Held at Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto's Sakyo Ward, the event saw eight members of the Shukiku Hozonkai (kemari preservation ...

The U.S. administration of President Donald Trump has conducted a military operation in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, ...

Japan's central and local governments, alongside many businesses, started the year's first day of work on Monday, taking on a ...

A 30-year-old man who has been arrested for allegedly knifing a male staff member of the Fukuoka-based idol group HKT48 was ...

Foreign residents made up 9.5 percent of the people in their 20s in Japan in 2025, more than double the 4.1 percent in 2015, ...

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A newly unsealed U.S. Justice Department indictmen t accuses captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of running a ...

A 243-kilogram bluefin tuna fetched 510.3 million yen (about $3.2 million) at the first auction of 2026 at the Toyosu ...

A day after the audacious U.S. military operation in Venezuela, President Donald Trump on Sunday renewed his calls for an ...

LONDON (Kyodo) -- Masuji Ibuse, the Japanese author of "Black Rain," a novel about lives affected by the Hiroshima atomic ...

Mid-career employment changes in Japan are expected to reach a record high in 2026, according to a report by job change ...

YAMAGATA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Premium "Sato Nishiki" cherries from the northeastern Japan prefecture of Yamagata fetched record ...