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Oita gov. aiming to contain massive fire in southwest J...

OITA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Oita Gov. Kiichiro Sato said Thursday he hopes a massive ...

NHK Party head in Japan referred to prosecutors for def...

NHK Party political group leader Takashi Tachibana and two others have been refe...

Nikkei index soars in morning on robust Nvidia earnings...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Nikkei stock index briefly surged over 4 percent Thursday m...

BOJ policymaker signals need for rate hikes to avoid di...

NIIGATA, Japan (Kyodo) -- A Bank of Japan board member on Thursday called for in...

More bodies found after Indonesia landslides, raising t...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Rescuers recovered more bodies in the search for peop...

LDP begins talks on revising Japan's key security docum...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday launched discus...

'There's nothing we can do': Massive fire in Japan's Oi...

OITA -- Residents of the Saganoseki district in this southwest Japan city were l...

Famous bamboo grove in Kyoto trimmed to prevent graffit...

Parts of a famous bamboo grove on the outskirts of Kyoto were cut down on Wednes...

Japanese gov't ordered to pay ¥3.9 bil in damages over ...

A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered the government to pay around 3.9 billion y...

Imanaga, Woodruff, Grisham, Torres among record 4 to ac...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Chicago Cubs left-hander Shota Imanaga, Milwaukee right-hander ...

One man dead after massive fire burns over 170 building...

More than 170 buildings were damaged in a massive fire that swept through a dens...

Japan sets up new command body to tackle population crisis

The Japanese government has set up a new organization headed by Prime Minister S...

Tokyo stocks end lower on caution ahead of Nvidia results

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo stocks ended lower on Wednesday, weighed down by weak sem...

G20 leaders may skip joint declaration for 1st time: so...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Leaders of the Group of 20 economies may not release a joint de...

Tokyo sign language school in spotlight for producing D...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Tokyo school for the deaf stands out not just because it has ...

US Honda recalls 256,600 Accord Hybrids due to software...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Honda is recalling more than 256,600 of its Accord Hybrid vehic...