Hiroshima – Italian President Sergio Mattarella visited Hiroshima on Saturday where he laid flowers at the cenotaph for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing in Peace Memorial Park. It...

Nagasaki – Police arrested Tsuyoshi Furusho, mayor of Saza, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Saturday in a bid-rigging case over a public works project in the town. As part of the case,...

Nagoya – Toyota will suspend three lines at two plants in Aichi Prefecture on Monday, company officials have said. The suspension is believed to be due to the effects of...

Morioka, Iwate Pref. – The massive wildfire that broke out in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 26 has been contained, the city declared Sunday. On that day, the city also...

London – The British government and Fujitsu have agreed to begin talks on compensation for the Post Office scandal involving the Horizon accounting software developed by the Japanese company. British...

BERLIN – German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Sunday said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing their nuclear weapons, but not as a substitute for U.S. nuclear...

CAIRO/AMMAN – Syrian leader Ahmed Sharaa called for peace on Sunday after hundreds were killed in coastal areas in the worst communal violence since the fall of Bashar Assad. The...

Beijing – Trade tensions between the world’s two leading economies are set to escalate on Monday, as Beijing begins levying tariffs on certain U.S. agricultural goods in retaliation for President...

Asahikawa, Hokkaido – Asahikawa District Court in Hokkaido has sentenced a 20-year-old woman to 23 years in prison in a high-profile murder case in which a female high school student...