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Japanese firms trading with Venezuela closely monitorin...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Major Japanese companies with supply chains linked to Venezuela...

Japanese nuclear plant operator may have misused quake ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The operator of a nuclear power plant in central Japan said Mon...

Japanese actor Ryoko Hirosue fined 700,000 yen for negl...

SHIZUOKA, Japan (Kyodo) -- A court fined Japanese actor Ryoko Hirosue 700,000 ye...

Bullet train services in western Japan halted after str...

OSAKA (Kyodo) -- Bullet train services in western Japan were halted due to a pow...

Strong quakes rattle western Japan, no tsunami warning ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A series of strong earthquakes, including the initial one with ...

Video of student assault at Japan high school sparks in...

UTSUNOMIYA -- A video appearing to show a male student assaulting another male s...

Hokkaido police search ski resort operator's office ove...

SAPPORO (Kyodo) -- Hokkaido police on Tuesday searched the office of a ski resor...

'Tuna King' pays record ¥510 mil for bluefin at Tokyo a...

A Japanese sushi entrepreneur paid a record 510 million yen ($3.2 million) for a...

How cocaine and corruption led to the indictment of Maduro

NEW YORK (AP) -- A newly unsealed U.S. Justice Department indictmen t accuses ca...

Editorial: US attack on Venezuela flouts international law

The U.S. administration of President Donald Trump has conducted a military opera...

North Korea says latest missile tests involves hyperson...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea said Monday that leader Kim Jong Un obser...

243-kg bluefin tuna sells for record $3.2 million at To...

TOKYO -- A 243-kilogram bluefin tuna fetched 510.3 million yen (about $3.2 milli...

Tokyo stocks end morning up over 2% on U.S. Dow Jones rise

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks surged over 2 percent Monday morning, the first tr...

In a frozen northeastern Chinese city, an annual ode to...

HARBIN, China (AP) -- Each January, an odd and beautiful thing happens in the fr...

Director Motohashi, known for documenting villagers aft...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese photographer and film director Seiichi Motohashi, know...

Man arrested over stabbing of Fukuoka idol group worker...

FUKUOKA -- A 30-year-old man who has been arrested for allegedly knifing a male ...