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S. Korea top court upholds forced labor compensation or...

SEOUL (Kyodo) -- South Korea's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court de...

Venezuelan opposition leader Machado greets supporters ...

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado appeared ...

News in Easy English: Big sign in Nara Park teaches tou...

NARA -- A big new sign for Nara Park shows foreign tourists how to behave around...

The Mainichi News Quiz: What change is Japan pondering ...

How closely have you been following events in Japan? Try The Mainichi News Quiz ...

Forbes ranks Japan PM Takaichi 3rd in list of world's m...

NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was ranked the third ...

The painting that introduced 'Star Wars' to the world f...

(AP) -- The painting that introduced "Star Wars" to the world nearly 50 years ag...

Christmas tree decorated with lost-and-found items set ...

FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- A Christmas tree decorated with unclaimed lost-and-found item...

Ocean warmed by climate change fed intense rainfall and...

BENGALURU, India (AP) -- Ocean temperatures warmed by human-caused climate chang...

Study finds humans were making fire 400,000 years ago, ...

LONDON (AP) -- Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make...

Japan Photo Journal: Christmas tree placed underwater a...

The waters near Osezaki, a popular diving spot off Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, ...

Emotional evacuees recount moments they fled Thailand-C...

SURIN, Thailand (AP) -- Amnat Meephew had just enough time to pack up his clothe...

Japanese scientists Sakaguchi, Kitagawa receive Nobel p...

Japanese scientists Shimon Sakaguchi and Susumu Kitagawa on Wednesday received N...

Shogi association apologizes to female champion, says i...

The Japan Shogi Association apologized Wednesday to six-title-holding women's pl...

Passenger ferry in western Japan to run autonomously in...

A passenger ferry operating between Okayama and Shodoshima Island in western Jap...

Schools reopen after M7.5 quake amid alert for another ...

Most of the schools in northeastern and northern Japan reopened Wednesday follow...

120 guests evacuated from Kyoto hotel after portable ba...

Some 120 guests staying at a hotel in Kyoto were temporarily evacuated after a c...