Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya stresses the importance of a cease-fire in the Israel-Iran conflict and the ...

Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of Japan's small opposition Democratic Party for the People, apologizes for remarks that were ...

The number of mental disorder cases recognized as work-related in Japan rose by 172 in fiscal 2024 to 1,055, marking a record ...

Japanese pop group Tokio, formerly part of Johnny & Associates Inc., says it has decided to disband following member Taichi ...

A British Army veteran who lost both legs and his left hand in Afghanistan made history morning by becoming the first triple ...

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Kyodo News Plus is an online publication delivering the latest news from Japan together with those stories from around the ...

People pray at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan, on June 22, 2025, the eve of the 80th ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 hit Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in southwestern Japan on ...

More than 31,000 people have caught whooping cough this year in Japan, a nearly eight-fold rise from last year that has already surpassed the annual record-high number logged in 2019, data by a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that Israel and Iran had agreed to a "complete and total" cease-fire that could lead ...

Shohei Ohtani hit his National League-leading 27th home run of the season in the Los Angeles Dodgers' 9-7 win over the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday.