, envisioning a ...