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 ...

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 ...

Infinity Castle” film trilogy concluded its official theatrical run in Japan on April 9, leaving behind numerous box office ...

FIFA, the international soccer governing body, is trying to deal with a persistent and ugly issue as it nears the home ...

OSAKA--As Universal Studios Japan in this western metropolis celebrates its 25th anniversary, a current limited-time event ...

Storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel from power plants are approaching full capacity across Japan, as the government’s ...