TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan on Friday launched a "security clearance" system to allow critical government information to be ...

Japan is considering expanding the scope of industries under the Specified Skilled Worker visa for foreigners to address a ...

Japan's Ryo Hisatsune shot a 3-under 68 for a share of ninth place while compatriot Hideki Matsuyama struggled to ...

Japan's economy shrank an annualized real 0.7 percent in the January-March period, marking the first contraction in four ...

Pope Leo XIV met Thursday at the Vatican with the head of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, in one of his first audiences ...

Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown was charged Thursday in England for allegedly beating a music producer in a London ...

Japan Display Inc. said Thursday that CEO Scott Callon will step down to take responsibility for the company's struggling ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks dropped Friday morning, weighed down by selling of export-oriented issues on a stronger yen.

Many Japanese students now go to an Indian international school in Tokyo. More than half of the school's students are now ...

NATO foreign ministers on Thursday debated an American demand to massively ramp up defense investment as the United States ...

Yields on longer-term Japanese government bonds have soared recently, as a series of pledges by lawmakers to cut the ...

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