Women's shogi player Ichiyo Shimizu, who holds a seventh-dan ranking in the game, has been appointed as the new president of ...

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Around 80 percent of teachers in Japanese language classes offered by local governments are volunteers, a national survey ...

Tokyo stocks climbed Monday as exporter shares were bought on a weaker yen, with the U.S. dollar rising on the prospects of ...

A veterinarian in Mie Prefecture who treated cats infected with an ixodid tick-borne disease has died from the same illness, ...

Mudskippers are jumping repeatedly in the tidal flats of the city of Ogi, Saga Prefecture, facing the Ariake Sea. It is the ...

Members of a family who run a formerly Michelin-starred restaurant in western Japan were arrested Monday for ignoring an ...

Japan has asked eight countries and regions to block its residents from accessing licensed online casino websites, a ...

Tokyo stocks rose Monday morning, boosted by exporter shares on a weaker yen, with the U.S. dollar climbing on prospects of ...

Leaders of some of the world's biggest economic are arriving in the Canadian Rockies on Sunday for a Group of Seven summit, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and U.S. President Donald Trump could meet in Canada on Monday on the sidelines of the ...

Hundreds of law officers fanned out across a Minneapolis suburb Saturday in pursuit of a man who authorities say posed as ...