UPDATES

Cherry blossom viewing starts at Japan Mint in Osaka

OSAKA (Kyodo) -- An annual cherry blossom viewing event began Thursday at the Ja...

Baseball: Ohtani makes quality start, ties Ichiro's on-...

TORONTO (Kyodo) -- Shohei Ohtani allowed just one unearned run over six innings,...

Opinion: Donald Trump doesn't understand nuclear semant...

By James ReidIn 1945, Kantaro Suzuki, then premier of the Imperial Japanese Empi...

Court overturn of Japanese school's decertification ove...

FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- A high court decision to overturn a central government order ...

30,000 rally near Diet as protests against Constitution...

TOKYO -- Large-scale demonstrations opposing moves to revise the Constitution ar...

Kyoto Univ. president urges new students to write in ow...

KYOTO -- Kyoto University held its entrance ceremony on April 7, welcoming 2,942...

Still no trace of missing 11-year-old boy after 16 days

Police in Nantan City, Kyoto Prefecture, on Wednesday continued their search for...

AI agents draw attention in China, with 24-hour work po...

SHANGHAI (Kyodo) -- Artificial intelligence agents that can work in place of hum...

Japan logs current account surplus of 3.93 tril. yen in...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's current account surplus edged down 0.1 percent from the...

Tokyo stocks surge, Nikkei up 5%, after US-Iran cease-f...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks surged Wednesday morning, with the Nikkei stock in...

Russia and China veto watered-down UN resolution aimed ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Russia and China on Tuesday vetoed a U.N. Security Counci...

Death toll rises to 3 after scaffolding collapse near T...

YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) -- A third worker has been confirmed dead after a roughly 40-me...

Inside a huge compound on Thailand-Cambodia border wher...

O'SMACH, Cambodia (AP) -- I have often used the word industrial-scale in my own ...

Editorial: Diet dysfunction alarming as PM Takaichi's a...

Japan's fiscal 2026 main budget, the first to be drafted by Prime Minister Sanae...

N. Korea launches another suspected ballistic missile

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- North Korea launched a suspected ballistic missile, the Japanes...

Baseball: Dodgers' Yamamoto earns 2nd win in dominant s...

TORONTO (Kyodo) -- Yoshinobu Yamamoto held the Toronto Blue Jays to a run over s...