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Editorial: Japan gov't must compensate welfare recipien...

Following a Supreme Court ruling that the government's lowering of standards for...

Large-scale oyster deaths in Hiroshima Prefecture promp...

Farmed oysters in Hiroshima Prefecture have been dying off in large quantities, ...

Leaders press on with G20 summit in South Africa that w...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Leaders and delegates from the world's richest nations and ...

The Mainichi News Quiz: What's the women's toilet ratio...

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Univ. of Tokyo doctor arrested over bribes from medical...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A University of Tokyo Hospital doctor was arrested Wednesday on...

Beaujolais Nouveau wine goes on sale in Japan with dema...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- French Beaujolais Nouveau wine went on sale at midnight Thursda...

Oita gov. aiming to contain massive fire in southwest J...

OITA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Oita Gov. Kiichiro Sato said Thursday he hopes a massive ...

NHK Party head in Japan referred to prosecutors for def...

NHK Party political group leader Takashi Tachibana and two others have been refe...

Nikkei index soars in morning on robust Nvidia earnings...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Nikkei stock index briefly surged over 4 percent Thursday m...

BOJ policymaker signals need for rate hikes to avoid di...

NIIGATA, Japan (Kyodo) -- A Bank of Japan board member on Thursday called for in...

More bodies found after Indonesia landslides, raising t...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Rescuers recovered more bodies in the search for peop...

LDP begins talks on revising Japan's key security docum...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday launched discus...

'There's nothing we can do': Massive fire in Japan's Oi...

OITA -- Residents of the Saganoseki district in this southwest Japan city were l...

Famous bamboo grove in Kyoto trimmed to prevent graffit...

Parts of a famous bamboo grove on the outskirts of Kyoto were cut down on Wednes...

Japanese gov't ordered to pay ¥3.9 bil in damages over ...

A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered the government to pay around 3.9 billion y...

Imanaga, Woodruff, Grisham, Torres among record 4 to ac...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Chicago Cubs left-hander Shota Imanaga, Milwaukee right-hander ...