Global sales of Nintendo Co.'s Switch 2 portable gaming console blew by the 3.5-million-unit mark in just four days after its ...

Industrial giant Hitachi Ltd.'s factory here held a memorial service on June 10 for workers who lost their lives during air ...

U.S. intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday posted a video message speaking about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and ...

The Yosakoi Soran Festival, held in early summer in the city of Sapporo, Hokkaido, began on June 4. The festival features ...

Hundreds of people on June 9 welcomed the arrival of the sacred wood that will be used to rebuild a divine palace at Ise ...

The Fukuoka city government on Wednesday morning completed the repair of a 4-meter-long sinkhole that had emerged in the ...

The Japanese parliament enacted Wednesday a bill to turn a government advisory body of scientists into a corporate entity, a ...

C) They allowed children to operate real firearms during the events. D) They failed to obtain parental consent for student ...

Tokyo stocks rose Wednesday morning led by high-tech shares tracking gains in their U.S. counterparts, but advances were ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged new South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung to promote a bilateral strategic cooperative ...

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Toyota Motor Corp. has proposed to the government that it sell U.S.-made cars in Japan through its domestic dealership ...