Japanese health minister Kenichiro Ueno on March 23 approved adding "preventive administration" to the authorized uses of ...

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

Japan will start releasing oil from state reserves on Thursday, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Tuesday, as concerns over ...

Chicago Cubs outfielder Seiya Suzuki will start the season on the injured list as he recovers from a sprained right knee ...

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High in the Himalayas, in the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan, monks are turning to an unlikely source for spiritual guidance: ...

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

Japan's Cabinet approved Tuesday tightening regulations on the use of drones, expanding no-fly zones for unmanned aircraft ...

Japan and France plan to agree to boost cooperation on next-generation nuclear reactors at a Tokyo summit between Prime ...

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

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