Beverage giant Kirin Holdings Co. will acquire Australian natural health products maker Blackmores Ltd. for 1.88 billion ...

Beloved hitmaker Studio Ghibli Inc. will become a subsidiary of Nippon Television Network Corp. while maintaining its ...

The Japanese government adopted plans on Friday to scrap its current foreign trainee program, which has been criticized as a ...

Mobile carrier KDDI Corp. will acquire a 50-percent stake in Lawson Inc. for nearly 500 billion yen ($3.37 billion) to help ...

Decorative belt fittings believed to be Korean in origin from the sixth to seventh century have been excavated for the first time in Japan at the Sudosenninzuka kofun burial mound here.

Japan went from watching to fully participating in a large-scale joint military exercise hosted annually by the United States ...

Increasing arrests for theft and other crimes among Vietnamese technical intern trainees who come to Japan for a better life ...

NANTAN, Kyoto Prefecture—Police here rearrested a man on suspicion of murder after he admitted to strangling his adopted son ...

No action has been taken to strengthen around 10,000 bridges across the country that were identified as needing repairs or ...

MANILA—Japan agreed to begin discussing the export of its retiring destroyers equipped with anti-ship missiles and other ...

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A bus carrying high school tennis club members crashed into a roadside guardrail and other structures in Fukushima Prefecture on the morning of May 6, killing one student and severely injuring several ...