The vast majority of the public continues to endorse the country’s death penalty system, according to a recent government survey. In the Cabinet Office’s survey of 1,815 people between October...

Japan is increasingly adopting information technology to help those in need of assistance in times of disasters, such as the elderly and people with disabilities. Under such initiatives, data on...

Okinawa – Before Christmas, a contingent of 105 U.S. Marines who would have been sent to Okinawa were redirected to a new base on the United States territory of Guam...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has worked out a draft of its 2025 policy platform calling for, among other things, promoting the use of social media as part of its...

JERUSALEM – Israel prepared to receive six more hostages from Gaza in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees on Saturday, as a body handed over by Hamas hours...

Taipei – Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has met with Akie Abe, wife of the late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in Taipei. Lai told Akie at the meeting Friday...

The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a significant heavy snow warning again for the central prefecture of Ishikawa shortly after 5:30 a.m. Saturday. A strong winter pressure pattern brought heavy snowfall...

Glendale, Arizona – Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Roki Sasaki, 23, announced on his Instagram Friday that he married a woman during the offseason. “My partner is a kind person,” he...

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. C.Q. Brown, and pushed out five other admirals and generals...