Ishiba, who heads the Liberal Democratic Party, has intensified his rhetoric on issues appealing to conservatives, a core LDP ...

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Japan's core consumer prices in June rose 3.3 percent from a year earlier, fueled by persistently higher prices of rice and ...

OpenAI should continue to be controlled by a nonprofit because the artificial intelligence technology it is developing is ...

A group of high school girls in Fukuoka made a special app to help students study. Their AI club at Fukuoka Girls' Commercial ...

Wednesday's magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska's Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of ...

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When the now 29-year-old woman left Vietnam for Japan, she left her three young children behind. She decided to come to Japan ...

A temple in southwestern Japan is drawing controversy and criticism for its recent decision to charge admission only to ...

Second-generation descendants of Japanese nationals, who were left behind in the Philippines and have been stateless since ...

Opposite spiker Kento Miyaura scored a team-high 23 points as Japan fought back from two sets down to beat Argentina 3-2 in ...

Linear precipitation bands could form over the southwestern Japan prefectures of Nagasaki and Saga from early afternoon to evening on July ...