The city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture made a big mistake. For 16 years, it took property taxes from the wrong pers ...

By Hiroshi Nakanishi, Kyoto University Professor American President Donald Trump, who returned to power in January last year, ...

They are popular the world over as a breed of hunting dog from Japan. But for tourists deplaning at Iwami airport in Masuda ...

Japan's core consumer prices in February rose 1.6 percent from a year earlier, climbing less than 2 percent for the first ...

Tokyo stocks opened higher Tuesday following a plunge in crude oil futures overnight after U.S. President Donald Trump postponed thre ...

The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force on Monday revamped its organizational structure to speed decision-making and improve ...

Wild Japanese macaques at observation facilities across Japan appear to be dealing with hay fever-like symptoms again this ...

The Hiroshima Municipal Government on March 22 returned the remains of a young girl killed by the atomic bomb after she was ...

Japan will take "all possible steps" to address speculative moves in the foreign exchange market, the country's top currency ...

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A plan to build a new special fuel treatment facility in France has been called off, it has been learned, despite the plant ...

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