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Tokyo stocks end mixed on weak tech shares, fiscal poli...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks ended mixed Thursday as some heavyweight technolog...

Japan officially launches bid to host 2035 Rugby World Cup

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japan Rugby Football Union has officially launched its bid ...

Nagasaki groups protest statement on possessing nukes, ...

NAGASAKI -- Twenty-two organizations in Nagasaki Prefecture including A-bomb sur...

Japan's main opposition CDPJ, Komeito agree to form new...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japa...

Miyajima island in Hiroshima Pref. sees record visitors...

HATSUKAICHI, Hiroshima -- The island of Miyajima, home to the World Heritage-lis...

Japan nuclear regulator to inspect plant operator after...

Japan's nuclear regulator on Wednesday decided to conduct on-site inspections as...

Expert panel proposes mandatory Japanese programs for f...

An expert panel proposed Wednesday that the government create programs for forei...

NASA sends 4 astronauts back to Earth in first medical ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- An astronaut in need of doctors' care departed the ...

Toriyama, Hatakeyama win prestigious Akutagawa literary...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Makoto Toriyama and Ushio Hatakeyama won the prestigious Akutag...

Trump calls for talks with US partners toward critical ...

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered officials...

The Mainichi News Quiz: Tokyo's crow population has dro...

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School in Japan's Oita receives mass-killing threat aft...

OITA -- Following the spread on social media of a video showing a student acting...

Man arrested for stabbing two men visiting for forced e...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A man was arrested Thursday for allegedly stabbing two men visi...

Japan's KDDI sets up probe committee over improper cond...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese telecom giant KDDI Corp. said Wednesday that it has se...

G7 condemns Iran violent crackdown on protesters, threa...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven industrialized nati...

Venezuela's acting president vows to continue releasing...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez said Wed...