UPDATES

bg
Ex-nursing home employee apprehended after 2 residents die near Tokyo

Ex-nursing home employee apprehended after 2 residents ...

SAITAMA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Two elderly female residents of a nursing home in Sait...

bg
Overdose suspected as teenage girl fatally falls off building in Tokyo's Kabukicho area

Overdose suspected as teenage girl fatally falls off bu...

TOKYO -- A 14-year-old girl died after falling from a multitenant building in th...

bg
Hamas reasserts control in a chaotic Gaza, posing a risk to the fragile ceasefire

Hamas reasserts control in a chaotic Gaza, posing a ris...

CAIRO (AP) -- As the Gaza ceasefire holds, Hamas security forces have returned t...

bg
Video of nuisance behavior at Kura Sushi goes viral on social media

Video of nuisance behavior at Kura Sushi goes viral on ...

Japanese conveyor-belt sushi chain Kura Sushi said this month that video of cust...

bg
ANA plane returns to Haneda airport after possibly hitting runway lights

ANA plane returns to Haneda airport after possibly hitt...

An All Nippon Airways plane turned back to Tokyo's Haneda airport about an hour ...

bg
14-year-old girl jumps to her death from building; injures man passing below

14-year-old girl jumps to her death from building; inju...

A 14-year-old junior high school girl jumped to her death from a building in Tok...

bg
Heads of opposition parties to meet to discuss vote for next Japan PM

Heads of opposition parties to meet to discuss vote for...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The leaders of three major Japanese opposition parties are set ...

bg
Yamamoto throws 3-hitter as Dodgers beat Brewers 5-1 for 2-0 lead in NLCS

Yamamoto throws 3-hitter as Dodgers beat Brewers 5-1 fo...

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a three-hitter for the first postse...

bg
Erdogan opposed Netanyahu's attendance at summit, Turkish official confirms

Erdogan opposed Netanyahu's attendance at summit, Turki...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made clear he woul...

bg
3 hit by car at crosswalk near Nagoya Station, driver in 70s arrested

3 hit by car at crosswalk near Nagoya Station, driver i...

NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Three pedestrians were hit by a car at a crosswalk on an inter...

bg
Japan's parliament to open next week, talks over new PM vote date ongoing

Japan's parliament to open next week, talks over new PM...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan will convene an extraordinary parliamentary session from ...

bg
2 nursing home residents killed near Tokyo, ex-employee apprehended

2 nursing home residents killed near Tokyo, ex-employee...

SAITAMA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Two elderly female residents of a nursing home in Sait...

bg
7 hurt after man in 80s ploughs car into credit union in western Japan

7 hurt after man in 80s ploughs car into credit union i...

KOBE (Kyodo) -- Seven people suffered minor injuries after a minivehicle driven ...

bg
Death penalty sought for man who killed 3 family members with crossbow in west Japan

Death penalty sought for man who killed 3 family member...

KOBE (Kyodo) -- Prosecutors on Wednesday demanded the death penalty for a 28-yea...

bg
Sumo yokozuna Onosato, Hoshoryu tour London, delighting locals

Sumo yokozuna Onosato, Hoshoryu tour London, delighting...

LONDON (Mainichi) -- Yokozuna Onosato and Hoshoryu went sightseeing in London on...

bg
Easy Japanese news in translation: Kochia plants turn red at park in Shiga Prefecture

Easy Japanese news in translation: Kochia plants turn r...

Eight thousand kochia plants have turned red at Biwako Hakodateyama park in the ...