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KYOTO—A 73-year-old woman filed a damages lawsuit against a YouTuber and two others, saying that a defamatory video drove her ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency apologized Oct. 16 after issuing an emergency warning for an earthquake that was erroneously ...

KYOTO—A high-ranking member of an organized crime gang was acquitted Oct. 16 of the high-profile murder of the prominent ...

NAHA―New Okinawa Governor Genta Koja is jettisoning his predecessors’ insistence on removing Osprey transport helicopters ...

The Japan Actors Union, consisting of actors and voice actors, released guidelines on Oct. 15 requiring consent before using ...

LOS ANGELES―After ending his homer drought with a massive blast in his final game of the year, Los Angeles Dodgers star ...

Japan is not expected to set a 3.5 percent of gross domestic product defense spending target, which the Trump administration ...

SEOUL―South Korea is reviewing an expansion of its military operations in the Middle East, the Kyunghyang Shinmun newspaper ...

Back atop the batting order, Shohei Ohtani responded with a three-run homer for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Milwaukee ...

The remains of more than 3,000 people were kept in the columbarium, a building where urns containing cremated remains are ...

U.S. stock indexes muscled higher Thursday, led by companies delivering bigger profits. They pulled closer to their records ...