The Hyogo Prefectural Police has sent papers on nine male officers to public prosecutors for alleged illegal gambling at ...

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The prefectural police department of Hyogo, western Japan, has sent papers on nine male officers to public prosecutors for alleged illegal gambling at online casinos. On Monday, the police department ...

TOKYO - The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News. ---------- Japanese H3 rocket fails to put ...

A local government in Japan voted Monday to restart the world's largest nuclear power plant, which has been closed since 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Japanese authorities have approved a decision to restart the world’s biggest nuclear power plant, which has sat dormant for more than a decade following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in a pivotal ...

Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, just officially confirmed a new anime release based ...

As military tensions between China and Japan reach the highest level in more than a decade, the sparsely populated island of Yonaguni finds itself right on the front lines. Sitting just 110 kilometers ...

The eldest son of a couple who were murdered in their home in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Jan 1, 2018, on Saturday appealed to the public to come forward with any information that might help ...

Japan is racing to fortify some of its most vulnerable territory, but that is raising the stakes of the current spat between ...

South Korean National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik has expressed his hope to visit Japan at an early date to boost exchanges between the two countries' lawmakers. "I hope to exchange views frankly ab ...