Belarus has freed 123 prisoners including a Nobel Peace Prize winner and a Japanese man who had been sentenced for espionage, ...

Moscow pounded Ukrainian power infrastructure with drone and missile strikes on Saturday and Kyiv launched a deadly strike of ...

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Nearly 30 percent of companies in northeastern Japan said their operations have been disrupted by bears, a survey by a credit ...

A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded eight others at Brown University on Saturday during final e ...

Indian health care workers are being eyed by Japan as a promising source of caregivers, with hopes that accessing labor from ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some questions readers may have about the Japanese government's measures against wrong-way driving on expressways, which ...

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A United Airlines airplane bound for Tokyo's Haneda returned to an airport near Washington on Saturday due to engine failure ...

Japan's green tea exports in the first 10 months of this year reached the highest level in over 70 years on the back of the ...

The families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago said Saturday they are determined to be reunited with ...

Japan's first helpline in Taiwanese and Mandarin recently marked its 35th anniversary -- decades that saw the service take ...