A man who served seven years in prison after being found guilty of the 1986 murder of a junior high school student was ...

Ishiba, who heads the Liberal Democratic Party, has intensified his rhetoric on issues appealing to conservatives, a core LDP ...

When the now 29-year-old woman left Vietnam for Japan, she left her three young children behind. She decided to come to Japan ...

A temple in southwestern Japan is drawing controversy and criticism for its recent decision to charge admission only to ...

Despite this, human errors leading to double-voting due to insufficient checks of the electoral roll have occurred. On July 9 in the city of Kitakyushu, a double-voting case occurred due to a staff ...

Heavy monsoon rains killed at least 54 people in eastern Pakistan in 24 hours, bringing the total rain-related deaths in the ...

The State Department is pulling back from commenting on or criticizing elections overseas unless there is a clear and ...

Linear precipitation bands could form over the southwestern Japan prefectures of Nagasaki and Saga from early afternoon to ...

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Wednesday's magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska's Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of ...

Japan's core consumer prices in June rose 3.3 percent from a year earlier, fueled by persistently higher prices of rice and ...