A man who served seven years in prison after being found guilty of the 1986 murder of a junior high school student was ...

Lavender are now at their best at Kuju Flower Park in the city of Taketa, Oita Prefecture. The highland area, located at an ...

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

The rainy season appears to have ended in the Kanto-Koshin region of eastern Japan, including Tokyo, as well as in the ...

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

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Heavy monsoon rains killed at least 54 people in eastern Pakistan in 24 hours, bringing the total rain-related deaths in the ...

The State Department is pulling back from commenting on or criticizing elections overseas unless there is a clear and ...

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

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

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