UPDATES
Risk of rain disasters rises for Japan's Nagasaki, Saga...
FUKUOKA -- Linear precipitation bands could form over the southwestern Japan pre...
Trump says Coke will shift to cane sugar. But increasin...
(AP) -- The debate over whether Coca-Cola should use high-fructose corn syrup or...
Heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan kill 54 people in 24 hours
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Heavy monsoon rains killed at least 54 people in eastern Pakis...
Trump administration tells embassies to rein in critici...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department is pulling back from commenting on or cr...
Rainy season appears over in Tokyo, slightly earlier th...
TOKYO -- The rainy season appears to have ended in the Kanto-Koshin region of ea...
Israeli strike hits Gaza church, killing 3 and wounding...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) -- An Israeli shell slammed into the compound of ...
Japan court acquits man of 1986 schoolgirl murder in re...
KANAZAWA (Kyodo) -- A man who served seven years in prison after being found gui...
3rd gen Japanese Peruvian questions election policies o...
ISESAKI, Gunma -- With the population of foreign residents in Japan now reaching...
Easy Japanese news in translation: Lavender in full blo...
Lavender are now at their best at Kuju Flower Park in the city of Taketa, Oita P...
Swimming: Open water racer Kajimoto wins Japan's 1st me...
SINGAPORE (Kyodo) -- Ichika Kajimoto won Japan's first medal of the world aquati...
Disney sues Hong Kong company it says is selling illega...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Walt Disney Co. on Wednesday sued a Hong Kong jewelry co...
Japan's trade surplus shrinks 31% in June as exports to...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's trade surplus in June shrank 30.8 percent from a year e...
A crowd surge at an aid site in Gaza run by an Israeli-...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Twenty Palestinians were killed at a food distribution ...
Couche-Tard drops $47 bil. bid to buy Seven-Eleven pare...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Canadian retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. said Thursday i...
No wins in 2 prestigious Japanese literary awards, 1st ...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The organizer of two prestigious Japanese literary awards on We...
Sapporo couple arrested for allegedly leaving 3 childre...
SAPPORO -- A couple who allegedly left their three young children unattended at ...
