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Winter chill threatens top voter turnout record in Japa...

YAMAGATA -- This northern Japan prefecture's status as having the nation's highe...

Bessent rules out US currency intervention to prop up J...

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday ruled o...

Tokyo's Haneda airport tops 90 million users for 1st ti...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The number of travelers using Tokyo's Haneda airport for domest...

Gov't car ran at 130 kph in fatal multivehicle accident...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A government car was traveling at about 130 kilometers per hour...

Russia and Ukraine's combined war casualties could reac...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) -- The number of soldiers killed, injured or missing on both ...

Court orders state to pay compensation to A-bomb victim...

A Japanese court ordered Wednesday the state to pay damages to the bereaved rela...

Private plane crashes in western India, kills a deputy ...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- A private plane carrying a deputy chief minister crashed in an...

Raising policy rate could curb long-term borrowing cost...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Bank of Japan policymaker said in December that raising the c...

New centrist opposition a wild card in Japan PM's elect...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's new centrist party, formed shortly ahead of a snap gene...

PM Takaichi urges criminal penalties for damaging Japan...

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Jan. 27 expressed her desire ...

Minneapolis shooting scrambles Second Amendment politic...

(AP) -- Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White Hou...

Japan town to cast votes for most popular seafood on sa...

SAPPORO (Kyodo) -- As Japan gears up for an election that Prime Minister Sanae T...

Hiroshima Carp infielder Hatsuki held for alleged 'zomb...

HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) -- Professional baseball player Ryutaro Hatsuki of the Hiroshi...

Tokyo stocks drop in morning as stronger yen hits expor...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks fell Wednesday morning as export-related issues we...

US sending ICE unit to Winter Olympics for security, pr...

MILAN (AP) -- News that a unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would...

Doomsday Clock ticks closer to catastrophe than ever be...

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- A group of scientists on Tuesday moved the hands of the sy...